THE TWENTY EIGHT CLUB - Newyddion's Official Transfer Rumours™ of 2021

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GK Jordan Archer - RYAN ALSOP 28yo - Free
CD - MISSING - SEAN MORRISON 30yo (Final Year of his contract)
LB Hayden Coulson - ANDREW HUGHES 28yo (Final Year of his contract)
LW Marvin Johnson - ADAM REACH 28yo - Free

RW Mendez- Laing - KADEEM HARRIS 27yo - Free
MF Lewis Wing - ALEX MOWATT - 26yo - Free
LW Neeskens Kebano - NICK POWELL 28yo - Free

AM Yannick Bolasie - JOSH WINDASS 27yo - (Final Year of his contract)
LW/ST Ashley Fletcher - SAMMY AMEOBI 28yo - Free
ST Britt Assombalonga - FAMARA DIEDHIOU 28yo - Free
ST Chuba Akpom - CHARLIE WYKE 28yo - Free

So there you have it! Newyddion's Official Transfer Rumours™ of 2021

I do think we will re-sign Marcus Bettinelli, Ryan Alsop seems like a decent alternative to Jordan Archer could provide some decent competition for Betts and could step in if needed. Sean Morrison is the extra defender and leader that we've been crying out for (perhaps a player that Warnock could pass the torch along too?) Hayden Coulson sounds like he's off but still got until the end of the season to stake his claim. Andrew Hughes, steady eddie and a proper left back, nice to have the option and the cover.
Marvin Johnson has been unlucky not to get more game time during his time here and think he will move on for a new challenge. Adam Reach would be the perfect replacement for me and was sad to see him go. Never go back.. unless it's for Adam Reach.

Nathanial Mendez-Laing, I thought he was here for the long run but wouldn't be surprised to see him move on for more money. Kadeem Karris is out of contract and could do a job for us. Lewis Wing looks like he'll be off in the summer, Alex Mowatt out of contract, i'd be surprised if he hasn't already been considered. might well be in higher demand with Barnsley's recent turn of form might be one to watch..

Neeskens Kebano to much quality to keep hold of surely, Fulham would want a decent wedge for his services in any case. Nick Powell out of contract can produce at this level and his wages might be manageable with no transfer fee to contend with.
Yannick Bolasie, the enigma. Long sort after, always very much in demand, Again I would be surprised if we could meet his wage demands. Josh Windass going into the final year of his contract at soon to be relegated Sheffield Wednesday might be an option. Pretty sure we were linked with him previously.

Ashley Fletcher.. what a disappointment had high hopes for him when he arrived, but just lacked that bit of nastiness to push him to the front of the queue. No sooner had he hit his peak with boro than he struck down with injury. Wish him the best of luck at his new club. Sammy Ameobi, tall, unfashionable and perhaps lacking defensive contribution. I liked him while he was here and like the look of him every time I see him. causes problems. I would hate to have to defend against him.

Britt - lets get FAMARA DIEDHIOU!! can't wait, fingers crossed. a goal scoring striker!

Chuba Akpom, don't think he's lived up to expectations, whilst i'm not writing him off I do think we might sell him to get a bit of extra wriggle room in the summer transfer window.
Charlie Wyke.. I think he could do a job for us. I can see him coming back to settle some unfinished business!

There it is.. al in fair warned. Easier said than done. Pragmatic. Within budget imo and more accurate than the papers (as ever) no ITK info it is what it is. Hopefully we can keep hold of some of the loan players. Looking forward to seeing Marcus Browne back next season. Hopefully Nathan Wood goes back out on loan and we manage to keep hold of Fry, Tavernier and McNair.

Akpom, Wing and Coulson to bring in some cash for Morrison, Hughes and Windass.. it could happen?

Archer for Alspop? Missing for Morrison? Hayden for Hughes? Neeskens for Nick? Ashley for Ameobi? Chuba for Charlie? right i'm off to put a cheeky tenner on Boro to win the playoffs at 200-1 UTB!

PS: good luck to the oneboro forum.. remember it's ctrl+c then ctrl+v
 
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that team would be relegated by the end of February.


if we didnt have Britt and Fletch you'd be shouting for 'em !

P.S remember its a team game, not a name blame game.
what team?


GK Bettinelli/Alsop

RB Fisher/Dijksteel
CD Fry/Hall
CD McNair/Morrison
LB Bola/Hughes

MF Tavernier/Harris
MF Howson/Morsy
MF Mowatt/Saville

RW Watmore/Spence/Browne
FW Diedhiou/Windass/Wyke
LW Powell//Reach/Ameobi

Looks like a solid 25 man squad to me. IF we can't keep hold of Kebano, Bolasie & Mendez-Laing

Holes plugged up and goals brought into the team.
 
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No chance we bring Bettenelli back.

