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Contingency Planning

Contingency Planning

Kesselring

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If Nugent were to go in the January transfer window and we cleared £3 mill after paying off Bury how many of you would go along with the following:

Maynard, 19(Crewe) £1.5 mill.

Cahill, 21 (Aston Villa) £500K

Ostemobor, 23 (Crewe) £250K

We just also might be able to bring in left winger Boyd from Stevenage for £200K.

Alternative suggestions are invited.
 
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i think we would need a new focal point to our team, so it would be more advisable splash the cash a bigger name player. I dont know who though 😛
 
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Voldemort said:
If Nugent were to go in the January transfer window and we cleared £3 mill after paying off Bury how many of you would go along with the following:

Maynard, 19(Crewe) £1.5 mill.

Cahill, 21 (Aston Villa) £500K

Ostemobor, 23 (Crewe) £250K

We just also might be able to bring in left winger Boyd from Stevenage for £200K.

Alternative suggestions are invited.
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mentioned George Boyd ages ago, class player!

thing is with the above suggestion, we'd have to offload more to be able to fit all those players on our books, all thier wages added up would put us over budget, i think. we have alot of players in the current squad.
 
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You reckon Maynard would be that much already? Leroy Lita had a full season as a prolific striker and he only went for a million.

It looks like Billy Jones is heading for Man City, Gary Cahill and Jon Ostemobor might help swell the ranks at the back, tough sgning both may mean we need to ship someone out (can we really afford 8 full time defenders in the squad?)

Billy Sharp's still someone well worthy of consideration.
 
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And those to be shipped out are Smith, McCormack, Jarrett and despite his goal yesterday Dichio. Plus we've just lost O'Neil.

With the latter three that would be three high wage earners off our books.
 
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May as well just buy another quality striker and maybe a defender for back up, as all other positions are looking good at the mo!🙂
 
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You're leaving the midfield very light there. McKenna, Sedgwick and possibly Stock as senior centre midfielders, possibly Nowland- when/if he gets fit again.
 
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Voldemort said:
And those to be shipped out are Smith, McCormack, Jarrett and despite his goal yesterday Dichio. Plus we've just lost O'Neil.

With the latter three that would be three high wage earners off our books.
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The trouble is, it just isn't THAT easy to get shut of players, particularly when they're high earners on long(ish) contracts - particularly when they're unproven at English league level.

It's all very well submitting potential targets, but we need to actively cut down the squad before we can even think about doing that right now.

History shows us that the way to gain promotion is to bolster a squad with quality when they it is performing well, rather than panic buy when it's too late. However (for example), in Derek Shaw's eyes we've probably got enough strength in attack, given that we've reached third position without the services of Ormerod and Mellor.

Rather than suggest targets, perhaps it might be pertinent to suggest exactly how we rid ourselves of the deadweight first.
 
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Who's that dude from ther championhip @ Plymouth who they made out to be world class?

Hows Leroy Lita doing @ Reading, noticed he's not in the U21's.

Sure Eastwood will be mentioned @ some point too!
 
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I think with Mellor less than certain to be fiton a regular basis, Paddy still very much hit and miss and if as you say ship out Dichio. The loss of Nooge would need someone a little more proven than Maynard. I'm all for bringing in Maynard, I think we'd get him for 500k but as a backup replacement should we get shut of Dichio and Smith.

As Danny says getting shut of the likes of Smith, McCormack etc is the hardest part of all.

Eastwood would be the one for me, slightly mre proven.

If we could have these five and no othersup front, I'd be more than happy.

Eastwood
Ormerod
Mellor
Maynard
Agyemang (just)

For the time being I think its less than certain Nooge will go in the January window, the team is flying and Nooge is hardly prolific.

So swap Nooge for Eastwood on the above list and we are laughing.
 
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If we are still as high up as we are now come January I think we will be able to hold on to Nugent. One way or the other he is likely to be playing in the Premiership next season and whichever way you look at it it makes more sense for him to stay with us until the end of the season. If we do get promoted he might well stay for another season given that he would be a near certain first choice striker for us even at that higher level. If we don't then it would make sense to sell him and use the cash for general team strengthening - not least because his value might go up if he plays well in the European U21 Finals.

If he does stay then with Nugent, Agyemang and Ormerod as the three from whom the main striker partnership can be selected and Dichio as back-up we simply will not need another striker. In that scenario Mellor's availability would be an added bonus, but we don't need to hurry him and unless we lose one of the other four to injury then we can give him whatever time he needs.

The major issue now, however, is offloading players. Simmo has indicated that he has decided those he doesn't want but there has been no public indication of names. My guess is that they include Hibbert and Jarrett, probably Smith, possibly McCormack and maybe Lewis Neal and Stock. But Simmo has also made it evident that if a player gets a chance and takes it then they can change his mind. I suspect that both Sedgwick and Agyemang have done that over the last couple of months. It is therefore perfectly feasible that any one of those players might do the same.
 
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Voldemort said:
If Nugent were to go in the January transfer window and we cleared £3 mill after paying off Bury how many of you would go along with the following:

Maynard, 19(Crewe) £1.5 mill.

Cahill, 21 (Aston Villa) £500K

Ostemobor, 23 (Crewe) £250K

We just also might be able to bring in left winger Boyd from Stevenage for £200K.

Alternative suggestions are invited.
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We have goal machine Danny back in scoring mode we don't need a new striker.

(lights blue touch paper.. retires safe distance)
 
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Simmo said at the last fans forum that he wanted a centre back, a midfielder and a "big strong centre forward".
I don't know where the two Crewe players Voldemort mentioned play but I'd be more than happy with Cahill, Eastwood (who may be out of our range) or Sharp. In midfield, I think we need a "sitter" in the O'Neil mode, not necessarily to displace McKenna or Sedgwick currently but assuming Stock and Jarrett to be persona non gratis but that Nowland makes a full recovery, that's what the squad needs - not sure who though!
 
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PENNYWHITE said:
I don't know where the two Crewe players Voldemort mentioned play
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maynard is a striker. he's one of the leading scorers in league 1.

otsemebor is a defender i think. i think he's a right back though
 
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Thanks for the info Funky. This means the targets we've discussed cover two of Simmo's preferred areas but not the midfielder, who I feel should be a defensive solid player (basically cover the McKenna's current role) in the Nicky Butt mode. These players are often the ones who make teams tick but don't get noticed as much as more attacking midfielders like Nowland.
Anyone got any ideas for a suitable replacement for O'Neil?
 
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Voldemort said:
And those to be shipped out are Smith, McCormack, Jarrett and despite his goal yesterday Dichio. Plus we've just lost O'Neil.

With the latter three that would be three high wage earners off our books.
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Also take the wages we are paying for gardening leaveThat would surely pay for a decent players wage. And if Derek would get his finger out and get us a decent proven striker we would make the premiership and looking at the crowds yesterday we could expect the same by drawing against the big clubs that is what Preston needs, a visit from a decent bigger club
 
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The main issue for me is that we DO spend the cash on youngsters, rather than more established players. I'm relatively happy to leave the actual names to others.

This policy has served us very well recently, and we must continue it. If only 2 out of 5 were successful, for the fees spent it would be a good investment, and would keep us rolling.

The temptation for managers is always going to be to opt for short termism with the incoming fee. This must resisted.
 
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I think Simmo will suprise everyone no-one had heard of the saint or chilvers till he signed them so lets wait we may be suprised.
 
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clinton morrison worth a shout at palace? they would want rid of him after him and chairman 'tan-man' jordan having a fallout apparently.
 
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