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Believe it was Rodak and Mubama of West Ham

He’s been round the ground, and was one of the three players Warne spoke to. He wants to be local and be close to family. It’s a strong possibility 

Watkins went to Brentford for £1.8m in July, it was Steve Mac that wanted Ollie but he got the sack in March. Replaced by Gary Rowett, the deal was still on the cards but Rowett thought the price was too much. The approach by McClaren was made in the January, I had a workmate who's step-son was with Exeter City at the time and was big buddies with Ollie. The phone call to Ollie happened in the step-son's car when Ollie was sat in the back getting a lift back to Newton Abbot where he lived after playing for Exeter on that Saturday.
Back in 2017 I told of this incident on here and quite a few other members poo pooed it at the time. The step-son was 2nd choice left back with Exeter at the time and never made it with the club and now plays non league football.

I am by no means itk and would never claim to be. But I am in Thailand travelling and managed to bump into Sibley. By the way he talked to me it seems he hasn’t actually made a decision yet. He could just have been trying to be nice but who knows. Was a sound lad and was with ex academy goalie Harrison Foulkes.

Midfielder in the Iceland squad been in Derby for talks this week 
 

Chat in Scotland is Johnny Yfeko is Derby County bound for a fee around half a million from Rangers. Decent prospect who seems to have stalled with not playing regularly in the last year.
no idea how true it is but person who told me has told me other transfer stuff before that had come through before the media got a sniff of it

I have names, some decent ones too. I don’t like sharing them due to the fact they’re nowhere near done. 

Deal for Ebou Adams agreed with Cardiff.

I was told that Osborn, a keeper and another were at Moor Farm on Monday which ties in with what Warne said today about the 3 players he met this week. I’ve no reason to doubt who told me. It’s the first time he’s told me anything like this so time will tell. 

So 17 pages give us
Iverson
Souttar (Loan) 
Lonwijk
Dummett
Burrows
Adams
Kane 
Konate
Windass
Skipp
Sidibeh
Pukki
Bradley to Luton
Cashin to Plymouth, Ipswich, Forest
Sibley to Rotherham, Sheff Utd
Collins to Birmingham

I’ve heard the first three are almost done.
Ebou - fee 
Bobby Clark - season long loan
Iverson - Leicester- free 
I’ve heard we’ve spoken to a couple of defenders , two strikers , four CMs and two goalkeepers.
Sibley to re sign 
Collins - still undecided  May impact our decision to keep or loan out Brown 
As for one’s up for sale or have interest in 
Barks 
fornah 
bradley 
 
 
 
 

As others have said Daniel Iverson is a target, believe it’s similar to CBT deal of a loan to a free

Following on from BigTrav’s message - Daniel Iversen was shown around the training ground 2 weeks ago. The first team coaching staff & recruitment staff have been abroad in both Netherlands and Denmark, upon their return they have continued to show other players around. 

Players are starting to be shown round moor farm, heard a few rumours but no concrete names

Depends on what you qualify as legitimate. Nixon (Sun football writer) linked us to Herbie Kane the day Barnsley announced he was leaving on a free. Darren Witcoop (The Mirror) has tweeted this evening that Rotherham are allegedly interested in Sibley. Local press in Derby and Cardiff regurgitated the same story this week that we’re still interested in signing Ebou Adams…. Then there’s loads of nonsense links from social media accounts. And some people on here with some alleged inside info suggesting we’re interested in signing Daniel Iversen the Leicester goalie (they and their sources/info may or may not be legitimate so there’s no real way of knowing).
Our transfer business under Warne has been mostly been kept quiet until the deals are nearly done so personally I’ve accepted there’s gonna be loads of speculation, of which most of it will probably be untrue, and we’ll see who we’re signing pretty much within hours of the deals being officially announced.
 

Brentford released their retained list and have released Shandon Baptiste. I’ve suggest him before on here but now he’s officially a free agent he’s a player we should definitely be after. He came through oxfords academy so I’m sure Mark Thomas knows about him.
Hes a box to box midfielder with 10 prem games (2 starts) this season with 1 goal and 1 assist. He’s 26 so is in the right age bracket and will definitely join a championship club. 
 
