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  • Thread starter We'll_live_and_die
  • Start date May 15, 2023
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Matt smith

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,476
Let’s hope we pull some magic out the hat
 

TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,477
The lack of movement since Hamer is a bit of a joke tbf. Keep saying they are trying but not hard enough it seems.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,478
9 hours to go... get your gear ready everyone.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,479
TomRad85 said:
The lack of movement since Hamer is a bit of a joke tbf. Keep saying they are trying but not hard enough it seems.
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Getting a few excuses in on medicals for European players anyway. The simple answer is Hamer arsed us around, left too late, we didn’t have a plan and clubs took the piss with valuations.
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,480
Sounds like he plans to see his contract out

Coventry City boss says there's interest in goalkeeper Simon Moore

Coventry City transfer news from CoventryLive as Sky Blues boss Mark Robins discusses the future of third choice goalkeeper Simon Moore
www.coventrytelegraph.net
 
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rexo87

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,481
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Getting a few excuses in on medicals for European players anyway. The simple answer is Hamer arsed us around, left too late, we didn’t have a plan and clubs took the piss with valuations.
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Yeah we should have had a long list of Hamer replacements really

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saveitforthewombles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,482
TomRad85 said:
The lack of movement since Hamer is a bit of a joke tbf. Keep saying they are trying but not hard enough it seems.
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yeah, reckon they're all just sat around waiting. #fuming
 

Briles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,483
Deity said:
Im not directly involved. My last update was 8am this morning.

I didn’t share until @Briles did.

it was left with me that the deal is off unless West Brom cave in, which they may given their financial situation.

I don’t know more than that ….

Not sure why people are so sceptical. I have nothing to gain in sharing this but j thought other fans might be interested.
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Glad you've got the flack for this
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,484
saveitforthewombles said:
yeah, reckon they're all just sat around waiting. #fuming
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Not waiting, just not doing enough.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,485
rexo87 said:
Yeah we should have had a long list of Hamer replacements really

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Or just not invested quite as much time in each individual target. Would be interesting to know who from the continent we were bidding for.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,486
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Or just not invested quite as much time in each individual target. Would be interesting to know who from the continent we were bidding for.
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Succession plan for a player as vital to the team as Hamer should have been ready to go the moment he left.
 
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Briles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,487
TomRad85 said:
Succession plan for a player as vital to the team as Hamer should have been ready to go the moment he left.
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Agreed. As soon as he turned down our contract
 
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Manchester_sky_blue

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,488
TomRad85 said:
Not waiting, just not doing enough.
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Come off it. Whatever happens today it won't be for lack of effort
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,489
Manchester_sky_blue said:
Come off it. Whatever happens today it won't be for lack of effort
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You can do something with effort and still do it badly
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,490
TomRad85 said:
Succession plan for a player as vital to the team as Hamer should have been ready to go the moment he left.
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Way back in January Gyo agreed with the club he was off in the summer barring promotion. Plenty of time to then identify targets on that basis and we acted pretty quickly thereafter. As for Hamer, even though he behaved in pretty much the opposite way we should have had a strong inkling that the same was likely to happen.

Santiago Hezze who signed for Olympiakos the other week and had Anderlecht in for him earlier in the summer for under £3m is just one example of the type of player you could get by acting semi quickly.
 
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Macca1987

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,491
I believe with the amount of incomings we have had so far, we can't really accuse anyone with doing things badly, as has been said before, the nearer you get to the deadline the more hardball teams will play, also many players may not want to move at this late time, we have to trust in MR and his team PUSB
 
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Hobo

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,492
TomRad85 said:
You can do something with effort and still do it badly
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Just like you can have a plan, work hard at it and things still don't work out.

Bigger and more resourced clubs than ours have failed to land their transfer targets before now.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,493
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Way back in January Gyo agreed with the club he was off in the summer barring promotion. Plenty of time to then identify targets on that basis and we acted pretty quickly thereafter. As for Hamer, even though he behaved in pretty much the opposite way we should have had a strong inkling that the same was likely to happen.

