Pressley wants pacy winger (1 Viewer)

[Sky Blues]

CT reports:

Coventry City are tracking League Two star Jacques Maghoma who could become manager Steven Pressley’s first signing subject to the club coming out of their current transfer embargo.

Despite the restriction, the Telegraph understands that the City boss is pressing ahead with talks with several targets and it has emerged that the pacy Burton Albion left winger is high on his list.

The 25-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur trainee has had a sensational season with the Brewers with whom he scored an outstanding 18 goals to help them into the play-offs, where they suffered heartbreak at the hands of Bradford City.

The player, who is from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was named in the 2012/13 League Two Team of the Year and is currently out of contract at the Pirelli Stadium and available on a free transfer.

It is believed Maghoma’s representative has spoken to City but he will have plenty of offers from other clubs at League One level and the Championship as he looks to build on his best season of his career to date.

Albion boss Gary Rowett inherited the wide man, who had shown enough flashes of his talent in his previous three seasons, but got the best out of the charismatic figure who scored some wonderful goals, terrorised defences and topped the assists table, further endearing himself to supporters with his passionate outbursts via social media.

Maghoma was also voted Players’ Player Of The Year by his team-mates and took the “Golden Boot” award for top goal scorer at Albion’s end of season awards, where he was also a prominent contender for Goal Of The Season after scoring a superb long-range effort against Leicester City in the Capital One Cup.

And although Albion fans and Rowett would love to keep their key player it is generally accepted that he is likely to end his four-year spell at the club and move on this summer.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...ws/coventry-city-boss-steven-pressley-3902231

Back to naming our targets before we have/can bag them?

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

Signing League 2 players to make a League 2 team in front of League 2 crowds, though at a League 1 ground I suppose.

 

[AFCCOVENTRY]

Deja vu

Transfer ban and we are naming the players we won't get

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Signing League 2 players to make a League 2 team in front of League 2 crowds, though at a League 1 ground I suppose.

This a joke? I think he'd be a very good signing.

That Maghoma has had a storming season and is attracting interest all over, besides, just because a player came from the league below, doesn't mean he's not good enough i.e. any non league player who's done well in the FL (Austin), or Pilkington to Norwich (came from L1) and our very own Baker (kinda, Morcombe signed him from NL) - I'm going to assume that was a joke though.

 

[Noggin]

deja vu, except with significantly less chance of actually getting our targets this time.

 

[SonofErnie]

This a joke? I think he'd be a very good signing.

That Maghoma has had a storming season and is attracting interest all over, besides, just because a player came from the league below, doesn't mean he's not good enough i.e. any non league player who's done well in the FL (Austin), or Pilkington to Norwich (came from L1) and our very own Baker (kinda, Morcombe signed him from NL) - I'm going to assume that was a joke though.

I think the overall sentiment was correct. He may have had a 'storming' season, but so have other players in League 2 only to fall short at the higher level. Cody McDonald springs to mind. He may well turn out to be an excellent signing, but at this moment in time it's a risk

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

This a joke? I think he'd be a very good signing.

That Maghoma has had a storming season and is attracting interest all over, besides, just because a player came from the league below, doesn't mean he's not good enough i.e. any non league player who's done well in the FL (Austin), or Pilkington to Norwich (came from L1) and our very own Baker (kinda, Morcombe signed him from NL) - I'm going to assume that was a joke though.

Disillusionment Taylor as any player with aspirations or ambition is not going to come here with such a big question mark over the club's future. If this groundshare idea actually goes ahead our crowds will not be sufficient, nor will our other revenues, to fund anything more than a League 2 team.

 

[ajsccfc]

but at this moment in time it's a risk

Surely most transfers are.

 

[Sky blue north east]

Pressley, time we get out embargo only wingers that be left be 35 yr old with dodgy hamstring so dont get to excited...

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Pressley, time we get out embargo only wingers that be left be 35 yr old with dodgy hamstring so dont get to excited...

Perhaps Isaac Osbourne's not looking so bad now.

 

[procdoc]

This a joke? I think he'd be a very good signing.

That Maghoma has had a storming season and is attracting interest all over, besides, just because a player came from the league below, doesn't mean he's not good enough i.e. any non league player who's done well in the FL (Austin), or Pilkington to Norwich (came from L1) and our very own Baker (kinda, Morcombe signed him from NL) - I'm going to assume that was a joke though.

