Following on from Jonty's post about the Man United match in Norway, in years gone by, the lads have headed off to tour in places like Australia and Myanmar with a pre-season deemed important on so many levels, fitness, camaraderie, familiarisation etc.
With only U21 coaches and Marcos Abad in post, as far as I am aware no schedule has been drawn up other than the one game in Scandinavia.
Another issue of concern.
Pre-Season
posted on 28/6/23
players we already have for this league:
Ayling
Cooper
Dallas
Harrison
Rodrigo
Koch
^^^
Harrison
Rodrigo
Koch
These may well all be gone. So not available
to us in this league. Plus, Dallas is coming back
from a serious injury. No guarantee he'll be
anything close to what he was. And two years
older or two seasons.
posted on 28/6/23
Gone:
Robles
Roberts
McKinstry
Forshaw (Possibly resigning/30+ injury prone)
Going:
Llorente (Roma)
Rasmus (Roma)
Koch (Eintracht)
Rodrigo (Sevilla?Saudi League)
Rumored to be going:
Roca
Aaronson
Adams
Gnonto
Gnonto
Meslier
Jack
Summerville
Perkins
Probably going:
Shackleton
Poveda
Costa
Please just go:
Firpo
Remaining Squad:
Klaesson
Bamford (will be 30 next season/injury prone)
Ayling (30+)
Dallas (30+ injury prone)
Cooper (30+ injury prone)
Sini
Wober
James
Rutter
Drameh
Struijk
Cresswell
Hejlde
Bate
Joffy
Greenwood
Gyabi
Gray
Joseph
posted on 28/6/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I91DJZKRxs&ab_channel=Movieclips
We're going to need a bigger boat.
posted on 28/6/23
Thing is with not knowing exactly who is going, is we haven't a clue as to who is coming!..
We all know things are going slow with the bods checking to see where Bates or Cellino are hiding, so we'd best hope the 49ers have slung them into the same pit that these people let them crawl out off the first time they came to us!..
And filled it in with very heavy concrete!..
Once they find that they're no longer here than things should go a little smoother, but its better to let them do a proper check then ballsing things up like what seems to be the norm for us!..
posted on 28/6/23
comment by Batty (U4664)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Gone:
Robles
Roberts
McKinstry
Forshaw (Possibly resigning/30+ injury prone)
Going:
Llorente (Roma)
Rasmus (Roma)
Koch (Eintracht)
Rodrigo (Sevilla?Saudi League)
Rumored to be going:
Roca
Aaronson
Adams
Gnonto
Gnonto
Meslier
Jack
Summerville
Perkins
Probably going:
Shackleton
Poveda
Costa
Please just go:
Firpo
Remaining Squad:
Klaesson
Bamford (will be 30 next season/injury prone)
Ayling (30+)
Dallas (30+ injury prone)
Cooper (30+ injury prone)
Sini
Wober
James
Rutter
Drameh
Struijk
Cresswell
Hejlde
Bate
Joffy
Greenwood
Gyabi
Gray
Joseph
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Mostly speculation apart from those already gone.
posted on 29/6/23
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 6 hours ago
comment by Batty (U4664)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
Gone:
Robles
Roberts
McKinstry
Forshaw (Possibly resigning/30+ injury prone)
Going:
Llorente (Roma)
Rasmus (Roma)
Koch (Eintracht)
Rodrigo (Sevilla?Saudi League)
Rumored to be going:
Roca
Aaronson
Adams
Gnonto
Gnonto
Meslier
Jack
Summerville
Perkins
Probably going:
Shackleton
Poveda
Costa
Please just go:
Firpo
Remaining Squad:
Klaesson
Bamford (will be 30 next season/injury prone)
Ayling (30+)
Dallas (30+ injury prone)
Cooper (30+ injury prone)
Sini
Wober
James
Rutter
Drameh
Struijk
Cresswell
Hejlde
Bate
Joffy
Greenwood
Gyabi
Gray
Joseph
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Mostly speculation apart from those already gone.
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Exactly.
From what we have now abd wgat we should be able to buy with our parachute money and fees for selling players we should have more than enough for this league.
posted on 29/6/23
Should walk it back up, would have to be a fook by owners.
posted on 29/6/23
I read that the 49’ers do business very close to their chest. They don’t do speculation and big announcements until they are ready and everything is in place.
Much as I was grateful for Radz buying the club, the ground, hiring Bielsa and getting us promoted - he was a media man who often spoke (often crap) before he thought and before things were in place.
I think he was also hoping to cash in with the Far East by taking us over there for pre-season. Unfortunately we don’t play in red 😏
Maybe this is a new way of doing things - line up the ducks - shoot them - then tell the fans. Hard for us that crave information but let’s see how it goes first.
The other option is that they might be just useless chancers 😏
posted on 29/6/23
Would like to see Joseph given a chance. Think hed be a decent player in this league.
posted on 30/6/23
comment by Batty (U4664)
posted 1 day, 12 hours ago
Gone:
Robles
Roberts
McKinstry
Forshaw (Possibly resigning/30+ injury prone)
Going:
Llorente (Roma)
Rasmus (Roma)
Koch (Eintracht)
Rodrigo (Sevilla?Saudi League)
Rumored to be going:
Roca
Aaronson
Adams
Gnonto
Gnonto
Meslier
Jack
Summerville
Perkins
Probably going:
Shackleton
Poveda
Costa
Please just go:
Firpo
Remaining Squad:
Klaesson
Bamford (will be 30 next season/injury prone)
Ayling (30+)
Dallas (30+ injury prone)
Cooper (30+ injury prone)
Sini
Wober
James
Rutter
Drameh
Struijk
Cresswell
Hejlde
Bate
Joffy
Greenwood
Gyabi
Gray
Joseph
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Gnonto, so good he's leaving twice.