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Daily Ipswich: Episode 102 - Deadline Day Reaction
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On today's episode, Rob & Richard look back at Ipswich's deadline day dealings. The lads discuss the arrivals of Somto Boniface & Alex Palmer, share their thoughts on the late links to Flynn Downes and debate if the window appears to have been a success at first glance.
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Reactions to Deadline Day Transfers
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome back to the Daily Ipswich, brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. It is Wednesday and we we are going to react to the Deadline Day dealings from Monday night.
Introduction of New Players
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Global Sports Podcast Network
And joining me, Rob Bins, to go through the two incomings the town brought in is Richard Poppel.
00:00:24
Richard
Thank you.
00:00:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
How you doing mate?
00:00:27
Richard
Yeah, I'm good. I'm quite glad the transfer window shut, to be honest. It's always a bit of a frenetic kind of time of year, isn't it, where fans are hollering for signings and all the rest of it, and it always gets a bit kind of over the top. So I'm glad it's closed.
00:00:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, so it's been a busy one, hasn't it? Not, maybe not as busy as me we've seen in some of the windows in previous years, but say and a lot of names have come in and say we're going to focus on the deadline day today because as of say of yesterday's episode, obviously we focused in on a tactics Tuesday on South Hampton game. And we decided to leave the deadline day because it was in all britain all honesty, we didn't want to wait until the window was shut to record before that was a bit too late at night. So.
Spotlight on Santo Boniface's Potential
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Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got a reaction on the Wednesday episode, but the two faces came through the door, Santo Boniface and Alex Palmer. So let's start with Boniface, Richard. And we not can't confess to know much about him myself, but he's one for the 21s, 18 year old left by him from Chelsea.
00:01:26
Richard
No.
00:01:29
Richard
Yeah, I mean, if you're looking for a detailed analysis, I don't think I'm your guy, to be perfectly honest. But yeah, left back from Chelsea, I think obviously it was it was part of the club's plan, particularly particularly ah across the summer and stuff, to improve the quality of player coming up from the from the younger levels.
00:01:49
Richard
And I think that's obviously a big part of the club's plan moving forward anyway, because they're, they're upgrading the Academy and stuff once the training ground is done and putting a lot of infrastructure money into that. So I guess this is part of the process kind of like doing what the other quote unquote bigger clubs do.
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:02:04
Richard
And that's kind of like poaching talent and talent moving around behind the scenes around the country. So I guess, you know, getting somebody from Chelsea is never a bad thing, but again, it's very difficult to kind of like, you know,
00:02:18
Richard
examine and rate players at that age because their development is completely dependent on so many different factors. But you know, guess a bit of a coup that we managed to get him to come to us.
00:02:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I think ah we we spoke about, obviously, with Calvin Phillips at the start of the year, didn't we, about a statement of intent sign. It's what it sort of feels like at an academy level, because, like you said, they've got some very vocal about wanting to improve facilities at the academy and sort of bringing a higher crop of players now that can sort of, say, go for category one status as well, that to pick someone up from Chelsea, that but he's if he's been allowed to go, he probably isn't high up in Chelsea's plans, admittedly. but Still, I bet there have been a few clubs interested in his signature, because say here he's he's impressed well at Chelsea from my limited knowledge. I do know he won their Scholar of the Year, the season before last. So when he would have been 16. He's played in the EFL trophy a couple of times this season, so he has had experience at a men's tournament, obviously even not playing not made a senior year appearance, but obviously that he's playing against
00:03:28
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against senior side. So he has had a little taste of that and been capped by England at all sorts of levels as well.
Boniface: A Future Investment?
00:03:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
So really highly rated. And that feels like a statement of intent that sort of backing up the points I keep saying about the academy. We've we're seen a bit of action now and then as the facilities to grow hopefully we'll see. And i i say obviously you want to bring them through the academy yourself as well. If you can go and poach some of these players from bigger clubs that have had the benefit of all their facilities and coaching through a number of years.
00:03:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think he's been there since he was about 10. So he's had eight years worth of coaching at a higher level at Chelsea to then pick him up and bring him in.
00:04:01
Richard
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
00:04:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's a good so someone who can help set a standard and help harvest the lads around him and the team. But certainly say one for the future, that one definitely, but one for the present is the second time.
00:04:15
Richard
Well, I think, yeah, just going to say on the, on the future thing, I think, yeah, I get, I guess he is, you know, he's 18 or whatever.
