Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[SoccerHQ]

If we don't go into the season playing 352 then Bruce has wasted pre-season playing it instead of seeing how players can move about in a formation we're actually going to use.

Didn't he play 3-5-2 for much of last pre season? From memory we tried it once at Bristol City when it was Terry, Chester and Samba, we were poor and it was never seen again last year.

Unless we sign 3-4 players who can specifically play in that system at best it's a plan B option.

[andyh]

Transfer embargo? WTF?

[SoccerHQ]

Leeds paying £7m for Bamford wtf?!?

Amazed Boro are letting him go, he scored 15 goals after xmas and then Pulis wierdly dropped him for the play offs. He is better than Asambalonga and Gestede.

Leeds also signed Barry Douglas. If we want to play 3-5-2 and have money again he's someone we should've looked at.

[john2710]

Embargo makes sense when you're struggling to pay the taxman & wages.

[jwarry]

Embargo makes sense when you're struggling to pay the taxman & wages.

Talk about being clutched from the jaws of oblivion!

[PeterWithesShin]

Leeds paying £7m for Bamford wtf?!?

Amazed Boro are letting him go, he scored 15 goals after xmas and then Pulis wierdly dropped him for the play offs. He is better than Asambalonga and Gestede.

Leeds also signed Barry Douglas. If we want to play 3-5-2 and have money again he's someone we should've looked at.

He scored 10. And regularly goes months without scoring.

[Brassneck]

Embargo makes sense when you're struggling to pay the taxman & wages.

It also might explain why Moreira hasn't officially been announced yet.

[Toronto Villa]

So for all of his genius Bielsa is signing Patrick Bamford.

[Dave P]

So the fact we were under an embargo and now we are not is surely a good sign for the rest of the window and our immediate future?

It makes sense that we were but also makes you think how things are at B9 if they are still under an embargo?

[Chris Jameson]

Embargo makes sense when you're struggling to pay the taxman & wages.

Can he play left back?

[sirlordbaltimore]

Leeds paying £7m for Bamford wtf?!?

Amazed Boro are letting him go, he scored 15 goals after xmas

In reality, he scored one less goal (12 in league & cups) than our very own Conor Hourihane (13)

Who himself was apparently hindered by Bruce not knowing how to play him ...

[Ads]

Those were his first goals in a year or so weren't they?

[PeterWithesShin]

He had that good loan spell at Boro scoring 19 goals, the last was 14th April 2015. His next goal was 35 games later on the 13th May 2017. Then it was a run of 3 in 29 games (2 were against our reserves in the LC), scored 9 in 7 and then finished the season 1 in 8.

[Steve67]

Hanford is good player who doesn’t score goals. Transfer embargo?? No wonder we’ve been so slow. Hope for a good week now then.

[Mister E]

Why would we want an 18 loanee striker? - I thought we had plenty of young and older strikers in the squad.
And, what are we doing to extract some value out of the financial commitment that is McCormack?
Bruce is being let off the hook a little, IMO.