Wing will be sold, as will Coulson and I believe the first premier league club that comes sniffing round Spence he'll be gone too with a sell on clause inserted.
 
exactly !


is the 28 club, the number of points they would collect in a season 2️⃣8️⃣

what will be interesting is how many on your list will actually turn up -


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80-88 points with that squad imo.

maybe none of them will turn up? it's some stab in the dark if they all do. still more accurate than the papers tho x
 
Ched Evans is 33 this coming winter , I will be gobsmacked if we sign him. Grafter or not, he is not building for the future .
That said , it does look like a Warnock team , big and experienced.
Personally I prefer the Brentford model and would prefer a mix from
Famara Diedheiou CF - free
M Smith - swap for Wing
Haji Wright CF - £1m
Keenan Davis - CF - loan
Reo Griffiths - buy
Mikael Uhre - Buy
Charlie Wyke CF - free
Nikolay Todorov CF - free
Isaac Mbenza - RW CF - free
Siriki Dembele LW CF - free
Dion Charles LW CF - free
Jerry Yates CF RW No10 - £2m
Fejiri Okenabirhie CF LW RW - free
Rhys Healey - CF LW RW - £1m
Adam Reach - LW AM - free
Carlos Mendes Gomes - RW AM LW - free
Reiss Nelson - RW AM - loan
Nick Powell - AM CM - free
Jorge Grant - AM no10 - free
Corey Blacket Taylor - LB LWB AM - free
Josh Windass - AM - £1m
Alex Mowatt - DM - free , captain
Jon Mellish - DM - £400k - 15 goals from DM
Juninho Bacuna - DM - free
Zaine Francis-Angol -LB - free
Luke O'nien - CH CM - free
Declan Gallagher LCH CH RCH - Free - captain - going to Aberdeen ?
Ben Davies - CH - loan
Wayne Hennessy - GK -free
Angus Gunn - GK - loan
Ben Seigrist GK - £500k
 
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that team would be relegated by the end of February.


if we didnt have Britt and Fletch you'd be shouting for 'em !

P.S remember its a team game, not a name blame game.
Britt doesn't want to be here, Fletcher hasn't signed a new contract. I like Ashley Fletcher and I'm sure Britt will score a bolt load for his next club. I'm not playing the blame game, I've said I hope we keep hold of the players we have in on loan.


Diedhiou 10
Windass 7
Evans 10
Powell 12
Reach 6
Ameobi 3
Total 48

Britt 5
Bolasie 1
Akpom 4
Kebano 1
Johnson 4
Fletcher 4
Total 19

Looks like over twice as many goals on paper.. no doubt Britt will score more than Diedhiou next season. Bolasie is a total don. Akpom has only been with us five minutes, Kebano is prem quality, I don't think we could afford him, Johnson has been class for us every time he's played. I love Fletcher and think he could still play in the prem one day.

If I was involved in boro's recruitment, those are the players I would go for.. I'm not, I haven't heard any whispers, I'm not claiming to be some big deal or some hot shot. It is what it is. Just some football message board doyle.
 
That's what I'm talking about 😛 *

*I'm assuming the ball is on it's way into the net there and not somewhere near the flag on the seats.
he could even reclaim his number 8 shirt if Lewis Wing moves on to pastures new.

1 Bettinelli
2 Dijksteel
3 Hughes
4 Hall
5 Morsy
6 Fry
7 Tavernier
8 Ameobi
9 Diedhiou
10 Windass
11 Reach
12 Browne
13 Mowatt
14 Morrison
15 Spence
16 Howson
17 McNair
18 Watmore
19 Evans
20 Fisher
21 Allsop
22 Saville
23 Harris
25 Powell
27 Bola
 
Britt doesn't want to be here, Fletcher hasn't signed a new contract. I like Ashley Fletcher and I'm sure Britt will score a bolt load for his next club. I'm not playing the blame game, I've said I hope we keep hold of the players we have in on loan.


Diedhiou 10
Windass 7
Evans 10
Powell 12
Reach 6
Ameobi 3
Total 48

Britt 5
Bolasie 1
Akpom 4
Kebano 1
Johnson 4
Fletcher 4
Total 19

Looks like over twice as many goals on paper.. no doubt Britt will score more than Diedhiou next season. Bolasie is a total don. Akpom has only been with us five minutes, Kebano is prem quality, I don't think we could afford him, Johnson has been class for us every time he's played. I love Fletcher and think he could still play in the prem one day.

If I was involved in boro's recruitment, those are the players I would go for.. I'm not, I haven't heard any whispers, I'm not claiming to be some big deal or some hot shot. It is what it is. Just some football message board doyle.
Michael Smith 9
Haji Wright 9
Jorge Grant 15. 11 assists
Mbenza 5 - 8 assists
Siriki Dembele 8 - 12 assists
Dion Charles 18
Jerry Yates 20
Okenabirhie 12
Carlos Mendes Gomes - 12 3 assists
Rhys Healey 10
Nikolay Todorov 11
Jon Mellish - 15 goals from CM
87 goals from the top 6 scorers , but also worth considering , the other 2 had
13 goals , 20 assists between them , Grant also has 11 assists -Makers and takers .
And 15 goals from DM from Jon Mellish .
= 115 goals , 34 assists .
Beat that Newy lad .
Add Charlie Wyke and his 26 goals and 5 assists
and Joe Pigott and his 16 goals 5 assists in a poor team
and it looks even juicier .
 
