Twitter Transfer Rumours

[Cropwellfox]

46 minutes ago, scinnell said:

Stick with the keepers we have now, we will have Mads and Jakub in the championship under a transfer embargo, with the former leaving in the summer

Mads will 100% leave before the end of June regardless of our division. If we are in EFL and they embargo us, we will still be able to sign out of contract players and 6 month loans to ‘staff up’ to a squad of 23. One glimmer of positivity in the policy we appear to have of discounting our u21s from playing a part this season is they won’t have the standing to count in our 23 man squad, so there’ll be plenty of room few new signings on frees and loans even if we are under embargo. Not ideal, but  would enable us to reinforce the squad to an extent. 

[lcfc_forever]

1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

But who is coming in to be primarily a number 2 that is going to be much better than Jakob or iversen? I highly doubt we’d get much of an upgrade. 

I think there is a bit of rose-tinted glasses with Iversen. 

 

He looked better as the comparison was Danny Ward but he was average as well towards the end of the 22/23 season - for example, he was very good vs. Everton but awful vs Fulham. In fact, the stats for expected goals conceded suggested during his time in goal he wasn't much better than Ward.

 

And remember Jakob is young and just coming back from a major injury. He's not played a huge amount of games, and the goalkeeping position is a huge one. If his form drops and Mads is still injured, we're screwed. 

Edited 15 January by lcfc_forever

[Tuna]

52 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Wut?

Would say he means Mads now and Jakub in the championship

[MPH]

1 hour ago, lcfc_forever said:

I think there is a bit of rose-tinted glasses with Iversen. 

 

He looked better as the comparison was Danny Ward but he was average as well towards the end of the 22/23 season - for example, he was very good vs. Everton but awful vs Fulham. In fact, the stats for expected goals conceded suggested during his time in goal he wasn't much better than Ward.

 

And remember Jakob is young and just coming back from a major injury. He's not played a huge amount of games, and the goalkeeping position is a huge one. If his form drops and Mads is still injured, we're screwed. 

 

how bad is that though for Ward? Someone literally steps off the treatment table straight back onto the pitch ahead of him..

[Mickyblueeyes]

8 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

how bad is that though for Ward? Someone literally steps off the treatment table straight back onto the pitch ahead of him..

To be honest I would’ve started Jacob over Ward when he was still on the treatment table!!

[Bordersfox]

13 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

To be honest I would’ve started Jacob over Ward when he was still on the treatment table!!

Tbh I would have started the treatment table over Ward.  Better positional sense, a real unit.  

[StanSP]

I'm not one for lazy journalism or shit links but anyone find it odd we're linked with very few players so far this window? 

[Mickyblueeyes]

14 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I'm not one for lazy journalism or shit links but anyone find it odd we're linked with very few players so far this window? 

I think the rumours around Rudkin's holiday were correct. He is now working on sales and will then look at signings. 

 

The two of them, Rudkin and Whelan, when presented with a cheque of £80m did not have forward plan. They made a bid, out of the blue for Nathan Ake once the sale was finalised. We did the same with Faes and Fofana. We do it every single time. The reports of new signings will increase once we manage to get one or two out the door - if we do. 

[MPH]

15 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I'm not one for lazy journalism or shit links but anyone find it odd we're linked with very few players so far this window? 

 

 No one is going to get a pay rise or a bumper new contract from their club if their agent links us to them! Club will probably laugh and say go for it properly ant and dec style..

[StanSP]

3 minutes ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

I think the rumours around Rudkin's holiday were correct. He is now working on sales and will then look at signings

I don't think fully correct considering he was giving evidence at the helicopter inquiry? 

[Dahnsouff]

22 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I'm not one for lazy journalism or shit links but anyone find it odd we're linked with very few players so far this window? 

Aren’t we usually low on rumours as a club?  Our seeming unwillingness to play the rumour game will only decrease their prevalence.

[-sodapop]

23 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Aren’t we usually low on rumours as a club?  Our seeming unwillingness to play the rumour game will only decrease their prevalence.

Almost all of our rumours come from the other team or from journalists who are linked with the region we're buying/selling in.

