What has the transfer window like been for your club?

[TractorBoys]

Stolen from the prem section.

 

[Gladders]

Transfer window is still open not that anyone would know as the prem is the only league that exists in England apparently.

 

[Indian Dan]

Now starts the unholy scramble for us bottom feeders to bolster squads with the detritus from the elite.

All transfer dealings should be done and dusted before a ball is kicked for a new season - for all leagues.

 

[AdamStag]

Will find out in a few weeks.

We need to keep our strong defence from last season and CJ Hamilton is one of the better players in league 2, would be a big blow to lose him

 

[Greenacres]

I am just glad that Man Utd strengthened the middle of their defence by signing Harry Maguire from Leicester and not stealing Nathan McGinley from us.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Berry like.

 

[AmberRich]

If we sign Carruthers and I think it will be seen as a decent window, despite losing Amoo and Brown.

 

[Wiinotfit]

Now starts the unholy scramble for us bottom feeders to bolster squads with the detritus from the elite.

All transfer dealings should be done and dusted before a ball is kicked for a new season - for all leagues.

Couldn't agree more i'd sooner it shut the week before the season starts

 

[TimeyWimey]

I think the club will be seeing it as a pretty disastrous window having not sold a player to a Championship club. I think there was genuine expectation from some that someone would take Perry Ng at a good price. There's still a chance a L1 team will cough up but at probably much less than we were hoping for. Time to face up to the fact that the academy model as we see it is long dead.

As for incomings, as things stand it's been a poor one. We still need a couple of players in. Probably on loan. I'm not massively hopeful.

 

[Conker]

Will find out in a few weeks.

We need to keep our strong defence from last season and CJ Hamilton is one of the better players in league 2, would be a big blow to lose him

I’ll be surprised if we lost him to a L1 club now. JR social media post yesterday came across like we might be done transfer wise, I still expect another midfielder or defender though, and I have heard good things about Dion who seemed capable at L1 level.

Nicky Maynard, Andy Cook, Dion Donohue, Kellan Gordon, Aiden Stone, the last three are more ‘strength in depth’ signings although Gordon really impressed me at Newport. Out of the five only Maynard started last Saturday.

Considering we will at times play three CBs and we only have three true centre backs, a extra body would be wise.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Lowe has said we have done our business now unless a good opportunity comes up - we suspect he might take another striker.

I think overall it has been reasonable, with the best recruitment probably being the coaching team. Player wise we lost all our good players and have kept the weaker defenders. Not convinced we have fully sorted the defence out yet, but midfield looking good and attack ok.

If the goal is automatic promotion, then do not think the recruiters has been quite strong enough, so a C-. However, if like me you think this is a transition year and play offs are the target, then this has been B+ recruitment. The strength for us is the non player side - recruiting a good coaching team and all the off the field activity designed to bring in long term income. This is an A.

What Lowe has said he wants to do now is get the youngesters and periphery players off out on loan. We have two 18/19 year olds that Lowe seems to be keen on - a midfielder Randall and a striker Lolos. These show promise, though probably more for next year.

 

[Chris FGR]

I am just glad that Man Utd strengthened the middle of their defence by signing Harry Maguire from Leicester and not stealing Nathan McGinley from us.

You know what, I'd genuinely rather have McGinley. The lad is absolutely top drawer, would not shock me at all if he ends up doing better then Maguire in his career. Cannot believe no Championship club actually followed up their interest, but very glad they didn't. What a find he's been.

 

[Trapdoor]

B-

Feel like we may have wasted money on Nicky Ajose, but it's too early to say. If he doesn't get 15 goals this season that for me is a failure.

Some of the other signings look reasonable. Shipped out a fair bit of the dead weight and injury prone which is always good.

 

[shoddycollins]

Transfer window is still open not that anyone would know as the prem is the only league that exists in England apparently.

I feel this realisation that the window is still open is going to be one of TractorBoys 'welcome to the lower league' moments.

We're just in the market for a striker now. We have a target and expect to learn if the target is available now his parent club's transfer window has closed. It might be a good thing to have the window closer earlier in the top two divisions and I always feel lower league clubs get fucked over more by the mad rush at the end of the window. Losing key players to panicking Championship clubs with no time to replace them, having to wait until a narrow window of only a few hours between targets becoming available and the window slamming shut.

 

[Chris FGR]

Is the window still open in Scotland?

If it is a few clubs at this level are still vulnerable to losing players.

 

[shoddycollins]

Is the window still open in Scotland?

If it is a few clubs at this level are still vulnerable to losing players.

It is

 

[Chris FGR]

Oh bollocks, few more nervous weeks then.

 

[Indian Dan]

B-

Feel like we may have wasted money on Nicky Ajose, but it's too early to say. If he doesn't get 15 goals this season that for me is a failure.

Some of the other signings look reasonable. Shipped out a fair bit of the dead weight and injury prone which is always good.

Did Ajose play last Saturday?

Impressions?

