January Transfer Needs

[roversfan99]

Whatever happened to unleaded? I feel like he was the one who mentioned or at least championed this player in the summer.

Throughout the summer and just before, he was particularly strong (both here and on twitter) in saying how well Gestede and co were doing in the market, and how much he disliked Eustace and to a lesser extent the players that left. He mentioned how Eustace didnt want the likes of Gueye, Kargbo etc as if he was wrong to do so. Seems to have vanished having seen how the season has unfolded.

[DE.]

Unleaded has never been a regular poster to begin with in fairness, he usually only pops up around the transfer window periods. 

[KentExile]

21 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

Whatever happened to unleaded? I feel like he was the one who mentioned or at least championed this player in the summer.

Throughout the summer and just before, he was particularly strong (both here and on twitter) in saying how well Gestede and co were doing in the market, and how much he disliked Eustace and to a lesser extent the players that left. He mentioned how Eustace didnt want the likes of Gueye, Kargbo etc as if he was wrong to do so. Seems to have vanished having seen how the season has unfolded.

 

That's him isn't it?

https://x.com/Fourstar1609/with_replies

[roversfan99]

39 minutes ago, KentExile said:

 

That's him isn't it?

https://x.com/Fourstar1609/with_replies

I believe so.

[chaddyrovers]

4 hours ago, Ricky said:

I spotted someone had mentioned it but couldn’t remember who it was. Did they sign a new striker as he seemed to get regular minutes at the start of the season and scored a couple of goals, then he was restricted to 20 mins or less each game. He’s recently had a bit more game time again and scored a few more goals.

Just made me wonder if they signed another forward who had gone to AFCON or got injured. 

No they didn't signed a new striker this summer but its appears Olivier Pantaloni has preferred rotate his number 9 using Soumano or Bamba. 

1 hour ago, roversfan99 said:

Whatever happened to unleaded? I feel like he was the one who mentioned or at least championed this player in the summer.

Throughout the summer and just before, he was particularly strong (both here and on twitter) in saying how well Gestede and co were doing in the market, and how much he disliked Eustace and to a lesser extent the players that left. He mentioned how Eustace didnt want the likes of Gueye, Kargbo etc as if he was wrong to do so. Seems to have vanished having seen how the season has unfolded.

He's been on the forum this morning. Maybe doesn't to post or just keeping his thoughts to himself 

[chaddyrovers]

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

McLaughlin feels like he is playing central purely out of necessity. When Wharton was fit, a player who also in the past has played left of a back 3, because unlike McLaughlin he is decent in the air and a lot more commanding and dominant.

Theres a bit less reliance on aeriel ability etc if you play left rather than central, and McLaughlin has played at full back throughout last season (because he couldnt make Hulls team as a centre back) so he is used to defending in those areas. We need someone for the centre and then McLaughlin can compete with Pratt down the left.

My opinion on McLoughlin is he is good solid player, odd blip like at Portsmouth. Whether he is better on the left of 3 or central is all debateable

3 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

When suggesting players you want to sign chaddy, you seem happy to point out good things they have done at previous clubs. Its only the red flags and the question marks that you seem keen to dismiss as irrelevant.

not at all, but do we know why Sellas preferred him at left back and in the role. Is it similar to how Dan Burn is played at Newcastle at left back or How Eustace played Pickering last season at the start of the season. I can't comment on that.  

[RoversClitheroe]

1 hour ago, KentExile said:

 

That's him isn't it?

https://x.com/Fourstar1609/with_replies

Surely not

[roversfan99]

18 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

My opinion on McLoughlin is he is good solid player, odd blip like at Portsmouth. Whether he is better on the left of 3 or central is all debateable

not at all, but do we know why Sellas preferred him at left back and in the role. Is it similar to how Dan Burn is played at Newcastle at left back or How Eustace played Pickering last season at the start of the season. I can't comment on that.  

Obviously its debatable. Thats the point.

