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Alexandre Mendy (transfer rumour)


Nelson! said:
After the first we finished in the play offs and a lack of defenders (due to injury) stopped us from going up.

This one isn’t closed yet.

So currently it’s two bad windows. Hopefully they don’t make it a third.
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Give over. We finished that season with a catalogue of defensive injuries but we were struggling to break aides down often and reliant on Amad' s individual brilliance second half of the season. I was harping on and on about how someone as bang average as Chris Martin (who had bene free when the window shut and went to QPR and scored more than Gelhardt) would have give us a different option at times as we had gone through too many games where two banks of four completely shut us out and we were having to overplay to get chances all the time.

The moment Simms went back, after the first half of the season when he and Stewart were out, it should have been abundantly obvious what was needed. Instead we brought in Gelhardt eventually and listened again to KS talking about versatility and telling us all how we dont play with a traditional number nine.

That was clearly the start of the poor Windows and when we needed a forward.
 
chunksafc said:
It's going to be a busy end the window, surely we won't write-off the first few games waiting for a striker?

We are desperate for one, a blind man on a galloping horse can see it's a huge piece of the jigsaw.

And before anyone starts, I'm not saying roll over and spend millions, but there must be 1 or 2 strikers in the ENTIRE world that we could sign
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Why not weve wrote the last three off
 
Major said:
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.
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The reason for that though is we haven't got "players for now".

It's like Jobe Bellingham - he's only 18 we keep hearing. But he played about 46 games last season starting 43.

If they play that often they have to produce often.
 
When they said they had a 5 year plan they obviously meant 15 year plan at the pace we're going at. Signing loads of young'uns constantly just means we're continually on the treadmill of waiting for them to get up to speed as once they do we'll sell them (if they're any good).
 
Perryqhill said:
Give over. We finished that season with a catalogue of defensive injuries but we were struggling to break aides down often and reliant on Amad' s individual brilliance second half of the season. I was harping on and on about how someone as bang average as Chris Martin (who had bene free when the window shut and went to QPR and scored more than Gelhardt) would have give us a different option at times as we had gone through too many games where two banks of four completely shut us out and we were having to overplay to get chances all the time.

The moment Simms went back, after the first half of the season when he and Stewart were out, it should have been abundantly obvious what was needed. Instead we brought in Gelhardt eventually and listened again to KS talking about versatility and telling us all how we dont play with a traditional number nine.

That was clearly the start of the poor Windows and when we needed a forward.
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SAFC have had many a mediocre / poor team "overachieve" for one reason. A lad who can score goals. It made Reidy look like a genius, same for big sam etc etc etc.

So stupid to pretend otherwise it beggars belief. We got a rallying cry from both Dreyfus and speakman coming into the season, without goals it will mean fk all.

Crackers man. 2 competent strikers in and speakman will look that clever we will need to smelt some more metal for his medal collection.
 
RGZ said:
Jan Window 22/23 - Good (if Stewart didn’t get injured)
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Stewart had spent a third to half of that season injured by that point.

Simms had went back

We signed Anderson, Ekwah and Gelhardt onloan.

I like Ekwah, but it was abundantly obvious we needed a striker when Simms left nevermind when Stewart got injured.

At the time I'd say expectations were little because as a newly promoted side we were doing well and thus we maybe didn't expect much in the transfer market, but there is no way you can realistically say that window "was good" even ignoring Stewart's injury, and certainly not with the benefit of hindsight.
 
Hot Since 82 said:
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.
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I don't think we can write many of the players in that list off as not being good enough yet. They may indeed come good.

The problem is that they were all signed around the same time without proven players being signed alongside and so have been expected to instantly make an impact.

If that group of players had been signed alongside players who were able to straight into the first team and make an impact and so given more time to develop then there'd be nowhere near as much noise about them.

It's the hierarchy that have totally fucked up here by implementing a totally unbalanced transfer strategy which has caused us to go backwards.
 
Provider said:
I don't think we can write many of the players in that list off as not being good enough yet. They may indeed come good.

The problem is that they were all signed around the same time without proven players being signed alongside and so have been expected to instantly make an impact.

If that group of players had been signed alongside players who were able to straight into the first team and make an impact and so given more time to develop then there'd be nowhere near as much noise about them.

It's the hierarchy that have totally fucked up here by implementing a totally unbalanced transfer strategy which has caused us to go backwards.
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I agree, they have brought about 16 players in that weren't ready for the first team a year ago, and they are still aren't ready now. Then sacked Tony Mowbray for failing to get into the play off spots with them.
 
RGZ said:
Like I’ve said we had one bad shit season last year, they should be allowed to rectify it this summer window that still has a whole month left.

If they don’t do the job then I’m all for them being replaced as it’s inexcusable. But they’ve still got a whole month for me like. While in the championship they had

Summer window 22/23 - Good

Jan Window 22/23 - Good (if Stewart didn’t get injured)

Summer Window 23/24 - Naff

Jan window 23/24 - extra naff

Summer Window 24/25 - Needs more but two canny signings through the door

If they fail to get the striker we need in then that’s 3-2 for the shite windows and I’ll be agreeing with you all

Just think they deserve the chance to rectify it
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I find it staggering that anyone can claim our January 22/23 business was good.

We signed Ekwah, Lihadji, Geldhart and Joe Anderson.

Only one of those players could be considered to have had a decent impact on the first team and even that hasn't been a prolonged impact.

We signed a CB who barely got a minute when we had no other fit CBs ffs.
 
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