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Ccfcisparks

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,261
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
I like the way they’re going about things - the idea is to pick up these youngsters from top youth academies. The idea is that they would have technical ability

you add this to players such as Jack Clarke, Pritchard and Ross Stewart and they will be seriously good

baring in mind they made the play offs without a striker for 3 months, it’s really impressive
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Clarke is leaving.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,262
Ccfcisparks said:
Clarke is leaving.
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Not happened yet though, added to the fact they signed Jobe Bellingham who looks a decent player.
 
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long way home

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,263
cooperskyblue said:
Joel Latibeaudiere?
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I think we would all be happy if him and Mcnally got announced next few days /week.. With Dasilva that would be a good start to the rebuild.
 
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Balli001

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,264
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
I like the way they’re going about things - the idea is to pick up these youngsters from top youth academies. The idea is that they would have technical ability

you add this to players such as Jack Clarke, Pritchard and Ross Stewart and they will be seriously good

baring in mind they made the play offs without a striker for 3 months, it’s really impressive
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If we signed similar players there would be uproar
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Jun 23, 2023
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Let’s hope all their signings turn out like the player that we signed from Holland who had been excellent at youth level
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,266
Balli001 said:
If we signed similar players there would be uproar
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Disagree - Jobe Bellingham would have been greeted well, and the PSV and Benfica signings would be greeted with the same sort of excitement Hamer bought
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,267
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Disagree - Jobe Bellingham would have been greeted well, and the PSV and Benfica signings would be greeted with the same sort of excitement Hamer bought
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The two foreign lads are a similar profile to a Josh Pask or Charlie Wakefield aren’t they? Don’t know whether their clubs wanted to keep them but they’ve got one first team appearance between them
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,268
I understand the anxiety over the lack of signings, especially when we need so many in. Don’t especially buy that it’s ‘too early’ either. In the League Two promotion season we signed 8 players before July 1st and in the League One promotion season we’d signed 10 by then. It would be nice to have at least 4 or 5 new faces in for the start of pre-season.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,269
SlowerThanPlatt said:
The two foreign lads are a similar profile to a Josh Pask or Charlie Wakefield aren’t they? Don’t know whether their clubs wanted to keep them but they’ve got one first team appearance between them
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I’d disagree somewhat, unlike Chelsea both PSV and Benfica have a linked pathway between their first team and youth academies.

time will tell if they’re any good, but I’d be quietly excited at these types of signings
 
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Dec-ccfc

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,270
We are clearly waiting for a finalised budget and banking on the Gyokeres money before we prioritise targets, frustrating but saves us downgrading options when we may get first choices with a better budget.
 

JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,271
AFCCOVENTRY said:

They keep adding some decent youngsters to their squad.
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Anyone happen to know how many work permit/ immigration points this bloke would merit? This could be proof that there’s a serious relaxation of the rules that prevented Rente joining us last season.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,272
Dec-ccfc said:
We are clearly waiting for a finalised budget and banking on the Gyokeres money before we prioritise targets, frustrating but saves us downgrading options when we may get first choices with a better budget.
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Which would suggest our budget is severely limited, and we’d need to replace 10 players. Say Gyokeres gets an ACL injury whilst in Sweden and we can’t sell what happens then?
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,273
shmmeee said:
Danny S White begging for attention on Twitter again I see
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SBAndy

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,274
SlowerThanPlatt said:
The two foreign lads are a similar profile to a Josh Pask or Charlie Wakefield aren’t they? Don’t know whether their clubs wanted to keep them but they’ve got one first team appearance between them
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Do we know they’re foreign and weren’t just some of the players still on holiday? After all, that’s why we can’t sign anyone.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,275
Dec-ccfc said:
We are clearly waiting for a finalised budget and banking on the Gyokeres money before we prioritise targets, frustrating but saves us downgrading options when we may get first choices with a better budget.
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I thought part of the King era was to not be so dependent on actually selling somebody before investing?
 
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Flying Fokker

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,276
fernandopartridge said:
I thought part of the King era was to not be so dependent on actually selling somebody before investing?
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I think CCFC will buy if they want to. Especially if they are worth it.
 
