Transfer Window January 2025 Transfer Window Thread

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Common Villager said:
All the absolutist statements that are made on here are becoming so tedious. Too many posters are desperate to label players as being either useless or the next Messi. You can tell who spends too much time on social media.

The reality where most players are concerned is much more nuanced. McEachran's legs haven't gone. At the start of the season when we were playing very well and winning games, he put in some really good performances against the likes of Preston and Stoke. When he got injured at Bristol City everyone was quite concerned how we'd cope in his absence. He undoubtedly lacks the physicality to play 90 minutes week in, week out at this level now, but he is still a classy footballer and, if he doesn't leave in this window, I expect he will contribute between now and the end of the season.

Dale's game has never been about goals. He brings energy, determination and strong pressing abilities. I watched the playoff final back over the Christmas break (sad I know) and he really was an unsung hero that day. He worked incredibly hard and used the ball well when it came to him. He is not going to beat three or four men and smack one in from 30 yards but, as his cameos this season have shown, his energy can change games. He is far from useless. That said, if a situation presents itself whereby a better player becomes available and there is an option to move Dale on then I expect the club will take that opportunity.

Football is obviously incredibly emotive, and I'm sure you could point to numerous posts where I've made similar sweeping statements, but I do think a lot of posters on here could do with employing a bit more balance and reason, particularly when discussing players who played such a key role in our unlikely promotion run not even a year ago.

FWIW I think we have quite good strength in depth in most areas of the pitch at the moment. The area that has concerned me for most of the season is both is both full back positions, but the club don't seem particularly bothered about doing anything in those areas this window so what do I know?
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Yeah. There are some right gobshites among the reasonable people.
 
tonyw said:
I don't know.....you think we'd get a star quality experienced Championship striker for £2m-£3m?

Tom Cannon just cost Sheffield United £10m, and Jay Stansfield cost Brum £15m. Boro have accepted an offer of £18m+ for Latte Lath, Joel Piroe cost more than £10m, they're talking about £10m for Josh Maja etc. etc.

Nah, I think £2m-£3m at this level buys you a lottery ticket - someone promising from the lower leagues, PL academies or overseas that may turn out to be awesome and may turn out to be a bust. And we already have one of those in Romeny.

If we want a sure thing, we'd have to sell Tyler and then sink every penny of that transfer fee into a striker. Which we might still want to think about doing of course (if we don't need Tyler's fee to get through FFP restrictions)........but probably not until the summer......
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I think there is quality out there for £2m-£3m. Oxford are very good at identifying players who are coming to the end of contracts and can pick up value.

We're not in the market for those big strikers but that's the level we're competing at. We will see soon, assuming we stay in the Championship, bigger fees being spent. I am already amazed with the investment to date, Dembele, Ole and Helik.

The out of contract list of Championship strikers (contracts ending 2025) isn't huge but Emil Riis is a player who hasn't signed his contract, was being talked about as a £9m player not so long ago and Preston either let him run his contract down or someone could try and deal - would that be a £2m lottery ticket? I don't think so.

We did the same with Bradshaw, £150K-£200K, was the rumoured spend - if so, unbelievable business.

Other OOC forwards, not suggesting any of these, Pedro, Callum Robinson, Kion Etete, Rhian Brewster, Duncan Whatmore, Nakhi Wells or Michael Smith. Star quality? Maybe not, but Callum Robinson would be a pretty impressive signature.

Anyway, Nathan Redmond or Marvin Johnson are the ones I expect us to go for.
 
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Has McEachran ever been much of an athlete? Seen talk of him being one of the best footballers even while at Chelsea but never had the physicality to go with it. Its the reason why he has had quite a strange career, not that old still but never really gone to a club and, despite his quality with the ball, been a star despite dropping down.
 
Brahma said:
I think there is quality out there for £2m-£3m. Oxford are very good at identifying players who are coming to the end of contracts and can pick up value.

We're not in the market for those big strikers but that's the level we're competing at. We will see soon, assuming we stay in the Championship, bigger fees being spent. I am already amazed with the investment to date, Dembele, Ole and Helik.

The out of contract list of Championship strikers (contracts ending 2025) isn't huge but Emil Riis is a player who hasn't signed his contract, was being talked about as a £9m player not so long ago and Preston either let him run his contract down or someone could try and deal - would that be a £2m lottery ticket? I don't think so.

We did the same with Bradshaw, £150K-£200K, was the rumoured spend - if so, unbelievable business.

Other OOC forwards, not suggesting any of these, Pedro, Callum Robinson, Kion Etete, Rhian Brewster, Duncan Whatmore, Nakhi Wells or Michael Smith. Star quality? Maybe not, but Callum Robinson would be a pretty impressive signature.

Anyway, Nathan Redmond or Marvin Johnson are the ones I expect us to go for.
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Callum Robinson would be an incredible piece of business if at all possible

I think these are the types of players we will be looking at in the summer (assuming we stay up of course)
 
Bazoufc said:
Callum Robinson would be an incredible piece of business if at all possible

I think these are the types of players we will be looking at in the summer (assuming we stay up of course)
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He feels very similar to Josh Murphy. Cardiff fans could not stand him before he scored against us with the last kick of the game, and now he seemingly scores for fun. A player with well reported attitude issues in the past, and should a team pay big bucks for him in the summer, it will be a risk, as he could end up going back in his shell.
 
Bazoufc said:
Callum Robinson would be an incredible piece of business if at all possible

I think these are the types of players we will be looking at in the summer (assuming we stay up of course)
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Callum Robinson must be on £20k a week and having his best season in years. He won’t be leaving Cardiff unless it’s for PL money, not Oxford money.

The reality is Kone’s going for £6m+, Joe Taylor went to L1 for £3m, Kyle Joseph was similar. With the exception of maybe a 35 year old Nakhi Wells due to his age, we won’t be signing a proven Championship goalscorer.

