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Summer 2022 Transfer Window

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weejockmcplop

Geoff Thomas
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I totally get this but there's part of me that thinks this season is all going to end in tears. I love everything that has happened at our club over the last year, the recruitment has been superb but there's still that nagging doubt. I take it I'm not on my own? šŸ˜„
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If anyone doesn't have a couple of nagging doubts after last week they weren't watching properly.

However, we've got super Cooper, nothing to do but keep the faith. Just you wait until we find our best 11 and they hit form.
 
Bob Fossil

Bob Fossil

Nottingham's dirty secret
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I totally get this but there's part of me that thinks this season is all going to end in tears. I love everything that has happened at our club over the last year, the recruitment has been superb but there's still that nagging doubt. I take it I'm not on my own? šŸ˜„
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I would have your exact same doubt if it wasn't for one thing......Stevie Cooper.

He's shown he can get a bunch of strangers playing as a unit. I honestly believe he'll do the same this season but it will take time.

I fully expect us to storm over the finish line even if we struggle initially.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
I think it was less than a week ago folk were worried we wouldn't be able to being in more players because the deadline was ending in three weeks... we now have four looking like they are in, and at least one more bid accepted... three with PL experience and one serie A bssed international! Madness!
 
valspoodle

valspoodle

Steve Chettle
Because of the way our squad degraded at the end of last season, the only chance we have of staying up is to buy (loans are not really an option in the Prem).

Coops will have to try and blend the players and hope that we start to get decent results.

I'm satisfied we've done the best we can to put together a decent team. The owner pays the bills; if he's happy so am I.
 
Collymore!

Collymore!

Grenville Morris
NFFCMagz said:
What do we think of this, then?

www.theguardian.com

Has Nottingham Forestā€™s sudden ascent led to too many changes? | Jonathan Wilson

Promoted club have brought in more than a dozen players this summer, illustrating that progress can be destabilising
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Pretty accurate, although most of us will know this to be true also.

The difference is we deal with it knowing that it was inevitable, whereas he just wants clicks.

A good paragraph is:

ā€œBy the end of the season, they had five loanees as regular starters, none of whom joined the club on a permanent basis, while the goalkeeper Brice Samba refused a contract extension and left for Lens. Thatā€™s immediately half a team that needs replacing, which is part of the problem of a strategy based on reducing liability by relying on loan deals. This is not to say such a policy is wrong as such ā€“ it may be financially necessary ā€“ but it does create instability.ā€

That alone boils the rest of the article down to:

ā€œIt would have been better if last year's loans, werenā€™t loans, and if Forest hadnā€™t been in the championship for 23 years meaning theyā€™ve been skintā€ - yeah Iā€™d have loved that too.

I'm so bored of reading the same basic take, dragged out for 1000 words. We get it, youā€™re getting clicks, but have some pride.

Yes, it would have been good to get the five loans, but we couldnā€™t get Spence or Garner, Villa priced us out of Davis, and Sheff U priced us out of Lowe.

Funny that other clubs, and the media generally for 23 years ā€œwould love to see Forest backā€ now we are, they just wanted a one-season nostalgia tour, and for us to go back with happy memories.

Iā€™d rather spend Ā£150m trying, than what most of these lot wanted.
 
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Red Dog in a Forest

Viv Anderson
Iā€™ve condensed the article:

If Forest had concentrated more on predicting the future, then they might have signed those 5 loan players that got them promotion at the start of the 21/22.

Whilst Forest create miracles on the pitch, they are not so lucky off it - said Coopers disgruntled bird (currently on shift at Hooters).

Rumour has is that Sharon will quit Hooters once Cooper signs his contract.

Because of the them or us monopoly ran by the EPL, Forest have spent a Ā£100m on players just to attempt another miracle.

Meanwhileā€¦Liverpool signed one player for roughly the same amount. But, thatā€™s okā€¦everyone loves Liverpoolā€¦said everyone in Liverpool.
 
eyupmeduck

eyupmeduck

Geoff Thomas
NFFCMagz said:
What do we think of this, then?

www.theguardian.com

Has Nottingham Forestā€™s sudden ascent led to too many changes? | Jonathan Wilson

Promoted club have brought in more than a dozen players this summer, illustrating that progress can be destabilising
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I'm unsure what the point of the article is, essentially he says signing a load of players is unsettling but then goes on to name a load of teams that succeeded in staying up signing a load of players and less that didn't.

