{"id":614756,"date":"2022-07-10T14:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614756"},"modified":"2022-07-10T14:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T18:55:39","slug":"oxford-united-slow-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/10\/oxford-united-slow-transfer-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: Slow Transfer Window and Pre-Season Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a slow week of transfer news for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/03\/oxford-united-weekly-round-up-defender-departs-stadium-update-and-pre-season-success\/\" target=\"_self\">Oxford United<\/a> with no new arrivals or departures, but the U&#8217;s did manage successive pre-season friendly victories.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OPINION: We&#39;d all like to see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#oufc<\/a>&#39;s transfer window step up a gear &#8211; but it&#39;s not time to panic yet.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ikhvTKmOaG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ikhvTKmOaG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mekRRATVDn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/mekRRATVDn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Oxford Mail OUFC (@OxfordMailOUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OxfordMailOUFC\/status\/1545256365005778944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Oxford United Weekly Round-Up: No Transfer News and Pre-Season Wins<\/h2>\n<h3>Pre-Season Saturday Kicks Off With A Win<\/h3>\n<p>Oxford United began their Saturday double header with a 3-1 win at North Leigh, in front of a record crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus McGuane gave the U&#8217;s a first-half lead but the hosts levelled shortly after the restart. However, a penalty from former Millers&#8217; striker Matty Taylor restored Oxford&#8217;s advantage before Marcus Browne rounded off the scoring.<\/p>\n<h3>Second Game Also Ends In Victory for Oxford United<\/h3>\n<p>Following their win earlier win at North Leigh, the U&#8217;s then travelled to Southern League Premier Division Central champions Banbury United and recorded another victory.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Brannagan opened the scoring with his third goal in two games following his brace against Oxford City while youngster Tyler Goodrham added a second on the half-hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Sinclair, who turned out for the U&#8217;s on loan in 2019, also played the first half after it was revealed he has been training with the club this week.<\/p>\n<p>Banbury pulled a goal back in the second half but the U&#8217;s held on to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Karl Robinson Hoping for Busy Week Ahead<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Having seen no new arrivals or departures this week, U&#8217;s boss Karl Robinson says the club must step up a gear in the transfer window.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tombogert\/status\/1545123244289802243?t=uSXZQ7tIWHHz3TKUuelWtQ&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reports have suggested the club are close to signing Stuart Findlay<\/a> from Philadelphia Union but Robinson has only seen the arrival of Ciaron Brown so far.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis week we need to put our foot down and get one or two things over the line,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/sport\/20268416.karl-robinson-targets-busy-week-transfer-window-jerome-sinclair-latest\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robinson told the Oxford Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI would like more. We\u2019ve just missed out in certain areas, but behind the scenes, there are two deals sort of done that we\u2019ve known about for a while, one of them from a Premier League club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be careful what we say, but there are things that will make this team stronger that aren\u2019t here yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA week today, I want to see our starting XI, or close to it, and that\u2019s only seven days away. It\u2019s going to be a busy seven days.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Speaking about Sinclair, the U\u2019s boss added: \u201cIf he keeps improving, yeah, in that period of time he\u2019s been away he showed the energy he\u2019s got.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe\u2019s different to Matty (Taylor), he\u2019s different to Sam (Baldock), he\u2019s younger. He would be ours, he wouldn\u2019t be a loan, so there\u2019s a lot of positives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a slow week of transfer news for Oxford United with no new arrivals or departures, but the U&#8217;s did manage successive pre-season friendly victories. OPINION: We&#39;d all like to see #oufc&#39;s transfer window step up a gear &#8211; but it&#39;s not time to panic yet.https:\/\/t.co\/ikhvTKmOaG pic.twitter.com\/mekRRATVDn &mdash; Oxford Mail OUFC (@OxfordMailOUFC) July 8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":614758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8430,32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oxford-united","category-league-football","category-league12"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}