The Promotion Commotion Transfer Thread 2017

[BWFC_Insane]

Looks like that is it. Leaves us very short in midfield. Hopefully we can get out of embargo and pick up a free transfer or two. Still quality is lacking in this squad as it stands sadly.

Quality? What did you really expect given our situation? Get Wheater, Sammi and Vela back in the side plus the signings and loanees and we'll be as good as we could feasibly expect. I feel sorry for Parky trying to do his best against all the odds.

I guess there was hope we could have done more having resolved the ownership situation yesterday. But clearly that happened too late to be meaningful. Ken must now shift the embargo within the next few days so we can sign a couple of the best free transfers left.

[Billbob]

Quite happy with the signing of Mr Noone I have always rated him. He definitely put a shift in, has Chris Taylor left then for the space. Once the injuries come back I will be even happier.

[twilight]

Have to hold my hands up and say I have not seen Noone play, or maybe I have and can't remember him. Please that they have signed someone who may improve/help the team, but I was secretly hoping they could sign a defensive midfielder, still hoping they can?

[BWFC_Insane]

Have to hold my hands up and say I have not seen Noone play, or maybe I have and can't remember him. Please that they have signed someone who may improve/help the team, but I was secretly hoping they could sign a defensive midfielder, still hoping they can?

They better had get the embargo shifted and snap up a couple of free transfers. Otherwise will be very underwhelming in terms of squad depth and quality.

Over to Ken.

[Harry Genshaw]

I know his name but wasn't aware he was a winger. Odd that Cardiff have let a wide man go and then replaced him with Liam Feeney. Hopefully it's a Warnock clash thing. He seems to be shipping out a few who have been at Cardiff a while

[BWFC_Insane]

I know his name but wasn't aware he was a winger. Odd that Cardiff have let a wide man go and then replaced him with Liam Feeney. Hopefully it's a Warnock clash thing. He seems to be shipping out a few who have been at Cardiff a while

Feeney is a good player. He'd get into our side, without a doubt.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Looks like that is it. Leaves us very short in midfield. Hopefully we can get out of embargo and pick up a free transfer or two. Still quality is lacking in this squad as it stands sadly.

Agreed, is Spearing the best free centre mid out there then?

Diagouraga has been released from Leeds. I remember him being a good defensive midfield for Brentford a couple of years ago. But yeah, for us at least, Spearing probably what we need...

Evidently it depends on cash and the player's willingness to come, but amongst the other unemployed defensive midfielders are Jan Kirchhoff (27, ex-Sunderland), Joe Ledley (30, ex-Palace), Youssouf Mulumbu (30, ex-WBA), ex-Gooner Mathieu Flamini (33), Karl Henry (34, ex-Wolves/QPR), ex-pies Hendry Thomas (32) and Wilson Palacios (33) plus dear old Nigel Reo-Coker (33).

More realistically but less excitingly, Nathan Doyle (30) was signed by Parky for Bradford in summer 2012 - “I think it's an outstanding signing for us, he's played most of his career at Championship level” – on a one-year deal, which was extended after he started 52 of Bradford’s 64 games that season, in a variety of positions including centre-back; he was an ever-present in the run to the League Cup final and helped them get promoted from tier four. In his second season he played 41 times but was released the following summer as Parky overhauled the squad; since then he’s been at Luton, who he left in January, so the Championship would be a step back up (he’s played 110 games in the top two tiers).

There’s also Isaiah Osbourne (29), the former Villa midfielder who’s played 88 times in the top two divisions – including for Forest, Boro and Blackpool in the Champo. More recently he’s been in the third tier with Scunny and Walsall, but at 6ft 2in he’s also 3in taller than Doyle, if height’s your thing.

Even more realistically, there’s Joey O’Brien. He’s already been training with the club and is still only 31.

Jay fits the profile best in that he knows the club and staff, but also that his return would be a tangible good-news story which would hopefully have a visceral effect lifting the place. Get him (+1) tidying up in a well-organised 4-2-3-1 with a rotating cast of wide creators (Sameobi, Postman, Noone, Buckley) and we might have a chance.

[BWFC_Insane]

Reading Ken's latest piece on the official site and Lee Anderson's tweets this morning, doesn't sound like we will be signing anymore players imminently. Lee seems to rule out Spearing.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Here's the deals (excluding the Academy kids without real first-team experience). Good window? Naughty window? I'd say not a bad one, considering; we still have one or two holes but given where we're at...

