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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #270 on: April 10, 2026, 06:47:52 PM »
Emery has always struck me as someone that will impulse buy a player based on one game.

Yes, like Morgan.

Which would have been based on thr countless footage Unai watches before we play someone.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #271 on: April 10, 2026, 07:26:24 PM »
Rogers wouldn't have exactly been new to our recruitment department since he was being discussed in the Grealish deal but City valued him at £10m.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #272 on: April 10, 2026, 09:05:16 PM »
Seeing wingers generally that attack their man and take shots is something of a novelty for us these days so you can understand why we get a bit excited when we see one.

The last one to make an impact was Bailey for
about six months. Unless Emery changes shape a player like Rowe would struggle tactically in our midfield four. He's physically stronger and more direct than likes of Bailey, Elliot, Guessand or Sancho. But that's a pretty low bar.

Offline Skipper_The_Eyechild

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #273 on: April 10, 2026, 09:50:35 PM »
Rogers wouldn't have exactly been new to our recruitment department since he was being discussed in the Grealish deal but City valued him at £10m.

Anyone who actually believes we signed someone on the basis of one performance is a bit of a plonker.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #274 on: April 10, 2026, 10:04:43 PM »
Rogers wouldn't have exactly been new to our recruitment department since he was being discussed in the Grealish deal but City valued him at £10m.

Anyone who actually believes we signed someone on the basis of one performance is a bit of a plonker.

I think we might have with Yorke.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #275 on: April 10, 2026, 10:30:21 PM »
Nope. He was asked to come for a trial but wasn't signed for a few months. But I suspect the op was more talking about these days when massive amounts of material is there for scouting rather then a several part timers asked to visit different matches in the lower leagues a couple of times a week.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #276 on: Today at 03:36:18 AM »
Yorke was spotted by Doug, who pointed him out to Graham Taylor when we played a friendly in Trinidad. That's Doug's version; Sir Graham's tale differed slightly. 

 


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