The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[silhillvilla]

Under Lerner we are in terminal decline. Relegation will be followed by stagnation, further losses, probably another relegation and ultimately administration. This club is staring into the abyss .

[saunders_heroes]

Under Lerner we are in terminal decline. Relegation will be followed by stagnation, further losses, probably another relegation and ultimately administration. This club is staring into the abyss .

That's way way over the top!

[silhillvilla]

Under Lerner we are in terminal decline. Relegation will be followed by stagnation, further losses, probably another relegation and ultimately administration. This club is staring into the abyss .

That's way way over the top!

Where do you see us in 5 years ?

[Damo70]

TSM was sacked after one season. Houlliers medical situation made it an easy decision to replace him but I suspect he would have been replaced regardless. So why Lambert has been given so much time and patience is strange. Nobody wants a different manager every season but nobody wants a badly underperforming manager for year after year either.

[saunders_heroes]

Under Lerner we are in terminal decline. Relegation will be followed by stagnation, further losses, probably another relegation and ultimately administration. This club is staring into the abyss .

That's way way over the top!

Where do you see us in 5 years ?

In the Premier League with a new chairman and manager.

[saunders_heroes]

TSM was sacked after one season. Houlliers medical situation made it an easy decision to replace him but I suspect he would have been replaced regardless. So why Lambert has been given so much time and patience is strange. Nobody wants a different manager every season but nobody wants a badly underperforming manager for year after year either.

Because Lerner has completely given up. He won't invest in the time or money needed to sack Lambert and search for a new manager. Perhaps he's leaving it to the new owner to sort out.

[silhillvilla]

Under Lerner we are in terminal decline. Relegation will be followed by stagnation, further losses, probably another relegation and ultimately administration. This club is staring into the abyss .

That's way way over the top!

Where do you see us in 5 years ?

In the Premier League with a new chairman and manager.

That's quite a fanciful notion. I'd say we are as far away from that as being in the bowels of the championship with dumb and dumber still here. 11 goals.

[chrisw1]

We've brought two new players FFS.  Since buying them we've had one league game against one of the best teams in the league where only one of them started and he looked quite bright.

Do you really think it's beyond the realms of possibility that Gil & Sinclair may have a positive influence?  That Benteke may find his mojo?  Lets see what happens after Chelsea, when both have had time to settle in before slashing our wrists.

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We've brought two new players FFS.  Since buying them we've had one league game against one of the best teams in the league where only one of them started and he looked quite bright.

Do you really think it's beyond the realms of possibility that Gil & Sinclair may have a positive influence?  That Benteke may find his mojo?  Lets see what happens after Chelsea, when both have had time to settle in before slashing our wrists.

We’re gambling our Premier League futures on hope, which isn’t the solidest of foundations.

It’s a hope that Gil, Sinclair and Benteke can just “do it” for us and keep us up despite the manager.

They could do with a little help with some coaching and method; i.e. getting players closer to Benteke instead of leaving him isolated, getting midfielders to hit the box, getting us moving the ball a 100 times quicker. Little things to try and improve on the 11 goals. But that would require the manager to show some thought, which he has proved consistently that he is incapable of. 

All aboard the bus on the road to 38 points! Although it seems likely that we will lose a wheel on the way.

[RussellC]

We've brought two new players FFS.  Since buying them we've had one league game against one of the best teams in the league where only one of them started and he looked quite bright.

Do you really think it's beyond the realms of possibility that Gil & Sinclair may have a positive influence?  That Benteke may find his mojo?  Lets see what happens after Chelsea, when both have had time to settle in before slashing our wrists.

It's not 'beyond the realms' of possibility, but it's not exactly looking likely either. To a man, all of our players who regressed under Lambert this season, so I'm not going to be comfortably pinning my hopes on Sinclair and Gil to guide us to safely.

[dekko]

We've brought two new players FFS.  Since buying them we've had one league game against one of the best teams in the league where only one of them started and he looked quite bright.

Do you really think it's beyond the realms of possibility that Gil & Sinclair may have a positive influence?  That Benteke may find his mojo?  Lets see what happens after Chelsea, when both have had time to settle in before slashing our wrists.

I agree with you in principle, and I'd like to see how they do against sides outside of the top 4 or 5 before I panic too much.

HOWEVER, how many times have people said that sort of thing before under Lambert?  How many times have we seen good signs or something to be hopeful about?  And how often do those good signs and hopes actually become reality?

[andyh]

Ahhh, so we are back to the old 'we shouldn't be expected to compete with the big boys, but we'll be ok with all the winnable games' bollox.

We have been in this position too many fucking times over the last 3 years.
Regardless of the opposition, regardless of the players, we are still in the same mess.

We desperately, desperately need to go on a run of good results.
BUT....it aint gonna happen, not under Lambert. Remember, we have never won 3 games on the bounce under the deluded one.
There is no doubt that Gil looks decent (any forward looking player would do right now) but Gil is not the answer to all our problems.

     
   

[aj2k77]

We've never ever drawn the 3rd game under Lambert after winning 2 in a row, every single time we've lost game 3.

[silhillvilla]

We had the winnable games over December and Xmas and we didn't turn up.
Shambles.

[pauliewalnuts]

I can't believe people still use the phrase "winnable games" with regard to us.