January transfer window

[Shoemaker]

Short term loans are one of the reasons we are the Norwich of league two.
Cheltenham will be no different.
To be able to get promoted from league two you need strikers who are proven and have also scored in the level above in order to retain league one status.
They need to be permanent signings in order to have solid foundations and continuity.
Who was the last player the current board signed who fitted that criteria?

[Shoemender]

Another of our prolific former strikers Ryan Edmondson (2 goals in 21 games, 1 of those goals stolen from Hoskins) has been on loan at Fleetwood for the first half of this season (0 goals in 11 games). He has now been loaned out to Port Vale.

Oh dear. We're playing them next month.

[CobblerForever]

Imo we haven’t signed a decent proven permanent striker since bayo left the club nearly a decade ago…,

Mark Richards (2014 to 2018);

123 matches, 44 goals.

[tcobb]

Cobblers Forever can you please stop posting known facts, they tend to get in the way of Shoemaker's Bull.

[guest2995]

We simply will not pay the wages or anything like them .
We can only get players from Poundland unless the parent club subsidises them .
Etete’s replacement will be the same .
The owners are not interested in investing into the playing side of the club - fact .
Etete was nothing to do with that though .

[tcobb]

Boot and Shoe, how many of the players signed in the summer were permanent signings ? We are currently second in the League, what are you expecting in January ?

[guest3481]

We simply will not pay the wages or anything like them .
We can only get players from Poundland unless the parent club subsidises them .
Etete’s replacement will be the same .
The owners are not interested in investing into the playing side of the club - fact .
Etete was nothing to do with that though .

You're supposed to write fact in all uppercase. Just a little heads up! - FACT

[Shoemaker]

Cobblers Forever can you please stop posting known facts, they tend to get in the way of Shoemaker's Bull.

Seems as you can now insult whoever you like on here without any censure as you have proved , may I take this opportunity to call you a condescending twat.

[Another Pedj]

Bit unfriendly to a fellow supporter?

Dont worry about me Evers.

[Shoemaker]

Seems as you can now insult whoever you like on here without any censure as you have proved , may I take this opportunity to call you a condescending twat.

Please accept my apology for calling you a condescending twat even though you have insulted me on here and failed to apologise.
It takes a big man to apologise and so I am sorry.

[Welly Cobb]

I wouldn't say that putting money into the playing side is 'investing'. It's money you've basically going to be prepared to lose entirely, like MacAnthony or Winkleman or the Saudi Arabian family. I'm sympathetic to the idea that there isn't the money to compete for the Championship with our owners, because it's 100% true, but I'm not sympathetic to the idea that there's anyone better waiting in the wings ready to pour money down the drains. It's incredibly difficult, but Yeovil and Burton and Sutton this year, even arguably us in 2nd, shows that it is not impossibility to be competitive on a budget, but you've got to accept the reality of it being difficult, the same with a good 70% of the clubs in this League and 30% of the clubs in League 1.

You can moan about the same point incessantly over and over, every single year and every single window, but it won't change anything because these Billionaire benefactors who are waiting in the wings to spend half a million on a striker and out bid Ipswich and Portsmouth and MK Dons don't exist. There are limits to what Thomas and owners can do for sure, and that means we will lose players often, we're not lucky enough to be blessed with a MacAnthony. However, we're almost not unlucky enough to be lumbered with Oldhams owners, or Charlton's ex owners, or mad Crypto-based American teenagers who have all their knowledge from a US Sitcom who were trying to buy out Bradford.

[Mysterious Curle]

Another of our prolific former strikers Ryan Edmondson (2 goals in 21 games, 1 of those goals stolen from Hoskins) has been on loan at Fleetwood for the first half of this season (0 goals in 11 games). He has now been loaned out to Port Vale.

He was utterly useless.

32 games and 2 goals sums it up.

I’m not even sure how it’s possible, he must have witnessed 300+ balls into the box that he’s failed to get on the end of.

[Coolcat]

He was utterly useless.

32 games and 2 goals sums it up.

I’m not even sure how it’s possible, he must have witnessed 300+ balls into the box that he’s failed to get on the end of.

The thought of Edmondson and Kabamba as a strike force, would put the fear of God into anyone...but the opposition I suspect!

[guest2995]

Boot and Shoe, how many of the players signed in the summer were permanent signings ? We are currently second in the League, what are you expecting in January ?

i was answering the question about why we don’t sign proven strikers .
It is wage demands - it’s as simple as that .
Etete’s replacement will be a young lad we develop for someone else’s benefit .

[Zen Master]

As long as they know where the onion bag is that’s fine

[guest3481]

Mipo Odubeko has been recalled from a loan at Huddersfield back to West Ham
KT is a West Ham fan 

[Coolcat]

I’m surprised our resident ITK ntfclad didn’t see this one coming.
It is very strange timing and Spurs couldn’t have been too happy with his treatment/progress with us.
We’ve done really well without him but definitely need to get moving to find a replacement.

Haven't you noticed, ntfclad works for the incommings department, he's not privy to those on their way out! 

[Substitute]

Haven't you noticed, ntfclad works for the incommings department, he's not privy to those on their way out! 

What happens if they come in through the out door?

[guest3481]

What happens if they come in through the out door?

Wish I was allowed to! 

[Shoemaker]

We are signing a young striker from Cardiff