Derby have just spent £1.5m on a 28 year old with a good scoring record in Norway. It’ll be those kind of markets I imagine Ed is scouring looking for a striker.
 
dickwalton1964 said:
I posted on this thread about a month ago that I’d heard we were one of a few clubs in the hunt for Nathan Recmond. Heard nothing since but nevertheless interesting to see his name crop up.
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Really? How are his stats for appearances, goals and assists for the last couple of seasons?

Saying that because everyone goes on about Dale’s or Dembele’s stats and others.

How are Redmond’s in comparison? Just to put things into context!
 
WRox said:
Callum Robinson must be on £20k a week and having his best season in years. He won’t be leaving Cardiff unless it’s for PL money, not Oxford money.

The reality is Kone’s going for £6m+, Joe Taylor went to L1 for £3m, Kyle Joseph was similar. With the exception of maybe a 35 year old Nakhi Wells due to his age, we won’t be signing a proven Championship goalscorer.

Derby have just spent £1.5m on a 28 year old with a good scoring record in Norway. It’ll be those kind of markets I imagine Ed is scouring looking for a striker.
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100% this. Strikers are so hard to come by!

A returning Dane Scarlett next September might actually be our best option, with another 6 months of development (should he go back out on loan)?
 
Assuming we stay up, we’ll have more options next summer than the last two windows. Another year of Championship cash and a nice platform of maybe 20 squad places already taken up by players we trust (even factoring for outgoings).

I could see us being more competitive with teams like Hull and Stoke next summer, rather than Plymouth and Portsmouth, in the context of trying to just sign 3-4 players.
 
Derby set to complete the signing of Matt Clarke from Middlesbrough.
Also in for Dan Barlaser.

Clarke is an excellent signing. Easily a top half Championship centre-back for me.
Game time guarantees at Derby with the injuries to Nelson and Phillips alongside imminent Cashin departure.
Barlaser feels like he'd go in the Hourihane role that they've never filled.

The longer the Cashin deal drags out, the less time they have to spend the cash on reinforcements across the squad.
 
Brahma said:
I think there is quality out there for £2m-£3m. Oxford are very good at identifying players who are coming to the end of contracts and can pick up value.

We're not in the market for those big strikers but that's the level we're competing at. We will see soon, assuming we stay in the Championship, bigger fees being spent. I am already amazed with the investment to date, Dembele, Ole and Helik.

The out of contract list of Championship strikers (contracts ending 2025) isn't huge but Emil Riis is a player who hasn't signed his contract, was being talked about as a £9m player not so long ago and Preston either let him run his contract down or someone could try and deal - would that be a £2m lottery ticket? I don't think so.

We did the same with Bradshaw, £150K-£200K, was the rumoured spend - if so, unbelievable business.

Other OOC forwards, not suggesting any of these, Pedro, Callum Robinson, Kion Etete, Rhian Brewster, Duncan Whatmore, Nakhi Wells or Michael Smith. Star quality? Maybe not, but Callum Robinson would be a pretty impressive signature.

Anyway, Nathan Redmond or Marvin Johnson are the ones I expect us to go for.
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Based on Championship experience, a good age and (i think!) OOC in the summer, I would be having a look at Tyrhys Dolan.

Very Goodrham like with his ability to carry and provide energy through the middle or out wide. Is hard working and can play false 9 if required also. Plus, by 23 he has played 174 times in the Championship
 
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Shosho said:
Based on Championship experience, a good age and (i think!) OOC in the summer, I would be having a look at Tyrhys Dolan.

Very Goodrham like with his ability to carry and provide energy through the middle or out wide. Is hard working and can play false 9 if required also. Plus, by 23 he has played 174 times in the Championship
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Would be a very good signing for us, hasn’t really pushed on yet but the quality is definitely there. I would have liked us to return for Liam Cullen as well, another OOC in the summer but I imagine his form this year probably means he’ll make a bigger move.
 
The more I think about it, seeing these other clubs around and below us in the table trying to make signings to boost their survival chances, we did very well to get most of our business done early in the window for a change. That’s made a big difference with most of those already making a significant contribution to our points tally, which has meant we’ve been able to be much more assured in what we are doing and not scrambling around and paying unnecessarily high fees for players. We’ve also got points on the board which can only be a very good thing in our quest to be in the Champ next season.
 
Horse said:
Stoke are after Mark Sykes, would you have him back? OOC in the summer.
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Too right, dragged city back into the Sheffield Wednesday game by himself
Best player on the pitch and then left out Saturday.
Rumours of a fall out with Manning down here since Christmas.
Naismith off to Luton also
 
Chippy said:
The more I think about it, seeing these other clubs around and below us in the table trying to make signings to boost their survival chances, we did very well to get most of our business done early in the window for a change. That’s made a big difference with most of those already making a significant contribution to our points tally, which has meant we’ve been able to be much more assured in what we are doing and not scrambling around and paying unnecessarily high fees for players. We’ve also got points on the board which can only be a very good thing in our quest to be in the Champ next season.
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Echo this - we've been very calm and measured and got good business done early. With the squad now looking well stacked it gives us a chance to take a few more risks in the final days of the window if we wanted to (Tahirovic as an example being linked).

Much rather be in our position than Luton, who, as well as needing updrages to their XI, are willing to spend extortionate fees for unproven Champ quality. That is a huge red flag.
 
Ok look Luton have made a bid of 6million for kone also made a bit of 3 million for the Wigan lad. When we were in league 1 we were all happy about 1 million Fees from championship clubs for are players because we are a league 1 team. We are now championship and if Kone with his lack of experience is worth 6 million from league 1 then Tyler Goodrham is a 10 million pound player
 
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