| Summer Transfer Rumours 16:26 - May 9 with 431650 views | derbyhoop |
As they seem to have started already, this should be an ongoing thread until August
Seny Dieng - Reims who are mid table in Ligue 1 reportedly interested
Conor Masterson - Gillingham, where he spent the 2nd half of the season; are confident of signing him, but Exeter are also interested |  |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 22:31 - Jun 7 with 7210 views | kensalriser |
A world in which Dykes goes to Burnley would be strange and perhaps even wonderful, but it's not the one we inhabit. |  |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 14:36 - Jun 8 with 6576 views | daveB |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 09:40 - Jun 7 by bosh67 |
I saw something on Facebook showing that we currently have a first team squad of 21 players, including 4 goal keepers. Although Kelman wasn't on the list. With him that's 22 and 18 outfield players.
If Dieng and another keeper leave, Willock, Chair, Dykes and possibly Martin leaving, that leaves a squad of 16 senior players and you have to wonder if Stefan stays? The alarming thing is that it leaves Dozzell and a few others as our go to players next season.
I think Gareth wanted a slimmer senior squad and then academy players so that still leaves us potentially needing 7-8 senior players in over the next few months. Not an easy task. |
not really a shock though, I thought it was pretty obvious we'd be signing 7/8 players this window, we sign at least that many every summer |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:06 - Jun 8 with 6122 views | ArcticHoop |
Something interesting from Iroegbunams Instagram. today He might hint another season with us "We go harder next season". and Dunne reply "Can’t wait to have you back mate x" |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:44 - Jun 8 with 6004 views | dmm |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:06 - Jun 8 by ArcticHoop |
Something interesting from Iroegbunams Instagram. today He might hint another season with us "We go harder next season". and Dunne reply "Can’t wait to have you back mate x" |
I'd have him back. He'll have learned about the division last season and be better for it. If used as a box to box CM rather than a DCM he'd be a good asset. |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:48 - Jun 8 with 5972 views | OakR |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:44 - Jun 8 by dmm |
I'd have him back. He'll have learned about the division last season and be better for it. If used as a box to box CM rather than a DCM he'd be a good asset. |
I'd have him back as well. Got hard for him of course, but stil didn't shy away from the ball.
I still think he has huge potential box to box. Sadly it looks like we might be bypassing midfield entirely so I'm not sure how he will fit into that. | |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 21:53 - Jun 8 with 5696 views | numptydumpty |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:48 - Jun 8 by OakR |
I'd have him back as well. Got hard for him of course, but stil didn't shy away from the ball.
I still think he has huge potential box to box. Sadly it looks like we might be bypassing midfield entirely so I'm not sure how he will fit into that. |
He did get bit of stick from some occasionally which I found hard to understand
Most of our loans last season were abysmal. He was the best by far and still only a teenager.
Love to have him here next season as do believe he will really kick in but as we all aware our stock is very low currently
Can see him being at a more fancied championship club on loan this season. [Post edited 8 Jun 2023 21:54]
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 22:28 - Jun 8 with 5561 views | Gloucs_R |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:44 - Jun 8 by dmm |
I'd have him back. He'll have learned about the division last season and be better for it. If used as a box to box CM rather than a DCM he'd be a good asset. |
Where would you play him in a 4231 or 433? As I suspect that's what we'll be playing next season |  |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 06:27 - Jun 9 with 5227 views | dmm |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 22:28 - Jun 8 by Gloucs_R |
Where would you play him in a 4231 or 433? As I suspect that's what we'll be playing next season |
It may partly depend on what the squad looks like and also on who we're playing - Ains seems to favour a 'horses for courses' approach. Probably wide right of a midfield 3. | | | |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 07:47 - Jun 9 with 5050 views | DubaiR |
Agree on the right of a 3. Question is if we keep Field, play him on the left due to being left footed or in the central role?
Personally would like us to get a dynamic box to box CM and have field and Tim either side. |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 07:51 - Jun 9 with 5037 views | Hunterhoop |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 07:47 - Jun 9 by DubaiR |
Agree on the right of a 3. Question is if we keep Field, play him on the left due to being left footed or in the central role?
Personally would like us to get a dynamic box to box CM and have field and Tim either side. |
If you play a back 4 and a midfield 3, the bloke in the middle has to be defensively minded and hold, so that’s Field. If you don’t our defence will be ripped apart. You can’t protect the defence from wide left in a 3 man midfield. If you want a box to box midfielder in the middle, you need to play a diamond of box shaped 4 man midfield or a 4231. The old days of a 442 with a 4 and an 8 in the middle are gone. |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:01 - Jun 9 with 5018 views | DubaiR |
A diamond may actually suit us better, if you look at what we have.
Field
Tim Wing
Richards
Also means we don't have to find 3 forward players which cost more money. | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:11 - Jun 9 with 4980 views | TK1 |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:48 - Jun 8 by OakR |
I'd have him back as well. Got hard for him of course, but stil didn't shy away from the ball.
I still think he has huge potential box to box. Sadly it looks like we might be bypassing midfield entirely so I'm not sure how he will fit into that. |
"I'd have him back as well. Got hard for him of course"
Blimey. Think this might be for a different website? | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:14 - Jun 9 with 4963 views | BklynRanger |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 21:53 - Jun 8 by numptydumpty |
He did get bit of stick from some occasionally which I found hard to understand
Most of our loans last season were abysmal. He was the best by far and still only a teenager.
Love to have him here next season as do believe he will really kick in but as we all aware our stock is very low currently
Can see him being at a more fancied championship club on loan this season. [Post edited 8 Jun 2023 21:54]
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It was more than a bit of stick sometimes though wasn't it? There was a period of a month or two when he being picked because he was our only midfielder with legs, but every time he got it he was giving it away.
