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Who will join in January?

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1 x Striker
1 x Winger
1 x Left Full back
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Post by Currywurst and Chips »

Three possibilities I can envision:


Cast off journeyman from larger League 1 side like Derby/Pompey

18 year old striker on loan from Championship side who’ll start once then maybe get a couple of sub appearances

Complete unknown from southern non league side who gets sold for a loss in 18 months
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That's the spirit.
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:49 pm Three possibilities I can envision:


Cast off journeyman from larger League 1 side like Derby/Pompey

18 year old striker on loan from Championship side who’ll start once then maybe get a couple of sub appearances

Complete unknown from southern non league side who gets sold for a loss in 18 months
That’s the spirit, from a “true” O’s supporter 👏
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Post by Bergen »

Josh Stokes (Aldershot) would be an interesting signing, but I guess he will join Peterborough United.
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Stan1972 wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:33 pm 1 x Striker
1 x Winger
1 x Left Full back
AI think a striker and winger would be enough
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RedDwarf 1881 wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:52 pm
Stan1972 wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:33 pm 1 x Striker
1 x Winger
1 x Left Full back
AI think a striker and winger would be enough
We def need a LB, we don’t have one, Hunt is awful, Sweeney is not good enough, and we need James to play regularly at RB.

We all know how bad we need a Striker

And we need an attacking wide player

Ship out
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Currywurst and Chips wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 1:49 pm Three possibilities I can envision:


Cast off journeyman from larger League 1 side like Derby/Pompey

18 year old striker on loan from Championship side who’ll start once then maybe get a couple of sub appearances

Complete unknown from southern non league side who gets sold for a loss in 18 months
I see that as well.
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1 x journeyman striker with dodgy injury record
1 x youth winger from Spurs or similar who doesn't play
1 x random CB in the Cooper mould
1 x random NL kid who we never see again like Ethan Light
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RW (post match Bolton): "We don`t have much to spend. We have players at the club who are not playing. They are using up the wage bill. It is something we have to look over the next two weeks.We need two or three in".
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Post by Currywurst and Chips »

Wonder who he’s talking about….? 🤔
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Thompson, Sweeney, Moncur and Drinan?
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Bergen wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:40 pm Thompson, Sweeney, Moncur and Drinan?
Add Happe to that too who doesn't seem to want to be here, would've retracted his offer in summer after he delayed on signing tbh
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I thought RW was a great fan of Happe.....
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Bergen wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:45 pm I thought RW was a great fan of Happe.....
Not in the last few weeks where he called him out to give more effort
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Fair enough, but why is he playing him instead of Ed Turns?
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Bergen wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 6:47 pm Fair enough, but why is he playing him instead of Ed Turns?
Good question, Turns seems to have struggled with L1 was basically 4th choice until Cooper fancied getting Christmas off
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Re: Who will join in January?

Post by Mistadobalina »

Turns has been mainly bad for us this season.

We will bring in another winger, like we did with Sadlier last season. That's the crucial one imo, the position where the lack of depth has resulted in us looking slow and predictable in attack, and the position that is key to how Wellens sets up. Even with Agyei back, we can't go into the second half of the season one injury away from being short there.

We could probably do with another striker but dunno if that's possible with 3 no.9s on the books plus Agyei as an option, and if we have decent wide options again our forwards may look better.

A full back would be good as Hunt and James have looked poor at times.

Centre back is a a tough one. No one's really looked good enough consistently but we have a lot of numbers back there and Cooper + Beckles probably can hack it.
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Strong rumour Frank Noble might be on his way back
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Monkey Boy wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:22 am Strong rumour Frank Noble might be on his way back
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Post by essexfootball »

A winger
Maybe a cb if Cooper goes or they recall Turns
A real dm is needed, Prats is retiring soon, Brown is pap, might be an end of season job though
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Post by o-no »

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we didn't bring anyone in next month.
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Question is 'Who'. So far just a list of positions. Any named suggestions?
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cymruO wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:21 pm Question is 'Who'. So far just a list of positions. Any named suggestions?
Don't be daft,
Can't moan about dissapointment without names.
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Post by RedDwarf 1881 »

o-no wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:16 pm I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we didn't bring anyone in next month.
We'll probably wait until the end of January because we always take ages to sign any players . It's the Orient way .
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