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May as well start a brand new thread for this, closes at 11pm tonight.

Will we sign anyone?

Will we allow anyone to leave?

Post any deadline day deals for league 2 (and any other of interest) in this thread so it doesnt get lost in the other threads :)

Your starter for 10....

Crewe have signed 20 year old Newcastle United midfielder Joe White on loan for the season.

Stockport sign Wolves defender Alfir Pond on loan for the season.

Expecting a first team departure like Hutton or Khan. Purely to 'balance the books' as both are out of contract at end of season.

Ryan Edwards - can only hope and no doubt still in scope but will be looking at other offers.

Bradford City take a striker on loan

Rayhaan Tulloch, forward from West Brom

He was a previous target for us when Wellens was with us, did fuck all in his last loans at Doncaster and Rochdale though.

Another twitter single post rumour.
Denver Hume left back at pompey.

Also this from yesterday ;)

We can confirm that striker Andy Carroll has triggered a release clause in his contract to terminate his deal with the Royals with immediate effect.

We would like to thank Andy for his contribution to the club and wish him the very best of luck in his next challenge

Stoke defender David Okagbue set to sign for Walsall on loan.

Tranmere sign Liverpool fullback James Norris on a season long loan.

Crewe set to sign Arsenal striker Khayon Edwards on loan.

Wrexham look set to sign midfielder George Evans from Millwall for £200k.

That Denver link comes from this.

Tomlinson to MK confirmed

Zach Mitchell Charlton to Colchester loan deal.

Yassine En-Neyah joins Colchester after release by Nottm Forest.

On a perm deal cicra £100k+ add ons.

Wrexham rumoured to be in for GK Arthur Okonkwo, midfielder George Evans and forwards Brandon Hanlan and Ellis Harrison today.

Some heavy money involved with a few of those you’d guess

Dion Pereira signs on loan for Sutton from Bradford City.

Exeter sign Admiral Muskeve from Luton

Never got a chance when he was here

I think that was more to do with getting Doyle back and then Covid ending the season early.

56 appearances and 6 goals. He needs to find his level or somewhere he can play regularly I guess.

Wrexham sign midfielder George Evans from Millwall for an undisclosed 6 figure fee.

Sutton sign keeper Dean Bouzanis from Reading on loan.

They reckon they got him on a free!

Doesn’t sound like we’ll be too busy today

£9,999.99?

I remember a time when the prem clubs would not sell  - let alone loan their players to rival clubs, now it seems to be happening all the time, Arsenal signing Chelsea players, Man U signing Spurs players - I suppose with FFP they don't have a choice if they want to keep spending

Millwall now reporting they cancelled Evans contract so he could join them on a free.

It’s mad really.

Manchester United have signed a Spurs player on loan.
Ok, he’s a left back and they’ve had two injuries to left backs but are you really telling me Manchester United don’t have another 7 left backs on their books probably between their U23 and U16.

Sure, they might not be ready for Premier League football but why even bother with the system if when players get injured you’re just going to bring in loan players rather than use your academy players.

Blah, blah, blah never happen money ‘n all that but there should be tighter restrictions on squad size & number of home grown players that can’t be exploited by 40 year old shit keepers and foreign born players who the club signed aged 12 counting as home grown because they’ve been in the U.K. for three years.

Also, windows shutting after the season has started is fucking stupid. Window should be still the start of August.

Can't include Spurs in that. United bought Spurs players regularly in the past tbf. Sherringham, Berbatov, Carrick.

Spurs best players - that Spurs wanted to keep. Money talks, obviously…
Not a random left back they don’t appear to be particularly fussed by.

Doncaster hoping to sign a Premier League striker on loan today before our game tomorrow.

https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/sport/football/doncaster-rovers-plan-transfer-deadline-day-swoop-for-premier-league-youngster-4277446

ANDY CARROLL IS AMIENS' NEW STRIKER 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💥
The dream is over.

We do have one more loan spot, I'd be surprised if we didn't use that today at the very least.

Past 12pm now so won't be registered in time.

Could have been done a while and just not announced though, but that is more our style.

