Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2024/25

[woburn]

Maybe they’re still traumatised by that 4-1 dicking we dished out to them at their gaff at the end of last season.

What a day!


Does this new owner have money then?

Absolutley minted, to the tune of Billions.

 

[Youpies]

I suspect we signed his replacement last week in that Jarvis.

Maybe blind optimism, but I’m not sure it affects our chances that much (I’m not that confident either way, but that’s a different discussion). I don’t disagree with the last bit either, but it’s basically unarguable now that his day is always (insert random lower mid-table team) at home. It makes us far less likely to keep winning those games 4-0, but gives us a different option for trying to solve the problem of losing every time we come up against someone good.

Sorry Jacob, but I think the blind optimism will fade as the realisation that it's Sam Austin till the summer kicks in

 

[Son of Cod]

22-årige Geza Dávid Turi har scoret tre mål i 12 kampe for Vikingur i den indeværende sæson. Viborg 1FF er desuden ikke den eneste klub, der scoutede ham i weekenden. Også Grimsby fra League Two var på plads på Færøerne.

 

[Gladders]

22-årige Geza Dávid Turi har scoret tre mål i 12 kampe for Vikingur i den indeværende sæson. Viborg 1FF er desuden ikke den eneste klub, der scoutede ham i weekenden. Også Grimsby fra League Two var på plads på Færøerne.

a goal every 4 games, sounds like a luxury, we cannot afford a player of that caliber surely?

 

[RavenBish]

Sorry Jacob, but I think the blind optimism will fade as the realisation that it's Sam Austin till the summer kicks in

Austin’s too busy playing like Cafu at wing back.

Go to Notts games with my old man and told him I was a bit gutted we were selling Crowley now and his response was ‘you shouted fuck sake Crowley about 6 times against Swindon’ - and I think that sums the little man up in some way.

 

[AdamStag]

Absolutley minted, to the tune of Billions.

oh good. another reason to like them

 

[クレイグ]

Nathan Broom a goalkeeper from Swansea (Ex AFC Wimbledon) signs until the end of the season... seems an off one with Ripley and Amos at the club unless Ripper is off or one is injured. Ripley is on Paternity but set to only miss this weekends game so could be Amos injured?

Note the announcement suggests Ripley will need a few weeks after paternity to get match day ready so hopefully all is good with Connor and his family.

Got yourself a really good sweeper keeper there.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Austin’s too busy playing like Cafu at wing back.

Go to Notts games with my old man and told him I was a bit gutted we were selling Crowley now and his response was ‘you shouted fuck sake Crowley about 6 times against Swindon’ - and I think that sums the little man up in some way.

Haha I was the same in the second half against Walsall where he was a liability until of course he went on mazy run with 5 minutes left and nearly equalised.

That goes back to what Jacob was saying about him not really being an asset against the better sides. On the flip side we definitely win against Newport if he’d been playing.

 

[Carver]

Yep this is it for me. That and the fact that (happy to be corrected on this if I'm incorrect) that you're persisting with tippy tapping the ball around.

The obvious equation is...

Loads of signings in Jan + playing out from the back + relegation scrap = disaster

The likes of Embleton, Wearne, etc. aren't players that you want in the trenches when you're up against it. The best thing we did last Jan when we were trying to pass our way out of a dogfight was bring Curtis Thompson in, switch style and just start grinding out ugly points. I fear for Carlisle if they think they don't need to do this.

I could be wrong and it could all click and you'll be fine and I hope that's the case as I like Carlise but from the outside looking in, this wild spending spree looks like an obscenely risky strategy.

Yeah if you are a little club with no money and just on a survival budget, but we're a big club for this level with loadsa money to spend. So signing slow and old lower league dogfighters instead of quality baller players is well below us.

 

[hellogregory]

Harrison Biggins sent back to Shrewsbury.

It's really good to see us getting rid of a lot of the crap that have let us down this season. Hopefully Harrison Neal, Josh Vela, Ben Barclay and one or two others will follow.

It won't save us this season, but not having to see them for the rest of our EFL life will be pleasing.

 

[hellogregory]

Yeah if you are a little club with no money and just on a survival budget, but we're a big club for this level with loadsa money to spend. So signing slow and old lower league dogfighters instead of quality baller players is well below us.

Carver, I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you're living on cloud cuckoo. Are you ok?

It wasn't long ago you were totally against this philosophy and wanted a fire fighter brought in to clog our way out of the mess. Now all of a sudden you're pro Williamson and all for the passing football.

Honestly, I've never known anyone flip flop as much as you do. One minute we're down, the next we're staying up. You're so easily swayed by one win or one signing.

 

[Scum.]

Absolutley minted, to the tune of Billions.

 

[Meadow]

Free agent Marcus Browne signs until the end of the season.

 

[Carver]

Carver, I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you're living on cloud cuckoo. Are you ok?

It wasn't long ago you were totally against this philosophy and wanted a fire fighter brought in to clog our way out of the mess. Now all of a sudden you're pro Williamson and all for the passing football.

