Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread

[GhostoftheBok]

What I will say is that if we signed players like Liam Walsh and then Evatt complained about injuries I'd be tempted to have him sectioned.

[officer_dibble]

Yeah he sounds ideal tbf

[GhostoftheBok]

Yeah he sounds ideal tbf

Less pressure on the Lostock pitches if none of the lads can train.

[officer_dibble]

Keeps the medical staff in work!

[GhostoftheBok]

Keeps the medical staff in work!

So many positives.

He's also about the same size as my 11-year-old. So I can buy him one of the auction shirts he can actually wear.

[officer_dibble]

He’s another midget you say! We could pick a team of Oompa Loompas and dress santos up as Willy wonka.

[GhostoftheBok]

He’s another midget you say! We could pick a team of Oompa Loompas and dress santos up as Willy wonka.

Couple of inches shorter than Sheehan, I'd imagine.

[jmjhb]

Meanwhile we haven't even produced a retained list. Hope this period of soul-searching doesn't delay everything for too long.

To be fair, we get allocated additional time to publish it. Which is only right considering we didn't know which league we'd be in until Saturday tea time.

True, but had we won, everyone could have rightly come down on me being a miserable bastard

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Evatt confirms what we knew really: “It is going to be difficult to sign Paris now we are stuck in League One. That is how it is. We are thankful for him, thankful for what he has achieved this season, and we wish him well.”

[officer_dibble]

I am guessing that’s from Saturday post match - I don’t think he’s popped up and done an interview since?

[GhostoftheBok]

I am guessing that’s from Saturday post match - I don’t think he’s popped up and done an interview since?

Marc saving quotes to use for the next couple of weeks, you'd imagine.

[jimbo]

Confirmed that Bod, Jerome and Declan John have been released.

[GhostoftheBok]

The blessed Retained List, in all her glory...

https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/retained-list-confirmed

[GhostoftheBok]

Confirmed that Bod, Jerome and Declan John have been released.

Interesting that Jerome is just leaving. No other role announced.

[GhostoftheBok]

Also interesting is Luke Matheson on the senior retained list, with Evatt having said he will play a part next season in previous pressers.

Would require a squad place.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Also interesting is Luke Matheson on the senior retained list, with Evatt having said he will play a part next season in previous pressers.

Would require a squad place.

Same applies to Conor Carty, so we’ll see.

Oxford will have to announce theirs today too.

[TANGODANCER]

Confirmed that Bod, Jerome and Declan John have been released.

M

Mistake number one Mr Evatt........in my humble opinion of course.

[GhostoftheBok]

Same applies to Conor Carty, so we’ll see.

I wrote a whole thing and deleted it for being a bit self-indulgent, but the basic gist was that we are likely to have budget issues this season after the fan loan splurge and may therefore need to patch the squad up and make do.

Cogley was in the TotY, so Matheson as back-up may be the play. Carty as 5th striker might be too.

I don't personally think either is ready, from what I've seen; but if we are broke this time around we are broke.

Cogley starting almost every game, Matheson getting a go and Jones as cover is a functional squad. Not sure either of them (the promoted Bs) starts in any other League One team, though.

Collins, Dion, Vic, Dan and Carty (with CMG as cover) is also functional.

[BWFC_Insane]

Confirmed that Bod, Jerome and Declan John have been released.

M

Mistake number one Mr Evatt........in my humble opinion of course.

Which is the mistake? I can’t see any argument for keeping any of the three. I really liked BOD as a player, but he’s always injured, takes an age to get going when he is fit, and then misses a lot of chances nowadays.

[TANGODANCER]

What better players to have on the bench than DBV and Jerome? Surely both had one more season in them? With Ogbeta and Maghoma in the balance, what a great way to start building a squad by removing the foundations? Badly done I.E..I'm hesitant about in/out now.