Francois Modesto

[ThePromisedLand]

Does anyone know who was responsible for the various permanent & loan signings this calendar year?
I haven’t a clue.

[Alf Garnett]

Does anyone know who was responsible for the various permanent & loan signings this calendar year?
I haven’t a clue.

It's probably not so black and white but I would guess that French connected players are down to Modesto and the Portuguese and Spanish connected players are Mendes related.

I think that is what Sniffer was hinting at.

[Jean_claude_killy]

Just been looking back at what was being reported last June; Dourekos and Vrentzos were in Portugal scouting players; MON and our Goal Keeping Coach were in Estonia looking at Muric; the NEP reported that Carvalho was going to Olympiakos, which was a whole five Months before the rumour appeared on Hans Christian Nixon's radar.


Other than a report when he arrived at the Club last December I cant find any mention of Modesto until Lamouchi arrived; Anigo was rumoured to be working for us but that did not get confirmed until two Months ago.

Hopefully the fact that neither Modesto or Anigo have been in the press over the last Month means they have some rabbits to pull out of their respective hats over the next couple of weeks.

[Strawberry Avenger]

We have continued to make poor loan signings. Muric and Mir have contributed negatively, Bostock almost none, and I assume at least 2 of those will be on their way back in January. Semedo is hit and miss. Mostly miss so far.

I think the summer permanent transfers were mostly good first team additions, whether first choice 11 or able to come in through rotation/injury/loss of form which is valuable given the Champ fixture schedule; Samba, Sow, Ribeiro, Silva, Chema.

So far, for the permanent signings, so good. Decent additions, with not a lot of money spent.

Jenkinson was a disappointing signing for me though I assume a bit of a panic buy given the injury to Darikwa and the end of the transfer window looming.

The real weakness we have left is in the attacking third. The lack of a second striker - the lack of a different option (height, physicality) - lack of a quality winger, general lack of pace up there. Ameobi was a decent free signing, but shouldn’t be relied on for the above qualities as a first choice starter. Adomah’s best days seem to have gone. Mir is simply not good enough. This is the real problem with the summer business. It was an obvious need, and it didn’t get adequately addressed.

It seems we were trying for another forward in the summer that didn’t come off and left us short. I think the problem is not so much the (permanent) signings we made, so much as the (permanent) signings we didn’t make. Targeted quality to fill those gaps is what we need in January.

I’m not sure who is responsible for each of the signings made, but it seems that our newish transfer team have a decent hit vs miss record, whereas the Mendes signings includes Goncalves, Gil Dias, £13.2m for Carvalho, Bonatini, Mir, Semedo. The likes of Mendes and Raiola, I think, can fk off. I’d be more comfortable with our own transfer team picking the right players.

Decent post. 

SA.

[Strawberry Avenger]

Don’t know who sits in the box next to dugout but at the start of the match they pointed x2 Wigan players out- think one was Massey and one was Robinson - wouldn’t mind robinson

A fine line between success and failure in the Championship.  Wigan have been a stern test to Forest twice and still sit bottom of the league.

SA.

[Strawberry Avenger]

I agree Mark, I think they have done a good job too.

Looking back at the so called S**t signings none of them can be contributed to Modesto in my opinion.

Pantilimon, Clough, Cummings, Mckay, Murphy etc nothing to do with Modesto, he wasn't even at the club.

Carvalho, Dias, Goncalves, Mir, Bonatini etc are all Mendes related, perhaps not all Menses clients but he is linked to their agents. so also nothing to do with Modesto.

The only one of Modesto's signings I would question is Bostock but that is no great loss.

Bostock sounded promising 'on paper.'

But the game isn't played on paper.  Same with the rest of them.

A lot of those names haven't payed off at all.  11 players.  That's a poor hit rate.  Well 10.

Well, minus one, Murphy's goals kept Forest up in Warburton season.  Without them, Forest would have been down and out.

We'll not mention 'snow gate.'

Hopefully scattergun recruitment is a thing of the past, it was a means to an end, to buy Forest time to get a 'professional' team in place.  'Crisis' Management, if you well.

The general direction is up and forwards.  Even the recent 7 game debacle has to be put in the context of a wider picture.

January will tell us more about the new team's recruitment powers.

SA.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Modesto going to Roma.

Another one who failed to impress at Forest but is now going on to bigger and better things.