January Transfer Window 2026

[milks]

Ever seen him play ?

I have, would be nice to add to the squad as a developmental option. Moyes wouldn't play him though.
Brick shithouse, quick, good going forward. Defensively suspect.

 

[Lanolin]

Yeah, I mean if you ignore the fact that the teams in the league and around us strengthened as soon as they could (like Villa getting players as early as possible to have a full squad, as did Bournemouth, Palace, Fulham, Tottingham, WHam and even S'land), no one's signed those two guys.

Villa aren't around us in the league? Bournemouth and Palace have sold their best players, West Ham are in a desperate relegation battle and throwing money around to try to stay up, Fulham have signed one player. I'm not saying our recruitment is great or we've done the right thing or whatever, but I don't see the point in pretending it's massively out of keeping with what happens elsewhere because it's not. We as fans love to sit here and say January isn't a difficult window, but pretty much every club says it is and the type of deals being done back it up. I would like us to have picked up a couple more in this window but it's clearly not as easy as we'd like it to be.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

....so leaving us with no actual RB (outside of Coleman) left at the club?

Great planning that

We can't really criticise something that hasn't happened,Kind Sir.

 

[pfim]

We can't really criticise something that hasn't happened,Kind Sir.

Well, obviously we can.

 

[marnie]

Never watched a single second of Cuffy.

Seen enough of Patterson to say he is not good enough for us.

Cuffy is he the one that kills vampires ?

 

[Bez2k2k]

Patterson was out of position for the Leeds goal but I can’t deny he’s been good since he came back into the picture. It’s unfortunate for him that it’s just not worked out here.

 

[Moomin]

Cuffy is he the one that kills vampires ?

Another tick in the box for us to sign.

 

[hetion]

Extremely funny that we all thought January would be when we fixed the fullback issue, but actually Moyes thought the only issue was that he never had all 4 CBs fit, and now he does we can ship out the only two FBs at the club who offer anything going forwards

And some people think this is the manager who can have us competing for Europe regularly

 

[perth_blue]

…not sure how much they’re asking for Norton Cuffey but they paid very little for him so might think they can make a big profit.

That makes sense. Cheers!

 

[pfim]

Cuffy is he the one that kills vampires ?

Another boxed checked, especially against Villa.

 

[Seathestars]

So Fulham have said no to us signing Wilson.
Didn’t want him anyway, just another RS Shaqiri

 

[smileychap]

On

Ever tried Decaf?

Haha, I don't do coffee. No shortage of DeCaf at EFC this window though.

Let's see how close we are to Europe end of season and the recruitment opportunities then...

Or we get to rub our hands and look back at Spurs, Newcastle, Villa, Brentford, Sunderland, Leeds at home and enjoy the all progress we're makin...


Oh.

Yeah, better to buckle up, do nothing and enjoy Patterson's crossing.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Nobody's signed a right back as far as I can tell

Also, worth mentioning that Bournemouth, Palace, Spurs and West Ham have all made major sales to fund those acquisitions. Sunderland are an exception, but they've bought a winger from the Israeli league, a keeper from the Swedish league and loaned a player from the Polish league - maybe they'll work out, but there wasn't a big queue of other interested top clubs there.

Yeah, cuz they did over the summer - now is the time to strengthen the squad you have, but we have no full squad and haven't even strengthened anything, as the summer was also a dithering mess where we took weeks more for everything, being "Interest FC". At this point a loan from any league is a player we at least have so we don't have to necessarily play Dwight McNeil, as there are no doubt many players who can fill the loan slot there and do better, but no doubt we've not tried.

Usually because they are Man City, Arsenal or Liverpool and all operate in a very different market to us. European football and available capital mean that they don't need to negotiate. Players want to go there which makes the rest of the conversation VERY easy for the buying clubs.

Semenyo - yep, we'll pay his release clause
Guehi - yep, he'll come here's £20m

I mean I mentioned specifically not those teams strengthening their squads, but as above - they're squads that they've planned since summer and are mostly going for depth, whereas we apparently don't need depth anywhere and are good to go again.

No idea how people keep drinking the David Moyes-flavoured Kool Aid of "there's no deals to be done during January".

 

[Marius57]

Patterson was out of position for the Leeds goal but I can’t deny he’s been good since he came back into the picture. It’s unfortunate for him that it’s just not worked out here.

Patterson was marking his man for the Leeds goal. McNeil didn’t track the runner

 

[Bez2k2k]

Patterson was marking his man for the Leeds goal. McNeil didn’t track the runner

well when the goal went in he was behind Pickford and their left sided player scored. Our right back was behind our keeper. Doesn’t seem like he was marking him to me.