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Its funny how Elliott Jackson on a day he bigged up the time he spent putting his articles together. Literally just removed the article on Donnum and the sentence at the end of the Jorgensen article, and just hasnt said anything else as if he hopes people wont notice.

Hes not the type to score a load of goals. An aggressive midfielder who wins the ball back but lacks the technical ability to do very well at this level.

Just looking more into Jorgensen and it is a hard one to get a true feel for. I am skeptical of the fee. If its true though, he needs to really become an important player as its a decent amount for a club like us. It is strange that he has joined Bodo Glimt, struggled to become a regular and are seemingly selling him 6 months later for a similar fee. His position is obviously a bit of a strange one. He seems to have predominantly been played wide and I have seen a couple of comments on twitter suggesting that he isnt a striker from Scandanavians. That being said, playing as one of 2 strikers is a different job to just playing on your own. Every player has a good highlights reel so I never get excited by them. But they can provide a bit of use in terms of seeing the type of player youve signed. He doesnt look overly quick but he does look quite physical so hopefully he will be able to adapt. There has been a lot of debate about the formation, I personally think we are probably right to stick to the 352. Our defenders individually all probably need a third defender as none are particularly great individually and a lot are left footers so theres at least scope for 2 in a back 3. We look far more secure in that formation. Even if Jorgensen is better wide, we dont have any other competent wingers anyway and also our 2 strikers are not best suited to being up on their own. I think its really important that we get another more natural striker, even if its a loan, and of course a left wing back. I think you need 4 strikers for 2 positions both to cover injuries but also to be able to rotate. Having gamechangers on the bench is criticial too. Since we changed formation, when Gudjohnsen and Ohashi were on the pitch together, fine even though the latter is very limited and should only be a squad player. But obviously our alternatives were the useless Gueye and also have been players like Henriksson/Dlamini who are quite clearly absolutely nowhere near Championship (or even League 2) forwards. It would be truly amazing if Jorgensen isnt a massive, massive upgrade on them. The question is, is he good enough to hopefully slot in alongside and have a good partnership with Gudjohnsen. We will see.

Also, the line at the bottom of the Jorgensen article has also gone. Embarrassing to get it so wrong.

https://www.lesviolets.com/actu/mercato-donnum-loin-de-blackburn-rovers,80788.html This suggests that Donnum isnt expected to join. It would be quite ironic if on a day when Jackson was trying to tell people how much work goes into his journalism and then releasing a supposed exclusive, that it turns out to be false.

I did say fair play but saying that a player will sign without naming him is hardly a massive scoop. I haven't seen a single attribute that makes me positive about him potentially coming good. I didn't know if maybe you have.

To be fair, Mercer didnt name the player. He just said that a striker is signing. It turned out for a change to be true so fair play but I am not sure saying an unnamed player will sign is a huge scoop. Nor was the skepticism unwarranted considering the track record in question.

What? What do you see to cling on to?

Hopefully Jorgensen really give our poor attack a major boost. Good to see us spend reasonable money on a player on a long term deal. Also, it seems like he might bring some speed to our attack which is crucial so I am looking forward to seeing him. Hard to know what to make of his career or how exactly he will fit in. Hasn't been prolific even in the lower leagues in Denmark but he seems to have played much of his football as a winger so its hard to judge him on that. Question is, will he slot straight into a front 2 and be at his most comfortable? We also have some recent very bad experiences with signing players from inferior foreign leagues who have failed to step up. That being said, often the demand of "Championship experience" is used but especially up front on our budget, if you prioritise that you are getting the dregs. Its a position in particular that you are probably better off looking for value elsewhere so hopefully we have found it. Will he be ready to be involved straight away? We need him to hit the ground running but I think due to the different seasons in Scandanavia, he won't be match fit and there may be red tape. Also, is Donnum happening aswell as or is it a mix up from Jackson? There is a player with big question marks about how he fits in positionally, but one performing at a high level in a strong league.

This Hedges situation seems totally bizarre. It makes no difference if he is out for 2 or 4 months in that we are going to be without a left wing back for a significant period of time. Even for the odd game, both Pickering and Ribeiro have shown that they cannot play that position and De Neve is nowhere near it. A new left wing back has to be non negotiable. This really cryptic rumour seems to have grown legs but it seems to be chinese whispers. Nixon's shared comment seems to be a case of, I cant say no in case something is happening, but I clearly am not aware of anything. Ryan Hardie has been mentioned above. He has played 12 minutes of football in 2 months and is injured. Should make it a no go straight away.

2 year deal for a £1.5m player would be ridiculous even for us. But a story saying that we are "preparing" to sign a player for a pre agreed fee is a non story.

And still isnt involved with the squad tonight.

Numerous clubs linked. Lots of players linked in the last couple of days in all positions besides up front, both to us and at least 2 other teams at the same time, clearly agents are keen to get their players' names out.

Itll be a busy agent.

You do start a lot of sentences like that. It shouldnt have come to this, Venkys refused to pay for a pitch revamp a couple of years ago, its all on them. Is his technical ability decent? Certainly not seen any signs of it.

Time is ticking to get all the players in for the deadline already pushed back by a week. Regarding Mumba, his name has repeatedly been suggested over a number of years. Im not convinced firstly what his best position is, and also that he would be a particularly good signing.

I was going to ask why his name was just left like a bad smell with absolutely no further information or source. Seemingly embarassment as to what that source is.

There is a fairly pointless article in the LT about how well Cleary did last night despite with quotes from him and Ally McCoist despite the article admitting from the start that we are unlikely to go back for him. Also describes him as a "terrific teenager" before saying that hes 21.

With the striker situation, I think the squad wasnt built to play with 2. Ismael did in particular endorse Morishita (and also De Neve) to play out wide but one isnt a winger and one isnt a footballer so those plans had to change.

Gardner Hickman is not particularly good but we need him in the squad. Garrett is not of an equal standing. Although registering Garrett would surely defeat the purpose anyway.

But equally, that opens up the possibility for example of no one leaving and then if we had that attitude, we will go down with no new signings. We can consider it at 24 because Hedges we will be paying but he wont be able to play either way.

Yeah this 25 man squad thing is a bit of a red herring. We need 3 or 4 in urgently regardless. As long as we do it properly this time unlike the grossly unprofessional shambles when Sigurdsson was ditched after the window had closed. We have a number of non contributors, whether that be players that arent good enough (De Neve, Henriksson, Tavares, Kargbo) players who will miss the majority of the season (Hedges) or players who have been made redundant by the formation change (Pickering, Ribeiro). As long as we tell players there is a chance that they wont be registered in advance to try and nudge them out, if they choose to stay then thats on them and they take the risk.

Its being painted as if we are the only team to have suffered injuries. Lots of teams have numerous players out. And some of our absentees havent been out for that long.

I definitely do not think that every player we have is shit. Although its symptomatic of these owners that a lot of shit players have been here.

Even factoring in the fact that we do have some shit players in the squad, and obvious imbalances. I do think we could be doing a bit better, yes. As we do have a handful of good players and the league especially near the bottom is really poor. Eustace wouldnt be 20th.