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Author Topic: Robert Snodgrass - loaned for 17-18 season  (Read 132595 times)

Online Toronto Villa

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #465 on: January 13, 2018, 09:51:01 PM »
Sam Johnstone is only going to get better. Keepers don’t mature until their late 20’s. He’s got tremendous potential. I’d sign him permanently as a priority.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #466 on: January 13, 2018, 09:52:13 PM »
Sam Johnstone is only going to get better. Keepers don’t mature until their late 20’s. He’s got tremendous potential. I’d sign him permanently as a priority.

Me too.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #467 on: January 13, 2018, 10:10:50 PM »
Sam Johnstone is only going to get better. Keepers don’t mature until their late 20’s. He’s got tremendous potential. I’d sign him permanently as a priority.

Me too.

With the right coaching. Hopefully with Villa.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #468 on: January 13, 2018, 10:13:35 PM »
I would sign him if we get up. Agree we need more pace, but I would offer 4-5m and let West Ham sweat on it, they will accept in the end. Although Moyes might want to keep him. We need to sign 2 strong, powerful pacey forwards come the summer, but will still need Adomah and Snodgrass as options. Benteke would do a job on the end of his crosses.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #469 on: January 13, 2018, 11:05:08 PM »
Sam Johnstone is only going to get better. Keepers don’t mature until their late 20’s. He’s got tremendous potential. I’d sign him permanently as a priority.

Me too.

With the right coaching. Hopefully with Villa.

I'm just not sure, he's a good shot stopper but his distribution isn't great and he makes me nervous at crosses still.  If he'd been on a free then I'd have gone for it and then signed another keeper to compete with him but if we have to pay 4-5m (which I suspect will be the case) he really has to be first choice, at least until January, and I think that's a big risk.

It's the same with Snodgrass really, I just think he'll end up costing a lot more than I'd want to pay and he's got no sell-on value.  One of the biggest problems we had after MON left was that he'd filled the squad with players like that which was crippling us on wages and leaving us with no option but to take the money for the players we could sell.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #470 on: January 14, 2018, 12:50:37 AM »
I’ve seen a story saying Moyes wants him back but we’ve told them to feck off as we paid a £2m loan fee for him.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #471 on: January 14, 2018, 01:44:49 AM »
I’ve seen a story saying Moyes wants him back but we’ve told them to feck off as we paid a £2m loan fee for him.

Sounds about right, if we paid a loan fee, and I imagine it will have been 1-2m, then they have not got a leg to stand on.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #472 on: January 14, 2018, 07:27:34 AM »
I wasn't sold on Snoddy at all but he's proved me wrong in the  past few weeks. Sustaining this improved form, - and  Hogan's -  is vital to our promotion ambitions, especially with Kodjia out for the rest of the season.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #473 on: January 14, 2018, 07:35:03 AM »
He certainly knows how to win a free kick. Very Barry Hole like for those elderly posters.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #474 on: January 14, 2018, 08:15:53 AM »
There's something a bit Milner about him.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #475 on: January 14, 2018, 08:59:12 AM »
Not that long ago a lot of fans were calling for him to be dropped

He’s too good for this level. Excellent today

I was one of them because he was predictable, lethargic and seemed disinterested. V Boro, Bristol City and today he was anything but. I like anything but - he should keep it up.
Agree with this entirely   hope he keeps it up

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #476 on: January 14, 2018, 01:51:14 PM »
There's something a bit Milner about him.

I beat you to that comparison by about a month.  As i said, it's the mentality.

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #477 on: January 14, 2018, 02:07:07 PM »
Feck off Moyes! After the treatment Snoddy received at your club, he won't want to go back there in a hurry!

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #478 on: January 14, 2018, 02:09:22 PM »
I suppose it is the Express reporting this - the same rag who said Johnstone was signing for the baggies!

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Re: Robert Snodgrass - Signed (on loan)
« Reply #479 on: January 18, 2018, 07:03:56 PM »
Bloody glad West Ham stupidly didn't put a recall clause in the deal. Although I imagine that would have significantly reduced the fee we paid.

 


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