Moses Ogbu (Signed)

Or the player we signed by mistake. Serge Makafo.

Chima Chima Chima Chima!

Or as the press listed him the day after we played Tranmere, C. O’Corrie.

Looks to have power, pace, ball control, finishing and good distribution.

Ogbu, Hanson and Green! Can't remember when we last had three strikers of this quality in the same squad!

Quoted from forza ivano

the other good thing is that his name scans Omar's song perfectly

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Sorry but this takeover has to have something to do with these 3 signings..... We would normally be extremely lucky to even get 1 of them, but to arguably have 3 of the best strikers in the league? We must be having some form of transfer kitty increase with this takeover...

Quoted from Grimsby2012

Sorry but this takeover has to have something to do with these 3 signings..... We would normally be extremely lucky to even get 1 of them, but to arguably have 3 of the best strikers in the league? We must be having some form of transfer kitty increase with this takeover...

No way is Fenty sanctioning budget breaking signings that he will have to cover the cost of later (if it falls through). There's the FFP rules, where we can only spend 55% of income, after that it has to be made up of donations, not loans.

We already had arguably one of the best strikers in the league in Thomas, Welsh was highly paid. Woolford and Collins won't have been cheap. We've probably released a good portion of our higher earners, so Jolley has more flexibility to push the boat out. He's already shown last year that he is trying to assemble a smaller squad with more quality than lots of average players like the previous few managers have, not all of it paid off but I have faith in this approach.

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

No.

But it does work, I just tried it now. The rest of the bus looked at me a bit strangely but hey ho

Quoted from Cambs Mariner

Or the player we signed by mistake. Serge Makafo.

Funnily enough, I was speaking to someone recently who worked for the club at the time, who shared the full story behind the Makofo debacle. This, supposedly, is how it went down.

Apparently at the time, Town weren’t even sending a scout to watch every opponent due to massive budgetary restrictions following relegation from the league, instead relying on video alone for many games. As luck would have it though our next two opponents, Crawley and Kettering happened to be playing each other on a Tuesday evening and so the decision was made to send someone to the game.

Back in 2010 it wasn’t mandatory for conference clubs to employ squad numbers (and therefore names on shirts) and Kettering, one of the smaller clubs in the division, were still using the traditional 1 - 11 system for each match.

This led to a minor error being made on the teamsheet, with Makofo being attributed the number 9 shirt which in fact was being worn by Jean Paul Marna. As it would play out, Marna ran Crawley ragged that night, scoring a goal in the process. Confusion was then compounded by the fact that upon scoring, the Crawley PA announcer (equipped with the erroneous teamsheet) attributed the goal to Makofo.

The scouting report returned to Town with Makofo being given rave reviews on the back of Marna’s performance. Since Kettering were struggling financially at the time, it was decided that we should make a cheeky offer in the hope of luring Kettering’s star man on the cheap. A deal was quickly concluded, and Makofo was quite literally dropped off to sign as Kettering arrived for the game at Blundell Park a few days later.

It was only at this point, as it dawned on the scout who had attended the Crawley game that the player we had supposedly signed was still on the pitch wearing a Kettering shirt, that it came to light that a terrible mistake had been made - we’d awarded a lucrative 3 year deal to completely the wrong man. The rest is history.

Dark, dark days.

Wow, shocking.

He must be left up when opponents have a corner, great outlet. Don't like all this every man back. No wonder Macca can't get to the ball from corners 19-20 players in area.