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Reply | Coleman Out
at 15:44 4 Feb 2025
Please don't say that our scout is a computer programme. 🤦♂️
It would be like choosing Williams as a manager without a football man watching Notts County play. The assists and goals of Jones and Langstaff must have papered over a lot of cracks. |
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Reply | Coleman Out
at 00:31 4 Feb 2025
I suspect that the whole window and the months preceding it were based on an assumption that we would be somewhere near the play offs and that we would be an attractive option for the quality of players we were scouting.
I don't think that what Williams has managed to achieve since the QPR game ever entered the realms of possibility. Additionally I don't think that it was considered that selling clubs wouldn't bend over backwards to accept payment schedules that fitted our P&S. Again because the players would be desperate to join us because we were going places and would force moves if necessary.
Our abysmal form meant that the boot was on the other foot with the selling clubs regarding payments. We became desperate, hence the loan back, and were not an attractive proposition for the other players we wanted.
I believe a mixture of inexperience, naivety, making assumptions and poor coaching has potentially seen a lot of work go down the pan. Perhaps when we started falling apart on the pitch there should have been a reappraisal of some targets.
This window feels different to those under the previous regime where moving the goalposts in a transfer at the last moment seemed to be the norm. The end result however, is the same another shambles.
Maybe Keith and the team will cast a different light on this mess but it's how it feels from a distance. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 23:54 3 Feb 2025
In August 2012, Gary Neville posted:
"What the transfer deadline gives you is a clear indication of which are the badly run football clubs!!!"
It still holds true today. |
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Reply | Jacob Wright - Man City ...
at 21:45 3 Feb 2025
What have they got that we haven't got, apart from a better wage structure, being 3 points off the play offs and looking to challenge for a spot etc. |
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Reply | 🔴 Swansea City : Transfer Deadline Day
at 21:40 3 Feb 2025
Pay league 1 wages, eventually get league 1 football. Our awful recruitment in previous windows has speeded up the process. |
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Reply | 🔴 Swansea City : Transfer Deadline Day
at 21:20 3 Feb 2025
I disagree - clearly ambition for the deals that fell through. Trying to implement Plan B, C or even D on deadline day is the problem once again. |
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Reply | Swansea City on deadline day : Afternoon update
at 19:35 3 Feb 2025
I think Coleman is genuine, however our current form and league position, speculation regarding the manager, selling the captain to a "more ambitious" club, probably our best centre half running down his contract and our wage structure isn't going to encourage a lot of players in this country to make permanent moves.
I guess Wright was looking for a better positioned club to match us.
The problem with deadline day business, especially when you aren't pushing for the play offs is you often end up with either very little or overpaying for a player who is way down on your list |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 10:19 3 Feb 2025
Deadline Day.
Almost every time it's like Christmas Eve shopping for a partner. Promising something special and setting out with good intentions, but ending up buying some overpriced tat that you didn't really want at the very last minute. |
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Reply | Jacob Wright - Man City ...
at 18:40 2 Feb 2025
I'm hoping that this season is about staying here and that if our P&S figures are better that we are looking to move forward in the summer.
In his circumstances a loan with an obligation to buy if we stay up would make sense |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 18:18 2 Feb 2025
There would be riots if he helped keep Derby up.
Speculation seems to be about which team will pay the biggest part of his wages. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 13:08 2 Feb 2025
The issue now is that we are in free fall, sold our captain and offer league 1 wages.
Very little to attract the type of player we need on either a permanent or loan basis unless they are desperate for game time. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 01:11 31 Jan 2025
Wasn't he kicked out of the dressing room and Dave Penney (can't remember if he was captain at the time) gave the half time team talk?
No idea why that has suddenly come into my mind. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 20:43 29 Jan 2025
Would assume that this means we are looking at loan midfielder(s) but dangerous to make assumptions. |
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Reply | Darling
at 17:58 29 Jan 2025
Nah, the ignore button works perfectly |
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Reply | Harry Darling
at 12:42 28 Jan 2025
Far too late for that in my opinion |
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Reply | Time To Blood The Academy Players
at 10:17 28 Jan 2025
The time to do this at this level is when you are playing well. Putting them into the current mess could set them back years. |
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Reply | Swansea City ‘fans’ so shocked they can’t handle Grimes leaving : He is go
at 10:12 28 Jan 2025
I think that it is the bigger picture that has shocked fans:
The tactical mess that Luke Williams has created with players going backwards and results and performances being shocking; the financial position that we appear unable to afford to remove Williams or strengthen the squad; the mess with Darling's contract going to run down; Williams and the WBA debacle; the state of the pitch and the captain who up until this point had appeared settled wanting a move in the January window. There are probably other things as well.
It all points to a club in turmoil on and off the pitch. The type of perfect storm that gets a club relegated.
Fans can see the mess on the pitch and are starting to see that there is an equally big mess off the pitch as well. They are wondering how we can get to around 50 points and are there 3 worse teams than us this season, when not so long ago, they were looking that with the recruitment that Williams alluded to we could possibly push on towards the top 6. |
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