January Transfer Window | Vital Football

January Transfer Window

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keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Sat 11/12 Swans 1 Forest 4
Sat 18/12 15:00 QPR v Swans (postponed)
Sun 26/12 15:00 Millwall v Swans
Wed 29/12 19:45 Swans v Luton
Mon 3/1 15:00 Swans v Fulham

With 18 days to the next home match and a 15 day enforced break between any competitive match, Russell Martin has time for another re-grouping of the playing squad. Will he change things around after three straight defeats - highly unlikely.
Playing players out of position is not working, not playing proven players in this division, like Bidwell and Fulton is mad. His tactics are not working, repeatedly playing wing backs too high up the field and leaving the defence exposed is embarrassing to watch. Eight goals conceded in the last three matches and he stubbornly refuses to rectify the problem.
Covid allowing, he has two matches left before the transfer window opens, both against form teams above us in the table.
Rumours abound that a lot of our players are being either moved on or loaned out to subsidise incomings, a continuation of the dismantling of
a squad that reached the play-off final last season.
Outgoings - Fulton, Bidwell, Whittaker, Cullen, Dhanda and even top scorer Piroe who is attracting interest from Leicester. Also Rhys Williams to return to Liverpool.
Incomings - lower League replacements that Martin knows.
We look forward to the weeks ahead with trepidation.
 
4 matches behind schedule now.

Apparently we're looking at quite a few, an attacking right sided player as well as a goalkeeper at the very minimum. I'd say we need another 2 on top of that to compete. A LCB and a striker.
 
Hopefully crowds will be back for the re-arranged home matches in the future.
First of the postponed matches was the QPR away game, this will now be played on Tue 25 Jan 19:45.
Are the players who are on their way out unable to play Martin’s system or do they disagree with the way he wants them to play?
Crucial time next month.
 
Ethan Laird being recalled by Man Utd and going to Bournemouth on loan for the rest of the season has come as a huge blow, coupled with the impending recall of failed loanee Rhys Williams by Liverpool.
Will other clubs such as Man City now be thinking twice about allowing their players to come here and try to develop their game at a struggling club playing an unsuccessful system?
 
On Laird Keith I think it's just a case of money talks and Bournemouth wanted him? They offered to contribute more to his wages and also he gets to play in a better team. Similar when we took Connor Gallagher .
 
Reading vital on twitter, they reckon O'Riley won't happen due to finances but fisher the goalkeeper is likely. Can't say I'm overly enthusiastic but then again Hamer is not good enough, either at shot stopping or distribution.
 
Is Kyle Joseph’s recall because of Laird’s departure?
We are short of a right wing back now Laird has gone and striker Joseph has played this position whilst on loan for the Oxford v Cheltenham game and also the Reading v Swans EFL Cup game earlier this season.
However he can’t play on Saturday v Southampton as he is cup-tied.
 
Morgan Whittaker made an impressive debut yesterday on loan to lowly Lincoln in a 2-0 win against high flying Oxford, scoring the second goal for what was a shock result.
 
Great news that Paterson has signed on for another year, we missed him in the cup yesterday.

It does seem quiet on the transfer front still, unfortunately. There doesn't seem to be anything reported, nothing close to happening and we're almost 1/3 in to the window. All we know is Fisher a goalkeeper could join.
 
Meaning we’re left with Hamer as back up if Fisher gets injured.
In my opinion Benda is a better goalkeeper than Hamer, as he proved whilst on loan at Swindon last season, but neither could play well in Martin’s system.
 
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It doesn’t make sense to me, Steven Benda going on loan to a relegation rival in Peterborough for obvious reasons.
Another player on his way out on loan, not official yet, Liam Cullen to Lincoln, joining Morgan Whittaker there.
Jay Fulton and Yan Dhanda have already been told there’s no future for them under Martin and to find another club. Jake Bidwell also out of favour and not being played.
Once more a clearing of the decks in progress then, freeing up the wage bill for more incomings. We can only hope that Martin knows what he’s doing as he breaks up a squad that reached the play-off final last season. The powers that be are backing his judgement so far, so they must have confidence in what he’s doing.
 
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