The January 2026 Transfer Window

[davulsukur]

The cretins will be positively salivating at the prospect of selling Alebiosu for a big profit 6 months after he joined.

Sell him, which alleviates the "burden" of the club off the owners. They have to put less money in, pats on the back all round.

 

[bluebruce]

It says everything about how scattergun our approach was this summer that Alebiousu was given a 3 year deal whilst Henriksson was given a 4. They clearly had little idea themselves of how good these players would be.

Not that it will make much difference when we shunt him out the door in January.

[Kjell]

2 hours ago, briansol said:

They should be below us, but the difference between Carlton Morris finishing and Ohashi's wastefulness make all the difference. 

And yet, when we played them at Ewood in our anniversary game, it became evident that they would beat us 99 out of 100 times.

Football is about the games you win and the points you accumulate, not about what could have been if not x, y, z. Unfortunately, we are left with a manager who creates an 'honest' list of excuses for any situation, and when he has gotten us relegated, he will still talk about that game against Ipswich...

[DutchRover]

If we are finally looking at League 1 players, we could do worse than look at Ballard from Orient, and Wooton at Stockport. Both having good seasons as strikers.

Ballard young with good So'ton academy pedigree, but only half a good season goals wise might make him cheap enough for us; ideally we'd get more experienced guy but I'd rather take a punt on him than a 20y/o Estonian kid from the Belgian third tier which is probably Gestede's plan. Orient nowhere near promotion too, so he is scoring playing for a poor team presumably; I like El Mizouni there too, the midfielder, and I would have taken Koroma on a free in the summer.

Wooton I saw a fair bit of when he was at Notts; big target man, and you'd think he can compete with physicality of Champ having worked his way up in National League. I make five consecutive good seasons now in terms of goals (2 in Nat, 2 in L2 and now L1), so worth a punt, though Stockport will want to keep him for their promotion chase, and tbh they are as likely to be in Championship as us next year.

 

I said last January we ought to be chasing top League 1 players, instead we dove into the overseas bargain bin and hoped for the best. Sam Smith, Ethan Erhahon and Thelo Aasgaard were all eminently attainable even for us and would have solved both our striker and midfield issues had we got them last Jan.

Even Kwame Poku would have been possible, though his injuries have become a worry and he doesn't play at QPR.

[simongarnerisgod]

we missd out badly not persuing the  lad jade-jones from peterborough,though the bundesliga is a bit much for him he would have done ok in the championship,got pace to burn,as we are bereft of any ambition or seemingly scouting ability,we ended up with a mishmash of lower league eurotrash,who we also won`t be able to get rid of

[KentExile]

7 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

 

 

 

If they sell Alebiosu, are we then allowed to consider a new right wing  back?  Or are we still pinning our hopes on an injured Litherland rising like Lazarus and playing out of position with no back up?

 

 

[wilsdenrover]

2 minutes ago, KentExile said:

 

If they sell Alebiosu, are we then allowed to consider a new right wing  back?  Or are we still pinning our hopes on an injured Litherland rising like Lazarus and playing out of position with no back up?

 

 

Can’t we try refashioning one of the numerous youth ‘keepers first?

 

[KentExile]

6 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Can’t we try refashioning one of the numerous youth ‘keepers first?

 

Its probably already being considered

I actually though you were going to pull me up on my use of the word "if", rather than "when" 😉 

Edited 3 hours ago by KentExile

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, DutchRover said:

If we are finally looking at League 1 players, we could do worse than look at Ballard from Orient, and Wooton at Stockport. Both having good seasons as strikers.

Ballard young with good So'ton academy pedigree, but only half a good season goals wise might make him cheap enough for us; ideally we'd get more experienced guy but I'd rather take a punt on him than a 20y/o Estonian kid from the Belgian third tier which is probably Gestede's plan. Orient nowhere near promotion too, so he is scoring playing for a poor team presumably; I like El Mizouni there too, the midfielder, and I would have taken Koroma on a free in the summer.

Wooton I saw a fair bit of when he was at Notts; big target man, and you'd think he can compete with physicality of Champ having worked his way up in National League. I make five consecutive good seasons now in terms of goals (2 in Nat, 2 in L2 and now L1), so worth a punt, though Stockport will want to keep him for their promotion chase, and tbh they are as likely to be in Championship as us next year.

 

I said last January we ought to be chasing top League 1 players, instead we dove into the overseas bargain bin and hoped for the best. Sam Smith, Ethan Erhahon and Thelo Aasgaard were all eminently attainable even for us and would have solved both our striker and midfield issues had we got them last Jan.

Even Kwame Poku would have been possible, though his injuries have become a worry and he doesn't play at QPR.

On paper, Wooton looks like a bit of a waste of time. 29 years old, and last season he scored 11 league goals, 8 the season before. Ohashi type numbers but in League One and Two respectively. Suggests this season's flurry is the exception not the norm. A no from me unless he's an absolute boss at being a target man.

Ballard seems a much better shout, better numbers at a much younger age. But a short sample size and young, may not hit the ground like we need. If he was one of two strikers signed though, with the other having more proven goals pedigree, could be a good move. All of this being on paper, I've never seen either player.

Agree I felt we should go for Aasgaard at the time.

[simongarnerisgod]

val is clearly not going to get his wish and have all his transfer targets landed by the end of next week🤥

[B16Rover]

Dale Scarlett and Bobby Pointon for me

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, bluebruce said:

It says everything about how scattergun our approach was this summer that Alebiousu was given a 3 year deal whilst Henriksson was given a 4. They clearly had little idea themselves of how good these players would be.

Not that it will make much difference when we shunt him out the door in January.

In fact, do we think Pasha will have the gumption to come out and say 'nobody knew if Ryan Alebiousu was any good' if he goes on to smash it for an Everton?

[wilsdenrover]

The worst thing about some of the names being suggested are they’re better than we currently have.

How much further are we going to fall?

[Theaxe15]

1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

Dale Scarlett and Bobby Pointon for me

If you mean Dane Scarlett then I’d have to disagree, he’s absolutely awful