Transfer News 2022/23 Season Incoming Transfers and a few other things

[GeneralLee]

I agree it's unliklely, but mainly because of the amount of football he'd probably play. However, when playing for Oxford United in League One under Karl Robinson, he scored 4 goals in 942 minutes. Small sample size for sure, but repeating this rate of goalscoring he'd have to play 2355 mins, which equates to 26x 90mins. So by that rate he'd also get close to 20 goals if he played every minute of every game.

When you consider he also got 3 assists in that time, his goal involvement rate was 1 in every 134 mins. Not too shabby really, in pretty much the only spell of consistent first team football at this level.

He's also a guy who was also very well thought of at Liverpool, and was once signed for £4m by Watford.

As I say, I don't think he is necessarily going to sign and nor do I think we should, but let's not pretend he is some kind of competition winner.

Dwight Tiendalli was very well thought of by Holland too.

JS scored four goals for OUFC three years ago. He’s subsequently scored one league goal in 41 games and not played since 2021.

Signing a footballer 6 years ago for £4 million doesn’t count for much. That player is gone.

 

[tatabanya]

Dwight Tiendalli was very well thought of by Holland too.

Signing a footballer 10 years ago for £4 million doesn’t count for much. That player is gone.

But Dwight Tiendalli never had a good loan spell with us under our current manager?

 

[GeneralLee]

But Dwight Tiendalli never had a good loan spell with us under our current manager?

You’re right, he didn’t. It just still isn’t very relevant given it was three years ago and your reference to a £4 million transfer fee six years ago.

He’s also subsequently scored one goal in 41 league games since.

 

[tatabanya]

You’re right, he didn’t. It just still isn’t very relevant given it was three years ago and your reference to a £4 million transfer fee six years ago.

He’s also subsequently scored one goal in 41 league games since.

I’m just trying to provide some balance to the argument. We’ve got him in on trial, that’s all.

 

[Leysboy]

Signing a play like Sinclair is a desperate move. It’s not a signing that would frighten the opposition when his name is on the team sheet.

 

[Leysboy]

I’m just trying to provide some balance to the argument. We’ve got him in on trial, that’s all.

We shouldn’t be looking at players like him. We should be looking at better calibre players, and people mentioning the Tottenham starlet Scarlett is it. That’s a pipe dream!

 

[Bath Yellow]

Never mind Sinclair, we need a goalkeeper, not too impressed with Stevens last season, conceded a lot of goals that went across him, afraid Eastwood is now backup

 

[The mighty Aldo]

If Sinclair was to sign, it’s difficult to look at it as a positive signing.

His goal return is negligible and I simply cannot see how he improves us as a team. I’d argue that a focused Dan Agyei is as good an option as Sinclair.

Underwhelmed to say the least.

EC

You are usually giving us names at this time of year,and you have a good track record on players we may bid for and get and others decline however this time round it’s all very quiet.
Is this because the club are keeping their cards close to their chest or nothing much is happening ?

For instance Sinclair
You would normally know exactly what is going on

 

[The mighty Aldo]

If 5 people see him, will he be on his bike?

Sinclair C5?

 

[Leysboy]

Sinclair C5?

Them Sinclair Spectrum computers were good in the 80’s.

 

[Foley]

I can assure you, Jerome Sinclair is not ‘chipping in with 10 goals’.

In fact, Jerome Sinclair has not scored 10 professional league goals in his whole career. He’s got six since making his professional debut in 2012. That’s an average of 0.6 every season. Or a higher yet more impressive average of one goal per season since his transfer to Watford in 2016.

I not sure about Sinclair on the basis that he doesn't seem to have played for a year.
For us he definitely chipped in with 4 goals in 16 ( many as a substitute). He looked pretty decent although granted that was a while ago

 

[Scotchegg]

Signing a play like Sinclair is a desperate move. It’s not a signing that would frighten the opposition when his name is on the team sheet.

Not that I'm endorsing Sinclair, but signings shouldn't necessarily be about frightening the opposition. Smyth looks like an excellent signing, but I'm not sure that many on here let alone elsewhere were overwhelmed at the time.

