Recent content by That Fat Centre Half

I like the sound of Al Hamadi, had sort of hoped we would be interested when he was at Wimbledon to be honest but I guess the timing didn’t work. I imagine we will end up with Koroma and Kodua though as I can’t see us spending much this summer. Kodua in particular seems likely to me given the...

I didn’t like him as a player at all, but in his defence we never really played to his strengths hence it always being a funny move. If played as a genuine winger I think he can work, anything else I just don’t see him as well rounded enough.

You could try it but we did and he doesn’t work centrally in my view. His good games at Birmingham (ironically his very best against us when they won 5-0) was as a left winger. His best move is knocking it past a fullback and beating them for pace, he’s too weak on the ball centrally and not...

Not what you want to hear but dearly hope this will be true and I hope we accept a cut price to get it done. Whether wages will be an issue I’m not sure though. He is the poster child of our poor recruitment over the last couple of years, a player who never fit any type of shape we wanted to...

Signed 3 players in one day Nahki Wells, striker obviously Nigel Longwijk centre half who Kenny mentions above Hakeem Odoffin centre mid. Surprised at Longwijk tbh as we have a lot of centre halves but I’d assume that Mengi and maybe others are leaving. Needed a striker but kind of hoped for...

Hope he gets a go as form the little I’ve read he sounds quite promising. We don’t particularly have a great record of bringing signings like this through however - Taylor, Pepple, McAtee, Mendes Gomes et al falling into that category

Reece Burke is apparently going to be our latest outgoing in our fire sale. Going to Charlton to link up with Jones again. Very good player but just can’t keep consistently fit. If he did then he’d be a top end championship player

It’s like last season so far with the additional twist that last summer we held onto what we had rather than this where we are trimming the squad without replacement. It needed to happen but really hoped we would be far more aggressive early. I think clearly we have an issue with the recruitment...

We’ve sold Bim Pepple too Plymouth for an undisclosed fee. This time last year in pre season he looked absolutely dreadful in our under-21 side but he’s had a good loan at Southend and then seems to have done ok at Chesterfield second half of the season.

We have been slow starters even under Jones so arguably its never worked actually. Last year was a disaster, multiple injuries picked up and most of the players we ended up signing werent there as we signed so late. Seems we are repeating the same mistakes.

We go to Slovenia every year, Nathan Jones started it in L2. It’s a purpose built training complex for teams to do pre season stuff and also team building etc. Usually play a few other teams who are also there as behind closed doors games, this year it’s Dinamo Zagreb

We are apparently in talks with Rangers about selling them Aasgaard. Rumours on the incoming front pretty sparse. Think we are off to Slovenia end of the week and surely you want your core recruitment work done prior to your pre-season camp? At this point the core work is still ahead of us and...

Kaminski looks like he is off to Charlton for 1m. 32 and probably only a year left so that’s pretty good deal for all parties I think Excellent shot stopper and made some fabulous saves during his time. Was never really helped much by the defence it must be said, but he’s not that commanding...

Makes a lot of sense i guess given the links to the area and club but, feels like a bit of a “hit and hope” type signing to me a la Baptiste last season. Yes he’s been decent at one point in his career but has had recent injuries and his promising spell as a player is arguably 5 years ago now...

It’s really going to depend on what Bloomfield wants to do shape wise. If he wants to stick with a back 3 or a 4 really changes what we need quite a fundamental amount. Really hope we don’t get caught between styles with certain players suiting a 3 (Makosso and McGuinness for me in that bracket)...