Zubar stays, Daley and Soukouna sign.

FYI:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14199483.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14198394.stm

First bit of positive news this week.

 

Plus it appears we have another batch of trialists in:

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Argentine-Greens-trial/story-12968978-detail/story.html

Any thoughts?

 

Yeah Im glad Zubar is staying, I thought he was our best player last season.
Dont know about the trialists yet but it all sounds good

 

Good news indeed. It's now up to Peter Reid to build a team out of the bits & pieces. If anyone can, I think he can.

 

Yep starting to come together think we will have to give them to Christmas at least to really see what sort of a side he can conjure up out of the wreckage. Zubar is a big bonus though. As for trialists Whaley was seen as a top prospect at one point but career seems to have gone off track a bit could be a really good addition to the squad others we will have to wait and see. Are they sure Shane Williams hasn´t got Albion and Argyle confused??

 

What is Zubar thinking? Absolute legend

From the various opinions and reports from the Bristol game Daley seems like a good signing as well.

 

Zubar-TOP MAN.Soukouna was excellent against Bristol City+Daley & Hitchcock signing=very good news

 

Great news about Zubar,class act.

Tom Hitchcock only for three months,hope he stays the whole season in the end.........best source of goals for us this season.

Still depends on the Heaney/Irish phantoms coughing up the money or it will be dead in the water otherwise........at present no other source of funds........other than season tickets and that is ring fenced until completion day.........whenever !!!

 

Huddersfield manager Lee Clark gives a glowing write up about Damien Johnson,who has signed on loan for twelve months..........that will complete his time on our books.

Lee Clark's write up makes you think that we could do with a player like that..........how did it go so wrong.........finally with us desperately trying to get his wages off-loaded.

So Johnson and Patterson are as good as gone.........but we are still paying chunks of there wages unfortunately.

 

Better than paying it all Plymborn. Johnson was an big expense from the over-indulgent Championship spending of the old board and although a good player, we can not support his wages, they are apparently significantly higher than Waltons £8,000pwk.

At least we have some promising younger eager players on trial and in our youth set up who could possibly fill the void.

 

Now, if you are looking for a person who has shown loyalty, a very very rare commodity in football these days then Zubar must come out top of the tree. Who could have blamed him if he had gone. I'm sure he could have and to a much higher league as well. The guy gets 11 out of 10 from me and is already contender for player of the season even if he scores an own goal every week. As for the rest of them well so much for the "nobody will want to sign for us/you" brigade. I will lay odds that we will have a half decent squad come kick off day and that they will not struggle next season. I won't say play offs or promotion but I have a feeling that we (excluding the DS "we" people) have turned the corner now and all this will seem a bad dream this time next year.

 

I think we could make a decent midtable finish this term. Then hopefully push up the top half next season.

I agree with your comments about Zubar sensible and I like the look of Soukouna as a CB.
If we have 3 good CB challenging for first 11 then that would be an plus (if no one tries for Nelson this season!).

Hopefully we can get a good 18/19 players on board before the new season starts so we can field a full 11 and bench.

 

Am sure Ridsdale knows what he's doing

 

I shall be going to have a look at the current line up tomorrow night so will let you know my opinion when seen first hand. We will have a full squad by kick off don't worry.

 

Johnsons´s wage was the main stumbling block on setting up the Huddersfield deal from what I read they could not afford the full wack so it must be a fair sum.

 

Cole now added to the squad.

 

He is only 25 so still young for a keeper. I think that training with Larrieu will help himm develop his game.

Looking good...

 

Further lights in the gloom

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Argentine-Greens-trial/story-12968978-detail/story.html

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Ply...s-deal-track/story-12971354-detail/story.html

 

Interesting that we still have some more names popping up on trial. Should have a good squad available if they prove worth-while.

Same old comments from Guilfoyle, not criticising him for the article but I seem to remember that the sale was supposed to be completed a couple of weeks ago. 1st August is Judgement day then.

 

Don't hold it against Guilfoyle Hobo, these things have a life of their own timetablewise.

I have to admit spending over a year trying to buy a company once - in Ireland surprise, surprise. Guinness was good but trying to avoid flying Ryanair not so good. Aer Lingus is cheaper and more comfortable if you can get a seat!