Transfer News 2022/23 Season Incoming Transfers and a few other things

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

Trying to get any positives and the biggest one for me is that this is Robbos squad , he has moulded and chosen so if we fail , and I'd put us lower half to flirting with relegation myself , then an easy decision to change with no excuses not to.
If we manage to be top 8 or higher than he will have to take some credit of moulding something from the shambles of recruitment this has been.
No excuses just time to deliver with your squad Robbo.

 

[windmill]

Michael Appleton messed the chairman and therefore the club around for months, waiting for confirmation he could ditch us, after the chairman gave him a shot at restarting his management career at OUFC. Players wouldn’t join or sign contract extensions while MAs future at OUFC was uncertain.
It wasn’t that long ago. I realise im in the monitory of fans but MA can absolutely get stuffed.

Whats the point in having him back. MAPP never stays long with any club. He left us to become an assistant. No thank you.

 

[IsleofWightYellow]

Whats the point in having him back. MAPP never stays long with any club. He left us to become an assistant. No thank you.

An assistant at a top Premier League club where his mate was the manager and who would have offered him a huge salary increase - and who gave him the chance to manage at that level, albeit briefly. I think it’s pretty understandable that he took that job

 

[Osei Yaw]

Obviously the transfer window was a complete disaster. A collective failing of a few parts of the club not working as they should - they should all be up for review.

The window is done. I'm right fucked off about it, but I'm going to try and leave it behind as there's nothing that can be done about it now. So now I'm just hoping we get the change in structure that we obviously desperately need and bring in the required expertise. For example, if we're now fishing in Serie A reserves, then we need people who understand how the points system works so a player isn't needlessly traveling 500km across Italy and then jumping on a plane at the last minute. And that all the hassle of that doesn't mean we drop the ball elsewhere.

I'm just going to try my best to enjoy watching this Anderson lad get up to speed. Hopefully he doesn't get injured straight away, and hopefully he's really good. I'm also hoping that Golding, Goodrham, Spasov and O'Donkor continue to get minutes in the first team to develop (feels like we're going to have to play them on occasions)!... so may as well try and enjoy that too.

And in the background, I hope serious change is underway. 4 months until the January transfer window is time enough to get a proper management structure in place for the football side, and identify and acquire the people that can work effectively in that structure. So long as we can pick up enough points in the interim, we  could make a charge for the playoffs in the second half of the season if we get January nailed, although I have a feeling we'll be too far adrift. My minimum expectation for this season is now that we sort the structure of the club... not what you have in mind when you download your season ticket, is it?

 

[Swaby39]

I missed the last 5 hours or so of what was a total non-event yesterday, thankfully, so just catching up. I feel a bit for Anderson as he’ll forever be the face of an awful deadline day where so much more was needed. To his credit, he comes across well and seems a good character with a point to prove and I think he fits the profile of what we need on that side. So first things first, good luck to him and I’m excited to see him play. KR’s interview was poor. He came across dejected but I have absolutely no sympathy with him or our owners.

There are some notable positives from the window which will be very easily forgotten and I suggest we remind ourselves of those in times of need in future! Not now, though.

I find the last 3 weeks of the window, in particular, astounding. 1 signing since 11th August who has apparently been on our radar for a month and yet took until the last hour of the window. I have little issue with the club playing the patient game but on the condition that when it gets to crunch time - I.e. last week of the window still needing players - you swallow the bitter pill that is agent fees etc and get the players you need. I believe it’s a difficult market, but you’re either a victim of it or you suck it up and attack it for what it is. The alternative is to compromise on your objectives. Some clubs are clearly more aligned than us with their ambitions/ways of working and want it more then us. They are working together and if not working harder than us, they’re definitely working smarter.

Having needed players in certain positions for so long now and having also made a poor start to the season, allowing the closing stages of the window to just sail by is quite remarkable with so many players linked having gone nowhere - Whyte, Bonne, Vokins etc. Surely, it was just a matter of sweetening the deal - if ever there was a time to go slightly above market value, this was it. We all know in football, money talks. And we have money. I expected a degree of desperation but in the end we seem content with running a totally unnecessary risk.

