Mehdi Kerrouche - From Red to Yellow

With no actual football to keep us occupied, the big news recently has been the loan signing of Mehdi Kerrouche from rivals Swindon Town. With the current strikeforce letting us down so far this season, manager Chris Wilder has moved to address the problem by signing several attack-minded players. With this in mind, Youcef El Barhdadi runs the rule over our new signing and assesses what new-boy Kerrouche can bring to our attacking options.

The January Sales

A new year approaches and that means one thing: out with the old and in with the new. January, and the opening of the transfer window, sparks a frenzy of movement in the football world as managers, chairmen, agents and players get to work on securing the moves that may come to shape the rest of the season. So what are our hopes and fears for this transfer window?

The All-Important Final Piece

Oxford fans awoke to good news yesterday, with reports that West Ham wonderkid Rob Hall has returned to Oxford on loan for a further month. In fact, it’s difficult to overstate how important he has been to us already this season. After 3 defeats in a row, news of Robbie’s return has immediately lifted spirits ahead of a difficult trip to Crawley, but most promising is that his return is “with a view to a longer stay”. If Hall’s services can be secured for the rest of the season, he could just be the final piece required to make a sustained tilt at automatic promotion this year.