Transfer News Summer 2023 Transfer Window Thread

[RyanioBirdio]

Scott Brown has said Marriott isn’t going anywhere this window. Wonder if the player will push for a move.

https://x.com/ftfcrob/status/1696143029650755689?s=46&t=_FL_dsb3hL8d3Y60eHZTaw

For anyone who doesn’t want to watch the clip with Brown themselves, he says:

“Jack’s going nowhere. That’s one thing that we need to make sure is sorted; Jack’s going nowhere what so ever in this window. I’ve spoken to people upstairs and they’ve made that nice and clear.”

 

[Coffin dodger]

It's like Christmas - gets earlier every year.

Except this year when it's later.

 

[Royalstandard74]

Scott Brown has said Marriott isn’t going anywhere this window. Wonder if the player will push for a move. Would happily take Kyle Edwards but feel we need more of a real number 9. If Murphy goes we’d certainly need a winger anyway

If Murphy stays we will certainly need a winger!

 

[dickwalton1964]

https://x.com/ftfcrob/status/1696143029650755689?s=46&t=_FL_dsb3hL8d3Y60eHZTaw

For anyone who doesn’t want to watch the clip with Brown themselves, he says:

“Jack’s going nowhere. That’s one thing that we need to make sure is sorted; Jack’s going nowhere what so ever in this window. I’ve spoken to people upstairs and they’ve made that nice and clear.”

I expect two departures from Fleetwood this window then - Jack Marriott and Scott Brown.

 

[Oufcrealist]

Don't worry, it is nearly time for the January 2024 Transfer Thread.

Yes, just after midnight on September 2nd!!

 

[tatabanya]

I expect two departures from Fleetwood this window then - Jack Marriott and Scott Brown.

We’d finally have the Gorrin replacement

 

[battman]

I like how the Perkins signing has gone so under the radar that fans are forgetting he’s an option just days after signing. Leeds haven’t loaned him out to sit on the bench, so I’d be very doubtful we’ll bring in Marriott for £500k after signing our third striker

 

[Hamiltons Knee]

I expect two departures from Fleetwood this window then - Jack Marriott and Scott Brown.

Favourite for the Hibernian job.

 

[dickwalton1964]

Favourite for the Hibernian job.

Favourite for the Hibernian job.

I feel sure Marriott is coming here and it feels like Brown is saying all the stuff that a manager might say when he knows his time at a club is nearing the end. I don’t think either will be employed by Fleetwood a week today.

 

[arthurturner]

But he's not the fox in the box type of forward that we are lacking.

I’m not so sure that, given the way we now play, that is what is lacking. We appear to be building a team of players of whom any one out of four or five could score. This is no longer in modern football the role assigned to one player. Marriott may be a “fox in the box” but that’s all he is. That’s not enough now in football in 2023, even in League one. How’s Matty Taylor doing at FGR?

 

[Mad Dog]

Directly from someone very close to the whole deal.

Does this mean you are declaring yourself as ITK?

 

[tonyw]

What's the Stuart Donald comment referring to?

Sunderland till I die, Season 2.

It's mostly remembered on here for Charlie and his love of EDM.

But for me, the most extraordinary moment was Stuart Donald negotiating the Will Grigg deal on transfer deadline day.

He called his manager (Jack Ross), who told him directly not to do it because Grigg wasn't worth what they were asking.
He asked his Head of Football Operations (ex-Oxford, Richard Hill) who told him directly not to do it because Grigg wasn't worth what they were asking.
And he then spent the afternoon on his own (no obvious sign of any recruitment team around him) in a board room, trading phone calls with his Wigan counterpart and gradually being pushed upwards until he ended up paying £3,000,000 for him (still the highest fee ever paid by a third tier club). And then celebrated wildly.

I knew that football often worked on a fairly informal basis, but it was unbelievable how mind-bogglingly unprofessional the whole thing was, considering it was a £3m transaction!

And of course it would probably have had the same impact on the club, and he'd likely have had a lot more fun if he'd spent the afternoon lighting £3m worth of tenners!

 

[OX14]

I like how the Perkins signing has gone so under the radar that fans are forgetting he’s an option just days after signing. Leeds haven’t loaned him out to sit on the bench, so I’d be very doubtful we’ll bring in Marriott for £500k after signing our third striker

What if we sign Longman on a permanent don't we have the same situation?

No loan players are guaranteed a place in the squad ,under Manning they have to earn their right.

 

[Marked Ox]

And of course it would probably have had the same impact on the club, and he'd likely have had a lot more fun if he'd spent the afternoon lighting £3m worth of tenners!

I think Will Grigg's transfer gave value for money as we got to see the Satellite launch from the penalty spot and it gave endless hours of fun for those on their forum.

 

[Marked Ox]

Favourite for the Hibernian job.

He'll have to avoid being eaten by Steve Evans to stop him getting it.

 

[Coffin dodger]

Liam Manning at the Ox City game, I didn't see any one worth signing though.

 

[tonyw]

No loan players are guaranteed a place in the squad ,under Manning they have to earn their right.

Sure, but if a club like Leeds is going to be persuaded to loan out a youngster - especially one who they regard highly enough that he was coming off the bench in the Championship three weeks ago - then they need to believe that he's got a decent shot at some game time.

If we sign Marriott, then Perkins basically has no shot at any starts up front - not when he's behind a £500k signing, and a guy who's led the line excellently through the first five games, for one spot.

So either we've convinced Leeds that Perkins will have a shot at some serious game time for us on the wings (even though everything I've read about him suggests he's played centrally throughout his development, and his hold-up play is one of his best assets).
Or we were turned down by Fleetwood for Marriott, and then pivoted to Perkins as an alternative, as cluelessox suggests. And our 'one more in' is going to be a wide forward.

The latter just seems much more likely to me, but we'll see......

 

[Shosho]

If Marriott was to come, does he fit how we play?

We certainly need a striker, but we need movement like Harris. Harris won’t make it through 40/50 matches, if he gets injured we are down to Perkins and O’Donkor.

In my mind, Longman would be ideal as he satisfies our need on the left but can also play up top if needed. Assuming only one more coming in, signing a left sided specialist would be an error imo, we need the bodies for rotation.

 

[Followtheox1]

Liam Manning at the Ox City game, I didn't see any one worth signing though.

Maybe he was seeing whether it was the right environment for one of ours to go on loan there!

 

[Marked Ox]

If Marriott was to come, does he fit how we play?

We certainly need a striker, but we need movement like Harris. Harris won’t make it through 40/50 matches, if he gets injured we are down to Perkins and O’Donkor.

In my mind, Longman would be ideal as he satisfies our need on the left but can also play up top if needed. Assuming only one more coming in, signing a left sided specialist would be an error imo, we need the bodies for rotation.

Marriott had good movement for the disallowed goal on Saturday. Don't know how regular that is though.