Our best XI does look good enough to compete around the play offs but the obvious question is how often we’ll get to see it. KR needs a mammoth performance tomorrow.

 

[OX14]

The season ticket you won't be renewing is for the club not for the manager. Or are you just having a hissy fit after the disappointment of yesterday?

Nope a combination of he's had enough time and hasn't took us any further, in fact we look like we've gone backwards this season. I will support the club but for handing over my hard earned cash for Robinson to waste on another transfer window you can forget it.

 

[werthersoriginal]

I’ve heard we are in talks with Brandon ormonde-ottewill

That’s easy for you to say

 

[Bicester Yellow]

You’re either a fan or your not.

If you are not getting value for money, prices of season tickets and matchday tickets have gone up. If he shows yet again he can’t provide a balanced squad with the budget given to him, why should people renew a season ticket when year on year the price rises & things get tighter money wise for people. Good will shouldn’t be taken for granted and I think KR has done that with the fans and the board and taken advantage of it.

 

[ChamonixOx]

So why did we risk a significant part of the budget on high-risk players? What was our recruitment strategy and why did it clearly fail so badly (the international/Brexit comment Robinson made is damning)? Robinson has to take a substantial element of the blame, but he is not alone. We have a Managing Director, who in turn reports to the Board. Who presented and signed off the overall strategy, and who was truly responsible for the recruitment element? What was presented and said by whom?

In my experience, if I submitted a proposal that either I didn't subsequently deliver, and or failed to generate the results I promised, I knew the next thing I would be presenting would be my P45, and so would a large chunk of the people who participated in its formulation and the approval process.

I'm guessing we are so far from what is promised, it almost goes past just incompetence!

 

[m]

Trying to get any positives and the biggest one for me is that this is Robbos squad , he has moulded and chosen so if we fail , and I'd put us lower half to flirting with relegation myself , then an easy decision to change with no excuses not to.
If we manage to be top 8 or higher than he will have to take some credit of moulding something from the shambles of recruitment this has been.
No excuses just time to deliver with your squad Robbo.

Yeah, this is where I'm at.

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than being proved wrong but I fear this squad is more bottom-half that top-half, and I certainly wouldn't glibly dismiss a relegation scrap.

This is the season for Karl to do or die.

 

[BristolOx]

Brown at left back over Seddon - surely?

A good Seddon > Brown. If there is such a thing.

 

[CCYellow]

Before this thread closes, please spare a thought for OUFC1, as they will have lost something to pass the time with.

I would suggest the word association thread is perfect for them, but I think they lack the intelligence for that!

 

[joshua]

To be fair, there are some who really need to have a look at themselves for posts over the last 48 hours or so, but I wouldn't include you in that list. This post for instance is perfectly stated and there is very little (if anything) that I could really argue against. I think most posters on here are closer in thought than the vocal handful on the edges of each side of the debate would have us believe.

Well out of the 1067 posts this is the only one worth reading. I probably read about 30 the rest I skipped, its like listening to a broken record, yes I am a season ticket holder and will be attending games whoever is in charge and whatever league we are in, so FFS sake stop the whining and support the team of the day.

 

[SteMerritt]

Nope a combination of he's had enough time and hasn't took us any further, in fact we look like we've gone backwards this season. I will support the club but for handing over my hard earned cash for Robinson to waste on another transfer window you can forget it.

But if you have a Season Ticket (which of course I'm presuming you have, otherwise you couldn't decide not to renew it), then you've already paid for this season, including the upcoming January transfer window.

 

[OX14]

Before this thread closes, please spare a thought for OUFC1, as they will have lost something to pass the time with.

I would suggest the word association thread is perfect for them, but I think they lack the intelligence for that!

Schools back next week so hopefully he/she will be occupied.

 

[Chippy]

I’m very much afraid to say with the financially hard winter ahead, I can only see attendances plummet from last seasons average.

