Conor Chaplin joins on deal to 2029

[honeybradger]

14 minutes ago, les-tah said:

Come on now, surely if we want Braybrooke, Page, alves etc to thrive you must see they need some experience around them.

 

im sure chaplin is on about 15/20k a week and Vesty 80k.

This is a gutting transfer from the perspective of those 3. At least one of them will struggle for playing time this season because of Chaplin coming in.

[brookfox]

Absolutely zero problem with his age tbh. We know we’ve got some good youngsters coming through and by all accounts he’s a good pro and influence. I’d rather the likes of Page learn from him than Winks.

[slymunn]

28 minutes ago, les-tah said:

Come on now, surely if we want Braybrooke, Page, alves etc to thrive you must see they need some experience around them.

 

im sure chaplin is on about 15/20k a week and Vesty 80k.

Even if Vesty signed the new contact on 80k, the two relegations would put him closer to 25/30k. I do think he will be gone by the end of the week too.

[GrobyLCFC31]

15 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

This is a gutting transfer from the perspective of those 3. At least one of them will struggle for playing time this season because of Chaplin coming in.

Competition for places, what most successful teams have -

It’s important that the young lads don’t think they can stay in the team regardless of performances, plus 50+ games this season we’ll need a squad 

[Tommy G]

If people think we can get out this league with a midfield 3 week in week out of Page Alves and Braybrook are deluded. 2 of the 3 have had serious injuries and all 3 are hugely inexperienced. 
 

I hope all 3 can get 20 starts each this season, and that would be a real result.

 

This is a great signing.

[em9999]

The best signing we could possibly get for free in my opinion 

 

Good work 

[HankMarvin]

1 hour ago, BKLFox said:

Man U just spent £36m god knows what on wages for Tielemans on a 5yr contract & he's 29 

And arguably got a bargain, because if he didn’t have that release he would’ve cost a lot more. Whilst his stock was at a all time high 

[MC Prussian]

1 hour ago, UniFox21 said:

3 year deal is quite a long time 

What do you consider the last five to ten years of slow, painful decline then? An era?

 

He's only 29. In case of bad performances or should it not work out, he could well be sold before the contract expires, see Winks.

Edited 13 hours ago by MC Prussian

[coolhandfox]

55 minutes ago, honeybradger said:

This is a gutting transfer from the perspective of those 3. At least one of them will struggle for playing time this season because of Chaplin coming in.

If we we sell Fatawu, after Mavididi, Alves is our most experienced player who can play wide, so likey to play there.

 

The under 21 have played in the JPT and consistently been pumped by League 1 and 2 sides.

 

We still need some senior players, we can't field a team of under 24s, as Chelsea have found out to their cost.

 

The issue is find the right ones and getting the right balance.

Edited 13 hours ago by coolhandfox

[Katy]

As long as he’s less of a twat than what we already have then he’ll do. I wonder what nickname social admin will give him 🤔

[stevostadium]

1 hour ago, BKLFox said:

Man U just spent £36m god knows what on wages for Tielemans on a 5yr contract & he's 29 

sad day for us quorn folk, as looks like the FA Cup winning hero be leaving the village 

[MC Prussian]

2 minutes ago, Katy said:

As long as he’s less of a twat than what we already have then he’ll do. I wonder what nickname social admin will give him 🤔

Chappers.

[ParkerPen]

cautiously optimistic about this

 

[stevostadium]

1 hour ago, honeybradger said:

This is a gutting transfer from the perspective of those 3. At least one of them will struggle for playing time this season because of Chaplin coming in.

It would be unfair to put them 3 in together in a L1 physical campaign.

Chaplain the perfect tonic to bring these through

Great signing

[ParkerPen]

1 hour ago, honeybradger said:

This is a gutting transfer from the perspective of those 3. At least one of them will struggle for playing time this season because of Chaplin coming in.

not sure if serious ?

[LCFCCKEANO]

One of those signings where we aren’t certain but if he’d signed for Wednesday there would be a 100 page thread about how it should’ve been us showing the ambition

[Terraloon]

1 hour ago, les-tah said:

At absolutely best case possible, If we had back to back promotions 2 out of the 3 years would be league 1 and championship. Surely when you put it like thats 3 years is absolutely fine given hes a very good championship player.

If he was a very good championship player he would be signing for a Championship club likey Portsmouth but he hasn’t that can mean just one of two things . First it could be he is on a very decent contract or more like

 he is at best a declining Championship player who really is a EFL 1 player

[The Doctor]

3 years is too long tbh, he's league one standard, but hopefully gets us out of this division and a fee of some sort next summer

[Scanchez]

I reckon he'll get Harry Wanks' number 8.

[Bert]

1 hour ago, ACF said:

Out of nowhere this one, quite unexpected.

 

Seriously though based on the farewell messages from Ipswich players and fans, he does seem to a be a genuinely good pro and changing room personality, but we heard this about Coady.

I don’t think Coady’s professionalism or personality can be questioned in all fairness. 

[boosmanana]

24 minutes ago, Katy said:

As long as he’s less of a twat than what we already have then he’ll do. I wonder what nickname social admin will give him 🤔

Conor

[ClaphamFox]

3 minutes ago, Scanchez said:

I reckon he'll get Harry Wanks' number 8.

That's been retired, apparently. 

[kenny]

3 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

That's been retired, apparently. 

For the past couple of seasons...

[Nick]

Insert Partridge shrugging meme here.

 

[Bert]

45 minutes ago, Katy said:

As long as he’s less of a twat than what we already have then he’ll do. I wonder what nickname social admin will give him 🤔

CHAPPERS!