New Centre Back on loan?

In fairness Wippa my post is not about a signing in or a departure. Just speculation that we might be interested in a loan.
 
NAD is reporting our interest in Charlie Cresswell from Leeds.


Ballard possibility now looks a real doubt.
This is one thing that does my nut in with GR.

He’s done well with the players he’s brought in, but if this rumour is true that he’s after the Weeds lad as CB cover, why doesn’t he promote Alex Mitchell instead?

The money saved on paying Weeds half this players weekly salary, could go towards another forward loanee! I say that, because it doesn’t seem that GR fancies Olaofe, and at 22, the lad seems to be treading water and going nowhere (except probably out on another loan.)

Same for Hayden Muller. He is a right back, so that position will be more natural to him as cover for Danny (instead of using Leonard), if Danny is injured or suspended. Muller can also play at centre back and in midfield, but it looks as if he and Mitchell will go out on loan again!

Maybe it would be more prudent to save the rest of the transfer money till the January window. See where we are at that point, and move to get in more players if certain major players get injured or suspended, as that is likely to happen around Christmas and into January. It would be a shame to be top six (or better), around that time, and not have any money left to get in new players who can help keep us in the good position we hope to be in at that time!
 
Perhaps because he doesn't think Alex Mitchell is good enough for the championship at the moment. He didn't pull any trees up in league 2 last year, so perhaps another loan is in Mitchell's best interests. We need another centre half and this looks the best value way of getting someone who is potentially better than what we have got.
 
Perhaps because he doesn't think Alex Mitchell is good enough for the championship at the moment. He didn't pull any trees up in league 2 last year, so perhaps another loan is in Mitchell's best interests. We need another centre half and this looks the best value way of getting someone who is potentially better than what we have got.
So when is the lad ever gonna be ready? At some point you have to throw the kids in and see if they sink or swim! It happened with Danny and Billy (and to a lesser degree with Burey), and it’s paid dividends with the first two, as most supporters would put them down first on the team sheet!

Mitchell and Muller did play well for their respective teams last season, and I don’t think they’ll be a shortage of league 1 and 2 clubs vying for their signatures this season, as they will be a cut above whatever these lower sides currently have!
 
So when is the lad ever gonna be ready? At some point you have to throw the kids in and see if they sink or swim! It happened with Danny and Billy (and to a lesser degree with Burey), and it’s paid dividends with the first two, as most supporters would put them down first on the team sheet!

Mitchell and Muller did play well for their respective teams last season, and I don’t think they’ll be a shortage of league 1 and 2 clubs vying for their signatures this season, as they will be a cut above whatever these lower sides currently have!

Most successful championship sides have loan players in their squad, Forest had several last season for example. It’s been that way for a few years now and for a club with our limited resources it’s important to play that market well.

As for Mitchell and Muller the answer is obvious, just like last year with Ballard and now potentially with this Leeds lad the fact is that they are simply better players. Muller didn’t impress last year at St Johnstone and really needs to improve this year while Mitchell could probably do with a league one loan before we know if he’s going to cut in the top half of the championship
 
We need another thread for 'Speculative Transfer News'!😉
We might need a couple more, “Transfer News that is Probably a Complete Load of Cobblers”. “Transfer News - Ballard Only”. A tiered system where the news only gets promoted to Wippa’s thread when it’s 100% going to happen and has the bloke down the car park’s approval.
 
As for Mitchell and Muller the answer is obvious, just like last year with Ballard and now potentially with this Leeds lad the fact is that they are simply better players. Muller didn’t impress last year at St Johnstone and really needs to improve this year while Mitchell could probably do with a league one loan before we know if he’s going to cut in the top half of the championship
In that case, and as you said, both Mitchell and Muller need to go out on loan again, both probably to league 1 sides, and if it’s seen that they can’t step up to the Championship, then the only other alternative is to sell them!

Do you think GR is thinking the same about Olaofe? That he needs to make the step up and be loaned to a league 1 side, before GR makes a decision on him?

Having said that, I thought Mitchell, Muller and Olaofe had gone to Ireland, so GR could run the rule over them?