billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Just why loan so many out if nobody is coming in that's the head scratcher. Will still hope till 11pm
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flibbyflob
Player Valuation: £40m
Trouble is there is no point signing someone for the sake of it, done that for years and been stuck with the duds. We need proper quality and may need to wait for that till the summer.
That's my point
A functional scouting network would mean not signing expensive flops - It doesn't take a scout to sign Premier League cast-offs
Football fandom during transfer windows is truly an odd thing. We all get that shiny, new signings are exciting but panic signing someone for the sake of it is what has got us into this mess of a squad situation in the first place.
And to all the “KISS GOODBYE TO TOP 4 IF WE DON’T SIGN ANYONE” heads - Do you really think one signing makes us top 4 material? That performance on Saturday wouldn’t have been altered if we’d signed a new forward because the forwards barely got a sniff of the ball.
We’ve probably got the 8th or 9th best team in the league and we’ve overperformed in terms of results for most of the first half of the season. If we can have another summer window as productive as the last, we have a chance to take big strides forward. There’s never any value signings available in Jan. A forward on loan if we can get one worth the effort, otherwise swerve it.
And to all the “KISS GOODBYE TO TOP 4 IF WE DON’T SIGN ANYONE” heads - Do you really think one signing makes us top 4 material? That performance on Saturday wouldn’t have been altered if we’d signed a new forward because the forwards barely got a sniff of the ball.
We’ve probably got the 8th or 9th best team in the league and we’ve overperformed in terms of results for most of the first half of the season. If we can have another summer window as productive as the last, we have a chance to take big strides forward. There’s never any value signings available in Jan. A forward on loan if we can get one worth the effort, otherwise swerve it.
Bournemouth are really pushing to get some return on him before he walks on a free. They (Bournemouth) are just feeding names to the media to generate bids.
Jim Hopper
Player Valuation: £40m
Maybe we are just royally screwed financially and just simply have to balance the books for a few months.
I don’t know has anyone asked The Esk yet? We need a full on excel, power point analysis here of what’s going on, need full on graphical charts and pie charts etc.....
Bullens Rd
Player Valuation: £35m
At this point I would be absolutely made up if we could recall Walcott, and he's utterly terrible and has been a disasterous signing for us. Thanks Marcel, legend lad.
See Aston Villa for example, finding pieces that balance out the side, add depth and improve the first team.
Jamalio Danubio DiCanio
Player Valuation: £950k
This is the correct answer.
If you can't get your targets in January, you are better waiting until the summer. Bit of short term pain for long term gain is worth it when you are trying to build a squad over a number of windows rather than within 1 or 2.
Under Ancelotti, and given the state of the squad a few years back, it was always going to be a couple of summer windows to get the squad fully evolved.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
That's all anyone is saying though a forward on loan.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
Always is. Some real forum heroes only post in this thread.
Someone made the point earlier, that those we have loaned out have barely played, therefore it’s not like we have much to actually replace. Tosun got some minutes, embarrassingly, so I guess we might try to get a forward in on loan as cover, otherwise we go with what we’ve got.
We apparently have literally 13 players Carlo will use. We can't even use a full allotment of substitutes with that. Loans are a short term option that we won't need to be "stuck with" and there has been many players that have moved that would have been an improvement on what we apparently have.
bitter-no-better
Player Valuation: £25m
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