00:04:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, sorry, gone.
00:04:25
Richard
but lots of players break through when they're 18 into the first team. So I'm not saying this season, and i I think that's highly unlikely, but I would imagine this was slightly looking towards next year as well.
00:04:36
Richard
And maybe future proofing that kind of left back position. I don't think Davis has necessarily covered himself in as much glory as we potentially expected him to in the Premier League, but there may be suitors should the worst happen, you know, and and we go down and stuff. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe he does stick around, but I could see Boniface potentially being promoted into the first team squad next season and if we were in the championship, because as you say, you know, he's been capped all the way through the schoolboy levels of England and stuff, and has played for the Chelsea first team and things. so
00:05:09
Richard
you would imagine that there's an eye to get him in there rather than just be in the reserves for a couple of years.
00:05:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, definitely. ive I don't think it's coincidence that this sort of first big Academy level sign and we've made is a left back because it's the one we, it's probably the position we don't have the clearest replacement at the moment if Davis was to move on.
00:05:22
Richard
Yeah.
00:05:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
So and obviously Townsend has had a couple of good games off the bench.
00:05:31
Richard
Connor Townsend, yeah.
00:05:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. So the couple of good games off the bench, but you feel like you wouldn't be the long-term solution if we were to lose Davis in the summer that maybe we could then
00:05:42
Richard
no probably not
00:05:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Let's say maybe, I think that maybe we are, I think you're probably right. This shows probably is a look to first team football in the, in the near future for Boniface.
Alex Palmer's Signing from West Brom
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Global Sports Podcast Network
But say someone we're assuming is going to be straight in first team football.
00:05:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
We have a deadline day signing Alex Palmer from West Brom. I believe the fee is 2 million pounds, but I have also seen four died about, but I'm pretty sure it's two. they had it, obviously all got through a door, a late one last night and club have sort of taken.
00:06:07
Richard
No, probably not.
00:06:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
last-minute action really with Muric's confidence we spoke about. Obviously we spoke about that in depth yesterday that Muric is seriously lacking confidence at the moment and it's leading to us causing a disadvantage to the team. Walton obviously we've just been called a few weeks not a number on those on those weeks and then obviously we spoke about Slicker yesterday as well and being a bit inexperienced so they've opted to go for a keeper and they picked a decent one I think in Palmeries. 100 odd appearances for west bro he's got 11 clean sheets in the championship this season that seem like a smart buy to you.
00:06:48
Richard
I think I read something like he's got 34 clean sheets since the end of last season. So West Brom, maybe it was 24, I can't remember, but it was still a fairly high amount. So yeah, that's got to be a good thing, obviously. It's not just down to him.
Evaluating Palmer's Past Performances
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Richard
Obviously West Brom are a fairly defensive side, or defensively solid side they have been over the last couple of years. But yeah, he looks I watched a few things on, I can't, you know, I can't say I've ever watched them live, but I watched a few things on YouTube and um saw some highlights and stuff. And he looks like a keeper with a fairly big kind of presence. I think he's about six three, something like that. which is a decent height for a keeper. I think you don't want anything too much smaller than that. Ideally, he's obviously not as big as Mirich or Christian Walton, but I think fundamentally it's about what he's able to kind of bring us.
00:07:41
Richard
And yeah, he's he's a settled keeper, hasn't he, in the sense of he's been playing for the last two years pretty consistently. So that's got to be a good thing in a side that haven't conceded many goals. You've got the West Brom kind of connection as well. Obviously Mark Ashton is judge jury and executioner at Ipswich town these days with his dual rollers, chairman and CEO. So I think he's pulling the strings very much behind the scenes and Mark Ashton was Very connected to West Brom. I think he was the goalkeeping coach actually one time back in the day. so yeah, there's obviously a good connection there and stuff. And that probably helped to get the deal through nice and quickly. And yeah, the club, the club kind of had to act, I think, given that Walton, as you say, has been confirmed at being out for a few weeks. I mean, do you expect Palmer to come straight into the first team? I would imagine he'll play this weekend against Coventry, don't you?
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I'd expect it, because so we obviously we we spoke about Slicker yesterday, didn't we, saying that maybe this commentary game presents an opportunity for him, but partner pay, unfortunately for us, Palmer isn't cup tied in the FA Cup, so he could go straight in this weekend, and you'd have to imagine he would, to sort of get him, like I say, for all the same reasons we said about giving Slicker a game in there and seeing what he's like, he's all the same thing with Palmer, to get him in and give him a get him.
