ALL Transfer talk - merged thread

[mcdowell42]

I think we actually need 4 players as a minimum.... 2 strikers, a winger and an attacking midfielder/playmaker. I think we may sign a striker and that will be it. Probably do his hamstring after 2 games and we're back to being fucked!!

I concur with you

[augie]

If anyone is interested in seeing a bit of Sesko Leipzig v sporting Lisbon is on now ,Sesko with the only goal of the game at HT ,Leipzig 1-0 sporting

How is he playing ?

I just turned it on there now and can see that sporting are rotating/resting some of their top players - novel idea

[mcdowell42]

Augie I only copped it myself just b4 HT tht it was on tv, 10 mins into the 2nd half now and sporting have just brought on Gyokeres (another striker we're linked with)

1-1 Gyokeres

[the playing mantis]

I think we actually need 4 players as a minimum.... 2 strikers, a winger and an attacking midfielder/playmaker. I think we may sign a striker and that will be it. Probably do his hamstring after 2 games and we're back to being fucked!!

Yep and that's simply yo balance the squad ignoring the sick notes and shite we have in at LB.

We need a fit competent LB in addition to MLS, but those other 4 positions are far more pressing. And of those 4, at the very least, 2 must be 1st choice starting xi players, one of the strikers and the winger.

[augie]

Gyokeres just scored and a great finish it was too - I think he will want to follow former manager to manure, but personally I wouldnt be against signing him

[SteveO 35]

When's deadline day? Trying to guess when we'll finally sign some two bob no mark on loan

[mcdowell42]

When's deadline day? Trying to guess when we'll finally sign some two bob no mark on loan

Mon 3rd Feb 11pm

[SteveO 35]

When's deadline day? Trying to guess when we'll finally sign some two bob no mark on loan

Mon 3rd Feb 11pm

Thanks mate, I've set my watch ready for the moment Sterling's loan is cancelled and the bloke who is 4th choice centre forward at Brighton joins

[TeeCee]

Sterlings loan can't be cancelled evidently so we're stuck with the turd

[SteveO 35]

Sterlings loan can't be cancelled evidently so we're stuck with the turd

Urgh. Young Ethan showed more quality in a couple of minutes than that useless waste of space. Clogging up a spot in the squad till May and costing us something like 150k per week. I was prepared to give him a chance, hoping that he'd at least get fit after a few games, but he's actually getting worse. Absolutely fucking hopeless tonight against that bunch of pubbers

[Gunner Rob]

Apparently we have a very promising 15 year old.

So there you go -“internal solutions”

And as for a new striker well we saw a few seconds of him this evening- Nathan Butler Oyedji

[SteveO 35]

The internal market is working well - Nwaneri back tonight. I'm sorry he did not cost 50 million

[Red Army 2]

Gyokeres just scored and a great finish it was too - I think he will want to follow former manager to manure, but personally I wouldnt be against signing him

He looks a very good player...would be delighted if they bought him......strong, pacey direct running forward.......but it wont happen

Mudryk ticks all the boxes....chav reject...expensive....shit....etc......

[Retro Gunner]

Agreed Perry. As hard as this is to say and as difficult as it is to hear, are we genuinely a “big club”? We don’t behave like one in my opinion and haven’t done so for a very long time.

If football supporters and pundits listed English and European big clubs, there’s no doubt that we’d be on the list, but apart from the 1930s, we survive very much on very short periods of past glory. Europe’s top table would include R Madrid, Barca, Juve, AC Milan, Bayern, Liverpool, Utd and now, sadly, Chelsea and City. Before anyone leaps to remind me of the current positions of Utd and Chelsea, I’m taking an adult overview of teams that have competed for the top prizes on a consistent basis. Utd are obviously in danger of losing their place at the table.

We have never seriously been in that elite group and our European record makes that clear. We also don’t behave in the appropriate way in the transfer market. As someone else asked either yesterday or today, when was the last time we bought a star player at the peak of his powers? I genuinely can’t remember. Dennis was the last established world class star we bought and we got him because he was experiencing a trough at Inter. Our transfer policy has been buying prospects, some of whom proved to be fabulous….Anelka, Paddy, Cesc, Van Persie, while others have flopped, or buying experienced journeymen, too many of whom have been bang average at best and have hung around draining resources on over paying contracts. In addition to this, Arteta has taken us down the route of massively overpaying for duds, or in the case of Rice, an above average grafter.