 

[Trapdoor]

Did Ajose play last Saturday?
Impressions?

Didnt see the game but reportedly didnt have much impact.

 

[Agombar stool]

I thought 33/1 was a massive price for him to be top scorer this season so hopefully he comes good.

 

[Greenacres]

You know what, I'd genuinely rather have McGinley. The lad is absolutely top drawer, would not shock me at all if he ends up doing better then Maguire in his career. Cannot believe no Championship club actually followed up their interest, but very glad they didn't. What a find he's been.

McGinley is probably one of the best players in our team, based on capability, bravery and contribution to play...how many times against Oldham was he the player bringing the ball out of defence and looking to make things happen?

Last season there were a couple of times, not long after he joined us, where the fans started to get on his back for making mistakes...but very few will have noticed that he was put in a needlessly difficult situation by another player (usually Mad Gav or the keeper) and it was when he tried to correct things that it went noticeably wrong.

I will be amazed, but of course happy, if he hasn't moved on before next season. I was a bit worried that when Leicester sold Maguire, they looked to replace him with Dunk from Brighton, who I believe were trying to sign a central defender from Bristol City, that City might start looking at either McGinley or Rawson to bolster their side...fortunately that doesn't seem to have happened...but I wouldn't be surprised to see either of them head to Ashton Gate in the not too distant future.

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Our activity looked good on paper, we'll see come Christmas and the end of the season.

 

[LeonTheGreen]

We lost a lot of quality over the summer, although I think Ryan Lowe has recruited well.

Mayor and McFadzean both looked good on Saturday, as did Joe Edwards. Byron Moore seems ok for L2. Will Aimson is yet to feature, but will bolster our defensive options.

Alex Palmer was great in goal last week, hopefully he’s solid. Dom Telford should score a few in L2, and the young lad from Chelsea captained their Under 23’s. Not bad. Jose Baxter was a top L1 player a few years ago, find that form and we could be onto a winner.

Still think we’ll get a striker, probably on loan. Overall, a solid transfer window. Mayor was a real coup.

 

[Chris FGR]

Difficult window for us, 17 players out inc 4 of our best attackers, our excellent on loan keeper, our other fairly decent keeper plus a few other experienced players, 2 gk coaches and our head of academy, plus our assistant manager has had to take time off. Made some decent money, altough a lot less then we would have done had Bolton coughed up.

Most of our 11 signings are 22 and under, the only experience being player-coach Matt Mills who looks superb so far, plus Kevin Dawson (good but a bit of a crock) and Adam Smith (oh dear). The rest are promising youngsters, so have to wait and see on most of them. Our budget is the smallest it's been in years, less then in the NL, and we have one of, if not the youngest squad in the division, so expectations are fairly low in comparison to last season.

I'd give us a C, that could go up or down depending on how well some of our youngsters step up.

 

[Sydney Posse]

By our standards it has been busy (I think is was 9 in or thereabouts ?), and we did a fair bit of business early, which is very unusual for us in recent seasons. We lost Pym who I have always rated, and he definitely saved us a few times last season. Only time will tell but quietly confident. I think the biggest issue for our manager will be keeping everybody happy to be honest, as the squad is big and there will be one or two who will be very pissed off if left out regularly

 

[hellogregory]

Diabolical to start with, which has left us completely unprepared going into the season. It’s improved over the past 2 weeks as we’ve recruited in areas we were severely lacking, but doing it so late has meant that players barely know each other’s names going into games.

We still need at least 1 more before the deadline.

 

[RebornKirtonRed]

Didnt see the game but reportedly didnt have much impact.

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Nope, no impact at all...........saw nothing in him against Swansea, saw even less against Maccy.......we were much better after he was subbed........I can't see this panning out too well.

 

[kieran_vale]

I’d say overall solid rather than spectacular. Best bit of business for my money was getting Oyeleke to stay for another couple of years.

The majority of our signings are more about potential or adding depth you’d say, the vast majority of our starting eleven were here last year. Pleased we’ve signed Crookes permanently, will take him time as he’s more a centre back than a left back but I think he has the attributes to succeed there. Think Cullen will be a good signing and adds something different up front as does Amoo.

Overall the biggest improvement is now can be sure these are players the manager wants rather than Smurthwaite making signings himself via some dodgy agent.

 

[shoddycollins]

Diabolical to start with, which has left us completely unprepared going into the season. It’s improved over the past 2 weeks as we’ve recruited in areas we were severely lacking, but doing it so late has meant that players barely know each other’s names going into games.

We still need at least 1 more before the deadline.

We got defence sorted fairly early on at least. If you had to choose which area of the pitch you wanted to sort out early in summer at the cost of other areas being incomplete then I'd go with defence.

 

[hellogregory]

We got defence sorted fairly early on at least. If you had to choose which area of the pitch you wanted to sort out early in summer at the cost of other areas being incomplete then I'd go with defence.

yeah probably, a bit like choosing which 9 toes you want to save at the cost of losing the other one.