Stickied League 1 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

[HutchECFC]

Signed Tony Yogane on loan from Brentford for the season. I know absolutely sod all about him, but seems like one of those loan players I could very easily fall in love with. Again.

 

[The Terminator]

Be interesting to see if Brandon Hanlan is back on our radar, I know we tried to sign him a few years back but he picked Wycombe over us.

Had some bad injuries it seems in his time there and we're in the market to buy a striker, he fits our profile and Wellens style of play.

 

[denzel ecfc]

There are still a few who we've speculated might be GA targets:

David Wheeler: good utility player
Ryan Tafazolli: decent ball-playing CB, not much pace and injury-prone, but on his day a strong defender
Brandon Hanlan: Bustling forward, ungainly but pacey and can knock opposition defenders out of the way, he often looks like he doesn't know what he's going to do next which can bamboozle not only himself but also the defenders he's up against, Wrexham were in for him before he went and got broken.
Matt Butcher: Actually a Bloomfield signing, but a strong defensive midfielder who has (possibly unfairly) struggled for minutes this season

All would be decent (but not spectacular) signings at this level.

Hartridge? Similar haircuts.

 

[E10rifle]

Lewis Warrington joins Salford on loan for the rest of this season.

Wellens hadn't used him for two months and hooked him at half time in a few games.

Didn't think he was THAT bad when he did play and he did contribute to some points and wins we got, but for whatever reason he never got going here. He is contracted to us for another year as well.

Max Sanders 2.0. With even less about him.

 

[Luke Imp]

We've rejected a £250k bid from Plymouth for Paudie O'Connor. Out of contract in the summer, but is our Captain so I doubt we'll be tempted unless we start seeing £400k+ and he tells us he isn't signing a new deal.

We had a similar situation with Regan Poole two years ago when Sunderland bid for him but we kept turning offers down even though he said he'd be leaving at the end of the season because we we felt he had more value on the pitch than off it.

If O'Connor has got aspirations of Championship football, then it's probably not going to be a good move for him.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Be interesting to see if Brandon Hanlan is back on our radar, I know we tried to sign him a few years back but he picked Wycombe over us.

Had some bad injuries it seems in his time there and we're in the market to buy a striker, he fits our profile and Wellens style of play.

Shaq Forde reminds me a lot of Hanlan so far. Headless chicken that runs into trouble. You'll still be local enough for him to get his mum to cook for him though

 

[Master D]

Ryan Longman confirmed from Hull City. Think he's a wingback. 500k. Bit strange though considering McClean and Barnett are nailed on first choice every week for us.

 

[Millerbri]

The Millers first signing of the Jan window is Louie Sibley from Oxford.
This one was completely out of the blue, no-one seemed to know about this one.

Seems he is out of the team at Oxford so it works well for all parties.

Surprised he is still only 23 yrs old, hopefully he can add some energy into the team against his home town club Burton tomorrow as McWilliams is out with a hamstring injury.

 

[Luke Imp]

We're probably going to see one or two head out on loan before the deadline according to Skubala (my best guess is Duffy and then Jeacock when Wickens is back fit any time now).

Then a case of seeing if we can do anything to give us a little more squad depth at CB and possibly ST as well.

 

[thewwfc]

There are still a few who we've speculated might be GA targets:

David Wheeler: good utility player
Ryan Tafazolli: decent ball-playing CB, not much pace and injury-prone, but on his day a strong defender
Brandon Hanlan: Bustling forward, ungainly but pacey and can knock opposition defenders out of the way, he often looks like he doesn't know what he's going to do next which can bamboozle not only himself but also the defenders he's up against, Wrexham were in for him before he went and got broken.
Matt Butcher: Actually a Bloomfield signing, but a strong defensive midfielder who has (possibly unfairly) struggled for minutes this season

All would be decent (but not spectacular) signings at this level.

Can knock out Tafazolli from this list, he's just gone on loan to some club in Hong Kong. As you do.

 

[SVH]

We've enquired about Gassan at Charlton and Moxon at Pompey, apparently. Both would be loans.

 

[thewwfc]

We've enquired about Gassan at Charlton and Moxon at Pompey, apparently. Both would be loans.

very decent strike rate for you last time I guess, though he is getting at least some game time at Charlton.

 

[Throbber_for_Dunk]

We've enquired about Gassan at Charlton and Moxon at Pompey, apparently. Both would be loans.

If they'd just loan us all of their ex-Us, we'd probably be fine!

 

[SVH]

very decent strike rate for you last time I guess, though he is getting at least some game time at Charlton.

He's not made an appearance since 29/12 so would suggest he's out of favour.

 

[folletto]

We've enquired about Gassan at Charlton and Moxon at Pompey, apparently. Both would be loans.

He's definitely out of favour although I'd be surprised to see him loaned out. It's not worked for him at all here but we are just one injury away from needing him. He's also injured atm, not clear how serious it is as Jones never gives anything away

 

[SVH]

He's definitely out of favour although I'd be surprised to see him loaned out. It's not worked for him at all here but we are just one injury away from needing him. He's also injured atm, not clear how serious it is as Jones never gives anything away

We love an injured player so must be nailed on.

I always thought it was an odd move from yourselves. As for the fee? Criminal.

 

[folletto]

We love an injured player so must be nailed on.

I always thought it was an odd move from yourselves. As for the fee? Criminal.

My understanding is the bulk of the fee is add ons that will likely never be paid but even so it's been a disaster of a transfer and the upfront fee is still too high. We don't have a large transfer budget and it was the bulk of the money we got from selling May used on him. We were desperate for a target man but had our pants pulled down

 

[Throbber_for_Dunk]

600k alone without the add ons was still very steep, we thought we may have a chance to get him back but that's more than double our record fee paid and that was 35 years ago!