Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)

[Herberthall]

I backed hemir last season when he scored a couple in pre season and it became clear he was going to be our only striker on the first day.

I thought if he scored in that game he’d obviously keep his place and go from there. I got 50/1 for him at the time. Thought it was a master stroke - how wrong was I

Might as well go for double failure eh…

 

[Hot Since 82]

Continually being 2 windows? One a Jan window and one a summer window where they brought 4 in but they didn’t perform?

This is football, some signings work out and some don’t. You don’t see clubs sacking their DoF’s because of a few signings not working out.

They’ve got a month to get it done, and if they don’t get at least 1 competent centre forward with goals behind them then I’ll fully agree with all of you

A few you say, none of these are good enough?

Pembele
Hjelde
Anderson
Triantis
Bennette
Ba
Couple of shite keepers
Aouchiche
Rusyn
Hemir
Mayenda

A few of the better signings are almost permanent sick notes. Maybe that's simply bad luck or was there a medical history, don't know.

On a much more positive note Mundle, Poveda and Browne hopefully prove to be very good signings and are possibly evidence of a welcome change in direction. Hjelde is a weird one, a UK based player that cost big money by our standards and looks almost as hopeless as Pembele.

 

[Disco_Pants93]

A few you say, none of these are good enough?

Pembele
Hjelde
Anderson
Triantis
Bennette
Ba
Couple of shite keepers
Aouchiche
Rusyn
Hemir
Mayenda

A few of the better signings are almost permanent sick notes. Maybe that's simply bad luck or was there a medical history, don't know.

On a much more positive note Mundle, Poveda and Browne hopefully prove to be very good signings and are possibly evidence of a welcome change in direction. Hjelde is a weird one, a UK based player that cost big money by our standards and looks almost as hopeless as Pembele.

How can you say Mayenda and Aouchiche are not good enough? It blows my mind. Mayenda had a couple of chances in the first team and look decent, very raw but decent. Young players need time to develop. Aouchiche is clearly a talented player who again didn't get the run in the team to show that. There are some in that list I agree with but if you aren't even going to give a young player more than 1 year at the club to show what they can do what is the point? You may as well never sign young players and just sign experience all the time. Ask Stoke fans what they thought of Jack Clarke, Boro fans what they thought of Patrick Roberts, Rangers fans what they thought of Amad. Players need time.

 

[Major]

How can you say Mayenda and Aouchiche are not good enough? It blows my mind. Mayenda had a couple of chances in the first team and look decent, very raw but decent. Young players need time to develop. Aouchiche is clearly a talented player who again didn't get the run in the team to show that. There are some in that list I agree with but if you aren't even going to give a young player more than 1 year at the club to show what they can do what is the point? You may as well never sign young players and just sign experience all the time. Ask Stoke fans what they thought of Jack Clarke, Boro fans what they thought of Patrick Roberts, Rangers fans what they thought of Amad. Players need time.

People judge them on their ability right now, not understanding that players can and will improve for the most part. You see it a lot, writing off young players. We can’t write a lot of them off after one season. What we need is an affiliation with a league one and two team where we can send those players to develop. Personally think in the right environment and constant game time you’d see massive transformations in both Jewi and Mayenda.

 

[R5Skywalker]

A few you say, none of these are good enough?

Pembele
Hjelde
Anderson
Triantis
Bennette
Ba
Couple of shite keepers
Aouchiche
Rusyn
Hemir
Mayenda

A few of the better signings are almost permanent sick notes. Maybe that's simply bad luck or was there a medical history, don't know.

On a much more positive note Mundle, Poveda and Browne hopefully prove to be very good signings and are possibly evidence of a welcome change in direction. Hjelde is a weird one, a UK based player that cost big money by our standards and looks almost as hopeless as Pembele.

The club need to look at the long list above and see who was responsible for bringing them in. I think Aouchiche is probably the better of them all, but rumours are he may be leaving. The rest are absolute driftwood that aren't good enough. We let young lads like Ellis Taylor go for nowt, but sign shite like Hjelde for 2 mill. Just mental.

Seelt was also left off that list btw. Milk turns quicker than he does.

There are probably 10 players that need shifting on and 6 quality players that are needed to mount a serious play-off battle. A lot can happen in 8 days. Let's just hope we find a football club run by Rodney Trotter and Mickey Pearce and flog all our broken lawn mower engines to.

 

[Hot Since 82]

How can you say Mayenda and Aouchiche are not good enough? It blows my mind. Mayenda had a couple of chances in the first team and look decent, very raw but decent. Young players need time to develop. Aouchiche is clearly a talented player who again didn't get the run in the team to show that. There are some in that list I agree with but if you aren't even going to give a young player more than 1 year at the club to show what they can do what is the point? You may as well never sign young players and just sign experience all the time. Ask Stoke fans what they thought of Jack Clarke, Boro fans what they thought of Patrick Roberts, Rangers fans what they thought of Amad. Players need time.

That the aouchiche who was complete dog shit against a league two side the other night. We need players for now not for 3 or 4 years time.

