The rumours and links to players has started!

Oshea proven prem league flop so no surprise we are looking for someone better. So. e taller who us happy to mark players rather than zones from corners and is not goung to continually give the ball away

Very positive Stato....nice

Stato. Talking bs as always. Oshea will be fine as long as he has a good player alongside him. Showed towards the end of this season. When kipre struggled after his ban, Oshea looked shaky. Totally solid when Greaves played tho. Only time he gives the ball away is when he tries to play that pass centrally the midfield. Other than that, his passing is good. So if he cuts that 1 particular pass out of his game theres not a problem with him.

Seato were you watching our matches in the Premier League when O’Shea was our best defender. People like you wind me up.

Stato. I think you need an English Literature class and a new prescription for your glasses.

I assume we'll be in the market for 1 more CB with Baggott likely to be loaned out.

I love this time of the year, all of the transfer gossip, rumours and whispers, even more so this year with us needing Prem quality signings. Should be fun!

Be nice if we can sign 2 or 3 stars from the world cup.

Sounds interesting. Clearly sought after with that list of clubs after him.

O'shea was one of our better performers in the Premier league and has done well for his country against quality opponents but hasn't really had a partner who has nailed down that position along side him. As Mick Mills said on the radio we need to sign four or five quality players rather than seven or eight championship standard players. But at the moment the club is giving the impression they are preparing for another campaign in the championship by signing Akpom and to a lesser extent Kipre but it's early days so let's see what the summer brings.

Let's be honest, there are going to be thousands of players linked, we have a world cup coming and the window doesnt even open until mid june, I'll start paying attention when we get announcements from the club, and only then.....

Linkboy: I don't think we would have chosen to sign Akpom, and maybe not Kipré, if we had been given a choice. The point is, we have to as it is in their contracts. That said, I think Kipré might to a job for us, perhaps as a backup squad player.

And the problem is someone agreed to those clauses in their conttacts.

Carberry, if you don't agree to the clause, there is someone else who will. Unfortunately having been relegated a year ago, we needed to strengthen and found it hard to get the players we wanted. Clearly some of the acquisitions were not our first choice and/or came with strings attached. But first priority was to get promoted, we've done that and the loan players helped us achieve that goal. Let's leave it to them to decide what to do with players they don't think will make the step up. And it's good to be linked with a player of this quality.

But sadly, Legend, we have been loaning players we are now contracted to keep. Would have been nice if our judgement was somewhat better so we aren't now stuck with Akpom at a cost of £7m, for example. That's the problem with our recruitment, it's all ego and hunches, and before someone says we got promoted on the back of it we need to remember this was the worst Championship in recent memory and none of our players are good enough for the Premier League.

Gforce, would be nice, though hopefully more successful than Amir Karic, when we last went down that road, under GB. I have to say, he did look really good in that World Cup, didn't translate to the Suffolk air obviously.

West Ham will shortly be in no position to put in any 'significant offer'...so that's one down :)

Sorry to be late on this but I seriously can't believe we've signed Apom on a permanent, he was probably our WORSE acquisition in 20025/26, what the hell!!!!!!

Just read the feature which I missed, obligated to sign the worse loanee we've had in some time...no doubt he'll be on a pay rise for doing very little.

Interesting. As McKenna said a year ago we learned from the year in PL and need to sign more players with physical attributes - which except from maybe Kipre I can not say we have really done this last year. I had a few Norwegians on my list 2 years ago. Sander Berge - then at Burnley where we picked almost everyone but him, now at Fulham and Jørgen Strand Larsen who went to Wolves and is now at Crystal Palace - he had a better season for Wolves than Delap had for us, and works harder - but I would not mind getting Delap back this season . As we need to strenghten all over I have a few (Norwegian)names to throw in the mix that I think have the right attributes to improve our team. Young centre back Henrik Falchener, been awesome for last years winner of the Norwegian league Viking and has just gotten his first cap for Norway - possibly making the world cup squad. Tall guy winning headers in both boxes, not afraid to move up with the ball and good passing skills.Two midfielders I would love to see in blue, Thelo Aasgard, grew up playing for Wigan, now at Rangers and been netting a few for Norway as well. Youngster Jens Hjertø Dahl currently at Tromsø, where they turned down a bid from Besiktas last winter. Also a tall skillfull player that scores a lot from midfield. We can get references from Sindre Walle Egeli.and maybe have him put in a good word about being a blue ;)

NorwegianTractor, you'll know far better than me, but I believe there's some really good players coming out of Scandinavia in general these days. Most definitely an area worth taking a look in I think.

As norwich have proved there might be value in looking at aussie players too....

Personally I'd rather be signing players who have their feet up over the summer rather than travelling great distances and playing in 90 degree heat and high humidity. Even though the competition has expanded by too much there are still players from established nations who haven't qualified. I don't think too many of us disputed the decision to sign Akpom at the time. We need to look at their record over a couple of seasons at least. It was the same with Szmodics . He had an exceptional season at Blackburn after a few average ones at various other clubs.

Akpom may actually come good......
He may also be sold or loaned out.
Don't forget its a 25 man squad, we still need fringe players.

Personally i would say we need 8-9 new players