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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Feb 1, 2020 11:37:28 GMT 1
Pleased with yesterday's business, glad to see the back of Mbenza, hopefully we can kick on and get some results and move to safety. I guess Koroma to Rotherham will do him good with a run at promotion with Rotherham.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Feb 1, 2020 11:37:43 GMT 1
All we need to worry about is whether he is a better keeper than Joel Coleman.
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Post by ben1987 on Feb 1, 2020 11:38:52 GMT 1
Do you feel a bit daft now? Yes. This is why we need to be patient. The bad eggs and high earners have departed albeit on loan meaning we save in wages and hopefully the game time they get with their new clubs will increase their value. We are in a far better position now than we were on January 1st. We’ve set ourselves up nicely for the summer and given the way we’ve moved old in and brought in fresh this window I think we can now start to trust the management and recruitment departments to deliver a better season next season. Time to stop harping on about the past 2 years now and start backing the club going forward, it’s fairly clear Phil has a vision and sees the last 2 seasons as unacceptable. No way should we be spunking money in the summer, we can spend wisely and still bring in quality without compromising the future of the club. Hopefully, fans will back the club with season card sales and an atmosphere.
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Post by htfc1908 on Feb 1, 2020 11:41:03 GMT 1
Worryingly on the official site all the other deals in and out have been updated apart from Mbenza
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Post by btwoowah on Feb 1, 2020 11:43:26 GMT 1
They’ve got it all to do again in the summer, but happy days. Our squad now does look one of a top end championship club. That’s the tricky bit Come July we still have under contract kongolo, diakhaby, mbenza, Flo, sobhi, Brown and hamer Until we get them out permanently it leaves little wiggle room to make new signings Hopefully they do well in their loans to attract offers I thought I’d check out how Sobhi was getting on, and it seems that he was doing pretty well until a recent injury - so well in fact, that apparently his own agent seems to have been questioning whether any team in Egypt could afford the £10m it would cost to buy him. Not 100% convinced about the source mind, but I thought it was interesting... www.egypttoday.com/Article/8/81139/Ramadan-s-current-price-is-LE-200-million-Nader-Shawki
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Post by drfootball on Feb 1, 2020 11:44:16 GMT 1
This window we've.. Added experienced heads ✔ Youthful attacking flair ✔ Solid LB ✔ Deadwood clear out ✔ Top quality championship GK ✔ Given everyone a spring in their step ✔ Well done to the Cowleys, Big Phil & David Webb 👍 Even deadline day was a blast 👏👏👏 I’d amend that to read a top quality “Premier League keeper” 😉 at last a decent window ! Well done gents
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Post by drfootball on Feb 1, 2020 11:48:57 GMT 1
All we need to worry about is whether he is a better keeper than Joel Coleman. He is The end I like Joe but Lossl is without doubt the best keeper we have ever had and 18 months ago ish kept us up virtually by himself with that save at Chelsea, a club legend, a gent , an amazing keeper welcome back
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Post by artysid on Feb 1, 2020 11:54:46 GMT 1
All we need to worry about is whether he is a better keeper than Joel Coleman. He is The end I like Joe but Lossl is without doubt the best keeper we have ever had and 18 months ago ish kept us up virtually by himself with that save at Chelsea, a club legend, a gent , an amazing keeper welcome back Better than EH Taylor?
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Post by drumriggend on Feb 1, 2020 11:58:18 GMT 1
All we need to worry about is whether he is a better keeper than Joel Coleman. He is The end I like Joe but Lossl is without doubt the best keeper we have ever had and 18 months ago ish kept us up virtually by himself with that save at Chelsea, a club legend, a gent , an amazing keeper welcome back Pedant alert.. Would still have stayed up if we lost at Chelsea.. Survived by 4 points., 👍
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Post by HuddsTerrier on Feb 1, 2020 12:02:02 GMT 1
Worryingly on the official site all the other deals in and out have been updated apart from Mbenza It’s been announced on the Amiens site - www.amiensfootball.com/blog/article/bienvenue-isaac-mbenza-10548I suspect Towns comms team had a late one last night - two new player interviews - they also may need authorisation before publishing and PH etc are probably enroute to Fulham (also after a late one yesterday) Basically there’s a few reasons for the delay I expect it will be on the town website or twitter soo
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Feb 1, 2020 12:03:49 GMT 1
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Post by Metch on Feb 1, 2020 12:17:47 GMT 1
The bloke who updates the site doesn't work till 2.55pm on a Sat to put the team news up. Expect Mbenza announced then.