Over the 21/22 and 22/23 seasons he’s made 45 prem appearances which nearly all them from the bench so I’d imagine he’d seamlessly fit into a championship midfield having only played 14 championship games in his career so far.

Just passing on what I was told. As a 36 year old married bloke, can safely say becoming an ITK warrior strangely doesn’t appeal to me 😂 Does Clowes have a well documented 4 year Championship plan? (Y) Do we crave to develop players with re-sale value? (Y) Is Jack Thompson incredibly highly rated, having been linked with top 6 Premier League sides during the last 12 months? (Y) Maybe you shouldn’t be so instantly dismissive. May be crossed wires from the source, but then again maybe not 🙃

A list of players I like/want based off who I think is very getable with lots of frees, loans and guys in the last year of their contract etc. Made up of mostly of the Dutch, Danish and the EFL leagues. Also didn’t include right back as I don’t see the need for one.
 
GK
Johansson (25) Rotherham - 900k release clause 
Walton (28) Ipswich - Free
 
LB
Martin Frese (26) Nordsjaelland - Free
Thierry Small (19) Charlton - 1 YR contract and looks like he’ll leave
Ben Osborn (29) Sheff Utd - Free
 
CB
Michael Helik (28) Huddersfield - Will leave with Huddersfield down 
El Yaakoubi (28) Excelsior - Free
Jordan Williams (24) Barnsley - Free
Conor Coady (31) Leicester - apparently free to leave 
Di’shon Bernard (23) Sheff Wed - Free
 
CM
Ebou Adams (26) Cardiff - No explanation needed
Thordarson (25) Silkeborg - Free
Julian Baas (22) Excelsior - Free
Herbie Kane (25) Barnsley - Free
Tyrese Francois (23) Fulham - Free
Oli Norwood (33) Sheff Utd - Free
 
10/Wing
Kasey McAteer (22) Leicester - Loan
Anders Klynge (23) Silkeborg - 1 YR contract 
Adam Phillips (26) Barnsley - Would be worth a bid 
Tyrhys Dolan (22) Blackburn - 1 YR contract or free not disclosed yet 
Juninho Bacuna (26) Birmingham - 1 YR left and will want to play championship, could even be a similar loan deal potential like we did with Bielik
 
ST
Theo Bair (24) Motherwell- 1 YR left 
Mika Bierith (21) Arsenal - Loan
Tyrese Campbell (24) Stoke - Free

Here's just a few of the ones I've seen along with the source... 
  
 
 

His legs might have gone, that’s something we all saw at times this season, but in what way has his heart gone? If you know of a physical ailment that hasn’t been made public please share. If you mean his passion and commitment I think he’s shown plenty of that this season despite his ageing legs, scored key goals, made assists, accepted a reduced role at the back end of the season and still showed leadership to his colleagues from the bench and on the training ground. Baffles me the sticks people invent to beat people with. 

This is one of those nonsense myths around Warne that some people just won’t drop. Just because the press or questionable football accounts on social media link us with a player doesn’t mean we’ll sign them. Last year we signed players from the following clubs;
Arsenal
Blackpool
Bristol City
Cardiff City
Charlton
Coventry
Hull
Luton
Notts Forest
Peterborough
Rotherham
Stoke
Sunderland
Wigan
The January window the season before we signed players from Norwich and Spurs. We’ve been told the club is looking at players across Europe, yet still some people want to peddle the myth that we only sign Rotherham cast offs 🙄 

Also new deals on the table for 
Collins 
Smith 
Forsyth 
Sibley 
Wildsmith ( improved)
Thompson 

The  five names I’ve heard there’s interest in from us are:
Brannagan 
Jackson
Wiles 
burrows 
Langstaff 
 

Been told the budget for the summer is good from recent sales and that there is no need to sell any players to buy. I’m quite hopeful 🙂 

I trust his abilities. We may not be play off contenders next season but given half decent recruiting we won’t be struggling.
 
PW and his team know what they are doing.  A small upgrade in first touch/natural ball skills, signing Ebou and a scary striker and we won’t be pushovers. 
I don’t agree with the criticism of his football style. It was designed and shaped by the necessity to get out of this league. This league isn’t pretty, the football often isn’t perfect either. We are somewhere else now. I am looking forward to the next chapter.?