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Our finish will be dependent on us making big signings. We haven't strengthened badly, we just need quality and numbers right now. Another six as a bare minimum which is a lot to make up, but not necessarily bad if the quality is there. Time will tell before we can be spoken of as top six quality.

Now you mention it, he does fit the description. I'll let the forum members know.

We are rumoured to be in for 'an older Dutch winger who has played in England previously and is currently playing in Europe' who is allegedly in for a medical today. By process of elimination, everything seems to point to Yanic Wildschut who our OUFC forum 'ITK' is bang on the money with...

I don't understand the logic. I own a business myself and we a similar scenario a few years back (albeit outside of football); a prospective hire declined the job offer, came back two days later realising his 'mistake'. After much deliberation we took the guy on irrespective of any damaged egos...

If I recall, when he was at Swindon he was utterly dreadful although as has been pointed out the club at that stage perhaps wasn’t conducive to any player showing any talent of any description.

I saw that this morning. The Roofe rumour is a bizarre one. He’s had a terrific career since he joined us. I just can’t see him dropping to League One. Frankly, it’s not like he needs to do it. He’s still only 29!

Hard to disagree. He’s outstanding and has all the makings of being a potentially Premier League goalkeeper.

He’s been on loan since January so I think the feeling is it’s not a ‘new’ signing in the truest sense. One concern levelled at our club right now is the lack of Director of Football type person to get transfers over the line. It appears we have lost out on a number of targets despite an...

Exactly what you needed last time in the division. I gather Pompey never really played to his strengths and probably on the decline now. Nonetheless that’s a really good signing to cement a place in the division medium-term.

That would be a very Wycombe signing.

Luke McNally off to Burnley. Fee is close to £2 million. Huge potential. But decent business given he’s had essentially half a season of professional football.

His downfall was he could only play in a number 10 role. He was totally incapable of playing anywhere else (Southend supporters mentioned this when he first signed). I’ve no doubt he was a good player. We were absolutely hopeless under Clotet at the time and he is not the sort of player you...

He's had a strange career. He looked a class above when with us. Granted we were absolutely terrible at this point so that offers little value in gauging his ability!

Ditto this. It's common knowledge that playing regular football, loyalty and home life appear to be very important to him. CamBran should be nowhere near any League One club. I think OUFC can consider themselves very lucky to still have him. Championship move. I can see that, albeit with a...

Someone mentioned the same on our forum. I tend to think it's terrific business. He cost next to nothing 12 months ago so to attract £4 million after one season of League One football with no guarantee of performances (essentially you're buying potential as a Champ club), that's seriously good...

Again, I think all clubs barring Accrington don't play by those rules. If you implemented a rule whereby clubs can't post losses, the football pyramid would collapse. However the better supported clubs would still prosper and swallow up the better players. They'd just pay less for them. You'd...

Don't most clubs?

That's the way football transfers go. Designed to avoid alerting clubs to how much cash you have but in so many ways it is peculiar. Football transfers are an open secret amongst the fraternity that even if it is undisclosed, every man and his dog will know.

Not a bad squad player. Was on a lot at WHU but understood to have been asking for more realistic wages. Could do a lot worse.

He wasn’t close to being a starter for us. In fact he often didn’t even make the bench. I gather if we really wanted him, we would have got something tied up months back. Unlike other players who have joined us, he just never really seemed to improve during his time with us. He’s effectively...