Hopefully the full squad were strapped into their seats for the coach journey up.

If there was a sniff of a major outgoing then we would know about it by now?

I'd be surprised if we didn't get 2 in at least - see the its suggested in the pre match presser 1 may go out for game time, wonder if that is Shade or Cain.

I would expect some of the young lads may go out after the window has closed to non league teams for experience, surprised if Brann does not end up somewhere, although probably more difficult to place an inexperienced keeper

I'm guessing Minturn over Shade & Cain.

Brann has been training with Swindon Supermarine this week with a view to a possible loan.

They seem to think it’s Marsh from Sheffield United. Not signed before midday, though.

Yeah I know the deal had to be completed before midday to be eligable for tomorrows game, no idea who Marsh is TBH.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Marsh

Luke Armstrong to Hollywood?

I would be somewhat disappointed if that were us signing him, and hes been there main target all Summer?

Maybe we HAVE made some good signings then!

Barrow sign striker Luca Stephenson from Liverpool on loan.

https://x.com/arunstunner/status/1697183727607251233?s=46

This was posted a day ago regarding Edwards off to India.

Nothing official though.

I reckon by the time the window SLAMS shut we'll have seen three or four out and two in:

OUT

Wakeling - Loan
Youth/Brann - Dev Loan
Hutton and Khan - Sold


IN

Edwards - Perm 1+1 option
Debrah -   Perm 2+1 option

Poss Kemp/Young made perm too with 2+1 option

That would be a ridiculous 6 hours.
Can’t see Debrah signing as he’s failed more medicals than Yinka Casal

Yeah but 2 in with poss 2 being made into perms would be fitting in line with Flynn saying he wants four. Maybe not Debbie then but someone in a similar position.

I think the three or four going out seems realistic {Wakeling loan seems sensible and we recall him in Jan and asses, Brann/Youth dev loan speaks for itself and one of Hutton/Khan  seems like the only viable ''for money'' assets that Town could sell right now}, even if Hutton hasn't hit the ground running, his stock will still be based somewhat on his contributions last season - whereas Kahn will have suitors as they'll have noticed how he's adapted from NL to FL, got rid of his hasty temperament and probably could do a job a league up.

Will be an interesting 5/6hrs for sure - or in true Town style, nothing much will happen  :D

Maybe it rose tinted specs because we’ve had a good start but I’d be ok with no in’s or out’s

In an ideal world I’d want a DM who can drop into CB when Dokes & FBT push but not sure I’d want that at the expense of having to move on a Wakeling or a Khan or a Hutton

Connor Evans signs for Wibblesdon on a season long loan from Stockport.

Losing Khan would give us no physical presence in Midfield let alone the rest of the squad. Fingers crossed he stays.

Salford City sign West Bromwich Albion defender Ethan Ingram on loan.

I predict a boring transfer window with one player going out on loan, no incomings except 1 loan maybe being made permanent but unlikely

Wonder if they are trying to ✷cough✷ their way to a league title  ::)

#WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire

Notts County sign Stoke City defender Lewis Macari on loan.

Re: Kahn’s rumoured departure. I’d like to think, though in time honoured tradition I have not read back. HTH 😉 That Mr. Flynn would a) have access to said funds coming in b) be aware that no sensible offer would be turned down for him ( or anyone else) c) have a contingency plan to not only negate said departure but be in a position to improve the whole squad set up as a result of incoming funds d) be assured that funds are or will be made available in January to improve the squad for the second half of the season e) be aware that last season was the biggest clusterfuck/own goal in terms of management AND player recruitment seen for a long time f) realise that this is in a way a shit or bust season for an under performing giant in L2

So far I have been impressed with what I have seen. Yes we need a bit more beef in certain areas but there is a little shiver down my spine that reminds me of the Hoddle team don’t worry about out letting in goals because by fuck we’ll score more anyway. That worked until he fucked off of course and left us with Mr. Nice in the PL.

🤣

He'll be busy there this season.

Squib looking a little damp at the moment, isn't it?