RELEASED (9): 
Lawrie Wilson, Reece Wabara, Lewis Buxton, Dean Moxey, Liam Trotter, Jay Spearing, Mark Davies, Tom Walker, Max Clayton 
TRANSFERRED OUT (2): 
Conor Wilkinson, Jamie Proctor
LOANEES RETURNED (4): 
Tom Thorpe, James Henry, Chris Long, Viv Solomon-Otabor

RE-SIGNED (8):
David Wheater, Dorian Dervite, Jem Karacan, Filipe Morais, Sammy Ameobi (all 1 yr);
Andrew Taylor, Adam Le Fondre, Gary Madine (all 2 yrs)
NEW SIGNINGS (4):
Mark Little, Stephen Darby, Will Buckley, Craig Noone (all 2-yr)
LOANED IN (4):
Adam Armstrong, Reece Burke, Josh Cullen, Antonee Robinson

[Harry Genshaw]

I know his name but wasn't aware he was a winger. Odd that Cardiff have let a wide man go and then replaced him with Liam Feeney. Hopefully it's a Warnock clash thing. He seems to be shipping out a few who have been at Cardiff a while

Feeney is a good player. He'd get into our side, without a doubt.

I liked Feeney but I've no idea whether he's still performing to the level he was when he was last with us. He wasn't anything special in his final season but then neither was anybody else. It may perhaps temper some folks expectations of Noone, if a canny manager like Warnock is happy to let him go and replace him with Feeney

[BWFC_Insane]

I know his name but wasn't aware he was a winger. Odd that Cardiff have let a wide man go and then replaced him with Liam Feeney. Hopefully it's a Warnock clash thing. He seems to be shipping out a few who have been at Cardiff a while

Feeney is a good player. He'd get into our side, without a doubt.

I liked Feeney but I've no idea whether he's still performing to the level he was when he was last with us. He wasn't anything special in his final season but then neither was anybody else. It may perhaps temper some folks expectations of Noone, if a canny manager like Warnock is happy to let him go and replace him with Feeney

Indeed. As ever when a player signs (if they've scored against us once or twice this seems particularly true) twitter is fawning over him. However, I can't remember ever seeing a Cardiff game and him standing out particularly to me. Not that I've watched Cardiff much. But say when they had that Peter Whittingham I always thought he stood out and looked a player in his day. But Noone? Have no idea.

I feel yesterday was a bit underwhelming considering our major midfield weakness was totally unaddressed. At least Chungy would have been a good Vela replacement. But as it stands we've signed a winger who, as you say has been replaced by Feeney. If we're playing 4-2-3-1 I'm not sure who plays the Vela role. Don't think anyone we've got suits that. At all. It'll probably be Ameobi but I really don't want him there.

[Bruce Rioja]

Here's the deals (excluding the Academy kids without real first-team experience). Good window? Naughty window? I'd say not a bad one, considering; we still have one or two holes but given where we're at...

RELEASED (9): 
Lawrie Wilson, Reece Wabara, Lewis Buxton, Dean Moxey, Liam Trotter, Jay Spearing, Mark Davies, Tom Walker, Max Clayton 
TRANSFERRED OUT (2): 
Conor Wilkinson, Jamie Proctor
LOANEES RETURNED (4): 
Tom Thorpe, James Henry, Chris Long, Viv Solomon-Otabor

RE-SIGNED (8):
David Wheater, Dorian Dervite, Jem Karacan, Filipe Morais, Sammy Ameobi (all 1 yr);
Andrew Taylor, Adam Le Fondre, Gary Madine (all 2 yrs)
NEW SIGNINGS (4):
Mark Little, Stephen Darby, Will Buckley, Craig Noone (all 2-yr)
LOANED IN (4):
Adam Armstrong, Reece Burke, Josh Cullen, Antonee Robinson

Cheers for that, DSB.

[Bijou Bob]

Boooooooooo! Booooooooooo! This was a feckin rubbish thread that left me with a tangible feeling of disappointment. No marquee signing, no world cup winners and no imposing 'beast of a man' midfielders. Instead, we now seem to have 13 wingers and #notafeckinsoul to play in the middle

Boooooooooooo! Bruce out!!

[LeverEnd]

Boooooooooo! Booooooooooo! This was a feckin rubbish thread that left me with a tangible feeling of disappointment. No marquee signing, no world cup winners and no imposing 'beast of a man' midfielders. Instead, we now seem to have 13 wingers and #notafeckinsoul to play in the middle

Boooooooooooo! Bruce out!!

Burn him!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Bruce out!!

For a Brexitian pay-off, no probs!

[Peter Thompson]

Julio Baptista is apparently in the hotel at the ground discussing terms and is expected to sign as a free agent....

[LeverEnd]

Julio Baptista is apparently in the hotel at the ground discussing terms and is expected to sign as a free agent....

Semi retiree desperation. We clearly are fcuked it seems.

[TANGODANCER]

Julio Baptista is apparently in the hotel at the ground discussing terms and is expected to sign as a free agent....

Semi retiree desperation. We clearly are fcuked it seems.

Are you mixing him up with John the Baptist?

[officer_dibble]

Seems legit; photo doing the rounds.

We need a midfield hard man... :-/

[BWFC_Insane]

If Baptista signs, nobody can convince me that is Parky's decision. No way on earth would Parky, from all we know about him, want a 36 year old Brazilian attacking midfield player in the situation we are in.

This has to be a Ken decision.