There's been plenty of talk about us looking at a promising PL youngster with Dane Scarlett mentioned. But having played in the u19 Euros he's likely having a little break ahead of a first full season and may not be available for a couple more weeks. Having a 4th striker option to cover for Taylor and Baldock as the main two isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if it's a pay as you play deal.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

I'm very interested in how Sinclair will perform, obviously a talented player whose career dropped off , if he will come back 100% focused then we might well have an excellent alternative to Taylor/ Baldock .
Only 25 so no comparisons to aging crocs

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

Not that I'm endorsing Sinclair, but signings shouldn't necessarily be about frightening the opposition. Smyth looks like an excellent signing, but I'm not sure that many on here let alone elsewhere were overwhelmed at the time.

There's been plenty of talk about us looking at a promising PL youngster with Dane Scarlett mentioned. But having played in the u19 Euros he's likely having a little break ahead of a first full season and may not be available for a couple more weeks. Having a 4th striker option to cover for Taylor and Baldock as the main two isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if it's a pay as you play deal.

Remember that Sinclair was the Dane Scarlett of his day , a very promising player

 

[Foley]

I quite liked him in a team that was battling against relegation.

For a team going for promotion, he’s not a natural goal scorer and hasn’t played in a year.

I’m confused by our signings and names linked with us this year. It’s a odd mix of veterans, signings for ‘the model’ and players whose ceiling is League 1.

I don’t want to come over all negative but I’ve been far from impressed so far.

Some if the names mentioned are quality. Findlay, Cadden, Morton.
It sounds as if the plan is to go for 5 quality players who will be getting in the first team, and then some back up.
We should know some if those pretty soon I assume

 

[Leysboy]

Not that I'm endorsing Sinclair, but signings shouldn't necessarily be about frightening the opposition. Smyth looks like an excellent signing, but I'm not sure that many on here let alone elsewhere were overwhelmed at the time.

There's been plenty of talk about us looking at a promising PL youngster with Dane Scarlett mentioned. But having played in the u19 Euros he's likely having a little break ahead of a first full season and may not be available for a couple more weeks. Having a 4th striker option to cover for Taylor and Baldock as the main two isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if it's a pay as you play deal.

We should really be looking to better players, or giving one of our own a go. Not signing someone that hasn’t played for god knows how long. The same can be said for Jones. It feels like a complete waste of time even looking at these kind of players. Great risk with injury prone players, and not having a very good goal scoring record.

It’s not what we should be entertaining! We should be looking to improve, and I’m struggling to see what improvement those two players would make to our team.

 

[Mellowyellow]

Yet its really not that simple. If it was every team would set up that way when in reality very few do

You do know that I'm not part of OUSP don't you?

You're still a vile individual the way you respond to people, seemingly looking for trouble in a persons response.
A great analogy you'll relate to is
a kind of Doyle trying to be like Gripper Stebson, but falling badly at the first hurdle.

 

[tatabanya]

We should really be looking to better players, or giving one of our own a go. Not signing someone that hasn’t played for god knows how long. The same can be said for Jones. It feels like a complete waste of time even looking at these kind of players. Great risk with injury prone players, and not having a very good goal scoring record.

It’s not what we should be entertaining! We should be looking to improve, and I’m struggling to see what improvement those two players would make to our team.

Yes, that’s why we have them on trial. No question that they have the talent to improve us, but there are too many risks to sign them without exploring further. So that’s what we are doing.

 

[Scotchegg]

We should really be looking to better players, or giving one of our own a go. Not signing someone that hasn’t played for god knows how long. The same can be said for Jones. It feels like a complete waste of time even looking at these kind of players. Great risk with injury prone players, and not having a very good goal scoring record.

It’s not what we should be entertaining! We should be looking to improve, and I’m struggling to see what improvement those two players would make to our team.

The strength is in the depth to the squad. Taylor, Baldock, Scarlett and Sinclair (IF they sign) is better than Taylor, Agyei and Winnall that we started last season with.

 

[Scotchegg]

You're still a vile individual the way you respond to people, seemingly looking for trouble in a persons response.
A great analogy you'll relate to is
a kind of Doyle trying to be like Gripper Stebson, but falling badly at the first hurdle.

A vile individual?!