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Post by Leporid on Feb 1, 2020 12:18:21 GMT 1
Seem to be quite a few "grass is always greener" quotes about Lossl which I can't get my head around. Apparently he tripled his wages by going to Everton, and that is based on his Prem wage at Town which would've come down in the Championship. So, as I read it, he's now here and will play 2nd half of the season earning at least 4-5 times as much as if he'd stayed with us. Nevermind the grass being greener, he's moved to the land of milk and honey! With the Euros this summer I imagine he wants to get some game time to make sure he is in the Denmark squad. Yup!
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Post by digs on Feb 1, 2020 12:18:53 GMT 1
Worryingly on the official site all the other deals in and out have been updated apart from Mbenza It’s been announced on the Amiens site - www.amiensfootball.com/blog/article/bienvenue-isaac-mbenza-10548I suspect Towns comms team had a late one last night - two new player interviews - they also may need authorisation before publishing and PH etc are probably enroute to Fulham (also after a late one yesterday) Basically there’s a few reasons for the delay I expect it will be on the town website or twitter soo is BIENVENUE french for useless?
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Post by Camel Grabber on Feb 1, 2020 12:21:54 GMT 1
All in all one of the best windows we have had as a club in regards to what we needed to do. 2017 was great with Lowe schindler et al
We got rid of all the bad eggs, only Bockhorn remains and that more ability not attitude.
Brought in players who want to play minutes and not happy to sit twiddling thumbs.
Already excited for summer, plenty for Cowleys to do getting rid of the loans guys with permanent moves and bringing in players we need
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Post by Headless Chicken on Feb 1, 2020 12:31:35 GMT 1
With this new found positivity, shame we play the bogiest of bogey teams (now we no longer play Port Vale).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 12:40:38 GMT 1
Loans from Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton, Benfica.
Loans to top tier European,decent EFL or top National League clubs.
This new team (PH, DW, DC, NC) know what they are doing.
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Post by specialun on Feb 1, 2020 12:43:05 GMT 1
Well done Town
Yesterday turned a decent window into a very good one
I made no secret of how terrible the last one was - balance of squad, the lack of left back, ridiculous signings from league 2, conference and German tier 4-8 and reliant on Diakhaby / Mbenza. I said the squad would be 16th at best. I criticised us not having a HOF in that window.
I was too negative according to most - The reality is I was too positive.
It seems we’ve learnt. Fast forward 6 months and we’ve seen the importance of a HOF. A HOF working closely with a manager and credit to PH for clearly supporting as much as possible - particularly evident with the Lossl deal.
It’s only right to give praise / credit if you give out criticism
It’s not an easy window, but we’ve done well to move players out and in even if on loan and improve the quality and balance of both the team / squad - it gives us what we need to survive and hopefully build in a very busy summer ahead. The only question mark is the Mooy deal value but presumably they met our valuation
A post yesterday suggested I’d be the first to criticise if we brought in a winger someone just to fill the gap. Nonsense. If we’d signed another 4th/5th division player and expected miracles I would have - we’ve hopefully learnt from the summer. We would have had 20 wide targets all good enough / better than Bacuna as a wide option. Cowley had spoken about need for another wide option and balance - to have not brought one in would have been poor.
The current squad has more balance both in experience / youth and in shape - and has a number of players who have a point to prove. A job well done Webb et al
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Post by yoy on Feb 1, 2020 12:50:42 GMT 1
Excited about lossl! Maybe it’s the link to those wonderful brief moments of the first season in the prem who knows but the saves against Newcastle chekski and the double against the baggies when our backs were truly against it made the hairs stand up! That’s the fight we need back. Cowleys recognising that I agree. Not only is it a good signing for the team, it feels to me like he comes back with a renewed energy that can be a positive influence on the whole squad. Ideally we’d have had a winger too but I think this is one of the few January windows where we exit it in a significantly better position than we entered it. A more efficient use of our resources - more players we can use, a better atmosphere and probably financially positive.
