Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2023/24

[GTFCfish]

By the way...

Lyle Taylor

Chris Lines


???????

Cmon apart from different hair colour, skin colour, face shape and build and a 6 year age difference ( i googled it lol) they are practically twins!

 

[shoddycollins]

Nathan Tyson, who we had on trial has now signed for Kilmarnock so our search for a fourth striker continues.

The club aren't commenting on reports that Derek Asamoah has been invited to train with the team. I'd love it if Del-boy came back though (he hates Degsy so I keep hearing)

 

[daviejones]

Nathan Tyson, who we had on trial has now signed for Kilmarnock so our search for a fourth striker continues.

The club aren't commenting on reports that Derek Asamoah has been invited to train with the team. I'd love it if Del-boy came back though (he hates Degsy so I keep hearing)

I'm thinking Asamoah is probably more of a favour to help him find a new club, would be very surprised to see him back here

 

[Kenneth E End]

Belizehatter is still upset because we got Matt Tubbs for less money than they offered

Of course he was only earning £650pw.

 

[Kenneth E End]

You didn't have the biggest budget in the division when you went up from the Conference??

£275,000 for Richard Brodie says otherwise. **giggles**

Besides, it matters not if you had the biggest budget or not, you certainly had the biggest expenditure v income. You were probably spending something like £3 for every £1 earned.

 

[Vanni]

Hmm, I think you lot are bitter. Crawley took 10k to Old Trafford once, so they're definitely not a small side. Of course, there were some day trippers among those 10k, but not a lot I'd say.

 

[Casey]

Of course we are a small club, never denied, but that season there were three clubs whose budget was larger than ours.
Luton offered more money for Tubbs than we did but we offered ours as all up front and Luton wanted to spread it over the season. The only reason Salisbury were selling was because of urgent money troubles. We got a bargain while Luton were trying to be clever.

As for Brodie, The rumour of 275k came out of York and has been consistently denied by all at Crawley including the phantom money man who had nothing to do with Hong Kong.

Besides, three seasons of money in over a hundred years. Most of the time we havent had two brass farthings to rub together and when we get lucky we get nothing but abuse.

Casey

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Sorry but I find it barely believeable 3 teams had a bigger budget than you that year. I'll give you us, although, I think even that is a little doubtful, but 2 others?

You paid fees for players like Torres (widely reported as 100k), Neilson, Brodie (the fee I saw was 150k), Simpson, the centre half from Kettering whose name I don't remember, Dance. And got Pablo Mills as a free agent amongst others.

Nobody else was chucking money around like that.

I don't particularly care and budget talk tends to bore me to tears but that claim is bordering on the realms of delusion.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Yeah I was thinking the same. Even if we say that Luton had a bigger budget (and if you include stuff like the youth system funded off our own backs and paying off old debts etc we might well have, pure playing budget though? Hmm....), where on Earth are the other two teams coming from?

 

[Casey]

I don't care and to be honest it's off topic and old news but off the top of my head it was Luton, Wrexham and Darlington (Kiddiminster may replace Wrexham) but I don't have the figures anymore so I could be incorrect with the teams but I'm sure we had the fourth biggest budget.

I think Luton will get promoted this season and I will wish you well but always remember. You bought the promotion by outspending over half the teams in the league.

Casey

 

[Kenneth E End]

I don't care and to be honest it's off topic and old news but off the top of my head it was Luton, Wrexham and Darlington (Kiddiminster may replace Wrexham) but I don't have the figures anymore so I could be incorrect with the teams but I'm sure we had the fourth biggest budget.

I think Luton will get promoted this season and I will wish you well but always remember. You bought the promotion by outspending over half the teams in the league.

Casey

Just to answer the two questions - Crawley had a higher playing budget than Luton and anyone else - it is laughable that you could deny that. Is Steve Evans the accountant? I've just gone to Wikipedia - Crawley paid fees for TEN players that season. Matt Tubbs (£70k), Sergio Torres (£100k), Chris Flood (£10k), Richard Brodie (£275k), Scott Neilson, Kyle McFadzean, Josh Simpson, John Dempster, James Dance and Willie Gibson (all undisclosed; probably another £300k combined).

I know for a fact that one player, not on this list was offered a very substantial sign on fee.

Yes, our board have invested a lot of money. Up to the beginning of last season this was £16m since 2008. But a lot of this was paying off the huge debts and establishing an infrastructure to maintain a professional club for the long term. As for outspending over half the teams in the league, our attendances were double anyone else and also tickets the most expensive. So our income levels would've been substantially higher than anyone else.

 

[Gladders]

We all know that the seasons Crawley, Fleetwood, Mansfield and Luton won the title each of them had the biggest budgets those seasons.

