Transfer News and Gossip Transfer Rumours Thread 2024/25 - Time to Cook 👨‍🍳

[Taters123]

CP implying another club has come in for KAF

Why can’t we just get deals signed.

 

[Cricko]

CP implying another club has come in for KAF

Jolly good.

 

[Supershrimper]

Why can’t we just get deals signed.

Due
Diligence

 

[blueveined]

CP implying another club has come in for KAF

Daggers???

 

[hlane17]

CP implying another club has come in for KAF

FFS loose lips sink ships and all, need to keep these things quiet until they're sorted.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Daggers fans in meltdown already, he told them he wasnt going to sign as he wanted to be higher up the pyramid. I like this kid already..

We are *a bit* higher up the pyramid than Dagenham

 

[Jack_23]

London shrimper ffs

 

[leeblue]

Why can’t we just get deals signed.

Because we are not going large on wages.
Let's say we've agreed 1k a week with the lad, his agent then gets an offer of 1.2k a week, we then have to match or better that offer...spoiler we won't because we are cutting our cloth accordingly and rightly so. However this means we will lose out on loads of players.

 

[amsemp]

CP implying another club has come in for KAF

Hopefully it’s a case of…

“Hi Keenan, it’s Ben Strevens. Would you like to come back?”

“Absolutely ****ing not Ben.”

“Righto. Good luck at Southend.”

 

[Suomi Shrimper]

Now we have a consortium (some of whom reside overseas) where does the protest take place?

Pay for my flight to HK or Sydney and I'm sure I can knock a sign together

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

I think the loss of Cardwell is a huge blow to the squad but in the grand scheme of things should be seen as a positive.

This model works and has been proven to work elsewhere. It doesn’t mean we will be stuck in the NL forever as some are concerned about. The issue since we introduced it is that we haven’t been able to be buying/bringing in enough bodies for this not to impact on the squad. But now is the time to start doing that and proving it works.

I'm sorry but I think a number of other factors are required for the model being espoused to work. And I'm not yet convinced that Southend United have the resources to follow this approach.

Amongst a number of things one needs have enough players in the squad (and the funds this requires) for there to be a potential conveyor belt of talent (and you mention this to some extent).

For me, we have seen that there are players in this division & lower that can play higher up the football ladder but they can take time to learn, adapt & develop.

That in itself is no easy thing to do - one just has to look at the most financially backed clubs in the land to see that they still rely on buying in players when their own development programmes can't provide the talent required.

 

[palexander]

Plugging the leak didnt really work did it...

 

[leeblue]

LS costing us signings once again ffs

Yeah I'm sure his agent isn't phoning every club in an attempt to get a few more quid....

 

[WillMay333]

Any player attached to a club requiring a fee will not doubt have a premium given our situation, clubs know were desperate and can only now sign scraps/3rd choices, and as mentioned clubs that know were offering contracts will also come into play

 

[palexander]

Can anyone get @StanCollymore back to sort us out again. We keep getting in a pickle.

 

[Paddypel]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1829511645892170039

Brilliant…

 

[Jim Levenstein]

If we lost out on this lad to Dagenham now then seriously wtf. We have a tiny squad, just cashed in on striker and pull in about <400% more people in the gate every week. We should be blowing them out the water.

 

[Supershrimper]

Plugging the leak didnt really work did it...

From the amount of ITKs on here far too many loose lips within the club

 

[leeblue]

If we lost out on this lad to Dagenham now then seriously wtf. We have a tiny squad, just cashed in on striker and pull in about >400% more people in the gate every week. We should be blowing them out the water.

Sustainability......

 

[kentblues]

Genuinely think appiah forson plays very much like yearwood. Would be a class addition to the midfield. He isn’t just a defensive midfielder. Drives forward with the ball, quick feet etc

Another club alerted to situation and has come into the equation looks like…not confident at the moment that this likely ends well….but fingers crossed..