Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread

[BWFC_Insane]

Just doesn’t feel like an Evatt signing. A different manager more experienced maybe might feel like they could turn a player round. Evatt I think needs players at a much higher level.

[GhostoftheBok]

Have they changed the registration rules for this season?

If not we are too close to the cap to be picking up overage projects. If we leave out Matheson and Khumbeni we're at 20 of 22.

If the cap has risen to 25 to match the Championship then someone like Camara might make a bit of sense, but if the cap is the same then McAtee and Armstrong (just because they've been named in the press) would be our limit. The rest would need to be U21s, unless we'd decided not to register someone due to injury or we knew we were selling.

I was assuming that's why Dembele was so attractive to us. He doesn't need to be registered this season.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Have they changed the registration rules for this season?

If they have, I haven't heard - but then, I haven't been listening...

Nothing mentioned in the post-AGM announcement of regulation changes...
https://www.efl.com/news/2024/june/07/e ... mmer-2024/

[boltonboris]

Just doesn’t feel like an Evatt signing.

Dunno. Historic injury problems sounds right up our street!!

[GhostoftheBok]

Evatt says we have made progress on one signing and hope to have at least one done this week.

The remaining ones look like a long wait.

Sounds like he's now being public with the position espoused on Friday, which is good. Firms things up.

[Mar]

Have they changed the registration rules for this season?

If not we are too close to the cap to be picking up overage projects. If we leave out Matheson and Khumbeni we're at 20 of 22.

If the cap has risen to 25 to match the Championship then someone like Camara might make a bit of sense, but if the cap is the same then McAtee and Armstrong (just because they've been named in the press) would be our limit. The rest would need to be U21s, unless we'd decided not to register someone due to injury or we knew we were selling.

I was assuming that's why Dembele was so attractive to us. He doesn't need to be registered this season.

I'd be a little bit gobsmacked if we're going for McAtee ahead of other, more relevant positions. Sure McAtee looks like he'd be a good signing, but is he what we need? Similarly Camara would be a strange one given the numbers we've got in other positions.

At this point, I think a backup LB / RB would be the go-to signing, even if its not valid competition for Williams. We're short on numbers and I suspect we'll get overrun if we end up having to play Conway there. It's like being hamstrung going into the first game of the season.

Maybe that's the plan and we're looking for decent signings that come after the first game.

Can we afford to go into the first few games of the season with a weakened squad? Leyton Orient (11th), Wrexham (newly promoted), Charlton (16th), Exeter (13th). Not exactly high flying competition so unless something has rapidly changed we should be competitive.

Trouble is, these are the games we should be winning in order to get promoted, and the further behind we need to be, the more likely we are to drop points in these games that will make the difference come the end of the season.

[officer_dibble]

Does pay as you play actually exist?

[GhostoftheBok]

I'd be a little bit gobsmacked if we're going for McAtee ahead of other, more relevant positions. Sure McAtee looks like he'd be a good signing, but is he what we need? Similarly Camara would be a strange one given the numbers we've got in other positions.

At this point, I think a backup LB / RB would be the go-to signing, even if its not valid competition for Williams. We're short on numbers and I suspect we'll get overrun if we end up having to play Conway there. It's like being hamstrung going into the first game of the season.

Maybe that's the plan and we're looking for decent signings that come after the first game.

Can we afford to go into the first few games of the season with a weakened squad? Leyton Orient (11th), Wrexham (newly promoted), Charlton (16th), Exeter (13th). Not exactly high flying competition so unless something has rapidly changed we should be competitive.

Trouble is, these are the games we should be winning in order to get promoted, and the further behind we need to be, the more likely we are to drop points in these games that will make the difference come the end of the season.

Like I said the other day, people at the club were confident on Friday night that we'd get the wingback issue sorted. With the noises tonight it looks like that might happen this week.

The Friday stuff was a bit more vague (very confident we'd got *something* sorted and strongly believing they'd be loaning Conway out by the end of the window), but Iles is now fairly heavily hinting that we expect a wingback in shortly.

McAtee is an interesting one, but he makes a lot of sense. He can play 9 or 10 and he's creative. He's athletic, tall and strong. He looks like a Championship player in his physique and we need that.

The mix of players we've heard is spot on, I think. Creativity in all areas. Goals, goals, goals.

If the one that's kicked on is the loan then that's mostly like your LWB. Maybe that'd calm a few down and give us an idea of what's going on.

[Worthy4England]

I ok with goals, goals, goals as long as they come in the right matches and it doesn't involve us shipping shitloads at the other end, to a point where it damages our chances

[GhostoftheBok]

I ok with goals, goals, goals as long as they come in the right matches and it doesn't involve us shipping shitloads at the other end, to a point where it damages our chances

We need to be ship fewer goals. No doubt about that.

We've essentially got two new centre backs in Johnston and Forino.

We know we want two new wingbacks.

We need to be smarter tactically, but 4 new defensive options hopefully won't hurt.

[Worthy4England]

I ok with goals, goals, goals as long as they come in the right matches and it doesn't involve us shipping shitloads at the other end, to a point where it damages our chances

We need to be ship fewer goals. No doubt about that.

We've essentially got two new centre backs in Johnston and Forino.

We know we want two new wingbacks.

We need to be smarter tactically, but 4 new defensive options hopefully won't hurt.

As DSB noted, the season prior we were somewhere in the mid-30's with GJ being the notable absentee, that feels like it's a combo that might be at least as much hiw we play, as who we've got...

[boltonboris]

Does pay as you play actually exist?

Nope

[Bertie Wooster]

Szabolcs Schon

[GhostoftheBok]

Szabolcs Schon

Gesundheit again.

[jmjhb]

We do love a foreigner with alliterative names. Let's hope he's more Jussi Jaaskelainen than Gaetano Giallianza or Kostas Kostantinidis

[officer_dibble]

We do love a foreigner with alliterative names. Let's hope he's more Jussi Jaaskelainen than Gaetano Giallianza or Kostas Kostantinidis

I’ll raise you a Djibril Diawara

[GhostoftheBok]

The Schon link seems to make a lot of sense.

Good age for resale value, international caps, Ajax background and has had no issue settling in different countries. Also fluent in the language.

Can't say I know much about him, but looks the sort.

[GhostoftheBok]

Hungarian press is reporting Schon deal is agreed. We beat Darmstadt to his signature. Long term contract.

[GhostoftheBok]

I'm having a productive morning painting and watching Schon play for Fehervar as an orthodox left back.

It's been instructive. He gets up and down the pitch effortlessly and without tiring. Has a trick and a turn of pace. He's made 4 very good chances in the games I've watched with a mix of balls into the box.

Defensively he seems to understand the job. Not exactly Stuart Pierce, but his positioning looks decent and he closes down at the right times. He's made some errors, but given what people were saying about him I'm more relaxed about it having watched him play. Certainly not just a flighty winger with no defending in him.

It's only 3 games thus far, but he can play a bit.

If the reports from Hungary are true he could be fun.

[boltonboris]

Seen this lad play a number of times and I must say, I'm lying and I have never heard of him