Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[ozzjim]

We need 2 players with genuine pace into the forward line.  Hernandez would be good.  Still think Nakhi Wells would be a good signing.  More than anything though we need a wide player with pace.

[sirlordbaltimore]

We need 2 players with genuine pace into the forward line.  Hernandez would be good.  Still think Nakhi Wells would be a good signing.  More than anything though we need a wide player with pace.

Plus at least one RB that can get up the pitch and deliver a cross

[wolfman999]

So Gabby is apparently to get yet another chance. If ever there was an indication there is fuck all money available this must surely be it. I truly hope I'm wrong but I fear Dr T is full of crap.

[Toronto Villa]

While it seems easy just to cancel contracts there needs to be a degree of rationality tied to any player decision this new team makes. I think has Gabby came back to training looking the embarrassment the club put up with last season he'd have been out on his ear. However he came back looking as lean as we have seen him in years, so while the anger at him from fans exists, the manager would have spoken to him and gauged him by his attitude to getting back in shape. It's a shame in that regard he got injured and couldn't continue to become match fit. Naturally there is a financial component too and writing off contracts while it might sound easy when it's not your money is very expensive to do and takes away from addressing needs elsewhere.

[rougegorge]

I just think that we can't afford to continue to start with around a core of half a dozen players from last season.

Given how awful the team was and how the players performed individually and collectively, they will have no confidence in themselves let alone have any faith in each other.

Starting with Cissokho, Hutton, Westwood, Bacuna, Gestede etc just seems psychologically disadvantageous and I would've expected RDM to have done much more by now to address the shortcomings.

[Chris Smith]

So Gabby is apparently to get yet another chance. If ever there was an indication there is fuck all money available this must surely be it. I truly hope I'm wrong but I fear Dr T is full of crap.

How can you possibly say that when we are only a couple of months into his tenure and there is still a month of the transfer window to go?

Of course it would be great to have everything in place for the first game but our place in the pecking order means that was never going to happen.

[wolfman999]

As I said, I truly hope I'm wrong.

Talk is cheap and we're sure getting plenty of it at the moment.

We shall see and no one will be more delighted than me if the guy is the real deal.

[wolfman999]

By the way Chris, I can possibly say it. It's called an opinion. You have one and so do I.

[cdbearsfan]

You can say what you like. But a manager spouting a banal platitude about a player he has yet to select for any of our friendlies does not constitute proof that there is "fuck all money", with a month of the transfer window still ahead of us.

[malckennedy]

While it seems easy just to cancel contracts there needs to be a degree of rationality tied to any player decision this new team makes. I think has Gabby came back to training looking the embarrassment the club put up with last season he'd have been out on his ear. However he came back looking as lean as we have seen him in years, so while the anger at him from fans exists, the manager would have spoken to him and gauged him by his attitude to getting back in shape. It's a shame in that regard he got injured and couldn't continue to become match fit. Naturally there is a financial component too and writing off contracts while it might sound easy when it's not your money is very expensive to do and takes away from addressing needs elsewhere.

Hear what you're saying TV, but I have always held the view that Gabby at the peak of his game was only ever just about an average player. Have never really liked him as a player and this is despite his two late strikes against SMA. Of course these were enjoyable but every forward has to score occasionally. He was fortunate that his were able to give him breathing space in terms of popularity to perform poorly for much of the rest of the time. To be fair to him, it wasn't an attitude problem in earlier days, he's just never been that good a footballer.

[SoccerHQ]

RDM rates Gabby I think.

[Clampy]

You can say what you like. But a manager spouting a banal platitude about a player he has yet to select for any of our friendlies does not constitute proof that there is "fuck all money", with a month of the transfer window still ahead of us.

He did play in the game over at Stourport and he didn't do very much.

[spangley1812]

RDM rates Gabby I think.

Well if it is a fully focussed/fit Gabby he would be an asset in this league but that is a big IF..........................

[old man villa fan]

While it seems easy just to cancel contracts there needs to be a degree of rationality tied to any player decision this new team makes. I think has Gabby came back to training looking the embarrassment the club put up with last season he'd have been out on his ear. However he came back looking as lean as we have seen him in years, so while the anger at him from fans exists, the manager would have spoken to him and gauged him by his attitude to getting back in shape. It's a shame in that regard he got injured and couldn't continue to become match fit. Naturally there is a financial component too and writing off contracts while it might sound easy when it's not your money is very expensive to do and takes away from addressing needs elsewhere.

For the last couple of years there seems to have been an attitude problem in the dressing room.  Somebody in there would appear to be undermining the work put in by the managers and coaches.  If there is one individual that is the cause, it would be worth spending £4-5m to clear the dressing room of the problem.  The money would be better spent than on bringing a new player in and still having the problem.  The trouble with attitude issues is that they resurface when individuals do not get their way.

[eamonn]

The worry about Agbonlahor is how much fitness he loses each time he picks up a jiggle, which seems to be often enough and how motivated he is to regain fitness again each time his injuries heal.