January Transfer Window 2023

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Pabbers said:
This is EXACTLY what i mean.

To me the world does not stop / start and revolve around the Premier league.

I go watching League 1, Non-League, amateur parks footy and u18 football at different levels.
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Yeah but that's not much of a comparison to make now is it. That's exactly like telling someone you've had a bad day and then them turning around and saying "they're starving in Africa and you're here complaining", like I don't believe there's a single person on here that thinks Dwight McNeil isn't better than some lads playing down the park, when people criticise players at any level the assumption is that they're criticising them relative to that level.

I think Tom Davies is perhaps one of the worst professional footballers I've ever seen but I also don't watch lower league football really. I also think Tom Davies would absolutely embarass me with a football and is better than I'll ever be. Both things can be true.
 
MikeH72 said:
How long are you prepared to wait? What about last season when we “waited” to get the right players in and ended up wit El Ghazi, Alli and van de Beek? Or last summer when we waited, took our time, made sure we brought in the right players, to bring in McNeil the week before the season started and Maupay 6 games into it?

What about January 2021 when we waited to get the right players in and brought in Josh King on loan on deadline day?

It blows my mind that people haven’t worked out that leaving it til the last minute dramatically reduces our chances of signing good players and dramatically increases the chances of desperate panic buys.
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How long am I prepared to wait ?... or do what ?.... hold my breath until I go blue ?

The window closes on Jan 31st and so I suppose I am prepared to wait until then.

However, I don't want signings just for the sake of it , I want signings that will improve us as a team and also hopefully gain in value. I would prefer younger players .

Players are contracted to their clubs and cannot leave until the club approves it. We want good players and in January clubs will not release their better players easily. That is how the system works and thinking that players can be signed at will is juvenile thinking imo.
You can of course just throw in a stupidly high bid and you will then probably sign the player for sure but following that path already has us in a mess.

The club has targets undoubtedly but I don't think we know who our main targets are.
I absolutely do believe we have made enquiries about lots of players as every club does just to establish if they are available and I assume we have lots of clubs asking about our players but that may never go further than the initial question about availability.
 

navidson said:
He cost us £17m - and that isn't 'a few quid' for a club in our position

Kevin Campbell was on loan, and Richard Gough cost pennies

Back in the days when we actually knew how to operate in the transfer market

This current lot have got absolutely no clue - and that fact becomes ever more apparent with each passing day
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Could cost us 17m (or whatever the the fee was). If it was all in one go then we may have well bought Cornet but couldn't as we were skint.
We've only paid a small fee upfront same with Maupay.
It's how clubs get rid of squad players no longer needed by letting us pay a reduced payment now but more later over the length of the contract and when targets are met.

This is the pool we are operating in at the moment. Unwanted squad players are our targets for the foreseeable.

It's what we would have to do now with Keane, Holgate, Davies, etc so if any of them do go don't expect a big pot to play around with this month.
 
Baggzio said:
Yeah but that's not much of a comparison to make now is it. That's exactly like telling someone you've had a bad day and then them turning around and saying "they're starving in Africa and you're here complaining", like I don't believe there's a single person on here that thinks Dwight McNeil isn't better than some lads playing down the park, when people criticise players at any level the assumption is that they're criticising them relative to that level.

I think Tom Davies is perhaps one of the worst professional footballers I've ever seen but I also don't watch lower league football really. I also think Tom Davies would absolutely embarass me with a football and is better than I'll ever be. Both things can be true.
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Well thats how I look at things, and life in general. Im gratefull for everything I have, and thats not much at all.

Tom Davies may not be good enough for us in the Prem, but that does not make him 'a poor footballer', maybe it makes him 'not good enough for this level' - And thats fine.

Its the extreme views, sweeping statemets and OTT stuff I just dont get at all. Not everyting is either end of the scale....lots sit in the middle.
 


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