If any of the above apart from the dev loan & possibly Young on a permanent happen then I would be more than happy, along with the rest of the TEF to let it all hang out on a naturist break in Derbyshire.

Hoping that we can at least fill the last loan spot.

Flynn must be in or near South Yorkshire by now & possibly won't be able to unglue phone from ear for a few hours yet.

Keeping his powder dry for that blow your socks off signing.

Wakeling out would be absolutely mental,regardless of perms for Kemp and Young. As DV says, status quo would be totally acceptable for me

I bet your a barrel of laughs at party's

Ryan Whelan:

Update. Not a lot happening. Wouldn't hold your breath.

The proposed departure hasn't had the interest needed at this stage and time is fast running out.

One potential incoming target isn't window bound so not as much of a rush, but... a departure could help out to free up some space in the squad.

Sounds like another anti climax😁

Ryan Whelan is very hit and miss...

I think guesses most of the time after rehashing other Internet articles

The potential conditional incoming sounds like Edwards?

I'd be happy if the status quo was maintained.

He’s hit well with Swindon this year.

wonder if we need an out given Edwards would be a perm

Notts County have signed Lou's grandson Lewis Macari on loan from Stoke.  Bet that makes a few feel old.

Barrow sign James Chester

it does. As does this "Kasper Schmeichel, 36"

(now a free agent)

Imagine Flynn and the boys will be going to bed soon well before 11pm

I think one of the first times I started to really feel the toll of time was when players like Andy Cole retired, I was 12/13 when he went up with us with Newcastle, was very strange seeing a full career go by.  Seeing Kasper is now 36 is also something.

Remember Kasper came up for a corner like his dad vs us. Online somewhere, Bury?

Seeing Wayne Rooney break onto the scene. Win the lot with Manchester United whilst becoming their record goal scorer & also becoming England’s top goal scorer & most capped outfield player. Then to see him dropping down to Derby looking incredibly old then retiring to take up management all whilst being younger than me was my first real football related ‘fuck, I’m old’

Lavinier angled for a move to be the first choice RB and he's only gone and become backup again with FGR signing Fankaty Dabo

Weirdly Jody Morris being here as a manager made me feel old. He was a perennial next big thing when I was growing up and getting obsessed with football back in the day.

Giggs was the last player my age playing on the field in the premier League.

Hawaii i birthday this year..

The first Town game where I was older than every player on the pitch happened when I was about 24, which felt unreasonable at the time. Rossi Branco was the oldest player on the pitch from memory.

http://swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20150701

This game.

See, I’m 24 years older than Rooney and he makes me feel young.

I’m old enough now that my son is older than everyone in our team 😲

 :D

Looks wise - I certainly get that!

Are you chatting me up?

You wish.

Currently 39 posters waiting patiently for transfer news🤣

Are you a catch? You live in Swindon don’t you?

It's 10pm. Is it safe to assume that there's...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04xJCIXfh0Y

Is this how we feel about the situation?

https://youtu.be/FoRm7jNTKsI?si=GGLdjO9kkGiDhJ7a

Jayisimi signs for St Johnstone

Wakeling to Posh

I'm fucking hilarious but not sure how relevant that is to a post regarding realistic transfer activities you total jackfruit   ;)

Tbf Rooney looks about 54. Not really a fair bloke to judge anything on.

Yeah that's a good one.

Whelan says that's it for today  :crash:

So 1 out.  

Wakeling.  21 years old.  Sold ("undisclosed fee").

Disappointed at this juncture, esp. given Austin's age and Young's "recallability".

However, right now, with Rush alongside those 2, I guess If we gain a central defender/defensive midfielder, that could prove worthwhile.

No commitment upstairs to promotion with such a thin squad, given the effects of routine injuries and suspensions.

We can still put out a talented match day squad for now and I can certainly get behind them all and Flynn & coaches.

Nobody in and Wakeling out is beyond frustrating.

It's not a Sandro completely set fire to our season end of window, but fucking hell it isn't great.

