Summer Transfer Thread

Devongone · 30-07-2015, 21:21

I'm wearing an armband.

**spireitematt** · 30-07-2015, 23:26

Fee meant to be £500k-650k. I wonder if Morsy will jump ship now or sign a new contract.

Devongone · 31-07-2015, 16:48

Without Clucas and Darikwa we suddenly look very thin. I know we are promised exciting purchases from M&S, but if Morsy goes we're looking much worse than the 25/1 Paddy Power is offering against us, much more like the 70/1 against Colchester and Crewe. But that's on paper. Gnanduillet, Ariyibi, Onovwigun, Harrison and Dieseruwe might be the names to shock better-fancied outfits, not the unknown new signing/s.

The trouble is Morsy might never be worth this much again. Should we cash in whilst we can? A couple of years ago we'd have talked about wanting several hundred thousand for Tommy Lee, now would we get much more than nothing?

bluepooch · (This post was last modified: 31-07-2015, 18:19 by bluepooch.)

I heard today that we offered Tendayi the highest ever wage for a Chesterfield player.The doom and gloom merchants need to ask themselves is this a sign of a club in decline ? .
We should be doing the same with Morsy .

**spireitematt** · 31-07-2015, 18:29

I think no matter what we offered Darikwa he wouldn't have stayed. He wanted to play in the Championship and he was probably hoping it was with Chesterfield. It's nice to know that he has become a fan of the club.

Will Morsy be sold? Probably unless he leaves on a free next summer. Doyle, Cooper, Darikwa, Clucas have all left to play in the Championship where as Ryan left to play in the same division to a team closer to Liverpool and Roberts has dropped down to L2 to join Cook at Portsmouth because they are paying silly wages by the sound of it.

I think we need to stop playing Championship teams in friendlies. We played Leeds last year and Cooper was sold to Leeds. We played Hull this year and Clucas was sold to Hull and we played Burnley last Saturday and now we've sold Darikwa to Burnley. These friendlies are more like scouting missions for Championship teams. I think most fans knew that we would struggle to keep this team together because of how well we performed in L1 last season.

I think we are going to struggle this season and it pains me to say this but I think there is a good chance that we could get relegated.

Dancingwilldoit · 31-07-2015, 20:40

From what I have seen in the friendlies there is no way I would put us down for relegation. Its all down to DS and if he has the confidence to ruffle a few feathers.
Its a fact that we are setting ourselves up as the new Crewe, bring on the youngsters and then sell. It did well for them with a couple of seasons in the championship with gates very similar to ours. I really fail to understand why selling a few assets upsets so many people. Darikwa has gone, good luck to him. We have an adequate replacement in Drew. From what I have seen of Onuvwigun he can hack it in midfield as can Hird if need be its where he played for Donny. Raglan is going to be worth a small fortune in a year or so and needs the chance to shine. Armand looks a new player and Mani scored 2 against the AWOLS yesterday. Ariyabi and Donahue are exciting prospects. Give them a chance before writing them off and if it doesn't work change it by bringing in some loanees as a last resort. The only way the youngsters will get a game is through injury or forward thinking by our manager. Nothing would please me more than to see a conveyor belt of youngsters learning their trade with us and moving on for a nice fee.
Relegation, no way, top 10 for me.
Don't write us off so soon we are the Super Spireites
Matt people have to accept we are not a big club and never will be. We are Chesterfield.
Dev you can take Armand off your arm, he's a big lad. Throw away those crutches. You can walk!!!!

**spireitematt** · 31-07-2015, 21:49

I know we are not a big club Dancing and at best we are probably are a L1 top 10-12 side. Every year Dancing I always believe we will get promotion but I'm not so sure about what will happen in the forthcoming season but I will try and be optimistic like I am every season.

bluepooch · 31-07-2015, 22:27

On the limited evidence I too think we will be ok this season and with a couple of quality additions we may even emulate last season.
I cant believe people actually think we will sell all these players and not bring in good players to replace them.Its not as if we are giving them away ,we are getting good money for a club of our size and I am confident we will use some of the money to bring in some quality players.Provided the recruitment is good it will make us stronger as a club.

**spireitematt** · 01-08-2015, 01:15

Well from my reckoning we need a RB, 2X CM and a Left sided midfielder. We might do alright but we need to get some players in soon.

Devongone · 01-08-2015, 10:44

My worry is that it was pretty obvious to all of us that we could lose five players over the summer. Four have gone so far and that must unsettle the remaining one green bottle. If Tendayi and Clucas were going to play at higher levels either we had to gain promotion last season, or they had to leave. Everyone knew Ryan wanted away. Roberts should have stayed, but perhaps he feared being the one green bottle.

As it was so obvious, even to fans, that losing half a team was almost unavoidable it must have been equally obvious not only to Mr Cook, but to those choosing our new manager. I just begin to wonder if the choice of Mr Saunders, who has not succeeded anywhere in management, might have been as potential fall guy. If he sorts out a new team for us and we fly we're all happy, and if the strategy fails he's the natural scapegoat, we're not too committed to him and we might re-energise a failing team with an incoming (or already present) hero.

It just seems odd that our CEO is telling us we'll be excited by the new signings. There's a week before the the kick-off. If friendlies have a point, it is to bring the team together, but any new signing will have missed that entire programme. How does that compute? That said our current situation is one I very much foresaw for us, except, as Dancing says, for the emergence of Armand, Harrison and our younger players. If they prove the business on the field, business off the field, which inevitably will always include sales for us, might be a stop on the road to success rather than relegation.