I think by the time we got to the end of the season two things had happened:
He'd been played a bit further forward, as he should have been and not relied on to be the complete midfielder at this stage.
He'd been present more than most and kept going - which compared to the rest was a huge positive, plus his celebration after the goals.
Would be a pleasant surprise if he's still here next season. |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:24 - Jun 9 with 4932 views | davman |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:14 - Jun 9 by BklynRanger |
It was more than a bit of stick sometimes though wasn't it? There was a period of a month or two when he being picked because he was our only midfielder with legs, but every time he got it he was giving it away.
I think by the time we got to the end of the season two things had happened:
He'd been played a bit further forward, as he should have been and not relied on to be the complete midfielder at this stage.
He'd been present more than most and kept going - which compared to the rest was a huge positive, plus his celebration after the goals.
Would be a pleasant surprise if he's still here next season. |
Come on. 1. He will not be cheap. 2. There was a game under our current manager where he touched the ball less than 10 times and completed no passes.
No way on earth will Villa let him back here. |  |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:51 - Jun 9 with 4850 views | BklynRanger |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:24 - Jun 9 by davman |
Come on. 1. He will not be cheap. 2. There was a game under our current manager where he touched the ball less than 10 times and completed no passes.
No way on earth will Villa let him back here. |
I did say 'if' - am only going by that reported exchange with Dunne above. | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 09:13 - Jun 9 with 4785 views | terryb |
It might have been Dunne welcoming Tim back from the operation that he required! He arrived back at Villa & they immediately arranged for him to go under the knife. | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 09:41 - Jun 9 with 4654 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 20:48 - Jun 8 by OakR |
I'd have him back as well. Got hard for him of course, but stil didn't shy away from the ball.
I still think he has huge potential box to box. Sadly it looks like we might be bypassing midfield entirely so I'm not sure how he will fit into that. |
I liked him, but I never got hard for him. Not at matches anyway. |  |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 09:56 - Jun 9 with 4586 views | distortR |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 08:14 - Jun 9 by BklynRanger |
It was more than a bit of stick sometimes though wasn't it? There was a period of a month or two when he being picked because he was our only midfielder with legs, but every time he got it he was giving it away.
I think by the time we got to the end of the season two things had happened:
He'd been played a bit further forward, as he should have been and not relied on to be the complete midfielder at this stage.
He'd been present more than most and kept going - which compared to the rest was a huge positive, plus his celebration after the goals.
Would be a pleasant surprise if he's still here next season. |
Her's got talent, and looked ok at times among the dross, but his habit of letting players run off him - all season - boiled my piss at times. | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 11:45 - Jun 9 with 4336 views | dmm |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 09:56 - Jun 9 by distortR |
Her's got talent, and looked ok at times among the dross, but his habit of letting players run off him - all season - boiled my piss at times. |
It's a funny old saying 'boiled my piss'. Can't say I've ever tried doing it. Has anyone had a go? | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 12:00 - Jun 9 with 4239 views | Northernr |
I would have thought the mere mention of ever setting foot in Loftus Road ever again would have brought the poor boy out in terror sweats. |  | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 15:53 - Jun 9 with 3887 views | aston_hoop |
I doubt we'll be getting Tim back, wouldn't be surprised if he stays at Villa for the first half of the season at least and maybe gets 10 appearances with their being Conference League group stage football and League cup matches. A chance for Unai Emery to look at him before either loaning him out in Jan or keeping him. If there was a chance, I definitely wouldn't say no though.
BUT....would love us to sign at least one midfielder this summer who can make those runs into the box and add goals. It was his one big strength for me. Luke Amos on the rare occasions he was fit could do it too. Hope we can identify someone who can do that. We need all the goals we can get and we always seem to be lacking in midfield |  |
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 16:22 - Jun 9 with 3781 views | BklynRanger |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 11:45 - Jun 9 by dmm |
It's a funny old saying 'boiled my piss'. Can't say I've ever tried doing it. Has anyone had a go? |
Mountaineers must be at it all the time.
He did loose more men than Napoleon, Distort - cannot argue with that. | | | |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 16:38 - Jun 9 with 3691 views | distortR |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 16:22 - Jun 9 by BklynRanger |
Mountaineers must be at it all the time.
He did loose more men than Napoleon, Distort - cannot argue with that. |
He reminds me of myself looking for something I just put down after wobbling into the house pissed. "I'm sure it was there a minute ago.."
As I just have, Manx national holiday today, probably the only place in the world to have a bank holiday to enable people to watch a motorbike race, which now happens on Saturday anyway! How good is that!!
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| Summer Transfer Rumours on 19:03 - Jun 9 with 3441 views | Lblock |
| Summer Transfer Rumours on 15:53 - Jun 9 by aston_hoop |
I doubt we'll be getting Tim back, wouldn't be surprised if he stays at Villa for the first half of the season at least and maybe gets 10 appearances with their being Conference League group stage football and League cup matches. A chance for Unai Emery to look at him before either loaning him out in Jan or keeping him. If there was a chance, I definitely wouldn't say no though.
BUT....would love us to sign at least one midfielder this summer who can make those runs into the box and add goals. It was his one big strength for me. Luke Amos on the rare occasions he was fit could do it too. Hope we can identify someone who can do that. We need all the goals we can get and we always seem to be lacking in midfield |
Strength?
I think he got 2 goals and another 4 shots on target across the whole season?!
He’ll be a great player but I thought his time with us was shocking
As was Luke Amos. Period |  |
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