| Championship signings. 19:52 - Jul 23 with 5770 views | FrimleyBlue |
I'm really caught with how to feel about some of our business so far.
On the positive sides I get they meet the criteria set by KM so its got to be positive.
But there is that part of me that was expecting something more from a well backed ownership group than picking from the championship best stats table.
As long as it works of course it doesn't matter. But it's quite scary looking at how teams get torn apart in the prem that we re putting together a side that's either gonna shock a few. Or be primed for a championship title charge in 26 with probably the strongest championship team ever put together.
I dunno, I'm really on the fence with it I think.
I like the sound if clarke. But then I think of the fullbacks he'd be going against and think can he?
I dunno. My thoughts on it literally change every day depending if I'm defending our signings to other football fans or if I'm chatting to my son about what I always felt we would need once back in prem.
I honestly don't know
What are you thoughts?
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| Championship signings. on 19:58 - Jul 23 with 4834 views | J2BLUE |
Not convinced we want Clarke.
Very pleased with the signings. I would like to see some experience in the door though.
An experienced striker and CM would be nice. |  |
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| Championship signings. on 19:58 - Jul 23 with 4830 views | SitfcB |
We’re picking up players that were/are linked with established PL clubs as well.
Can guarantee that if any of our signings so far had signed for any other PL club some would say ‘oh we should’ve been in for him’.
McKenna know exactly what we need… |  |
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| Championship signings. on 20:01 - Jul 23 with 4762 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Championship signings. on 19:58 - Jul 23 by J2BLUE |
Not convinced we want Clarke.
Very pleased with the signings. I would like to see some experience in the door though.
An experienced striker and CM would be nice. |
Yeah the CM part for me is the biggest. Lots of window time left but in our system it's integral to our play between defence and attack, whoever comes in we really need them in soon so they've plenty of time to work our system.
I think the clarke thing might be true. Right footed left sided player to enable Davis to have space ticks the boxes for KM | |
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| Championship signings. on 20:03 - Jul 23 with 4736 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Championship signings. on 19:58 - Jul 23 by SitfcB |
We’re picking up players that were/are linked with established PL clubs as well.
Can guarantee that if any of our signings so far had signed for any other PL club some would say ‘oh we should’ve been in for him’.
McKenna know exactly what we need… |
Thats true however some would have picked up some to be squad fillers where as we re signing first teamers. | |
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| Championship signings. on 20:06 - Jul 23 with 4688 views | le2blue |
| Championship signings. on 20:03 - Jul 23 by FrimleyBlue |
Thats true however some would have picked up some to be squad fillers where as we re signing first teamers. |
Did you forget we were in league one 18mths ago, and have just been promoted to the premier league? We’re buying where we can compete and players King Kieran believes he can develop. He knows exactly what we need. |  | | |
| Championship signings. on 20:12 - Jul 23 with 4598 views | homer_123 |
Sensible signings so far.
Improving what we have thus improving the team and significant sell on value.
Our business so far is bang inline with our ethos and approach.
We are not being silly or stupid.
Not sure what you are expecting exactly.
No complaints from me. |  |
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| Championship signings. on 20:23 - Jul 23 with 4491 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Championship signings. on 20:12 - Jul 23 by homer_123 |
Sensible signings so far.
Improving what we have thus improving the team and significant sell on value.
Our business so far is bang inline with our ethos and approach.
We are not being silly or stupid.
Not sure what you are expecting exactly.
No complaints from me. |
Like I said I don't really know tbh.
Not stupid worldie signings that you only do on fifa.
But perhaps just more prem fringe players who've had some appearences but could be regulars in a newly promoted prem team. Can I name them. No but I'm not a scout and its not my job either it's just how I thought our first few singings would be over promising talented players.
As said. I'm not against the signings made. Far from it. I. Just surprised and caught in how i think it'll do in the prem. | |
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| Championship signings. on 20:23 - Jul 23 with 4481 views | nshearman1 |
| Championship signings. on 20:12 - Jul 23 by homer_123 |
Sensible signings so far.
Improving what we have thus improving the team and significant sell on value.
Our business so far is bang inline with our ethos and approach.
We are not being silly or stupid.
Not sure what you are expecting exactly.
No complaints from me. |
Agree with this, and you can see the strategy, though I too have worried that we're light on PL experience thus far - essentially just Muric & Johnson. But I have faith in McGod. |  | | |
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| Championship signings. on 20:26 - Jul 23 with 4431 views | MK1 |
The signings are exciting. Young attacking forwards and 2 genuine defenders. Fill the gaps in the squad (bench) with freebee PL players. Think we still sign starting CM &CF.
