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Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Who are people thinking then?

Few names shouted about atm:

Lewis O'Brien
Max Bird
Steven Alzate.
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #2
Lewis Ferguson from Bologna?
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #3
Louza at Watford
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #4
SkyBlueSam01 said:
Lewis Ferguson from Bologna?
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No chance, played 32 times last year.
 
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Martin180

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #5
Willock?
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #6
Martin180 said:
Willock?
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Yep good shout, although think he plays more advanced than Hamer
 
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SBAndy

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Arguably the most crucial decision of our season. If we don’t adequately replace then there’s a massive void in the middle of the starting XI. Kelly is far from capable and Eccles accompanying Sheaf doesn’t quite work from the little I’ve seen of them. O’Brien I think would be too expensive but may be able to do a loan deal. Alzate fits the bill for me and we could probably do a permanent or a loan to buy. Bird is a decent player but he’d need to hit the ground running and I’m not sure he’s quite ready.
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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John Fleck and Liam Walsh.
 
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Jamesimus

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #9
Ccfcisparks said:
Who are people thinking then?

Few names shouted about atm:

Lewis O'Brien
Max Bird
Steven Alzate.
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Do any of these score many goals?
 

mrfr

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #10
I still think Tom Davies could be the one. Wages are going to be a sticking point but he’s without a club and so no transfer fee helps balance that out. He’s still only 25, played 155 games for Everton and by all accounts is a good character. He isn’t a like for like replacement but has real quality and great energy.
 

Martin180

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #11
mrfr said:
I still think Tom Davies could be the one. Wages are going to be a sticking point but he’s without a club and so no transfer fee helps balance that out. He’s still only 25, played 155 games for Everton and by all accounts is a good character. He isn’t a like for like replacement but has real quality and great energy.
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He is absolute dog shit , my niece's partner is an Evertonian and he said he's the worst midfielder he's seen for them .
 
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hill83

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Carl Baker and Michael Doyle
 
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shepardo01

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Irreplaceable as just one player.
Two of the four goals we have conceded when he has gone off have been from around the area on the edge of the box where he buzzes around and picks off attacks and picks up loose balls. He wasn't there to prevent those, and those on the pitch couldn't do his job.....
We all know how good his range of passing is from that area too, and how he can drive attacks.

Again, His needs two very high level replacements, which will take up two names on the teamsheet, rather than the one he does, that allows us bodies in another area that may be "make do's" ( why we got away at times last year with him/howley/Eccles in the midfield and still finished 5th!)

Huge huge job to rebuild the midfield now, especially after Robins comments about how it doesn't function without His on Weds night.
 
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Martin180

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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If we want to make a statement , let's test Blackburn's resolve for Adam Wharton . Hugely talented and massive potential
 
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stupot07

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #15
SlowerThanPlatt said:
John Fleck and Liam Walsh.
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Have liked as I presume it's a joke


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Sick Boy

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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hill83 said:
Carl Baker and Michael Doyle
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We should go all out for Stephen Hughes as well.
 
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mrfr

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Martin180 said:
He is absolute dog shit , my niece's partner is an Evertonian and he said he's the worst midfielder he's seen for them .
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He must’ve been looking the other way when they had Andy van der Meyde and Tobias Linderoth in midfield.
 
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SBT

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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AOM

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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stupot07

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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When I saw the thread title, I thought it was about a new Netflix series.

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Martin180

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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mrfr said:
He must’ve been looking the other way when they had Andy van der Meyde and Tobias Linderoth in midfield.
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Kind of my point , they've had dreadful ones and he put Davies as the worst
 

stupot07

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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AOM said:
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Brilliant player, Liverpool were going to buy him don't you know.

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SBAndy

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #23
Couple more obscure suggestions (I’m sat round a pool bored):

Carel Eiting (FC Volendam)
Adem Zorgane (Sporting Charleroi)
 
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mrfr

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #24
Martin180 said:
Kind of my point , they've had dreadful ones and he put Davies as the worst
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Or alternatively your nieces partner isn’t the best judge of footballing talent, who’s to say which it is. Literally no way of knowing.
 
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napolimp

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #25
I'm sure Robins has a list of players he's interested in bringing in to fill that role, genuinely excited to see who it will be. Maybe another relatively unknown from Europe with great potential.
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #26
Willock and Bird (if he’s defensive).

Also sounds like a mid-90s detective show…maybe set in Shropshire.
 
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SBT

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Luis Amor Rodriguez

 
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Offhegoes

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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mrfr said:
I still think Tom Davies could be the one. Wages are going to be a sticking point but he’s without a club and so no transfer fee helps balance that out. He’s still only 25, played 155 games for Everton and by all accounts is a good character. He isn’t a like for like replacement but has real quality and great energy.
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Absolutely no! Eccles is better than him. He's not creative, and not a box to box midfielder, more of a steady-eady and we have Sheaf and Eccles who play that role.
 
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Offhegoes

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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Robins could break our Transfer Record with the replacement. Sure 8-10 million would get us a brilliant young box to box midfielder.
Feel we should be looking in The Championship for that player. Not many teams could turn down 10 million for their best player, especially clubs with financial troubles (Blackburn, Sheff Wed etc)
 
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Martin180

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #30
Ludovits Reis , Wouter Berger , Sven Mijnan
A few midfielders that could fit the bill
 

stay_up_skyblues

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #31
Yeah with £10m odd I’d hope we’re getting ready made rather than a foreign punt.
 
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coop

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  • Aug 11, 2023
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SlowerThanPlatt said:
John Fleck and Liam Walsh.
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Think we need to move on or was that tongue and cheek.
 
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SBT

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #33
coop said:
Think we need to move on or was that tongue and cheek.
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Tonge is retired, Loftus-Cheek will want too much in wages
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #34
stay_up_skyblues said:
Yeah with £10m odd I’d hope we’re getting ready made rather than a foreign punt.
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Who though.
 

TomRad85

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  • Aug 11, 2023
  • #35
Martin180 said:
Ludovits Reis , Wouter Berger , Sven Mijnan
A few midfielders that could fit the bill
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Stoke were chasing Burger, maybe we could gazump them now.
 
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