21/22 Summer transfer mega-thread (68 Viewers)
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Good for him. I’m sure some people will treat this kind of admission like he’s been committed and write him off for good, but it shouldn’t be much different to how we see a player coping with a physical injury. Sounds like the Barnsley manager hasn’t exactly been considerate in dealing with him, and while I doubt he’d fit into our current style, there might be a good player in there one day.
Barnsley
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We’ve got 5or6 players that are good enough for the championship but not quite good enough to be first team regulars in our team. They’d piss it into some championship sides, but because they’re not good enough for a starting place in our team, other championship clubs won’t touch them so they’ll probably end up a level below. Thomas is one of them .
Brighton Sky Blue
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I think you'd also have an appointment in The Hague too. Well, after they're finished processing @Earlsdon_Skyblue1
Winny the Bish
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People really forget that Thomas carried us for the first half of that first season back in L1. He was literally our only attacking threat for a large number of games. Having him in the Champ as a backup for COH wouldn't be bad at all.
SBAndy
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Behave.
Brighton Sky Blue
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It also helps not to rely on one player going the whole season without injury, which somehow he managed this time even though everyone else was dropping like flies. We need a squad, not necessarily just 11 good players
Barnsley
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Luke Thomas, Patrick Schmidt, and Marcel Ritzmaier all went out on loan last season they would’ve kept Rotherham up. I’m convinced of it.
Ccfcisparks
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Patrick Schmidt who scored 1 goal in 5 in the Austrian second division last year?
Sky Blue Harry H
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Any idea what issues Thomas has had at Barnsley/Ipswich ?
I remember his name got dragged through the mud by an angry female re: cheating, whilst he was with us on loan.
Sky Blue Harry H
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Barnsley
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That’s him, been decent for us, like the other two.
Ccfcisparks
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You’re so lucky you have 2 squads worth of Championship players. God I wish we were Barnsley…
Barnsley
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It’s not all it’s cracked up to be, heartbreaking being beat in playoffs pal.
larry_david
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I'd take Thomas back tbh. Like I mean
We wouldn’t know. The only time we have been in the playoffs we won them
Brighton Sky Blue
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skyblueeyesrevisited
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A scaffold wouldn’t have kept Rotherham up
AFCCOVENTRY
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Cardiff City after Matty James
SleepyGinger
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Swansea also
SeaSeeEffCee
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Would be pretty worrying if we miss out on James, especially given that it sounded like a permanent deal was basically agreed when he signed on loan. Add in potentially missing out on Walsh too and it gets a bit concerning. We need to sign 7/8 players this window, would be nice to hear something a bit more concrete soon.
larry_david
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It's not all doom and gloom. If you think we have Kelly who has proven he can do a job for us, sheaf pretty much signed who may or may not be quality or shite (must admit I'm not sure which) plus Eccles coming in now who did really well and will be a squad player, plus hamer assuming he doesn't go who should have benefited from his first season in England and a rest.
Add in another cm and we are okay there. James, Walsh maybe not but time and time again MR has replaced quality with quality
Add in another cm and we are okay there. James, Walsh maybe not but time and time again MR has replaced quality with quality
Brighton Sky Blue
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Agree, but at the same time I'm sure the club are working hard on it. We have reinvented the side each summer under Robins and if he has to do it again this time there's not many better suited to the task
Sick Boy
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…It’s hardly concerning: Walsh hasn’t played for a year and we’ve done ok without him.
AFCCOVENTRY
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We shouldn’t be blinkered here. We’re not going to be favourites for a lot of players if established Championship clubs are sniffing around the ones we want.
fatso
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We did ok, but we had 5 loan players who have since left the building!
Sick Boy
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I have faith that management will do the business again.
Sky Blue Pete
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Please face facts Cardiff or Swansea want a free agent they get him. Players like Ohare are almost unique. James will accept the best deal for himself and he’s a very good player,
We will move on to other targets
Brighton Sky Blue
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I assumed that James was just using us as a place to get back to fitness to then have his pick of offers in the summer. No harm with that for both parties.
Sky Blue Pete
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Absolutely. Pretty sure robins hoped james would sign but I personally think the most impressive part of his character is his realism and working with what he has.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Of course it would be good if he did but we know that if a club offers a free agent £20k a week we cannot and should not try to compete with it. The truth is we do not have the financial muscle to compete in this league so need to consistently produce greater than the sum of our parts which there's always a decent chance we might not manage to do.
Northeast sky blue
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He hasn't got the greatest of injury records do we really want to pay over the top
Brighton Sky Blue
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I don't think we will. He could surprise us and accept a pay cut to stay here but I don't blame him wanting as much as he can
Sky Blue Pete
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I don’t blame him I think it’s a shame that’s all