Summer Transfer Window 2017

[Pseudonym]

Dont quote me on it, unless it comes off and then you can all say i was right, if im wrong though i'm still right as i can just say "something changed"

Is right lid

 

[Papa Shango]

So if Burnley wouldn't sell, why didn't we just whack a few more million on our bid then, agree for them to keep him till end of season and we know for a FACT that we have got our target.
Waiting and pondering and thinking "we are in with a chance in the summer" we are always going to get out done by the Man Utd's and Chelsea's of this world.

No way would someone pick us ahead of those teams if there was interest in them

They might do in a World Cup Year if they are guaranteed game time.

I really hope the people who make the decisions at the club are less down on the club than the fans are!

 

[Stuartisitc1878]

there is no such thing as an ITK. There are people that are well informed but no-one really knows what's happening. I like Esk and i think his insight and understanding of how Football finances work. But saying something is done is a dangerous game to play. Until a player has actually signed a contract nothing is certain. Just look at Rom – I read that everything was agreed and he basically had the pen in hand before having a change of heart. Insight and opinion is great but it’s not fact and if people take it as such then they’re just as much to blame as the blag ITKs.

 

[Stuartisitc1878]

They might do in a World Cup Year if they are guaranteed game time.

I really hope the people who make the decisions at the club are less down on the club than the fans are!

I agree. Keane could go to United and be rotated or benched. The same at City or Chelsea or he can come here and play 38 games managed by one of the best defenders to play the game.
It'll come down to what type of lad Keane is and what he wants. Was he released by United originally or did he leave to get game time?

 

[Raino85]

They might do in a World Cup Year if they are guaranteed game time.

I really hope the people who make the decisions at the club are less down on the club than the fans are!

I'm not down on the club at all pal.
I just recognise that we have to be quicker with our targets then say Man Utd or Chelsea as in this country they are who the players want to go to.

Someone like Michael Keane would walk into United back four so i don't believe the "he will get guaranteed game time here" thing.
Gary Cahill is the perfect example of why these players will always back themselves to get into the best teams, look at what he has won. But when he signed for chelsea was he thinking "nah" i'll go to Spurs or West Ham instead so i can play every week.
He was thinking " Chelsea will win stuff, im going to back myself to get into the side and be a success

 

[Papa Shango]

I agree. Keane could go to United and be rotated or benched. The same at City or Chelsea or he can come here and play 38 games managed by one of the best defenders to play the game.
It'll come down to what type of lad Keane is and what he wants. Was he released by United originally or did he leave to get game time?

Think he was released.

He was/is a big United fan though.

I'm wary of him I must admit. He has looked good this year but how much of it is down to a good partnership with Mee? I remember everyone getting giddy over Roger Johnson when he was at Birmingham and him and Scott Dann had a great partnership.

 

[Pabbers]

there is no such thing as an ITK. There are people that are well informed but no-one really knows what's happening. I like Esk and i think his insight and understanding of how Football finances work. But saying something is done is a dangerous game to play. Until a player has actually signed a contract nothing is certain. Just look at Rom – I read that everything was agreed and he basically had the pen in hand before having a change of heart. Insight and opinion is great but it’s not fact and if people take it as such then they’re just as much to blame as the blag ITKs.

Erm, what do you think 'ITK' means !?!

 

[Papa Shango]

I'm not down on the club at all pal.
I just recognise that we have to be quicker with our targets then say Man Utd or Chelsea as in this country they are who the players want to go to.

Someone like Michael Keane would walk into United back four so i don't believe the "he will get guaranteed game time here" thing.
Gary Cahill is the perfect example of why these players will always back themselves to get into the best teams, look at what he has won. But when he signed for chelsea was he thinking "nah" i'll go to Spurs or West Ham instead so i can play every week.
He was thinking " Chelsea will win stuff, im going to back myself to get into the side and be a success

Keane has had the being jibbed off by a "big club" stuff before though.

We are hopefully a club with a bright future, maybe he wants part of that?

 

[CRIMHEAD]

Said that last summer, there's a picture of him next to Reina around, and they are pretty much the same height, no way the lads 6'5 unless Reina grew in his mid 30's about 3 inches

This is comical. He's considerably taller than Reins. Milik is 6'2" and he's definitely a couple inches taller than Milik. There are about 100 pictures if these guys next to each other.

 

[Pseudonym]

Think he was released.

He was/is a big United fan though.

I'm wary of him I must admit. He has looked good this year but how much of it is down to a good partnership with Mee? I remember everyone getting giddy over Roger Johnson when he was at Birmingham and him and Scott Dann had a great partnership.

Well if he has a good partnership with that donkey Ben Mee, he's gonna look boss in a partnership with Koulibaly or VVD....

 

[Raino85]

Keane has had the being jibbed off by a "big club" stuff before though.

We are hopefully a club with a bright future, maybe he wants part of that?

Without using Gary Cahill as my only ever example, he had been jibbed by Villa also, when he left Bolton did that stop him from going to a big club?

I 100% agree with your we are a club with a bright future things, I am just wary of how some of the "old guard" of the board deal with things.
I just think we should of got in there early with Keane, even if it meant over paying a little and got a deal agreed with Burnley and the player to ensure none of these other clubs came swooping in to challenge us.

Its all if's and buts, but lets say Liverpool and Arsenal also wanted Schneiderlin in January, who do you think he would of chose to go too? (I know that Utd wouldnt of sold to either of Arsenal or Liverpool but just say if they would of)

 

[Frank Gallagher]

didnt know you actually had any

Stop it neil

 

[toffeejack]

Without using Gary Cahill as my only ever example, he had been jibbed by Villa also, when he left Bolton did that stop him from going to a big club?

I 100% agree with your we are a club with a bright future things, I am just wary of how some of the "old guard" of the board deal with things.
I just think we should of got in there early with Keane, even if it meant over paying a little and got a deal agreed with Burnley and the player to ensure none of these other clubs came swooping in to challenge us.

Its all if's and buts, but lets say Liverpool and Arsenal also wanted Schneiderlin in January, who do you think he would of chose to go too? (I know that Utd wouldnt of sold to either of Arsenal or Liverpool but just say if they would of)

not really that simple, i don't think burnley would have agreed to the deal at any price, unless we did something stupid, which i'm glad we didn't. They knew they could easily be suckered into a relegation battle, so they didn't need their best player already signed up for a new club and thus discfocused and even if they did entertain the idea, they knew a lot of clubs will be interested this summer, they had nothing to gain from saying "ok everton, we'll sell you him now". You don't know we didn't try that tbh and well if he isn't our top target why would we have done it ourselves? Imagine if he broke his leg like coleman did in his next game, we'd look stupid having splashed out £30m for him and not able to see him in a year. I know that's an if and but itself, but it could have derailed all of our summer planning.

 

[Exeter Gently]

Season hasn't even finished yet and ITK thing is already unbearable.

 

[RFUS]

This is comical. He's considerably taller than Reins. Milik is 6'2" and he's definitely a couple inches taller than Milik. There are about 100 pictures if these guys next to each other.

Milk is 6'1 I think.

Reina and Ghoulam are 6'2. Looks the same as them to me. Albiol is 6'3. He looks shorter than Albiol to me.