Have We Signed Anyone Yet?

[Pattylallacks2]

I'm sure they had their reasons

[pip_y]

Any thoughts on who the striker is?

[MillersTime]

Yes, i totally agree. But Cheio is a very saleable player, Irish International. Balaser is attracting good offers, Wiles is attracting good £££, if they don't want to be here and play for us then sell them..............we move on, like them......UTM

Read this and forgot to reply. I agree with you in that, hypothetically, if Wiles had a year left and said to the club that he won't sign a new deal under any circumstance and someone offered 5mil say, you'd be a fool not to take it. I wasn't really talking about individuals but as an overall concept. Not sure transfer listing everyone automatically garners great returns always. Someone could be worth more by staying, contributing to success, and then leaving for nothing. Potentially.

[MillersTime]

Lonwijk looked good, don't understand why we haven't done this, he can play football, Hull doesn't look good enough and for me needs a season in L1 or L2 out on loan.

We have 5 Centre Backs with the addition of Hall. If we signed Lonwijk too that would mean 6 of the 25 man squad would be centre backs. Nearly a quarter of your whole squad as centre backs seems a bit much. Odoffin could also slip back if absolutely necessary.

[MillersTime]

I haven't seen Lonwijk but anyone who as incl' you haven't said anything negative about him so I'd have thought we'd have signed him on loan it's not like we're over blessed with centre backs a few injuries then we are down to the bones! I'm hoping management feel Hull can make it this season.

A few injuries in any one position would leave you short. Same for any team. There is a squad limit, you can't hoard players.

[Karl998yr]

An article in tizer explaining the lonwijk situation.
Didnt realise there were limits on how many games trialists could feature on.
Every day is a learning day

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...wijk_42397.htm

[millertop]

An article in tizer explaining the lonwijk situation.
Didnt realise there were limits on how many games trialists could feature on.
Every day is a learning day

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...wijk_42397.htm

Yes I did wonder why he wasn’t allowed, thought it was down to his club but clearly not.

Two is not good enough imo

[Derbymiller]

An article in tizer explaining the lonwijk situation.
Didnt realise there were limits on how many games trialists could feature on.
Every day is a learning day

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.u...wijk_42397.htm

That rule isnt something the league made up after the Salford game, our club and management knew that, so to say it impacted the decision is stupid.

[Derbymiller]

Regarding the striker, it is nice that the club are trying to give fans some inforamtion but it can cause additional confusion, Barker says

Assistant manager Richie Barker was on media duty after yesterday's 2- 1 win at Crewe Alexandra in the final summer friendly and said: "The conversation is planned for tomorrow.

"I would be amazed if a move happens in the next few days. Things have been pretty slow with this.

"When you're talking about loans, you've got to get the player onside, the agent onside and the parent club onside, Plus, obviously, it has to be the right deal for us.

"There are a lot of things that have to happen before the deal is made."

That is great to communicate it helps us see the complexity, however if we want another forward in even before the injuries and we know we are light, why are we only looking at a loan signing? Surely we intended to sign a player anyway and now the loan conversation is in addition to that, it is difficult to see how we can argue we are really investing in the team ahead of the campaign, when we have not even tried to make a bid for a striker from another club only recruited out of contract players, we did lose our two top goal scorers in the summer??

[gru]

We have 5 Centre Backs with the addition of Hall. If we signed Lonwijk too that would mean 6 of the 25 man squad would be centre backs. Nearly a quarter of your whole squad as centre backs seems a bit much. Odoffin could also slip back if absolutely necessary.

No room for sentiment I'd have loaned Wood out & kept Lonwijk here on loan. Wood says he wants to play if does want to play regular he'll have to move to a lower league side.