Summer 2023 Transfer Rumours

In fairness, he hasn't scored 16 past City alone.

 

Coventry it was, on loan from Burnley.

He looked an absolute beast that day too and bullied our centre halves.

 

Aye that's it. He's one of 2 players that have really impressed me this season. The other being Dan Kemp at Hartlepool.

 

Of the current squad :
Banks
Crichlow
Bola
Nevers
Costelloe
Perriera
return to their parent club at the end of the season
Banks an Crichlow have played a big part in our season. Would like to see both back next season, but its unlikley seeing as we will most likely be in League 2.
Perriera hasn't kicked on from last season, Costelloe an Nevers have been poor.
We've barely seen Bola play.

The players out of contract at the end of the season are :
Andy Cook
Liam Ridehalgh
Alex Gillead
Abo Eisa
Adam Clayton
Oscar Threlkeld
Luke Hendrie

Eisa, Ridehalgh, Threlkeld should be moved on

Clayton, albeit a good player, may not have the legs to play again next season but il leave that up to Hughes

I can see What Gilliead brings to the team, an he will most likely be offered a contract as Hughes is a fan

Cook is the main one. I dont think any fan will want to see him leave, but its up to City to determine how badly they want to keep him

Regardless, We need a CB, LB, CM, a couple of wingers an a striker. All of whom need to be quality signings, no squad fillers

 

This is the lad who Dave Baldwin told us he'd offered to City, not sure if it was in Parkys day or McCalls time at the club.

 

Think it was McCall and the play off final defeat season. This lad and Chris Long who scored last night were both in Burnleys youth team. From memory, one or both of them were on the list of names McCall and Abbott were reading out when talking about signing a striker in January on the Edin Rahic ego DVD/documentary.

 

He told us at an event at Napoleans raising money for Eccleshill United I believe Dave was part of the set up at Eccleshill at the time along with him being CEO at Burnley.

 

Recruitment was weird looking back. The loan moves especially, I mean signing Wright and Pereira on deadline day when we probably just needed one, then adding Nevers and Costelloe with neither looking up to it. Banks and Critchlow massive positives. I get what you mean about consultation between Hughes and Gent, a lot of the permanent signings already have worked either either Hughes or Gent before.

Walker was already here. Lewis & Derbyshire had worked with Hughes before. Chapman, Smallwood, Halliday, Clayton & Stubbs all worked with Gent at Boro.

East, Platt, Osadebe, Young, Odusina, Oliver & Kelly were the only ones to have not worked with either previously and only Platt has really broken into the team. Hopefully with Gent having a full year under his belt, we have a better view on players, as i doubt the guys he was working with their or looking at for Boro will be on the same radar as City.

 

I heard the same link but through my old boss at the time, who ran some kind of supporters thing at Burnley but got involved with Dave setting up like charity nights for the supporters club, if I remember rightly. But yes, same thing one summer he was told at a Burnley event that they had some promising youth and they were working with City over two loans, Dan Agyei and Josh Ginnelly. Obviously neither happened, fairly sure it was the summer McCall came back.

 

My understanding is that as long as the owner is happy to underwrite the losses, then the SCMP becomes almost irrelevant?

Salford can't have been within SCMP guidelines without Neville etc. underwriting the losses?
Neville said on the Class of 92 series, that Salford were paying more in wages to Centre Backs than some clubs whole playing budget. I think they had five and they couldn't get any to leave because they were earning so much.

 

Yes, so they are underwriting losses by making donations to the club, which in turn increase revenue and stay within SCMP.

 

Players we should be looking at for L2

Agyei
Kemp
Cargill
Norman
Keilor Dunn
Armer
Monthe
McAleny
Oates
Tyreik
Knoyle
Bristow

Fully expecting Cook, Banks,Crich and Lewis to be leaving, I'd also sell/ get rid of/ send back Eisa, Derbyshire, Gilliead, Ridehalgh, Nevers,Periera, Bola, Walker,Hendrie, East, Odusina, Costelloe, Doyle,Clayton and Threlkeld.

One year we will have a squad that looks like its capable of pushing on the following season, sadly it isn't this year.

 

Why do a lot think Lewis will leave this summer.

He is under contract, will someone offer a transfer fee that would be too good to turn down?

 

At the moment, Lewis is a league 2 keeper and nothing more. Yea he is a good reactionary keeper, but his (lack of) decision making at key times and his kicking distribution is absolutely woeful. Hopefully will improve obviously

Personally I cannot wait to see the back of Eisa. Huge disappointment

 

You've only got yo wait untill after our Wembley apperance and he'll be gone .