Daniel Peretz - Official: Signs 4 Year Contract

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

Player exchange maybe? But agree they will need money in and try to recruit cheaply 

Just what I was thinking. We just offset their costs, and they get some wages off their books.

Failing that, a loan exchange for the season. Gives us a chance to see how much scar tissue any of their players has.

I'd expect Martin to pick up Small one on a free too, if he's Leicester manager. Then he'd have two key RussBall players in his first team.

[egg]

8 minutes ago, The Kraken said:

I struggle to see how we shell out for Peretz if we haven’t got a good idea already that Ramsdale won’t be here, either on loan or sold. We’ll see, but I don’t personally see the transfer happening otherwise.

Getting rid of Baz, a much harder situation to imagine.

Those were my initial thoughts, but I also wonder if there's now a "fuck it" mindset where we're gonna go all Liebherr in league 1 and sign who we need and get rid of overhang when and if. I'm probably way off, but this is a proper statement if intent which suggests to me that we're going to give promotion a proper go. 

[LaptopSaint]

In an us-against-the-world season a mouthy Israeli goalkeeper was a must. Insane signing. 

[tdmickey3]

🎉

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Good start to the window.

Now sign that Hayden Hackney bloke and send him on loan to Hull.

[hypochondriac]

16 minutes ago, egg said:

Those were my initial thoughts, but I also wonder if there's now a "fuck it" mindset where we're gonna go all Liebherr in league 1 and sign who we need and get rid of overhang when and if. I'm probably way off, but this is a proper statement if intent which suggests to me that we're going to give promotion a proper go. 

I reckon Dragan is personally aggrieved and will want to go up with Tonda to prove a point.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Really good news

[Wade Garrett]

49 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Bazunu wont be back up. He's a 24 year old RoI international who will want to be playing regular first team football, which it's pretty clear he wont be getting here. He will leave this summer, hopefully permanently and we can get a decent fee for him.

I know I'd be p*ssing into the wind trying to argue that Bazunu is not infact the worst goalkeeper in the football league and I'm not going to bother. However, if you think we're getting better to come and sit on our bench, you're likely to be mistaken. 

I don't think so.  Bazunu can't stop shots.  Almost any keeper would be an improvement.

[egg]

1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

I reckon Dragan is personally aggrieved and will want to go up with Tonda to prove a point.

Yep, agreed. He's a bloke who doesn't do failure and is giving this the full beans. I approve. 

[MarkSFC]

What a great signing and start to the window. So far, Dragon living up to his recent promise...🙏😂

Bree next please. 

Larin too. 

Stewart as well.

Then we worry about the one or two or three that might HAVE to be sold!!

[Saint Fan CaM]

An excellent signing and for the first time in what seems like ages, one that gets announced AHEAD of ST sales. Dragan showing that he’s not messing about this summer in prep for next season. Very encouraging for the fans.

What would be equally excellent is a statement of intent with THB, Bree, Scienza, Jander and Charles retained. Also giving the Captaincy to THB, although that might mean Jack moving on (but can’t see that happening this summer). The issue here is consistency of the spine of the team and maintain the siege and ‘hard done by’ mentality that must be coursing through the veins of the players now.

Echo others thoughts that Larin needs to be sorted OR a replacement that has the same or better attributes.

I’d not lose sleep if Archer was retained, but ultimately I don’t think he’s a good fit and we could do with a more suited player - an upgrade on Stewart and Larin would be ideal, but probably not feasible.

[skintsaint]

Great start to the weekend!

[Lighthouse]

12 minutes ago, Wade Garrett said:

I don't think so.  Bazunu can't stop shots.  Almost any keeper would be an improvement.

If you say so, I've read all this before and I don't just mean Bazunu. Bialkowski in 2012 - "We have to pray Kelvin never gets injured, we'll never get promoted in goal." Then we went up, had a revolving door of goalkeepers and people were slating all three of them, Gazzaniga in particular. Even Boruc copped a lot of flack in our first season up. Then there was FF, post injury when he had his mental health struggles. Save percentage about the same as Baz people were saying he was the reason we lost the 2017 cup final. Stekelenberg, everyone hated him, 'statistically the worst keeper in the league' etc. McCarthy, one howler after after another. If you think Baz is bad then literally every manager who's had a choice has picked him over McC. Two of them decided to swap keepers eventually, there was no improvement and both got sacked six games later. Then there was the absolute meltdown on this forum when we signed George Long on loan... well that's what's coming in a few weeks when we sign another 'backup' keeper.

 

Baz is the worst keeper we've ever seen in the football league... since the last worst keeper we've ever seen and until the next worst keeper we've ever seen.

[Cuddles]

5 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

If you say so, I've read all this before and I don't just mean Bazunu. Bialkowski in 2012 - "We have to pray Kelvin never gets injured, we'll never get promoted in goal." Then we went up, had a revolving door of goalkeepers and people were slating all three of them, Gazzaniga in particular. Even Boruc copped a lot of flack in our first season up. Then there was FF, post injury when he had his mental health struggles. Save percentage about the same as Baz people were saying he was the reason we lost the 2017 cup final. Stekelenberg, everyone hated him, 'statistically the worst keeper in the league' etc. McCarthy, one howler after after another. If you think Baz is bad then literally every manager who's had a choice has picked him over McC. Two of them decided to swap keepers eventually, there was no improvement and both got sacked six games later. Then there was the absolute meltdown on this forum when we signed George Long on loan... well that's what's coming in a few weeks when we sign another 'backup' keeper.

 

Baz is the worst keeper we've ever seen in the football league... since the last worst keeper we've ever seen and until the next worst keeper we've ever seen.

Bringing McCarthy back into the team during our last promotion with Russ probably got us to the EPL.

Baz is awful and literally everyone can see it but you and, for some reason, a series of ex-managers. Can only assume managers were told to play him previously as we'd invested so much in him.

[CSA96]

Peretz is only 25 as well. Nice to have a proper good goalkeeper for the level we're at, but also one who probably hasn't peaked yet and has the chance to grow with the club and be our #1 for many years now

[FootballMartin]

20 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

An excellent signing and for the first time in what seems like ages, one that gets announced AHEAD of ST sales. Dragan showing that he’s not messing about this summer in prep for next season. Very encouraging for the fans.

What would be equally excellent is a statement of intent with THB, Bree, Scienza, Jander and Charles retained. Also giving the Captaincy to THB, although that might mean Jack moving on (but can’t see that happening this summer). The issue here is consistency of the spine of the team and maintain the siege and ‘hard done by’ mentality that must be coursing through the veins of the players now.

Echo others thoughts that Larin needs to be sorted OR a replacement that has the same or better attributes.

I’d not lose sleep if Archer was retained, but ultimately I don’t think he’s a good fit and we could do with a more suited player - an upgrade on Stewart and Larin would be ideal, but probably not feasible.

This is spot on a proper statement signing and like you say Dragan isn’t messing around. I’d do everything I could to temp THB into another year give him the captaincy do anything possible to keep him.

Edited 5 minutes ago by FootballMartin

[Zorba]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

Ha! I feel a new range of official t-shirts in my waters.... 😂

A new song if we go 1-0 down..?

Fuck it, we go again, Fuck it, we go again, You just got lucky then, Fuck it, we go again!

 

[Sarnia Cherie]

Some good news, at last. A decent keeper who certainly played his part in helping us climb the league. All credit to Daniel for staying here with what has been going on. I hope this continues and we get more good news from the FA.