[Mickyblueeyes]

58 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I don't think fully correct considering he was giving evidence at the helicopter inquiry? 

That was this week right ? Virtual silence for two weeks. We’ve had more (albeit outgoing) rumours these 4 days then we had for two weeks prior. I have no idea if we was on holiday and no problem if he does but surely someone covers, it’s like we decided 13th Jan is the day to start

[Mickyblueeyes]

Going into the last 2 weeks of Jan and still no viable link to a centre back. 

[Mr.Bingles]

If I was RVN I’d be getting seriously pissed off with this shit show. He’d have every right to walk if Rudkin and his team fail to sign any more players. 

 

he really isn’t being set up for success. Actively helped to fail by the looks of it so far. 

[fox_favourite]

43 minutes ago, Mr.Bingles said:

If I was RVN I’d be getting seriously pissed off with this shit show. He’d have every right to walk if Rudkin and his team fail to sign any more players. 

 

he really isn’t being set up for success. Actively helped to fail by the looks of it so far. 

Not backed with your own staff, bought one player for £2m for a team that needs quality. He has not been given a fair chance. It must be so frustrating. We need better coaches, especially a defensive one. 

 

We're in the middle of Jan, and the rumours have dried up. The club are so frustrating, we can see the lies that are being fed through.

Edited 17 January by fox_favourite

[SecretPro]

Kind of get the feeling they want Ruud to fail so they can say "Look, you wanted rid of Cooper, we did it and look how it's turned out". 

[Grebfromgrebland]

Think we're going to end the window weaker than when it started

[Dahnsouff]

22 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

Kind of get the feeling they want Ruud to fail so they can say "Look, you wanted rid of Cooper, we did it and look how it's turned out". 

Why on Earth would they want that? They lose millions....

[FLAN]

43 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Why on Earth would they want that? They lose millions....

Because 🎶 he don’t care about me 🎶 

[Dahnsouff]

58 minutes ago, FLAN said:

Because 🎶 he don’t care about me 🎶 

But that is because 🎶 we don`t talk anymore 🎶 

[BKLFox]

Haven’t most of our best signings come out the blue, what is the constant need for rumours or links, all that happens anyway is we get 100 pages on how the mighty have fallen being linked to ‘x’ & we are joke, & that player is shite, & & &

 

Ruud has said they are looking & I’m happy to take that at face value, if it turns out to be bullsh!t then he’ll get the backlash when the window shuts I’d imagine.

[Happy Fox]

11 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Haven’t most of our best signings come out the blue, what is the constant need for rumours or links, all that happens anyway is we get 100 pages on how the mighty have fallen being linked to ‘x’ & we are joke, & that player is shite, & & &

 

Ruud has said they are looking & I’m happy to take that at face value, if it turns out to be bullsh!t then he’ll get the backlash when the window shuts I’d imagine.

If Rudkin and Top don’t deliver then he will walk, and that means we are championship bound it’s absolutely crucial we bring in reinforcements in this window.

[Dahnsouff]

5 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Haven’t most of our best signings come out the blue, what is the constant need for rumours or links, all that happens anyway is we get 100 pages on how the mighty have fallen being linked to ‘x’ & we are joke, & that player is shite, & & &

 

Ruud has said they are looking & I’m happy to take that at face value, if it turns out to be bullsh!t then he’ll get the backlash when the window shuts I’d imagine.

Yes, even Woyo was not known far ahead. Its the way we choose to operate, but some want the drama of some gobshite 'spilling' the exclusive.

[surrifox]

10 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Haven’t most of our best signings come out the blue, what is the constant need for rumours or links, all that happens anyway is we get 100 pages on how the mighty have fallen being linked to ‘x’ & we are joke, & that player is shite, & & &

 

Ruud has said they are looking & I’m happy to take that at face value, if it turns out to be bullsh!t then he’ll get the backlash when the window shuts I’d imagine.

Yes they have but that’s not how the process seems to work now . Agents have nothing to lose by leaking details of possible deals and it’s unlikely that any strictures on confidentiality would be respected . If we are at the “ looking” stage , given the time taken to get an uncontested signing like WC in the door nothing much is happening until ten minutes to cut off time on deadline day