Honestly, I've never known anyone flip flop as much as you do. One minute we're down, the next we're staying up. You're so easily swayed by one win or one signing.

Did you not watch that positive fans forum where Williamson came across so well and add to that the new exciting signings?

Williamson has won the fans over!

Our safety is sealed now and a nice 10 wins in a row with intense attacking football with lots of goals is about to happen I believe.

 

[Scum.]

Think Crowley could well flop at MK. There's a reason he's not lasted long anywhere until Notts, partly it's his agent constantly being after more money, but there's also the fact that until Notts he never seemed to have any end product.

He looked the shit when he played for us for a couple of months in League 1, until he then had to finish off that mazy run with a pass or shot, then he'd completely balls it up. I fear that at Notts his playing was akin to catching lightning in a bottle - sometimes things just fit. Moving, and therefore changing his surroundings, could well mess him up completely.

I have a feeling it will be the opposite. I can see him doing the same as our last Notts signing and tearing it up (Nemane). Those players suit our system perfectly.

 

[kieran_vale]

Nathan Broom a goalkeeper from Swansea (Ex AFC Wimbledon) signs until the end of the season... seems an off one with Ripley and Amos at the club unless Ripper is off or one is injured. Ripley is on Paternity but set to only miss this weekends game so could be Amos injured?

Note the announcement suggests Ripley will need a few weeks after paternity to get match day ready so hopefully all is good with Connor and his family.

Put it this way. If Ripley hadn’t been dropped do you think he’d be taking paternity leave right now? Frankly he can go, that disgraceful performance at Grimsby was the final straw for me. Amos hasn’t done anything spectacular since taking his place but he also doesn’t have to. Things just feel far more secure now.

 

[jacobncfc]

I have a feeling it will be the opposite. I can see him doing the same as our last Notts signing and tearing it up (Nemane). Those players suit our system perfectly.

Crowley and Nemane had a great understanding playing together down the right. The little slipped through ball inside the full back is a cheat code. Although the flip side is Nemane can’t defend and Crowley won’t defend, so we conceded about 50 goals down that flank last season.

I think he’ll do well, he’s too good not to, but I’ll be interested in seeing how you try and solve the problem of building a team around him that is consistent enough to be a proper promotion contender rather than just devastating on its day. I think you need real positional discipline and physicality around him in midfield, which we’ve improved on from last season but were still a fair way off.

Between Langstaff, Nemane and Crowley we’ll have brought in well over £1m in fees for three 27+ year-olds who were part of a team that finished 14th in League Two last season. Mad business really.

 

[Tallow]

Yep this is it for me. That and the fact that (happy to be corrected on this if I'm incorrect) that you're persisting with tippy tapping the ball around.

The obvious equation is...

Loads of signings in Jan + playing out from the back + relegation scrap = disaster

The likes of Embleton, Wearne, etc. aren't players that you want in the trenches when you're up against it. The best thing we did last Jan when we were trying to pass our way out of a dogfight was bring Curtis Thompson in, switch style and just start grinding out ugly points. I fear for Carlisle if they think they don't need to do this.

I could be wrong and it could all click and you'll be fine and I hope that's the case as I like Carlise but from the outside looking in, this wild spending spree looks like an obscenely risky strategy.

So...
Do I put my trust in Mike Williamson, played in PL, got coaching qualifications, transformed Gateshead and MK Dons from mid table obscurity to play off contenders. Or do I put my trust in the opinions of Son of Cod and Hellogregory?
Think I'll stick with good old Mike Williamson.

 

[valefan16]

Put it this way. If Ripley hadn’t been dropped do you think he’d be taking paternity leave right now? Frankly he can go, that disgraceful performance at Grimsby was the final straw for me. Amos hasn’t done anything spectacular since taking his place but he also doesn’t have to. Things just feel far more secure now.

I read the announcement of the signing like he will be away from the club a while so maybe more to it than just taking standard paternity, as you wouldn't normally have 2 weeks off then need weeks to get back match fit, especially as a keeper.

 

[DippyDon]

So...
Do I put my trust in Mike Williamson, played in PL, got coaching qualifications, transformed MK Dons from massively underachieving, to play off contenders that loved to get thrashed in multiple games despite one of the larger budgets in the league, to then get THE biggest budget in the league and still struggled massively with the only reason he doesn't have a sacking on his CV being that Carlisle paid money for him. Or do I put my trust in the opinions of Son of Cod and Hellogregory?
Think I'll stick with good old Mike Williamson.

Fixed it for you

 

[DippyDon]

In sort of transfer news though, Joe White is staying for the rest of the season after his recall window elapsed. That's fantastic news, he's been the main shining light in a period of poor form.

 

[Son of Cod]

So...
Do I put my trust in Mike Williamson, played in PL, got coaching qualifications, transformed Gateshead and MK Dons from mid table obscurity to play off contenders. Or do I put my trust in the opinions of Son of Cod and Hellogregory?
Think I'll stick with good old Mike Williamson.

