Transfer Window January 2026 Transfer Window Thread

[Carpy]

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Transfer Window Closed

Confirmed Transfers​

INCOMING​	OUTGOING​
Jamie Donley - On Loan From Tottenham (Option to Buy)​	Louie Sibley - Loaned to Bradford City​
Myles Peart-Harris - 6 Month Deal​
Yunus Konak - On Loan From Brentford (End of Season)​
Jamie McDonnell - Long Term Deal​
Jeon Jin Woo - Permanent Transfer​
Christ Makosso - Loan w Option (£3M)​

Rumoured Transfers​

INCOMING​	OUTGOING​
Andrew Moran​	Przemyslaw Placheta​
Kalidou Sidibe​	Tom Bradshaw​
Luke Graham​

Tigers A.K.A Big Boys Rumour List​

INCOMING​	OUTGOING​
Paddy McNair​	Tiger (Sacked)​
Isiah Jones​
George Earthy​
Yu Hirakawa​
Sam Morsey​
Alex Matos​
Aidomo Emakhu​
Alex Robertson​
Ryan Hardie​
Tyler Bindon​
Paris Magohma​
Jack Talor​
Jamie McDonnell​

 

[BarrySpang]

 

[Jster]

There is no joined-up thinking.

I'm getting pelters on here but I wish to stress that I have nothing against Emakhu, Roosken or any new signing.

My issue is with the utterly grotesque recruitment model. New players in one door, pay them off out the other. No accountability.

Maybe I'm just disillusioned with 'transfer windows', but I'm struggling to muster enthusiasm for our 'work' here. It looks haphazard, hopeful, and gluttonous.

And I have no faith that we won't do it all again in 6 months.

Yeah, I wasn't particularly on board with the earlier prejudging of individual players, but this post is spot on. The whole thing does suddenly feel chaotic, starting with the termination of Phillips. You wonder what the current players make of it. A bloated squad now even more bloated, and with far too many loanees. I've no idea what the plan is.

 

[Chippy]

If we’re worried about money, then we have an unbelieveable amount of players on our books and are still funding chunks of some of the loans too.

Then you look at our signings in this window.

McDonnell - midfielder permanent, seems like a very good bit of business for the long term.

Konak - midfielder loan from Prem team. Not really impressed yet from limited minutes, will he play a key role for remainder of season? Questionable.

Peart Harris - left sided attacker permanent but only a 6 month deal and 50/50 chance at best he stays next season.

Donley - Attacking midfielder loan from Prem Team, injured in first game so no idea how this will work out, but couldn’t get into Stoke’s team in first half of this season.

JinWoo - Winger Permanent from Korean League. No idea how he’ll do as an unknown quantity.

Makosso - Central Defender loan from a League One side, where he wasn’t always a guaranteed starter.

Roosken - LWB loan from a League One side where he wasn’t always a guaranteed starter

Possibly one more to come on a permanent

So we’ve signed 7/8 players. I’d say only 3 at most of these will make the starting 11 on a regular basis. Two are from the division below on loans (which is a little odd in terms of going up the leagues on loan).

I’d have personally expected any signings in this window to be guaranteed starters to massively improve us and try and keep us up. To have signed 8 players and potentially half or less of those to be unlikely starters and possibly not even make the bench in one or two cases seems bonkers to me, We are shedding out tons of money on players who may not play a significant part in trying to save our season, and taken some huge huge risks in terms of whether they are just simply complete Championship gambles.

 

[BTCW]

Salford > Bristol Rovers > Tranmere - getting to the point where it may be time to cash in if we can make a few hundred grand.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

I don't see why the window should matter when it's us sending him back to his parent club. Certainly used to be able to cancel loans early and send players back. It would be different if they wanted to call him back - that would definitely be limited to the windows.

But I may be wrong.

Depends on the terms of the loan. Usually there are dates by which a club can recall/send back a loan.

 

[n1]

Salford > Bristol Rovers > Tranmere - getting to the point where it may be time to cash in if we can make a few hundred grand.

Dont think the Rovers spell did hus reputation any good. Hopefully this one will bring his stock back up

 

[Made-in-Jericho]

Well if we’re gonna go down we may as well do so with all guns blazing!

 

[OUFCGav]

I don't see why the window should matter when it's us sending him back to his parent club. Certainly used to be able to cancel loans early and send players back. It would be different if they wanted to call him back - that would definitely be limited to the windows.

But I may be wrong.

In the proper way of things, we can only send a player back at the agreed point in the loan contract, and only in the transfer window.
Unofficially, if all parties agree, they can go back to parent club at any time, but can't play (unless a youth player playing youth games).

 

[holdsteady]

Salford > Bristol Rovers > Tranmere - getting to the point where it may be time to cash in if we can make a few hundred grand.

Looking at the clubs he has gone on loan to I can’t see us getting a couple of hundred grand if we can even get a fee. Can see him joining the exodus in the summer, going to be like when they culled them badgers a few summers back we have so many going.

 

[Symp59]

Great signing the Millwall lad ,hoping a few are paid off ,surprised Leigh is still here ,Dembele won't budge ,surprised about God and Negru ,but we certainly have got some squad, I would have loved to have signed Hardie that would have been worth a try he's a proven goal scorer which we certainly don't posses but hey ho let's give it a go ,can we upset chippy tomorrow

We can make it permanent anytime.

 

[greatunclekip]

Millwall fans views on Emakhu largely around no end product, can’t finish, and League 1 level.

We had the same with Roofe of course, but it’s another massive punt, likely with a view to League 1.

 

[Jaboysmith]

Ummmmm…

 

[Ovaltoyou]

All the signings as always are big gambles, but hats off to the board for giving it a go.

