John Obika

[sonicyouth]

maybe we made an approach but spurs/he was only interested in going back to yovile?

fucking stinks though. and that stench is starting to smell like incompetence.

[dell boy]

Championship sides of the like of Reading, Watford and QPR, who are just down the road from us have loads of exciting young talent on their books who will not feature this season, why aren't we banging on their doors to get a couple on emergency one-month loans.

I just cant see this mystery big money signing coming at the moment, and it will probably end up with a panic purchase just to appease us lot in the end. Re: Trundle.

[glos_robin]

If Jerel does sign for Aberdeen that will be fifteen players who have left since the end of last season to be replaced by five.  Maybe we have lined up fifteen new strikers

 

Thats actually quite worrying as we thought our squad lacked depth last season.....

[reeves4england]

Thats actually quite worrying as we thought our squad lacked depth last season.....

We still had a huge squad though! The reason it lacked depth is because they weren't very good!

[Riddick]

Obika is very suprising, maybe he is not the type of player DW wants. Its beginning to look like it could go bad with these other clubs picking up players seemingly very easily, still wait and see.

Fingers crossed the optimists are right and the rabbit pulled out the hat is worth it!

[Ralphy]

It makes you wonder how much Douglas and O'Brien are on a week. We've trimmed our squad to the tune of 15 if Ifil goes, thats alot of wages freed up.

[STFC_Gazza]

I'm not worrried as such YET, But frustration is starting to set in. How are other clubs able to get strikers in and we can't get anyone. GO SIGN TRUNDLE AND ADAM LE FONDRE NOW!!!!!

[Simon Pieman]

It makes you wonder how much Douglas and O'Brien are on a week. We've trimmed our squad to the tune of 15 if Ifil goes, thats alot of wages freed up.

Where did you get that figure from? I'm sure it's closer to 20.

Didn't Wilson say he wanted a squad of around 22, including a few of the youths chipping in where needed?

[Ardiles]

Antoine van der Linden up front?

[MichaelPook]

Quite surprising ... from Wilson's interview it seemed to suggest that only 1 striker would be signed now ... I guess Peacock is the 3rd striker ...

This is going to be a KEY signing .. if we dont get a player who can bang in 25 goals .. we might well be up against it with our weak defence ..

[Ralphy]

Where did you get that figure from? I'm sure it's closer to 20.

Didn't Wilson say he wanted a squad of around 22, including a few of the youths chipping in where needed?

13 were released at the end of last season.

Cox was sold.

Ifil looks like he's on his way.

= 15 players left the club.

[Riddick]

No DW will still sign 2 strikers, he actually talked before about getting 3.

[michael]

Oh dear. This is both disappointing and embarrasing.

If I was Paul Ince I would be telling his players to kick Billy Paynter out of tonight's game.

Kick him hard enough and we'd have 0 strikers for the league game on Saturday, and with no plans to bring one in before then either.

[Simon Pieman]

Players who are likely to feature in first team at some point (18):

David LUCAS 
Scott CUTHBERT 
Jonathan DOUGLAS 
Jerel IFIL 
Gordon GREER 
Jon-Paul MCGOVERN 
Craig EASTON 
Michael TIMLIN 
Anthony MCNAMEE 
Phil SMITH 
Sean MORRISON 
Kevin AMANKWAAH 
Callum KENNEDY 
Alan O'BRIEN 
LESCINEL Jean-François 
Billy PAYNTER 
Lloyd MACKLIN 
Mark MARSHALL

Players with long term injuries (2):

Lee PEACOCK 
Hasney ALJOFREE

Players unlikely to feature (4):

Nathan THOMPSON 
Kasali Yinka CASAL 
Mark SCOTT 
Kurt HAMMONDS 
Jakub JESIONKOWSKI

That's 24 players. If we rule out Ifil, the two injured players, Casal and the youngsters then it's 17. A couple of strikers and injury recoveries and we have our squad.

[Reg Smeeton]

Quite surprising ... from Wilson's interview it seemed to suggest that only 1 striker would be signed now ... I guess Peacock is the 3rd striker ...

This is going to be a KEY signing .. if we dont get a player who can bang in 25 goals .. we might well be up against it with our weak defence ..

The only other time in our history, (completed season) when we've failed to score in the opening 2 league games was 00-01....we at least had some strikers on the books Alexander, Graz, Martin Williams, but they just didn't score enough.

T*dd had cobbled together a squad, but much of it was rubbish and it took King to sort out the mess. As we know we stayed up by virtue of Wovers spectacular implosion at the end.

This was why AVdL ended up playing up front a couple of times.....Danny Invincibile ended up top scorer with 9.

T*dd could see the writing on the wall and thankfully jumped....there are similarities with this season, in that on paper the new (00/01) side didn't look too bad, it just didn't work.

 Will the smoking chimp be fit enough for another rescue mission?