Im afraid we are as Defour will not play if at all until xmasClaretTony wrote:Nonsense
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Thanks for the update DoctorBOYSIE31 wrote:Im afraid we are as Defour will not play if at all until xmas
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Been told Boden has been told to step down
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I’m not holding my breath with Defour and I do think we need a new midfielder. I’m sure we’d have signed one too had we been able to strike a deal.Pearcey wrote:Defour, Hendrick, Cork, Westwood and possibly McNeil all could play in the centre. Hopefully we’ll sign Drinkwater to add to what we have.
But we are not one injury short of having one central midfielder. And I also think we might see McNeil move in in there at some time and there is Benson coming through.
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And because of Westwood's form we didn't miss him at all.BOYSIE31 wrote:Im afraid we are as Defour will not play if at all until xmas
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Where did you get that info?BOYSIE31 wrote:Im afraid we are as Defour will not play if at all until xmas
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Of course we’ve missed him.Spijed wrote:And because of Westwood's form we didn't miss him at all.
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Spijed wrote:And because of Westwood's form we didn't miss him at all.
7th - almost relegated. We did miss him. Clearly.
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Same again in January with your utter drivel Boysie.
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Impossible that a Premier League club can't strike a deal to sign just one midfielder when it's so glaringly needed. It really is a sad state of affairs with regards to our recruitment and it's by no means the first time.ClaretTony wrote:I’m not holding my breath with Defour and I do think we need a new midfielder. I’m sure we’d have signed one too had we been able to strike a deal.
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"just one midfielder" that has to fit the Dyche mould, be willing to move to the area, accept the wages on offer and the clubs to agree a deal. Not always straight forward, I can only imagine!ksrclaret wrote:Impossible that a Premier League club can't strike a deal to sign just one midfielder when it's so glaringly needed. It really is a sad state of affairs with regards to our recruitment and it's by no means the first time.
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Not straight forward no, but neither should it ever be impossible.burnley007 wrote:"just one midfielder" that has to fit the Dyche mould, be willing to move to the area, accept the wages on offer and the clubs to agree a deal. Not always straight forward, I can only imagine!
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The link on Sky Sports re: Drinkwater, published around 10 minutes ago.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... midfielder" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... midfielder" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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It’s a bit of a meaningless story. It could range from ‘deal imminent’ to we asked, heard how much his wages are, and put the phone down with no intention of calling back.FactualFrank wrote:The link on Sky Sports re: Drinkwater, published around 10 minutes ago.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... midfielder" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I would be delighted if we could sign Drinkwater on loan, since, like other posters, I feel we are one injury away from a non existant midfield. Drinkwater, to me, would be like signing Joey Barton, a class act and simply better than what we have at the moment. If we sign Drinkwater, keep Tarks, plus Rodriguez and Pieters and the young goalie from our feeder club would make it a decent transfer window.
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burnley007 wrote:"just one midfielder" that has to fit the Dyche mould, be willing to move to the area, accept the wages on offer and the clubs to agree a deal. Not always straight forward, I can only imagine!
Its not straight forward but if we don't it will be an epic fail. The defence for which appears to have already started by the usual suspects. For example, an untried kid could cover, we could move our main threat in from the wing and Defour assumed to be fit.
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I don’t think it’s the recruitment, I think it is more an inability to fund the signings. Year by year it is getting far more difficult. You can identify players and you can select the ones you want to sign but if those signings are too costly for us then we just can’t sign them.ksrclaret wrote:Impossible that a Premier League club can't strike a deal to sign just one midfielder when it's so glaringly needed. It really is a sad state of affairs with regards to our recruitment and it's by no means the first time.
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CT do you have any articles written up just in case?
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There isn’t much sugar coating it for me with the whole “can’t compete”, “our way of doing things”, “difficult market”, etc. We had months to prepare, and literally all window to do it.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, mine is there I simply don’t believe that there wasn’t a single midfield player out there that would improve us, that we could sign.
Time yet, but I can’t see it.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, mine is there I simply don’t believe that there wasn’t a single midfield player out there that would improve us, that we could sign.
Time yet, but I can’t see it.
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It's more the Board not being prepared to take a little extra risk to up the odds of staying up imo.ClaretTony wrote:I don’t think it’s the recruitment, I think it is more an inability to fund the signings. Year by year it is getting far more difficult. You can identify players and you can select the ones you want to sign but if those signings are too costly for us then we just can’t sign them.
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Or we could play the central midfielder we already have on our books who you seem to have conveniently left out of your post.summitclaret wrote:Its not straight forward but if we don't it will be an epic fail. The defence for which appears to have already started by the usual suspects. For example, an untried kid could cover, we could move our main threat in from the wing and Defour assumed to be fit.
