A look back at the January window with 20 players coming in, going out, both plus one new contract.

See link
https://www.uptheclarets.com/busy-windo ... he-clarets

Yes a busy, productive transfer window, looking to the future and can only be good.

Superb article ClaretTony. We also kept Nathan Tella which was another positive for us. He's one of the league's top scorers and it's encouraging to read since the window closed his desire to stay with us

Looking towards the summer, and say we lose all our loan players, this is the squad we will be starting with:

Goalies
Muric
BPF
Franchi

Defenders
Roberts
Vitinho
Taylor
Ekdal
McNally
Al Dakhil

Midfielders
Cork
Brownhill
Cullen
Bastien

Wingers / attacking midfield
JBG
Zaroury
Benson
Twine
Churlinov

Strikers
Barnes (OOC)
Jay Rod
Foster
Obafemi

Not a bad base of young hungry players who will hopefully improve

Not an easy task to accurately document all the comings and goings this window and obviously, overall I'm pleased with our business. I can't help the niggle in the back of my mind that another midfielder in the "engine room" would have given us more security against the inevitable injuries and suspensions from now until the season ends as I'm not 100% convinced by Bastien and he's our go to option and really our ONLY go to option in that area. Having said that, in VK I trust and with 2 defeats in 28 I'm starting to think maybe he knows what he's doing and with a bit of luck we might even sneak promotion!

Transfer windows are becoming dizzy spells for us.
I remember when . . . . .

Great article and transfer window, I'm honestly just trying to live in the moment as I can't believe how good we've got it at present.

Ric_C wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:44 am

Looking towards the summer, and say we lose all our loan players, this is the squad we will be starting with:

Goalies
Muric
BPF
Franchi

Defenders
Roberts
Vitinho
Taylor
Ekdal
McNally
Al Dakhil

Midfielders
Cork
Brownhill
Cullen
Bastien

Wingers / attacking midfield
JBG
Zaroury
Benson
Twine
Churlinov

Strikers
Barnes (OOC)
Jay Rod
Foster
Obafemi

Not a bad base of young hungry players who will hopefully improve

You missed out Costello and Agyei.
Both might have further loans, but both could potentially be added to the first team squad. There's also the likes of Mellon, will he be good enough to push for a spot, or just another loan, hopefully at a higher level!
Exciting times for sure.

UTC

Very refreshing to be so proactive.

Colburn_Claret wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:15 am

You missed out Costello and Agyei.
Both might have further loans, but both could potentially be added to the first team squad. There's also the likes of Mellon, will he be good enough to push for a spot, or just another loan, hopefully at a higher level!
Exciting times for sure.

UTC

And Egan-Riley

Good report. I thought for a moment that Barton had got his boots back on and was about to start for Duff at Barnsley.

Missed Bobby Thomas too

Matt_Whalley wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:41 pm

Missed Bobby Thomas too

Thomas is included

Thank you for capturing all of that - it was hard to keep track of so much activity

We've bought in four players who will be part of the first team squad/possible starters - moved on three (four if you count Norris) senior pros who you'd assume were on decent contracts and not involved at all. Our work securing loans for developing players and adding promising youngsters has been impressive too

So aside from significantly strengthening the team/squad our overall spend must have been offset by some decent salary savings - especially if we were - as some have suggested - still paying an out-of-work Sean Dyche

What a great write-up on an incredible transfer window. It's not until you see it all presented that you see how much had been done. A bit of a contrast to how we were doing it previously.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:47 pm

Thomas is included

In your article yes, thanks.

I meant in Ric_C 's list on his post.