January Transfer Window

[K L Blue]

Just seen Bonne has left QPR by mutual consent.
I'm wondering what people's thought are about him returning.
On a few FB sites their all screaming "He's one of our own" or "No he's sh*te"

Just wondered what people think here?

[hallamblue]

I wouldnt be surprised to see Bonne sign for us until end of season either. Can’t see any problem with that either. He lost form, but suspect he’d be finding the net again if resigned. He also does an effective job of closing down in my humble opinion.

[shabba]

Tricky one, I like the guy and he bleeds blue - however he was immense in that first period (under cook) but like all of our strikers he really suffered under the KM system.

Not sure KM would want him given he didn’t do well under him previously.

Would take him as a solid backup/competition to ladapo but ideally hope we can do better, I’d probably prefer a more mobile and athletic youngster (who is also fair physical).

[Bluemike]

We haven't been let down before, I'm sure we won't be this time.

[Bluemike]

Bonne is not good enough and worse than what we have, thankfully the club are not pursuing it.

[ijjysmith]

You guys linked with Nathan Broadhead?

As a Toffee ( ) he’d definitely do a decent job for 6 months I think. He can finish and gets stuck in.

We might need him next season though!

[Dazzz67]

I personally do not think he will come back, even as a free, what would his wages be?? Letting him go for free from a club in the league we are aiming to get back too just says not good enough, sorry.

Lets move on and get some quality additions.

[hallamblue]

I see Plymouth have just made their second signing: attacking midfielder from Blackpool. That’s 2 inside 4 days.

[hallamblue]

You guys linked with Nathan Broadhead?

As a Toffee ( ) he’d definitely do a decent job for 6 months I think. He can finish and gets stuck in.

We might need him next season though!

We need someone who has physical presence up front, can link up play snd doesn’t need 6 attempts to score 1 ….

[number 9]

If we sign Bonne, I’ll lose confidence in our leadership. If we get Broadband whatever his name, I’ll be pleased. Just a thought, but how do you think Chaplin would be as a #9? I believe he started his career as a striker. Just sayin…

[Bluemike]

I see Plymouth have just made their second signing: attacking midfielder from Blackpool. That’s 2 inside 4 days.

But are they any good ?

[shabba]

I see Plymouth have just made their second signing: attacking midfielder from Blackpool. That’s 2 inside 4 days.

But are they any good ?

https://avftt.co.uk/index.php?threads/c ... uth.38906/

The word lightweight appears a lot.

[Cabanas Blue]

I see Plymouth have just made their second signing: attacking midfielder from Blackpool. That’s 2 inside 4 days.

They also signed Saxon Earley a full back from Norwich so three, let's hope Town get a couple in soon.

[marko69]

If we get Broadband whatever his name......

As long as he is a "router" one way to goal type bloke.

[number 9]

If we get Broadband whatever his name......

As long as he is a "router" one way to goal type bloke.

Lol! Fiber for sure!

[The Odious Mr Rossi]

If we sign Bonne, I’ll lose confidence in our leadership. If we get Broadband whatever his name, I’ll be pleased. Just a thought, but how do you think Chaplin would be as a #9? I believe he started his career as a striker. Just sayin…

cant see it myself - he certainly knows where the goal is, but he's not big enough and too lightweight for a number 9 - he gets shoved off of the ball far too easily

[shabba]

If we sign Bonne, I’ll lose confidence in our leadership. If we get Broadband whatever his name, I’ll be pleased. Just a thought, but how do you think Chaplin would be as a #9? I believe he started his career as a striker. Just sayin…

cant see it myself - he certainly knows where the goal is, but he's not big enough and too lightweight for a number 9 - he gets shoved off of the ball far too easily

Agree with that, would probably work very well playing in a 2 off of a big target man, ala Crouch and Defoe.

