Slade Looks to Loan Market

[northampton_seagull]

Albion are planning another raid on the loan market.

At least one and possibly two more temporary signings are likely, to add to the captures of Arsenal right-back Gavin Hoyte and Nottingham Forest midfielders Arron Davies and Matt Thornhill.

The main areas of concern are thought to be the centre of defence and the centre of the park as the Seagulls try to repair their poor start to the season.

Manager Russell Slade said: “If we can find maybe one or two that could help us along the way, that enhances the squad and makes it that little bit more resilient, then we will keep looking.”

Slade is pleased with the way the players have reacted in training to last Saturday's fifth home defeat out of seven by Oldham and believes they are ready to dig themselves out of trouble, starting against Hartlepool at Withdean today.

“The attitude has been absolutely first class,” he said. “The response is just the sort of response you want.

“They have worked exceptionally hard all week and you cannot ask for any more than that.

“You can't do more than do your best and I think that is what everybody has done at the club this week.

“I saw the Reading game on Monday night and thought they played some terrific football between the two boxes at times but failed to take their chances and just looked slightly vulnerable in their own box.

“Leicester really robbed them of a vital win. I just felt for the manager (Brendan Rogers) and thought it is not unlike our situation over recent weeks, particularly at home, but we are strong mentally and we are up for the fight.”

Is this season just replicating last season?

 

[Don Quixote]

Oh dear.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The quotes from Slade worry me. He just seems so satisfied with SHIT. He always seems happy with the attitude, happy with the effort, everything is hunky dory. He just seems a manager easily mugged off and has set a very low bar as to what is acceptable for the players. No doubt if we lose today it will be the ref's fault or bad luck or we should have , we could have, if this happened, if that happened, we will put it right on the training ground next week.

I am sorry the bloke has to go.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

“The attitude has been absolutely first class,” he said. “The response is just the sort of response you want.

“They have worked exceptionally hard all week and you cannot ask for any more than that.

“You can't do more than do your best and I think that is what everybody has done at the club this week.

We will see this afternoon Russell.

 

[timbha]

not sure why he's diverted the article to the Reading/Leicester match - is he saying Reading aren't mentally strong? so what?

 

[perth seagull]

He had the whole preseason to build his own team and now has to hope that new loan signings can save his Albion career. It sounds like Slade doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to building a competitive squad. Let's hope this time he gets lucky with his new picks and things work out for us. But as the OP said, this is like deja vu with Micky Adams last season.

 

[timbha]

He had the whole preseason to build his own team and now has to hope that new loan signings can save his Albion career. It sounds like Slade doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to building a competitive squad. Let's hope this time he gets lucky with his new picks and things work out for us. But as the OP said, this is like deja vu with Micky Adams last season.

not only did he have the whole of pre season, he also had the last few months of last season to decide who he should keep/release and what gaps needed to be filled, eg both full backs.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Not all signings work out. Not all targets are purchased or available.

 

[timbha]

Not all signings work out. Not all targets are purchased or available.

.....not all teams are struggling near the foot of League 1.

 

[KZNSeagull]

“The attitude has been absolutely first class,” he said. “The response is just the sort of response you want.

“They have worked exceptionally hard all week and you cannot ask for any more than that.

“You can't do more than do your best and I think that is what everybody has done at the club this week.

We will see this afternoon Russell.

I dont usually comment on threads like this as I am too far away to know what is going on on the pitch, but I am interested to know quite what else you would have expected him to say??

His quotes about the attitude in training etc are what I would expect to hear and he is right - people can only try their best. The fact that certain players may not be good enough is a different matter entirely, hence the reason he wants to take on some loans to improve matters.

Would you have been happier if he had said "the attitude is rubbish, the players dont want to train and they are inept. We are going to lose badly on saturday and I would not bother going to the match if I had to pay because it will be shite."?

 

[northampton_seagull]

"the attitude is rubbish, the players dont want to train and they are inept. We are going to lose badly on saturday and I would not bother going to the match if I had to pay because it will be shite."?

I dont think he has to. I think its expected now

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Albion are planning another raid on the loan market.

At least one and possibly two more temporary signings are likely, to add to the captures of Arsenal right-back Gavin Hoyte and Nottingham Forest midfielders Arron Davies and Matt Thornhill.

The main areas of concern are thought to be the centre of defence and the centre of the park as the Seagulls try to repair their poor start to the season.

Not wrong there then.

 

[Gav1901]

Loan Odejayi

 

[jordanseagull]

I am confused. I believe we should be looking to ship out all of our players ONTO the loan market....

Bar Bennett, Dicker, Crofts, Forster..

 

[herecomesaregular]

The quotes from Slade worry me. He just seems so satisfied with SHIT. He always seems happy with the attitude, happy with the effort, everything is hunky dory. He just seems a manager easily mugged off and has set a very low bar as to what is acceptable for the players. No doubt if we lose today it will be the ref's fault or bad luck or we should have , we could have, if this happened, if that happened, we will put it right on the training ground next week.

I am sorry the bloke has to go.

yes, but you admitted yourself today that you have only seen the team play ONCE this season ! it makes a mockery of your oh so strong opinions. like a film buff saying Apocalypse Now is SHIT but never having actually seen it (i have and it is shit).

 

[Mendoza]

Have we not learned from last season. We signed loads of loan players who didnt have their hearts 100% committed to the cause. We couldnt play them every week, and the team chopped and changed

The result we couldnt put points on the board.

Inconisstency has already happened this season with injuries and suspensions, so why further the problem with loanee players. Like dropping a tin of alphabetti spaghetti, it could spell disaster

 

[BensGrandad]

Whilst I agree that last season we overdid the loan market but what other option do we have at the moment?

It is obvious that we need surgery in the defence and to bring some experience in so I have suggested on other threads that we approach Pompey for Linvoy Primus. Much as Dicker and Croft are doing so so they are too similar in their play so we need a more attacking midfielder like when we loaned Steve Sidwell.