January 2016 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[walsall villain]

Norwich going for Naismith from Everton. This is exactly the type of player we should be going in for when you're in a relegation battle.

He would take one look at our league position and think no thanks. That's the reality of being so far adrift in this window.

[mr underhill]

plus we can't afford him.

[saunders_heroes]

Norwich going for Naismith from Everton. This is exactly the type of player we should be going in for when you're in a relegation battle.

He would take one look at our league position and think no thanks. That's the reality of being so far adrift in this window.

He's going to Norwich for crying out loud. Offer him a relegation get out clause and get him in. Have we forgotten that we're a big club? I know the chairman has but I didn't think the fans had.

[saunders_heroes]

plus we can't afford him.

I'm sure we could find the money from somewhere at a push. Nearly every club around us are strengthening while we sit on our hands.

[frank black]

plus we can't afford him.

I'm sure we could find the money from somewhere at a push. Nearly every club around us are strengthening while we sit on our hands.

They have more hope than us, no point in us throwing the dice. Let's go for it with our existing squad plus a couple of loans- lower division purchases.

[Clampy]

I like Naismith but if he's a player who Garde doesn't think will fit in with his plans, then fair enough.

[Dave]

Norwich going for Naismith from Everton. This is exactly the type of player we should be going in for when you're in a relegation battle.

An attacker who averages around five goals per season? I think we've got plenty of those.

[aev]

Naismith - for £8.5m.

That is daylight robbery. He is bobbins.

[cheltenhamlion]

And for around ten million quid as well.

[glasses]

I like Jamie Vardy.

I like that he's a common as muck lad who is having an amazing three years. The racist thing, in a world where everything you do canbe caught on camera, you're not allowed to make mistakes it seems.

His movement was very good on Saturday, and the attempted lob over Bunn was class. He caused us a lot of problems, I had no idea how quick he was.

Or as an alternative, don't come out with that kind of shit to start with.

That'd be my view as well, so Vardy isn't racist he's just had the bad luck of being filmed being racist? Sorry but that's nonsense.

You see this is what I mean. Once it's filmed, or written down on the Internet,  that's it. An opinion of that person is formed. Nobody is perfect, except people on the Internet and take the moral high ground.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've always thought Naismith is a bit like Weimann, runs around a lot but doesn't score many. At 29 it's unlikely he'll improve much, and at a reported £8.5m i'd pass.

[Dave]

I like Jamie Vardy.

I like that he's a common as muck lad who is having an amazing three years. The racist thing, in a world where everything you do canbe caught on camera, you're not allowed to make mistakes it seems.

His movement was very good on Saturday, and the attempted lob over Bunn was class. He caused us a lot of problems, I had no idea how quick he was.

Or as an alternative, don't come out with that kind of shit to start with.

That'd be my view as well, so Vardy isn't racist he's just had the bad luck of being filmed being racist? Sorry but that's nonsense.

You see this is what I mean. Once it's filmed, or written down on the Internet,  that's it. An opinion of that person is formed. Nobody is perfect, except people on the Internet and take the moral high ground.

If I heard somebody using racist language in a pub I'd assume they were racist as well. I don't see what it "being on the internet" has to do with it.

[Dave]

I've always thought Naismith is a bit like Weimann, runs around a lot but doesn't score many.

I'd say that's a pretty solid comparison.

[glasses]

I would too, Dave. However, that's not to say that that person would think better of it in the cold light of day, when not in an argument, and realise what they said was out of order, but because it's documented or recorded, it becomes a stick to beat you with.

[cheltenhamlion]

And here is another thing on our shocking management of squad values. This time of year you can prey on the desperate. So....

Why was auxiliary right back Reo Coker not sold for 5 million in in a January window? Why were the MON bomb squad not loaned out for half a season at a million a pop?

The most annoying thing about how our financial plight crippled us (and the speed the changes were made at are very much at Lerner's door), how the profligacy of MON could have been checked with those sort of moves, how everyone used Lerner's bank account as a slush fund and carte blanche to be sloppy or downright negligent when it came to appropriate organisation/structure/efficiency, the fact it was all so bloody avoidable, is what really sticks in my craw.

No wider plan, no building, just short term fix after short term sodding fix. That is how we have ended up where we are.