[The Odious Mr Rossi]

If we sign Bonne, I’ll lose confidence in our leadership. If we get Broadband whatever his name, I’ll be pleased. Just a thought, but how do you think Chaplin would be as a #9? I believe he started his career as a striker. Just sayin…

cant see it myself - he certainly knows where the goal is, but he's not big enough and too lightweight for a number 9 - he gets shoved off of the ball far too easily

Agree with that, would probably work very well playing in a 2 off of a big target man, ala Crouch and Defoe.

agreed - I think that would be his best position, same as it would be for Harness and Aluko.
That's one reason I favour 3-5-2 over both 3-4-3 and 3-4-2-1, as I think we have the players to make it work very well. Doesn't look like it will happen, though

[hallamblue]

Number 9 . The Everton player’s name is BROADHEAD ….. hope this helps x

[Ricco]

All this talk of attacking players makes me uneasy. Yes goals are sexy and all that, so forwards make the papers, but we're the league's top scorers, and we're scoring at a rate faster than any team in the last 3 seasons too!

Of course more goals are nice, but Chaplin is up there in the goal charts, Ladapo isn't far behind, so I don't think we'll find that an extra attacking player will suddenly allow us to apply full throttle and take this league.

The defensive record is what worries me, almost alarmingly when you see the glut of possession we're able to attain. More worryingly again is that we might not see any movement there, because it can be seen as a risk to change personnel and risk unsettling a defence midseason.

I don't watch enough of Town to have a strong opinion of the CBs, but CBs are better value than attacking players, so why not splash there?! I know Walton hasn't had his best season, but I think he's an excellent keeper at this level.

[hallamblue]

We definitely ( IMHO), need better defenders. Problem is Woolfie seems to be pivotal to McKenna’s way of building attacks out from the back. Fine. Use a defensive minded midfielder to bring it forward and be the link player. Woolfie I’d not in my view a very good “ defender”, and so we rely on Burgess to cover that box. I think this is one of our major weaknesses.

[Dazzz67]

Lets not panic everyone, we all know that MA and KM play their cards close to their chests as not to give anyone a chance of messing up a deal, few smoke grenades have been lobbed and a few false trails been laid I suspect to put people off their scent.

I am excited and want to see some new faces soon (as you all are) and im sure they will be worth the wait, lets just be patient.........GOD DAMN IT!!! lol

[marko69]

Really do believe that Kieron is in for a tough time in the year ahead. There are a lot of people, not really on here, (some maybe) that are properly questioning the guy and his tactics & formations & starting line ups etc. Which is fair enough. Each to their own on how they see things through their own "managerial specs" ......... But must say, Kieron will definitely need to ponder his future carefully (and hope for big investment), because to be properly gunning for promotion NOW and have A LOT of critics ------>> next season & potentially fighting relegation from the Championship is going to get him the sack, for sure. What a cut throat business it has become with everyone and their mutt being a manager coupled with social media.

And Ricco. When you say CB's are better value than attacking players......, you mean cheaper to obtain decent ones? Or value to the team as a whole?

[Shed on tour]

Really do believe that Kieron is in for a tough time in the year ahead. There are a lot of people, not really on here, (some maybe) that are properly questioning the guy and his tactics & formations & starting line ups etc. Which is fair enough. Each to their own on how they see things through their own "managerial specs" ......... But must say, Kieron will definitely need to ponder his future carefully (and hope for big investment), because to be properly gunning for promotion NOW and have A LOT of critics ------>> next season & potentially fighting relegation from the Championship is going to get him the sack, for sure. What a cut throat business it has become with everyone and their mutt being a manager coupled with social media.

And Ricco. When you say CB's are better value than attacking players......, you mean cheaper to obtain decent ones? Or value to the team as a whole?

Yep, look at what happened to Liam Manning. Last season he was being touted for various jobs and then this season got the bullet even though a couple of his key players were sold. Things can change very quickly as a manager.

[Cabanas Blue]

It does not look good if we are after any of the Peterborough players from what Darragh MacAnthony says, but you would expect that idiot to say that.


Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony says he's rejected 'laughable bids' for some of the club's players already in January.

[hallamblue]

They always get very fees for their players. They’re no pushovers in the transfer market that’s for sure. I don’t think we’ll get any Posh players quickly or without paying a lot of money.
I get the distinct feeling we’re not getting out targeted players easily …..

On the question of McKenna. He’s a brilliant young manager , and he’s brought us a long way in a very short time. But teams are sudsing us now and the key to success ( promotion) is adaptability. Our style of football is easy in the eye . But, is it appropriate for division 3? In the Championship I think we’d wipe the floor with them with our style and ability, but in league One, they don’t give a sh*t how good we “ look”, they just say stuff you , break us down then.

