Colchester United sign Freddie Sears

2:26pm Wednesday 4th July 2012 in Colchester Utd

Freddie Sears has joined Colchester United.

The striker has joined the the club on a three-year-deal on a free transfer after his release from West Ham.

The 22-year-old enjoyed a good loan spell at the U's last season.

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crazy comments says...
2:32pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Well done Mr Ward . He is a nice age only 22 so lets hope he turns into the next Jordan Rhodes. I'm sure this will make us all feel a lot happier and unite the supporters. Best news we have had for ages.

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Matthegame says...
2:34pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Agreed Crazy, great addition. Hopefully can discover some of that promise that gave him U21 international football with the U's.

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Feisty CBC says...
2:37pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Woo-hoo! We're going up as champions ;p Up the U's!!!

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TheCaptain says...
2:41pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Good signing. Still need another striker to go with him.

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super waluigi says...
2:45pm Wed 4 Jul 12

What a massive signing for the u's.

I bet crazy comments is pulling his silly little hair out even trying to poke some fun pit of this

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crazy comments says...
2:45pm Wed 4 Jul 12

TheCaptain wrote:
Good signing. Still need another striker to go with him.
Yes I would agree on that but dont you think we need at least two more.

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RB, Lexden says...
2:50pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Congratulations to Robbie Cowling and John Ward for moving so quickly and efficiently to make this happen.Very pleased for them,the club and the fans.

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Noah4x4 says...
2:51pm Wed 4 Jul 12

What a good signing..

Freddie's Ears...and we got the rest of him for free too.

Hopefully will play at the apex of our attack and not like last season (e.g. wide with Gillie and Hendo leading line). Let's give the lad a chance - and maybe play young Lapado too (whom I think could bruise a few centre halves).

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Sirgeoff says...
2:59pm Wed 4 Jul 12

mmm.
About 3 goals in 58 games I believe. Good hard worker though, but needs to toughen up a lot.

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liamd1978 says...
3:03pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Great signing for the U"s all we need now is an experienced goal scorer with him,lisbie would of been a good player to have with him

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TheCaptain says...
3:59pm Wed 4 Jul 12

crazy comments wrote:
TheCaptain wrote:
Good signing. Still need another striker to go with him.
Yes I would agree on that but dont you think we need at least two more.
Two would be nice but I doubt it will happen. Perhaps time for Ladepo to be used.

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jpis247 says...
5:04pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Agree the above. Think Lapado will be a bench regular this season. Probably need a more experienced striker in the mix too to help the young guys out. NOT Teddy Sheringham again though....

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crazy comments says...
5:43pm Wed 4 Jul 12

TheCaptain wrote:
crazy comments wrote:
TheCaptain wrote: Good signing. Still need another striker to go with him.
Yes I would agree on that but dont you think we need at least two more.
Two would be nice but I doubt it will happen. Perhaps time for Ladepo to be used.
I'm all in favour of the youngsters being blooded and I must admit I was pushing for Freddie to be given his chance last season. Buy hey presto I was wrong on this ocassion and J.W. was right on his decision not to play him just yet in the first team. I watched Freddie in a couple of mid week games and though he has lots of pace and bags of energy, his football skills do need improving. He is still very raw but now that we have this new training ground in place i'm sure that will be worked on and we shall see Freddie lining up on the subs bench very soon.

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Steve86 says...
6:30pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Good move, as I feel this might be the right level for him to get his scoring boots on. We needed this news after losing 3 forwards, and hoping he forms a good partnership with Lapado. Although could do with another striker, perhaps on loan.

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Mr Honest says...
7:21pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Im normally negative so today I am happy to be positive for once! I doubted we could match his wage demands but we have. He will score goals given a regular slot at this level. Fair play to Ward he admitted he didnt play him enough last season. 3 more big signings please!

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Eddy D says...
8:32pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Good news this. We get money for Gilly and we get Freddie on a free. Well down Ward and Cowling. He may not have looked a potent threat last season but he always looked like he was playing whilst looking over his shoulder and with West Ham obviously looking to off load him and only being a sub for most of the time with us he probably wasn't overly settled. He's first choice now and he can really push on. This could be one of THE signings of the last decade for us. Great stuff.

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crazy comments says...
9:02pm Wed 4 Jul 12

super waluigi wrote:
What a massive signing for the u's. I bet crazy comments is pulling his silly little hair out even trying to poke some fun pit of this
So far at the last count it was 15 yes's, all happy bunnies at the good news. So that leaves nobody to pick on now apart from me Super. Just hope now that J.W. will sign another frontman to play alongside him. We dont want to see him fighting up front on his own.

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angryman!!! says...
9:59pm Wed 4 Jul 12

Agree with eddy, I think with him now being settled we will deff see the best of Freddie, hopefully he can start with a bang!

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TheCaptain says...
8:55am Thu 5 Jul 12

crazy comments wrote:
TheCaptain wrote:
crazy comments wrote:
TheCaptain wrote: Good signing. Still need another striker to go with him.
Yes I would agree on that but dont you think we need at least two more.
Two would be nice but I doubt it will happen. Perhaps time for Ladepo to be used.
I'm all in favour of the youngsters being blooded and I must admit I was pushing for Freddie to be given his chance last season. Buy hey presto I was wrong on this ocassion and J.W. was right on his decision not to play him just yet in the first team. I watched Freddie in a couple of mid week games and though he has lots of pace and bags of energy, his football skills do need improving. He is still very raw but now that we have this new training ground in place i'm sure that will be worked on and we shall see Freddie lining up on the subs bench very soon.
Haven't really seen much of Ladepo just read reports.

I think a lot of people would have said the same about Lua Lua at the start, pace but skills needed improving. But it worked shoving him in early.

Perhaps again.....

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O rly? says...
1:39pm Thu 5 Jul 12

Great signing, a young player full of ambition and enthusiasm - more of this and the club will be moving in the right direction

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