Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[Dr Butler]

Options at left back and centre half is the worry!

Hutton / Taylor

Chester / Jedi / Elphick / Axel

Jesus Christ.

is he available on a free ?  and can he deal with crosses ??

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The Doc

[Risso]

Steve Bruce is the only person in the free world who thinks Jedinak is a centre half.

He's not great there but one wayward header apart, was he really that bad against Brentford? I didn't think so.

I can see why Bruce plays him, he won everything in the air.

It was a wayward header that very nearly led to a goal for them though.  He seems to have one really bad mistake in him a game at the moment.  Defence has to be a concern because we've let in too many goals and haven't kept a clean sheet in the league.

[cdbearsfan]

Options at left back and centre half is the worry!

Hutton / Taylor

Chester / Jedi / Elphick / Axel

Jesus Christ.

is he available on a free ?

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The Doc

No point. He's scared of crosses.

[Dr Butler]

Options at left back and centre half is the worry!

Hutton / Taylor

Chester / Jedi / Elphick / Axel

Jesus Christ.

is he available on a free ?

UTV
The Doc

No point. He's scared of crosses.

well played you beat my modification of my original post

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The Doc

[sirlordbaltimore]

Steve Bruce is the only person in the free world who thinks Jedinak is a centre half.

He's not great there but one wayward header apart, was he really that bad against Brentford? I didn't think so.

I can see why Bruce plays him, he won everything in the air.

He's not ideal but he's also not half as bad as some make out (see Whelan also)

I'd like to think Axel will eventually move to CB, but i have zero idea if he can play on the left side which means Chester would have to move over if not and Chester there is nowhere near as good as Chester is on his natural side obviously)

I wouldn't be surprised to see Terry back if he can lower his wage demands

[QuintonVilla]

So Bruce has apparently said he's not going to sign a centre half or left back. The defence will cost us this season, we don't look capable of keeping a clean sheet.

[cdbearsfan]

He's a bloody idiot, then.

[sirlordbaltimore]

So Bruce has apparently said he's not going to sign a centre half or left back. The defence will cost us this season, we don't look capable of keeping a clean sheet.

Well we'll have to outscore everybody and play attacking football, which folks wanted to see. We might win more but we'll probably lose more as well.

We can't loan endless players. We desperately need wide options as Adomah and Green look pretty woeful at the moment. We're after Bolasie and have El Ghazi. And we absoluitely need another proven striker at this level with everyone bar Kodjia injured, so we're after Abraham

That's pretty much our possible loans done. It's not like we could buy anymore either

[OCD]

As a former defender himself I would expect him to know how to organise a defence so I'll expect us to become better as we get deeper into the season.

[Clampy]

Didn't we go through the whole of last season with only three centre halves (Chester, Terry and Samba)? This time round it's a bit more of a risk because Jedinak looks iffy playing there. I can only presume he can't get who he wants and to be honest, it's not as if he didn't try to sign a left back.

[Ian.]

He's bloody nuts. We had Terry last season was fantastic for the most part. To not have a replacement by now is crazy. Jedi will be knackered again soon and we're left with Tommy.
Unless of course he stumbles on to a centre half in Axel, hold on a minute, isn't he a centre half by trade already?

[guyavfc]

He's bloody nuts. We had Terry last season was fantastic for the most part. To not have a replacement by now is crazy. Jedi will be knackered again soon and we're left with Tommy.
Unless of course he stumbles on to a centre half in Axel, hold on a minute, isn't he a centre half by trade already?

I really don't understand why we don't give Terry a 1 year contract. Would install confidence in that defence which looks so shaky at the moment. I'd rotate Tuanzebe and Terry at CB throughout the season.

[cdbearsfan]

So Bruce has apparently said he's not going to sign a centre half or left back. The defence will cost us this season, we don't look capable of keeping a clean sheet.

Well we'll have to outscore everybody and play attacking football, which folks wanted to see. We might win more but we'll probably lose more as well.

We can't loan endless players. We desperately need wide options as Adomah and Green look pretty woeful at the moment. We're after Bolasie and have El Ghazi. And we absoluitely need another proven striker at this level with everyone bar Kodjia injured, so we're after Abraham

That's pretty much our possible loans done. It's not like we could buy anymore either

Given that we can only have five loan players in the squad at once, it was luducrous to loan Steer out then have to waste a loan to obtain a replacement backup.

We could possibly get away with Tuanzebe and Chester at centre half but we all know that Bruce, and only Bruce, thinks Jedinak is the answer.

The fucking maniac.

[LeeB]

Options at left back and centre half is the worry!

Hutton / Taylor

Chester / Jedi / Elphick / Axel

Jesus Christ.

Is that on loan?

[ktvillan]

He tried to sign Bryan which kind of indicates he saw a need to strengthen at LB.  It would seem a bit  odd that, after not getting Bryan, he's just decided we don;t need to strengthen there after all.  I mean our current options are a RB prone to lapses of concentration and a LB who is either badly out of form or just crap.