This is going to sound really, really daft, but Newcastle want to sell Callum Wilson. No idea how much they want or how much he would want, but that kind of signing would excite me. Seems injured a lot, but so have others until they come here. Pretty sure I am dreaming, but I do love a dream. |  |
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| Championship signings. on 20:26 - Jul 23 with 4430 views | Mercian |
Ashton and KM both know what they are doing. Many of us including myself wear rose tinted glasses and think we will be comfortable in coming season. When I take my glasses off the reality becomes clearer and we have a more than 50/50 chance of being relegated and that is quite generous. With signings like Muric, Greaves, Delap, Hutch and possibly Clarke the men up top are looking 5 moves ahead on the proverbial chessboard. If we do go down we will be one of the most valuable clubs in The Championship with a top class side at that level. We will also have a number of young players who will still be nowhere close to their potential on sustainable wages and Premier League experience. Of course I will be sad if we are relegated but not heartbroken. The Ipswich project is two years ahead of schedule. [Post edited 23 Jul 2024 20:28]
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| Championship signings. on 20:29 - Jul 23 with 4374 views | Illinoisblue |
My immediate thought is let’s bring back Jeremy and his magic white teeth. |  |
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| Championship signings. on 20:29 - Jul 23 with 4367 views | tractorboy1978 |
We aren't in the market for established Premier League players yet. When you look at the business done so far, who has moved from one PL club to another that we could have realistically got? Southampton seem to be in the same market as us and they are a more established club at the top level than us.
I'd also add that there is inherent risk that comes with picking up players from abroad. And people would probably be quite excited if we were in for a wide forward that had scored 15 goals for a mid table Eredivisie side, which is a comparable level to the Championship.
I like the way we seem to be going about it. Albeit, I think that the CM signing is the biggest one we have left and I think that's where we need to really push hard to find some experience at the top level (whether PL or another elite league). | | | |
| Championship signings. on 20:30 - Jul 23 with 4351 views | Metal_Hacker |
I’ll make my judgement once we sign the most important position
Midfield
For now I’m quite happy - sign up quality midfielder (s) and I’ll be very very happy |  |
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| Championship signings. on 20:32 - Jul 23 with 4316 views | ibbleobble |
I don’t understand the post. We need to sign more PL players is that it? | | | |
| Championship signings. on 20:38 - Jul 23 with 4222 views | Mercian |
As for midfielders. Sheaf who's a reasonably young dedicated CDM and perhaps Jobe Bellingham. Jobe is not the generational talent that his brother is but he is a very good young player and he shares Jude's intelligence and maturity, he is also versatile. For Sunderland he played in all the central positions last season, even CB and striker and looked good in all. I think he would be a great addition. [Post edited 23 Jul 2024 20:41]
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| Championship signings. on 20:39 - Jul 23 with 4201 views | burnbudgiesburn |
My question, and i'm not asking it as if I know the correct answer. Is premier league experience as vital to us as finding a player hungry to succeed that fits the style of play we have?
I guess, the ideal is for them to tick both boxes. But the wages on established players is in all honesty probably out of our range. It is also not as easy to convince established PL players to join a club everyone outside of our bubble expects to be relegated.
I think we are doing ok, if we are to stay up we are going to have to do this the Ipswich way.
Re, Clarke - lovely technical silky player but i've questioned if he would fit the physical intensity of our game and do the hard stuff. | | | |
| Championship signings. on 20:52 - Jul 23 with 4005 views | Guthrum |
Is it better to have the pick of up-and-coming young talent among the best in the Championship, or to have affordable average-ish spares from other Prem squads?
Again, not every Prem unit is regularly tearing other teams apart. Really only five or six - and sometimes even they slip up. We don't have to match Man City's talent (we couldn't, in any case), just beat the likes of Brentford, Southampton, Forest. |  |
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| Championship signings. on 21:54 - Jul 23 with 3611 views | Guthrum |
| Championship signings. on 20:03 - Jul 23 by FrimleyBlue |
Thats true however some would have picked up some to be squad fillers where as we re signing first teamers. |
We have quite a few "squad fillers", if you want to call them that, already. Not perhaps the first choice starters in their positions, but quite capable of doing a job. Harness, Taylor, Humphreys, Baggott. Why fill up on more like that - spending fees and wanting higher wages - but not of markedly better quality (given they're only Prem bench-sitters rather than Champ ones)? At least the aforementioned are completely integrated in our setup and methods.
