Stickied League 1 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

[BRFC_Gas]

Glad we got a fee for Hoole, didnt get much of a look-in here. I see the salop manager says he can also play CB. He can...but very badly.
Gets skinned too often as RB too against anyone with an ounce of pace. Gets forward a lot though and can be decent in the air in both boxes.
He was a prospect in L2 but hasnt quite cut the mustard in L1 - Good luck to him he seems like a nice lad.
Weird announcement video I thought??!

 

[masi51]

If McAtee is available then we will be in for him too, Parky loves him and been looking to sign him since January 2022. Suspect you can blow us out of the water though.

News that we are in for him broke yesterday Afternoon along that we are also in for Dembele. This came from the Bolton Evening News who have been kept out of the loop all pre-season. We have made 4 signings up to now and these never got reported until the day of the signings.........Two other rumours have broke and these broke down. So not really confident of getting them over the line.
Our owners are Wealthy but no where near as wealthy as most owners in league one including yours.

What we do have is wealthy Swiss Investors who are pumping money into the club in the background.
Each time increasing their shareholding in the club

 

[ForzaCounty]

Michael Mellon is done, just awaiting the formal announcement.

But he must be in his 50s

 

[joethegill]

@Gillingham.

Yes?

 

[ForzaCounty]

It's official, big Mellon's up front for County

Looked very handy for Morecambe last season, it's a definite step up though,

 

[Master D]

That's a good signing.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Admiral Muskwe to Northampton? Snigger..

 

[EricSabin]

Admiral Muskwe to Northampton? Snigger..

Played a trial game, our ITK says probably nothing more

 

[YEO YEO YEO]

Glad we got a fee for Hoole, didnt get much of a look-in here. I see the salop manager says he can also play CB. He can...but very badly.
Gets skinned too often as RB too against anyone with an ounce of pace. Gets forward a lot though and can be decent in the air in both boxes.
He was a prospect in L2 but hasnt quite cut the mustard in L1 - Good luck to him he seems like a nice lad.
Weird announcement video I thought??!

They all seem a bit weird. No link between the player and the content. I don't get it.

 

[Bartonyellow]

We have signed jack cooper love from Sweden.
Striker.
No, nor me.

 

[Conker]

Burton population is gunna double by time the transfer window is closed.

 

[Bartonyellow]

Burton population is gunna double by time the transfer window is closed.

I reckon Barry fry is onboard as he liked to sign about 70 players each season. Most without seeing them.
I reckon half of what we have signed will be shite - but there might be a few diamonds in there hopefully.

 

[The Terminator]

Lewis Warrington has signed on a 2 year deal after being released from Everton, thought he was a good prospect and did well at Tranmere and Fleetwood.

Wellens hopeful a few more by the end of the week too.

 

[masi51]

Significant bids have gone in for Dembele and Mcatee to Brest and Luton
Dembele has about six teams after him and Mcatee has loan options to other lge1 teams

Awaiting replies...........Sceptical

 

[EnglishRed]

Significant bids have gone in for Dembele and Mcatee to Brest and Luton
Dembele has about six teams after him and Mcatee has loan options to other lge1 teams

Awaiting replies...........Sceptical

Bolton certainly seem to be going for it this summer, some eye catching transfer activity. Was this the same the last few seasons or is this more obviously the case this year?

Looking at the league as a whole it does look pretty open so it makes sense you'd go for it a bit more this time around.

 

[masi51]

Bolton certainly seem to be going for it this summer, some eye catching transfer activity. Was this the same the last few seasons or is this more obviously the case this year?

Looking at the league as a whole it does look pretty open so it makes sense you'd go for it a bit more this time around.

The present owners picked us up just before the pandemic when we was hours from going out of existence
Parkinson had just resigned and any decent players we had walked out on the club.
The owners are not super wealthy and rightly never initially threw money at the club....Our one season in lge 2 Evatt came in and signed about 20 players without paying a fee for any of them. Obviously Evatt then could take stock at what we had. Three maybe four decent league 2/1 players the rest shocking. Jan we lay 17th in league 2
At that transfer window we signed players who were simply too good for league 2 including Kieran Lee, Dapo Afolayen and Declan John. We then lost i think two games from January to May and went up in third place.
We then signed some of the better league two players who were out of contract that summer including Sheehan and Iredale. First season back we was comfortable without challenging the play-offs. Again in January we splashed the cash bringing the likes of Charles in we ended the season in 9th. That summer we brought in Conner Bradley and Re Signed James Trafford on loan plus the likes of Toal we ended the season in 5th and got beat by Barnsley in the play-offs. Last season we Brought in Baxter who will have a good career higher than league one in Goal Cogley who made the pfa team of the year.........Come January we splashed out 750k for Collins and at that time looked bankers to go up. Our spine Baxter,Santos, Sheehan and Charles got injured and once again limped into the play-offs. Not turning up at Wembley has shocked the club to the core. Evatt had to look hard at both his players and the team. No coincidence that the 4 signings we so far have made are replacements for the spine of the team Southwood, Forino, Arfield and Lolas. All these came in without a fee. Evatt said at a Q&A event with Allerdyce that we are now shopping in a complete new market and have lodged several 7 figure bids on the continent. Those 4 signings got leaked on the day of the signings.
Last summer three names got leaked and we never signed a one of them this year Four names have leaked out the two we have so called bids in for plus Randell Peterborough and Armstrong Kilmarnock who have turned bids down from us. Hence why i am sceptical

 

[Stocky]

Bolton certainly seem to be going for it this summer, some eye catching transfer activity. Was this the same the last few seasons or is this more obviously the case this year?

