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Clayton was at Boro not so long ago and must be on a fair wack, so I guess this is balancing the books.

he always gave his all, Big Yann - he leaves with his head held high. Good luck to him.

 

Players want to play and they are (rightly) always thinking about their next contract and their future.

Hughes wasn't playing him but keeping him as some kind of security blanket, 'just in case'.

Fair enough if he wants to leave. No hard feelings. Good luck to him.

 

If we flop in the second half then this is 100% down to the transfer policy of Hughes & Gent. Anything short of at least a very good push to stay in the playoffs, ie we end up with a fade out to 10th or below, and i'll seriously consider having a year off next season. I'll still buy a season ticket to keep the same seat I have occupied since the Kop went all seater, but might just do the odd game.

Some will call this out as fickle, but if the product is shite, you don't partake.

 

Madness

 

My overall worry with this is we are now letting popular lads in the changing room leave. I get Clayton is a leader we’ve bought in but I know for a fact that Foulds, Young and Songo’o were all highly thought of by the other lads and I just think we may be disjointing the squad at the wrong time.
We appear to be playing one in one out but the replacements are much of the same apart from being upgrades. I’m not sure what approach we are taking in this window but I don’t particularly like it.

 

Yann could be the first City player to feature in the 4th round of the FA Cup for 8 years.

 

You'd think we'd lost Ngolo Kante from some of the comments.

Instead we've given a defensive player to Walsall who operates in positions we have plenty of cover for, and who barely factored this season.

 

Makes sense.

With Kelly (CB) and Clayton (CM) coming in, Yann moved down the pecking order in both positions.

Songo'o never did us wrong and deserves game time. He's a Derek Adams player, though, not a Mark Hughes player, and one of the remnants following a near total overhaul.

Goos luck, lad, all the best.

 

No it’s because one injury to our CB’s and we are short of cover and our midfield isn’t that great.

He was a great player to bring off the bench if winning and wanting to protect.

Problem for us is that we don’t blow teams away 2-3-4 nil and most of the time hanging on.

You need players like him that are strong and can bully other players about.

 

We have a bloated squad, someone had to move on and you can only move players, if someone else actually wants them.
Odisina is still hear as centre half cover.
Personally i liked Songo, maybe he wanted to play week in week out, but i would not drop any of the current centre halves to accommodate him and he is well down the order for midfield defensive player.

 

I'm sure every football fan thinks the same at the start of the coming season Steve, then when they realise it's not going to happen the debate becomes "next season" I can't ever see a situation where I could give up on my team but respect those who feel differently.

 

Best of luck to him, limited ability but always gave 100% and that’s all you can ask.

 

Woooaaahhh. Calm down. He hasn't been playing. Why do players suddenly become gods as a way of trying to prove a point or justify having a moan. It's plain weird.

 

If we were to look at this move from an objective point of view :

1) Was Yann a starter? No
2) Was he on a high wage? Probably
3) Is he technically limited? Very
4) Is he a good character in the team? Yes
5) Would he of been happy with the playing time he was getting? I highly doubt it
6) Would Hughes of wanted him to stay? I think he would’ve
7) Is it wise to send another one of our players to a League Two rival? Of course not

I think this is more a case of Yann pushing for a move; rather than Hughes showing him the door. He’s been a model professional from the day he joined our club. Always was willing to put his body on the line. Praised by both Hughes & Adams for his attitude on an off the pitch. Had plenty of experience in the league with promotions under his belt. And he is capable of covering multiple positions. The downsides : Slow, very technically limited, not suited to our style of play. not comfortable on the ball. Lets not make it out that he was Maldini now that he’s gone

Irrespective of his faults, I don’t think Hughes would of wanted to let a player like that leave considering we apparently are going for a promotion push this year. But ultimately, Songo’s contract runs out at the end of the year. He’s getting very little minutes an needs to put himself in the shop window an find a way to get that last big pay day. Obviously; its not ideal giving him to a fellow League Two team but there’s not really much you can do if the player wants the move an we don’t have the luxury of keeping so many players on our books

best of luck to him

 

Don't understand where people think players like Songo'o will go. Over half of the league are in the fight for the play offs and in the National League very few teams will be able to pay a sizable amount of his wages so that limits it to a list of 10 at most. If we decide to keep him then he takes up a place in the squad, takes up wages and you risk having an unhappy player at the club. The player himself is also going to want to go to a club fighting at the top end rather than a team at the bottom.

 

Spot on. We enjoyed some championship-winning form in the earlier part of the season, when our points-per-match pace ranged from 1.9 to 2.1 over a running 10-match sequence, for some 10 matches in a row. But our most-recent running 10-match pace has been 1.4, which works out to a solidly mid-table, out-of-playoffs, 64 points. Overall it's still at 1.58, or 73 points total.

In the 41 seasons of 3 points for a win, 73 points has gotten a side into the top-3 once. But there's a catch -- that was in a 42-match season. Pro-rated to 46 matches, that's 80 points. The lowest total for 3rd in the 46-match seasons has been 75, twice. 73 points does, more often than not (33/41) lead to a top-7 finish.

We are trending in the wrong direction. I agree that our top-3 chances range from slim to none, and slim is just about out of the building. Playoffs remain a reasonable possibility though, always provided we stop the current slide. I can't say that our transfer business so far inclines me to hope...though it is too early to tell with the new players.

RCB

 

Balancing the books.

Cut our cloth accordingly.

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