Summer transfer window.

[Blast_of_Cannock]

Don't want him anywhere near here.

He's like a less talented Vinnie Jones.

 

[brittcop1]

I really love this forum and the transfer threads. It always amazes me how anyone not currently playing suddenly becomes five times better in people’s minds than they actually are.

I remember last season when people were quite willing to let Garner be replaced because he supposedly was not good enough, look how he has flourished for most of this season.

People blame Moyes, the defence, the strikers, the lack of creativity, the new stadium and so on and so on.

What I have seen this season is a team that has tried hard (the final game against Spurs apart) but is limited. We have not been massively outplayed in lots of matches, but conversely we never look like massively outplaying opposition either. The league this year seems poorer compared to some I remember, although the fact the Premier League may end up winning all three European trophies on offer (despite the degradation of two of them) perhaps shows how comparatively strong and competitive the league still is. The margins are small.

We were massively unlucky in some matches, conceded some late goals, and did not get our fair share of decisions, VAR or otherwise, which has cost us vital points and the chance of European football next season. Overall, though, the season has probably been about a 5/10. Had a few decisions gone our way it could have looked much better, but it was still, in many ways, a massive improvement on the previous couple of seasons.

Since the unfortunate injury to Grealish, we have missed some real magic, someone capable of pulling defenders away and allowing others to excel. But let’s have it right: if Dibling and Anzou were really the answer, I do not think their ages would have been the factor holding them back and Moyes would have played them. We do not see them in training. What little I have seen of Dibling makes me think our money could perhaps have been better used elsewhere, although he is still developing and hopefully will come good. I am by no means writing him off, but the cost seems high at the moment.

I will also go slightly against the grain here and say that later in the season, at times, the side looked more balanced when McNeil was playing. Apart from one performance from Rohl, he did very little that excited me at all.

In terms of the strikers, Beto is not as bad as some on here would have you believe (not great for sure though). Barry, however… wow. “Raw” would be a very kind way of describing him, but I suppose if nobody knows what he is going to do, including himself for the most part, then maybe that unpredictability might eventually confuse him into scoring a few goals. But for me, both could leave and I would shed no tears.

We missed Branthwaite for large parts of the season and I think he would have made a huge difference. That said, I was not as appalled by Keane as I expected to be, and in many matches I thought he was slightly better than Tarkowski.

We miss good full-backs (no shock there), we miss a really good striker, and we miss pace throughout the squad.

When I see people dismissing Grealish and saying they would not be bothered if we missed out on him because the money could be spent better elsewhere, I cannot agree. A fully fit Grealish is our most exciting player (along with Ndiaye), so if he is affordable and his wage demands are sensible, it is a complete no-brainer for me.

People also dismiss Stones as injury-prone and past his prime. He has had his fair share of problems, but let’s be honest, he walks into our backline (walks because he is injured maybe), and he is still going to the World Cup too, rightly or wrongly.

I do not want loads of ageing players arriving for one last payday, but turning our noses up at Stones and Grealish makes me think some people have ideas way above our current station.

Alongside those types of signings, we could target players like George, Hackney, Azeez, or some of the other younger standout performers in the Championship and across world football, developing them alongside more experienced professionals. Yes, we will probably struggle to compete with clubs offering European football for some targets (such is life).

So can we give the tired Soucek and Wilson nonsense a bit of a rest, tone down some of the negativity, and instead look forward to the summer, some exciting links which will probably not come to fruition, and hopefully a more sustained push for European football, and maybe even a decent cup run, next season?

Im sorry...conceding late goals in three, four , five games in a row is not "bad luck"...it is either poor game management, poor fitness or a lack of belief ( all of which the manager plays a major role).If it is none of these, its not bad luck, its a frikkin curse in which case, whats the point?

 

[brittcop1]

Maybe - but Ipswich and Hull have not fared very well when promoted in the past. Coventry have Lampard.

Difficult to see how we’ll be weaker quite frankly.

I consider 13-20 bottom end

 

[riddick]

Id ban every single person who makes this same, hilarious post. Soucek and Wilson, oh the originality

How about this, if there is any bid reported for Soucek you get perma banned? If not, you get to whinge about everyone worried about Moyes explicitly stating "we need MORE experienced players" as in "older" players?

Or do you think there's not a chance he tries for him?

 

[Bkk Andy]

Good post
Another season of DM is another season this club loses ground to clubs that were not even in our sphere in the past. At some point we will be just another club, important only to ourselves

Mate, that happened years ago. We've been irrelevant for 30 years.

 

[windymiller]

Don't want him anywhere near here.

He'd get five red cards a season for us.

 

[blueconverse]

One positive of Delap is he would get a crowd up battering into a RS...trying to be glass half full here lads

 

[GoldenToffee]

One positive of Delap is he would get a crowd up battering into a RS...trying to be glass half full here lads

He's absolutely pooh though.

 

[Bluebonic]

One positive of Delap is he would get a crowd up battering into a RS...trying to be glass half full here lads

Mate, any of that against Saint Virgil and he would be red carded in the first five minutes of every single derby game.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Im sorry...conceding late goals in three, four , five games in a row is not "bad luck"...it is either poor game management, poor fitness or a lack of belief ( all of which the manager plays a major role).If it is none of these, its not bad luck, its a frikkin curse in which case, whats the point?

And sorry for repeating myself,a poor captain.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Don't want him anywhere near here.

If carried on like that in an Everton shirt he’d spend more time suspended than playing.

 

[Saaby]

At least we make some money from Gordon

 

[hallamblue]

Don't want him anywhere near here.

Reminds me of Duncan Ferguson. Too busy caught up in stupid vendettas. Not the kind of player we need, unless we could get that out of his game because he definitely has talent, as did Ferguson.

 

[Eggs]

…not a fan of Delap last summer, not a fan this, not withstanding he’s had a nasty hamstring injury. Always been more combative than quality and I’d be concerned the game doesn’t matter to him anymore.

He does have his supporters on here but I hope we’ve moved on under the new ‘committee’.

 

[blueboy72]

At least we make some money from Gordon

Use it to pay off Moyes and use the rest to get a coffin for Irvine