Now and again I like to watch highlights of games from last season especially with club football in close season.
Why shouldn’t I as it was a promotion winning season, unbelievably successful and some of those results we pulled off during all stages of the season were amazing.
But at the same time you have to sit through the horror of watching players who were heroes to us only a short while ago but have been forced out by our friend.
It’s a bloody hard watch knowing that those players have gone now.
I think only the start of the season will help me start to forget what’s happened but then we’ve got the joy of seeing some of them return wearing opposition kits soon.
Whoopee fckn do.
Great that you’re back Preston but there’s a lot of repair work to be done from your side.
I notice that Cameron Humphreys and Jordan Hugill at Rotherham have decided to stay at the club, rather than exercise buyout clauses in their contracts following bids from Championship clubs.
Presumably is this the only way a player can stay at the club if another club bids the buyout amount or higher?
Looking at the stats we have lost 6 out of our 7 top goal scorers from last season, and 6 out of 7 of our most creative players (assists) being the same 7 players.
Our remaining players from last year scored 18 of 85 scored and created 15 goals out a total of 60 assists.
Malone scored 4 goals last year (1 more than Nadesan and Nicholls) and 0 assists. Hepburn-Murphy scored 6 with 1 assist. Barker scored 2, Flint 1, and Papadopoulos 3 (assists not recorded for this level).
We therefore seem to need a further 2 or 3 Strikers and a couple of creative midfielders to make up this big difference in attacking capability.
We obviously also need a keeper comparable or better to Addai, and another couple of good defenders. None of our signings came from teams that did well last year. Only Scott Malone came from a team that was not in the bottom nine, and Gillingham finished 12th.
Looking at the stats we have lost 6 out of our 7 top goal scorers from last season, and 6 out of 7 of our most creative players (assists) being the same 7 players.
Our remaining players from last year scored 18 of 85 scored and created 15 goals out a total of 60 assists.
Malone scored 4 goals last year (1 more than Nadesan and Nicholls) and 0 assists. Hepburn-Murphy scored 6 with 1 assist. Barker scored 2, Flint 1, and Papadopoulos 3 (assists not recorded for this level).
We therefore seem to need a further 2 or 3 Strikers and a couple of creative midfielders to make up this big difference in attacking capability.
We obviously also need a keeper comparable or better to Addai, and another couple of good defenders. None of our signings came from teams that did well last year. Only Scott Malone came from a team that was not in the bottom nine, and Gillingham finished 12th.
I notice that Cameron Humphreys and Jordan Hugill at Rotherham have decided to stay at the club, rather than exercise buyout clauses in their contracts following bids from Championship clubs.
Presumably is this the only way a player can stay at the club if another club bids the buyout amount or higher?
Yeah my understanding is that the buyout clause enables another club to speak to the player, but what I'm not sure of is if the club can still reject the offer. Clearly, if the players choose to stay, then that's their choice.
Looks like another day of no incoming players......
10 days now without a signing, and we have less than 2/3 of a very small squad for L1. I would expect us to have a squad of about 26 which would be smallest in League 1 (Last year Wycombe had a squad of 29, but the next smallest was Cambridge with 38).
Half the 16 players we do have signed hardley got picked last season so they are hardly likely to rip it up in League 1. We need 11 or 12 league 1 standard players like yesterday !
Half the 16 players we do have signed hardley got picked last season so they are hardly likely to rip it up in League 1. We need 11 or 12 league 1 standard players like yesterday !
Does anyone know when the Recruitment Team are back from their two week summer holiday in the Med?
At this rate we are going to have to go to The Crawley Foundation and beg for some of their players, although to be fair I think they did quite well in their youth league
sold all our squad for him and he goes and joins Millwall