January Transfer Window

[dave.woodhall]

I remember Gregory having the hump with Bartelt for not having the right attitude - coming in with sunglasses on his head or something

The Roman who came for a Villa holiday.

[tomd2103]

I think so, he's a target man and has the experience and guile that Davis just lacks at this stage.

Agree Ads. Would be a decent loan signing until the end of the season. 

[pauliewalnuts]

Remember when we used to have these threads and talk about stuff like signing Milner, Young, Carew and co?

Now look at us after several years of Lerner neglect, and we're praying we land a loan move for Brett Angell.

[passitsideways]

It is what it is. Ulloa probably would've helped us out in the late-era Prem years, to be fair.

[paul_e]

The problem I have with Ulloa is that we've literally just been shown that this team can beat teams convincingly when they try to play with the ball on the floor.  For the next signing to be someone that encourages us to lump it forward would be hugely discouraging and for me would show that Bristol City wasn't the result of anything Bruce has had the coaches working on, but rather just a sublime performance by 2-3 of our attacking players that dragged the standard up a level or 2.

[Gareth]

Would he be our first Argentine player?

Didn’t we have a player called Bartelt in the 00s, came from an Italian club didn’t play much and went back quickly?

Might have imagined it.

Edit: I didn’t imagine it although wiki suggests he came on loan and didn’t play at all, surprising I can remember that from 18 years ago but not what I was going up the stairs for 10 minutes ago.

Remember watching Bartelt, he landed in England and played that evening in a game at Bromsgrove, he looked hopeless in that game though we put it down to jet lag :-) 3 months later he disappeared & it possibly wasn’t jet lag after all

[villabear]

Remember when we used to have these threads and talk about stuff like signing Milner, Young, Carew and co?

Now look at us after several years of Lerner neglect, and we're praying we land a loan move for Brett Angell.

We wouldn't even get get him now.

[Mister E]

The problem I have with Ulloa is that we've literally just been shown that this team can beat teams convincingly when they try to play with the ball on the floor.  For the next signing to be someone that encourages us to lump it forward would be hugely discouraging and for me would show that Bristol City wasn't the result of anything Bruce has had the coaches working on, but rather just a sublime performance by 2-3 of our attacking players that dragged the standard up a level or 2.

Interesting observation.
The putting-together of that Cup team seems a much better gauge on which to adjudge the manager's team-and-tactics ability, since it was specific and built 'from the ground up' for the occasion.

[berneboy]

Edit: I didn’t imagine it although wiki suggests he came on loan and didn’t play at all, surprising I can remember that from 18 years ago but not what I was going up the stairs for 10 minutes ago.

This I understand very well PW!

[cdbearsfan]

Eighteen years ago, fucking Hell.

[auntiesledd]

The problem I have with Ulloa is that we've literally just been shown that this team can beat teams convincingly when they try to play with the ball on the floor.  For the next signing to be someone that encourages us to lump it forward would be hugely discouraging and for me would show that Bristol City wasn't the result of anything Bruce has had the coaches working on, but rather just a sublime performance by 2-3 of our attacking players that dragged the standard up a level or 2.

Ulloa wasn't successful at Brighton with the team lumping the ball forward to him at every opportunity. 'Just saying...

[mr underhill]

lots of interest in him from Spain so if that firms up I can't see him running to VP

[cdbearsfan]

He might not fancy relocating for the sake of a loan move, especially if he has a family.

[Ads]

Eighteen years ago, fucking Hell.

I was 13.

[Ads]

Scousers up here saying we're interested in Marco Grujic on loan.

He's a big Serbian lad. Sitting midfielder whose decent on the ball.