00:09:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
probably play, I'd like to see for a fairly strong team against Coventry as well, just to sort of, especially at the back, as they try and almost play your starting back four. And then so you get, give them a chance to play together before the trip to Villa Park. and And so we've got effectively two weeks of training and before the next Premier League game. So it's a good opportunity for him to get well himself phased in properly, go and start working together with that defence. And so luckily that you always say,
00:09:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
we We worried something like the FA Cup, if he's already played, ah does does he is he forced to miss a week? But he hasn't played for West Brom so far, so we do have that option. but So I definitely would expect him to come straight in, because ultimately he's been signed to be the number one, whether that's for the rest of the season or just for or for a few weeks until Walton comes back. He's not been signed to sit on the bench and play a second fiddle to Mureich or Slipper. They've gone out and bought him because they want him to come in and take the number one spot.
00:09:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you just have to expect him to go straight in there. I think it's a smart sign in as well. Cause like I say, he's 27, 28, something like that, which for a keeper, he's very young. He's still got 10, got 10 years in him.
00:10:09
Richard
Yeah.
00:10:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
We know you said he's, his record's very good. I mean, 11 clean sheets in the championship this season. That's only beaten by the of the top three in the league. So Cooper, Millie and Trafford, whose teams are all doing very well.
00:10:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
ja You know, based on Scott Parker's football, Trafford storming it. that he's doing very well too. And you said the same was last year as well. He's a good goalkeeper. So West Brom have a good back line as well that they're a team that they don't concede too many goals West Brom. So their problem is almost that they don't score enough at the other end, but certainly well experienced. And then I'm hoping that it sort of, I'm hoping it all comes together really. And he just hits the ground, run and so given that Coventry game, put him in for Villa and we just, we can play games again without,
00:10:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
the nervousness of a goalkeeper mistake really at any time, hopefully. that and So anything you want to add on Parma before we have a quick break?
00:11:06
Richard
Yeah. Well, I just, i ah yeah, it's interesting. I suppose when I first saw it, I was like, is he coming in as the number one? And, you know, when, when it was rumored that it was 5 million, I think, I think Phil Hammond, TWTD confirmed it was 2 million, and which I would suggest is probably the correct figure. I, yeah, I was thinking, you know, is that, is that the number one signing or is that kind of like Walton's replacement? It's difficult to know who the number one is, isn't it? We suppose it's Christian Walton the moment, but Let's be honest, that that goalkeeping position has been a mess this season it's not been overly clear. So, yeah, maybe he does come in as the number one and and we kind of like start afresh for the second half of the season. I suppose the timing with the FA Cup game is perfect, really, because you kind of get that opportunity kind of like bed him in there. But I think given what we saw from Mira to the weekend again, we're not going to go in on him. But I think the club had to act.
00:12:00
Richard
and they had to bring in another option, even if it's not going to be like a definitive, this is our number one choice. But they had to bring in another option to kind of like just give the whole goalkeeping unit a lift, I think. So yeah, I hope it goes well. And I hope that is a ah ah solid bit of business that we can kind of rely on for the rest of the year.
00:12:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, hopefully. So he's had a good these are the solid sort of two and a half years as the number one at West Brom. So he's had a good record.
00:12:26
Richard
Yeah.
00:12:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I think just looking up the stats while he was talking been there. So he came in sort of part wide through 22, 23 season, got 10 clean sheets in 23 games. You got 18 last season, you got 11 already this year.
00:12:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
So he could have eaten it.
00:12:41
Richard
Yeah, it's good stuff. It is good.
00:12:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's on he's on a good route he's on a good run there. So hopefully, like I say, he comes in and hits the ground running. but So that's that's the two signs who did come through the door. We're going to have a quick break to hear from one of our sponsors now when we come back. We'll be talking about ah ah late a late that was going around that never came off in the end.
