Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[RussellC]

If Lescott hadn't spent the last twelve months warming the bench then I have no doubt he's be in Brazil now. Credit to the Albion on this one, good signing. Did we need him? Not if Okore is fit to start the season imo.

If Lescott was that great he probably wouldn't have spent the last twelve months warming the bench.

As opposed to what Senderos has been doing...?

[dave.woodhall]

Albion finally sign Lescott.
Can't believe we've allowed that to happen as he's just what we need at the back.

How have we "allowed it to happen"?

What we were supposed to do to prevent it? Kidnap him? Nuke The Hawthorns?

Erm, sign him? Offer the going rate for a defender as good as him, perhaps?
He was available and on a free transfer. We should have signed him, it's a simple as that, but yet again we went for the cheaper option.

How do you know what we, or any other club, offered him?

[QBVILLA]

If Lescott hadn't spent the last twelve months warming the bench then I have no doubt he's be in Brazil now. Credit to the Albion on this one, good signing. Did we need him? Not if Okore is fit to start the season imo.

If Lescott was that great he probably wouldn't have spent the last twelve months warming the bench.

In context he was at the club that won the title and the League Cup. Not being able to get into that side doesn't mean you are a bad player. When we played them the end of the season they brought on Jovetic (sp?) who had cost more than our entire team put together. Just an opinion but i think a fit Lescott would have been an ever present at at least 15 of the Prem clubs last season.

[supertom]

Xavi wants to leave Barcelona.


Just saying like...

[QBVILLA]

Xavi wants to leave Barcelona.


Just saying like...

I'd like to wear Kelly Brook as a hat 

[pauliewalnuts]

If Lescott hadn't spent the last twelve months warming the bench then I have no doubt he's be in Brazil now. Credit to the Albion on this one, good signing. Did we need him? Not if Okore is fit to start the season imo.

If Lescott was that great he probably wouldn't have spent the last twelve months warming the bench.

Hmm, whilst I agree to a point, it's worth noting that Lescott was warming the bench at Manchester City, where excellent players getting splinters in their arse is not unusual.

Plus, he made 24 appearances for them last season, so it's not like he was totally unused.

[pauliewalnuts]

Xavi wants to leave Barcelona.


Just saying like...

Totally past it.

[Richard E]

If Lescott hadn't spent the last twelve months warming the bench then I have no doubt he's be in Brazil now. Credit to the Albion on this one, good signing. Did we need him? Not if Okore is fit to start the season imo.

If Lescott was that great he probably wouldn't have spent the last twelve months warming the bench.

As opposed to what Senderos has been doing...?

Fair point. But I'm not really saying that Senderos is a marquee signing, just that I can't get too worked up about the fact that we haven't signed Lescott.

[QBVILLA]

If Lescott hadn't spent the last twelve months warming the bench then I have no doubt he's be in Brazil now. Credit to the Albion on this one, good signing. Did we need him? Not if Okore is fit to start the season imo.

If Lescott was that great he probably wouldn't have spent the last twelve months warming the bench.

As opposed to what Senderos has been doing...?

Fair point. But I'm not really saying that Senderos is a marquee signing, just that I can't get too worked up about the fact that we haven't signed Lescott.

Same here. Had it been that he had the choice between us and them and chose them, then that'd be worth the ire.

[pauliewalnuts]

If Lescott hadn't spent the last twelve months warming the bench then I have no doubt he's be in Brazil now. Credit to the Albion on this one, good signing. Did we need him? Not if Okore is fit to start the season imo.

If Lescott was that great he probably wouldn't have spent the last twelve months warming the bench.

As opposed to what Senderos has been doing...?

Fair point. But I'm not really saying that Senderos is a marquee signing, just that I can't get too worked up about the fact that we haven't signed Lescott.

I think not getting worked up about it is fair enough.

What worries me is that it's yet another sign that there's really not going to be much money there this summer, again. Given that most of us would have agreed at the end of last season that we needed a major infusion of talent - players better than our starters - we've got an awful lot of transfer work to be doing, and they need to be significantly better players than we've bought in recent windows.

Every time we see something like this, a sign or a suggestion that we're going to be shopping at Lidl for the foreseeable future, it all starts to look a bit more daunting.

[Richard E]

All of the above being said, you just KNOW he's going to score for THEM in front of the Holte.

And then celebrate like it was the winner in the World Cup Final.

[pauliewalnuts]

Nick Mashiter from the E&S

Nick Mashiter ‏@nmashiter_star  32m
#avfc unable/unwilling to offer wages Lescott wanted, which weren't astronomical.

Nick Mashiter ‏@nmashiter_star  31m
But #avfc couldn't match #wba for wages for Lukaku loan two years ago so certainly wouldn't be able to beat them now.

And that says it all, really.

[dave.woodhall]

All of the above being said, you just KNOW he's going to score for THEM in front of the Holte.

And then celebrate like it was the winner in the World Cup Final.

Instead of a last-minute consolation in a 5-1 defeat.

[PaulWinch again]

Nick Mashiter from the E&S

Nick Mashiter ‏@nmashiter_star  32m
#avfc unable/unwilling to offer wages Lescott wanted, which weren't astronomical.

Nick Mashiter ‏@nmashiter_star  31m
But #avfc couldn't match #wba for wages for Lukaku loan two years ago so certainly wouldn't be able to beat them now.

And that says it all, really.

Indeed and not really acceptable at all.

[Richard E]

All of the above being said, you just KNOW he's going to score for THEM in front of the Holte.

And then celebrate like it was the winner in the World Cup Final.

Instead of a last-minute consolation in a 5-1 defeat.

It'll wipe the smile off his face when we go straight up the other end and nick a sixth.