GOT Tipsters on transfers - bangers or bang average

[terryefc]

Every club has fans using sites like ours who recommend players during transfer windows as potential targets for us.
How good are we at spotting potential though?

Who have been the players mentioned where we could have seen them blossom - and even sold at huge profits - or those that we managed to avoid and turned out to be dogs?

Recent mentions of relatively unknown players - available at reasonable fees - include Gyorkes and Wharton. Maybe we would have had no chance of getting them from Cov and Blackburn - but we definitely missed the boat. Obviously our financial woes have restricted us - but it's really heartening to see us buy people like Dibling and Rohl - both with massive potential.

We've seen some awful shouts to buy players - who have turned out to be complete wastes of money. A few of which we ended up buying unfortunately.

Wonder if the academy fella who ignored Haaland when he visited us is still employed?

 

[Dddddd]

I distinctly remember recommending a young Diego Maradonna on this forum back in the late 70s after seeing him play whilst on holiday in Buenos Aires

You all laughed and said he was too short, and if he was that good why hadn’t someone decent signed him

 

[Eggs]

….i said we shouldn’t buy Grealish, thankfully Moyes knows better.

 

[terryefc]

I distinctly remember recommending a young Diego Maradonna on this forum back in the late 70s after seeing him play whilst on holiday in Buenos Aires

You all laughed and said he was too short, and if he was that good why hadn’t someone decent signed him

A shame we missed out on him - but at that time we didn't do kits that would fit him.

 

[terryefc]

….i said we shouldn’t buy Grealish, thankfully Moyes knows better.

To be fair he was a huge financial gamble - and one we could not have tried in the last few years. Moyes can build a team though and can always spot an opportunity. We were lucky to get him back. This promise wouldn't be there if Dyche was still in charge. Sean - like Allardyce were necessary appointments given our position at both stages - but their long term style of footy was not for us.

 

[Tigger]

….i said we shouldn’t buy Grealish, thankfully Moyes knows better.

Same, just confirming why im an electrician and not a football manager

 

[hetion]

Ages ago but I think I remember posting about being gagging for us to sign Paredes before he went to Zenit and Guimaraes when he was at Lyon, in my nearly decade-long quest for us to sign a passing midfielder post-Gareth Barry.

On the other hand I thought Sancho was going to tear up the league for Utd so I'm sure there are plenty of other awful shouts I'm conveniently forgetting

 

[barneygumble]

Back in the day, there was a winger for Malága called Eliseu, who had a £500k get out.

Cant remember if it was here or Kipper. I banged on saying hed be perfect for us. Gave a big list


2 weeks later, Moyes was there watching him. He ended up at Lazio.

The players & staff deffo read the board

 

[Toffe3m4n]

….i said we shouldn’t buy Grealish, thankfully Moyes knows better.

You weren't the only one to be fair mate
(not me obvs)

 

[Shibbywiggles]

I said we should buy Beto because he scored almost a goal a game for me on football manager

…you’re welcome?

 

[Mitch Ward's Minder]

I said we should buy Chris Woods back in 2020. Obviously not world class, but you wonder how many of those missed chances DCL had that he may have scored we'll never know.

Also remember someone wanting Szbozslai in 2021 before he went to RBL from RBS for €20m. How much did the RS buy him for a few years later?

 

[Lanolin]

The impressive ones are if someone's saying they've seen a young lad playing in the League of Ireland or the Scottish 3rd division or the Swedish league or whatever and they're going to be quality. Saying that somebody who's already playing at the top level and would cost big money is worth signing is easy!

 

[windymiller]

There are a couple of posters who name about thirty players a window, most of whom we haven't ever been linked with, who like to self-vault years later when one of them turns out to be good. At least one of those posters also likes to give other people grief when they propose someone saying either "you've never seen that player play, I have and they are rubbish" or "why are you talking about player X, we're not even linked with them" or words to those effect.

TL: DR - No, we don't have anyone who is good at spotting players.

 

[Goat]

There are a couple of posters who name about thirty players a window, most of whom we haven't ever been linked with, who like to self-vault years later when one of them turns out to be good. At least one of those posters also likes to give other people grief when they propose someone saying either "you've never seen that player play, I have and they are rubbish" or "why are you talking about player X, we're not even linked with them" or words to those effect.

TL: DR - No, we don't have anyone who is good at spotting players.

?????????????

I brought the world Joao Moutinho and Mo Besic.

 

[Zezti]

I used to speculate names when I was younger, then I realised it was a complete waste of time if we weren't linked with them at all.