Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[dave.woodhall]

Gil is nowhere near physical enough for the Championship. We'll need a team full of men, a sprinkling of quality & pace to have any chance in that league.

Our foreign players won't fancy it one bit & our experienced pros will think they're too good for that league.

For those who remember them, we got promoted in 1988 with the likes of Bernie Gallagher, Steve Sims & Mark Lillis playing most games. We also had Walters, Keown, McInally & Platt.

Do teams who win the Championship not have any foreign players then?

[SamTheMouse]

I like Veretout. There's something about him that reminds me a bit of Petrov.

[ozzjim]

Me too Sam. And in the few games we have fought hard at home, he has been excellent. Black not picking him in favour of the smiling hyena I really don't get at all.

[cdbearsfan]

There's an odd set of rules whereby the Championship is unlike any other in World football. Only brute strength matters. Skill, pace and guile are irrelevant.

By the same token, only managers who have seen every episode of Only Fools and Horses could possibly understand the mystical forces behind England's second tier. No foreign boss could ever compete. Apart from all the ones that do, obviously.

[Nastylee]

Not forgetting that most of the teams that come up do so playing a better style than half the PL. The bully boy tactics you hear so much about is built on a myth promoted by ex-players and managers that don't have a clue.

[cdbearsfan]

Indeed. It's the sort of mentality that keeps British managers from being appointed to top jobs.

[mr underhill]

unless we end up with Pearson at Villa

[paul_e]

Gil is nowhere near physical enough for the Championship. We'll need a team full of men, a sprinkling of quality & pace to have any chance in that league.

Our foreign players won't fancy it one bit & our experienced pros will think they're too good for that league.

For those who remember them, we got promoted in 1988 with the likes of Bernie Gallagher, Steve Sims & Mark Lillis playing most games. We also had Walters, Keown, McInally & Platt.

See I disagree with that, the premier league is much more physical than the championship, anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't watched much of the championship in the last decade.  The problem with Gil is that he'd struggle with the physicality in any English league.  I wanted him to work it out because I think he could've been a good player for us but he doesn't seem to have learned anything about that side of the game so he's probably best off moving on.

[nigel]

Gil is nowhere near physical enough for the Championship. We'll need a team full of men, a sprinkling of quality & pace to have any chance in that league.

Our foreign players won't fancy it one bit & our experienced pros will think they're too good for that league.

For those who remember them, we got promoted in 1988 with the likes of Bernie Gallagher, Steve Sims & Mark Lillis playing most games. We also had Walters, Keown, McInally & Platt.

Do teams who win the Championship not have any foreign players then?

Agree, Dave.

Cream will always float to the top.
If these players are good enough they will walk the championship with the skill they have.
They also said the same about foreign players in the prem.
Do we really want to go down the line of Stoke 6 years ago?

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Bournemouth came up on the back of playing attractive, attacking football consistently...brute strength without skill gets you pretty much nowhere!


I'd like to think that we will have a lot of the former and just enough of the latter by the time August comes!

[john2710]

Gil is nowhere near physical enough for the Championship. We'll need a team full of men, a sprinkling of quality & pace to have any chance in that league.

Our foreign players won't fancy it one bit & our experienced pros will think they're too good for that league.

For those who remember them, we got promoted in 1988 with the likes of Bernie Gallagher, Steve Sims & Mark Lillis playing most games. We also had Walters, Keown, McInally & Platt.

Do teams who win the Championship not have any foreign players then?

Let's see how many of our's are still here come August.

[pauliewalnuts]

Two things are already annoying me about next season, in terms of stuff posted on here.

1. This conviction that the way to respond to being in the Championship is to sell what quality we have and buy a load of championship level players. That's not how you get out of the Championship, that's how you stay in it. The way to get out is to keep as many of the players you already have who are good enough to win that league (and believe me, we really do have quite a few of those), not to start signing the sort of shit that plays for the likes of Leeds these days.

2. This utter bollocks about how we should be looking at the likes of Mick McCarthy or Neil Warnock as they "know" the Championship and are British. Like that's the only way you ever get out of that league.

It's almost as if lots of our fans have some sort of footballing Stockholm Syndrome going on where the way we react to being in the Championship is to start to act like we're going to be in it for ages rather than aiming at bouncing straight back, which is what we should be doing (no matter how shit we've been this year).

[Nastylee]

I said on here a month ago that if you litter you squad with Championship players you become a Championship team. It's easy to fall into that trap but doing so will turn us into the next Leeds.

[Lastfootstamper]

I think we're never going to buy anyone ever again.

[curiousorange]

To come back up at the first time of asking, we need a team. Not one huge bloke and two wingers, or a midfield enforcer, or some bloke that knows what it takes to get a draw at the New Den.

Make a team in the Championship and you're more or less guaranteed to come up.