There is currently no excitement in the squad, there is no excitement about the way we are playing, meaning there is no excitement for the season ahead, which has only just begun after all! Many supporters are now completely disillusioned.

i‘m worried where all this summers money has really gone. I think we’ve spent extortionate amounts on unfit, high risk players, for the last year or two now, and we are well and truly in the mire. Yes they may get fit and have flashes of brilliance, but I fear many may have to play within themselves to stay fit, and if playing at full speed will likely break down again. We have some very high earners who, £ per games they will actually play, will work out as nothing short of obscene!

The best players are going to have to play every single game as there is no back up to give them a rest or break, and if they get injured we have massive problems.

We have yet again tried to be fancy and creative (verging on the ridiculous) in terms of recruitment, instead of trying to get what we really need to build a strong sustainable and robust squad, capable of challenging near the top.

The whole club needs a total shake up in every department, from top down and inside out, if we are to get to the next level. No pain, no gain as the saying goes!

 

[SirAndyOfCrosby]

The state of the entitled ‘fan base’ we have on here is just embarrassing.

Your self-entitlement as to what we are as a club is incredible

Entitled? Entitled???

I never had the pleasure of watching us in the top flight, nor do I expect to in my lifetime.
I did, however, get to enjoy multiple seasons in the 2nd tier throughout the 90's - and I don't think it is unreasonable to hope for this again.

There is a significant portion of our support (judging by this place) that are more than content to never play at that level again. I'm not saying they don't want it - but they are distinctly content where they are. Being reserved is ok in real life, football should allow us to dream, to wish for more. It doesn't mean you can't appreciate what KR has achieved or that 'things could be worse' - but it recognises that life is short and progress is our aim.

Of course it's not KR's fault that we've not played in the 2nd tier for 23 years (nearly a quarter of a century) - but after 4.5 years if he is not best placed to get us there then surely we move on?

This isn't entitlement - it's ambition. Entitled are Wigan fans thinking they should be top flight because Dave Whelan got them punching above their weight or Reading fans thinking their natural place is in the 2nd tier because they've overspent for years.

I am simply wanting OUFC to play in the 2nd tier - a level far from beyond us and hardly delusions of grandeur.

For the record, the following clubs (all smaller than us IMHO) have played tier 2 football (or in some cases top flight) since we last did in 1999:

Tranmere
Stockport
Crewe
Grimsby
Walsall
Port Vale
Gillingham
Wimbledon
Rotherham
Wigan
Southend
Scunthorpe
Colchester
Blackpool
Doncaster Rovers
Peterborough
Yeovil
Bournemouth
Brentford
MK Dons
Burton Albion
Wycombe

And that doesn't even touch on clubs of a similar size (Reading, Plymouth, Luton, Swansea etc). In fact, I can't think of a bigger club than us that has gone as long without playing in the 2nd tier (there's probably one or two of a similar size (Bristol Rovers for example) who have gone a bit longer - but no-one undeniably bigger).

As identified by other posters - this could be the best chance we have of not only getting to that level but establishing ourselves there. We need to move - and move quick - the clock is ticking. Off the pitch - and on it.

 

[OX14]

But if you have a Season Ticket (which of course I'm presuming you have, otherwise you couldn't decide not to renew it), then you've already paid for this season, including the upcoming January transfer window.

Yep ,what a mistake this was, ive spent over £1k this season on season tickets/shirts ,I thought we were going to be ambitious this window and plug all the holes in last seasons squad that failed. The opposite has happened though and we have more holes in the squad than last season.

 

[Reynolds97]

Well out of the 1067 posts this is the only one worth reading. I probably read about 30 the rest I skipped, its like listening to a broken record, yes I am a season ticket holder and will be attending games whoever is in charge and whatever league we are in, so FFS sake stop the whining and support the team of the day.

Its a fans forum the whole topic is discussing the transfer window? I'm sure the people saying they wont be going anymore still will - Just the frustrations of watching us nearly take the step towards championship and now take a massive backwards step. We are miles off it this year, last season was the best chance we will ever get and we bottled it. Wasting the early part of the summer chasing a move didnt help either.

 

[guyellow]

Charlton statement over their failure to get MacAuley Bonne over the line.

Update following closure of transfer window | Charlton Athletic Football Club

www.charltonafc.com