Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?

[alexanders]

47 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Now we have Hyam I'd rather we left VDB honestly. Those squad places in 4th, 5th choice are exactly where the younger lads like Carter and Phillips should be and getting loans in to stunt their development is something we need to stop doing.

Ayala, Hyam, Wharton, Carter and Phillips should be fine for CB. Let's get some creativity or finishing with that loan instead.

 

13 minutes ago, Tugayisgod said:

Nixon now saying Schalke made late move for van den berg! Liverpool to decide where he goes. Would like him but think 5 cbs would be enough even if playing 3 at the back. Just means nobody leaves on loan . Would also free up money for another position 

Going to be a busy few days

 

Agree with both and why I asked how many loans we are allowed.

I don't want us using energy, personell and resources to develop one of Liverpools youngsters when we can focus on our own. 

After seeing Bournemouth getting beat 9-0 I don't know if I want us to get promoted 😉

[Sparks Rover]

1 minute ago, alexanders said:

 

 

 

I don't want us using energy, personell and resources to develop one of Liverpools youngsters when we can focus on our own. 

Spot on, I'd rather have A Wharton than Morton, Clarkson was shite, so really is there actually any point in this.?

[joey_big_nose]

1 hour ago, RTM08 said:

Now we have Hyam I'd rather we left VDB honestly. Those squad places in 4th, 5th choice are exactly where the younger lads like Carter and Phillips should be and getting loans in to stunt their development is something we need to stop doing.

Ayala, Hyam, Wharton, Carter and Phillips should be fine for CB. Let's get some creativity or finishing with that loan instead.

We need VDB to cover right back. After Brittain it's JRC.

Edited August 29, 2022 by joey_big_nose

[Upside Down]

What about left back though? 

[ben_the_beast]

10 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

Anybody watching JRC on Saturday would be having second thoughts.

I think a combination of Mowbray and injuries have set him back years. Personally I think JRC isn't a bad footballer. But he's not an athlete and has been asked to play in one of the most athletic positions on the pitch. 

Injuries have taken their toll but he never has been and never will be a RB or RWB. As a result he's now a few years older and neither he nor coaching staff have any idea what his position is so when he is fit he's no direction on what aspects of his game to improve. 

[joey_big_nose]

Just now, Upside Down said:

What about left back though? 

For whatever reason the powers that be seem satisfied with our options. We haven't been linked to any left backs at all.

[joey_big_nose]

9 minutes ago, ben_the_beast said:

I think a combination of Mowbray and injuries have set him back years. Personally I think JRC isn't a bad footballer. But he's not an athlete and has been asked to play in one of the most athletic positions on the pitch. 

Injuries have taken their toll but he never has been and never will be a RB or RWB. As a result he's now a few years older and neither he nor coaching staff have any idea what his position is so when he is fit he's no direction on what aspects of his game to improve. 

Yeah he's also atrocious in the air, and you are onto a hiding at full back if you can't head. Also why I think Eduns never going to make a full back. Rather have someone like Carter playing there and being solid in the air than a JRC or Edun who can be easily targeted.

Edit - scratch that, for some reason I thought Carter is left footed. He's right footed.. wrong footed full backs always a bad idea!

Edited August 29, 2022 by joey_big_nose

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

What about left back though? 

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

[Miller11]

6 minutes ago, ben_the_beast said:

I think a combination of Mowbray and injuries have set him back years. Personally I think JRC isn't a bad footballer. But he's not an athlete and has been asked to play in one of the most athletic positions on the pitch. 

Injuries have taken their toll but he never has been and never will be a RB or RWB. As a result he's now a few years older and neither he nor coaching staff have any idea what his position is so when he is fit he's no direction on what aspects of his game to improve. 

He needs a loan to a club where he’s going to play somewhere further up the pitch. I’d go as far as saying it’s essential to save his career.

If he remains a fullback he’ll go the way of Adam Henley.

[alexanders]

8 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

We need VDB to cover right back. After Brittain it's JRC.

