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Transfer Rumours 2019/20

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Dennis, Apr 19, 2019.

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  1. NorthernMonkey

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    You've been wrong before. Here's hoping :thumbup:
     
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    In my opinion we need two strikers, a left- sided player, a defensive midfielder, an attacking midfielder, and a centre back. And we won't get anything like that unless we can shift the ones we know aren't up to it. And we won't do that as we've given three of them a new contract.
     
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  3. Petrov

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    I'm not for a minute suggesting we forget about the midfield issues, I just think it would a huge error of judgement to go 'nah, we don't need another striker, we'll be ok with what we've got'.
     
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    I agree we need one but if it's a straight choice of one or the other then I'm taking the midfielder every single time.
     
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    I don't disagree with you but that's a pretty unrealistic wish list! If we bring in one striker, either/or of left sided player/attacking mid and a defensive midfielder I'd sack off the extra centre back and be reasonably happy with that.
     
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    No, you're right of course. But did we really think we couldn't do better than those we gave contracts to? Three poor players all in the same area, when we were also stuck with Akpan too. The result is that our midfield is hopeless and those four players could well mean we go nowhere this season.
     
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    So we can dominate the middle of the park and draw 0-0 or lose 1-0 because we don’t have a goalscorer? We cannot rely on Vaughan and Donaldson all season
     
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    Will Buckley on his way in
     
  9. Jonny78

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    That would be a really good signing
     
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    Swings and roundabouts. At the moment we have 2 goal scorers but a midfield who haven't supplied them. The end result? 2 draws.

    At least a proper midfielder would mean we're okay for when Vaughan and Dondaldosn do actually play.

    This looks like yet another example of you wanting to strengthen our bench as opposed to the starting 11. If you were in charge of recruitment we'd have the worst starting 11 in the league but a lethal reserve team.
     
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    Disagree. Another player in his late 20’s on his way down, zero pace too.
     
  12. NorthernMonkey

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    What are you talking about? We HAVE two goalscorers or at least I'm presuming that's why GB signed them? What we don't have is a functional midfield. Forget "all season", we need to plug the gaps now or at the very best, the "rest of the season" won't mean much.
     
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    Is he not a right winger?
     
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    To be signed to play tomorrow
     
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    I thought he was a left winger at Rochdale? I could be wrong though.
     
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    He’s left I think
     
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    But it was fine when Bowyer was throwing out contracts to bench warmers? He has signed 5 midfield players to add to those already st the club, but I shouldn’t be concerned that one injury to Vaughan (who has a history of injuries), means we are left with PATRICK....?

    I say it again, you want Bowyer to sign another central midfielder when he has already got Devine, Akpan, Anderson, Palmer, Gibson, Colville and Reeves on the books. But you don’t think we should be concerned that we only have 3 centre forwards and one of them is Omari Patrick?

    As others claimed after the 0-0 with Cambridge, our midfield (for all it’s faults) dominated the middle of the park. Yet we scored nothing.
     
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    And at Grimsby they were completely over run and the home side totally dominated the game.
     
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    He’s comfortable on either wing.
     
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    The window closes in a couple of weeks. If it closes and we haven’t replaced Doyle, we will regret it. Vaughan will score goals in this league with the correct service (not sure he will get it though with Bowyer’s preferred formation/style). But I’m not sure you will get goals from Donaldson. Having just 2 strikers in a squad for a whole season is simply not wise. Do you know of ANY team that go a whole season with just 2?

    We may not have a functioning midfield, but I’m assuming Bowyer believes he has the right players but needs to get the right combination working together. If not, why sign so many of them if they aren’t going to play?
     
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