Summer Transfer Thread

[Banksy]

This thread is probably going to end up as numbingly boring as it started , then the question will be can we make it to January without too many injuries and look again then at what’s on the market. No signings means no room for manoeuvre and it’s beginning to look likely as every minute passes.Who would have thought we’d be waiting to the very last minute to get a forward let alone a couple?

 

[StudentGrecian]

Who wants to bet we give Vassell a contract today? Just to give us a signing and make the window look a little better.
Then a Sam Stubbs ‘three weeks away’ lasts until January or beyond.

 

[Bittners a Legend]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1565348593845710849

This graphic comparison of our squad shows how light we are!

Lighter in numbers certainly but not sure we are much lighter in quality.

12 months on and this group of players has improved individually and collectively. To suggest we are weaker this year is just bizarre unless people think Blackman is significantly worse than Dawson.

Matt Taylor's approach to only bring quality in genuinely makes sense in terms of the budget challenges.

That said given the concerns over Nombe I do feel we need a forward. Other positions such as full back are nice-to-have's but we can probably survive.

Not sure if this poster just wants to sign players for the sake of it?

 

[DJG.ECFC]

Shoulve kept Rowe as cover at full back even if we loaned him out with a recall option.

 

[grecian-near-hell]

Shoulve kept Rowe as cover at full back even if we loaned him out with a recall option.

You do seem obsessed with a LWB whereas most people are concerned by our lack of strikers, curious?

 

[Cowshed Grecian]

Lighter in numbers certainly but not sure we are much lighter in quality.

12 months on and this group of players has improved individually and collectively. To suggest we are weaker this year is just bizarre unless people think Blackman is significantly worse than Dawson.

Matt Taylor's approach to only bring quality in genuinely makes sense in terms of the budget challenges.

That said given the concerns over Nombe I do feel we need a forward. Other positions such as full back are nice-to-have's but we can probably survive.

Not sure if this poster just wants to sign players for the sake of it?

I think what he means is squad depth and he would be right. Even MT has alluded to needing 4-5 players. No one is questioning our first 11, it’s as good a team as I’ve seen in the last 25 years. However we only have one WB to cover two positions. One Winger if we wanted to change system and only one striker who is injury prone with a boy as cover. Games coming thick and fast, and at a higher level we have a lot less depth than season. So you would have to say we are weaker.

 

[jrg333]

Lighter in numbers certainly but not sure we are much lighter in quality.

The numbers matter, though. Big time. If Sparkes, Nombe, and Brown suffer injuries (not inconceivable) then our starting 11 will be weaker than last season's, in a division higher; a division with teams that could put out second 11s with more league experience than our first team.

 

[Majago]

Lighter in numbers certainly but not sure we are much lighter in quality.

12 months on and this group of players has improved individually and collectively. To suggest we are weaker this year is just bizarre unless people think Blackman is significantly worse than Dawson.

Matt Taylor's approach to only bring quality in genuinely makes sense in terms of the budget challenges.

That said given the concerns over Nombe I do feel we need a forward. Other positions such as full back are nice-to-have's but we can probably survive.

Not sure if this poster just wants to sign players for the sake of it?

I agree with that and was going to post something very similar.

I'd argue that man for man our first XI are at least as good as last season with Blackman seemingly at least as good as Cam and Harper/Kegs an upgrade on Atangana.
The defenders released haven't particularly weakened us (imho) with Alfie Pond looking like a good prospect. Similar applies to the forwards that have departed, they haven't weakened the first team.

I'd agree however that we're light on numbers and don't have the necessary squad depth to cope with a tough league one season - although hope to be proved wrong.

I think most people on here are in agreement about where we need to strengthen, it's just a case of trying to get the right people in which obviously isn't an easy job.

 

[DawlishBouy]

We have 22 players under professional contract.
That includes:
Kyle Taylor who might not play a game all season.
Sam Nombe, Sam Stubbs and Alex Hartridge all looking a bit fragile.
A 37 year old coach as backup keeper to Blackman who arrived with injury problems and isn’t guaranteed to last the season.
Four young ex academy players of whom only Pond looks remotely ready for L1 football and he’s on loan to Yeovil until January.
Three players (Dieng, Jay, and Coley who have yet to show they can step up to L1 football).
Two loanees who look somewhat off the pace at the moment.
Lee, Iseguan and Pond out on loan.
And none of our scholars look ready to step up.
It will only take a fair share of injuries to send us crashing.

If we don’t sign anyone today expect a couple of Colin Daniel standard free agents to turn up in the coming weeks.

 

[Super Ronnie Jepson]

The numbers matter, though. Big time. If Sparkes, Nombe, and Brown suffer injuries (not inconceivable) then our starting 11 will be weaker than last season's, in a division higher; a division with teams that could put out second 11s with more league experience than our first team.

The numbers only matter if the players brought in are of equal or better quality though? And that's the rub.