January-

[GoldWithFalmer]

Assuming a new manager is in place by this Monday,it's going to be quite a January...

Really am quite excited but also worried perhaps in equal measure...

Feels really quite weird...a strange scenario awaits.

 

[AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit]

Assuming a new manager is in place by this Monday,it's going to be quite a January...

Really am quite excited but also worried perhaps in equal measure...

Feels really quite weird...a strange scenario awaits.

 

[clippedgull]

Assuming a new manager is in place by this Monday,it's going to be quite a January...

Really am quite excited but also worried perhaps in equal measure...

Feels really quite weird...a strange scenario awaits.

Hopefully it will be an eventful one!

 

[severnside gull]

My biggest concern is results between now and the last day of January before any signings are made

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Looking forward to January. Some tasty games ahead both home and away.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

My biggest concern is results between now and the last day of January before any signings are made

Would you care to expand? Are you perhaps saying a few wins could be percieved as a lesser need for investment?

 

[Dave the OAP]

........sick and tired, you've been hanging on me.

 

[HantsSeagull]

i am more worried about who we are going to appoint - i.e. Hughton

 

[severnside gull]

Would you care to expand? Are you perhaps saying a few wins could be percieved as a lesser need for investment?

No. I'm guessing that the new manager will get a bumper (for us) war chest and has maybe 2 weeks to assess the squad and say who can go; who should go; what type of player we need and - (reportedly) for the first time in two years - say who precisely he wants. My concern is that the usual form is for the transfer window to be quiet as a graveyard until the final few hours when it becomes suddenly manic. We have 2 games between now and the window opening then a further 4 league games up to the window closing.......six matches closer to the end of the season before new players even begin to get "bedding-in" time. It's going to be a close call in the relegation battle even if the new gaffer makes all the right calls on players and tactics. Get any of those decisions wrong and it could already be too late!

Not wishing to be overly negative but under Hyypia some decisions had already been made on squad changes. If they were made early and worked reasonably positively our chances of escape were probably marginally higher than they are now.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

No. I'm guessing that the new manager will get a bumper (for us) war chest and has maybe 2 weeks to assess the squad and say who can go; who should go; what type of player we need and - (reportedly) for the first time in two years - say who precisely he wants. My concern is that the usual form is for the transfer window to be quiet as a graveyard until the final few hours when it becomes suddenly manic. We have 2 games between now and the window opening then a further 4 league games up to the window closing.......six matches closer to the end of the season before new players even begin to get "bedding-in" time. It's going to be a close call in the relegation battle even if the new gaffer makes all the right calls on players and tactics. Get any of those decisions wrong and it could already be too late!

Not wishing to be overly negative but under Hyypia some decisions had already been made on squad changes. If they were made early and worked reasonably positively our chances of escape were probably marginally higher than they are now.

Let's hope it's not too late.

 

[scooter1]

Depending on who gets the managers job will fully depend on what we need to spend in Jan. If we can hang onto Bent until the end of the season then in reality we only need a decent creative midfielder. In Bent, Baldock and Colunga we have players who can score. We have a good enough back 5 out of our permanent players and J. Bennett. If we can get some form from Holla and Ince, then with March/Lua/McCourt and AN other we have the players to take us up the table. However, the new boss needs to get the best out of what we currently have as well

 

[dazzer6666]

Depending on who gets the managers job will fully depend on what we need to spend in Jan. If we can hang onto Bent until the end of the season then in reality we only need a decent creative midfielder. In Bent, Baldock and Colunga we have players who can score. We have a good enough back 5 out of our permanent players and J. Bennett. If we can get some form from Holla and Ince, then with March/Lua/McCourt and AN other we have the players to take us up the table. However, the new boss needs to get the best out of what we currently have as well

Yup, this.....

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

If Tony spends big in January, which I believe he will, we'll have to get enough decent players in so that if there's any embago on us for breaking FFP down the line, then we have the players in up front.

Of course with the 10 million for Leo and Buckley, then we possibly have a lot of FFP spending still available.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

i am more worried about who we are going to appoint - i.e. Hughton

Hughton't say. Pulis let it be Tony, although many on here Sherwood like Tim as our next manager.

 

[GT49er]

I don't know whether Tony will spend big in January or not. While Sami was here, I thought he would, to give Sami a(nother) chance. The new man might just be expected to make the most of what he's got for this season, hopefully pulling away from the relegation zone, and then rebuild in the summer.

The real problem, IMHO, will not so much lie in getting new players in as getting rid of those that we don't want.

 

[crookie]

I don't know whether Tony will spend big in January or not. While Sami was here, I thought he would, to give Sami a(nother) chance. The new man might just be expected to make the most of what he's got for this season, hopefully pulling away from the relegation zone, and then rebuild in the summer.

The real problem, IMHO, will not so much lie in getting new players in as getting rid of those that we don't want.

Can't see how he can sell the job with that line. "Hyppia would have had money to spend but you're not, keep us up with the same squad who have got us into the bottom 3, you can have money to spend in the summer if you do so". Who is going to come here with no money to spend and half the team loanees, with the team 4 points from safety ?

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Can't see how he can sell the job with that line. "Hyppia would have had money to spend but you're not, keep us up with the same squad who have got us into the bottom 3, you can have money to spend in the summer if you do so". Who is going to come here with no money to spend and half the team loanees, with the team 4 points from safety ?

Nathan Jones.

 

[wadhurstseagull]

.....you make me sad with your eyes.....