Stickied League 2 Transfer Rumours/Confirmed Transfers 2023/24

[PiedPiper]

Sad to see Enzio Boldewijn leave and I hope he does ok for Notts County. Genuine good player who I hope does better than the last player you signed from us.

Just one caveat. As he is quite good in the air and has a decent shot on him 101 games for Crawley and 16 goals is something he will need to improve on.

Casey

Most of our goals last year came from Grant. Hemmings and Dennis will hopefully make up.for that, if He can provide the ammo, we'll be happy

 

[Gladders]

Has he actually signed though? I’ve just had a quick look and I can’t find any confirmation. Surely they would announce a huge signing like this

They are waiting for the ink to dry on the telegram, have you not been reading this thread?

 

[valefan16]

Some money being spent, even our usual tight chairman has paid money for players this year! Well Miller at least so far.

Lincoln I understand the heavy spending as they surely earned it from success on the field, Notts County and Mansfield certainly over the last two seasons does seem a bit more random as they hadn’t been until this point, always a gamble and can lead to problems, Notts fans were quite cocky when other fans queried the Munto spending and we know what happened there so you’d expect especially in Mansfield’s case with small crowds and last seasons failures to need promotion this year.

Could be a decent standard required this year to succeed although Accrington proved money wasn’t everything.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

They are waiting for the ink to dry on the telegram, have you not been reading this thread?

So that’s a no then lol.

Hold them horses, before you start to worry about your rivals finances

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Some money being spent, even our usual tight chairman has paid money for players this year! Well Miller at least so far.

Lincoln I understand the heavy spending as they surely earned it from success on the field, Notts County and Mansfield certainly over the last two seasons does seem a bit more random as they hadn’t been until this point, always a gamble and can lead to problems, Notts fans were quite cocky when other fans queried the Munto spending and we know what happened there so you’d expect especially in Mansfield’s case with small crowds and last seasons failures to need promotion this year.

Could be a decent standard required this year to succeed although Accrington proved money wasn’t everything.

“ Notts fans were quite cocky when other fans queried the Munto spending”

Yep that sums it up perfectly.

It ended with the L2 title if memory serves me right

 

[Optipez]

We were very lucky after the Munto fraud to survive.
Turnovers were up last year and we have released our high earners apart from Stead but we are clearly spending more than we're earning so Hardy is either gifting us money or we're heading into some debt.
Most clubs do it, most chairmen run out of money then sell up and a few years from now I'm sure we'll be scrabbling around again.
So will Mansfield, Lincoln and everyone else, it's the football wheel of life isn't it?

 

[Sydney Posse]

Our tiki-taka/play it out from the back, push the full backs high approach needs a solid no. 6 to knit everything together and keep things ticking over in midfield. We don't have anyone else like that in the squad, the rest are fairly lightweight playmakers or wingers so James could be a key player in our system.

Be a miracle if he knits everything together. Has the odd good game, but most of the time he is either invisible or highly visible for really bad passing. And I'm not a biased City fan, I only lived 4 miles from FGR when in the UK and have a soft spot for them

 

[Impish]

Notts fans were quite cocky when other fans queried the Munto spending and we know what happened there so you’d expect especially in Mansfield’s case with small crowds and last seasons failures to need promotion this year.

Good point, think they're getting round about the 3000 mark so with the town not really interested it's down to the chairman to dig deep. His money though if they go pop so fair play to him.

Like you say though if Accrington can do it on small crowds so can Mansfield.

 

[GTFCfish]

Akinde to Lincoln is now OFF, after Barnet instead decided on a swap deal with Aldershot for their highly rated defender Josh Lelan.

Meanwhile after missing out on Akinde Lincoln have now turned their attention to Hamilton Academical’s highly rated forward Rakish Bingham.

 

[hellogregory]

As if Bingham would be a fallback option after Akinde.

If there was ever a chance of you getting Bingham, there’s no way you would have even considered Akinde.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Another 2 good signings for Notts. I’d make them favourites at the moment.

 

[Son of Cod]

Some money being spent, even our usual tight chairman has paid money for players this year! Well Miller at least so far.

Lincoln I understand the heavy spending as they surely earned it from success on the field, Notts County and Mansfield certainly over the last two seasons does seem a bit more random as they hadn’t been until this point, always a gamble and can lead to problems, Notts fans were quite cocky when other fans queried the Munto spending and we know what happened there so you’d expect especially in Mansfield’s case with small crowds and last seasons failures to need promotion this year.

Could be a decent standard required this year to succeed although Accrington proved money wasn’t everything.

Mansfield spent an obscene amount getting out of the Conference, third only to Crawley and Fleetwood during our time down there. They might have tightened the purse strings for a year or so upon getting promoted but them splashing the cash under Radford is nothing new. Last season included, when they spent the second most in the division.

 

[Conker]

Some money being spent, even our usual tight chairman has paid money for players this year! Well Miller at least so far.

Lincoln I understand the heavy spending as they surely earned it from success on the field, Notts County and Mansfield certainly over the last two seasons does seem a bit more random as they hadn’t been until this point, always a gamble and can lead to problems, Notts fans were quite cocky when other fans queried the Munto spending and we know what happened there so you’d expect especially in Mansfield’s case with small crowds and last seasons failures to need promotion this year.

Could be a decent standard required this year to succeed although Accrington proved money wasn’t everything.

Funnily enough in the last accounts only one of those clubs came near even (6k loss I think)

 

[Conker]

Mansfield spent an obscene amount getting out of the Conference, third only to Crawley and Fleetwood during our time down there. They might have tightened the purse strings for a year or so upon getting promoted but them splashing the cash under Radford is nothing new. Last season included, when they spent the second most in the division.

