Deano’s wishlist - the Jan transfer speculation/guaranteed nonsense thread

[Risso]

All this fitness stuff can be overplayed. Look at Bruce Lee - so fit he was offed by a paracetamol, the soft div.

Aspirin, to be really pedantic.  Still a soft div though.

[Ads]

It wouldn't surprise me if Axel came back and played in midfield. He can pass, run with the ball and get his shorts dirty.

If you were choosing attributes on a blank canvass for a defensive midfield player, he'd have most of them.

With Chester and Elphick for the right hand side and Mings and Huase for the left, it's stronger anyway than Chester and erm...

[footyskillz]

And Wba have made 3 ridiculously good signings at this level- loan signings of Stefan Johansen, Jefferson Montero and Jacob Murphy.  Gauling. They are seeking automatic.

[Sexual Ealing]

All this fitness stuff can be overplayed. Look at Bruce Lee - so fit he was offed by a paracetamol, the soft div.

Aspirin, to be really pedantic.  Still a soft div though.

That's even worse. Asprin's like a training paracetamol for kids and small dogs.

[West Derby Villan]

And Wba have made 3 ridiculously good signings at this level- loan signings of Stefan Johansen, Jefferson Montero and Jacob Murphy.  Gauling. They are seeking automatic.

I'm guessing they didn't fit Dean Smith criteria

[ozzjim]

Jacob Murphy is a sensational get for Albion. The other 2 are a bit inconsistent, but fair play their squad should walk automatic now, and probably will. Leeds and them straight up and then I reckon Derby will win the play offs.

[Steve67]

Blimey!  I went to be at 11pm, Fer is in the bag and we have addressed that midfield physicality issue we had.  I get up, as I'm catching a flight, and we have the, er super muscular Tom Carroll instead.  Weird window for me.  We buy another dodgyish keeper, loan two unfit or certainly undercooked central defenders, albeit left sided and capable of playing left back (ish), send the one complete fit jigsaw of a right back, back to his club and bring in another, slightly inferior John McGinn!  I presume Fer failed the medical and Carroll was the alternative?  We have not properly addressed the balance but have a few new shiny players to have a look at.  Play off's?  I don't think so, not now.  I hope I'm wrong though and the defenders are excellent at preventing us from giving silly goals away.  Going forward, we can do anyone, but that midfield still concerns me.  The window? 6 out of 10 for me.

[Rigadon]

Pretty awful transfer window on the face of it. Why do we keep buying / loaning players who aren't fucking fit?   

[ozzjim]

I think they were in for both and pulled out of Fer. Can only think a midfielder carrying an injury pushing 30 on big wages might have been reconsidered at the last minute.

[Nev]

I get a sense that people are somewhat underwhelmed and I feel that to a point, however looking at the three seasons we've had in this league the teams that are successful are just that, teams. Greater than the sum of their parts.

How often to we decry "average" or "little known" players for bossing defeats against us? We had the big players at Wembley in May but Fulham had the team and tactics.

And finally, our previous manager would buy players that looked good elsewhere only not to have the nous to build them into a team. I hope our current manager can bring in players that didn't tantalise during the highlights on Quest but who become a vital part of our team.

[sid1964]

The reason we sign players who are not fit is because we are desperate, and as a club we are seen by other clubs as stupid and almost a soft touch.

Also we have to pacify our fan base who demand that we make 3-4 signings during each transfer window, and therefore end up with a squad of about 30 players, most of these will just sit in the stands each Saturday laughing there arses off that they are being paid premier league wages by an average Championship team.

[Matt Collins]

I don't mind signing the unheralded players at all. I like the sound of the French guy and am pleased we're building for next season.

Also don't have a problem with loans to buy so we can change our mind

But getting three players in who've all had massive injury problems is clearly a risk. You'd have to assume at least one of them suffers more injury issues, just on the law of averages

But it was clearly a tough window. Only really west brom appear to have Done well.

But then we kept Abraham and they lost Harvey Barnes. So I'd still say they were down overall whereas we're up

[Rigadon]

I don’t demand we sign fuck loads of players every window.  I’d just like the ones we do sign to be, you know, able to play.  As for building for next season... let’s do that on the summer when we know which league we’ll be playing in. 

[sid1964]

Reading a few posts on here, it looks as though there would have been a melt down if we had not signed anyone?

[Ads]

I'm always curious at people heralding players or slagging them off and what it's based on. Fully accept though that some people watch significantly more football on TV than me, as unless a player crosses our path, I probably won't watch them a great deal. I guess the advent of chipped Firesticks means Swansea or Newcastle could be watched every week so strong opinions of Carroll and Murphy can be formed. No idea why anybody would waste finite time on earth watching Swansea or Newcastle mind.