Better off spending the money on the sharp end, improving the regular starting XI and 60/70 Minute Reinforcements. | |
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| Championship signings. on 22:00 - Jul 23 with 3554 views | NedPlimpton |
Not my thoughts, but I've had quite a few non-ipswich supporting mates make the same joke, that we're building a great side for when we come back down
It probably does look to externals that we're just signing all the best players from the championship and we'd probably be mocking Norwich if they'd gone up and done the same. But I fully trust that McKenna will get the best out of them and am quite excited to see Delap, Greaves and potentially Smodzic and Clarke in the EPL with Town |  | | |
| Championship signings. on 22:04 - Jul 23 with 3515 views | BloomBlue |
| Championship signings. on 20:23 - Jul 23 by FrimleyBlue |
Like I said I don't really know tbh.
Not stupid worldie signings that you only do on fifa.
But perhaps just more prem fringe players who've had some appearences but could be regulars in a newly promoted prem team. Can I name them. No but I'm not a scout and its not my job either it's just how I thought our first few singings would be over promising talented players.
As said. I'm not against the signings made. Far from it. I. Just surprised and caught in how i think it'll do in the prem. |
But aren't fringe Prem players basically the same as top championship players?
My feeling is if they're totally prem ready they would be playing regularly for their prem team.
I'm also happy we have some in the squad from last season that will step up and surprise a few.
I get the arguement about buying 2 or 3 fully Prem ready players, but they would probably cost £40m+ (in fee & wages) and is the club in a position to spend that much on individual players. |  | | |
| Championship signings. on 22:05 - Jul 23 with 3503 views | PioneerBlue |
I really like the business we’ve done. Young with growth potential. Adding athleticism in defence and more technical attacking attributes for assists, chance creation and hopefully goals. Clarke would be great. Central Midfield is obviously a gap.
More to do. | |
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| Championship signings. on 22:16 - Jul 23 with 3385 views | ghostofescobar |
Odd, as I came on here to post something very similar, especially after now seeing the Clarke link. Is a big driver of our strategy to buy players who “should” comfortably get us out of the Championship if we get relegated? Rather than established, Prem league “bigger” names, who will still cost a bit, but will fvck off if we go down? I still can’t help but think we need a couple of players, one at the back and one in midfield, with plenty of prem experience. Very exciting potential for the nearish future for our signings, but week in, week out in the prem from next month…..? But at this stage, I will defer to KM and MA knowing what’s best: they’ve hardly put a foot wrong as yet, so I trust them. |  |
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| Championship signings. on 22:18 - Jul 23 with 3356 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Championship signings. on 22:04 - Jul 23 by BloomBlue |
But aren't fringe Prem players basically the same as top championship players?
My feeling is if they're totally prem ready they would be playing regularly for their prem team.
I'm also happy we have some in the squad from last season that will step up and surprise a few.
I get the arguement about buying 2 or 3 fully Prem ready players, but they would probably cost £40m+ (in fee & wages) and is the club in a position to spend that much on individual players. |
But aren't fringe Prem players basically the same as top championship players..
Some yes some no.
Just as an example. You could have someone with say 30 40 prem games behind them. Some more. Some less. But prem games. Prem standard training etc..
They've played against prem players at prem speeds, prem mentalities. V players who come from playing norwich. Plymouth and sheff Wednesday as examples.
I'm absolutely fully behind the potential of the signings we've made but like Johnson.. I'd like a bit more prem knowledge in it. | |
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| Championship signings. on 22:41 - Jul 23 with 3218 views | Reuser_is_God |
Don’t be such a fanny |  |
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| Championship signings. on 23:03 - Jul 23 with 3099 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
Isn't it about having a mix? I think the players we have signed so far are players that most prem teams, certainly outside the top 6 could look to add to their squad, one could argue that adding 1 or 2 to an established PL squad is different to what we've done but equally every addition so far has had other PL interest.
I'd personally like to see a bit of experience added but I'm happy with our business so far. I'd expect 3 or 4 more in yet though.
Ultimately we have a player profile that we broadly stick too with the odd outlier to bring something different.
Omari, exciting young, bags of talent as we have seen.
Johnson, good number of PL games for his age and could have gone to a more established side.
Greaves, one of the most highly rated young CBs in the county.
Muric, experienced, good age for a keeper, played every game of a promotion campaign and Burnley looked better with him in their side at the end of last season.
I feel like if we get 1 or 2 Aluko types, maybe a touch younger but experienced heads in top of what we have now that's a great window |  |
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