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Ched Evans is 33 this coming winter , I will be gobsmacked if we sign him. Grafter or not, he is not building for the future .
That said , it does look like a Warnock team , big and experienced.
Personally I prefer the Brentford model and would prefer a mix from
Famara Diedheiou CF - free
Haji Wright CF - £1m
Michael Smith CF - £1m
Isaac Mbenza - RW CF - free
Siriki Dembele LW CF - free
Dion Charles LW CF - free
Jerry Yates CF RW No10 - £2m
Fejiri Okenabirhie CF LW RW - free
Rhys Healey - CF LW RW - free
Reiss Nelson - RW AM - loan
Nick Powell - AM CM - free
Jorge Grant - AM no10 - free
Corey Blacket Taylor - LB LWB AM - free
Barry Bannan - CM - free ,club Captain
Alex Mowatt - DM - free , captain
Juninho Bacuna - DM - free
Reece James - LB - free
Declan Gallagher LCH CH RCH - free , Vice captain
Karl Johan Johnsson - GK - £1m
Angus Gunn - GK - loan
Ben Seigrist GK - £500k

Isaac Mbenza - RW CF - free GOOD SHOUT
Siriki Dembele LW CF - free GOOD SHOUT
Fejiri Okenabirhie CF LW RW - free GOOD SHOUT
Reiss Nelson - RW AM - loan GOOD SHOUT
Juninho Bacuna - DM - free GOOD SHOUT
Reece James - LB - free GOOD SHOUT

I don't think we'll go that route tbh too many young lads in the mix. I just don't think we'll be building for the future, I think we have quality young lads in the squad at the moment and I think some battle hardened experienced solid champo players will be drafted in 2/3 year deals for lads who can have a good crack this season and next, decent sensible wages, tough enough to make the step up or move to another champo side.

Fry, Dijksteel, Bola, Tavernier, Spence & Browne as the young guns a few older heads in there to bring them on. the majority of the squad at their peak to do a job and no sitting on eggs waiting for them to hatch.
 
Michael Smith 9
Haji Wright 9
Mbenza 5 - 8 assists
Siriki Dembele 8 - 12 assists
Dion Charles 18
Jerry Yates 20
Okenabirhie 12
Rhys Healey 10
78 goals from the top 6 scorers , but also worth considering , the other 2 had
13 goals , 20 assists between them . Makers and takers . = 91 goals , 20 assists .
Beat that Newy lad .
Mbenza looked class against us and I'm a big fan. I've stuck with Djed Spence (in my own head) first season testing the waters as a right winger further up the pitch. I think he will come right under Warnock.
Would Warnock be up for coaching the defensive side of the game into Mbenza? Would he need to? Like I say i'm a fan and would like to see us go for him a prem club comes in for Djed.

Siriki Dembele looks the part too, short and young.. doesn't strike me as a Warnock signing GREAT SHOUT tho
 
Isaac Mbenza - RW CF - free GOOD SHOUT
Siriki Dembele LW CF - free GOOD SHOUT
Fejiri Okenabirhie CF LW RW - free GOOD SHOUT
Reiss Nelson - RW AM - loan GOOD SHOUT
Juninho Bacuna - DM - free GOOD SHOUT
Reece James - LB - free GOOD SHOUT

I don't think we'll go that route tbh too many young lads in the mix. I just don't think we'll be building for the future, I think we have quality young lads in the squad at the moment and I think some battle hardened experienced solid champo players will be drafted in 2/3 year deals for lads who can have a good crack this season and next, decent sensible wages, tough enough to make the step up or move to another champo side.

Fry, Dijksteel, Bola, Tavernier, Spence & Browne as the young guns a few older heads in there to bring them on. the majority of the squad at their peak to do a job and no sitting on eggs waiting for them to hatch.
We both could add Boros home grown goal machine on a free to our lists
Charlie Wyke - 26 goals , 5 assists , but some are against it .
Me , it's a no brainer , no fee , give him the chance to play for his home town club, if it doesnt work out , he will still get a move elsewhere , and more than likely , for a fee , so no risk .
 
We both could add Boros home grown goal machine on a free to our lists
Charlie Wyke - 26 goals , 5 assists , but some are against it .
Me , it's a no brainer , no fee , give him the chance to play for his home town club, if it doesnt work out , he will still get a move elsewhere , and more than likely , for a fee , so no risk .
28yo so should really get the nod over Ched Evans

if we're doing amendments..

CD MISSING - Ben Gibson 28yo -Loan
RW Nathanial Mendez-Laing 28yo - stays
MF Lewis Wing - Jeffrey Schlupp 28yo - free
AM Yannick Bolasie - Gerard Deulofeu 28yo - Loan
ST Chuba Akpom - Charlie Wyke 28yo
 
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