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Post by crux on Feb 1, 2020 12:52:02 GMT 1
Excited about lossl! Maybe it’s the link to those wonderful brief moments of the first season in the prem who knows but the saves against Newcastle chekski and the double against the baggies when our backs were truly against it made the hairs stand up! That’s the fight we need back. Cowleys recognising that I agree. Not only is it a good signing for the team, it feels to me like he comes back with a renewed energy that can be a positive influence on the whole squad. Ideally we’d have had a winger too but I think this is one of the few January windows where we exit it in a significantly better position than we entered it. A more efficient use of our resources - more players we can use, a better atmosphere and probably financially positive. You do realise Willock is a winger don't you?
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Post by hasta el pueblo on Feb 1, 2020 12:52:17 GMT 1
Excited about lossl! Maybe it’s the link to those wonderful brief moments of the first season in the prem who knows but the saves against Newcastle chekski and the double against the baggies when our backs were truly against it made the hairs stand up! That’s the fight we need back. Cowleys recognising that I agree. Not only is it a good signing for the team, it feels to me like he comes back with a renewed energy that can be a positive influence on the whole squad. Ideally we’d have had a winger too but I think this is one of the few January windows where we exit it in a significantly better position than we entered it. A more efficient use of our resources - more players we can use, a better atmosphere and probably financially positive. We signed a winger.
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Post by hasta el pueblo on Feb 1, 2020 12:55:45 GMT 1
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Post by Rambo on Feb 1, 2020 14:02:05 GMT 1
Is there actually a deal? Nothing official anywhere that I can see. Worrying. Judging by the look of the bloke on the Amiens video he could have been signing anything! Amiens are saying it has happened on their website, though, if that counts as official (six month loan). Nothing has been easy with Mbenza it would seem. Worst signing Town have made in my 50-odd years. Actually a very good point made there. Complete silence from Town yet there's mention on that other website. Did it happen and if it did does that tell you everything you need to know about how the club feel about Isaac?
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Post by Detective Boyle on Feb 1, 2020 14:05:42 GMT 1
Can't lie, I had really lost a lot of love for football the past couple of months. A god awful last few months of the prem, followed by a shite summer window, but mostly just knowing we had players getting paid huge wages that just didn't give a shit, made me give less of a shit. I couldn't find much optimism with town at all.
Now after a great window, I feel the wasters have gone and we now have players that are hungry and ready to play for the club. My optimism is restored.
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Feb 1, 2020 14:18:53 GMT 1
Lossl returning will make a massive difference to us imo. Great Distribution should mean more attacking opportunities. Reading his interview, he still has great affection for the club and supporters. Generally, a great window.
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Post by otterman on Feb 1, 2020 14:28:33 GMT 1
I like what has happened in January a lot. Both incoming and outgoing. Slots which needed filling have been filled with a great mixture of youth and experience. Lossl was a masterstroke.
Of course, this is stage one, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see us finishing top half.
DC has worked miracles with Mounié. If Willock can regularly get to the bye line and feed him, I expect his confidence and goal tally to swell rapidly.
Chalobah is beginning to show a good response to DC and the “new” dreassing room.
Well done to all concerned.
PS have seen Willock play and he is dynamite. Might lack a bit of match fitness, but that shouldn’t be an issue at his age.
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Post by 4 pts on Feb 1, 2020 14:28:43 GMT 1
Your batting average is magnificent Ted
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Post by yoy on Feb 1, 2020 14:39:38 GMT 1
I agree. Not only is it a good signing for the team, it feels to me like he comes back with a renewed energy that can be a positive influence on the whole squad. Ideally we’d have had a winger too but I think this is one of the few January windows where we exit it in a significantly better position than we entered it. A more efficient use of our resources - more players we can use, a better atmosphere and probably financially positive. You do realise Willock is a winger don't you? I was out last night and entirely missed the signing. So no - I didn’t well then my post becomes even more positive
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Post by yoy on Feb 1, 2020 14:42:57 GMT 1
I agree. Not only is it a good signing for the team, it feels to me like he comes back with a renewed energy that can be a positive influence on the whole squad. Ideally we’d have had a winger too but I think this is one of the few January windows where we exit it in a significantly better position than we entered it. A more efficient use of our resources - more players we can use, a better atmosphere and probably financially positive. We signed a winger. Awesome. As above - missed it entirely. Know nothing about him but an altogether positive window.
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