Santiago Hezze who signed for Olympiakos the other week and had Anderlecht in for him earlier in the summer for under £3m is just one example of the type of player you could get by acting semi quickly.
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I'm trying to hold off until after the deadline to give final thoughts but i think we've a right to be annoyed if they don't do anything. We are still 6 short of what Robins promised, since then, we have also lost Hamer. We did however receive 15 million for Hamer and the idea there's nothing we can do to fill the gap because bless them they've tried their best is embarrassing. Tbh i'd say we need a minimum of 3 more, which most agreed a while back, but expectations are getting lower and lower as the days and hours go by.
 

skybluecam

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,494
Imagine telling someone when we sold Hyam that a year later we'd be spending £20m and people would be moaning about it.
 
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Briles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,495
I do wonder if we'd have won all our games until now with simms and haji on 3 goals each, whether Robins would be saying we still need bodies. Not saying its an admission that he's not got what he wants but, its surely just about a hamer replacement
 
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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,496
Deity said:
Not sure why people are so sceptical.
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Phil Masinga at KFC
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,497
Briles said:
I do wonder if we'd have won all our games until now with simms and haji on 3 goals each, whether Robins would be saying we still need bodies. Not saying its an admission that he's not got what he wants but, its surely just about a hamer replacement
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Tbh most people agreed we would ideally want another CM even before Hamer left.
 
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Alkhen

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,498
TomRad85 said:
I'm trying to hold off until after the deadline to give final thoughts but i think we've a right to be annoyed if they don't do anything. We are still 6 short of what Robins promised, since then, we have also lost Hamer. We did however receive 15 million for Hamer and the idea there's nothing we can do to fill the gap because bless them they've tried their best is embarrassing. Tbh i'd say we need a minimum of 3 more, which most agreed a while back, but expectations are getting lower and lower as the days and hours go by.
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He didn't 'Promise' though did he
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,499
Alkhen said:
He didn't 'Promise' though did he
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Oh dear.
 

Briles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,500
TomRad85 said:
Tbh most people agreed we would ideally want another CM even before Hamer left.
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I couldn't see him dropping Eccles mind so it'd have been a bench warmer with Hamer still here
 

SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,501
Just because we spent £20m early on in the window shouldn’t detract from the fact we sold one of our best two players, haven’t replaced him and have spent no money on the midfield.
 
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TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,502
Briles said:
I couldn't see him dropping Eccles mind so it'd have been a bench warmer with Hamer still here
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We needed someone in the Hamer mould for when Hamer wasn't playing, was subbed etc, as we're now seeing. Now just 1 player like that will do.
 
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Briles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,503
TomRad85 said:
We needed someone in the Hamer mould for when Hamer wasn't playing, was subbed etc, as we're now seeing. Now just 1 player like that will do.
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Would've been hard to find a hamer replacement who would've been happy being benched when he was fit though.
 
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procdoc

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,504
Frustrating day so far
 
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Kingokings204

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,505
procdoc said:
Frustrating day so far
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still the second half of the day to go
 

Matt smith

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,506
Kingokings204 said:
still the second half of the day to go
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Not looking good
 

TomRad85

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,507
Sorry i've been very positive all summer but the utter bollocks about not being able to book medicals has really annoyed me, what an absolute load of horse shit. So you've ballsed up replacing Hamer and now need to do a quick sweep of the domestic market, just say it.
 
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Winny the Bish

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,508
 

Briles

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,509
TomRad85 said:
Sorry i've been very positive all summer but the utter bollocks about not being able to book medicals has really annoyed me, what an absolute load of horse shit. So you've ballsed up replacing Hamer and now need to do a quick sweep of the domestic market, just say it.
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Perhaps a deal/target fell through in the week who knows. Doubt they'd be that short sighted
 

Alkhen

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  • Sep 1, 2023
  • #6,510
TomRad85 said:
Oh dear.
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Well it's a fact, massive difference between promises and saying you want something.

Just as much as a difference as there to wanting something and getting something I'd say.
 
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