Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[Clark W Griswold]

On the other hand Collins would be acceptable only to walk around in the Hercules costume or to clean out the stadium lavatories. What we need is the Terry replacement. I would have thought that would have been obvious to him at the end of May, and a list of possibles made straight away in the event of him being able to do something, which he eventually was.

[Duncan Shaw]

I just think he assumed he'd get a new CB on deadline day. We had bid rejected for Scott McKenna and also had the French guy over for talks but neither happened.

Also must've been pretty confident John Terry would return so to be knocked back on three main targets is a problem and now we're looking at other free agents like Huth. Good defender when fit but he's hardly played a game in 18 months.

Assumed and professionalism do not go together.

Plus, we've had quotes from the Aberdeen manager saying they TOLD him that they wouldn't deal if he left it until the last day!!

[tomd2103]

Huth would be fine as the Samba replacement. That's all really.

Are you suggesting that we press ahead with Jedinak and Tuanzebe until January? 

[john e]

if we had a team fired up to play attacking football and firing on all cylinders,
with all the money we've spent on attacking options it shouldn't matter much if we have Samba, Jedi, Elphick or Uncle Tom Cobley at CH we would just score more than them

but we don't, and it does

[Clark W Griswold]

Huth would be fine as the Samba replacement. That's all really.

Are you suggesting that we press ahead with Jedinak and Tuanzebe until January?

Er, what the fuck are you on about?

[brian green]

Does Bruce know that George Weah has put his boots back on?  Okay so he is 51 and the President of Liberia.  Mere detail.

[AsTallAsLions]

I just think he assumed he'd get a new CB on deadline day. We had bid rejected for Scott McKenna and also had the French guy over for talks but neither happened.

Also must've been pretty confident John Terry would return so to be knocked back on three main targets is a problem and now we're looking at other free agents like Huth. Good defender when fit but he's hardly played a game in 18 months.

Assumed and professionalism do not go together.

Plus, we've had quotes from the Aberdeen manager saying they TOLD him that they wouldn't deal if he left it until the last day!!

This is the truly galling thing. Says a lot about Bruce's attitude. Either that or he's gone senile

[Damo70]

Does Bruce know that George Weah has put his boots back on?  Okay so he is 51 and the President of Liberia.  Mere detail.

I do like the idea of being the first club to have a player/president. Even Trump might be as useful as Samba.

[Malandro]

Does Bruce know that George Weah has put his boots back on?  Okay so he is 51 and the President of Liberia.  Mere detail.

I do like the idea of being the first club to have a player/president. Even Trump might be as useful as Samba.

Bruce on playing Weah at centre back:

“I just think that for his career and us at the moment, that’s the progressive thing for him"

[brian green]

In the same way that Terry could help us with refereeing decisions George Weah could help us find The African Car Reverser.  Oh come on, less negativity.

[olaftab]

Do Librarians make good centre half"s?

[tomd2103]

Huth would be fine as the Samba replacement. That's all really.

Are you suggesting that we press ahead with Jedinak and Tuanzebe until January?

Er, what the fuck are you on about?

Whoa there!!  It's just that you seem to be totally dismissing the only calibre of player (Huth, Collins etc.) that we can bring in at the moment.  I agree with the posts above that Bruce's poor squad management has put us in a really weak position at centre half and that bringing in the likes of Huth and Collins would not be ideal in usual circumstances, but I think we are in a bit of an emergency situation and those kind of players are the only options open to us until January.     

[Drummond]

Do Librarians make good centre half"s?

No, they're too quiet. Though quite well organised.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Do Librarians make good centre half"s?

No, they're too quiet. Though quite well organised.

Might be worth a loan though. Just for a month, of course.

[mike]

Surely if we were looking at a free agent we’d have done it by now. I think SB is quite happy with what he’s got. It’s like the old Blackadder joke about the mad captain asked whether a ship needs a crew if it’s going to sail round the world, ‘there’s two opinions, every other captain says you do, I say you dont’.