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It looks like he also has the physicality of a Jordan Hugill type striker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
However, as already been pointed out earlier, there doesn’t appear to be any linkage with the City other than he has turned down a contract, and we need a striker.
Looks like another wannabe journalist on twitter, making stuff up.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just saw a tweet linking us with Cole Stockton. I have no idea of the veracity of the tweet or the account it came from but can I just say; I'd like it. 23 goals last season in a battling Morecambe side who only scored 57 as a team.</p>— View From The Ninian (@VFTNinian) <a href="https://twitter.com/VFTNinian/status/1549003353883041792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I think they were referring to this tweet:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cole Stockton will not be renewing his contract at Morecambe.<br><br>Derby County, MK Dons, Ipswich, Birmingham and Cardiff City are all interested in the 28 year old striker.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DCFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DCFC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MKD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MKD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ITFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ITFC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CCFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CCFC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BCFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BCFC</a></p>— Lesly (@LeslyJones_) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeslyJones_/status/1548751553561038849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
But the same account (19 followers) said Grabban to WBA was done two days ago and apparently there are two PL clubs interested in Colwill.
I may have had a mare but in my defence, I WANT US TO SIGN A STRIKER RIGHT NOW PLEASE!
Pretty sure theres a striker lined up for a loan that the parent club wanted to take on pre season with them. I get the impression from Morison interview that is still the case. Would explain lack of movement if we have a guarantee of something.
Not the young kid from Arsenal who went to Boro last season?Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
Folarin Balogun. He’s in the US with the first team.
Ellis Simms innit :sherlock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
No clue who Simms is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carl Dale's Mole
Edit: ahh the lad from Everton.
https://dailycannon.com/2022/07/fola...n-options/amp/
I like the look of simms, but that doesn't really stack up with what Morison was saying about smaller fast guys being able to give you a presence up front, or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
Balogun is more proven as well, there must be a dozen other possibilities as well though
So much good work done early in the window but going into our last friendly with no strikers is just bad. Surely not even dml1364 can be happy with this?
I hope theres more than one coming in, I can't believe that were reliant on one striker who has gone on a pre season tour with his parent club, before going out on loan for a season.
If it is the case let's hope he doesn't pick up an injury
It's quite possible we'll bring another non-striker in over next few days.Quote:
Originally Posted by olderblue
Can only hope we are not being led down the garden path with regards to strikers, we've pulled out of other deals taking too long so I presume we have assurances and it's just a matter of timing being right.
What position would that be?
I still think we need to strikers
That’s got to be that Ajax guyQuote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
I can only imagine he’s holding out to get someone in on loan but that may after 2-3 games down
It is a bit mad isn't it. We're left with Watters, who Morison clearly hasn't fancied up to this point, so I'd be surprised if anything bar necessity has changed his mind now, and Harris, who is neither a striker nor a Championship-standard footballer. If we don't get someone with an eye for goal in next week, Norwich are likely to dick us I'd suggest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carl Dale's Mole
Another attacking player just not a striker. Not sure how far down line it is as was told there's other interest.Quote:
Originally Posted by olderblue
We will bring at least 1 out and out striker in. Given the amount of options we're accumulating in other positions I'd be shocked if we didn't want 2.
Really appreciate the updates :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
Another winger would be great. Would be able to rotate nicely based on form.
It makes sense, a winger in, and Whyte moved on
Ellis Simms linked again https://mobile.twitter.com/DarrenOWi...31770015334400
Darren Witcoop is usually very good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
He is not a fake
You keep saying that we have no strikers but we have. Watters is looking better every game as well. You appear desperate to sign anybody, no matter who he is, how good he is or whether he will fit in to how we want to play. That is a recipe for disaster. There are 39 days left in the transfer window and everybody wants strikers. Also how we get on against Norwich is not going to be decided by who plays up front - it is midfield where it will be won or lost and we are looking good in that department. Stop panicking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Carl Dale's Mole
He works for the company that runs WOL. Nuff said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elwood Blues
Morison is playing Watters, who is doing well and scoring goals. How can you say Morison doesn't fancy him ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Colin'sReversibleHat
I like the fact that you are all positive re Cardiff don't necessarily agree with your style of delivery but that's up to you but....Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
Surely you can see Morison has no choice as regards Watters as he is our only senior striker at the moment - don't get me wrong I hope he comes good as I think there is a striker in there but I'm not sure he has it in him to play a press without the ball all season and that is what may let him down. Not sure what other options he has at his disposal apart from taking a big chance on youth
For me we still need two strikers to give us depth and options and then Harris could be let go as I'm not convinced with him at all
:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
I'll stop the panicking. I've liked what I've seen so far and am fully on the Watters bandwagon.
