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

[leeblue]

To an extent this may be true but Kev keeps saying we are short of bodies and need people in..repeatedly.. so it’s not unreasonable for people to the agree with him? There are some who don’t think the situation is urgent and therefore, presumably, think Kev is wrong. I know whose opinion carries most weight with me. So whilst no tantrums certainly frustration.

That all said I remain confident things will look much better comes Xmas

Two things can be true, we need a body or two but obviously the right body at the right price is the guiding principle. Once the injured quartet are back things will look better.

 

[Mark Corrigan]

Dont you just love Shrimpermoan , Makes me wonder if JR and the consortium read all this and feel regret that they save d our club. How people can be so impatient and expect immediate success . First priority for COSU was to always get the club back on an even keel , get all the debts that spineless rat and his off spring left the club with, that takes time and thankfully have the support of 7000 supporters through the gate and selling of 2000 shirts and god knows how many season tickets can only help shorten that period. Until then just sit back relax ,believe me our time will come, the club is layng the foundations for many years to come for not just you people now but your grand children and their children so they will not have to go through what all of you have had to.

I make you right, people are just desperate for some good times and it's going to be slower than many realised.

ITK's hinted over a week ago at at least 2 or 3 'exciting signings' through the door, and as of yet we haven't seen anything, this, along with a couple of poor performances has left some fans a little deflated.

It's frustrating as there is a good team in there but right now they need some help, it's not good when your right wing back has scored 63% of your goals for the season.

 

[JB Shrimper]

Dont you just love Shrimpermoan , Makes me wonder if JR and the consortium read all this and feel regret that they save d our club. How people can be so impatient and expect immediate success . First priority for COSU was to always get the club back on an even keel , get all the debts that spineless rat and his off spring left the club with, that takes time and thankfully have the support of 7000 supporters through the gate and selling of 2000 shirts and god knows how many season tickets can only help shorten that period. Until then just sit back relax ,believe me our time will come, the club is layng the foundations for many years to come for not just you people now but your grand children and their children so they will not have to go through what all of you have had to.

COSU deserve no flack. But the football is awful. If it stays so boring, negative and ultimately predictable, we won't be getting 7,000 through the gate. Apart from West Ham fans, who really wants to pay their hard earned money to be bored for 2 hours every week?

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

ITK's hinted over a week ago at at least 2 or 3 'exciting signings' through the door, and as of yet we haven't seen anything,

i think we're better off not hearing anything sometimes, and probably especially at the moment. people on here are so ****ed off that hearing we're getting someone then it not happening just ****es people off. results are doing a good enough job of that already

 

[Boreham Blue]

I can’t remember with all the posts that have gone since which ITK gave us the exciting signing rumour but would good to hear if this is still a thing or dead in the water

 

[stewart]

As it stands at present i think Kev and Co should think about giving the fans an excting brand off football, keep them happy plus do tha results will come and the strikers will begin to hit the back of the onion bag , whats to lose at present itsa boring and we losing to clubs we ought to be defeating .

 

[duncan bulgaria]

I believe Bonne was in the exciting signing category , ok he’s off the pace and not pulled up any trees as of yet but had someone told us he’d be with us at the start of the season I’m sure there would of been excitement around this .
I also think Moncur has been a success and from 2 leagues above so would also fall into the exciting category

The annoying part of this is the league is not as strong as other season and had we have got this right and sorted 6 months ago we would be in a position to challenge , as hard as it is to take I feel this season will be one of frustration and what could of been

 

[Hadleigh-shrimper]

Any news on butcher?

 

[meerkat54]

I think there are players without clubs that we could bring in.
Biggest problem for us is do they want to come to us. I think budget restraints are not helping and the ghost of the has still been lingering around.
What’s happened to the 2 or 3 imminent signings? Have these had second thoughts?

 

[GBJ]

Dont you just love Shrimpermoan , Makes me wonder if JR and the consortium read all this and feel regret that they save d our club. How people can be so impatient and expect immediate success . First priority for COSU was to always get the club back on an even keel , get all the debts that spineless rat and his off spring left the club with, that takes time and thankfully have the support of 7000 supporters through the gate and selling of 2000 shirts and god knows how many season tickets can only help shorten that period. Until then just sit back relax ,believe me our time will come, the club is layng the foundations for many years to come for not just you people now but your grand children and their children so they will not have to go through what all of you have had to.

Look on the bright side, moaning about the situation on here, is far better than moaning about it in the stadium.

 

[londonblue]

I believe Bonne was in the exciting signing category , ok he’s off the pace and not pulled up any trees as of yet but had someone told us he’d be with us at the start of the season I’m sure there would of been excitement around this .
I also think Moncur has been a success and from 2 leagues above so would also fall into the exciting category

The annoying part of this is the league is not as strong as other season and had we have got this right and sorted 6 months ago we would be in a position to challenge , as hard as it is to take I feel this season will be one of frustration and what could of been

Bonne has already shown his class. He may not have scored yet, but he's got into some really good positions and has been a tad unlucky. He just needs a few more matches and an increase in match sharpness.

 

[rlb999]

Difficult to know which way to go here. Whilst I still think that Crowther & Gubbins would be more comfortable paired in a 4 rather than a 5, I get the argument that back to basics is probably sensible this afternoon.

Collin
Taylor, Crowther, Ralph
GSM, KAF, Morton, Husin, Bridge
Pepple, Bonne

or (because we're light in the middle)

Collin
Crowther, Ralph, Gubbins
GSM, Husin, Taylor, Morton, Bridge
Pepple, Bonne

 

[Hadleigh-shrimper]

Difficult to know which way to go here. Whilst I still think that Crowther & Gubbins would be more comfortable paired in a 4 rather than a 5, I get the argument that back to basics is probably sensible this afternoon.

Collin
Taylor, Crowther, Ralph
GSM, KAF, Morton, Husin, Bridge
Pepple, Bonne

or (because we're light in the middle)

Collin
Crowther, Ralph, Gubbins
GSM, Husin, Taylor, Morton, Bridge
Pepple, Bonne

Can I ask was that meant for transfer thread?

 

[Jack_23]

Macdonald gone concord on loan. Must mean one of the injured lot are back to be on the bench otherwise won’t be able to fill it again

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

Macdonald gone concord on loan. Must been one of the injured lot are back to be on the bench otherwise won’t be able to fill it again

I was thinking that it seems weird to let him go unless one of our players are close to being on the bench or a new signing is close.

Macdonald definitely needs to go out and play though. Be a great experience for him. Nice to see us doing business with concord again after they were more than unhappy with the preseason arrangements.

 

[Danshrimper]

Macdonald gone concord on loan. Must mean one of the injured lot are back to be on the bench otherwise won’t be able to fill it again

Does it really make a difference if there’s 6 or 7 subs? Realistically Maher is never going to sub Macdonald or Faulkner on anyway.

No point stopping him from getting experience at Concord by making him sit on the bench for 90 minutes just so we can have 7 instead of 6 subs.

 

[stewart]

Same goes for Faulkner but good to see Walker back on the field kicking a ball around .

 

[Maldon Shrimper]

Noticed today that Effiong at Braintree and Hopper at Colu arent in the team or on their respective benches coming our way ??

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

Noticed today that Effiong at Braintree and Hopper at Colu arent in the team or on their respective benches coming our way ??

Effiong is on Braintree's bench.

 

[Maldon Shrimper]

Effiong is on Braintree's bench.

Right ok BBC website not showing hence my post