| January transfer rumours 12:28 - Dec 14 with 116707 views | Third_Division_South |
Probably time to start this with this
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| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 with 4380 views | 100percent |
| January transfer rumours on 18:52 - Jan 14 by simmo |
Another reminder that Kone is a (still very young) player that's less than 2 years out of non league football. He's playing at his highest level so far and just scored a goal against a PL team within 6 months of his move from League One.
I love Burrell and think his skills are perfect for this league, but Kone has a much higher ceiling and just needs time / patience. |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 21:00 - Jan 14 with 4264 views | Northernr |
| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 by 100percent |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |
Thirded. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 21:02 - Jan 14 with 4230 views | Match82 |
| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 by 100percent |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |
Reminds me a lot of Sinclair Armstrong. Not in physique or style, but because he has one hard to coach elite attribute (pace and power for Armstrong, ability to find the net Kone) and a lot of the basic stuff is well below par. Intuitively it's easier to coach the below average stuff up to an acceptable level than get someone from "good" to "elite" on a skill, and if you do, you have a £10M+ player.
Doesn't make it a given, Amstrong never got it. Kone we'll see, but I'm hopeful that he will. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 21:25 - Jan 14 with 4039 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| January transfer rumours on 18:52 - Jan 14 by simmo |
Another reminder that Kone is a (still very young) player that's less than 2 years out of non league football. He's playing at his highest level so far and just scored a goal against a PL team within 6 months of his move from League One.
I love Burrell and think his skills are perfect for this league, but Kone has a much higher ceiling and just needs time / patience. |
Appreciate all that, but as I said, it's early days and far happier with him. |  |
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| January transfer rumours on 22:37 - Jan 14 with 3707 views | DieByYourSide |
| January transfer rumours on 21:02 - Jan 14 by Match82 |
Reminds me a lot of Sinclair Armstrong. Not in physique or style, but because he has one hard to coach elite attribute (pace and power for Armstrong, ability to find the net Kone) and a lot of the basic stuff is well below par. Intuitively it's easier to coach the below average stuff up to an acceptable level than get someone from "good" to "elite" on a skill, and if you do, you have a £10M+ player.
Doesn't make it a given, Amstrong never got it. Kone we'll see, but I'm hopeful that he will. |
As skills go, being able to find the back of the net is far better than being able to burst past people then having no clue what to do next. | |
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| January transfer rumours on 23:30 - Jan 14 with 3524 views | 7374Ranger |
| January transfer rumours on 10:05 - Jan 14 by Hunterhoop |
So what you’re both saying is the squad building/management has been somewhat messy, and, because of all the money we have spent, we may need to sell some reliable, “good sort” bench players (starters in the recent past), with years of good service, on long term deals, for relatively little.
Wonderful. That sound strategic…
I refer people back to Nourry’s comments when he extended Field onto this massive deal last May.
He talked about how he’d secured the long term futures of the spine of the side now: JCS, Field, Chair, around which they could build with new, high potential signings, and young players. He then re-signed Dunne a month or two later. He spoke of their commitment to the project.
Now, actually, we need to sell some of them, because the bets placed on the £25m of new signings haven’t yet come off - in that we might not be able to sell any of them this summer, or not sell enough - so actually, some of that spine needs to be shifted too. And if you shift the likes of Field can’t replace with more U24s for risk of the team/squad becoming unbalanced. You do need some experience on the pitch. People who organise and do the donkey work off the ball.
I’m sorry. It’s not strategic. It’s flying by the seat of your pants stuff.
I absolutely get that things change in football and in business.
But just like the game model (all hot and heavy, and public about it, to ditching it, allowing the Head Coach to play his own system, and start referring to it as some broad concept in the ether), this is another major thing on the playing side where we’re completely pivoting from what the CEO/DOF himself said less than a year ago. Why? Because we need it to fund his rampant desire to play Football Manager in real life.
I’m sure people will think I’m being unfair. Perhaps I am. But it feels an awful lot like he’s making up the approach as he goes along. |
Agree with you , it doesn't make sense at all.
The point of having these players is surely to keep the club in a stable position whilst trying to develop and sell the likes of Kone, Burrell, Varane, Dembele, Saito, Kolli, Morgan, Smith and Akindileni.
Selling the experience of the squad for £2-3m (if that) is just ridiculous. | | | |
| January transfer rumours (n/t) on 06:48 - Jan 15 with 3271 views | ArcticHoop |
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| January transfer rumours on 06:52 - Jan 15 with 3245 views | Gloucs_R |
Feck me....
We love destroying strikers don't we.
Best forward options we've had for years. All capable of scoring goals. |  |
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| January transfer rumours on 06:59 - Jan 15 with 3228 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| January transfer rumours on 06:52 - Jan 15 by Gloucs_R |
Feck me....