[wilsdenrover]

5 hours ago, KentExile said:

I believe that as any Kortrijk players are now playing in the 2nd tier in Belgium rather than the first, they would now no longer qualify for a standard work permit, and would need an ESC unless their international appearances dictate otherwise

I think we can switch Toth from an ESC to a GBE work permit in January to free up 1 slot, but he would be the only one who could be switched (Kargbo, Henriksson & Baradji are the other 3)

I await Wilsden's response 😉 

Hello 😀

The most domestic points a Kortrijk player could have at the moment is 12 so yes they’d be an ESC player unless they had enough international points too.

Toth can be switched in January, I don’t think Kargbo can and the other two definitely can’t. 

 

[KentExile]

12 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Hello 😀

The most domestic points a Kortrijk player could have at the moment is 12 so yes they’d be an ESC player unless they had enough international points too.

Toth can be switched in January, I don’t think Kargbo can and the other two definitely can’t. 

 

Hi, thanks for that, saves me having to look things up and I knew you wouldn't let me down

Merry Christmas & a happy new year to you 🙂 

Edited yesterday at 15:32 by KentExile

[wilsdenrover]

44 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Hi, thanks for that, saves me having to look things up and I knew you wouldn't let me down

Merry Christmas & a happy new year to you 🙂 

You’re very welcome and Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you too.

Re Kargbo, I’ve just spent time working out his weighted domestic minutes (as he’s played for both us and Cesena within the reference period).

To have enough points to switch him too he’d have to have played in at least 40% of the league minutes he’s been available for.

His percentage (if you can trust my maths!!) is… 40%.

 

Edited yesterday at 16:15 by wilsdenrover

[JPTSwindon]

Striker, (along with every other club)...  I'd take a punt on someone from League One or Two ready for the step up.

Suspect we need to lose a few players to free up any sort of budget (transfer fees / wages etc) so could be a challenging January.

[MarkBRFC]

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

 

Re Kargbo, I’ve just spent time working out his weighted domestic minutes (as he’s played for both us and Cesena within the reference period).

To have enough points to switch him too he’d have to have played in at least 40% of the league minutes he’s been available for.

His percentage (if you can trust my maths!!) is… 40%.

 

There's no way anybody at Ewood is bothering to work that out!

[Penwortham Blue]

9 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

There's no way anybody at Ewood is bothering to work that out!

I think not doing the maths with Ash Phillips cost them money and the player.

[davulsukur]

2 hours ago, JPTSwindon said:

Striker, (along with every other club)...  I'd take a punt on someone from League One or Two ready for the step up.

Suspect we need to lose a few players to free up any sort of budget (transfer fees / wages etc) so could be a challenging January.

We might be forced down the route of League One as we can't have many/any ESC slots left, as noted above we might have 1 if we can convert Toth's.

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

We might be forced down the route of League One as we can't have many/any ESC slots left, as noted above we might have 1 if we can convert Toth's.

league one will be to expensive for us,it`ll be the conference or lower,if we can`t plunder the lower bowels of european football anymore,no doubt we`ll bring in the usual over the hill loanee to placate the pro venky mob

[DutchRover]

If we are sniffing around lower leagues in Europe again there are a few English qualified guys who wouldn't need permits:

Max Dean, ST, KA Gent; came through at Leeds, but an Ormskirk lad; was decent last season but down year so might be available cheap, young enough to improve.

Fraser Hornby, ST, Darmstadt; Everton academy, but loans at Kortrijk and Aberdeen who've we've signed from before. Good year last year, down year this year so could be cheap, perhaps a decent target man replacement for Gueye.

Eliot Stroud, LWB, Mjälby; Swedish/English, young and pacy, gets good reviews as a left wing back, could be a good back up/replacement to Hedges.

Colin Rösler, CB, Malmo; linked in summer, big CB, Europa league experience. Probably too expensive but never know.

Melle Meulensteen, CB, Go Ahead Eagles; son of Rene, big CB, experience in Netherlands and Italy, perhaps more in budget than Rösler.

Ennio van der Gouw, GK, Zulte Waregem; Dutch/English, plays in Belgium, could be a decent back up to Toth.

