January Window - Replace the Loanees

[ancientblade]

Kozzy, would you try Ogbene alongside Campbell as a striking pair, I believe Ogbene played at Rotherham as a striker(could wrong though)

ive not been impressed with ogbene but your suggestion could be interesting and personally considering hes doing nothing wide right why not

 

[MojoMuffin]

No doubt about it for me, it's one the most important but apathetic transfer windows for us in recent history.

I do not think we will be relegated, but we're currently adrift of mid-table by 11 points with 32 games to play. With 96 points up for grabs, I'm reminding myself it's still too early to realistically make a prediction on how we get on. My concern at the moment is the teams around us. Pre-season a lot of predictions were around Charlton (6th), Preston (4th) and Derby (11th) being right down here at danger. Leicester and Southampton are in the bottom half of the table and there's a few others that you'd expect to push on and pick up plenty of points with the likes of West Brom, Swansea and Wrexham in the bottom half.

For all the talk of through the middle, round the sides and over-the-top ways to win a game, we're not doing it. We need to quickly find our best starting 11 and have a clear tactic on how we approach the rest of the season on the pitch. January is usually where you find a few bits and pieces to improve a team here or there, but this season it feels like we're going into the market to start building.

I think it's hard to predict exactly what will happen in the window with quite a few games to play and hopefully the likes of Arblaster and Hamer helping us pick up points, but it's a lot to hang on them. Hamer has been a waste of a shirt so far and there's absolutely no telling what player we'll get back with Olly. In the next 10 games we play Wednesday, Portsmouth and *Norwich (*who will most likely have a new manager by then). We need to win those 3 games as at the moment, I can't see where the other points are going to come from before Jan. Maybe an additional 2 or 3 points from draws.

In previous weeks we've heard talk of "trimming the squad", my eyes are fully focused on where that will be, how it will impact us and who will come in. We lost a lot of players in the summer and I think we can mostly admit that a lot of the incomings either haven't featured or have been ineffective. I'd say Mee and Tanganga are possibly the only two that help us. We're better with the likes of McCallum, Seriki and Brooks on the pitch at the moment, which says everything about the players brought in. Barry and Ogbene have been catastrophic in terms of what we hoped they'd offer us this season and what they've delivered.

I'm trying to be optimistic but I'm struggling to see a scenario where the new owners are going to front another 10 or 15 million into the team which is what we really need.

If I'm being negative, I'm expecting them to hit the cash out button. The squad is constantly losing value each game week and I can see Hamer being shifted at a low price and nothing but a reshuffle of loan wages for similar standards of players. The idea of relegation at the moment is too horrific to even think about and what it would mean for this club, but even just surviving the drop, I fear, will have monumental effects on next season with whatever family china is left sold and us languishing in a relegation battle.

But, up the fucking blades and all that.

 

[FriethBlade]

We're stuck with him. Whoever signed him hp should personally pay his wages.

And Matos ffs

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

 

[Badger Blade]

Not unhappy with this at all. Godfrey will go down as one of the worst signings we've ever made, especially as an experienced professional that we'd have expected a lot more from, regardless of whatever issues he's got going on. The other two just haven't been good enough but are young enough to bounce back.

I was quite optimistic about Barry when we first signed him but he's been crap 90% of the time.

Soumare's got a bit about him. Ogbene is nothing more than OK but can at least do something of a job down the right. Ideally don't want him starting though but we've not got a lot else, depending on CW has got lined up.

We've got to win at least 10 games (if not a few more) between now and May so we need people up for the fight. A returning Arblaster in the new year might just give us enough to get us over the line plus whoever else we get in. They can't be any worse than the dross that Selles/the owners signed in August.

 

[Gin&Juice]

Need proper players called Keith and Darren Bullock