He would be a good signing but we aren't going to get him. By the time our embargo gets lifted all the decent out of contract players within our range will go elsewhere.

 

[Sky blue north east]

Perhaps Isaac Osbourne's not looking so bad now.

yes that more like it him on the right and erm where mcindoe nowadays??

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

yes that more like it him on the right and erm where mcindoe nowadays??

He's heading the building firm for the Fish Bowl.

 

[torchomatic]

Too right as obviously no player from the lower leagues has ever made it at a higher level.

Signing League 2 players to make a League 2 team in front of League 2 crowds, though at a League 1 ground I suppose.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Too right as obviously no player from the lower leagues has ever made it at a higher level.

No shit player, no-and that is all we will be able to attract once this embargo is finished and we know where the hell we're playing.

 

[Danceswithhorses]

Why would any quality player with ambition want to sign for a debt-ridden, homeless, basket-case of a transfer embargoed club like us ?
Nice one SISU...great job.

 

[NorthernWisdom]

Perhaps Isaac Osbourne's not looking so bad now.

Wouldn't put it past us to try and convert him into a pacy tricky winger!

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Wouldn't put it past us to try and convert him into a pacy tricky winger!

There was a home game against Cardiff where Coleman put Marcus Hall at right back. It was horrible.

 

[covcity4life]

shut the fuck up brighton, you dont have a clue about this sport.

 

[jon92]

We won't ever come out the transfer embargo at this rate

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

shut the fuck up brighton, you dont have a clue about this sport.

Yeah that's right, I know jack shit about it. Just be on my way then.

 

[ccfc92]

Okayy, so now we've announced our interest, who thinks we will sign him? Ffs, the only teams that can announce who they wanna buy are the ones in the top league.

 

[sky blue john]

James Collins was it last year that went to Swindon. He couldnt wait for us to come out of embargo and he supported city as a kid !!!!!

 

[WestEndAgro]

I'm all ready to go "BANG, BANG, BANG"

 

[sky blue john]

Is it April fools every day at the moment ?

 

[Sky blue north east]

In few weeks pressley will be upset when he moves to another club, now when has this situation happened before i wonder......

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I'm all ready to go "BANG, BANG, BANG"

We will hit the ground running, I promise that.

 

[Sterling Archer]

Signing League 2 players to make a League 2 team in front of League 2 crowds, though at a League 1 ground I suppose.

Moronic comment.

Have we not learnt about slagging off lower league signings yet? Our best signings in the last decade have all come from leagues lower than we were in.

Fox
Dann
Westwood
Keogh
etc

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Moronic comment.

Have we not learnt about slagging off lower league signings yet? Our best signings in the last decade have all come from leagues lower than we were in.

Fox
Dann
Westwood
Keogh
etc

There is a big big difference-we were not under embargo when showing interest in these players and our off field circumstances were hugely different to what they are now. I am not being critical of this particular target, but surely it stands to reason that even promising players from the leagues below will not want to sign for a club with so much off field uncertainty and in any case we can't sign them anyway. If the groundshare goes ahead our crowds will not support anything above a League 2 standard side and that is what we will end up with if the issues aren't resolved.

 

[Sterling Archer]

I'm sorry BSB, but you know as well as I do that your comment implied buying players from the lower leagues would decrease the ability of the squad, which is quite simply put, a silly comment.

 

[psgm1]

Highlights just how poor an appointment Pressley is.

 

[deanocity3]

Pressley wants a pacy winger:thinking about:
He may have the speed,but he has to be able to cross the bloody ball too.
ask John Williams

 

[stupot07]

Highlights just how poor an appointment Pressley is.

How does it?

 

[covcity4life]

Highlights just how poor an appointment Pressley is.

this highlights what a twat you are

 

[Nonleagueherewecome]

Pressley wants a pacy winger:thinking about:
He may have the speed,but he has to be able to cross the bloody ball too.
ask John Williams

Oh he can cross all right. One of the goals last week of the season was made by him skinning two men on the wing and curling in a peach of a cross. He was in the Spurs youth set up, the guy has technical ability.

He was also their stand-out player for Burton against us last season.