Sounds right. We needed strengthening at centre back and up front the most, central midfield's the one place we have (relative) depth.
I suspect James was a mix of someone coming up and us wanting a bit of experience in with Kelly out. Him and McCallum are the only real strange signings, and both seemed to be because they came up rather than because we scouted them.
I suspect James was a mix of someone coming up and us wanting a bit of experience in with Kelly out. Him and McCallum are the only real strange signings, and both seemed to be because they came up rather than because we scouted them.
Anyone who thinks we could have done better in January now wants Lewandowski. Brilliant.
Seems we now have the Cult of Biamou and the Chris Badlan Clan
We should have signed Diego Costa on a free
Simpleton
Bakayoko was also a signing in the summer and needs to be factored into the ratings
This is just absolute waffle.What are we comparing our transfers too? What’s the datum point? What’s the yard stick? There’s clubs in the championship who have been spending tens of millions over not many seasons building a team to compete in the championship. We’ve come and are still fielding players we brought in leagues 2 and 1 with a budget reported to be the second lowest in the league. On that basis I’d say we’ve done well. If we do go down we’ll have a better and more experienced team than the one that took us up so we’ve kicked on. If the yard stick is have we kicked on as a team then the only answer can be pretty good. If we stay up it’s excellent. If we go down, look a million dollars in league 1 and get promoted back to the championship at first try its excellent.
Our loan signings have been largely disjointed and its been a case of sign players with no plan and make them fit the plan
McCallum at least was a familiar face and meant Norwich were basically paying us to have him for 18 months. I appreciate Kelly was out but we also had even fewer options up front. I'd sooner we have aggressively pursued quality up front or at CB, even in attacking midfield.
Yeah I agree. The failure to get another AM in when Jones and Jobello clearly wasn’t working out is criminal for me, we had Rose coming back at CB and Walker at ST so not sure I’d have got another in on loan.
So what are you measuring against to determine if the signings have made a positive impact or not? You can’t compare it to last season because we were in a lower league so you haven’t got the datum point of we achieved X last season in the championship. You can’t compare to established teams in the championship who have been building teams for seasons with much bigger budgets, that would be ridiculous. The only thing we’ve got is gut feeling and my gut feeling is that this season’s team would have trumped last season’s team over the course of a season. In the same league. On that basis the team has improved and transfers (although not the only factor) have played their part in that.This is just absolute waffle.
The question is how good are our transfers this season. Not how do they compare to other transfers in the division, absolutely nothing about who played for us three years ago and is still here and nothing to do with them working in L1 if we were to be relegated.
How much of a positive impact have our signings made this season.
After some dialogue on the forum today, I just want to get an overall perspective about what people think of the recruitment this season.
My own view is that it hasn't really been good enough in a season that is critical for the club going forwards. Of course, there has been a really unfortunate amount of injuries which hasn't helped. There doesn't need to be an argument (although I know there will be), just interested to know other supporter viewpoints.
Players In:
Gustavo Hamer
Bakayoko (extended contract)
Julien Da Costa
Callum O'Hare
Ryan Giles
Fabio Tavares
Leo Östigard
Marcel Hilßner
Matty James
Sam McCallum
Josh Reid
Viktor Gyökeres
Tyler Walker
Ben Sheaf
Lee Camp
Badlan is a charlatan and Ben Sheaf is the worst signing I think I've seen at Coventry and I'm old enough to remember Oleksandr Yevtushok!
As I pointed out to you on another thread (which you either missed or blatantly ignored), it was an American journalist for Dyke’s parent club that reported there was a 20 million clause in the contract. No one made it up on hereLewandowski as unrealistic and Ched Evans, Adebayo and Barnsley’s £20 million man. Classic. You can be leader of the clan
Yeah I agree. The failure to get another AM in when Jones and Jobello clearly wasn’t working out is criminal for me, we had Rose coming back at CB and Walker at ST so not sure I’d have got another in on loan.
Bakayoko was also a signing in the summer and needs to be factored into the ratings
Not really, they just triggered a clause in his existing contract.
Which they chose to
As I pointed out to you on another thread (which you either missed or blatantly ignored), it was an American journalist for Dyke’s parent club that reported there was a 20 million clause in the contract. No one made it up on here
Claiming Baka as a signing
When has someone signing a new contract ever been classed as a signing when assessing a club's recruitment? Talk about moving the goalposts.
Almost as bad as claiming Reid and Tavares are bad signings.
Your opinion that our transfers have been good this season is in a complete minority.
Always supported us, but the craic is the piss up yeah. England before Cov as well, problem?
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