The Ska Face Summer rumour/transfer thread

And can I just say a big congratulations to "It Bites" for being 100% incorrect again on incomings, well done Mr Consistent..🤣.

I just can’t believe, since signing Conteh on 3rd July, the only outfield players we’ve signed are Gnahoua and then Andrews last week.

Quoted from ska face

I just can’t believe, since signing Conteh on 3rd July, the only outfield players we’ve signed are Gnahoua and then Andrews last week.

I can’t believe that, a month into the season, we’ll struggle to fill the bench today with four months until the window opens again.

I can't believe despite getting all our signings in early we haven't used that time to find a way to get into the opposition box.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

I can't believe despite getting all our signings in early we haven't used that time to find a way to get into the opposition box.

I’m far more concerned about this than the lack of signings yesterday.

Quoted from Stew0_0

Wouldn't surprise me if Kane Jennings was announced this morning as we can still sign free agents I believe. Think signings have to be announced before noon to allow them to be involved in today's match squad.  Also is Josh Emmanual still a free agent?

Think the deadline for registering players was 11am yesterday in order for them to be able to play today.

So even if we had snapped up a few deals late last night they wouldn't be eligible for today.

Look, it's not ideal and it's frustrating. But Hurst and his team know the gaps in the squad and just because the transfer window has closed it doesn't mean we won't be bringing bodies in over the next week or two.  The likes of Hemmings and countless others are still available to be picked up.

Let's see who we manage to bring in on a free transfer, then judge the recruitment as a whole.  Eastwood, Rodgers, Conteh, Mullarkey, Eisa and Rose are all upgrades. I maintain Vernam will come good, plus we've yet to see Wilson and Pyke properly.

The window seems to have gone from one everyone was raving about to a disaster on the back of failing to get signings in on this manufactured panic day.

I've said before that I get annoyed how we seem to miss out all the time. Be it location, finance, the club... People didn't want to seem to come here.  This summer looked to have bucked that trend with the signings of some really good and highly rated players. The last week or so we've struggled again, perhaps it's the inflated prices in the window that Hurst refuses to play... I don't know. But once the dust has settled I think we need to properly evaluate why we lost out on so many targets and factor it into the plans for future windows.  If we're not gonna pay silly prices, then we'll have to accept that and make sure we get every single bit of business done early.

I think some folk perhaps need to calm down a little bit.

I thought we had money in the bank from the cup run and the sale of Macatee - we surely haven't spent it on the signings we have made so we must have money left. Our gates are up on what we expected so we should have money available for slightly better players.

Quoted from golfer

I thought we had money in the bank from the cup run and the sale of Macatee - we surely haven't spent it on the signings we have made so we must have money left. Our gates are up on what we expected so we should have money available for slightly better players.

Not saying we spent it all.

But Conteh, Mullarkey and Eastwood came for a fee.

I don't think the actual budget is the issue. I think it's more that Hurst spends it like it's his own money.  I respect that but we're easy to blow out the water when it comes to a bidding war.

Some of the money getting chucked about is stupid, but there has to be a point when you do gamble a bit.

It’s telling that even Wrexham didn’t manage to bring in a striker yesterday.