sedgleyimp
Vital Champions League
Blackpool's list which include a couple of ex-Imps loanees
EFL Retained Lists
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gijsbert_bos
Vital Football Hero
So they will have 29 players contracted if you add up all of those who are contarcted or have been offered terms. Without knowing how many are genuine first teamrrs, that looks a big squad before the window is open..Blackpool's list which include a couple of ex-Imps loanees
sedgleyimp
Vital Champions League
Stockport's list including Paddy Madden leaving. Probably been tapped up elsewhere as it reads. Wrexham???
www.stockportcounty.com
Club announce Retained and Released list for 24/25 - Stockport County
Following the conclusion of our successful 2023/24 campaign, the club have confirmed its released and retained list ahead of the...
www.stockportcounty.com
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
Hadn't realised Oakley-Booth had already been binned in January. Virtue is OK but would he accept terms on squad player status/wages at his stage of career. Similar position to Bishop's status imo.
I would rather we had a promising project player with energy and the wages associated with that for squad player status.
cdhIMP
Vital 1st Team Regular
He is in Portugal with Shodipo...
Oldshepherd Imp
Vital Reserves Team
Agree 100% I can never understand this weird obsession with wanting to sign ex players. Move on, try something new.
Norfolk-Imp
Vital Youth Team
Or managers
impsimps
Vital Football Hero
It already seems a long time ago, the Club has moved on and better is out there and not with the doubt they may be carrying a long term injury. He was injured for a good few weeks when he was with us and has been out injured again last season. We already have Tyler Walker who we knew was injury prone when we took the chance on him, and things don't look good there at the moment. We don't want to be taking another risk with a relatively small squad.
UTI.
CWaddle
Vital Youth Team
I tend to agree, though there is the point that even in a struggling team we were able to directly see that he was a great player - it gives us something solid to go off. The injury argument is a good one, though.
A great player is pushing it. He was a bang average Lg One player, he isn’t going to turn us into a promotion hunting team.
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
I suspect Blackpool took a gamble on keeping Virtue and ended up taking the hit. I never got the feeling he was ever likely to play regularly for them except in parts and they expected 'a Lincoln' would come in and pay £50k to £75k for him due to the noises about him. It never happened and they were left with an expensive reserve on their hands.
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
He did decently for us, a perfectly adequate, competent and reliable performer in L1. It was at a time though when our central midfield was utterly bereft of anybody else that could do a semblance of the job required and I recall we were desperate to find somebody for what had been our problem position for a good while. As such he probably stood out with his solid consistency.
Fast forward to this season and how does he compare? Is he an attacking midfielder - no. Does he have the play making skills and read the game as well as McGrandles - no. Erhahon role - I think we know the answer to that one. Probably closest to style with Hamilton and for me Hamilton is the better player.
When we were linked to signing him my thoughts at the time were I wouldn't mind his move being made permanent but I wouldn't want to pay a fee for him.
imps1
Vital 1st Team Regular
Decent player but given a choice i would rather signed Conor MC or upgrade Bishop's or Danny M's pay instead of going to Virtue.
For some reason i never rated him as highly as others and looking at others in our team and opposition last season he looked a run of the mill, League One midfielder.
Bart Simpson
Vital Reserves Team
If we aspire to get promoted to the Championship we need players with the potential to play at that level.
Here's Rotherham's list: https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2024/may/read--retained-list-confirmed-by-millers-boss/
Ex-imp Sam Clucas among those leaving, with some ex-millers fans sad to see him going.
Ex-imp Sam Clucas among those leaving, with some ex-millers fans sad to see him going.
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PerthImp
Vital Football Hero
Agreed. As mulch as I loved Matty Virtue, if the club really is ambitious to get to the next level they have to seek out the players capable of getting us there, so yes I agree we have to explore potentially either Erhahon style diamonds or Championship-experienced players capable of pushing us on.