The Heirachy do not want promotion as they don't have the money to sustain a higher division squad

To get a fee yet again for a player who lets be honest hasn’t been pulling up trees is good business.  I was more worried about losing RHM, Khan or Hutton so am relieved.  I guess shade scoring on Saturday was enough to convince Flynn that RHM, Young, Austin and Shade will do up top.


Shame nobody inbound but in current financial state no major damage this window.

Always makes me think of this tune... play it and get rid of that ''grrr'' feeling that is another shite {at present} STFC Transfer Window

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k225_q1L9l4

'...Jesus at the back door
Everything is all right
All we need is some direction
Every time the wind blows
Everything you don't know
Turns into a revelation
And it all adds up inside your head
Time is wasting

Set it off
Set it off now children...'

 :pint:

Oh dear.

I am convinced this exact statement has been made every season for the last 10 years.

fair fucks that's a wank window leaving us very light

more punts on the unattached market and hope we get lucky again

SERIOUSLY.

(With the optional, I heard it from my Nan’s hairdresser who knows someone..’ addendum.)

'...I heard it from a mate of an au pair that my cousins kangaroo is dating - and kangaroos are from Austria so it MUST be true...'

I mean, that's as believe as hearing it from the tea lady...or even Chris Kylie Minogue  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

It's also simply not true as well. In L2, you can get get promoted without spending like Carlisle and earn nearly an extra £1mn in competition money in L1 and not actually add any extra funding to budget.

How big was Carlisle’s squad?

Let’s see what happens. If no replacement comes in then this has been another absolute wank transfer window.

Clem ain’t got a pot to piss in . We’re even more in the shot if we get injuries- we own the ground now so no excuses- if he ain’t got the money we should be able to attract investors who have considering we own the stadium

Leighfield says put the kettle on

haven't been told it's all over, so maybe put the kettle on...

Franchise also add CB Anthony Stewart tonight. They’re going to really piss this league unless something goes seriously wrong

Whether it's good business depends on how much we got. But of course we will never know

Tell ya what...that's a bloody long cuppa...I've had 5 pints of tea waiting for Johnny to get back!   :soapy tit wank:

I’m fucking hammered.

I can't believe you've started on the heroin already!

Yep all these potential owners are lining up to put millions into STFC, while we are 100% a few short this kind of comment is ridiculous, or do we have a long line of good owners?

Surely this is what we new would happen signing some young hopefuls and giving them a contract while developing them and hoping for a fee?. To this end with Wakeling the system has worked and given us a good profit.

Well, yeah but also the point of that system is put a % back into the playing squad on another youngster to keep the production line going.

Not sell them at the end of window and bring fuck all in.

Plus, as I keep saying - sometimes in this situation it is worth holding onto the player because his value / worth might increase. Yes it’s a gamble but we can still sell our young players on for profit without just accepting the first bid we get.

I've seen some clubs say that a deal includes significant sell on benefits, or words to that extent. I wonder if this does..?

Be interesting to see what Posh do we with him.

They can either play him or loan him out - but not both (unless it’s a loan to us) so be interesting to see if they ship him out on loan (can they still do that post window?)

I’m gonna say he’ll to Bradford on loan and start scoring for fun!

He can’t go anywhere no loan now till January.

It matters not whether Wakeling is rated or not, we have not strengthened and are weaker.
A transfer window after the Manager publicly stated he wanted 2 to 3 additions. Can only hope this is in preparation to get another non contract defender in and across the line.

More questions than ever not getting answered around the club ownership, Standing pulling the strings, has been since dot.

Not a pot to piss in.

Spot on post

Very poor transfer window, only hope is that there will be a few free transfers available. As said the manager said he wanted 2/3 new players and saw 1 go out the door with no reinforcements. The frustrating thing is that we have a good manager, the quality of player in our squad is better than last year but so thin 1 or 2 injuries and we’re struggling. Not a manager to piss off as for me he’s the best we’ve had since Wellens, let’s hope we can stay relatively injury free and stay up there until January!

We can still sign free transfers outside the window so fingers crossed. :)

Other than the fact Standing isn’t (or wasn’t when he was an agent) meant to have any involvement in running a club. Is there actually anything to be worried about?