The bit about "club identity" made me laugh a bit, he mentions Wolves like they have for years tapped into a philosophy and way of playing that have yielded a long stay in the Premier league based on having an identity and style.

When they were taken over they spent something like Ā£60m in the championship over 2 seasons to go up and over Ā£100m when they reached the top division, pretty much on Jorge Mendes clients.

Just seems like he had a word target to hit in all honesty, not hugely insightful or particularly well researched.

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Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
I'm yet to see anyone suggest a viable alternative to what we've ultimately, give or take maybe three, had to do, due to the recent substitution rule changes.

If we'd kept our five loans and leaving players from last year, we may have needed four less? It isn't ideal as has been said by our management, but we have the cash and want to compete.

As said before, we are investigating to challenge the place we now find ourselves in, and to enhance the assets we already have, primarily BJ, but also Worral, Yates, Mckenna and those behind them in the 23s and youth setup etc...

Good on them I say!
 
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Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
So assuming Maupay and Frueler come off now what do we need? We're extremely well stocked up front and in midfield I think, other than that MGW/free kick monster shaped hole. Davis has gone, so that's that ended too.

LWB is light due to injury - how long that takes to heal depends on who we need I guess, thouh we may not see Richards as first choice ready for some time yet, so wouldn't be surprised.

Khiate covers CB, so that's sorted, with Panzo out on loan, Soh and two lefties in Mc and Niakahte.

Cover for Williams? Question as to whether Biancone is that - he did OK there for what I could see in the Cov friendly, though first one and I gave up part way through as the stream was so shite. I think we do see Williams as first choice though.

So I'm going MGW (or the Atalanta guy if we can't do it, with preference for both), and a loan fir someone who can play LWB but cover right when/if needed (or vice versa?).

I budget a billion for the lot...
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
There's also Jimmy G, though I think that might be a January thing - he'll want a decent amount of time to try and break through.
 
Redemption

Redemption

Chief Eye Roller
I don't know about doing Fulham but I won't be happy until we're accused of doing a Viv Nicholson.

18 days of spending left, fill ya boots.
 
Bonfy177

Bonfy177

LTLF MORON
Have we got out left ?

whats the running total give or take a million ( canā€™t believe Iā€™ve wrote give or take a million šŸ˜¬)
 
Omar Devone Little

Omar Devone Little

Mr Realistic
Once these are through the door I'd be happy with a loan left back and then that's it.
 
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incident

Viv Anderson
Aside from the LWB we're still clearly going for, I reckon another more experienced CB might be on the table. At the moment the back three pretty much picks itself so another player in would give a bit more competition and provide better cover for injury. It'd also allow Mbe Soh to get some game time out on loan which he needs after the last couple seasons - just like the arrivals of Dennis and Maupay up front should mean that Mighten can be sent to a club where he'll be first choice.

I wouldn't be surprised if the other names filtering through (Hwang, Sow) are delayed reports of enquiries and deals that didn't go anywhere.
 
Redemption

Redemption

Chief Eye Roller
I've only just gotten around to reading that article.

The Ocean 11 simile was lame and based on the number of recruits required rather the industry of the gang.

But actually, the article was asking did Forest have a choice?

I think he concluded that we didn't have an alternative and that the task was massive.

Is it really controversial to suggest that adding 15 new players to the squad in destabilising? That seems obvious to me.
 
Gyros Peter

Gyros Peter

Sauce salad?
incident said:
Aside from the LWB we're still clearly going for, I reckon another more experienced CB might be on the table. At the moment the back three pretty much picks itself so another player in would give a bit more competition and provide better cover for injury. It'd also allow Mbe Soh to get some game time out on loan which he needs after the last couple seasons - just like the arrivals of Dennis and Maupay up front should mean that Mighten can be sent to a club where he'll be first choice.

I wouldn't be surprised if the other names filtering through (Hwang, Sow) are delayed reports of enquiries and deals that didn't go anywhere.
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I see it that way with Hwang and sow too. CB wise I think Niakahte is that - played 30+ games there for palace the season before last.
 
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