 

[Disco_Pants93]

People judge them on their ability right now, not understanding that players can and will improve for the most part. You see it a lot, writing off young players. We can’t write a lot of them off after one season. What we need is an affiliation with a league one and two team where we can send those players to develop. Personally think in the right environment and constant game time you’d see massive transformations in both Jewi and Mayenda.

It's the clubs fault there aren't senior strikers and the young lads have had to play, not their own. You can't just write them off based on that.

That the aouchiche who was complete dog shit against a league two side the other night. We need players for now not for 3 or 4 years time.

It's a pre season friendly man and he got an assist Chris Rigg looked absolutely anonymous in league games last season yet there's zero criticism of him.

 

[Alfa]

Continually being 2 windows? One a Jan window and one a summer window where they brought 4 in but they didn’t perform?

This is football, some signings work out and some don’t. You don’t see clubs sacking their DoF’s because of a few signings not working out.

They’ve got a month to get it done, and if they don’t get at least 1 competent centre forward with goals behind them then I’ll fully agree with all of you

Stewart was injured at Fulham on 28th January, 2023 and at that time Simms had already been recalled by Everton. Speakman said he tried (and failed) to get in a replacement before that window closed.

Summer 2023 - Hemir, Mayenda, Rusyn and Burstow arrived - enough said

January 2024 - again we fail to sign a competent striker

Summer 2024 - so far six weeks into the transfer window and with eight days to go until the season starts…….

I agree we’ve now got four weeks to bring in two strikers, both of whom are fit and competent enough to make a meaningful contribution to the side. The time for excuses is well and truly over.

 

[Major]

It's the clubs fault there aren't senior strikers and the young lads have had to play, not their own. You can't just write them off based on that.

It's a pre season friendly man and he got an assist Chris Rigg looked absolutely anonymous in league games last season yet there's zero criticism of him.

That’s it, and we do need senior players to allow them to develop and be sent to a league more suited to their ability. I think we’ll sign at least four more players this window, and follow the route of experience that we’ve already seen so far. Blind optimism maybe, but you’ve got to keep the faith.

 

[Alfa]

It's a pre season friendly man and he got an assist Chris Rigg looked absolutely anonymous in league games last season yet there's zero criticism of him.

That’s true but Rigg is 17 years old and has less than 25 games under his belt whereas Aouchiche has over 100 games experience including 80+ in the French top flight.

I think Aouchiche’s problem (and it’s not of his own making) is that he’s one of far too many similar players in our squad and that combined with several changes in head coach have prevented him getting a consistent run of games in his best position.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see him leave this summer

 

[Confucius]

Stewart was injured in Jan 2023. They signed 4 strikers the next summer. They got it wrong and failed. They then tried in a difficult Jan market and it didn’t come off (could have done better but that whole season was a shitshow)

Now it’s the summer and we will no doubt be trying and probably will imo get what we need. (I hope).

It’s been realistically just one big shit season last season I’m sure they should get a chance to rectify it from us. Or is that too much to ask?

Might I also add when we signed Stewart he had achieved fuck all, scored fuck all and was being played on the wing. We tried to replicate that and it didn’t work

You see this argument pisses me off, he signed 4 strikers which up to now certainly haven’t improved the squad. Add to that Lihadji and Dajaku you begin to wonder if he could find a striker at all. Yet people still harp back about “not wanting another Will Grigg”. To waste time and money on 6 non contenders for the first team is as bad as one Grigg, yet people are still blowing smoke up Speakmans arse.
It may have been one shit season which by the way would have been avoided if Speakman thought the same as many fans, that Beale was a disaster, but it’s been 4 windows he’s failed to sign a first team ready striker.

 

[Disco_Pants93]

That’s true but Rigg is 17 years old and has less than 25 games under his belt whereas Aouchiche has over 100 games experience including 80+ in the French top flight.

I think Aouchiche’s problem (and it’s not of his own making) is that he’s one of far too many similar players in our squad and that combined with several changes in head coach have prevented him getting a consistent run of games in his best position.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see him leave this summer

I wouldn't either but I think that's more to do with his relationship with RLB. I'm just making the point that criticising young players seems very easy for some players and not others who've barely even featured in the first team. I think AA has shown signs of a good player.

 

[Rivet Catcher]

'we tried but we just couldn't get one over the line' usual speakman line at the end of each transfer window.

Couple of tweaks to the wording I would expect this year. The bloke takes us fans as fools and needs peddling asap.

A few you say, none of these are good enough?

Pembele
Hjelde
Anderson
Triantis
Bennette
Ba
Couple of shite keepers
Aouchiche
Rusyn
Hemir
Mayenda

A few of the better signings are almost permanent sick notes. Maybe that's simply bad luck or was there a medical history, don't know.

On a much more positive note Mundle, Poveda and Browne hopefully prove to be very good signings and are possibly evidence of a welcome change in direction. Hjelde is a weird one, a UK based player that cost big money by our standards and looks almost as hopeless as Pembele.

Mid table League one team that.

