January 2025 Transfer Window

Aye saw that too…. Another wind up merchant . He could have been a very good footballer if he’d have focussed his mind, however that ship sailed a long time ago.

 

A fan with money! Something in short supply in our neck of the woods !

 

I remember Jamie Walker’s 95th minute equaliser in front of the kop against Harrogate. Everyone barely celebrated and we got booed off. Shocking performance. We knew then he was on borrowed time and if I remember rightly he went after the next match (Tranmere away).

 

I was well on Manningham lane it was that bad that day any kind of result against Harrogate that day just seemed like a con.

I actually wanted him to do well came across as a nice guy but i bet if you went on every club that hes managed forums they will say the same issues.

How many times did we sleep walk into a goal before he reacted to it ?????? And as for the Carlisle game he should have gone after that

 

Not sure he'll be fit and ready for our game, as in July 2023, routine scans revealed a medical issue that required cardiac surgery ruling him out of action for up to six months, looking at his stats after his initial 22 appearances for Hibs after his cardiac surgery he's hardly kicked a ball for for Hibs or Swindon.

 

Thanks Bronco, I wasn't aware he'd had a major health scare. I can't say I'd be too disappointed if he wasn't playing though.

 

Is Arnor Sugurdsson any cop? Attacker, just been released by Blackburn so he can join another club…..don’t know much but we need another forward option IMO

 

Can they still join a club if their deal was cancelled outside of the window? I always thought they had to be out of contract before the window ends to join another EFL club? That's why you always see players released on deadline days of the past. Might be wrong.

Another name mentioned in Connor Wickham, rumour on twitter is that he is Carlisle bound.

 

Yes. I am not sure where he can sign now, but it isn't in England.

 

Is he not an attacking midfielder?

 

Their press release said attacker but he may well be - i don’t know much about him!

sounds like he’ll have to go abroad for his next move

 

If his contract has been cancelled outside the transfer window then he can only go to someone who's got their transfer window open.

Connor Wickham has had a strange career with some good spells then awful spells. He seems to have spent the last few years moving around clubs on short terms deal, his last few clubs have been:

• Preston: September 21 - January 22 (made 2 appearances, got a hamstring injury then released)
• MK: January 22 - May 22 (made 13 appearances then released)
• Forest Green: August 22 - January 23 (had a good spell with 9 in 20 then left the club as he wanted to play higher up)
• Cardiff: February 23 - May 23 (took a while to get his move to a higher level, scored 1 in 12 then released again)
• Charlton: March 24 - May 24 (took a long time to find another club after leaving Cardiff, played 4 games scoring once then released in the summer and not had another club since then).

If Carlisle do bring him in that'll leave them with 1 last space in their squad list and sums up how much of a mess their recruitment has been as that will be the 5th striker they've signed since the start of the year

 

Nailed on then. You can never have enough of them.

 

He is a midfielder/ winger according to the Blackburn lot I know, he was never really given much of a chance with them only appearing in a handful of games.

 

I'm taking Wickham all day long as a last ditch measure. Last night exposed our ignorant recruitment.

Walker is not a striker and Ibbitson is obviously not ready. It is criminal we left ourselves exposed like that.

 

He's been keeping fit at Watford too and playing behind closed doors games for their U21s. Played a friendly for them the other day and scored a goal. It will come down to money and if we have any left/willing to spend any more.

 

Priority should have been to invest in a good striker. Don't understand why we signed Leigh for 100k and Lapslie. We didn't need more attacking mids.

Jamie was poor last night, offside numerous times.

 

That and the free kick given away by Wright for their first goal would be my only gripes re last night but like most of us now, I'm over it, too much good stuff to ignore, lets see if we can carry it through on saturday and beyond ....

 

I thought Walker should have held onto the shot before the goal as well

 

I was over it by 10.15. Cruel, it’s City , that’s life, it moves on Tony. Superb performance last night by all concerned but 3 points on Saturday would be more important for me.