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Summer 2018 Transfer Window

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Exactly
We have enough bench warmers and youth with potential.
Any player bought this window should be able to walk straight into our first 11.
That’s the priority.
Oh and get Lookman back sharpish and get Henry back or loaned out somewhere he will play every week and develope
 
jazzy said:
In an ideal world , yes we would move 12-14 players on but the real world is very different Zat.I think we will struggle to shift more than 8. Any more and Brands will have worked wonders , by the way Robles doesn't count as he's out of contract!
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Robles going...Grant GONE.

mellowblue said:
Brands has Zat in a cupboard in his office for advice on young European players, having been brought up on Subbuteo rather than football manager or fifa......lollol
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I thought FIFA was a game like sensible soccer? is is a management game?

Raino85 said:
I know we need to get the average age of the squad down Zat, but spending 80+m on a 21 year old and a 19 year old and them putting them as a partnership?
Thats suicide right there
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haha I mentioned previously or later only 1 CB mate...they were just two options to describe the type of athletic player who still has power, pace but high quality ball play.

TheBlueGibbon said:
Wasn't his contract up anyway?
IIRC, he was victim of another Walsh cock-up, whereby he'd already played for us in a competitive match for the U23s and Crewe, which meant he couldn't go on loan in January.

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https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/sp...verton-midfielder-conor-grant-becomes-1649488
Plymouth Argyle have finally completed the signing of midfielder Conor Grant - more than four months after Derek Adams first tried to bring him to Home Park.

Adams wanted to take the 23-year-old on loan from Premier League club Everton towards the end of January.

However, a FIFA ruling which prevents players from appearing for more than two teams in a season put paid to that.
Grant has now reached the end of his contract at Everton and Adams has made him his first signing of the summer in a permanent transfer.

The Everton academy graduate had been set to sign on loan for Argyle before their away League One game against Oldham Athletic in late January.

However, it was then realised the FIFA ruling would prevent his move from being completed.

Grant had made 18 appearances on loan to League Two club Crewe Alexandra earlier in the season.
Prior to that, though, he had started for Everton under-21s in a 2-1 Checkatrade Trophy group stage defeat away to Notts County.

Playing for Crewe and Everton under-21s counted as two different teams for the purposes of the FIFA ruling so he could not sign for Argyle.

Now Adams has finally got his man as he starts to rebuild his squad for the 2018/19 League One campaign.
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AND SO IT BEGINS
 


Eggs said:
..it’s a balance, it’s not particularly one type over another but we certainly lack athleticism. Players who can quickly get us up the pitch, players who have powers of recovery in defence. In those EL games we would lose possession on the edge of the opposition box and within a heartbeat they would be attacking our goal and our players were totally out of the game. Once a player is beyond our back four you rarely see any defender catching them up.

Athleticism without quality is useless. We need players who provide both.
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In other words, counter attacking players capable of quick transition. Such players require pace, dribble and willingness to rush down the other end in packs complimenting each other with movement and a strong believe that every breakaway will result in goal scoring chances.

We only have 3 players capable of doing that. Lookman, Walcott and Coleman.

It’s crucial we sign more transition type players and maddison is one of best we’re link with at the moment.
 
COYBL25 said:
Which translates into - " I like my 80k a week very much and no one else is going to pay me that, so I`m staying ".
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Maybe, but he might feel he has a point to prove after the humiliation of last season. Also, it doesn’t make sense for him to say this if the team couldn’t offload him without him agreeing to another team’s contract demands anyways. It’s PR guff for sure, but it probably isn’t meant that way.
 

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