We love destroying strikers don't we.
Best forward options we've had for years. All capable of scoring goals. |
No one is destroying B, K, and K well, not that I've read.
If anything, there's acknowledgment of their current abilities and future potential, while wondering how we get the best out of them. Seems fair. | |
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| January transfer rumours on 07:36 - Jan 15 with 3153 views | dm97 |
Given as of today we have 4 senior goalkeepers in the squad, I doubt we’ll be signing anyone unless there are outgoings.
The fumbling (pardon the pun) of that position continues |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 09:07 - Jan 15 with 2899 views | LoftusFblock |
QPR Central on Instagram (normally reasonably accurate) are saying that Akindileni is going out to Morecambe on loan. Will do him good to play some senior football, although Morecambe appear to be in an 'interesting' situation currently. | | | |
| January transfer rumours on 09:57 - Jan 15 with 2696 views | dmm |
| January transfer rumours on 09:07 - Jan 15 by LoftusFblock |
QPR Central on Instagram (normally reasonably accurate) are saying that Akindileni is going out to Morecambe on loan. Will do him good to play some senior football, although Morecambe appear to be in an 'interesting' situation currently. |
As with Bracknell Town, we seem to have a thing with Morcombe. Should Akindileni get a loan there, he'd be our third player this season to go there, EDB and Sutton being the other two. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 11:43 - Jan 15 with 2432 views | NorthantsHoop |
| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 by 100percent |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |
No need for any negativity with Kone, developing nicely and building his hold up play, which any decent centre forward has to do. As you say in a couple of seasons could be a great payday for us. |  | | |
| January transfer rumours on 14:06 - Jan 15 with 2034 views | Match82 |
| January transfer rumours on 22:37 - Jan 14 by DieByYourSide |
As skills go, being able to find the back of the net is far better than being able to burst past people then having no clue what to do next. |
Well yes I agree. The point being that all the frustrating things that he doesn't seem good at are coachable and more give him more upside than an all around "good" striker. He might not get there, Armstrong didn't, but at this point there's no reason to believe he cant | | | |
| January transfer rumours on 15:38 - Jan 15 with 1611 views | EuroRanger |
I hope WLS are right and that this is nonsense. I'd rather see the season out with our existing player than spend money on another middling keeper. | | | |
| January transfer rumours on 15:39 - Jan 15 with 1600 views | wombat |
| January transfer rumours on 15:38 - Jan 15 by EuroRanger |
I hope WLS are right and that this is nonsense. I'd rather see the season out with our existing player than spend money on another middling keeper. |
as clive would say , come on we have all had a drink ! defo not a step forward on a perm basis , |  |
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| January transfer rumours on 15:40 - Jan 15 with 1600 views | EuroRanger |
DMc and co. also say that Vale has a back problem, so hopefully that's why he's out rather than being sold / loaned anywhere.
https://www.westlondonsport.co | | | |
| January transfer rumours on 15:48 - Jan 15 with 1530 views | Lblock |
| January transfer rumours on 15:40 - Jan 15 by EuroRanger |
DMc and co. also say that Vale has a back problem, so hopefully that's why he's out rather than being sold / loaned anywhere.
https://www.westlondonsport.co |
Buy a crock and be surprised when the fella turns out to be a crock.
This madness has to stop.
Signing players that never play is, in no way shape or form, a "cheaper gamble".
Sam Field was an outlier...... I cannot think of another player we have signed with an injury history who we turned around and managed to give us 30 plus 90 minute games a season. |  |
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| January transfer rumours on 15:58 - Jan 15 with 1444 views | lassel |
Not a sexy one, but Sutton is going back out on loan to Hartlepool. | | | |
| January transfer rumours on 16:08 - Jan 15 with 1361 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
| January transfer rumours on 20:52 - Jan 14 by 100percent |
Totally this.
I seriously don't understand the negativity around Kone.
his all round play is very strong, he's young and learning his trade and inexperienced - especially at this level, and always puts a shift in.
If we can hold onto him for a couple of seasons, he will be worth a fortune. |
Some want instant results and don't have the patience to allow a player to improve.
Those that are having a pop at Kone better get used to it else they're going to have blood pressure problems. Our whole club model is about buying rough diamonds and improving them. Suck it up! | |
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| January transfer rumours on 16:10 - Jan 15 with 1334 views | Lblock |
Under the terms of his sell on clause agreed with Birmingham City I'd imagine we get an invoice from Charlton!!!!!! | |
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| January transfer rumours on 16:12 - Jan 15 with 1307 views | loftus77 |
Surprised by this - I guess he wants the guarantee of starts every week which wasn't happening at Birmingham. Charlton away (Dykes and Kelman up top) could be fun. [Post edited 15 Jan 16:12]
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