His contract was actually until the summer of 2025.....Morecambe had an option to extend it for another year after that..... Not sure how that works. Anyway if we are paying money to anyone...if it helps keep Morecambe in business I'm pleased.
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His contract was actually until the summer of 2025.....Morecambe had an option to extend it for another year after that..... Not sure how that works. Anyway if we are paying money to anyone...if it helps keep Morecambe in business I'm pleased.
I knew there was an option. I didn't know if it was 2 years and a year option or 1 year and a year option.
Signed his new deal in March when Brannan was still our manager.
Rumours about Derek falling out with him for bringing his dog to training !
Nelson Khumbeni has gone back to Bolton.
Thanks for his efforts and good luck to the lad but, imho, he added nothing that Coyle, Martin, Woods (B), Henderson & Conneely can’t offer.
Whatever the various disappointments since, Colby Bishop has shown that you CAN make the transition from the National League North to the Football League - indeed in his case to League One and later the Championship with Portsmouth.
Welcome to Charlie Caton, hope he can get up to speed quickly and start showing what he’s got.
https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk...-charlie-on-his-two-and-a-half-year-contract/
https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk...-charlie-on-his-two-and-a-half-year-contract/
Nelson Khumbeni has gone back to Bolton.
And gone straight back.out again - to Gillingham
Interesting that Bolton said they wanted to loan him to a bigger club. I don't think he's a big loss to us.
Just about player development I think......the lad had ability but little league experience....wasn't popular on this forum because he made mistakes, drifted in and out of games and made poor choices. He'll improve with more coaching and game time. I quite liked him but he was just raw-talent that needed work. What I didn't like was he kept Ben Woods and Henderson out of the team.
Hope the lad can settle in quickly and help shore up our defence.
Pity about Costello leaving early. I thought he was one of the better centre forwards we’ve recently loaned but, clearly Burnley are also in need of goal scorers.
Stanley will have to rely on its own players so let’s hope they can get some service up front.
Stanley will have to rely on its own players so let’s hope they can get some service up front.
Aaron Pickles back out on loan to Southport...
https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/news/2025/january/24/departure-aaron-joins-southport-on-loan/
https://www.accringtonstanley.co.uk/news/2025/january/24/departure-aaron-joins-southport-on-loan/
Windows has been close to disastrous.
We have made one good signing. Benn Ward to replace Awe. He may not be a better player than Awe, but it still appears to be a good signing. If you only want to read positive, cheering posts, stop reading now!
We have lost our best forward, Costelloe, and replaced him with two players who have struggled to reach the subs bench so far.
We have los Khumbeni and replaced him with no one at all. I was/am not a Khumbeni fan but so bad that we should not replace him, he was not. After all, a more prominent role for los Seamus is hardly what I call progress.
Midfield is were we are at our most mediocre. We play Love, Coyle, Batty and towards the end of the game Conneelly, in midfield/wing back positions, most of them players with at least one wooden leg, incapable of a creative forward pass. Coyle is an energetic tackler but his heat map is so small that it looks as if someone has forgotten a kitchen glove on the grass.
To me, this looks very similar to the last season we were relegated. We can pick up points here or there with battling performances, but we cannot create anything at all against the poorer teams in the division, even at home. And as that last time, we play our only creative player, the admirable Shaun Whalley, in a role where he is somehow expected to play a through ball to himself to finish.
Finally we show our lack of interest in forward play by bringing on Conneelly, thus dropping so deep that our normal defensive minded 5-3-2 or 5-3-1-1 becomes a mix between 7-0-3 and 9-0-1.
I did not expect us to sign a World Class midfielder, but the need for a midfielder with some sort of creative mindset should have been obvious.
We have made one good signing. Benn Ward to replace Awe. He may not be a better player than Awe, but it still appears to be a good signing. If you only want to read positive, cheering posts, stop reading now!
We have lost our best forward, Costelloe, and replaced him with two players who have struggled to reach the subs bench so far.
We have los Khumbeni and replaced him with no one at all. I was/am not a Khumbeni fan but so bad that we should not replace him, he was not. After all, a more prominent role for los Seamus is hardly what I call progress.
Midfield is were we are at our most mediocre. We play Love, Coyle, Batty and towards the end of the game Conneelly, in midfield/wing back positions, most of them players with at least one wooden leg, incapable of a creative forward pass. Coyle is an energetic tackler but his heat map is so small that it looks as if someone has forgotten a kitchen glove on the grass.
To me, this looks very similar to the last season we were relegated. We can pick up points here or there with battling performances, but we cannot create anything at all against the poorer teams in the division, even at home. And as that last time, we play our only creative player, the admirable Shaun Whalley, in a role where he is somehow expected to play a through ball to himself to finish.
Finally we show our lack of interest in forward play by bringing on Conneelly, thus dropping so deep that our normal defensive minded 5-3-2 or 5-3-1-1 becomes a mix between 7-0-3 and 9-0-1.
I did not expect us to sign a World Class midfielder, but the need for a midfielder with some sort of creative mindset should have been obvious.
I agree with your main point, Greger, that Stanley lack creativity in attacking midfield, and have done for some time.
Last night’s display revealed what happens when both Liam Coyle and Ben Woods occupy the middle, and the impact on Shaun Whaley’s performance. Thank heavens for a good defensive performance.
Hunter made a few good cross field attacking passes but Stanley seemed happy to join with their opponents in “crowding” one side of the pitch at a time and made it even more difficult to play an open passing game. Maybe they figured Cheltenham would out pass them otherwise?
I hoped Dan Martin might have pushed on by now but he can’t get consistent game time and seems out of favour.
The good news is the “window” remains open until Monday but the bad news is that Morecambe have joined the other 23 League Two clubs able to outbid Stanley.
Last night’s display revealed what happens when both Liam Coyle and Ben Woods occupy the middle, and the impact on Shaun Whaley’s performance. Thank heavens for a good defensive performance.
Hunter made a few good cross field attacking passes but Stanley seemed happy to join with their opponents in “crowding” one side of the pitch at a time and made it even more difficult to play an open passing game. Maybe they figured Cheltenham would out pass them otherwise?
I hoped Dan Martin might have pushed on by now but he can’t get consistent game time and seems out of favour.
The good news is the “window” remains open until Monday but the bad news is that Morecambe have joined the other 23 League Two clubs able to outbid Stanley.