We had the second the second biggest budget when we won the conference (understandably behind Luton)

Definitely top three last season, Coventry and Mansfield were similar.

Big Al has definitely got excited by last seasons effort, from getting rid of the women’s team and moaning about losing 1.5m per season to spending 500k on transfer fees.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

One Call that’s the answer! It’s certainly not season ticket sales or gate receipts

Big Al’s going for it, maybe is Cos of one too many beers out watching the boys in Russia. Whatever the reason, I’m all for it. More fun that way

 

[SF_]

MK Dons linked with Kevin O'Connor on loan.

23yr old Left back we signed from Cork, sent him out on loan to Fleetwood last season and he struggled to cement a place. Might be able to establish himself more in League Two, personally I think there is a bit of potential there.

He won €1m in the lottery last season so I don't think he was 100% focused on football.

 

[PiedPiper]

Funnily enough in the last accounts only one of those clubs came near even (6k loss I think)

That "near even" was season before last.

 

[Agombar stool]

Still only rumours and trialist action down at the CG.

Stuart Moore has rejected his contract offer and has left. Luke McCormick ex prison and Plymouth is on trial (not for the first time, boom boom) and played 45 minutes last night in a pre-season win (more news on that on the relevant thread).

We also have Shamir Mullings on trial. Massive lad who Forest Green Rovers sacked, so we really are looking at players with a good pedigree! He also scored last night.

Wild rumour on our forum that Jayden Stockley was watching the game last night, but I am taking that with a massive sack of salt after the comment that they saw Simon Cox's Range Rover in the County Ground car park when in fact he was abroad! (It could have been stolen I guess)

Expecting a further 3 signings hopefully soon, no idea of names just now although I suspect we'll sign some of the trialists to cut costs, hopefully Max Oldham is one of them (he also scored last night)

 

[Conker]

That "near even" was season before last.

Yeah I know, only kidding about.

They have still mentioned about running even though, not sure if it’s true but I suppose possible with the sponsorship funds available.

 

[PiedPiper]

Yeah I know, only kidding about.

They have still mentioned about running even though, not sure if it’s true but I suppose possible with the sponsorship funds available.

Potentially could be the case. Forest made a loss last year but because of some accountancy stuff, they managed to make a profit of £30 million somehow by writing off debt.

 

[devilofajob]

But is he average paced?

Is he inconsistent? You know 1 in 6/7 sort of player?

Is he overrated?

And will someone guess his weekly wage , for the Love of god, give me an estimated made up wage for the lad!!!!

He's a 7 in 10 sort of player. He can appear lethargic sometimes, is decptively quick imo, and he's a really nice bloke and will always try his hardest.

Sad to see him go.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Thanks for the rare honest report from a fan of the former club. Refreshing

 

[hellogregory]

We've got Brooklyn Beckham in on trial.

 

[AdamStag]

We had the second the second biggest budget when we won the conference (understandably behind Luton)

Definitely top three last season, Coventry and Mansfield were similar.

Big Al has definitely got excited by last seasons effort, from getting rid of the women’s team and moaning about losing 1.5m per season to spending 500k on transfer fees.

Given how much money we now make off the field which supplements our "crap crowds* (yawns) at least we're in a much better position than we were off the field. One thing that JR could really look at doing is trying to increase the away capacity to bring in some more money. As a club we're certainly moving in the right direction - all you've got to do is look at Chesterfield across the road to see what happens when you've a dodgy owner. Thankfully we have probably the best chairman in the league

 

[Casey]

Thanks for the rare honest report from a fan of the former club. Refreshing

Oi !

Just cos you didn't sign Lelan. ;-)

Casey

 

[AdamStag]

I don’t mean in money spent terms - more in expectation terms. I would imagine all 3 expect to get promoted. There’s going to be some fallout somewhere.

I'd expect Lincoln to finish above both us and county this year, they've got the experience of what's needed this year now and will have expectations. Also, as Impish says on a daily basis, we've only "small crowds" so how could we even compete when we can't con 6,000 fake fans to supplment the 1,500 or so die hards

 

[UTS]

Mansfield’s crowds aren’t small for league Two level.. around 4,000 is about bang average for this level.

On the transfer front, seemingly not deterred by Wealth Da Silva turning down our pro terms, we are close to signing Gold Omotayo from Whitehawk.

He scored 11 in 15 last season and hails from the Swiss lower leagues.

It’s a contest between him and Johan Branger of Oldham on who can be the biggest foreign lower league flop.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Exactly UTS “bang average for L2 level”

Consistently bang average

 

[AdamStag]

Mansfield’s crowds aren’t small for league Two level.. around 4,000 is about bang average for this level.

On the transfer front, seemingly not deterred by Wealth Da Silva turning down our pro terms, we are close to signing Gold Omotayo from Whitehawk.

He scored 11 in 15 last season and hails from the Swiss lower leagues.

It’s a contest between him and Johan Branger of Oldham on who can be the biggest foreign lower league flop.

And quite happy with those crowds too, long as we keep progressing on and off the field in the manner we are, all is good. As Accrington proved, and some sides in league 1 show, attendances mean absolutely nothing or very little at best....

Just need to do better on the pitch this time round

 

[GTFCfish]

Mansfield’s crowds aren’t small for league Two level.. around 4,000 is about bang average for this level.

On the transfer front, seemingly not deterred by Wealth Da Silva turning down our pro terms, we are close to signing Gold Omotayo from Whitehawk.

He scored 11 in 15 last season and hails from the Swiss lower leagues.

It’s a contest between him and Johan Branger of Oldham on who can be the biggest foreign lower league flop.

Seriously you had a player called Wealth and now you're signing someone called Gold?
Maybe Zander Diamond should be next on your radar.