Transfer Talk - 2018/19 Season

If we got Peter Crouch at his age I would be utterly distraught. That could be a season killer.

Crouch lacks the mobility needed for our style of defence and attack. We need a mobile #9

Plus I'm pretty sure we are looking at marquee strikers - I'd hope we would be more optimistic than league one for a marquee

Billy Sharp would be fantastic. A more mobile McCormack. I’d prefer Fornaroli as a primary option because he’s a lot more than just a finisher, though it seems he’s training his way back into the city squad.

How good would Rojas be for Burns? Role seems made for him

Rossi is still available, might be cheaper now.

hows Alex Jones doing?

Bang average for Bradford it seems. 24 games in 2 seasons, only 5 goals

Unless you mean the podcast Alex Jones, he ain’t doing much better

Where did Smeltzy come from?

I'd hope we're a bit more ambitious than we were in 2007 tbh

Steven Taylor came from League One too of course. He's a defender, but happy with someone who can score goals as well as Taylor can defend.

O'Donovan an interesting one, his last stint in England was in League Two. Wonder if there's any other decent strikers floating around down there these days? 

I was just pointing out we have had league MVPs who came out of the lower leagues, with Krishna, Siggie and Riera coming from asbp or wateva it is.

Contrary to what the naysayers believe the A-League quality keeps improving and we may not cut it anymore without looking at at least one more quality import to match the Kurto ,  Taylor etc.  quality already present.  Guys like Singh will develop better next to guys like Krishna but we need more.

Tbf most of those Championship strikers would improve us. On top of the two you've mentioned, I wouldn't mind Nugent or Hooper - both know how to score goals. 

I'd be very keen to see Crouch playing for us. It would make life very difficult for opposing defences and take the pressure right off our other front runners.

No idea what nugent is like these days but hooper would be a fantastic addition. As long as his attitude was correct. From memory, it wasn't great towards the end of his celtic career. 

Billy Sharp is having a great season for Blades so far... can't seem him coming to the Nix!

bump 

anything??

Word on the trialists anyone? Would be ecstatic at TAHW going down even if he'd leave a hole in our team

yeh, wondering if there are any looking at Rufer with red faces 

Ireland is a bad egg

Better off finding someone from north euro leagues..watcjhng Pukki of Norwich..ex Finland.

Aleksandr Kokko
Wayne Brown
Michael Jakobsen
Tobias Mikkelsen
Johan Absalonsen
Morten Nordstrand
Juho Makela

Only Absalonsen has really stood out. Also you asking someone to come from a Euro winter and play straight away in an Aussie summer.

Hope what Taylor was saying about talking to lots of players are true. Interestingly yesterday Mulvey said the Mariners are going to strengthen in January but they won't get imports because it takes several weeks to get a work visa. Maybe NZ is easier but it hasn't been a problem for us in the past iirc.

Maybe Mulvey was speaking in code, ie CCM can only afford NPL players to 'strengthen' their squad.

I hope we would stand in their way. We have to have a decent squad, not just a decent team.

Marquee signing ??

OH BOY OH BOY

anticipate 

I'd rather a game in this form and while I have a holiday, but hey!

What do we think?

I miss the old days when the club would leak like a seive 24hrs before an announcement!

I'm only assuming it's a signing because Rudan is there and it's at their training ground. It's scheduled for 830am which seems a bit odd.

So perhaps more likely some squad NZ players.

Good solid additions if that's the case. Timely with current schedule and players on yellow cards. Although am still keen to see Callan Elliot get a run at some stage and have been happy with what I've seen of Max Burgess.