Summer transfer rumours

And you bought your presents yourself.

 

Santa died of Covid

 

Bloody hell man don’t ruin his Xmas

 

Not true, Santa was arrested yesterday after texting two fifteen year old girls asking for pictures

 

Yes and I bet gil ate the reindeer talking about those 80 oz steaks

 

No just trying to lighten the mood

 

Nah. That was a stand-in. The real Santa died when I was 9. Me mam told is.

 

Are you really tying to say that club infrastructure and crowd size has no bearing on player recruitment?

And as for recruiters only being in place a few months, Speakman was appointed on Dec 4th. He wasn't starting from scratch, he was already very experienced in the role, coming in with a wealth of contacts. He is the architect of the new SAFC footballing philosophy and, following his comments made when LJ's appointment was announced the day after Speakman's being announced it was obvious that he had already been working for SAFC ahead of this time ('Sporting Director Kristjaan Speakman added: “The role of our Head Coach is going to be critical in delivering the strategy we have collectively established. This aligned approach has enabled us to create a profile for the position and following a rigorous process, I felt Lee was the outstanding candidate" ').

Although we appointed a head of player recruitment (Stuart Harvey) at the end of March, it means he has been in place for nearly 4 months now and surely his first priority would have been working on targets for this upcoming season. The thing we knew even back then was that we were desperate for full backs so I don't think it unreasonable to have expected some of those to have arrived as early signings, rather than arriving at or a few weeks after the start of the new season?

 

i never said we were, i said with that early list it would be expected that places would be filled quickly but it 'appears' as if the club is struggling to fill places...if you read my other posts you would realise i am not one in a panic over transfers.

i agree we are getting targets but i think some have read far too much into this early list and were expecting 'instant' transfers...hence the reason for some getting into a mild panic, so i think it was a bad move to make so much of this list.

 

And you believed her?! Even after you'd found out the real purpose of those strange 'money boxes' with the dials and twisty handles?!

 

Hearing Wright will be away before beginning of the season to free up wages. (At the moment seems against LJ wishes).

Also, nothing imminent but lots of talks with players..things could move fast if deal good for all parties..also waiting on other clubs to find players before they release their players.

 

If it’s against the managers wishes then I’m not happy at all about that, recipe for disaster if the manager doesn’t have the players he wants in the squad, also funnily enough that’s what Speakman spoke about in his first unfiltered podcast

 

probably has to go since O'Brien and Grigg wont shift because they are being paid far too much for doing far too little. Although AOB tries, he's just a **** Sunday League player, the less said about Grigg the ****ing better, what a ****er that bloke is

 

I agree, I'm not against letting Wright go but it has to be the gaffers decision ultimately surely.

 

https://www.shropshirestar.com/spor...ing-out-of-stoke--but-not-to-shrewsbury-town/

Cotteril saying Vokes won’t be signing for Shrewsbury cos he is going somewhere else, wonder if that’s us

 

grigg was kind of dragged here against his wishes but in all honesty, as a professional athlete i can never understand any that give less than 100%...you are not going to engineer a move by being crap, the only reason wyke got a fast move was his scoring record from last season (the fact he was a free agent probably helped) but had he been as 'prolific' as his previous couple of seasons we would be stuck with him.

grigg needs to get himself in the shop window again but whether he can be @rsed is another matter, much like rodwell (on a smaller scale) a waste of a squad number right now.

 

1. We're a basket case of a club, enough to make anyone think twice before signing for us.
2. Back to point 1. The one thing we're guaranteed to need to stabilise is TIME. Anyone who thinks a business model can simply be dropped onto safc and work seamlessly from the off is living in cloud cuckoo land. God knows what else is still coming out of the woodwork after Toot & Ploot's stewardship.

 

Wheatsheaf ffs your job is to cheer us up not do this

 

Cheers mate

 

If Salma Hayek offered you a shag but couldn't come over until next week once her husband goes away, would you wait for her? Or go on tinder and find the most accessible bird?

A lot of our fans want us to do the latter to make sure we get a shag before the first game of the season.