00:13:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
We are back for the second part of your Wednesday edition of the Daily Ipswich. So we spoke about Boniface and Palmer coming in, and now another name through the story broke very late in the evening on deadline day that there was just a bit of, Ipswich was said to be monitoring the situation rather than actually actively making an approach due to how late it was in the window. But it is for Flynn Downs, which obviously is interesting for a few reasons. but Obviously see where we was,
00:14:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
his links to Ipswich before for obviously had a number of years was probably our best player before he got sold to Swansea and then but then it's also it's interesting for that also because it obviously obviously it would be signing from a direct relegation rival in Southampton but so the the room is that he's been out of favour since the new manager come in and and now the rumours are that that is because we're falling out behind the scenes but Southampton they are basically not selling because The only people interested are teams in and around them in the table, so they don't want to sell who they know is obviously a decent player to someone directly around them. But we've spoke a lot about the need for a midfielder. Is there always, what did you think about her? Would you have been excited by a down to return and also the fact that is this broke about 10 o'clock last night when the deadlines at 11, how does that sort of, where's your head at with
00:15:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
the midfielder being left that incredibly late in this window.
00:15:06
Richard
Yeah, I mean, I think the the fact that we haven't signed a midfielder, I'm quite surprised by and a bit disappointed by, but I have to say the Flynn Downs thing. i I mean, I don't really know about him, to be honest, because he was playing, he was playing for the club at a time when we were terrible, obviously, when we, you know, the relegation season and the first couple of years in the championship, first couple of years in league one.
00:15:33
Richard
But he was never like a constant starter or I know he was a young player at the time, but he was never like a constant starter. He obviously got shipped out when kind of Paul Cook came in and did a bit of a demolition job on the whole squad.
00:15:48
Richard
But there's always been a whiff with Flynn Downs that he's not the easiest to work with for some reason. There always seems to be a bit of kind of aggro with him. I think there was some aggro with him with Paul Lambert and then there was some aggro with the Paul Cook thing, like getting rid of him. He never sticks around at a club for very long. Like you think he was at West Ham for a year. He was at, you know, Swansea for a year. He obviously got signed by Southampton after being on loan and stuff.
00:16:12
Richard
So I don't know whether there's something going on with that. He just doesn't seem like this particularly settled player. And I know, you know, he got the move to West Hamel, but based on good performances for Swansea, but then it didn't particularly work out there. And I know again, manager changing and all the rest of it obviously has a big impact on all that kind of stuff. But yeah, i I just hope for his sake, he kind of gets a bit of, gets a club where he can be settled for a period of time. I understand why Southampton didn't want to sell him to us because we are a rival, but at the same time,
00:16:42
Richard
I, we seem to have these rumours about him most windows. And to be honest, I think the club should move on to other targets to be, to be brutally honest about it. He is a good player, but there's something that doesn't seem quite right about the whole thing to me.
00:16:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I mean, no, he says in, we have to have the links a few times, haven't we? Cause he was very, he was very good for Southampton last season.
00:17:03
Richard
Yeah.
00:17:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he was a very, he's one of the key players in Russell Martin side that won the playoffs.
00:17:08
Richard
Mm hmm.
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we were apparently one of the clubs sniffing around in the summer, but he opted to go back to Southampton because he'd had a good time there the year before. And he had a very good relationship with Russell Martin, which was Also, one of the reasons, because it still happened to pay 15 million quid for him in the summer.
00:17:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you think, as I say, when you pay ah ah pay a fee like that, you'd expect him to be in the team every single game.
00:17:29
Richard
yep yeah
00:17:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Like he's played at center half a few times this season when Martin was in charge. And he say he's struggled to gain time on the new manager and say that there was sort of hints in his interview post-game on Saturday that the reason it was down to the mission was some sort of
Is Flynn Downs on Ipswich's Radar?
00:17:51
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falling out.
00:17:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
the Obviously, you never get official word on these sort of things, but you paid fifteen part of the reason that say the move happened for him in the summer was because his relationship with Russell Martin and obviously felt he played well in the Martin martin system and obviously, I assume they would have worked together at Swansea as well in the time Downs was there as as well as probably as something going there and it suits him, but I don't know how similar You could say McKenna style of play is the Martins, if that's what Downs feels brings the best out of him as well. It seems, I don't know if that potentially would have worked out and say, if anything, you probably would talk about that 15 million South Hampton page. You'd imagine if they were going to shift him on in six months, they'd want something around the same price. And then I don't think I'd go and pay that. That would say, that would seem like a panic buy to me to suddenly go and chuck 15 million at South Hampton.
00:18:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
with two hours to go in the window and say, can we have downs?
00:18:49
Richard
Hmm. Hmm.
00:18:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know. I don't think it was, if it happened, if this sort of potential had broken a week ago, then I might have considered it a bit more and maybe it maybe have a different opinion on it.