You'd think that with a small squad and with no obvious big earners (except Austin possibly) and getting gates of 8,000-9,000, we might hopefully be able to clear the debt by the end of the season. I'd like to think that the club is currently profitable. Fingers crossed that we get some luck on the injury front this season.

Anyone know how much we got for Wakeling btw? I’d hope for 100k with 20% sell on clause

Are we going to get lucky with injuries training on 4G?

When you say clear the debt, which debt do you mean?

Don’t disagree with the view, but none of us know how negotiations went. The final offer may have been very different to the opening one.

I think the timing of this has impacted sentiment. If we sold to Posh 2 weeks ago, the outlook would be much more positive. From what we have seen, he is not at the forefront of Flynn’s plans. The idea (not yours) that we should only sell if we can immediately find a replacement doesn’t quite make sense in this case either.

Probably the biggest impact of the sale will be more senior minutes, more quickly for Kanu.

All that said. We are worryingly light in midfield and at he back. I hope we can find some quality free agents, and can win today, without any injuries!

A club like ours has to sell, and if we can get a decent fee and a sell on for a bit part striker, I’m happy with that aspect. I just wish things would stop being undisclosed.

I do, however, take issue with the overall composition of our squad and lack of cover almost all over the pitch. I hope we’ve just been shit at recruitment, rather than Flynn being missold what budget he had at his disposal.

It’s a shame about Wakeling but maybe it creates more of an opportunity for Abu Kanu and Shade up top. Hopefully the money will be there for promotion push  reinforcements in Jan. I assume the clubs financials on the ab minutes will give us some idea of the transfer fee - although prob all in instalments etc.

Interesting to read that Posh were in for Wakeling, regardless of whether JCH was going to depart. Can’t be true, otherwise why wait until the final few hours to make their move for Wakeling? Doesn’t make much sense

We can still do loans until late November I think. Also we can make loans permanent outside of the window. So the rules can be manipulated to bring players in.

I don’t think so on the loans unless it’s emergency goalkeeper loans

Yes, that looks to be the case.

All the more bizarre that we haven’t used our loan spots up.

Feel like Kanu can step up into the 4th choice role but to not bring in even one of the three that Flynn wanted is appalling.

It's as it always as it has been really isn't it?

Go back to the deadline day moves of the early 90's...Shearer to Blackburn, 'replaced' with Terry Gibson (heartbreaking)
Kerslake to Leeds...we had Summerbee to replace him (more luck than judgement I suspect) but Hoddle has said since that this was the point at which he first started to think he needed to move on from Swindon
Fjortoft to Boro...replaced by...nobody

We've just come full circle - at least Wakeling isn't as important to the side as those mentioned above were.

I think my point is, after all these years I just don't have the energy to get angry about it any more...

This.

I think most fans have come to terms with that virtually every club bar Man City are a 'selling club' these days if the deal makes sense. Its not that, its the lack of activity in the other direction that is the problem.

That would be a real worry. Maybe the pre/post match bits today may drop some hints as to his true feelings of those above.

Hopefully nothing to see

Jason Drysdale, if I remember correctly. It pretty much amounted to the same thing, mind.

Oh yes, Jason Drysdale...how could I have forgotten him ;D

Hahahaha

https://x.com/wrexham_afc/status/1697933785503854931?s=46&t=sUQ-fFgelrF5oqTmo-D8tA

Indeed, which was my point with the examples I gave...couldn't wait to get the players out with no thought given or effort made in bringing in an adequate replacement...some things never change and I can't bring myself to get angry any more...

I am the same, other than Charlie who is 1 year older than my eldest son.

My youngest daughter is older than Flynn!

Understand what you are trying to say here...

However, its about when you cash in. Wakelin was a good potential to improve at that is obviously why Peterboro purchased.

The current investors (Morfuni is clearly not the only one now) and obviously light weights and can't buy any jewels for Flynn to polish and shine for for the future.

In fact Flynn might not have enough quality players to put out a suitable team later in the season when injuries and the like happen to limit the existing group.

The real issue here is as I see it. Is when and not if Flynn gets pissed off and says enough is enough.

