Most liked posts in thread: January 2024 Transfer Window

Most of those motm he had a genuine claim to. I know I was there watching.

 

Romoney Critchlow back on a loan perhaps?

Fallen out of favour at Peterborough and hasn't even made the bench in the past few league squads.

Only getting his minutes in EFL trophy games and FA Cup.

 

I listened to a discussion about Leeds and the transfer window on Radio Leeds earlier today. A former player on the commentary made the very good point that you want to improve the team but you don't want to disrupt the team too much if you're doing well. I think that very much applies to us. We've got Young coming back and injuries easing so we need to be very careful. I don't think we need to do much apart from sending unneeded loans back unless someone truly exceptional becomes available. From today's team I'd like to see Pattison for Gilliead and Young for Smith and then we really have a team. But for all my criticism of Gilliead I must say he's an effective part of a winning team. Anyway, I'm happy for Alexander to make those decisions.

 

I'd be shocked if we got a fifth of that.

You're sticking a £m price tag on someone who has scored just over a dozen goals over half a season in League Two.

 

We took a gamble on Halliday and that's worked well.

 

Mushy peas talk apart, a few sensible transfer suggestions so far, but none of them seem very Bradford City things to do in a January transfer window. And by that I refer to Vaughan, Doyle, Canavan, Delfouneso, Guthrie etc etc

So potential scenarios:

1. Bring back Young to great fanfare, but then sell Cook to a promotion rival
2. After 2 games Young stinks the place out, slags off Bradford in an interview, leaving only one option of a loan back to Swindon at a lower wage contribution
3. Sell Lewis at 8pm on deadline day, and announce the loan signing of either Sutton or FGRs reserve keeper
4. Sell Pointon to a team from a higher league who immediately loan him to one of our promotion rivals, and he appears in the L2 team of the season
5. Sign at least 2 players not starting from teams below us in the league

 

There is an obsession over selling Young. Sure, everyone has a price but feck me, GA is just about to get the divisions top scorer on a 'free transfer'. Club doesnt even have to negotiate a deal!

We need a striker. These are facts and finding a goal scorer is like looking for rocking horse shite. Few and far between have ended up at our club the last 20 years.

 

A lot of folk say Ridehlagh isn't good enough but he's not a left wing back. He's a solid left back. Send him to 70% of the league two clubs and he'd look like a solid defender. Unfortunately for us, in this system, we need a left wing back otherwise we lose attacking impetus. Still, no real fault of Ridehalgh whose been solid for us since he joined.

 

Looking at the Derby extended highlights I would be more worried about Pointon going ....what a player...

 

Dini.

 

If contacted i'd think he would have probably thought twice after realising the club has no real set parameters as to how we achieve success. Nothing is ever guaranteed but what you can say is MK Dons actually targeted Williamson to replace GA due to analysing how they were playing. I'm not suggesting GA can't be a success here but reading between the lines we didn't target him, similar to how we didn't target Mark Hughes.

 

So 4 1/2 years ago.

Well, that's me convinced.

 

People getting so wound up by a young bloke who no one on here has the foggiest what type of person he is and when all said and done has played the grand total of 7 games for us but is now trying to get himself and his family the best deal he can is absolutely staggering.

 

My money would be on Adam Reach over 30 tick, Middlesbrough lad tick, Jack of all trades positionally tick and last but certainly not least injury prone and coming back from a lengthy lay out tick tick!!!

 

Loved Eddie. He's up there in my list of all time favourite players.

 

Paudie like a few more wasn’t really appreciated here. Wasn’t perfect but a very competent and very competitive centre half. Wish he was still here now

 

Canavan was knocked at times but is marshalling Barrow well in the playoffs.

 

Doubt he will be second fiddle mate.

 

Are you suggesting we’ve seen pointless rumours on here before?