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Sick Boy

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,277
The join the journey stuff is starting to sound like a vacuous political slogan.
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,278
Sick Boy said:
The join the journey stuff is starting to sound like a vacuous political slogan.
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Balli001

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,279
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Disagree - Jobe Bellingham would have been greeted well, and the PSV and Benfica signings would be greeted with the same sort of excitement Hamer bought
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No they wouldn't. We wait so long for a signing then we get kids from abroad. You are reaching here to think they would be considered fantastic signings.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,280
Balli001 said:
No they wouldn't. We wait so long for a signing then we get kids from abroad. You are reaching here to think they would be considered fantastic signings.
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Time will tell. I personally like the club trying to find gems from abroad. I never said they’d be considered “fantastic” I said there would be intrigue - as there was when Hamer signed.

at the moment we’ve signed a left back from Bristol City. I somehow doubt if we’d announced two youngsters from PSV and Benfica fans would be up in arms about it
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,281
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Time will tell. I personally like the club trying to find gems from abroad. I never said they’d be considered “fantastic” I said there would be intrigue - as there was when Hamer signed.

at the moment we’ve signed a left back from Bristol City. I somehow doubt if we’d announced two youngsters from PSV and Benfica fans would be up in arms about it
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What about a German Youth international winger and a Marseille academy graduate?
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,282
Ccfcisparks said:
What about a German Youth international winger and a Marseille academy graduate?
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Weren’t they both mid 20s so I’m theory should be in their prime when we signed them?
 

Perryccfc

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,283
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Time will tell. I personally like the club trying to find gems from abroad. I never said they’d be considered “fantastic” I said there would be intrigue - as there was when Hamer signed.

at the moment we’ve signed a left back from Bristol City. I somehow doubt if we’d announced two youngsters from PSV and Benfica fans would be up in arms about it
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This your first summer on here?
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,284
Perryccfc said:
This your first summer on here?
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No, I’m just hoped we’d have a bit more about us under King. At the moment it looks like our whole window hinges on Gyokeres being sold.
 
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Deity

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,285
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
No, I’m just hoped we’d have a bit more about us under King. At the moment it looks like our whole window hinges on Gyokeres being sold.
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I don’t think this is the case but targets take time
 
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Dec-ccfc

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,286
fernandopartridge said:
I thought part of the King era was to not be so dependent on actually selling somebody before investing?
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Well I think it’s quite obvious so far it is a massive improvement but this could be MR and the scouting department pausing to see what we have available rather then doing a supermarket sweep for the low hanging fruit. We could potentially go and get 4-6 young players who fit the Hamer/sheaf/gyokeres style signing and set the club up for future profit.
 
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Balli001

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,287
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Time will tell. I personally like the club trying to find gems from abroad. I never said they’d be considered “fantastic” I said there would be intrigue - as there was when Hamer signed.

at the moment we’ve signed a left back from Bristol City. I somehow doubt if we’d announced two youngsters from PSV and Benfica fans would be up in arms about it
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I forgot every team had made mass signings already. Silly me
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,288
Dec-ccfc said:
Well I think it’s quite obvious so far it is a massive improvement but this could be MR and the scouting department pausing to see what we have available rather then doing a supermarket sweep for the low hanging fruit. We could potentially go and get 4-6 young players who fit the Hamer/sheaf/gyokeres style signing and set the club up for future profit.
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What's this got to do with my post which was in response to another implying that we were waiting to sell Gyokeres?

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DrPoolittle

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,289
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
No, I’m just hoped we’d have a bit more about us under King. At the moment it looks like our whole window hinges on Gyokeres being sold.
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But King told us that.

Doug King made it clear: additional money for transfers has to come from increased ticket sales. Or player sales.

There is no intent to invest more than that
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,290
DrPoolittle said:
But King told us that.

Doug King made it clear: additional money for transfers has to come from increased ticket sales. Or player sales.

There is no intent to invest more than that
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Suggesting 3 years in the play offs out of 5 would really require a bit of investment. If Gyokeres opts to stay, and go on a free - what do we do then?

we need at least 10 players. As I said before - it’s not different to having SISU
 
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Greggs

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  • Jun 23, 2023
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SlowerThanPlatt said:
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he looks like i how imagine 99% of posters on here.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,292
DrPoolittle said:
But King told us that.

Doug King made it clear: additional money for transfers has to come from increased ticket sales. Or player sales.

There is no intent to invest more than that
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It shouldn't necessarily mean that the sequencing needs to be sell first then buy, otherwise what's different to when SISU were in charge?

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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,293
Greggs said:
he looks like i how imagine 99% of posters on here.
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Only 99%?
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jun 23, 2023
  • #1,294
Greggs said:
he looks like i how imagine 99% of posters on here.
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He's from Kenilworth so only worth a few % of somebody who was raised CV1-CV6

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  • Jun 24, 2023
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fernandopartridge said:
It shouldn't necessarily mean that the sequencing needs to be sell first then buy, otherwise what's different to when SISU were in charge?

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It could be we have different players in mind dependent on if we sell Gyokeres.

Itf course that does raise the possibility that if the transfer saga draws on, we sign neither set!
 
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