I don't want us to sign anyone and everyone. I didn't want Michael Smith, Grabban or any of the over-the-hill strikers that WOL mentioned.
But when Morison mentions that he's been working on things since January and that striker was a position of importance, yet we're 6 days out from the season with only one actual striker in our team......
:shrug:
Steve Morison said after yesterday’s match that there were still a couple of deals on the go, but that matters were out of our hands at present.
mentions Everton might let him go on a permanent for 500k.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
that would be a good bit of business if so. much prefer that to a loan if possible
Would be a good signingQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
I wonder if Everton can be convinced to let Nathan Broadhead go for similar? Very impressive for Sunderland last season
I wonder if a loan with a future fee would make sense?Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
or perhaps 500k is what they want for a loan fee
That’s what I was thinking, I would have thought we would have to pay a few hundred thousand pounds for him as a loan fee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
A good profile of him here:Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport...-town-24577153
Huddersfield Town are amongst a host of Championship clubs interested in taking young Everton forward Ellis Simms on loan this season. The 21-year-old has two years left on his contract with the Toffees and scored seven goals in 21 appearances on loan at SPL side Hearts last season.
He also impressed on loan at Blackpool during the 2020/21 season, reaching double figures for goals and scoring twice in the play-offs to help the Tangerines to promotion from League One.
Simms is also highly-rated at his parent club, with an excellent goalscoring record at youth level, and has shown in patches that his skills translate to the senior level. Huddersfield are in need of a goal-getter at the centre-forward position, and the 21-year-old could fit that profile.
Background
Everton picked up the tall young striker Simms in 2017 after he had been released from the Manchester City Academy at the age of 16. Before that, he had been at Blackburn Rovers. Simms has had a prolific youth career in the Toffees’ academy, scoring 58 times in 83 appearances for Everton's U18 and U23 sides. Still, he has yet to receive a real opportunity with the senior side.
Not necessarily a technically gifted player, Simms's raw speed and power worked remarkably well for him with the U18s, where the team played to his strengths as a supreme goal-poacher.
On the back of this remarkable record, Simms agreed to his first contract with the club in May 2019 and moved up to the U23 squad. Simms continued knocking in goals for the Under-23s the following season, scoring an impressive 8 times in 12 matches before a loan deal was completed with Blackpool for him to fulfil the next stage of his development in League One.
He would play out the rest of the season with the Seasiders in what turned out to be a very successful loan spell, helping them achieve promotion via the play-offs. He found a similar level of success on loan with Hearts in the second half of last season, scoring important goals in the Scottish Cup that helped them reach the final before losing to Rangers.
What has been said about him
Simms has done a lot of developing during his recent loan spells, slowly adjusting his game to the physicality of the senior level of football. His raw abilities were noted by the coaching staff at Blackpool during his time at the club.
"Maybe because of his age and stepping into senior football and getting thrown into the deep end, which isn't easy, sometimes he can have a tendency to drift out the game in his mind," said Blackpool's assistant manager at the time, Mike Garrity, of Simms.
“We need to keep him concentrated. We've been talking to him a lot about staying in the game, staying active, staying around it, staying alive and alert. Even with his profile and his physique, we don't want him to become a battering ram for us. We want to play football.
"So we're looking at ways and means to use his attributes to help us, because when he opens his legs and gets moving, he's quite pacey. So we're trying to concentrate on the strengths he possesses to use at this level."
During his loan spell at Hearts, Simms spoke to The Athletic about his play style and the confidence he has in his own goalscoring abilities as a penalty box striker.
“I’ve always backed my ability to score goals,” he says. “I don’t lose confidence if there’s a phase where I don’t score; I back myself for the next one. You have to keep putting yourself in the right areas.
Mega injury prone. He was Sunderland’s best player and only managed 20 games all season. Injured his hammy 4 times last season, one was for 3 monthsQuote:
Originally Posted by City123
Photos on twitter claiming to be Ellis Simms outside the Huddersfield ground
I saw those too. Apparently it's not him thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
https://mobile.twitter.com/sidaley19...89506696069122
Rotherham fans reckon they're signing Ellis Simms nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
That's not what I said- I said necessity has forced his hand- he's not going to leave him out when he's our only first team striker is he?Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
Rumours over the weekend linking him back to Sunderland unfortunatelyQuote:
Originally Posted by City123
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Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
Sounds like the non-striker is close to being done..
One can never have too many goalkeepersQuote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad
A centre-back would be nice to partner Kipre, not convinced with what we have outside of him and the currently unfit Sean Morrison.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Would guess winger, right back, centre back in order of likelihood. Or a keeper, as City123 says. Wonder if Whyte etc goes off the back of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ccfcwelshlad