I feel a transfer record coming on.....

[Blue Valkyrie]

My guess is we were pretty much nailed on to get Vydra, then Reading somehow managed to get the Russian off the payroll, and have used the freed up wages to get ahead of us for the deal.

 

[Stat Brother]

At least it would seem the club doesn't need 6 loanees.

 

[KZNSeagull]

I'd prefer us to sign him on a permanent deal.

So would we all I imagine, but he has only just signed a new contract so why would they sell him?

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Spending other people's money is fun but the kitty is presumably £5m less than it would have been if LD hadn't signed...

 

[B.W.]

So would we all I imagine, but he has only just signed a new contract so why would they sell him?

Every player has a price...

 

[Withdean11]

Spending other people's money is fun but the kitty is presumably £5m less than it would have been if LD hadn't signed...

Yep. Which is why we should of sold him.

 

[KZNSeagull]

I would want him on a season long loan!


BUT THE CLUB ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LOAN WINDOW !!!

Season long loans CANNOT be done in the loan window.

Thanks very much - I heard you the first time. This Vydra thing has been rumbling on for a while, so just because the club mentions the loan WINDOW, you get your knickers in a knot. Just wait and see what happens.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Every player has a price...

His would be rather large I suspect.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Thanks very much - I heard you the first time. This Vydra thing has been rumbling on for a while, so just because the club mentions the loan WINDOW, you get your knickers in a knot. Just wait and see what happens.

Thanks for the insult.

 

[Surf's Up]

Zamora, Hemed & Murphy are the players brought in to get us more goals than last season. Hitting double the amount of goals we scored (like the three promoted teams) should ensure a very healthy finishing spot. Hopefully the two attacking signings should help. I'm still a Marshall man as I believe the service he'll provide the likes of Hemed and Zamora could be the difference for us. Maybe we'll go back in with £3.5m on Tuesday then sulk off to the loan market if we get blown out again.

Blackburn certainly need the cash

 

[KZNSeagull]

Thanks for the insult.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Simply that the rules are that season long loans are done in the transfer window, and the loan window is just for 93 day loans.

The club are in the argus today talking about using the loan window, ie 93 day loans, if they don't get their transfer targets.

Doubt has been introduced. This is not good.

What do you expect them to say? If we don't get our targets by the end of the window then we won't bother strengthening at all until January? I'd rather we signed someone unitl the 11th of December (even if we sign them on the 1st day of the loan window) than not at all.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

What do you expect them to say? If we don't get our targets by the end of the window then we won't bother strengthening at all until January? I'd rather we signed someone unitl the 11th of December (even if we sign them on the 1st day of the loan window) than not at all.

I'd rather they didn't introduce doubt before the transfer window has actually shut. Plenty of time to assess the squad and talk about the loan window from then onwards.

 

[Finchley Seagull]

I'd rather they didn't introduce doubt before the transfer window has actually shut. Plenty of time to assess the squad and talk about the loan window from then onwards.

Seriously the club can't win. Why not just let the club get on with it and not read something into every comment that comes from the club? Ideally all our business will be sorted by Tuesday but there's a chance that it won't. In that situation, we will obviously look to the loan window.

 

[Machiavelli]

I think the club will make one big signing before the window shuts that will break our transfer record. Anyone agree?

I'm not convinced that we'll break our transfer record but, given the excellence of the transfer policy this window, my positivity is pointing to probably two excellent signings (which might be season-long loans).

 

[Icy Gull]

At least it would seem the club doesn't need 6 loanees.

Exactly. I was really underwhelmed by just about everything last season. Even if we do end up with a couple of loans I don't think that we can doubt the club's intent this season, even if it goes tits up again.

Love it if we broke the transfer record but I am pretty happy with the business done so far anyway so am quite relaxed about it. We do need some more firepower but if it has to be via the loan system so be it. The core of the team is OURS this season, that is important imo.

 

[Machiavelli]

I'd rather they didn't introduce doubt before the transfer window has actually shut. Plenty of time to assess the squad and talk about the loan window from then onwards.

I'm going to join in with many on this thread. By common consent, we're two -- or, if not, one -- player short of our requirements with more than four days to go before the transfer window shuts. We probably agree that permanent signings are better than loans, and that season-long loans are better than 3 or 1 month ones. It looks as though the club are looking to make permanent signings (Marshall, Manu, and, no doubt others from the now obligatory left field), season-long loan signings (Vydra, Tex). If they don't come off, they don't and in that situation, we'll look for shorter term loans, perhaps with the view to turning them into permanent.

The situation is fine in my book. Transfer policy over the summer has been far better than any of us could have anticipated, and there's also a strategic, long-term element to it too. It's a long way off from last year's panic, short-term deluge of loans.

 

[piersa]

I'm not convinced that we'll break our transfer record but, given the excellence of the transfer policy this window, my positivity is pointing to probably two excellent signings (which might be season-long loans).

You are more likely to be right than me. I just get the feeling from what has been in the press in the last few weeks that something big is on the way.

 

[Easy 10]

Love it if we broke the transfer record but I am pretty happy with the business done so far anyway so am quite relaxed about it. We do need some more firepower but if it has to be via the loan system so be it. The core of the team is OURS this season, that is important imo.

Very much this.

12 months ago, we were reliant on getting some loans in to plug numerous gaps and deficiencies in the squad just to put a team out. This time round, we've managed pretty well thus far without having a single loan player on the books. Anyone we bring in now will be to supplement what we already have, to give us something different. We certainly won't be in the ridiculous situation of having 5 or 6 players in on loan, which led to that farcical nadir when we couldn't even fit them all in the matchday squad (along with that baffling Al Habsi fiasco).

We're still a little light in a couple of areas. I'd like to see a striker with pace brought in, as that's still something we're lacking. But other than that, I think anyone else we bring in on loan will be a bonus, not a requirement out of desperation like last year.

 

[Da Man Clay]

I'd rather they didn't introduce doubt before the transfer window has actually shut. Plenty of time to assess the squad and talk about the loan window from then onwards.

It's no doubt just a reply from a jouranalists question. The club have done exceptionally well this transfer window with the 4 first team players we've signed on top of a couple of very decent back-ups without losing anyone we haven't wanted to. Even if we don't manage another signing before the window shuts we've had a great window. We actually have something pretty close to a play-off team now.