| I know this will get mega downvotes 20:46 - Aug 2 with 2837 views | FromReuserWithLove |
and cries of me being so awfully negative and I know “things don’t work like that in the real world mate” etc etc but I really can’t help feel this pre-season/transfer has been a total mess thus far. Obviously things can change but I feel Ashton and Co should have sorted out a few glaring problems a lot more efficiently. |  | | |  |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:13 - Aug 3 with 265 views | ArnieM |
OP. 100% concur with you. |  |
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| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:18 - Aug 3 with 243 views | Benters |
I don’t understand why everyone is getting their nicnacs in a twist over all this.
So what if we don’t make the top two next season,it’s not the end of the world is it.
I will settle for playoffs next season,i said I’d settle for 17th last season,and I got that wrong to 😂 |  |
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| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:18 - Aug 3 with 243 views | franz_tyson |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:11 - Aug 3 by Herbivore |
Aren't we meant to be on the verge of signing Cajuste? |
True, but I hope we're aiming to bring in another CM to start alongside Matusiwa. I'm in the minority as I don't rate Cajuste that highly as many do, but if he was a bench option we'd be in a strong position. |  | | |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:37 - Aug 3 with 210 views | Herbivore |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:18 - Aug 3 by franz_tyson |
True, but I hope we're aiming to bring in another CM to start alongside Matusiwa. I'm in the minority as I don't rate Cajuste that highly as many do, but if he was a bench option we'd be in a strong position. |
Cajuste is far too good for this level. He'll be coming here to start plenty of games. Yes we need another as well but it kind of shows your point about working on one target at a time doesn't really hold when we've clearly been continuing to progress things with Cajuste while pursuing Hackney. |  |
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| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:47 - Aug 3 with 183 views | Churchman |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:04 - Aug 3 by mrshallisfit |
Point of order. Who is this Bingo Billy you talk of and are we in for him? |
He plays 68 and could be ours Saving Grace. I know bringing in players can be a bit of a lottery but I think we should take a gamble on him. |  | | |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:53 - Aug 3 with 157 views | backwaywhen |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 20:58 - Aug 2 by groovyASH |
Some good solid team building performances against decent opposition.
Only issues are the injuries which are an inevitable part of football.
Re: transfers, patience. We don't throw stupid money around, we don't behave desperately, we play a long game with the players we want and have usually ended up getting them.
Inevitably the likes of Hutchinson leave like Delap before him but this gives us flexibility and headroom in return.
McKenna and Ashton have earned the right to our patience and belief. They've done nothing to burn that away |
That’s a great response and reply and spot on …..we go again and let McKenna and his team build another successful team/squad …….Uppa Towen . | | | |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 09:19 - Aug 3 with 107 views | franz_tyson |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:37 - Aug 3 by Herbivore |
Cajuste is far too good for this level. He'll be coming here to start plenty of games. Yes we need another as well but it kind of shows your point about working on one target at a time doesn't really hold when we've clearly been continuing to progress things with Cajuste while pursuing Hackney. |
According to Mr Ham, we cooled our interest over Cajuste quite a bit. Maybe Cajuste is failing to get the interest he wants ( dream move to Saudi broke down?) and it's a convenience for both parties.
We'll see over Cajuste. Just can't see him surviving the Championship... especially a starter. Can see him more as a PL squad player where his game time is limited.
Never ever said we were only negotiating one player at a time.... | | | |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 09:37 - Aug 3 with 85 views | Bobbychase |
Kept McKenna
Bought in a Morsy replacement
Kept Davis
Looking back at the transfer windows when we had to settle for Leon Best and Oli Hawkins, I'd have to disagree |  |
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| I know this will get mega downvotes on 09:49 - Aug 3 with 77 views | Smoresy |
Been a rough week in many respects hasn't it?
Losing three fullbacks is terrible luck. Praying Leif was precautionary and he's in an okay place, but guess few are privy to that. Otherwise it's Young on the wrong side probably and starting CBs to cover RB & LB.
Cajuste signing would be a big relief (can't count him yet) and Hackney will have been a big knock. We pushed hard for the main missing man to arrive in time for matchday 1 and we missed: doubtless a tough one for them to take.
My worry is that we've had a very favourable pitch this window so far We're favourites to go up almost everywhere you look, or at least we were as of a few days ago. That hasn't been enough to convince targets to come in our most fragile positions, instead we have Omari & Broadhead on the cusp of moves away, and now we must walk the walk to retain this image. It's exciting but it's also nail-biting. Will we look a less solid bet if 2nd & 3rd fav turn us over in our opening two games?
Turning to availability for Brum, is this the strongest probable lineup?
Palmer, Johnson, O'Shea, Greaves, Young, Matusiwa, Taylor, Szmodics, Chaplin, Clarke, Hirst
Finishers: Barbrook/Humphreys, Broadhead, Ogbene, Al-Hamadi
I'm not sure that beats the available team at the back end of the last Championship season:
Hladky, Tuanzebe, Woolfenden, Burgess, Davis, Morsy, Luongo, Broadhead, Chaplin, Hutchinson, Hirst
Finishers: Taylor/Travis, Sarmiento, Burns, Moore/Al-Hamadi
Still I can't wait for things to kick off. Imagine if we may land a blow on those two while we're at our most fragile? We'd feel unstoppable! | | | |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 09:50 - Aug 3 with 73 views | Bobbychase |
| I know this will get mega downvotes on 08:01 - Aug 3 by Churchman |
I think the view that ‘we waste time on transfers’ implies transfers are easy to do.
Club wants to sign Bingo Billy. Ashton speaks to agent and counterpart at Real Ale Madrid, fee agreed. Agent negotiates wages and terms. Bingo turns up, stethoscope waved about; medical sorted, puts his X on the contract and inanely grins at the camera holding up his new nylon shirt. Hurrah!
The reality is £millions involved, a buying club with what it’s prepared to spend, an Agent, selling club wanting the max, player with his own wishes, his family, possibly moving to an unknown part of the country. It all sounds hideously difficult to me and I’ve no idea of the true process. Clearly there are plenty of ITK people on here who do, so perhaps somebody could explain it.
‘We waste time on transfers’ implies that whoever does recruitment is incompetent. Is that the case? Last year, some suggested Ashton spent too much time posing for the cameras in a hard hat focussing on Portman Road work to the detriment of transfers. Was that true? I don’t think it’s as simple as that or correct.
It is obvious to all but the dumbest that ITFC were well behind the curve with infrastructure including scouting and recruitment thanks to Evans. Recruiting with money to get out of League One was clearly far easier than trying to bring people in higher up the food chain. It was to Cook’s credit that he had an eye for a player and I don’t think overall his successors have done too badly.
Mistakes? Of course, but no club or manager has ever gone through player trading and not made mistakes. That’s just life. Is the club’s recruitment good/professional enough? No idea. Some on here clearly don’t think so.
The picture will be clearer in a months time. I hope by then whoever we have at the club buys into it and all are pulling in the same direction. If we have unhappy people in the building (like possibly Hutchinson) that won’t happen and we can forget this season.
A dramatic conclusion that I don’t think will happen because I believe a lot will be sorted in the next two or three weeks. |
The talk of mistakes and mess is a bit grating when nobody really has a clue what is going on behind the scenes. | |
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