McNeil also played in centre mid a few times for the u23s just in case we are unlucky enough to have 2 out of the other 3 injured or suspended and then Benson as a possible last resort if 3 out of the other 4 are injured.
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McNeil is indeed a player who can play central, clearly. I wouldn’t be asking our most creative player to do the hard running and defensive cover Cork does however, so for me that rules him out of that role.
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I think your opinion is wrong. There is a level of risk you can take and then there is trying to sign a player who will improve your team at this level. Often, and I know it’s proving to be the case, we can’t afford some of those players.summitclaret wrote:It's more the Board not being prepared to take a little extra risk to up the odds of staying up imo.
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is how I would sum up this farce of a window. Incompetence is expected.
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It’s the usual extremes on here. If you listen to some then signing (just about any) midfielder will he the difference between relegation and a top ten finish. Yes we could do with a midfielder, but I don’t think not getting one will make the difference between staying up and going down.
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I wouldn’t either but Duff used to use him in the Hendrick role behind a striker in a 4-4-1-1. I don’t see him as a defensive midfielder.SGr wrote:McNeil is indeed a player who can play central, clearly. I wouldn’t be asking our most creative player to do the hard running and defensive cover Cork does however, so for me that rules him out of that role.
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And where is the incompetence?KefkaClaret wrote: is how I would sum up this farce of a window. Incompetence is expected.
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I can see why yeah - he’d work there well for me.ClaretTony wrote:I wouldn’t either but Duff used to use him in the Hendrick role behind a striker in a 4-4-1-1. I don’t see him as a defensive midfielder.
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If we really can't afford the players we're after, then our policy simply must change.ClaretTony wrote:I don’t think it’s the recruitment, I think it is more an inability to fund the signings. Year by year it is getting far more difficult. You can identify players and you can select the ones you want to sign but if those signings are too costly for us then we just can’t sign them.
We must look to younger players from smaller clubs who aren't ready yet, so will cost less, but who can be developed. The likes of Matt Clarke, Bielik, Joe Aribo were all available for (relatively) low sums of money. Okay so they might not be ready for PL football yet, but at least we'd have a talented group of young players developing. Charlie Taylor was one of those, but we've had none since.
But instead we seem to go after 1 or 2 experienced players and then settle for nothing when we realise we can't compete for them. And now we're left with this ageing squad and the same starting 11 for the last 2 years.
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The transfer fees and wages being demanded price us out in most cases when it comes to PL players. It seems that's increasingly becoming the case for Championship players as well, based on the rumoured demands of Boro for Fry and Leeds for Phillips. I wonder how much we've been scouting abroad and looking at foreign leagues because we can likely afford many of the players in the French, German and Spanish leagues who will be on comparatively low wages and cost less than some of the obvious targets in England. Perhaps that's still seen as too much of a risk based on our poor record with signing foreign players.
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By not identifying a suitable player within out clearly restricted budget for the level in which we operate.ClaretTony wrote:And where is the incompetence?
If we were to look at players from clubs beyond the midlands and indeed beyond the British isles then there are lots of players who would vastly improve our squad and within budget.
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We have signed a good number of young players to go into the u23 squad. We are working hard at that level.ksrclaret wrote:If we really can't afford the players we're after, then our policy simply must change.
We must look to younger players from smaller clubs who aren't ready yet, so will cost less, but who can be developed. The likes of Matt Clarke, Bielik, Joe Aribo were all available for (relatively) low sums of money. Okay so they might not be ready for PL football yet, but at least we'd have a talented group of young players developing. Charlie Taylor was one of those, but we've had none since.
But instead we seem to go after 1 or 2 experienced players and then settle for nothing when we realise we can't compete for them. And now we're left with this ageing squad and the same starting 11 for the last 2 years.
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I agree with all of that, but when you look a cases like Kalvin Phillips, if (and I understand a big very shaky IF) an offer was made as reported, that didn't meet their evaluation of 20M (again reported how true no idea) then are we not risking the "Marney" season for dare I say it £5M when he obviously carries a resalable value.ClaretTony wrote:I think your opinion is wrong. There is a level of risk you can take and then there is trying to sign a player who will improve your team at this level. Often, and I know it’s proving to be the case, we can’t afford some of those players.
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I have not left anybody out. You must have mixed me up with another poster. We need a min of 4 specialist cm. We have 3 because it would be stupid to include Defour. We have know about this problem for 12 months.TVC15 wrote:Or we could play the central midfielder we already have on our books who you seem to have conveniently left out of your post.