00:19:03
Richard
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
But the fact that it stunk of a panic to me that it's almost like they did go, and they've suddenly gone at the end of the evening like, oh yeah, we never did sign a midfielder, did we? We never got around to that, like who's available?
00:19:15
Richard
yeah yeah
00:19:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then just had a quick look around how East fell out with the manager. Is there any interest there?
00:19:21
Richard
Yeah.
00:19:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I don't know how, it just seems to be monitoring the situation, I think was how it was worded really, and what's going on with there. But you can't really, I don't know what you're trying to monitor on deadline day.
00:19:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
You need to be acting quickly to get it done. So maybe the club had the doubts as well in that situation.
00:19:38
Richard
Yeah, but I think also with the with the deadline day rumours and stuff where it's like, you know, all the press is trying to do is get eyes on the on the stories, right? That most of the time there's probably very little kind of going on whatsoever. They're just kind of like chucking a few things out there based on very little. I think also the thing is with Lin Downs is that whenever the rumours have come come around about him, you've never heard kind of from his, I mean, you you very rarely do, but you never get the inclination that he wants to come back to Ipswich particularly. Like obviously he's got, you know, he grew up at the club and, you know,
00:20:12
Richard
and I'm sure has a strong affinity for it. But I think there was a bit of bad blood with the way that it all kind of like but the way he was sold, the way you know he was told he wasn't part of the plans and all the rest of it. So whether from his point of view, he's like, I don't don't necessarily really want to go back there, to be perfectly honest. I know it's a very different football club now than than when he left and obviously the McKenna Factor and all the rest of it. But I think yeah we always have to factor these things in. There's three parties, the player the two and the two clubs. so whether there was interest from him or not, I don't know. Because as you say, he was he was doing fantastically last year under Russell Martin and was playing probably the best football of his career, really. and So, yeah, he's a very good player. But i I think that link just seems to come around in a fairly. Oh, who can we link a midfielder with Ipswich? Well, he used to play for them kind of thing. Maybe maybe in the summer, who knows? But I think it would be nice to see the club move on from him, to be honest, and kind of for all parties, really.
00:21:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, probably that makes sense. He's a 99 appearances for Ipswich though. So maybe you want to come back and hit the century. maybe thatll Maybe that will annoy him that he was always one away, but I don't know.
00:21:18
Richard
Maybe. Maybe.
00:21:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I'm more than I think to me, I've always take downs out of it when I think about it really. And just the fact that the first, how true it is about and interest being concrete or whatever that it took till the dying hours of deadline day.
00:21:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
through a midfielder chat apart from Matich, which we all knew was never gonna happen when that broke. We've had one sort of story that broke and we could have a good laugh out and can't imagine if that happened and no one at work. And then the next thing's happened at like nine, 10 o'clock on deadline day that for me, what it seemed like arguably top priority, probably more likely a second behind a striker going into the window. And there's just been no serious interest stories come out of the whole window is quite concerning to me, but we'll go more in depth into that.
January Transfer Window Reflections
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on our January transfer window review episode tomorrow. But when we when we come back after another short break, we're gonna run through the window roughly just a reminder of who's coming and who's gone out and see and see how we sum the window up.
00:22:51
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We are back for the final part of today's show. So, Rich, we have said two more signings through the door. Nobody else left on deadline day. So, a fairly high turnover, even though in between ins and outs.
00:23:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
A couple loans in there, obviously, down to the players dropping down to the championship.
00:23:05
Richard
Hm?
00:23:09
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But I'm going to go through this a lot more in-depth tomorrow and say, give it give the window a grade. So, look forward to that one. But, how are your initial thoughts on the January window?
00:23:19
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is it sort is it Is it as successful, or would it turn out as successful as other years, do you think? Or have ah have things been missed?
00:23:28
Richard
Time will tell. I mean, yeah, as you say, we'll do, we'll do a proper kind of like review of it tomorrow. I think there are certain areas of the squad that we are surprised there hasn't been changes in. I don't think you can really review it until you get to the end of the season though. You know, we're still kind of looking at the, the summer window and you're thinking how many of those players have been a plus point. and you know, the the thing is with Ipswich is most of the team, isn't it? Because we've had so much change.
