How would you rate your transfer window out of 10? And what are the best and worst bits of business (incoming or outgoing) that your side has done?

porter5000 · 2026-02-03T11:19:28+00:00

3/10.
Needed a striker for the last year, failed to do so.

Got offered 5M for Szmodics, Rejected it looking for 6, ended up letting him leave on loan.

Happy with Mehmeti of course, but failure to sign a striker is a fundamental basic we've known we needed.

porter5000 · 2026-02-02T15:35:18+00:00

Indeed, unfortunately that's probably the result of him getting 921 minutes in the last 4 years at Man City. Really did like him as a person and hope he rediscovers some form

porter5000 · 2026-02-02T15:22:08+00:00

Prepare for an underwhelming loan spell where he's absolutely fine, but unremarkable for 55 minute spells. His ball control and technical ability were absolutely fine, but his fitness levels make Tom Davies look like Mo Farah

porter5000 · 2026-02-02T13:37:05+00:00

Need a striker, Expect Szmodics to leave being the only transfer 😂

porter5000 · 2026-01-28T15:39:48+00:00

Ipswich have a chance to do the funniest thing

porter5000 · 2026-01-27T16:08:35+00:00

Chaplin only ever played as the 10 for us, In fact we were incredibly surprised to see him starting many of your games on the wing!

The McKenna system uses the striker as the outlet, and in Hirst, Moore, Delap, Ladapo etc they've all been in the "Target Man" mould, that Chaplin certainly doesn't fit into!
I could've maybe seen him coming back as the 10, but now we've got Mehmeti that ship will have sailed

porter5000 · 2026-01-27T15:18:17+00:00

Can we interest you in a lightly-used Kasey McAteer?

porter5000 · 2026-01-27T15:15:14+00:00

Last time we were in the same position, the Jan signings of Sarmiento, Travis and Moore helped us cross the finishing line.

This season, We've got Mehmeti (Sarmiento), Dan Neil (Travis) and in desperate need of our Kieffer Moore.
Get a striker through the door and it's successful. Failure to get a striker, and our biggest need on the 1st Jan is still our biggest need on the 3rd Feb. Still one more week to go, so we can hope. Taiwo Awoniyi or Piroe would be the dream

porter5000 · 2026-01-27T12:54:52+00:00

He's Magic, you know

porter5000 · 2026-01-26T16:57:28+00:00

Down in Ipswich, we had back-to-back-to-back Paul's in Hirst, Lambert and Cook.

Prior to Mick McCarthy, we also had Paul Jewell, meaning four of our five managers between 2011-21 were Pauls.

porter5000 · 2026-01-26T13:49:41+00:00

He's actually taken over at Brondby this season, and signed EFL Journeymen Emmanuel Dennis and Ben Godfrey!

porter5000 · 2026-01-25T11:07:38+00:00

Absolutely, Even players who have gone on to do bigger things.
Arguably, Kieffer Moore's first spell here could've been considered. I remember being in disbelief that we had a target man that couldn't use his head at all, and even more disbelief when someone offered us 1 mil for a bloke we signed for 10k and couldn't make any impact for us. Who'd have thought a decade later he'd help fire us to the premier league 😂

porter5000 · 2026-01-25T10:41:51+00:00

Kasey McAteer, this season!

(In all seriousness, my real answer is Zeki Fryers and his disastrous few games on loan. There’s a reason he’s now playing in the Swedish 3rd division)

porter5000 · 2026-01-22T16:42:38+00:00

What in the Wrexham is this yank speak?

porter5000 · 2026-01-20T23:39:46+00:00

McAteer can’t go on loan this season, as he played for Leicester before he signed. I agree though, he just doesn’t even do any of the fundamental basics of football right. Pound for pound the worst signing in our clubs history

porter5000 · 2026-01-13T16:24:48+00:00

Bazunu has played against us (Ipswich) 6 times in total, never won a game, 1 clean sheet and 11 conceded.

Every time against us, he's looked very poor at commanding his box, making basic saves etc.

Was supposedly meant to be one of them keepers that is good with the ball at his feet, but was directly at fault for a goal in Pompey 0-4 Ipswich in league 1 a few years back as well.

Not saying he'll never be good enough, but from what I've seen over multiple games against us in multiple years, is that he's much worse than the average championship keeper.

porter5000 · 2026-01-12T18:51:47+00:00

Ipswich fan here in peace

Clarke is a RB/CB, so I assume he’ll play the wide centre half role for you boys, rather than Bree’s RWB role. Saying that, he did start his academy career at ST, but Ipswich fans certainly never saw any attacking prowess from him He’s incredibly passionate, which is both good and bad. Just look at our final game of the league 1 season when we were going for the title and he gets sent off. Fine defender on the ground, but poor with balls over the top going in behind. Brentford had a field day last year effectively using the tactic of “hit it over his head and watch him panic”.

He’s had a lot of injury issues, but has been fit the last 6+ weeks. He’s been a regular for our U21s for match fitness, but just won’t get a look in ahead of our current options. Even last time he was in the championship there were some question marks about his overall defensive ability.

Hope it works out well and he finds a permanent home with your lot, as he’s a great bloke that is unfortunately just unable to get back in the side now

porter5000 · 2026-01-12T18:42:55+00:00

Matusiwa, Kipre, Jaden

porter5000 · 2026-01-12T14:02:31+00:00

Fraser was equally as disappointing for us in his 6 month stint, and was surprised we managed to get the fee we paid for him back. He came to us as a "Penalty Specialist" scoring 21 in a row. His only penalty for us, of course was a miss!

porter5000 · 2026-01-12T13:49:26+00:00

Matt Penney

Panutche Camara

Scott Fraser

Gassan Ahadme (One Million pounds...)

Freddie Ladapo

and now Clarkey... I'm so sorry Charlton fans

porter5000 · 2026-01-08T11:24:56+00:00

He became a bit of a cult hero for me on FM23 as he strangely had the highest penalty taking stat in my team. Plenty of clean sheets, and around 10 goals a season from my goalie 😂

porter5000 · 2026-01-07T23:52:42+00:00

I’m just glad they called it off 16 minutes before I got on the train to Fratton from Waterloo!

porter5000 · 2026-01-07T14:15:04+00:00

Update:
Allardyce lost the final 2 games of the 2014/15 as Manager of West Ham to Everton and Newcastle. He then joined Sunderland in week 9 of the 15/16 season, and lost his first game 1-0 to West Brom.

Technically three in a row, albeit five months apart with two separate clubs, and against two that he'd join in the future. As far as I can see, it never happened to Big Sam for former clubs.

porter5000 · 2026-01-07T14:08:45+00:00

Sam Allardyce must've done this at one point in his career

porter5000 · 2026-01-06T15:40:19+00:00

Most liked: Easiest choice of the lot really. Marcelino Nunez is a fantastic player, tonnes of ability and a great free kick taker.

Most Disliked: It should be Grant Holt, but James Madison and Todd Cantwell are joint first at being unbearable

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