Official Summer Rumour & Transfer Thread

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You ask the question " how does he do it " , well I dont know either but joking apart we have signed some decent centre backs in recent times & this lad has played just under 100 games so has experience ,so lets hope he turns out to be as good as Anderson although we had to be patient with Mads & by the same token lets hope the faithful give this lad the same tolerance .

Agree Shads. Settling into a foreign country is never easy. Mads took time as you correctly alluded to but he came in for some stick in that first season if I remember correctly. Hope it doesn't happen to this lad. I also hope he's better than our last French import at center aif, a certain Jean Eves Mvoto

[Shadrack the Red]

Agree Shads. Settling into a foreign country is never easy. Mads took time as you correctly alluded to but he came in for some stick in that first season if I remember correctly. Hope it doesn't happen to this lad. I also hope he's better than our last French import at center aif, a certain Jean Eves Mvoto

Good shout , I have Mvoto in my all time worst eleven which is an actual achievement , in watching them for over 60 years trust me I have seen some dross so to get in my worst eleven takes some doing !!!!

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Agree Shads. Settling into a foreign country is never easy. Mads took time as you correctly alluded to but he came in for some stick in that first season if I remember correctly. Hope it doesn't happen to this lad. I also hope he's better than our last French import at center aif, a certain Jean Eves Mvoto

As well as the new country/ club/culture factor I think Andersen struggled at first because he was alongside Diaby and other inexperienced players Conway had thrown at Stendel.

Andersen needed to learn by playing alongside calm, experienced professionals like Solbauer and Helik. I am not sure this French lad will have that benefit. I wouldn't class Kitching to be as good as those two as a mentor/ teacher/ role model for the lad.

Announcement of signing, which will be described as "exciting", expected today (Thursday) assuming Ahmad has got it over the line. He had a year left on his contract at Nimes but was identified as one of the 18 they needed to let go so a reasonably small fee, £250K ?, plus sh1t wages, may be involved, though, of course, it will be "undisclosed".

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