Scott Sinclair - now gone

[silhillvilla]

It's down to Sinclair now. This is last chance saloon for him at a top level club. It's a perfect fit for us , we have only borrowed him and the player needs to prove himself.
Astute signing.

[Toronto Villa]

Your official website seems to claim that you signed him for a club record fee. One that surpassed the fee that you paid for Sessegnon, who was your previous record signing.

If you've only paid £2.5m for him, why is your official website lying about it?

We have a new brand swanking PR system who were probably under orders to spin it as nicely as they could.

Worth remembering the context of the situation - we had just appointed a hopeless head coach. Many fans were disgruntled that Pepe Mel had left and been replaced by somebody who had struggled in League One. Then we had the fiasco with the pin-stripe kit and the furore that created with idiots messing around with our history and tradition. Jeremy Peace and others were coming in for criticism. The club needed to create a positive headline to at least engage supporters and by suggesting we had spent £10million and broken our transfer record portrayed they were showing some ambition - something they are often questioned about.

Given how thorough they are with their scouting and how reluctant we are to spend fees then I fail to believe we spent £10million on someone like Brown Ideye.

So in other words, they lied to supporters.

which I can only assume all Albion fans saw through from the very beginning and called the club out on.

[Liam_Baggies]

So in other words, they lied to supporters.

Yes. They need to sell season-tickets.

If that is the case then the person I feel sorry for is Brown Ideye.

[supertom]

Could go either way this signing. He's a good player on his day. Hopefully he seizes the chance. We're a big club, currently having a bit of a kip, but still a good club for someone like him. If he does well we can make the deal permanent.

I'm glad Lambert has at least pro-actively gone about trying to address our lack of creativity this window. Gil looks very good and Sinclair adds pace. Hopefully he's not a busted flush like Zogbia, as both players have similarities in style.

[PeterWithesShin]

I find it hard to believe that they lied to sell a few ST. For starters he's hardly a star player that is going to shift ST because he signed, and also there will be accounts to come, tax etc and there hasn't been a sniff in the media it's a made up figure. Why would the selling club go along with a made up figure?

[dave.woodhall]

Announcing a record signing that actually cost a quarter of what you said he did? That's believable.

[eamonn]

Anyway...he made one great run today and generally retained possession in the final third. More than Gabby did.

[silhillvilla]

Thought he along with Gil were the only positives today .

[AGRIPPA]

Announcing a record signing that actually cost a quarter of what you said he did? That's believable.

Didn't we do the same with Ivo Stas??

[dave.woodhall]

Announcing a record signing that actually cost a quarter of what you said he did? That's believable.

Didn't we do the same with Ivo Stas??

No; he only cost about £250k when our record was £1.5 million.

[David_Nab]

Thought he along with Gil were the only positives today .

Give it a few weeks under Lambert and they will be as hopeless as the rest of them.

[AGRIPPA]

Announcing a record signing that actually cost a quarter of what you said he did? That's believable.

Didn't we do the same with Ivo Stas??

No; he only cost about £250k when our record was £1.5 million.

Must have him mistaken.... There was a player who we signed and the disclosed fee was about £600k but he only played a couple of times before injury forced him to retire.... I'm sure it came out that we had only paid £150k and that all the insurance company would pay out

[silhillvilla]

Thought he along with Gil were the only positives today .

Give it a few weeks under Lambert and they will be as hopeless as the rest of them.

Yup .

[fbriai]

Announcing a record signing that actually cost a quarter of what you said he did? That's believable.

Didn't we do the same with Ivo Stas??

No; he only cost about £250k when our record was £1.5 million.

Must have him mistaken.... There was a player who we signed and the disclosed fee was about £600k but he only played a couple of times before injury forced him to retire.... I'm sure it came out that we had only paid £150k and that all the insurance company would pay out

Neale Cooper?

[saunders_heroes]

Giving a player on loan the famous number 9 shirt is quite depressing to say the least.