Until then... as long as the Town can still perform and play exciting footbal... and keep winning more that they are losing.

That's fine for me.  
  

Oh man that's a bit of a nightmare for everyone involved. And obviously hilarious for the rest of the league.

Apparently the fee is around £300k with a 30% sell on.
If true, and Wakeling develops into a decent striker (which they have a record of doing) he’s probably going to sell for in excess of £4m.

Based on that we would get a hefty sell on fee, which we probably wouldn’t get on our own.

So from a business point of view a good deal.

The problem is we didn’t get the bodies through the door that we all think we need.

Where are these numbers from, or just ITK?

If they are real then that money being spent on Kemp/Young perm deals would be great.

This makes me laugh, £450k fee agreed too apparently!

Why would Flynn get pissed off and leave? He is managing one of the top teams in League 2, is on a good, unbeaten, run, was unemployed prior to joining, and has, despite all the negativity, a pretty good squad of players to work with.

Gonna be awkard for him, he’s spent a couple of games of the season refusing to play!

I had seen that, nice. :)

I'd put 50p on Wickham to Wrexham in the light of that.

He seems an ideal fit TBH after the Armstrong debacle.

Exiled Bob, in answer to your comment.

I agree MF has so far proven that he is a straight talking common sense type of manager who knows what he is talking about. His man management skills seem top shelf

He is somewhat of rare breed of managers that has supplied these skills at the County Ground. I would say not since Danny Williams.

Some may say Wellens or initially Danny Wilson. Don't think so. Both good at talking.

Flynn has proven at Newport that he can talk and walk a good game as well.

For the record, don't think Town will eever attract likes of Ossie Ardilles and Glen Hoddle again.

So my comments are.... Town will need to help Mike Flynn become a very successful manager here before a more go ahead club does.  

They are from a friend of my son who is a Peterborough fan.
Don’t know if it’s a rumour or he’s ITK

Posh fans seem pissed off they actually paid us a fee for him!

Just read they are appealing it saying as they are members of the Welsh FA it should be an international transfer and they should have had till midnight.

Play in the fucking welsh league then

This!

I thought I was going crazy for a second as I couldn’t find this post.
Just quoting it here to show I didn’t make the post up ( more for myself than others)

Yeah, probably 300k over 6 years and a 30% sell on fee to be paid in yearly 2% instalments.

Flynn has a lot of control over the transfers. Any issues we've had in the summer are as much down to him as anyone else.

We're definitely not done though, as disappointing as the window was. Not too bothered about Wakeling, he was gonna be a bit part player this season and we got a decent fee for him. I hope he flourishes at Peterborough.

FGR confirm Callum Morton joined them on loan for the season from Salford, agreed before the deadline cut off.

Gills sign ex Charlton free agent keeper Nathan Harvey.

Harrogate agree a fee with Stevenage to sign striker Josh March, a deal rushed through with the Luke Armstrong departure that never happened! a deal agreed on deadline day but not announced until after the deadline.

Junior Tchamadeu has joined Stoke City on a four-year deal from Colchester in a deal said to be worth £1m+ for the Essex club.

Weird how many of these deals were not announced until the day after deadline day.

He’s gone downhill after looking promising in his first loan.

Tails... interesting comments you make.
Watch MF interview after the Doncaster game when 1st thing he was asked was about transfers and Wakelins exit
He was very unsure of himself. Now Flynn is a good talker and suggest he had to tow the company line.
Just supposed Town needed to find cash and had no intenion of getting any further players in before the deadline day timing had expired.
Make up a dodgy story that we had tried and failed to purchase a player for 6 figures.
Keep the supporters onside...Could be totally wrong. But.....!!!

Colchester sign Cameron McGeehan. Decent one, that.

We’re probably going to get Debbie McGee.

Can't say I have heard of him TBH.

yep, you're wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_McGeehan

Ron ( Dogers)
Really hope I am wrong.... otherwise the club is in a shit load of trouble financially.

There again should a few Australian youth players with potential start arriving in the coming months that could turn the tide. There are definitely good young players coming available especially at Adelaide

and they'll be youngsters that you wouldn't expect turn any sort of profit or play a part in the senior team in the short to medium term.

