City sign Left Winger, Chishom Afoka, on loan

You seem pretty convinced Tulloch is signing

 

The main Midlands football reporter in the country says its happening, guessing its probably happening.

 

He would just be a duplication of what we already have. The Dundalk manager called him an exceptional talent a view not shared with the fans

 

Yep, not a move that makes sense to me. Especially when Oliver and Chapman are due back in a month, can't imagine these lads will even make the bench unless they hit the ground running.

 

Unless they're dynamite - and youth loans are very, very unpredictable - neither this lad or the one from WBA should get games ahead of Pointon.

 

Not a good sign. Although the Salford fan consensus was that Tyriek Wright was crap.

 

I don't see what a player with zero experience, will do for city.

 

Thank you, Someone with trust Pointon’s ability.

 

Yorath knew all about the Coventry lads from his time there. These loanees are just another stab in the dark with little or no research after the deals fell through for the Palace and Leicester lads.

 

Don’t think so Gent is well connected to youth football. I notice that most of these lads are internationals at youth level. They will be on small wages. If they come off great if they don’t we have lost little. Would like to see players in different positions spread around the team rather than duplication

 

Wright was seen as one of the most 'meh' loan signings ever, who arguably turned out to be the best one.

With youngsters, it's a lottery.

 

Perhaps because Hughes felt he didn't have the options to deploy wingers? Well now he has. Let's see if he utilises this new found flexibility.

 

Oh right. must’ve misunderstood your post when you said “doesn't look like he's anywhere near a starting slot here at the minute”

You meant he won’t start because he’ll be down the pecking order?

 

Yes just due to the options we have signed this summer as well as last years wide men. Especially if as expected one more comes in and Chapman comes back. Seems a bit daft signing 3 wingers/forwards this week if we were happy with the options we had.

 

If Pointon does go on loan to NL, can't we recall him at any point anyway? So it would be better for him to be getting games at a decent level and if he's doing well and we need him he's there for us

 

In the NL you can still do one month or two month loans, so that seems to be what some clubs do and then just extend if it's better for all parties. So we wouldn't have to even agree to a loan till Jan. But realistically, if Pointon is deemed available for loan it probably won't happen until Chapman is fit again.

We signed 3, but Wilson has had no pre-season due to injury so he might be competing with Pointon at the minute for a bench slot. Afoka has played 3 PL2 games for Villa but might not have trained too much with us so far. If we sign Tulloch he won't be available for tomorrow you'd have thought so Pointon will probably be in the squad tomorrow unless Hughes just throws them into the squad without much knowledge of the tactic of players. Might be next Saturday when we see what the squad actually shapes like when new lads have had a week training.

 

In which case I'm not too worried about Pointon's status at this point

 

Still haven’t got over Costello Bola or Nevers and I don’t believe Oyegoke is an upgrade. Hughes refuses to commit to our young players but has great confidence in anyone else’s.

 

None of these lads (including Pointon) have any 'real' experience and that's why I think Pointon has as much chance as any of them. They could all turn out to be duds or they could all turn out to be brilliant. That's football.

 

We also had Chrichlow Banks and Wright some work some don’t. We have only Pointon ready let’s hope he gets the chance and takes it