 

[Irishblackcat]

A few you say, none of these are good enough?

Pembele
Hjelde
Anderson
Triantis
Bennette
Ba
Couple of shite keepers
Aouchiche
Rusyn
Hemir
Mayenda

A few of the better signings are almost permanent sick notes. Maybe that's simply bad luck or was there a medical history, don't know.

On a much more positive note Mundle, Poveda and Browne hopefully prove to be very good signings and are possibly evidence of a welcome change in direction. Hjelde is a weird one, a UK based player that cost big money by our standards and looks almost as hopeless as Pembele.

Still have hope for
Ba
Aa
Mayenda off that list
A good loan with regular football and jewi still has the raw attributes to do something .

 

[Jambezz]

Wasting your tim3ewith him mate. He’s another of the “only joined he board in the last 3 months” brigade who have appeared to defend Speakman & Kld no matter what and to jump on anyone that dares criticise them.

What difference does it make when someone joined? It doesn't make someones opinion more valid it's an internet forum ffs

 

[Super Ted]

You see this argument pisses me off, he signed 4 strikers which up to now certainly haven’t improved the squad. Add to that Lihadji and Dajaku you begin to wonder if he could find a striker at all. Yet people still harp back about “not wanting another Will Grigg”. To waste time and money on 6 non contenders for the first team is as bad as one Grigg, yet people are still blowing smoke up Speakmans arse.
It may have been one shit season which by the way would have been avoided if Speakman thought the same as many fans, that Beale was a disaster, but it’s been 4 windows he’s failed to sign a first team ready striker.

People aren't blowing smoke up Speakmans arse though, People just have an alternative view to others.

FWIW I think Speakmans done a very good job considering the position we were in when he took the job. The value within the squad now is incomparable to what he inherited. There's no doubt about it we have signed some duds, but that is always going to happen at any club, Even more so one that's trying to recover financially from a club that was completely decimated on the back of back-to-back relegations.

The Striker situation is shit, Everybody knows it and he needs to rectify it urgently. I don't think they are sitting doing fuck all, It's probably as equally frustrating for them as it is for us.

The argument that we haven't brought a Striker in isn't true, We've brought in four that just don't happen to be ready yet. Rusyn on the face of it looked a decent buy but bringing in foreign players who are fairly young is always going to be a risk. It's evident last year we weren't a club that's prepared to pay significant wages in the hope an experienced Striker would be the answer.

From the top 10 scorers in the Championship we had one in the top 10, There was only Armstrong, Vardy, Sergeant, Lath and Adams who were also in the top 10 that play upfront. Every single one of them were either at clubs that have recently been relegated from the PL, or from clubs that reinvested alot of money from a big sale to bring them in. We haven't been able to do that yet as we have managed to retain our best players.

It clearly isn't easy when you don't have a large budget to fall back on..

 

[radjee gadjee]

How can you say Mayenda and Aouchiche are not good enough? It blows my mind. Mayenda had a couple of chances in the first team and look decent, very raw but decent. Young players need time to develop. Aouchiche is clearly a talented player who again didn't get the run in the team to show that. There are some in that list I agree with but if you aren't even going to give a young player more than 1 year at the club to show what they can do what is the point? You may as well never sign young players and just sign experience all the time. Ask Stoke fans what they thought of Jack Clarke, Boro fans what they thought of Patrick Roberts, Rangers fans what they thought of Amad. Players need time.

I get what you are saying but I think what people are saying is that players like Mayenda aren’t good enough NOW, because that is what we are looking at and what we are desperately needing. Players good enough to be in the first team and deliver what we need now. They may well continue to develop and be good enough in the future. But we don’t have a squad strong enough with the quality and experienced players we need now to give these lads the time to develop.

 

[bobster999]

I quite like it on here most of time.

Gets frustrating when you try to have a conversation but you refuse to engage.

Have you seen a WhatsApp message from anyone's art dealer lately?

 

[scott934]

The club need to look at the long list above and see who was responsible for bringing them in. I think Aouchiche is probably the better of them all, but rumours are he may be leaving. The rest are absolute driftwood that aren't good enough. We let young lads like Ellis Taylor go for nowt, but sign shite like Hjelde for 2 mill. Just mental.

Seelt was also left off that list btw. Milk turns quicker than he does.

There are probably 10 players that need shifting on and 6 quality players that are needed to mount a serious play-off battle. A lot can happen in 8 days. Let's just hope we find a football club run by Rodney Trotter and Mickey Pearce and flog all our broken lawn mower engines to.

"Young lads like Ellis Taylor". He's older than most on that list! No way should people be writing most of them off.

 

[Disco_Pants93]

I get what you are saying but I think what people are saying is that players like Mayenda aren’t good enough NOW, because that is what we are looking at and what we are desperately needing. Players good enough to be in the first team and deliver what we need now. They may well continue to develop and be good enough in the future. But we don’t have a squad strong enough with the quality and experienced players we need now to give these lads the time to develop.

Aye, I totally get that mate, but people are literally saying get rid. It's crazy.