Don't underestimate the quality of talent in the Australian league... trouble is other clubs are fishing in the same pond.

There are several 18 year olds playing for Adelaide utd that would have similar futures as Young and Wakelin currently
 
 NZ lads have recently been signed up for American teams German leagues and obviously in England

Chances are they will never be good enough to get a work permit unless they have British grandparent.

Not withstanding the fine print on international trade deals 😉

Sure I read rules were being changed about that to allow a couple of 'foreign' players in the squad who wouldn't normally meet work-permit requirements.

I am sure the Visa rules are pretty lax for such sort of ex Colonies - London's hospitality business would be dead on it's feet without Aussies staffing the bars.

Doubt many of these are in our price range

Andre Ayew
- Tarique Fosu
- Ronan Curtis
- Lewis Grabban
- Sammy Ameobi
- Yannick Bolasie
- Jordon Ibe
- Robert Snodgrass
- Junior Hoilett
- Lyle Taylor
- Ruben Rochina
- Junior Stanislas
- Andre Gray
- Steven Fletcher

I would have ago at getting grabban  and snodgrass if money was right. Even jordan ibe but lets admit we have no chance.

Cant see us being able to offer a suitable wage for any of those players TBH.

Mansfield, Wrexham, Salford and Newport managers have all came out saying they are dipping int the freer transfer pool of players in the coming couple of weeks. Br a lot of competition for all of them, I would think all of those players would comfortably find teams above L2 though (barring maybe high spending Salford, Mansfield and Wrexham

Yes, I think we will be fishing in the 'fallen between the cracks' Brewitt/McEachran pool rather than the 'names' waiting for a pay day.

Winger Uwara Edwards completes a free move from Bristol City to Colchester.

Absolutely this, I am making a list of free players, 90% will be out of our range I would think though.

It'll be the Malachi Fagan-Walcott types I imagine... let's see.

Provided we actually can reinvest the Wakeling money.

Do you spend the Wakeling money now on a couple of free agents or do you risk waiting until January with more targets available?

https://www.wrexhamafc.co.uk/news/2023/september/statement--luke-armstrong-sept-06/

Hahahahahhaa. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team  :clap:

Pure comedy. You can take the club out of the non-league…

Hahaha yep, it's not like that's ever happened to us........... oh wait.

It does seem to happen quite regularly. I wonder what the benefits are for clubs to leave their transfer business so close to the wire that they risk not getting anything done at all. I'm aware that a lot of transfers are like house moves and depend on other transfers happening etc which I guess complicates things but to not get a deal done because of admin or whatever is very sloppy.

Go back to the good old days of sign anybody at any time.

Here is a list of the more notable players without clubs, the vast majority would not even consider signing for probably any L2 side but here they are with their prefered position, last club in brackets and age.

Goalkeepers
Jed Steer GK (A Villa) 30
Matt Macey Gk (Luton) 28

Defenders
Jordan Marshall LB (Dundee) 26
Paul Osew LB (Northampton) 22
Ryan Bertrand LB (Leicester) 34
Danny Rose LB (Watford) 33
Joe Bennett LB (Wigan) 33
Axel Tuanzebe LB (Man Utd) 25

Matt Lowton RB (Burnley) 34
Josh Emmanuel RB (Grimsby) 26
Matt Lowton RB (Burnley) 34
Darnell Fisher RB (Middlesboro) 29

Kyron Gordon CB (Sheff U) 21
Ben Heneghan CB (Sheff W) 29
Phil Jones CB (Man Utd) 31
Ciaran Clark CB (Newacstle) 33
Craig Cathcart CB (Watford) 34
Daniel Ayala CB (Blackburn) 32
Steven Caulker CB (Wigan) 31
Scott Dann CB (Reading) 36
Ryan Edwards CB (Dundee U) 29
George Cox LB (Fortuna S) 25
Jack Simpson CB (Cardiff) 26
Malachi Michael Fagan-Walcott CB(Spurs) 21

