Summer 2022 - Transfer Talk

They aren’t the bargain bin buys I’m expecting Jon, but it’s always good to get our hopes up in the summer

 

Reece Burke from Luton and Johnny Howson from Boro would be a good base to work from
central defence should be the first priority

 

Genuinely not being rude but do you honestly believe, hand on heart, we will purchase two players from promotion chasing Championship teams, whom have combined 70 appearances this season?

My opinion and WILL NOT be disappointed if proved wrong but the playing personnel will not represent anything close to what you have suggested.

League 2 cast offs... Now we are talking.

We shall see.

 

Time this club showed some genuine ambition my friend

 

But no obviously we won’t sign either

 

I would like a huge chunk of ambition coupled with structure and patience.
But ambition has to be contextual in relation to financial reality, SCMP etc

 

Agree with you 100
Not wishing to state the obvious, but we’ve been diabolically defensively this season and all good managers sort that out first.
Hopefully Mr Hughes knows this now

 

It may not get universal (or any) agreements but Hughes will not rip this team up in its entirity this summer but build upon what we retain. As such, patience could well be needed moving forward.

Strangely, I feel this team have been 'better' more defensively than offensively this season, highlighted in recent times under Hughes.

 

I’d try get Jack Diamond, who has been at Harrogate, and Jack Payne, if Swindon miss out on the playoffs.

I’d get an experienced keeper who is dropping divisions but just wants to play.

I think most of the players in this league are much of a muchness though. We’ll probably get a few uninspiring journeymen ala Robinson and some back up quality squad filler like Kelleher, then plump up the squad with loan signings later in the window when clubs are looking to let players leave.

Wonder if we’ve burnt our bridges with Huddersfield after sending Daly back? They may well be a PL side again next season and could have lads Leigh Bromby is wanting to send out…..

 

No we haven't. We've been disappointing defensively, at times, but not diabolical. At other times we've had patches of defensive solidity. Our much bigger problem is that we've consistently been diabolical offensively. We've scored 47 league goals. Most teams in the top eight places have scored in the 60s or 70s.

We've had 16 draws - joint highest in the division. Most of those have been games we could/should have won, not where we were hanging on to avoid defeat. We've consistently failed to convert pressure into goals. Our biggest problem has been a posse of non-scoring strikers and attacking midfielders.

Of course we need to upgrade the defence, but recruiting some attackers who can hit the back of the net is our overwhelming priority.

 

I can't help thinking Mark Hughes will have his own ideas,and none of the "usual suspects" will be coming to VP in the summer.

 

It's that time of year where we throw a few pieces of jig-saw onto the ground and hope some knit together.
Of which they invariably don't
Hopefully a bit more acumen involved this time around, as opposed to grabbing a few out of contract unmotivated players from similar clubs, to be unmotivated here.

 

And we wonder why Bradford fans are permanently annoyed if their expectations are set at the level of signing those players.

 

I agree with you. I put the defensive improvements under Hughes (and stats back that up - we've let in 9 goals during his 10 games vs. 45 in the 34 games prior) down to the style of play change. We've gone from 1/3 possession to 2/3 possession. If the opposition have the ball less it makes sense that our defenders will have to defend less.

 

The reason we will not get promoted unless we change personnel. Our three main goal threats, Cook, Angol and Vernam have all been guilty of missing way too many guilt edged chances. Neither Cook or Angol will score you enough goals to get you promoted. That puts pressure on a midfield with a lack of goal threat but the goal threat should come primarily from your strikers.

 

spot on. Chats like this are utter pointless.

We need players that suit Hughes style of play, characters, winners, players that can hold their nerve, hungry and ambitious.

Pointless fans picking names out of a hat.