Do what you want mate, my League 2 relegation dogfight CV absolutely dwarfs Williamson's though.

 

[womble76]

Free agent Marcus Browne signs until the end of the season.

If he can stay fit we have a quality player on our hands

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

Do what you want mate, my League 2 relegation dogfight CV absolutely dwarfs Williamson's though.

I completely agree with you and it’s why I’d ditched Williamson after the tranmere game and plan more longer term we missed thst
Chance last season

I think we are gone personally but that is mostly down us having absolutely nothing to suggest we survive.

Manager is doggedly sticking to approach which is failing for this situation the fans won’t back manager or team, morale low, zero unity and we never look up for the fight.

All about now just stopping the constant sinking and look forward

 

[Scum.]

Crowley and Nemane had a great understanding playing together down the right. The little slipped through ball inside the full back is a cheat code. Although the flip side is Nemane can’t defend and Crowley won’t defend, so we conceded about 50 goals down that flank last season.

I think he’ll do well, he’s too good not to, but I’ll be interested in seeing how you try and solve the problem of building a team around him that is consistent enough to be a proper promotion contender rather than just devastating on its day. I think you need real positional discipline and physicality around him in midfield, which we’ve improved on from last season but were still a fair way off.

Between Langstaff, Nemane and Crowley we’ll have brought in well over £1m in fees for three 27+ year-olds who were part of a team that finished 14th in League Two last season. Mad business really.

I’m guessing the physicality and discipline point is why we’ve brought Jay Williams in as our other signing. Definitely an area we lacked.

 

[lordofthepies]

Yeah if you are a little club with no money and just on a survival budget, but we're a big club for this level with loadsa money to spend. So signing slow and old lower league dogfighters instead of quality baller players is well below us.

Is staying up well below you?

 

[Carver]

Is staying up well below you?

We'll stay up playing with a passing philosophy.

We want to follow the kind of model teams like Brighton have where we will not deviate from that kind of style no matter what because it will be embedded into the DNA of the team.

We're not going to go the way of Gillingham who brought in a young successful coach in Bonner but then decide to tear that whole idea up only to go for a long ball merchant dinosaur such as Coleman which won't get them far.

We know what L1 is all about now and you can't be like a L2 team in L1. Up there they are all about the passing and creativity.

 

[hellogregory]

I completely agree with you and it’s why I’d ditched Williamson after the tranmere game and plan more longer term we missed thst
Chance last season

I think we are gone personally but that is mostly down us having absolutely nothing to suggest we survive.

Manager is doggedly sticking to approach which is failing for this situation the fans won’t back manager or team, morale low, zero unity and we never look up for the fight.

All about now just stopping the constant sinking and look forward

Yeah we are 100% gone. Like you say there's been absolutely no signs whatsoever that we can string the number of wins together we'll need, and asking a new bunch of players to do that instantly isn't realistic either. Christmas/New Year was make of break, but we failed miserably, picked up an unacceptable points total, lost in pathetic fashion to two of our relegation rivals, lost in even more pathetic fashion to Crewe despite leading in the 93rd minute. We are gone.

The more deluded fans like Carver will say that because of a few words at a fans forum Williamson has won the fans over. Well even if that is true (it isn't), it will certainly be all gone come 3pm Saturday if as expected we lose to Bradford.

The remainder of the season is all about gradually stopping the rot and finding some positives and building some team chemistry to take into the National League season.

 

[Carver]

Yeah we are 100% gone. Like you say there's been absolutely no signs whatsoever that we can string the number of wins together we'll need, and asking a new bunch of players to do that instantly isn't realistic either. Christmas/New Year was make of break, but we failed miserably, picked up an unacceptable points total, lost in pathetic fashion to two of our relegation rivals, lost in even more pathetic fashion to Crewe despite leading in the 93rd minute. We are gone.

The more deluded fans like Carver will say that because of a few words at a fans forum Williamson has won the fans over. Well even if that is true (it isn't), it will certainly be all gone come 3pm Saturday if as expected we lose to Bradford.

The remainder of the season is all about gradually stopping the rot and finding some positives and building some team chemistry to take into the National League season.

I haven't even been thinking about relegation since that fans forum, what I've seen is the outside chance of automatic promotion if we win every remaining game which would have us finish on 84 points and that would at least guarantee us a play off spot surely.

With these new signings coming in now we'll be set up pretty nicely for L1 if we are to get promoted.

 

[Son of Cod]

We'll stay up playing with a passing philosophy.

We want to follow the kind of model teams like Brighton have where we will not deviate from that kind of style no matter what because it will be embedded into the DNA of the team.

That's exactly what Artell said when he came in last November and by January he'd ditched that for the rest of the season. This is a man who doggedly stuck to a passing philosophy and the same system so stubbornly that he got Crewe relegated too.

A L2 relegation scrap is no place to be starting out on this journey. We've returned to playing a certain way this season and we've seen progress but that's so much easier to crack on with when you're in the top half of a table with very few expectations.