Midfielders
Dan Gosling MF (Watford) 33
Ryan Tunnicliffe MF (Portsmouth) 30
Hayden Lindley MF (A Villa) 20
Tom Pett MF (Port Vale) 31
Sam Clucas MF (Stoke) 32
Josh Onomah MF (Preston) 26
Tom Trybull DMC (Blackpool) 30
Robert Snodgrass MF (Hearts) 35
Danny Drinkwater MF (Chelsea) 33
Stefan Johansen MF (QPR) 32
Luke Amos DMC (QPR) 26
Luke Freeman AMC (Luton) 31
Ben Reeves MF (Gillingham) 31
Matty Longstaff MF (Newcastle) 23

Forwards
Josh Martin LW (Norwich) 21
Tariq Fosu LW (Brentford) 27
Junior Hoilett LW (Reading) 33
Brandon Barker LW (Omonia) 26

Andre Ayew FW (N Forest) 33
Anwar El Ghazi FW (PSV) 28
Junior Stanislas  FW (Bournemouth) 33
Lyle Taylor FW (N Forest) 33
Chris Martin FW (QPR) 34
Gary Madine FW (Blackpool) 33
Shane Long FW (Reading) 36
Connor Wickham FW (Cardiff) 30
Jordy Hiwula FW (Ross C) 28
Josh Martin FW (Norwich) 21
Sam Winnall FW (Burton) 32

They definitely got the fax number wrong, didn't they?

I slightly conspiratorially assumed that someone at our end was told to nix the deals for Morris on the sly as we couldn’t afford them.

conspiratorially

Word of the day, congrats

Gary madine and sam clucas and matty longstaff.

Sorry not read back so this might be a repeat but I've heard that the fee for Wakeling was either 200k or 350k. From the sources I heard, it's probably more likely to be the lower amount.

I think given the squad numbers I think we probably need to get 2 in the door quickly, that elusive CB we've apparently been chasing and a forward to take the pressure off of Charlie, who apparently is looking tired from what i've been reading. Given Edwards still hasn't signed for anyone, I imagine his wage demands haven't budged and so we might need to use some of the Wakeling money to get that deal done - assuming it's him we are trying to sign. As for the forward, there are plenty of free agents out there but the longer it's left the longer it takes to get up to speed for match sharpness.

https://youtu.be/0UJZF5iRhNg?si=zbJR_cK3WGoAdQzn

I see that Flynn said we missed out on a L1 player who went elsewhere on deadline day.

I took a look through the deals that matched and if you exclude the young CB's that moved, I would say it was either Declan John LWB went from Bolton to Salford or Ellis Harrison FW Port Vale to MK.

Norwich City centre-back Jonathan Tomkinson has completed a season-long loan move to League Two Bradford City.

The Canaries were made to wait for confirmation of the deal from the EFL after submitting paperwork late on deadline day, but the relevant authorities have now approved the move.

Wrexham sign aged striker Steven Fletcher

He may be 36 but he still scored 10 goals in 39 games last season at Dundee United in the Jocks Prem.

Even Adeloye can score in scotland

Not in the Scottish premier, he has never scored higher than the Scottish Championship. And TBF Fletcher has scored 45 English Premier League goals too in his long career as well as 10 for Scotlands national team.

I'd quite like a Steven Fletcher if such a player is cool with starting from the bench 80% of the time, if we had that option off of the bench we'd have beaten Wrexham, forgetting the free kick that wasn't.  Target man to get it up the pitch to, extra height to defend late set plays just aimed at the penalty spot.

I'd even entertain an absolute carthorse who will only ever get on for the last 15 if he's fit for purpose in that role.

Brett Pitman.   ;D :D :D

15 seconds perhaps

We cant recall Adeloye from his loan ;)

Looks like the much touted Jesse Debrah will rock up at Port Vile.

Meanwhile all quiet on the Town front🤣

Injury prone in the last 2 years, failed medical at Barnsley, 22 with not a single league game to his name, big gamble.

Debrah signs 2 year deal with Port Vile

Sent off 38 mins into his first start at Rovers last night.