 

[BelizeHatter]

Not sure Mansfield did. They just had a well run and good unit for the Conf and hit a purple patch from Christmas onwards while others couldn't keep a consistency

 

[BelizeHatter]

Let'move on. My initial comment that started all this was about slight attitude not the budgets/club size. There will always be disparities, unless the US cap system is introduced, which is highly unlikely. If you get 10k+ crowds and you're well run you have more to spend than a 5k crowd club. A good manager or crop of youngsters can whisk anyone through a couple of Leagues but in the long run the Club size finds its own natural level

 

[BelizeHatter]

Respect for everyone like Casey who supports his local side, when there are tons of glamourous easier sides to follow nearby - as from a recent other thread.

 

[Gladders]

They took Pilkington from you just to sit him in the stands! Lost count of how many players Cox signed that season

 

[Richard Cranium]

You gotta do what you gotta do to escape that place.

 

[Casey]

Hey I've been wrong before and I will be wrong again but I was shown figures from someone I had no reason to doubt.

I still say we brought the league and I still say most teams who win their division will have one of the highest budgets. That's why when teams like Leicester win the Premier we (nearly) all celebrate a little but when Leicester won league one? Not so big shout.

I am more worried about the money we have spent this season than I am about the money we spent 5 years ago. A 3 year contract for James Collins, Mark Connolly and now Dean Cox. I know Eren is rich but our budget figures must be horrendous.

Still off topic though.

Casey

 

[BelizeHatter]

Lol Pilkngton. They thought they'd ripped the heart out of our defense but the feeling was he was done at Luton. Hero but had become a liability. They thought they were getting the three year prior model and soon realised he was just good for the stands. They didn't need him though but losing him strengthened us although still not enough;-)

 

[Richard Cranium]

Lol Pilkngton. They thought they'd ripped the heart out of our defense but the feeling was he was done at Luton. Hero but had become a liability. They thought they were getting the three year prior model and soon realised he was just good for the stands. They didn't need him though but losing him strengthened us although still not enough;-)

He was still a champion though mate

 

[hellogregory]

I'm thinking Asamoah is probably more of a favour to help him find a new club, would be very surprised to see him back here

I'd take him back on a short term deal. I didn't think he should have been released in the first place to be honest. We currently have 3 strikers, if one gets an injury we're very light. Asamoah offers us pace that we're currently lacking.

No harm in taking him until January, then we can sign someone better and more long term.

 

[BelizeHatter]

Yep. That he was. I'll let you in on a little personal secret you'll enjoy, I fancy. You winning the League title stung more than any of the other Champions in the three million seasons we were down there. Disliked that one for some reason I can't quite fathom now.

 

[daviejones]

I'd take him back on a short term deal. I didn't think he should have been released in the first place to be honest. We currently have 3 strikers, if one gets an injury we're very light. Asamoah offers us pace that we're currently lacking.

No harm in taking him until January, then we can sign someone better and more long term.

I wouldn't be opposed to us signing him either, but I don't see it as the type of thing Curle would do

 

[hellogregory]

“Like I say, I know a lot about him but circumstances would have to be right for us to take it further. I’ve known him for a long, long time and I’ve got a lot of time for him. As with any player who comes into our building, they need to impress.

“I am surprised that he hasn’t got himself fixed up with something because he still has the pace and he’s still a threat. He has an excellent work ethic and the decision for me to release him at the time was because he wasn’t getting as much game time as he needed.

“When you’re at the age of 33 or 34 you need to be playing 90 minutes as often as possible and, in my opinion, I wasn’t going to be able to give him that. We were using him more and more as an impact player so we felt it would be better for him to continue his career elsewhere.”


Sounds to me like he's considering it.

 

[shoddycollins]

“Like I say, I know a lot about him but circumstances would have to be right for us to take it further. I’ve known him for a long, long time and I’ve got a lot of time for him. As with any player who comes into our building, they need to impress.

“I am surprised that he hasn’t got himself fixed up with something because he still has the pace and he’s still a threat. He has an excellent work ethic and the decision for me to release him at the time was because he wasn’t getting as much game time as he needed.

“When you’re at the age of 33 or 34 you need to be playing 90 minutes as often as possible and, in my opinion, I wasn’t going to be able to give him that. We were using him more and more as an impact player so we felt it would be better for him to continue his career elsewhere.”


Sounds to me like he's considering it.

I'm sure any player who trains with us, unless there's something that would totally prevent them playing for us, like wage demands that were out of our league is always going to be under consideration. If Asamoah comes in and shows he's kept himself fit and sharp then I'm sure Curle would be tempted.

 

[hellogregory]

Hopefully. We have nothing else like him, he's a good option to have and can play the lone striker role well.

 

[Hamez]

We've signed Oscar Gobern on a freebie.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

We've signed Oscar Gobern on a freebie.

Unlucky

 

[Luke Imp]

Barnet fancy Tom Champion back?

 

[shoddycollins]

Apparently Asamoah could feature in a bounce game against Oldham for us.