00:23:55
Richard
and So it's going to be interesting to kind of like review it, but I think we have to kind of like give give the club you know time and and the team time to bed in now and see see if McKenna can find that first 11 that he's more comfortable with. Maybe the keeper comes in and facilitates us at the back a little bit. But yeah, it will be interesting to review the whole thing know as the weeks go on and and then certainly when we get to the end of
Transfer Strategy Insights
00:24:17
Richard
the season. and But I think also just looking around the league, it was fairly quiet. i know I know some of the bigger teams made the usual kind of last minute things, but Wolves brought in a couple of players. If we think about the teams at the bottom, Wolves brought in a couple of players, a couple of internationals like defender and a midfielder to obviously strengthen them. Leicester, I don't think, did on on deadline day, and Southampton didn't either. So I think there's that you you can look at that two ways. There could be PSR things going on. There could be like, well, we're in the position we're in, so we're not going to take a swing at it.
00:24:52
Richard
Yeah, it's, it's fairly interesting. I think again, the window is whipped up by the fans far more than the clubs. And so I think unless you have a real, like we have to do this thing, sometimes clubs just look at it like, well, it's just not the right option. We're not going to pay five, six, seven, eight million pounds over the, over the asking price for a player out of, you know, panic or, or sort of desperation or whatever. And I think that's probably what the club have done here. And that's why we haven't.
00:25:21
Richard
maybe got the striker in that we expected and a midfielder.
00:25:28
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, well, January is always tough, isn't it? People are far less willing to sell halfway through a season than they are at the end of it. so And obviously that intensifies the later in the window you get, as it does in the summer as well, because the later you leave it, then obviously most people don't want to sell unless they get a replacement in first, which so, you know, and add that to the January fact that people not want to sell midway through a season that this last week or so,
00:25:55
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make it really hard to get any significant deals over the line. So we've done, with we obviously the move for Palmer was obviously quite a last minute thing, i'm I'm not sure. As they had Walton not got injured, I don't think we'd have been moving for a goalkeeper at all. So that's obviously been turned around on a week's notice that we're probably thinking about it and then Vera has dropped another shaky performance and they got were like, right, we've got to move on it. I think overall the window, is technical ah the ah the good quality of play has been brought in.
00:26:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think, let's say a lot of, say Palmer aside there is, there's Premier League experience being brought in. I mean, Fenno Philagines only had a couple of games, but we thought we'd brought in, say obviously in CSO to play a lot of Premier League, had 50 plus Premier League games already.
00:26:31
Richard
ye
00:26:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Godfrey, obviously with Norwich and Everton has played a lot of Premier League football. And then say Palmer and Philagine, both strong performers in the championship. So Philagines had half a season in the Premier League with Villa training,
00:26:54
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not too many minutes on the pitch, but obviously still trained with a Champions League squad for six months.
00:26:54
Richard
Yep.
00:26:59
Richard
Mm hmm.
00:27:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Got a few appearance, paid 90 minutes against Bayern Munich in the Champions League that a lot of experience has come through the door, which I think is the key thing. And almost say some of the inexperience going out the other way, say the likes of Clarke going on loan to throw out the space in the squad.
00:27:15
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Now, Hamady as well, that sort of, we feel like we're I got a lot of sufferer we a a lot more experienced squad than we had going into January, which I think should, on paper, be a big benefit.
00:27:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I think we could sort of try and compare it to the other teams around us, really, because the big one was really, I thought it was nailed on that Cunha was going to leave Wolves to help us out.
00:27:30
Richard
Yeah.
00:27:38
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But I suppose I saw the fact, as I just said, about January being difficult was that teams going in for him probably know they have to play twice as much as they would in the summer because Wolves won't won't let him go in January.
00:27:47
Richard
Yeah.
00:27:49
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but so Would you say the window is a success in your eyes?
00:27:50
Richard
Yeah.
00:27:53
Richard
I think it's interesting what you say about the Palmer thing being like a, you know, a fairly reactionary signing by the looks of things based on what's happened over the past few days. And actually, to be honest, that's the good thing about January, isn't it? It's happened at a time where the club have been able to react to it because if this had happened in two weeks time, Walton gets injured, Miurich comes back in and performs the way he did and the noise around him is what it is and the confidence levels and stuff.
00:28:18
Richard
The club are stuck. The club are stuck with either pursuing with him or or sticking somebody even less experienced in Kieran Slicker into the team. So at least they've had the opportunity to respond. And that is the good thing about January. And I kind of think that's the, that's the way to use January almost is to be like, okay, well, where are the, where are the gaping kind of like problems that we've got? And it's not necessarily the ideal solution because I think you're right. Clubs, hardball people and you know, prices are inflated and all the rest of it.
