Transfer rumours !

Not a rumour but not worth it's own thread. Tom youngs has had his contract terminated

So apart from Le Fondre is there anyone else in the pipeline once the chungy deal goes through?  is Commons still a priority and likely?

Boggersbelief wrote:Not a rumour but not worth it's own thread. Tom youngs has had his contract terminated

Wow. Another one I had high hopes for. Lennon being ruthless with the youngsters is a bit of a worry as it doesn't save much in the way of wages.
Lennon had better stay for a few years because he's gutting the club to get the money to buy short-term fixes. Having suffered dire football on the pitch whilst Dougie was putting infrastructure in place, it would be doubly painful if Lennon dismantled everything and then pissed off.

Le Fondre to sign next friday

y2johnny wrote:So apart from Le Fondre is there anyone else in the pipeline once the chungy deal goes through?  is Commons still a priority and likely?

As it looks like the loan deal for Le Fondre will go through next week, we are probably sorted for strikers. We have plenty and Lennon may get rid of some that he has recently given the dreaded vote of confidence to. Eaves and Cavies take note.
We haven't really got much creativity in midfield now that CYL is on his way and Mavies remains sidelined so I would have thought that needs sorting as well as our defence (which to be fair has been just about OK recently)
We can probably get through the season with what we've got but the CYL money may be burning a hole in Lennon's pocket.

Lennon is starting to worry me a bit in terms of putting his own career ahead of the club. He could just continue to asset strip, spend the money on short-term glory and then piss off to the prem at the earliest opportunity. I hope I'm wrong.

I'm a little surprised that Youngs was let go. In terms of potential, we do have better young strikers but to cut him loose suggests that we couldn't even loan him out.

Craig Davies has been excellent this season under Lennon, a real handful - I don't see why a poacher alongside him like Le Fondre can't score the goals to push us up the league.

You rarely get promotion without someone scoring at least 12-15 goals.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Craig Davies has been excellent this season under Lennon, a real handful - I don't see why a poacher alongside him like Le Fondre can't score the goals to push us up the league.

You rarely get promotion without someone scoring at least 12-15 goals.

But I thought I made the le Fondre rumour up?

Boggersbelief wrote:
But I thought I made the le Fondre rumour up?

I'm playing along to make you more plausible.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Craig Davies has been excellent this season under Lennon, a real handful - I don't see why a poacher alongside him like Le Fondre can't score the goals to push us up the league.

You rarely get promotion without someone scoring at least 12-15 goals.

Craig Davies is injury prone, even though he's more than capable he's always picking up little injuries and takes a while to get match sharp again. 

As for Le Fondre playing alongside him, Lennon like Dougie seems to prefer a 4231 so Le Fondre would be more of an impact sub I'd guess.

bwfc1874 wrote:

Craig Davies is injury prone, even though he's more than capable he's always picking up little injuries and takes a while to get match sharp again. 

As for Le Fondre playing alongside him, Lennon like Dougie seems to prefer a 4231 so Le Fondre would be more of an impact sub I'd guess.

I agree about Craig Davies, but I suspect with better players (like Le Fondre) Lennon would be a bit more adventurous. Ipswich and Bournemouth play with two strikers and don't seem to be doing so badly.

Lennon has been playing with Heskey +1 - and often with a third e.g. Eidur tucked in just behind so I imagine he'd be looking for Le Fondre to play the poaching role, getting as close to goal as possible. Thing is we tend not to think of Heskey as a striker because his first instinct seems to be to hold the ball until he can find someone to pass to. In that respect he's like N'gog so it doesn't feel like there are 2 strikers.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

bwfc1874 wrote:

Craig Davies is injury prone, even though he's more than capable he's always picking up little injuries and takes a while to get match sharp again. 

As for Le Fondre playing alongside him, Lennon like Dougie seems to prefer a 4231 so Le Fondre would be more of an impact sub I'd guess.

I agree about Craig Davies, but I suspect with better players (like Le Fondre) Lennon would be a bit more adventurous. Ipswich and Bournemouth play with two strikers and don't seem to be doing so badly.

I don't think Lennon's system is anything to do with caution, it's a perfectly adventurous formation if a manager wants it to be. With the full backs pushing on and two box to box midfielders sitting behind the three we get forward more than enough. 

I wouldn't want to see us go 442 any time soon personally I think it leaves us too open and with the midfield having to do too much work getting up and down - which I don't think they're good enough for.

bwfc1874 wrote:

I don't think Lennon's system is anything to do with caution, it's a perfectly adventurous formation if a manager wants it to be. With the full backs pushing on and two box to box midfielders sitting behind the three we get forward more than enough. 

I wouldn't want to see us go 442 any time soon personally I think it leaves us too open and with the midfield having to do too much work getting up and down - which I don't think they're good enough for.

But neither of our full backs are attacking.

If you have a solid midfield you can play two upfront. We won't get promoted playing one upfront. Unless we sign Earnshaw.

Natasha Whittam wrote:If you have a solid midfield you can play two upfront. We won't get promoted playing one upfront. Unless we sign Earnshaw.

That goes without saying.

bwfc1874 wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:If you have a solid midfield you can play two upfront. We won't get promoted playing one upfront. Unless we sign Earnshaw.

That goes without saying.

You've just made me feel queasy - saying we won't get promoted playing one upfront.
Promotion? With this squad?
I hope not as they'd be slaughtered. It'll take at least a couple of seasons and a 75% clear out of the first team squad before we could even dream of holding our own in the Prem.

To be clear I was joking and definitely don't agree that Rob Earnshaw or 442 is the answer to our problems.

bwfc1874 wrote:To be clear I was joking and definitely don't agree that Rob Earnshaw or 442 is the answer to our problems.

Ponce.

Le Fondre will be a great signing, a real poacher, not sure if he can play as a lone striker though.

Boggersbelief wrote:

Natasha Whittam wrote:Craig Davies has been excellent this season under Lennon, a real handful - I don't see why a poacher alongside him like Le Fondre can't score the goals to push us up the league.

You rarely get promotion without someone scoring at least 12-15 goals.

But I thought I made the le Fondre rumour up?

Boggers is spot on about Le Fondre but he wont be available to play until the Wolves game on the 31st Jan.