Looking at the league as a whole it does look pretty open so it makes sense you'd go for it a bit more this time around

I think Birmingham and Huddersfield are strong favourites for the automatic spots. When teams like those two come down, you might think tier 3 would catch them in bad shape but ownership wise, they are as robust and financially sound as either have ever been with both having wealthy and serious American owners. It would be definite failure for either not to go up, it's not often you can be so categoric about teams in that manner.

 

[DaveBirm1875]

Alex Cochrane to Blues

https://twitter.com/x/status/1813198609476952350

Do not claim to know much about him, but seems highly regarded, judging on the Hearts fans being disappointed he has gone

 

[Luke Imp]

In talks with a permanent move for Fulham young GK George Wickens apparently, most recently at Ross County in the SPL on loan.

 

[YEO YEO YEO]

Alex Cochrane to Blues

https://twitter.com/x/status/1813198609476952350

Do not claim to know much about him, but seems highly regarded, judging on the Hearts fans being disappointed he has gone

Are you sure he's only 24?

 

[DaveBirm1875]

Are you sure he's only 24?

Haha thought that too, have to question it lol

 

[masi51]

I think Birmingham and Huddersfield are strong favourites for the automatic spots. When teams like those two come down, you might think tier 3 would catch them in bad shape but ownership wise, they are as robust and financially sound as either have ever been with both having wealthy and serious American owners. It would be definite failure for either not to go up, it's not often you can be so categoric about teams in that manner.

I agree, the only thing that we have in our favour is the team all know how to play as they have been together and we are not a complete re-build
If we got those two players in and signed or lost no other players this pre-season i believe we would be hard to beat and both Birmingham and Huddersfield would have to spend big to overcome us.......That said they quite possibly may do

 

[denzel ecfc]

I think Birmingham and Huddersfield are strong favourites for the automatic spots. When teams like those two come down, you might think tier 3 would catch them in bad shape but ownership wise, they are as robust and financially sound as either have ever been with both having wealthy and serious American owners. It would be definite failure for either not to go up, it's not often you can be so categoric about teams in that manner.

They will gamble. If one of them doesn't go up it will be a different story for them next season

 

[EnglishRed]

I think Birmingham and Huddersfield are strong favourites for the automatic spots. When teams like those two come down, you might think tier 3 would catch them in bad shape but ownership wise, they are as robust and financially sound as either have ever been with both having wealthy and serious American owners. It would be definite failure for either not to go up, it's not often you can be so categoric about teams in that manner.

I don't really know much about Huddersfield current situation so I may be disregarding them too quickly. I expect Birmingham to win the league quite comfortably. Probably about time for Bolton to go up too.

 

[Luke Imp]

The unknown with Birmingham is their manager, it's his first managerial job. Good coaching background but well know that doesn't mean it translates when being the main man.

EDIT - That's not to say Birmingham will have a mare, clearly their signings are very good and that alone will see them competing at the top of the league.

 

[denzel ecfc]

I expect Birmingham to win the league quite comfortably.

It's never that straightforward. Even Leeds took three seasons to get out.

 

[thewwfc]

It's never that straightforward. Even Leeds took three seasons to get out.

This.

Never underestimate how quick fans of the bigger clubs can be to turn and get on their players'/managers' backs when they aren't rocking up and steamrollering all us minnows week in, week out (hi Sunderland).

BCFC also have an unproven manager in charge.

Looking at his background, I'm expecting him to set up playing slick passing football...which is great when it works, but can go badly tits up down here in the dungeons of the lower leagues against teams set up to spoil.

Chris Davies (football coach) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Moomin]

Yep, every season at least one team massively underperforms and at least one massively overachieves. The beauty of football.

 

[EnglishRed]

I think the difference with Birmingham to someone like Sunderland or Leeds when they were down here is that there is a feel good atmosphere at Brum due to the new owners that you wouldn't normally expect to see at a bigger club that have slipped to a level they wouldn't expect to be at. We'd see it all the time in non league where the bigger clubs who had sorted out the issue in their ownership (which 90% of the time was the entire reason they were down there) sorted themselves out quite quickly, whereas those who didn't wallowed.

That said the manager is the big unknown with Birmingham and I do agree that if they start losing to teams their fans think they are bigger than (Crawley, Us etc) things could get ugly.

 

[Hudders]

They will gamble. If one of them doesn't go up it will be a different story for them next season

Promotion is our stated aim but our outgoings will more than cover our incomings so not sure we are gambling, we weren’t prepared to go anywhere near the contract Birmingham were offering Alfie May for example.
I’d say ourselves and Birmingham had a similar level of squad that under different managers maybe doesn’t get relegated last season, theirs will end up better though after the window.