Jamie Roche, DM, Lausanne; Swedish/English, athletic defensive mid, might be out of budget as he seems highly rated.

All young enough to improve, and play in leagues we seem keen to buy from. Not looked at contracts but should all be roughly in budget even for us, especially if we offload a couple. English qualified so hopefully avoid ESC requirements which we're tight on.

 

Edited yesterday at 21:23 by DutchRover

[J*B]

Who was that Polish (?) CB we spent all summer chasing then couldn’t offer enough money? Whats he up to?

[47er]

4 hours ago, JPTSwindon said:

Suspect we need to lose a few players to free up any sort of budget (transfer fees / wages etc) so could be a challenging January.

That's the hard bit alright!

[roversfan99]

Kapuadi, he plays in Poland but he is from DR Congo and is currently at AFCON.

We wont spend what it would take to get him anyway but he is left footed, we need a right footer.

[DutchRover]

7 minutes ago, J*B said:

Who was that Polish (?) CB we spent all summer chasing then couldn’t offer enough money? Whats he up to?

Steve Kapuadi, Congo/France CB, plays in Poland for Legia Warsaw.

[KentExile]

12 minutes ago, J*B said:

Who was that Polish (?) CB we spent all summer chasing then couldn’t offer enough money? Whats he up to?

Steve Kapoudi, Congolese player in Poland

https://www.goal.pl/transfery/angielski-klub-zainteresowany-kapuadim-problemem-jest-cena-nasz-news/

 

Not sure he will necessarily be revisited, as is left footed, and we already have Wharton, McLoughlin, Pratt, and he signed a contract extension in September

Edited yesterday at 21:14 by KentExile

[RoversClitheroe]

51 minutes ago, DutchRover said:

If we are sniffing around lower leagues in Europe again there are a few English qualified guys who wouldn't need permits:

Max Dean, KA Gent; came through at Leeds, but an Ormskirk lad; was decent last season but down year so might be available cheap, young enough to improve.

Fraser Hornby, Darmstadt; Everton academy, but loans at Kortrijk and Aberdeen who've we've signed from before. Good year last year, down year this year so could be cheap, perhaps a decent target man replacement for Gueye.

Eliot Stroud, Mjälby; Swedish/English, young and pacy, gets good reviews as a left wing back, could be a good back up/replacement to Hedges.

Colin Rösler, Malmo; linked in summer, big CB, Europa league experience. Probably too expensive but never know.

Melle Meulensteen; Go Ahead Eagles; son of Rene, big CB, experience in Netherlands and Italy, perhaps more in budget than Rösler.

Ennio van der Gouw, Zulte Waregem; Dutch/English, plays in Belgium, could be a decent back up to Toth.

Jamie Roche, Lausanne; Swedish/English, athletic defensive mid, might be out of budget as he seems highly rated.

All young enough to improve, and play in leagues we seem keen to buy from. Not looked at contracts but should all be roughly in budget even for us, especially if we offload a couple. English qualified so hopefully avoid ESC requirements which we're tight on.

 

Great list!

[roversfan99]

They all seem to fit the bill of playing in weak leagues where wages will be very low.

[chaddyrovers]

1 hour ago, DutchRover said:

Jamie Roche, DM, Lausanne; Swedish/English, athletic defensive mid, might be out of budget as he seems highly rated.

Tronstad's long term replacement? 

Jamie Roche - Player profile 25/26 | Transfermarkt

1 hour ago, DutchRover said:

Fraser Hornby, ST, Darmstadt; Everton academy, but loans at Kortrijk and Aberdeen who've we've signed from before. Good year last year, down year this year so could be cheap, perhaps a decent target man replacement for Gueye.

Fraser Hornby - Player profile 25/26 | Transfermarkt

1 hour ago, DutchRover said:

Colin Rösler, CB, Malmo; linked in summer, big CB, Europa league experience. Probably too expensive but never know.

Colin Rösler - Player profile 2025 | Transfermarkt