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Offline Richie

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #585 on: May 30, 2019, 11:04:58 PM »
No reason apart from I thought it was interesting to look back at, our lineup for the first game we had at Sheff Weds

Gollini
Hutton
Elphick
Baker
Cissokho
Bacuna
Gardner
Westwood
Ayew
McCormack
Gestede

Substitutes
Richards
Okore
Tshibola
Green
Amavi
Bunn
Grealish

Bloody hell ! Jack couldn’t get in a midfield of Westwood, Barcelona’s most wanted and Small Heath’s finest ! Di Matteo should have been sacked before a ball was kicked !

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #586 on: May 30, 2019, 11:36:23 PM »
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League Two side Cambridge United have signed Aston Villa striker Harvey Knibbs on a two-year contract.

The 20-year-old did not make a first-team appearance for the Villains, playing in the club's under-23 side.

U's boss Colin Calderwood worked with Knibbs when he was assistant manager at Villa Park under Steve Bruce.

"I'm quietly hoping he becomes something that no-one expects him to be," Calderwood told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

"I think he's going to get stronger and stronger and I like the fact that he really wanted to get himself sorted fairly quickly, and didn't hang about thinking there might be something higher up the pyramid."

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #587 on: May 31, 2019, 06:59:12 AM »
presumably this thread really is all speculation whilst under an embargo.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #588 on: May 31, 2019, 07:05:40 AM »
presumably this thread really is all speculation whilst under an embargo.

Thats what every transfer thread is really. No-one really knows who is going to come in so it's speculation and suggestions.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #589 on: May 31, 2019, 07:12:52 AM »
Is there any evidence that we are under embargo?

Offline in exile

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #590 on: May 31, 2019, 07:44:56 AM »
Embargo?
That's news to me

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #591 on: May 31, 2019, 08:13:43 AM »
Reported by Sportsmail (DM) that we are under a soft embargo whatever that is whilst they conduct further investigations into FFP. Hopefully Gibson sour grapes Mk 2.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #592 on: May 31, 2019, 08:25:31 AM »
They need to review FFP and how it is implemented otherwise they will get these kind of complaints from teams who didn’t go up every year. As far as I can tell the Premier League don’t give a monkeys, and there are no such financial restrictions in place once you go up, so it’s never going to work between the two leagues.

Purslow has repeatedly said that we are compliant with FFP as well, so someone is telling fibs.

Offline Clark W Griswold

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #593 on: May 31, 2019, 09:40:35 AM »
No reason apart from I thought it was interesting to look back at, our lineup for the first game we had at Sheff Weds

Gollini
Hutton
Elphick
Baker
Cissokho
Bacuna
Gardner
Westwood
Ayew
McCormack
Gestede

Substitutes
Richards
Okore
Tshibola
Green
Amavi
Bunn
Grealish

Bloody hell ! Jack couldn’t get in a midfield of Westwood, Barcelona’s most wanted and Small Heath’s finest ! Di Matteo should have been sacked before a ball was kicked !

Seems daft now but back then, Grealish had just had a pretty poor season in the PL. He would have had to be in the team instead of Ayew who had been our player of the year the season before, McCormack who we'd just paid £12m for or Gestede who gave us a target point or physical presence. So perhaps not so mad.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #594 on: May 31, 2019, 09:52:35 AM »
In all of the madness of the last few years, thank christ we binned Di Matteo as sharply as we did because he was fucking shite, an absolute charlatan.

Offline john e

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #595 on: May 31, 2019, 10:48:13 AM »
No reason apart from I thought it was interesting to look back at, our lineup for the first game we had at Sheff Weds

Gollini
Hutton
Elphick
Baker
Cissokho
Bacuna
Gardner
Westwood
Ayew
McCormack
Gestede

Substitutes
Richards
Okore
Tshibola
Green
Amavi
Bunn
Grealish

Bloody hell ! Jack couldn’t get in a midfield of Westwood, Barcelona’s most wanted and Small Heath’s finest ! Di Matteo should have been sacked before a ball was kicked !


there were plenty on here saying Jack offered nothing and would sell for a half decent fee and that was long after this as well

Offline JUAN PABLO

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #596 on: May 31, 2019, 11:24:42 AM »
Okore . Always thought we had signed a top player . how wrong I was

Offline dave shelley

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #597 on: May 31, 2019, 11:27:46 AM »
Okore . Always thought we had signed a top player . how wrong I was

In fairness he did show a lot of promise until he got injured and he was out for a good while.  Shoulder injury wasn't it?

Offline JUAN PABLO

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #598 on: May 31, 2019, 11:38:07 AM »
Maupay and Lolley would be a good start to this window. Sign-up Mings, Hause, El Ghazi and Tuanzebe then that'll have been a decent August window

That to me is the minimum to stand still, we need more

Tiernay , Drinkwater and Saïd Benrahma as well

Would stay well away from Drinkwater. Issues off the pitch and hasn't played for a year which is very similar to Sidwell when he joined us. Players lose a bit of desire when they've been in that situation.

you might be right SHQ

Leicester fans tell me he was brillliant for them and a great passer but maybe he has lost his mojo If so Kalvin Philips instead and add that Luton lad as well for the future .

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #599 on: May 31, 2019, 11:47:36 AM »
Okore . Always thought we had signed a top player . how wrong I was

In fairness he did show a lot of promise until he got injured and he was out for a good while.  Shoulder injury wasn't it?

Cruciate I think.

 


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