| We better get pretty active soon 14:32 - Jul 13 with 4936 views | itfcsuth |
Season begins in under 6 weeks, the squad is currently a long way from competing in the Premier League.
Pre season has begun, pre season camp begins next week, new manager, new players needed, in the space of less than 6 weeks.
It's looking like a big task right now. |  | | |  |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:39 - Jul 13 with 1263 views | blueoutlook |
We have to hit the ground running,none of this gelling nonsense,there just isn’t time for that in the PL. So we do need people in pretty sharpish. If we were so far down the line with signings as we were lead to believe then we should see some coming in the next few days(I have my doubts). We need almost a dozen new recruits because there really aren’t many in our squad you can hang your hat on. An awful lot of work to get done and Im not convinced our recruitment team are up to it. |  | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:39 - Jul 13 with 1266 views | nodge_blue |
| We better get pretty active soon on 15:35 - Jul 13 by Wallingford_Boy |
Not sure if you've noticed, but there is this rather large football competition currently going on!
Hardly any transfers at all at the moment.
Next week will likely see things pick up. |
Not so large with only 4 teams left in it. |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 18:42 - Jul 13 with 1254 views | Plums |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:39 - Jul 13 by blueoutlook |
We have to hit the ground running,none of this gelling nonsense,there just isn’t time for that in the PL. So we do need people in pretty sharpish. If we were so far down the line with signings as we were lead to believe then we should see some coming in the next few days(I have my doubts). We need almost a dozen new recruits because there really aren’t many in our squad you can hang your hat on. An awful lot of work to get done and Im not convinced our recruitment team are up to it. |
That's the spirit |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 18:47 - Jul 13 with 1234 views | britbiker |
| We better get pretty active soon on 14:55 - Jul 13 by FrimleyBlue |
Almost 4 weeks since MA said we're down the road with a number of signings. |
Admittedly he didn't say what road. If it's the A12 then everything is a lot slower.
On a serious note, everything happens slower in world cup years.
Sadly we are further down the food chain in football terms so most others in the top leagues will get first pickings and we will have to wait or play over the odds. |  | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:49 - Jul 13 with 1226 views | itfcsuth |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:21 - Jul 13 by Zx1988 |
I asked ChatGPT about this, based on figures from 2010 to date.
Including loans made permanent, and excluding new contracts etc., these were the average numbers of signings made by the three promoted clubs, by 13/07, in each category of summer:
World Cup - 7
Euros - 9.75
No tournament - 12
On that basis, and having made one new signing and made two loans permanent, I'd say we're ahead of where we should be statistically for a WC summer. |
As lovely as that it is, ChatGPT isn’t building a squad our squad this summer, and doesn’t know what we need to do.
We’ve added 1 player to our squad from last season, the other two were deals done last year.
Need to get active, promptly. | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:51 - Jul 13 with 1209 views | blueoutlook |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:42 - Jul 13 by Plums |
That's the spirit |
What’s the spirit? The fact we actually need to be up and at it ? We can’t wait until mid September like last season before the team is assembled. We won’t find another Middlesbrough faltering in the Prem whilst we spend half the season gelling. | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:57 - Jul 13 with 1189 views | Vaughan8 |
Do people think this is football manager and you just bid for players, its done?
Apart from Spurs who seem to be massively overpaying for players, not many other teams have more than 1 or 2 signings if any.
There can be domino effects to these transfers, i.e. Player A needs to move here first so they'll sell us player B.
Most players will be getting a pre season in before we have them so it's not like they're just on a beach until the middle of August.
Yes it would be brilliant to have the whole squad by 1 July but realistically it doesn't happen. (and yes Sunderland had 6 players in by now blah blah). |  | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 19:01 - Jul 13 with 1163 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:38 - Jul 13 by Plums |
We have a new manager and the players will have a clean slate with him. I'm not so sure we should be showing Akpom the door if we want to play with two up top on occasions.
O'Neil will have his own ideas and he may well have uses for some of the players that didn't fit for McKenna.
We will see. |
We absolutely should be showing Akpom the door. |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 19:08 - Jul 13 with 1143 views | Zx1988 |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:49 - Jul 13 by itfcsuth |
As lovely as that it is, ChatGPT isn’t building a squad our squad this summer, and doesn’t know what we need to do.
We’ve added 1 player to our squad from last season, the other two were deals done last year.
Need to get active, promptly. |
That's all well and good - but the evidence shows that promoted sides are generally NOT active in the transfer market at this point of a World Cup summer.
Calm down. | |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 19:24 - Jul 13 with 1113 views | cressi |
| We better get pretty active soon on 14:41 - Jul 13 by FrimleyBlue |
41 days
what we think 6/7 out
6/7 we need in? |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 21:03 - Jul 13 with 1026 views | itfcsuth |
| We better get pretty active soon on 19:08 - Jul 13 by Zx1988 |
That's all well and good - but the evidence shows that promoted sides are generally NOT active in the transfer market at this point of a World Cup summer.
Calm down. |
Just a nonsense generalist statement that’s been plugged out of ChatGPT I’m afraid.
