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Author Topic: Robert Snodgrass - loaned for 17-18 season  (Read 132615 times)

Offline Ads

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #135 on: August 24, 2017, 06:36:43 PM »
Wide left I think Green and Adomah are best suited for cutting back in. Elmo and Snodgrass wide right,with Snodgrass, Grealish and O'Hare all options at 10.

Hourihane, Lansbury and Onomah are your advanced midfield/box to box types.

Whelan, Jedi, Gardner and Jake Doyle-Hayes.

It's a lot of depth and a lot of quality for this division.

Snodgrass is better than what we have at this stage and with Jack out till January, we need more in there than young O'Hare.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #136 on: August 24, 2017, 06:40:09 PM »
All I'm saying is all things being equal I much prefer as Snodgrass to Elmo.  If I was to buy one or other it would have been Snodgrass every day of the week.

But I agree, given the squad it is an odd use of the budget.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #137 on: August 24, 2017, 08:28:00 PM »
I heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us  came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.

Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #138 on: August 24, 2017, 10:06:07 PM »
Maybe one of those reasons is that West Ham have been shit for a while and Billic is under huge pressure. Maybe he wasn't prepared to gamble on players and formations rather than Snograss being the reason. I've never heard anything negative regarding him as a player so can't think there's anything too sinister about his attitude. At the end of the day, we have no idea who is buying players at WHU so I wouldn't read too much into that comment.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #139 on: August 24, 2017, 10:34:27 PM »
All I'm saying is all things being equal I much prefer as Snodgrass to Elmo.  If I was to buy one or other it would have been Snodgrass every day of the week.

But I agree, given the squad it is an odd use of the budget.


I agree with that as well.  If he has bought him to play on the right it would be a pretty unnecessary signing seeing as we need players in other areas.  I think it would lead to further questions about  Bruce's transfer policy.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #140 on: August 24, 2017, 10:48:45 PM »
It's the same tactic Harry used for Tottenham. Just keep buying midfielders!

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #141 on: August 25, 2017, 06:42:58 AM »
I reckon he's a replacement for Grealish given Bruce's comments that he can play all along the front line.  Bruce was building the team around Jack and since he went off against Hull we've  looked toothless until he stumbled on the Davis and Hourihane combo

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #142 on: August 25, 2017, 06:43:15 AM »
It's the same tactic Harry used for Tottenham. Just keep buying midfielders!

I thought he used the same tactic everywhere. Just keep buying players and take the cut.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #143 on: August 25, 2017, 06:57:45 AM »
7 in at Blue this summer with 3 more to come isn't there. Busy Harry.

Watching highlights of Snodgrass in the championship for Hull he's going to be utilised how Bruce did with him before, filling a gap arcross any of the front positions. He actually looks more threatening from the left on his highlights despite his protestations.  I would also quite like to see us have a pair of wide players that interchange through a game. It gives the opposition different things to think about during a game.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #144 on: August 25, 2017, 10:05:12 AM »
Old Snodders is having a medical at Villa Park this afternoon according to Sky Sports

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #145 on: August 25, 2017, 10:30:56 AM »
I heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us  came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.

Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?

Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.

Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #146 on: August 25, 2017, 10:41:16 AM »
I heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us  came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.

Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?

Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.

Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.

I disagree.  Whether the money could have been better spent elsewhere in the squad is a moot point, but I think Snodgrass will be one of the best players in the Championship this year and if so it would be difficult to call that a poor signing, particularly given its only a loan.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #147 on: August 25, 2017, 10:52:10 AM »
I heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us  came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.

Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?

Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.

Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.

I disagree.  Whether the money could have been better spent elsewhere in the squad is a moot point, but I think Snodgrass will be one of the best players in the Championship this year and if so it would be difficult to call that a poor signing, particularly given its only a loan.

I'm not saying you're wrong, in truth no one knows, but that's exactly the sort of response I got last summer when I said Fat Ross was a poor signing, sometimes a signing doesn't feel right.

On topic I'm totally on the fence with Snodgrass, he's a decent player but not at all what we need and I'd rather we were looking to add someone left sided with pace if we are going to sign an attacking player.
I'd actually much prefer that we spend any money we have on a leftback because we've got absolutely no cover for Taylor right now, other than playing someone out of position.  We've had enough "season ended in September" injuries in the last decade that a massive gap like that concerns me.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #148 on: August 25, 2017, 11:01:01 AM »
I heard Allardyce on the radio earlier today. He was doing a general interview slot and subject of Snoddy coming to us  came up. He said "there was a big difference in a positive way in West Ham results when he played however unfortunately he did not play too often for all sorts of reasons". May be one of reasons West Ham want to get rid of him so quickly after getting him in Jan.

Surely we have enough of those so do we want to add another?

Suspect it was a signing made by the porn dwarves rather than Bilic. Snodgrass is fairly one paced so hardly suited to a high pressing type game that Bilic seems to prefer. West Ham tend to make a number of illogical signings.

Snodgrass has had a bad injury and may not be the player he was in his Norwich days. This is a really poor signing all things considered.

I disagree.  Whether the money could have been better spent elsewhere in the squad is a moot point, but I think Snodgrass will be one of the best players in the Championship this year and if so it would be difficult to call that a poor signing, particularly given its only a loan.

I'm not saying you're wrong, in truth no one knows, but that's exactly the sort of response I got last summer when I said Fat Ross was a poor signing, sometimes a signing doesn't feel right.

On topic I'm totally on the fence with Snodgrass, he's a decent player but not at all what we need and I'd rather we were looking to add someone left sided with pace if we are going to sign an attacking player.
I'd actually much prefer that we spend any money we have on a leftback because we've got absolutely no cover for Taylor right now, other than playing someone out of position.  We've had enough "season ended in September" injuries in the last decade that a massive gap like that concerns me.
Absolutely, so would I.  But if we were offered Snodgrass on a decent deal, with his quality it would be silly not to take him.  I say this on the assumption that it's not mutually exclusive to signing a left sided player. 

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Re: Robert Snodgrass
« Reply #149 on: August 25, 2017, 11:31:37 AM »
Surely we would only consider a loan deal with option to buy for a player of his age and previous issues with long term injuries?

 


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