McNeil also played in centre mid a few times for the u23s just in case we are unlucky enough to have 2 out of the other 3 injured or suspended and then Benson as a possible last resort if 3 out of the other 4 are injured.
All 3 of other wide players are injury prone and Hendrick can only olay one position at once.
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Close the thread down
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Mentioned it before on here: I don’t think we’ll go down this season personally, but that doesn’t mean the issues are just going to go away, and before we know it rather than it being one really significant position we need, it’ll be 2-3. It’s only going to accumulate.
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Well I’m not aware of all these players who will vastly improve our squad and are within budget. We must be incompetent then and just to think the club only needed to ask you given your extensive knowledge of players and costs.Right_winger wrote:By not identifying a suitable player within out clearly restricted budget for the level in which we operate.
If we were to look at players from clubs beyond the midlands and indeed beyond the British isles then there are lots of players who would vastly improve our squad and within budget.
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The potential problem with moving McNeil away from LM is our injury-prone wide players in Lennon, Brady and JBG.
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that would still require us to have the same number of central midfielders and therefore doesnt solve the problemClaretTony wrote:I wouldn’t either but Duff used to use him in the Hendrick role behind a striker in a 4-4-1-1. I don’t see him as a defensive midfielder.
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Anyone going to post transfer news and accompanied links or like every other bloody thread on this forum is it another tedious "my dad's bigger than your dad" thread?
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If he's raring to go then Drinkwater would be a great signing, it's going to take time to get him up to speed though.
I'd be well excited about the guy from Nantes but it's just cos he's foreign.
People talking about McNeil in CM? As a last resort we'd be better getting Jones and keeping McNeil out wide.
I'd be well excited about the guy from Nantes but it's just cos he's foreign.
People talking about McNeil in CM? As a last resort we'd be better getting Jones and keeping McNeil out wide.
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I think it is just getting more and more difficult for us. It’s so expensive now to get players who will improve you.SGr wrote:Mentioned it before on here: I don’t think we’ll go down this season personally, but that doesn’t mean the issues are just going to go away, and before we know it rather than it being one really significant position we need, it’ll be 2-3. It’s only going to accumulate.
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That's good to hear, and it's been good to see the likes of Benson and Dunne playing significant roles in our pre season. And of course McNeil has been a huge positive.ClaretTony wrote:We have signed a good number of young players to go into the u23 squad. We are working hard at that level.
But I'm talking about signing young players for the first team, like we did Charlie Taylor two years ago. If we can't afford to improve the first 11 anymore, then we must improve directly behind it with players who can develop with us. We haven't done that for two years now.
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If necessary I'd sign one that was not yet an improvement so that at least we had 4 specialists for cm. Obviously the player should have the potential to improve the team. This could even be that the new player just stayed the same level because say Cork may be getting past his best.ClaretTony wrote:I think your opinion is wrong. There is a level of risk you can take and then there is trying to sign a player who will improve your team at this level. Often, and I know it’s proving to be the case, we can’t afford some of those players.
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Perhaps you look through the same tunnel as Dyche then and can only see as far as the championship for players.ClaretTony wrote:Well I’m not aware of all these players who will vastly improve our squad and are within budget. We must be incompetent then and just to think the club only needed to ask you given your extensive knowledge of players and costs.
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Drinkwater '...played under Burnley boss Sean Dyche, who was assistant to Malky Mackay, while on loan at Watford from Manchester United in 2011...'
there's the Sean link - get him signed-up
you need to crack eggs to cook an omelette!
there's the Sean link - get him signed-up
you need to crack eggs to cook an omelette!
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I think buying the Taylor type player (around 24) is now getting very expensive but I do agree with you.ksrclaret wrote:That's good to hear, and it's been good to see the likes of Benson and Dunne playing significant roles in our pre season. And of course McNeil has been a huge positive.
But I'm talking about signing young players for the first team, like we did Charlie Taylor two years ago. If we can't afford to improve the first 11 anymore, then we must improve directly behind it with players who can develop with us. We haven't done that for two years now.
We are though working hard to get in quality younger and if that works then we will eventually get those players coming through from our own player pool.
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Could all the posters who think they know better than Dyche and Garlick how to run a football club, and how to recruit better players in the transfer windows, post their credentials for knowing better. That way the rest of us will know whether to pay any attention to them at all.
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Would be nice for a decent run in the cups this season as a good chance to play some of these promising youngsters.
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https://www.teamtalk.com/news/exclusive ... l-city-man
Josh Brownhill from Bristol City. At least it's a rumour with a link
Josh Brownhill from Bristol City. At least it's a rumour with a link