A Bit of Fun Transfer Rumours Thread (Potential New Signings)

[tommy tucker]

like to think Phil can get this one over the line

 

[stewart]

Hopefully Cordner will sign a 2 year deal also

 

[Barling Magna]

Hopefully Cordner will sign a 2 year deal also

Cordner came here because of Mark Molesley. Will PB hold the same sway with Bournemouth, especially now we are in the NL?

 

[MilkeySUFC]

Cordner came here because of Mark Molesley. Will PB hold the same sway with Bournemouth, especially now we are in the NL?

Doesn't have anything to do with Bournemouth, he's out of contract.

 

[Petejames]

Cordner came here because of Mark Molesley. Will PB hold the same sway with Bournemouth, especially now we are in the NL?

Phil brown played him more than mm?

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Brown does seem to have a good knack of talking players into joining. Think of Cox, Ferdinand, Turner, Kightly etc. MM only seemed to look at players with a Weymouth or Bournemouth connection! I reckon Cordner will sign.

 

[Blues4LifeDan]

Cordner came here because of Mark Molesley. Will PB hold the same sway with Bournemouth, especially now we are in the NL?

The reality is, a few of the players signed by MM probably preferred playing under Brown. Whatever you think of him as a person or whatever you think of his tactics, he is very direct and knows what he wants. He has clear direction and plays the simple game. You need that in the lower leagues.

His problem is having those better players with the big ego's. In the end, they stop buying into his ethos.

But while we are where we are, players like Cordner will love playing for him. Simple instructions, with a clear vision is easy to follow and understand.

Players like Cordner and Hobson will definitely improve under Brown. It's those flair players he struggles to get the best out of. But in the NL we won't be inundated with those types of players, so there's no problem.

 

[Barling Magna]

Doesn't have anything to do with Bournemouth, he's out of contract.

Fair enough. I hope we can keep him

 

[bluesfansince1952]

Brown does seem to have a good knack of talking players into joining. Think of Cox, Ferdinand, Turner, Kightly etc. MM only seemed to look at players with a Weymouth or Bournemouth connection! I reckon Cordner will sign.

Being under embargo severely restricted MM's ability to sign players. How much of PB's ability of 'talking players into joining' was offering wages higher than they could obtain elsewhere and which, in hindsight, we could not afford? Perhaps if we had shopped more frugally at the time PB was throwing money at Kightly Ferdinand Turner etc we might later have had sufficient left in the till to avoid being embargoed.

 

[Blue Yonder]

'Poor old MM' was only allowed and able to sign about 20 players because of the 'difficulties' attracting players to the club. Now we're not even a league team we have in quick order appointed an ex premier league manager, a new CEO and have retained our player of the year. Who'd have thought ?

 

[OrangeyBrown]

'Poor old MM' was only allowed and able to sign about 20 players because of the 'difficulties' attracting players to the club. Now we're not even a league team we have in quick order appointed an ex premier league manager, a new CEO and have retained our player of the year. Who'd have thought ?

The majority of those players were brought in after the embargo was lifted, at which point we were rock bottom of the table and an unattractive prospect for more or less anybody. Whatever you think of MM let's not act like the club made transfer dealings easy for him in any way.

 

[Blue Yonder]

The majority of those players were brought in after the embargo was lifted, at which point we were rock bottom of the table and an unattractive prospect for more or less anybody. Whatever you think of MM let's not act like the club made transfer dealings easy for him in any way.

Certainly not easy I agree. Nothing was as hard as that coaching team made it though. Just not up to it however nice they all were. Time to move on including for those that still want to get the violins out for them to this day.

 

[bluesfansince1952]

The majority of those players were brought in after the embargo was lifted, at which point we were rock bottom of the table and an unattractive prospect for more or less anybody. Whatever you think of MM let's not act like the club made transfer dealings easy for him in any way.

And by far the best time to sign players is during the close season.....after that it is just playing catch up.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The majority of those players were brought in after the embargo was lifted, at which point we were rock bottom of the table and an unattractive prospect for more or less anybody. Whatever you think of MM let's not act like the club made transfer dealings easy for him in any way.

Not to mention that because were under embargo for most of the year the majority of the signings were after the transfer window had closed where we could only sign players off the street that nobody else had wanted for months - Ranger, Halford, Holmes, Hart, Walsh etc.

The only permanent signing completed before the season started was Shaun Hobson, who was voted Player of the Season.

The only permanent signing completed before the last day of the January transfer window was Nathan Ferguson, who was our best player for the second half of the season.

 

[bluesfansince1952]

Certainly not easy I agree. Nothing was as hard as that coaching team made it though. Just not up to it however nice they all were. Time to move on including for those that still want to get the violins out for them to this day.

I am fine with moving on. I am also happy to believe that PB is passionate and great motivator. But in his previous stint with us I do think he served us well in the transfer market.

nb The previous regime was apparently so hopeless that the original subject of this thread was the hope that PB would be able to sign one of MM's Bournemouth recruits! This is just days after the news that ex Weymouth and Bournemouth defender Sean Hobson (MM's first signing?) resigned with us was universally well received. Is that a tad ironic?
I cannot resist commenting that both Codner and Hobson are under thirty and have no history of being injury prone.

 

[bluesfansince1952]

Not to mention that because were under embargo for most of the year the majority of the signings were after the transfer window had closed where we could only sign players off the street that nobody else had wanted for months - Ranger, Halford, Holmes, Hart, Walsh etc.

The only permanent signing completed before the season started was Shaun Hobson, who was voted Player of the Season.

The only permanent signing completed before the last day of the January transfer window was Nathan Ferguson, who was our best player for the second half of the season.

We were only able to sign Hobson because he was able to dodge the embargo as he had previously never made a league appearance. The restrictions imposed by the embargo severely limited the number of players available to us to sign so I always thought that this was a fine piece of business.
Which is one of the reasons I have just reached for my violin...very well played MM....well played indeed!

 

[Grayson]

Certainly not easy I agree. Nothing was as hard as that coaching team made it though. Just not up to it however nice they all were. Time to move on including for those that still want to get the violins out for them to this day.

Why should you get to post about it first, get shown up for a flawed opinion and then ask others to move on?

The violins will continue to come out if people continue to rewrite history, and rightly so.

 

[Blue Yonder]

Why should you get to post about it first, get shown up for a flawed opinion and then ask others to move on?

The violins will continue to come out if people continue to rewrite history, and rightly so.

Re read and you'll see it wasn't me that brought this all back up first. I posted in response to a tired old point about events months ago. It's time to move on because the guy has gone and there will forever be some like me who think that coaching team were hopeless (and further hamstrung by events) and others who think they were talented but simply hamstrung by events. There is nothing left to argue about. This is a new signings thread that should be about optimism and hope.

 

[MisterStubbs]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1397932646630625284

All sounds very encouraging to me.

 

[Flinty]

Forward...Fronts ........ Striker incoming !!!