Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[clash city rocker]

We should have signed a decent striker by now.  Bad show.   

Yeah, the rumours are that we don't want to. Don't think we need one, apparently.

That's what I've heard too. I agree, think it's better saving till the summer.

In the championship?

[malckennedy]

Problem is Brentford are pushing Leeds for the 2nd auto-promotion spot, 6 points now. Can't see them selling. Hull lost but 3 points off play-offs.

Or WBA for first spot! They’re only an extra point ahead of Leeds and haven’t won in 5 Championship matches. I keep hoping!

[villa `cross the mersey]

You can see now why we removed the motto, "Prepared" from the club badge

In about 1970?

Erm ......what's that on the badge on the 2015 shirt then?
Or am I missing the point Dave ?
Cheers VCTM

[cdbearsfan]

It seems to have been on the shirts from 1957-69, 1992-95 and from 2007-16.

[villa `cross the mersey]

You can see now why we removed the motto, "Prepared" from the club badge

In fairness, I don't think the club saw two long term injuries happening on the same day.

  I appreciate that Clampy but we've been short of forwards from the start of the season hence the lack of preparedness Cheers UTV

[cdbearsfan]

Yeah, it's been clear for ages we were short up front, even if Wesley had stayed fit.

[AsTallAsLions]

It seems to have been on the shirts from 1957-69, 1992-95 and from 2007-16.

It was on all the shirts 96-06 too, there was no break from 92 to 2016 unless I hallucinated all those. The badge kept changing shield/crest shape but Prepared was always there.

[KevinGage]

We should have signed a decent striker by now.  Bad show.   

Yeah, the rumours are that we don't want to. Don't think we need one, apparently.

That's what I've heard too. I agree, think it's better saving till the summer.

We should find out what Benteke's release clause is.  And then pay more.

In the summer, as the Jan transfer window is a notoriously bad time to do business.

We don't want to get ripped off. 

[GarTomas]

We should have signed a decent striker by now.  Bad show.   

Yeah, the rumours are that we don't want to. Don't think we need one, apparently.

That's what I've heard too. I agree, think it's better saving till the summer.

We should find out what Benteke's release clause is.  And then pay more.

In the summer, as the Jan transfer window is a notoriously bad time to do business.

We don't want to get ripped off.

Won’t that start a bidding war?

[robbo1874]

Only just found out that the Louie Barry signing has made Albion mad, which cheered me up a bit on this rainy day.

Watch the Baggies fans on Soccer AM today scoring a grand total of zero on that penalty shoot out thing they do, that made me laugh.

is that shit still going?

[Richard E]

Only just found out that the Louie Barry signing has made Albion mad, which cheered me up a bit on this rainy day.

Watch the Baggies fans on Soccer AM today scoring a grand total of zero on that penalty shoot out thing they do, that made me laugh.

is that shit still going?

Yeah, they’re top of the Championship apparently.

[SoccerHQ]

Surely we can loan in a striker?

That's the part I don't get. We could sign one for 20m + but ultimately any decent one will want a relegation clause inserted and they'd be off for a similar amount (can recall Demba Ba signing for West Ham in same window we got Darren Bent. He scored a few for them but ultimately they went down and he left. Remy was the same at QPR).

Better to me to get in one for six months, hopefully they're good and then we sign them for the required amount in the summer.

I was going to mention Batsuyhai again given Palace have signed Tosun now but the Drinkwater loan has probably scuppered that.

[robbo1874]

Benni McCarthy- 5m from Celta Vigo. You heard it here first.

[AVH87]

Benni McCarthy- 5m from Celta Vigo. You heard it here first.

A 42-year-old manager to play upfront, thinking outside the box for sure if we do that.

[robbo1874]

He’ll bring a lot of experience, which is just what we need.