00:28:47
Richard
And normally the summer is where you can actually kind of plan out more, but you can respond to what's in front of you a little bit. And I think the club have done that well here. So ah ah it it remains to be seen whether you can grade it really well, but I'm pleased that they responded in the way they did on the last day because I think they had to. So hopefully that does give us the the foundation, what Ipswich need is a foundation of like a team.
00:29:13
Richard
that you can put out there and then use that as a way to kind of like move forward from. and And unfortunately, we've just not really had that, particularly over the last few games where it's just felt very bitty and the the sides have been changing a lot. if you're you know If you're swapping your goalkeeper in and out, even if it's injury or not, or form and defenders and all the rest of it, we've talked about this. That's no way to have any kind of foundation to to build from. So fingers crossed Palma comes in and and solidifies us a little bit.
00:29:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's what you'd like to see. I mean, so I assume the signings will sort of phase themselves in because like I said, they seem, the four first team signings all seem like they are certainly good enough to be starters.
00:29:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
So you spent a mentioned the experience a minute ago, but we haven't seen, thank God for his, he played in the FA Cup, played against City and then sort of as dropped back into a bench role.
00:30:00
Richard
yeah
00:30:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Philogene hasn't started yet and CSO's got himself into them from the start of the year. At the moment, they seem to still be sort of setting themselves out. McKinnon almost trying to suss them out a bit more in training and how he can use them maybe, but you surely expect that they will find their way into the team at some point over the next few weeks.
00:30:22
Richard
Yeah. Hmm.
00:30:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
And so on that, so so to wrap up today's show, would would you say now with the January windows pass, deadline days out the way? Obviously, we haven't seen it in a game yet, but on paper, would you say the squad is in a better position than it was at the start of the month?
00:30:48
Richard
Yeah, I think so, because I think, I think in CSO it's a really strong addition. Philagene's really difficult to judge at the moment, but in CSO I think it's a really strong addition. And I think you could even play, I think there could be a tweak of formation that might help us be more threatening with with playing him almost in a two just behind the lap.
00:31:11
Richard
I think would be kind of interesting to see. I think he needs to work out the winger situation because we've talked about the Hutchinson kind of like dip in form. ah ah And yeah, that doesn't seem to be much kind of consistency about who's playing on the left hand side either. But yeah, I think I think overall it is a better squad. It's now just a case of like helping the players try and find some confidence because I think those two batterings may have taken a little bit out of them.
00:31:37
Richard
then we obviously saw a really damaging result against Southampton. So it's how we respond. It's all about how you respond and fingers crossed that with just a bit of breath, no more transfer window rumors and all the rest of it, NFA cup game as a distraction. The team can really attack the last 14 games. And if we pick up an improbable five wins or six wins, if we're being greedy, that might be enough to keep us in the league.
00:32:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
exactly i' say still It's not as tight as it was before this weekend's results, but it's still tight down there. You saw it with walls when the manager came in.
00:32:11
Richard
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:13
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If you win two games in a row as a team down the bottom, you make up a stupid amount of ground this season. That little window of six points in a couple of games can jump you up to all three positions and suddenly take you from them down and out to the favourite to stay up.
00:32:21
Richard
Yeah.
00:32:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all it needs.
00:32:29
Richard
Yeah.
00:32:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
is a little bit of consistency, which we haven't really been able to find. We've never backed up good results this season, but say if next time we get a good result, we can follow up with one the next game, then suddenly the say the table starts to look a
Optimism for Ipswich's Future Post-Transfers
00:32:43
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bit different again. As I say, so it's all week by week this year, but ultimately, I said there, I agree with you about the squad. And that's all you can ask for already at the end of a transfer window. And it will go more in depth about why it could be a success or a failure tomorrow. But if you leave a transfer window,
00:33:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
feeling you've got a stronger squad than when you started it then ultimately you've done something right on that part so fingers crossed all the signings can click into gear and help us kick on into a strong second half of the season but we will go more in-depth on for January window on tomorrow's episode we'll go through who's come in who's come out we'll rate the we'll give it a rating of a window and see
00:33:06
Richard
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:33:24
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so talk a bit more about some of the areas we think we've missed. Should be a good episode so join us for that tomorrow and then we'll have a commentary preview for you on Friday as we look to hopefully progress to the fifth round of the FA Cup. That's it for today's episode so from me and Richard thank you for listening and we will catch you tomorrow.