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I think a director of football is necessary for any club that will hire Paul Dickov as their manager..

Really? I could understand you questioning his judgement if he called a 37 year old player a "talented youngster", but in terms of footballing ability, I'll leave that to him!

Credit to BP1960, mentioned this lad on here weeks ago. Very good reviews. Quick, skilful and can whip in a ball. And at 24, could be an excellent signing at this level. Impressed with this cross for the first, too:

Signing to be announced at 8am tomorrow. Lot of signs pointing to Dayton. From official: http://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/article/20130519-newsigning-827639.aspx

I think Dayton would be an excellent signing after his reviews this season. I think it would be bye bye Croft if so but I think Johnson has clearly hinted that Croft would make way if someone better happened to be available (albeit with a tongue in cheek comment about Ronaldo)

What is it with the word journeyman on this forum? He is as far from a journeyman as you'll find anywhere at this level! After going through the Sunderland youth system, he was at Scunthorpe for 10 years during which they had a three year spell in the championship. More than qualified. Maybe we could come to some other kind of arrangement, are there any players at Scunthorpe that we might be interested in?

I agree with Pukka. Despite being relatively ineffective in a number of games, and having a long way to go - we too wouldn't be in the position we're in without him. He has more than repaid us for the gamble we took on him.

Seems fairly clear.. Was with Jack Whitehall -> went to the FA Cup Final as a result of being player of the round -> now on holiday in LA -> where will he be going at the end of June? To Oldham or otherwise?

The players here though will know the difference, they'll have seen it for themselves since Johnson took over. If they take themselves seriously as footballers, would they move to player under him again? Maybe they would if they fancy the easy ride again.

I'd rather we won a game 3-0 with worse players..

Snap your hand off. We'd be lucky to get 250k with so many players available on frees.

Accy Stanley away on 23rd July (Tuesday Night) http://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/news/article/20130502-friendly-804215.aspx

So, LJ made it clear when he started here that he wants pace up front. Now pace and goalscoring are two traits that are difficult to obtain individually, never mind together. Can you think of players we could realistically obtain? Might we look to the lower leagues for a Wayne Andrews type? I don't expect us to go back in for Aaron McClean after he turned us down once already. N.B Scott Vernon does not have pace. We cannot afford Matt Derbyshire. Febian Brandy will never end up here. Kirk Millar is good, but not the answer to ALL of our problems. Warren Feeney does not satisfy any of the criteria.

Took only five minutes of solid research (stalking) to find that he is good mates with LJ. https://twitter.com/jamesdayton10/status/278512274107412481/photo/1

Anything in this or just a hunch? Had a spell at Yeovil too. Shiels seems to think he should be playing for England... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/scottish-premier/9967143/James-Dayton-should-play-for-England-says-Kilmarnock-manager-Kenny-Shiels-and-hes-not-joking.html

I like Tarky, but I wouldn't be too upset if he left in return for compensation.

I think the released list in general shows LJ has some balls. Could you imagine Dickov cutting Simpson and Bouzanis loose? I don't think he would. Would offer them both nothing terms and drag out the whole process. I expect quick decisions. As another note, I wouldn't take for granted all the young players signing up just yet. They wont have been offered great terms. They could be tempted by a slightly better offer and the promise of football at a lower level a la Smalley.

Add José Baxter to that list!

Christ, how tones change. We had the two best keepers in ten years at the start of the season.. did they leave?

Kicking is a very handy skill for a footballer, I agree.

I like it on this image a lot more than on the original post. I also enjoy how the club used pretty much the only three players we have left under contract to model it...

I agree although I'd rather he sign crap players and get them playing well than waste a chunk of the budget on 'coups' such as Iwelumo! I'd like to see a lot more from Montano. Needs to work on his final ball. From what I have seen (admittedly, not very much) he has seemed short on confidence but despite that he was excellent against Preston at home before tiring. Perhaps a good pre-season and a bit of faith is what he needs.

I think Cisak (right now) is just about the better goalkeeper. But Bouzanis is a very good keeper in his own right and epitomises the passion and desire that has so often been lacking in other areas of the pitch. So it's Bouzy for me

To be fair, talking of timing this doesn't appear to be an "announcement" by the club as such. With no direct quotes from SC in there it sounds as though this could have been spoken about at any point over the past few weeks and isn't in fact, new news. I'm almost certain I've read already that the budget would be cut again anyway, possibly just shortly after LJ arrived.

Hey, maybe we'll wake up in 1973. But then again I suppose such drastic modernisation would never be approved in the boardroom.