We’re as far away from that top table as we’ve been in the last 30 years and these owners and this manager won’t alter that.

Always agree with most of your posts Retro mate, and again spot on....its just the Rice comment dont agree with....TBF hes got that lump partey or old man jorginho alongside him...that surely would worry anyone....i believe Rice is top class...a very very good player.....but yes the rest depressingly 100%

Fair enough Red. While I wouldn't have paid 105 million for him, he was a good addition and performed better than I expected last season. I've been a bit disappointed this current campaign, but as you say, he's not help by the midfield partners he gets lumbered with and by Arteta's tactics. In my book, for 100+ million, you ought to be getting a creative game changer and I don't think Rice meets that description. He is, however, the type of player that we were missing and with a top centre mid beside him, the engine room would be in good shape.

Btw, why did you change from Red Army to Red Army 2. I initially thought Red Army2 was a new poster on here.

[OneBardGooner]

Agreed Perry. As hard as this is to say and as difficult as it is to hear, are we genuinely a “big club”? We don’t behave like one in my opinion and haven’t done so for a very long time.

If football supporters and pundits listed English and European big clubs, there’s no doubt that we’d be on the list, but apart from the 1930s, we survive very much on very short periods of past glory. Europe’s top table would include R Madrid, Barca, Juve, AC Milan, Bayern, Liverpool, Utd and now, sadly, Chelsea and City. Before anyone leaps to remind me of the current positions of Utd and Chelsea, I’m taking an adult overview of teams that have competed for the top prizes on a consistent basis. Utd are obviously in danger of losing their place at the table.

We have never seriously been in that elite group and our European record makes that clear. We also don’t behave in the appropriate way in the transfer market. As someone else asked either yesterday or today, when was the last time we bought a star player at the peak of his powers? I genuinely can’t remember. Dennis was the last established world class star we bought and we got him because he was experiencing a trough at Inter. Our transfer policy has been buying prospects, some of whom proved to be fabulous….Anelka, Paddy, Cesc, Van Persie, while others have flopped, or buying experienced journeymen, too many of whom have been bang average at best and have hung around draining resources on over paying contracts. In addition to this, Arteta has taken us down the route of massively overpaying for duds, or in the case of Rice, an above average grafter.

We’re as far away from that top table as we’ve been in the last 30 years and these owners and this manager won’t alter that.

Always agree with most of your posts Retro mate, and again spot on....its just the Rice comment dont agree with....TBF hes got that lump partey or old man jorginho alongside him...that surely would worry anyone....i believe Rice is top class...a very very good player.....but yes the rest depressingly 100%

Fair enough Red. While I wouldn't have paid 105 million for him, he was a good addition and performed better than I expected last season. I've been a bit disappointed this current campaign, but as you say, he's not help by the midfield partners he gets lumbered with and by Arteta's tactics. In my book, for 100+ million, you ought to be getting a creative game changer and I don't think Rice meets that description. He is, however, the type of player that we were missing and with a top centre mid beside him, the engine room would be in good shape.

Btw, why did you change from Red Army to Red Army 2. I initially thought Red Army2 was a new poster on here.

Have to go along with what Red (2) says on that Retro mate... In that when he joined us he hit the ground ground running (no pun intended) and showed quite a few glimpses in that First Season of the Quality Player I believe he can become (as in Top Quality), but as Red2 pointed out he does have to contend with Slow Brained Party and slow legged Jorginho , can you imagine if he had has an equally good midfield partner as himself ... I think he would be Creating and Scoring far more chances. From what I can tell he and Odegaard cover more ground between them than 70% of the rest of the team... I have noticed the number of times he Cuts Out attacks from the opposition and the times he acts as the link between Defence and attack; he has a quick (football) mind.. decides and plays the ball off to the right player; unlike Partey

As to the last bit... You might say it was a case of 'Internal Solutions'