Maybe our rivals Sheffield and Plymouth don’t get the same tactical issues to deal with from opponents like we do , and they gave an easier time as teams don’t sit back with 10 men behind the ball like they do when these teams play us.
But I seriously doubt there’s a striker out there that can score goals against this type of belt n braces defending . What info know I’d WE can’t defend when called upon and I’d be looking for defenders more than strikers.

[Bluemike]

All this talk of attacking players makes me uneasy. Yes goals are sexy and all that, so forwards make the papers, but we're the league's top scorers, and we're scoring at a rate faster than any team in the last 3 seasons too!

Of course more goals are nice, but Chaplin is up there in the goal charts, Ladapo isn't far behind, so I don't think we'll find that an extra attacking player will suddenly allow us to apply full throttle and take this league.

The defensive record is what worries me, almost alarmingly when you see the glut of possession we're able to attain. More worryingly again is that we might not see any movement there, because it can be seen as a risk to change personnel and risk unsettling a defence midseason.

I don't watch enough of Town to have a strong opinion of the CBs, but CBs are better value than attacking players, so why not splash there?! I know Walton hasn't had his best season, but I think he's an excellent keeper at this level.

This is what I keep saying but no bugger listens, we don't need f**king strikers, we need defenders who can keep the odd clean sheet when we are struggling to score more than one, people go on about Woolfy and Burgess but they are bang average at best.

[Bluemike]

Really do believe that Kieron is in for a tough time in the year ahead. There are a lot of people, not really on here, (some maybe) that are properly questioning the guy and his tactics & formations & starting line ups etc. Which is fair enough. Each to their own on how they see things through their own "managerial specs" ......... But must say, Kieron will definitely need to ponder his future carefully (and hope for big investment), because to be properly gunning for promotion NOW and have A LOT of critics ------>> next season & potentially fighting relegation from the Championship is going to get him the sack, for sure. What a cut throat business it has become with everyone and their mutt being a manager coupled with social media.

And Ricco. When you say CB's are better value than attacking players......, you mean cheaper to obtain decent ones? Or value to the team as a whole?

Exactly: our fans are never happy and the only thing Roy Keane got right was when he said a lot of them don't have a clue about Football.

My ONLY gripe with McKenna is his excessive rotation of players, I just think it's a tad ott at times, aside from that he's the best Manager we've had for decades.

[ashfordblue]

You guys linked with Nathan Broadhead?

As a Toffee ( ) he’d definitely do a decent job for 6 months I think. He can finish and gets stuck in.

We might need him next season though!

We need someone who has physical presence up front, can link up play and doesn’t need 6 attempts to score 1 ….

Liz, there's a strong possibility Wickham could return he's had a good return for FGR 5 or 6 goals in his short period with them, and he does know where the back of the net is, the only problem he's had is with injury problems, but he's a local lad whom we never gave much first team game time but like Rhodes scored for fun in the under 23's I believe we made some very bad mistakes letting them go but that's down to the then management and the owners, very bad decisions, we were always a club that gave our home-grown lads a chance as Sir Bobby did in his reign.
As for Broadhead he wasn't interested before and chose Sunderland so he can stick with Wigan and get relegated down to League one as we go the other way.
As for Peterborough, they want to keep their best players that aren't doing such a good job in the first half of the campaign and they always play games in the transfer market hoping that some fool of a club will pay them £5 million for a player they brought for £500'000 i.e Taylor.
They still have high hopes of promotion back to the championship under Darren Ferguson yet again that's 3 stints as a posh manager, and where have all the millions gone for the players they have sold over the years, probably down to p*ss poor ownership and gobby Fry, they say there in a bad way financially through their own fooking fault, lining their own pockets instead of investing in the club, their a horrible club hope they go down to the national league north.

But as you have stated Liz we have to shore up our leaky defence as a priority so let's get a decent Central defender in first

[hallamblue]

I thought CW had c scored most of his goals from penalty spot for FGR … his injuries I think would be a problem In a team that trains and plays at high intensity . Not sure he’d cope with it.