The reality is you’d have hoped we’d been a little more active than we have been to date, especially with the big job we have ahead of us - I’m afraid to blame lack of activity on the World Cup at this point is out of the Ashton textbook of excuses. | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 21:50 - Jul 13 with 972 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
No worries, we'll have gelled by March. |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 21:54 - Jul 13 with 956 views | tetchris |
Don’t think we will be in for any players at the World Cup. All the big clubs will be chasing the best players and prices normally inflated. | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 21:59 - Jul 13 with 939 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| We better get pretty active soon on 14:55 - Jul 13 by FrimleyBlue |
Almost 4 weeks since MA said we're down the road with a number of signings. |
On the positive side you can be sure he's very sorry if anybody was upset by him making stuff up. | |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 06:56 - Jul 14 with 810 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| We better get pretty active soon on 19:24 - Jul 13 by cressi |
10 minimum |
A new team was required but if we can get in a really decent centre half, centre mid, goalie and another striker that might be enough to get something against Sunderland then build from there. |  | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 07:15 - Jul 14 with 774 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
The most important and urgent things were to get two strikers and a central midfielder in. We have, at least, got one of the strikers through the door well in advance of the season and that has repeatedly proven the most difficult position to fill. Time will tell whether the one we have signed is good enough and we need those other two players as a priority. However, most of the squad will benefit from the experience last time around. It will also be interesting to see how differently they are set up under O'Neil. McKenna had already started changing the approach to being more solid last season.
I agree we need more before the season starts but I also think O'Neil may well get more out of the sum of the parts than McKenna managed to last time around. O'Neil has experience at this level that McKenna didn't have. |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 07:44 - Jul 14 with 744 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| We better get pretty active soon on 07:15 - Jul 14 by Nthsuffolkblue |
The most important and urgent things were to get two strikers and a central midfielder in. We have, at least, got one of the strikers through the door well in advance of the season and that has repeatedly proven the most difficult position to fill. Time will tell whether the one we have signed is good enough and we need those other two players as a priority. However, most of the squad will benefit from the experience last time around. It will also be interesting to see how differently they are set up under O'Neil. McKenna had already started changing the approach to being more solid last season.
I agree we need more before the season starts but I also think O'Neil may well get more out of the sum of the parts than McKenna managed to last time around. O'Neil has experience at this level that McKenna didn't have. |
I think that as well, it is a clean slate for some of the previous players and this is likely their only ever chance to play PL so it might bring out the best of them.
Saying this we still need a lot of players! [Post edited 14 Jul 7:44]
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| We better get pretty active soon on 08:42 - Jul 14 with 692 views | Wallingford_Boy |
| We better get pretty active soon on 18:39 - Jul 13 by nodge_blue |
Not so large with only 4 teams left in it. |
Not really how it works!
Let’s see how things pick up over the next few weeks before panicking! |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 08:55 - Jul 14 with 668 views | Wright1 |
| We better get pretty active soon on 14:57 - Jul 13 by BiGDonnie |
Chill out. There's been about 5 transfer in the Premier League. Plenty of time and soon 3/4 will arrive in quick succession. |
Spurs have done more than 5 by themselves. It's not a disaster there aren't more in the door yet... but the silence is a bit concerning (we are PL now - these deals rarely appear out of nowhere with the amount of resources that are put in to reporting on the PL). | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 08:59 - Jul 14 with 658 views | Wright1 |
| We better get pretty active soon on 15:36 - Jul 13 by Wallingford_Boy |
You're going to be very disappointed!
Get Sunday's final out the way and then things will pick up. |
Usually this is true but i'm not sure the WC is holding up much this year - I was listening to the Athletic pod and they were discussing how unusual the amount of players moving during the tournament or as soon as they've been eliminated is this year.
Cucurella, Van Hecke, Tielemans, Anderson all prime examples. | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 09:27 - Jul 14 with 598 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| We better get pretty active soon on 08:55 - Jul 14 by Wright1 |
Spurs have done more than 5 by themselves. It's not a disaster there aren't more in the door yet... but the silence is a bit concerning (we are PL now - these deals rarely appear out of nowhere with the amount of resources that are put in to reporting on the PL). |
Spurs and Chelsea are outliers.
Last summer there were 164 incoming transfers in the PL, with the majority happening in the last month of the window.
So far there have been 46 this summer (only half of which are likely to be 'starters' for the clubs - the majority of the bigger moves tend to happen later too). That's an average of just over 2. We've done 3 (yes, loans into permanent count, and did in the 164 last summer).
We'd all have preferred that we'd have concluded most of our business by now, but it doesn't generally work like that, more so in a WC year. The big domino chains haven't really started yet. | | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 09:38 - Jul 14 with 574 views | Cotty |
| We better get pretty active soon on 15:35 - Jul 13 by Wallingford_Boy |
Not sure if you've noticed, but there is this rather large football competition currently going on!
Hardly any transfers at all at the moment.
Next week will likely see things pick up. |
In a way it's a better summer to have a change of management than most, exactly for this reason. The manager gets a chance to have a look over the current squad before the transfer business really gets moving. |  | | |
| We better get pretty active soon on 10:41 - Jul 14 with 498 views | FBI |
I can see the headline now:
"Staff at professional top-tier football club shocked out of sleepy summer inaction by forum post reminding them to do something." |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 10:52 - Jul 14 with 473 views | Vic |
| We better get pretty active soon on 14:55 - Jul 13 by FrimleyBlue |
Almost 4 weeks since MA said we're down the road with a number of signings. |
It's almost like he was blowing hot air - again!
I honestly don't really take a lot of notice of what he says now. Undoubtedly he's doing a good job for the club overall - but sometimes I wish he'd keep his mouth shut! |  |
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| We better get pretty active soon on 11:48 - Jul 14 with 402 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| We better get pretty active soon on 14:45 - Jul 13 by WolfieAtTheBack |
ANY business that loses it's management team and need to build a new staff in 6 weeks and make them productive are going to say it is not possible, that is what we are up against and we seem to have one bloke trying to do it all on his own. [Post edited 13 Jul 14:56]
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Why post such nonsense? What do you get out of it?
There have been so many stories about the team behind the team, the new backroom appointments, the development of the scouting network etc. and we still get this nonsense about Ashton doing it all on his own. |  |
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