Similarly keeping Carter makes sense as he can cover LB.

IF Carter can cover LB he can definitely cover RB. 

I would like to keep Carter. 

Give us a defense of: Brittain, Carter, Philips, Ayala, Wharton, Pickering, Edun and now Hyam. We really don't ned SVDB. 

 

[Kcaj93]

Mystical nixon now reporting German clubs are after van den berg. If true had a feeling this would happen late on. I do think we should bin this off now and focus on other areas to strengthen. Then possibly a last minute deal for van hecke.

[alexanders]

2 minutes ago, RVRVRS said:

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

I will be fuming if this is plan. Where are our own prospects? 

[davulsukur]

3 minutes ago, RVRVRS said:

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

Bowler is on the radar of Forest, bids of £4m on the cards.

He's not coming here, sadly.

[islander200]

8 minutes ago, RVRVRS said:

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

Wharton when fit plays surely 

[Kcaj93]

3 minutes ago, RVRVRS said:

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

We are not getting bowler no matter how many times we keep hoping it ain't happening. 1. He is more than likely going to a prem team

2. We can't afford him

[joey_big_nose]

3 minutes ago, RVRVRS said:

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

Doubt we'd play Ayala on the right of a three, not mobile enough. Also surely S Wharton starts??

Probs VDB, Hyam, S Wharton as the staring three if we went that way.

[bigbrandjohn]

12 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Spot on, I'd rather have A Wharton than Morton, Clarkson was shite, so really is there actually any point in this.?

Well we did a great job with Harvey Elliott. He did a great job for us. 

[Sweaty Gussets]

12 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

We need VDB to cover right back. After Brittain it's JRC.

Similarly keeping Carter makes sense as he can cover LB.

Carter has played CB and RB for Pompey. Never LB. He's right-footed. Fairly sure he's not seen as a cover for LB. 

[davulsukur]

Just now, islander200 said:

Wharton when fit plays surely 

Yeah, you would think so.

Can Brittain play LB?

Stick SVDB at RB!

 

[Cherry Blue]

3 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Bowler is on the radar of Forest, bids of £4m on the cards.

He's not coming here, sadly.

Bowler would be a star at Rovers but sadly premierships will get him.

5 minutes ago, alexanders said:

I will be fuming if this is plan. Where are our own prospects? 

Team not just made up of 11 players though. Competition for places and experience has to be part the squad.

[RV Blue]

6 minutes ago, joey_big_nose said:

Doubt we'd play Ayala on the right of a three, not mobile enough. Also surely S Wharton starts??

Probs VDB, Hyam, S Wharton as the staring three if we went that way.

No, the best centre half in the league will always start for us when he’s fit.

[Galgaterover10]

19 minutes ago, Sparks Rover said:

Spot on, I'd rather have A Wharton than Morton, Clarkson was shite, so really is there actually any point in this.?

Club can’t win here can they, don’t get loans and develop our own there’s people on here saying it’s all a conspiracy theory and we aren’t trying to get promoted etc

or we get loans in to improve the current ability and people moan we are not developing our own!

[Armchair supporter supremo]

1 minute ago, RV Blue said:

No, the best centre half in the league will always start for us when he’s fit.

Shame nobody told mowbray that during last years death spiral 

[MarkBRFC]

15 minutes ago, RVRVRS said:

Think the plan an line up after the window may look like this if Diaz goes

 

                               Kaminski 

                Ayala         SVBD.         Hyam

Brittain                                                        Styles

                       Travis        Morton

       Hedges            Dack             Bowler

Not sure why folk still think Styles and Bowler are coming. No chance.

[LDRover]

12 hours ago, jim mk2 said:

Does Butterworth want to be a professional footballer? I've never a player look so disinterested and unwilling to put in a shift that him. Butterworth needs to work on a factory production line for a while to show him what hard work is like - then he might realise how lucky he is. Vale needs to play in League 2 for a while to toughen him up

Thing is, you'd have thought the loan to Fleetwood would've woken him up yet he was absolutely atrocious when he did play.