2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Brazilian Villain]

'Crysencio Summerville'.

Tell me why?

[Monty]

Just my theory that player names IRL are being generated by the Championship Manager Wacky Names Generator.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Romano says we're tracking Crysencio Summerville at Leeds, but they're not interested in selling.

He's quality and the type of player we should be interested in. Tonnes of potential to step up a level or three. Shame we never went after him in the summer when there was more chance of getting him.

[eamonn]

Just my theory that player names IRL are being generated by the Championship Manager Wacky Names Generator.

It's really shick.

[Clampy]

Couple of questionable links to Matt O'Riley at Celtic, and Romano says we're tracking Crysencio Summerville at Leeds, but they're not interested in selling.

Just because we're linked with Summervile, it ain't necessarily so.

[AV84]

Romano says we're tracking Crysencio Summerville at Leeds, but they're not interested in selling.

He's quality and the type of player we should be interested in. Tonnes of potential to step up a level or three. Shame we never went after him in the summer when there was more chance of getting him.

Apparently Burnley bid 20mil for him in the summer and they turned it down. 

[OCD]

We were linked with Summerville in the summer, just not in the kind of way that makes you think there might be something to it.

[pablo_picasso]

They would want a lot for him based on his stats this season.

Im not overly convinced that he is anything different to Philogene-Bidace though...

[Clampy]

I've seen him a couple of times and he's been very good. Whether he'd make the step up would be another thing.

[LeeB]

We were linked with Summerville in the summer, just not in the kind of way that makes you think there might be something to it.

Is this genuine interest or just speculation?

I need to know, don't leave me this way.

[Villafirst]

Should've kept Archer as back-up to Watkins. However, we need another striker as insurance for Watkins in case of injury. The squad needs strengthening with the Premier League, FA Cup and Europe matches to come in 2024. A new RB as well!

[Richard E]

We were linked with Summerville in the summer, just not in the kind of way that makes you think there might be something to it.

Is this genuine interest or just speculation?

I need to know, don't leave me this way.

Will he cope with the step up to a big city club, when he’s a small town boy?

[AV84]

Should've kept Archer as back-up to Watkins. However, we need another striker as insurance for Watkins in case of injury. The squad needs strengthening with the Premier League, FA Cup and Europe matches to come in 2024. A new RB as well!

Archer is better off where he is. He's getting the guts of 90 minutes every week and if nothing else he's getting the experience of playing in the league, against the top teams. We have a buy back clause, or so the story goes, so we can potentially bring him back next season, a far better player than we sold. He would probably have been a better option than Durán this season, but he would have been getting minutes rather than full games.

[Rigadon]

Should've kept Archer as back-up to Watkins. However, we need another striker as insurance for Watkins in case of injury. The squad needs strengthening with the Premier League, FA Cup and Europe matches to come in 2024. A new RB as well!

Archer is better off where he is. He's getting the guts of 90 minutes every week and if nothing else he's getting the experience of playing in the league, against the top teams. We have a buy back clause, or so the story goes, so we can potentially bring him back next season, a far better player than we sold. He would probably have been a better option than Durán this season, but he would have been getting minutes rather than full games.

Based on what would he have been a better option to Duran?  I'm not sure Archer is good enough to play in a top 4 side - same for Duran, but at least Duran adds physicality and something a bit different when we need that.

[AV84]

Should've kept Archer as back-up to Watkins. However, we need another striker as insurance for Watkins in case of injury. The squad needs strengthening with the Premier League, FA Cup and Europe matches to come in 2024. A new RB as well!

Archer is better off where he is. He's getting the guts of 90 minutes every week and if nothing else he's getting the experience of playing in the league, against the top teams. We have a buy back clause, or so the story goes, so we can potentially bring him back next season, a far better player than we sold. He would probably have been a better option than Durán this season, but he would have been getting minutes rather than full games.

Based on what would he have been a better option to Duran?  I'm not sure Archer is good enough to play in a top 4 side - same for Duran, but at least Duran adds physicality and something a bit different when we need that.

I just haven't been that impressed with Durán on the whole, so far, and in the hypothetical situation that we had and used Archer for the exact same minutes in the exact same games, I think he'd have done as well as Durán did.

But the point I was making was mainly that Archer is better off at Sheffield Utd, and we might still benefit from how he develops there over the season. I don't think either him, or Durán, are currently good enough to be legitimate back up options for Watkins.