Transfer Rumour New signing pending - Rabbi Matondo (132 Viewers)

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skybluecam

skybluecam

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The watchmaker said:
That's fair enough but you've got to think long term and we already have 2 top players in that position. Getting another in just makes the squad even more unbalanced when everyone is fit and at the moment we are performing better in his unfavoured formation. Fair enough if he can play more than one position but people said that of EMC.

Wright was apparently telling people he would be back early Feb. We just bring in this guy and MvE gets injured against Leeds we have 3 left wingers, no right back. What if Tats gets injured, CM, LB, CB? There are loads of places I would look first.
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Pretty sure Matondo was a target because he can play on either wing.

We do need a RW because Raphael isn’t up to it.
 
Gibbo

Gibbo

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Frank can only play his beloved wingers if he acquires a CDM and a better central defender to play alongside Kitching. If we go two at the back we are going to struggle. We went through this with Robins in League 1 and earlier this season.
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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The watchmaker said:
That's fair enough but you've got to think long term and we already have 2 top players in that position. Getting another in just makes the squad even more unbalanced when everyone is fit and at the moment we are performing better in his unfavoured formation. Fair enough if he can play more than one position but people said that of EMC.

Wright was apparently telling people he would be back early Feb. We just bring in this guy and MvE gets injured against Leeds we have 3 left wingers, no right back. What if Tats gets injured, CM, LB, CB? There are loads of places I would look first.
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I agree that we need a CM, RB and a CB, I don’t believe we need to shuffle the pack at LB until the summer.

There’s sufficient cover in all the positions you outline that we don’t need to change the system. Even if MVE got injured, you’d stick Lati at RB as he played many times last season.

Lampard wants to play with wingers, we only have 3 wide players so we need 4 first team options. EMC and Matondo won’t only play LW, both players have played a lot of games at RW as well.

The last point, we could be talking to 3-4 players at the moment and just because Matondo is the closest (or was) to signing doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve prioritised this position.
 
Mucca Mad Boys

Mucca Mad Boys

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Gibbo said:
Frank can only play his beloved wingers if he acquires a CDM and a better central defender to play alongside Kitching. If we go two at the back we are going to struggle. We went through this with Robins in League 1 and earlier this season.
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Since Lampard has taken over, the defence has generally improved.

I’d like a marquee signing at CB, but Kitching and Thomas were a good partnership last season, we had the 9th best defence in the league and that’s with poor form towards the end of the season.

With 4 first team options, unless we sell a CB, I don’t think we’ll sign a CB. As for CMs, I’m quietly confident that a 4-3-3 with Torp-Sheaf-Rudoni could potentially do very well. Torp is really growing as a player under Lampard and quite eager to see how he kicks on.

Special shout out to Allen because he deserves a contract extension the way he’s playing. He was someone I was happy to release at the end of the season but he’s proving he can be a good role player in the future for us.
 
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steve cooper

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procdoc said:
this transfer window has been an utter disaster so far
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The problem is, expectations were raised due to speculation that there were a number of incomings waiting to happen on day 1.
Results have picked up, we have 3 key players to come back in, Allen, Kitching, and Dovin have risen to the challenge so far and are like 3 new signings when you compare to the team of a few weeks ago. I think there is no need to rush panic buys in at the moment, if the right players are not available or hold us to ransom we should wait. So not a disaster for me.
 
JimmyHillsbeard

JimmyHillsbeard

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duffer said:
Bollocks to Rangers. They've done us too often in any case. Four words...

Sandy Robertson. Kevin Drinkell.

😁
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Add
Terry Butcher
Colin Hendry
Steven Presley (as a player)


On the plus side can only think of
Colin Stein
John Fleck


As it stands, this might be added to a third list:
Lots of nailed on transfers that didn’t get over the line.

Jorg Albertz, Neil McCann, Nacho Novo
 
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procdoc

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Balli001 said:
It was a question not a demand. Genuinely interested what makes you so negative. Can barely remember a positive post you have made.
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I am positive a majority of the time. The squad is in need of some more quality options. This was before Wright, EMC and Sheaf got injured. If another Cm got hurt we’d be fucked. If MVE got hurt, we are fucked. We need a couple in those two positions.
 
Balli001

Balli001

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procdoc said:
I am positive a majority of the time. The squad is in need of some more quality options. This was before Wright, EMC and Sheaf got injured. If another Cm got hurt we’d be fucked. If MVE got hurt, we are fucked. We need a couple in those two positions.
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And I am sure the club are aware of that. Why you can't just wait til the window closes before losing all sanity tho is beyond me
 
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