Summer Transfer Thread

[Greyhound]

Cam has certainly left a big shirt to fill. But I’m very confident that Bass will fillet.

Hope so, fred. Pint of Bass in the Virtual if you're right. Alan Beer might be joining us.

 

[DawlishBouy]

Agee we need to give him a chance. The stars aligned last year which enabled us to get Dawson and we were always going to struggle to to get a GK of his standard. This might be an unpopular opinion, but I wonder if we should have gone after Pym though. It was only a couple of seasons ago that he was in the League One Team of the Year and just looking at the stats of both he and Bass on paper you would have thought Pym would have been a stronger signing.

Having said that I am sure Mansfield are probably paying all his wages to Peterborough which we wouldn't of been able to afford. 'd be interested to know if we were even in for him though. Maybe someone can ask at the fans forum?

Either way at least it now sounds like we have a GK on the way, and hopefully he will be a good addition.

Bass’s League One career record - 18 appearances, 10 clean sheets, 10 goals conceded. Not bad is it?

 

[AmberRed]

Bass’s League One career record - 18 appearances, 10 clean sheets, 10 goals conceded. Not bad is it?

But that was 3 years ago!! He's not played that high since and can't get in to his own L1 side! Think I'll reserve judgement for now, let's hope he surprises us like Cam did.

 

[DawlishBouy]

But that was 3 years ago!! He's not played that high since and can't get in to his own L1 side! Think I'll reserve judgement for now, let's hope he surprises us like Cam did.

Last season Bass played 2 League one games and kept 2 clean sheets. Conceded 26 goals in 21 League Two games for Bradford.
Pym conceded 48 goals in 29 appearances

 

[MJP_Exeter]

Last season Bass played 2 League one games and kept 2 clean sheets. Conceded 26 goals in 21 League Two games for Bradford.
Pym conceded 48 goals in 29 appearances

It was a poor Bradford side like Pym was a in a really poor Stevenage side.

If it is Bass then I think it is a reasonable signing, but we where never gonna get a Dawson quality keeper this year. Bass will help us through this season when Lee will take over next season.

 

[Trapdoor]

So hopefully he's better than Pym at least. Not sure that automatically makes him good enough for L1 but at least it's not a bad start.

 

[Grecian Max]

Pym is massively overrated at City.

I’d much, much rather have O’Leary and think the Bass signing is a real disappointment after all this time but he obviously deserves the chance. And still young. Just hope we’ve signed him on a permanent rather than a loan so it’s more of a project.

 

[ecfc2000]

Spoken to my Pompy season ticket holder colleague here at work, and he says Bass is a decent keeper. He was disappointed to hear that Bass may be departing Pompy.

 

[andrew p long]

I’m not sure - obviously it’s not gone right but I think that is (guessing of course) more down to strategic errors than negotiation ability.

Every pre season we’ve had with Taylor I felt like we’d done decent business, even in the weirdness of covid. He’s always seemed to pull extra quality out of the bag that no one could have predicted and usually has avery clear plan of action to get specialists into the areas he needs them (rather than wait and see Tisdale approach).

For whatever reasons the well laid plans haven’t, for the first time in his managerial career worked out (remember as a novice him and Kinder brought some excellent talent in). I’d argue we’ve had some League 1 players join us when in League 2 so my suspicion is that too much weight was being put on us internally that promotion made us a more tempting option despite seemingly having the same budget.

Given that MT was likely to have had an extensive list of initial targets, the fact that they (before he started going on about loans) all turned us down says 1 thing to me - we set our sights too high. Yes location and wages are a factor but not every single time and certainly the likes of Law, Brown, Nombe etc shows it’s not an insurmountable challenge. You could tell 6 weeks ago something wasn’t right - we got promoted before the end of the season with no play offs yet we’re very slow off the mark and with every week that’s gone the situation becomes less and less surprising.

I think the analysis in bold above is right. There's nothing wrong with setting your sights high, provided there's a strategy for when Plan A (and Plan B and Plan C) don't work. I fear there may have been an optimism bias from last year's success in the transfer market. Not only great signings in 2021 (Nombe,Dieng,Brown,Stubbs) but gambles paid off (waiting til 9 days before the season without a keeper ,then getting Dawson)

Even when MT overplayed his hand in summer 2021 he luckily got out of jail - losing Sweeney for better terms elsewhere but getting a second chance due to chaos at Swindon. 42 starts in a promotion winning side later...

 

[Red Devon]

Bass has looked pretty decent whenever I’ve seen him, he seems to be popular with Pompey fans too. I hope he signs on a permanent contract.