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

[Shrimper95]

According to Chris Phillips the Kabongo rumours aren’t true

Where did you see this?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

According to Chris Phillips the Kabongo rumours aren’t true

I'm saying they are true. I'm not saying we will get him, as other clubs can pay him much more.

 

[Tom4evablue]

On x? Can't find it

Spoke with CP, he said he doesn’t think it’s true

 

[Tom4evablue]

I'm saying they are true. I'm not saying we will get him, as other clubs can pay him much more.

Yeh this is true, the question is I suppose how much we would have to fork out if it’s a permanent, and even still with a loan he would have to take a rather large pay cut I presume

 

[shrimperjon]

Spoke with CP, he said he doesn’t think it’s true

TBf Chris isn’t always up with the transfers.
People like @boywonder and @LondonShrimper are the guys normally to be trusted at this stage.

 

[Shrimper95]

Spoke with CP, he said he doesn’t think it’s true

BFF?

 

[Smiffy]

I'm saying they are true. I'm not saying we will get him, as other clubs can pay him much more.

Wages will always be the stumbling block when taking players from the EFL.

I guess it’s a tricky decision for COSU to make. Is Kabongo worth pushing the budget a little for?

Personally, I think he would compliment and complete our forward options and give us a forward line capable of delivering the goals needed to make a real push for promotion. It would be a shame to miss out on him. Especially after missing out on Pearce and many others due to the embargo.

However, we must not get silly and must draw a line somewhere on what we can and can’t afford. This is a situation where one of those fan funded transfer kitty’s would of been handy for us.

 

[Tom4evablue]

TBf Chris isn’t always up with the transfers.
People like @boywonder and @LondonShrimper are the guys normally to be trusted at this stage.

I did think this myself!

Yeh I follow London Shrimper on X and he’s usually bob on. I mean I hope it’s true I think he would be a great addition for us.

 

[Callumturner22]

Wages will always be the stumbling block when taking players from the EFL.

I guess it’s a tricky decision for COSU to make. Is Kabongo worth pushing the budget a little for?

Personally, I think he would compliment and complete our forward options and give us a forward line capable of delivering the goals needed to make a real push for promotion. It would be a shame to miss out on him. Especially after missing out on Pearce and many others due to the embargo.

However, we must not get silly and must draw a line somewhere on what we can and can’t afford. This is a situation where one of those fan funded transfer kitty’s would have been handy for us.

I would happily donate towards a fan funded transfer kitty for sure I mentioned this a while ago .

 

[Blue Yonder]

Start of the season fast approaching, gaps in the squad that have to be filled and yet slim pickings on the rumour front. Have the club fixed the leaks ?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Wages will always be the stumbling block when taking players from the EFL.

I guess it’s a tricky decision for COSU to make. Is Kabongo worth pushing the budget a little for?

Personally, I think he would compliment and complete our forward options and give us a forward line capable of delivering the goals needed to make a real push for promotion. It would be a shame to miss out on him. Especially after missing out on Pearce and many others due to the embargo.

However, we must not get silly and must draw a line somewhere on what we can and can’t afford. This is a situation where one of those fan funded transfer kitty’s would have been handy for us.

I agree with all that other than completing the forward line. We currently have no real back up for Cards.

Three up top?

Would seem to be that way. Might also help explain why Wes was going to have a reduced role (you wouldn’t want him in a midfield two) yet we haven’t been linked with a midfield replacement for him yet.

 

[south247]

London Shrimper currently quite excited and singing a Wham song about Kabongo so......

 

[Smiffy]

I agree with all that other than completing the forward line. We currently have no real back up for Cards.



Would seem to be that way. Might also help explain why Wes was going to have a reduced role (you wouldn’t want him in a midfield two) yet we haven’t been linked with a midfield replacement for him yet.

Granted. I was more suggesting in terms of permanent signings. Agree perhaps a loanee on top if required, in the Cards mould.

 

[Pak Power]

Great to be talking about signings and football again

 

[bazzashrimper]

Penalties don't count?
In our past there has been more than one Blues side where that seemed to be the case as we never seemed to score from them!

I didn’t say that.

If Player A scores 20 goals a season and 10 are penalties. He scores 20 goals.

If he joins a team and say jack bridge takes the penalties, don’t have a dig at Player A for scoring 10 goals that next season.

 

[jarvisyeh]

I did think this myself!

Yeh I follow London Shrimper on X and he’s usually bob on. I mean I hope it’s true I think he would be a great addition for us.

I've always though CP knows as much as London Shrimper but just can't say it until it's a certainty.

Whenever CP puts an article out about a transfer it is usually official very soon after.

 

[Callum]

Barnet might of signed 9 players we got a scary

For McCullum to be coming here, he’d have to take a significant pay cut, at least 60% straight away.

As I did a post about squad size quality vs quantity in a post match thread previously (possibly after our first friend), McCullum would mean we’d be taking quality over quantity, but considering we have Cards, Waldron & Walker already, I’d be shocked.

Tshimanga, if all the figures I’m being told are correct, purely on wages (forgetting about transfer fees, signing on fees, loan fees or whatever) Tshimanga would be the “cheaper” of the two.

60 per cent Jesus god I bet there paying him 4,000 a week

 

[SeaSideDoughnut]

What was Tshimanga's injury?

 

[Tommy2holes]

How often have you seen him play, that’s what I’m getting at?

How often do we watch any players play apart from our own?

He obviously wasn’t a league one or league two player as it never worked out at Peterborough for him, and he didn’t have a career ending injury, as he is still playing. Let’s not state that as a fact, when it quite simply isn’t the case.

Are we knocking Walker because he has ended up back in the national league?

As I’ve stated, he will not be earning the same sort of figures as McCullum, and people are adamant we sign him, and have learnt no lessons from the past.

We might sign him, we might not, we might sign McCullum, we might not. Let’s just trust the management trio, and John Still and his army of scouts. I’d trust them to spot a player more than any of us to be honest.

I've seen him before his injury and at times he was unplayable. Hence he got a move to league 1.

He got an injury which has ended many players career's. To come back at the same levels isn't usually something that happens. Hopefully he can, as anything close to his previous form would be a cracking player.

It sounds like he is going to be a shrimper and he will get my full support, just the same as the rest.

 

[Tommy2holes]

What was Tshimanga's injury?

He broke his leg and ankle..

Was a bad one that needed surgery and kept him out for sometime