How times have changed when we get excited about a loan player from Bournemouth thanks SISU
Happy enough, but we really do need to keep one eye on January if we are only getting loan players till then and they do well for us while they're here.
Thanks for that wise addition to this thread. I forgot sisu ruined football and also pretty sure Tim Fisher killed Bambi's mum.
The point is valid though, from a footballing and a continuity perspective these loans are pointless additions to the squad, and indicative of the situation we find ourselves in. Of course there only seem to be extremes in our particular argument, however I for one know enough to not get excited about these types of loans which are intrinsically linked to our situation and not to blindly accept them as great news either. The only positive is that we have a good manager who retains his vision for how the game should be played and believes that he can work with the personnel that our reality means he has to choose from.
Do you realise how up yourself you lot sound saying how depressing it is to be getting loan players from Bournemouth.
What a ridiculous remark. If they helped us gain promotion I'd hardly call them pointless from either perspective.
One person saying something is not "you lot"
personally I don't care where someone comes from, though having to sign 6 month loan deals rather than getting players full time is a bad sign and worked out very poorly last season, the bigger worry though is his goal scoring record and what the fans of his recent clubs think of him and yes I'm fully aware of McGoldrick, but the vast majority of the time signing someone with a good record and thought of highly by their club is better than the opposite.
We don't do promotion.
What must Man City be thinking taking Lampard? Fools!
yes that really shows up my post because lampard has a bad goal scoring record and his previous club doesn't think highly of him at all.
There is far to many nonsense absolutes being posted on this forum, for the most part we are signing loans because we don't have the finances to attract and pay for full time players, this is not the same as saying all loan signings are bad, we are signing only frees because we don't have the finances to attract and pay for players, this is not the same as saying all free transfers are bad.
Sometimes loan signings can be great for people in our league, if you are able to get a player of a much higher calibre than one who would want to sign for a league one team. For the most part though that hasn't been the reason for us signing loan players and even when this has appeared to be the case the fact we've been so desperate has led to us needing to agree stupid one sided deals like Akomb constantly heading back to Arsenal.
What a ridiculous remark. If they helped us gain promotion I'd hardly call them pointless from either perspective.
That's assuming they don't get us into a promotion position, then p* off to someone who will double their wages.
Nonsense generalizations will of course prompt nonsense absolutes.
I didn't make a nonsense generalization, I said "having to sign 6 month loan deals...is a bad sign" and it is, the fact we have to sign loan deals to create a decent size squad is a bad sign. If you read that and think I'm saying signing loan players is bad even when they are the quality of frank lampard then you need better reading comprehension.
it's the same thing with fees having to only sign players who don't command a fee is a bad sign. that does not mean that free transfers are all bad as in fact it can be the best way to sign a player.
I didn't make a nonsense generalization, I said "having to sign 6 month loan deals...is a bad sign" and it is, the fact we have to sign loan deals to create a decent size squad is a bad sign. If you read that and think I'm saying signing loan players is bad even when they are the quality of frank lampard then you need better reading comprehension.
it's the same thing with fees having to only sign players who don't command a fee is a bad sign. that does not mean that free transfers are all bad as in fact it can be the best way to sign a player.
Off the top of my head I can immediately think of 2 clubs that achieved promotion to the premiership by signing loan players.
What percentage of loan players make up an average league 1 team do you think?
What genuinely annoys me in here is that people like you whine about if but so not attend sixfields. Surely this is what you want and expect - a poorer squad if loans and free transfers due to the effect of the boycott.
Off the top of my head I can immediately think of 2 clubs that achieved promotion to the premiership by signing loan players.
What percentage of loan players make up an average league 1 team do you think?
What genuinely annoys me in here is that people like you whine about if but so not attend sixfields. Surely this is what you want and expect - a poorer squad if loans and free transfers due to the effect of the boycott.
Apparently not... they want to boycott and then expect investment in the team. It'd be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
But we don't have to sign them. There are plenty of frees out there that SP could have chosen to use the wages on.
How many are people are actively boycotting though? I haven't set foot in sixfields but I wouldn't consider myself a boycotter.
Regardless of boycott or not, sixfields would still be empty. You can only blame SISU/ACL for the lack of investment on the pitch as they have created the situation which led to it, not the boycotters.
And on the wing if baker goes and coulibaly is never fitanother body in.
Pressley is chasing 1 more striker and one defender and his work will be done.
Centre mid still seems quite weak to me