 

[tonyw]

So just gone through the numbers again, and unless we have another surprise departure announced, I believe we now have 30 players that would need registering (not including Easty)!? Someone correct me again if I've got any of these wrong.

Cumming
Ingram
Long
Helik
Davies
Makosso
Brown
Currie
Leigh
Roosken
HTA
Cam
BDK
Konak
McDonnell
Vaulks
Shemmy
Romeny
Dembele
MPH
Emakhu
Woo
Mills
Donley
Lankshear
Harris
Prelec
Krastev
Goodrham
Thorniley

So we won't register Tyler, for sure, because of his injury -1
We won't register Thorniley because he's hurt and surely not going to get a look in for a CB spot -1
We surely will be/have already cancelled Krastev's loan, right? We can't possibly be planning on having eight loanees for our last 18 or so games!?!?! -1

So that means two more senior pros that we're going to have to sit down permanently for the next four months.

I hate to say it, because I love him dearly, but perhaps Greg Leigh? If Bloomfield would rather play Phillips there than him in Currie's absence, can't be a good sign when we've just signed another LB/LWB.

Reckon the next most likely candidate is probably Dembele? A million quid to unregistered would be quite the demise in sixteen months, but he seems more likely than anyone else on that list.

Not exactly efficient squad management, to put it mildly.......so many forwards without any of them being truly reliable options......

EDIT - Forgot that McDonnell is U21. So only one of Leigh or Dembele or ANOther is out of luck, assuming Krastev leaves

 

[Osei Yaw]

Looking at the clubs he has gone on loan to I can’t see us getting a couple of hundred grand if we can even get a fee. Can see him joining the exodus in the summer, going to be like when they culled them badgers a few summers back we have so many going.

Presumably some of the obligations to buy we have on our loan players are triggered if we manage to stay up.

Meaning if we go down then we will see over 20 players leave.

The one up side of that is how good the summer transfer window thread will be on here.

 

[tatabanya]

You said it, his scoring record is poor.

Assuming it’s an obligation to buy, then the club may as well do it now, absolutely. But that in itself would throw into question that deal, wouldn’t it?

Why would the club agree that deal, for a bloke who’s got nothing by way of evidence to suggest he’d score goals in England?

I don’t think anyone has said that we need more players and less loans. I think what I’ve seen in people saying we need a more targeted approach, to address the deficiencies of our squad. If you don’t think the lack of goals are a problem, then you can’t understand the complexities of how to win a game.

Your last point is redundant. By your own admission, we don’t have significant money to spend on transfers at this level. So permanent signings for the players mentioned can’t have been seriously considered.

His scoring record being poor doesn’t mean he’s a poor player though? Judging strikers just off their goal record is clearly flawed, especially in this case when he’s barely played up front.

The deal was structured this way as he was a main striker target and there was no money available to pay a fee up front. So it was either this, a youth loan like Lankshear or a free agent.

And if my last point is redundant, then I really don’t understand what the alternative is. Just sign players available on a free so we don’t have too many loans? What do you think they should have done instead of what they have done this window?

 

[Wallop]

What a lovely photo, I hope he sent a copy to his mum, she’d love it.

 

[holdsteady]

Presumably some of the obligations to buy we have on our loan players are triggered if we manage to stay up.

Meaning if we go down then we will see over 20 players leave.

The one up side of that is how good the summer transfer window thread will be on here.

Especially if 20 go out but none come in to replace them quickly, that will go down well.

 

[Marked Ox]

Especially if 20 go out but none come in to replace them quickly, that will go down well.

Would definitely get the popcorn out for that.

 

[Osleroad]

Dont think the Rovers spell did hus reputation any good. Hopefully this one will bring his stock back up

Especially if he keeps off the wacky baccy!

 

[WE Yellow]

Millwall fans views on Emakhu largely around no end product, can’t finish, and League 1 level.

We had the same with Roofe of course, but it’s another massive punt, likely with a view to League 1.

Not sure that’s correct, I’m seeing a lot of their fans sorry to see him go and that his pace and directness will be missed. Also a few mentioning that Langstaff should have been sold before him.

 

[Shosho]

 

[BicesterU]

The reason I've said the number of loans is bonkers is simply from a squad harmony and parent club expectation perspective.

MB has said a few times that he doesn't want players unhappy because they're missing out on match day squads; I'm probably paraphrasing slightly.

But if the plan is to keep 8 loanees, and the players and parent clubs are aware of and happy with that situation, then that's fine.

Was just making the point - maybe slightly clumsily - that having that many loanees by default means you've got to leave three of them out of every squad, and MB has said he'd prefer to avoid a situation like that.

 

[Ian]

Can we loan Carpy to a League Two team forum for not updating the pinned post?

 

[BicesterU]

Can we loan Carpy to a League Two team forum for not updating the pinned post?

We'd still be paying a huge percentage of his wages, so better to offload him permanently if we can. Be hard to find any takers though

 

[Dicky]

So if these loans have an option to buy doesn't that mean we can purchase them at anytime during the loan? Would that not sort out the squad issue of there being to many loan signings to fit into a match day squad, just turn them into a permanent signing when we need to

 

[battman]

Reckon we’ve got it done but it’s past bedtime for the club’s social media team

 

[Marked Ox]

Reckon we’ve got it done but it’s past bedtime for the social media team

Agreed, that was my first thought as they haven't had time to do the social media stuff.

 

[holdsteady]

Or the fax machine broke down at the vital moment and we didn’t? We have had problems with it before.

 

[greatunclekip]

Surely we haven’t fucked this one up?