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Author Topic: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread  (Read 464690 times)

Offline supertom

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2490 on: January 15, 2020, 03:50:08 PM »
A loan offer to Leicester for Slim Shady.

He's 6'2 and N'Zonzi is 6'5. Apparently we are trying to get a little taller
I wish we'd get a whole lot quicker too. There's barely any pace in our side.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2491 on: January 15, 2020, 03:53:19 PM »
A loan offer to Leicester for Slim Shady.

He's 6'2 and N'Zonzi is 6'5. Apparently we are trying to get a little taller
I wish we'd get a whole lot quicker too. There's barely any pace in our side.

Pace remains an issue, but I find speed of thought and positional/tactical awareness and inteligence every bit as important. We massively struggle in those areas

Offline Small Rodent

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2492 on: January 15, 2020, 04:00:15 PM »
A loan offer to Leicester for Slim Shady.

He's 6'2 and N'Zonzi is 6'5. Apparently we are trying to get a little taller
I wish we'd get a whole lot quicker too. There's barely any pace in our side.

Pace remains an issue, but I find speed of thought and positional/tactical awareness and inteligence every bit as important. We massively struggle in those areas

Let the ball do the work...

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2493 on: January 15, 2020, 04:02:50 PM »
Kick it in the goal.

Offline TheMalandro

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2494 on: January 15, 2020, 04:18:43 PM »
Hit it low.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2495 on: January 15, 2020, 04:25:09 PM »
Reina - loan

Drinkwater - loan

N'Zonzi  - loan to buy?

Benteke - Loan to buy back?

Llorente - Loan

** would like a pacey winger as well but that maybe pushing it


I would not be too unhappy with that.
Cannot see the point of spunking a load of cash on buying players now if we could be relegated

Loan some talent / experience to get us safe and then build again in the summer seems to me the most sensible thing to do and cost effective in wages for FFP

Offline Deano's Mullet

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2496 on: January 15, 2020, 04:28:53 PM »
Reina - loan

Drinkwater - loan

N'Zonzi  - loan to buy?

Benteke - Loan to buy back?

Llorente - Loan

** would like a pacey winger as well but that maybe pushing it


I would not be too unhappy with that.
Cannot see the point of spunking a load of cash on buying players now if we could be relegated

Loan some talent / experience to get us safe and then build again in the summer seems to me the most sensible thing to do and cost effective in wages for FFP

What do you think about the talk of signing Slimani?

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2497 on: January 15, 2020, 04:51:54 PM »
Don't know a great deal about him other than the obligatory YT clip - where he at least looks like he can head the ball

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2498 on: January 15, 2020, 05:20:42 PM »
Slimani was a waste of money at Leicester - he didn't fit into their counter-attacking-whack-it-long-to-Vardy/Mahrez strategy (which Drinkwater was a very useful part of). As a consequence I think his confidence was well shot.

He may well fit into a more close-passing game, and certainly is better than nothing.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2499 on: January 15, 2020, 05:23:43 PM »
If Kodjia is fit he has to play from Saturday - we can't go into the next two or three games without a forward. The trouble with leaving things late in the window is that we could be in real difficulties by the time someone does come in. This us a mess of our own making in many respects - you can't legislate for two serious injuroes in the same match, but we should and could have bought better in the summer.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2500 on: January 15, 2020, 05:28:32 PM »
** would like a pacey winger as well but that maybe pushing it

Watford have just bought one for £7m. Pussetto, Argentinian lad playing in Italy.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2501 on: January 15, 2020, 05:38:07 PM »
He will help them claw their way to safety.

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2502 on: January 15, 2020, 05:38:18 PM »
Vida, N'Zonzi and Slimani all look like tough buggers who would be up for the scrap. Certainly would push our average height up a little.

Reina
Vida - Mings - Hause
Guilbert - N'Zonzi - Drinkwater - Targett
El Ghazi - Slimani - Jack
I don't like the look of that team at all. Hause's distribution is terrible right now. Drinkwater is way off the pace and according to Garry Thompson on WM yesterday Reina looked like a tub of lard when he saw him play recently. I am up for Nzonzi though and i think he would give us some much needed bite but out of our choices i'd have to stick with either Nkamba or Luiz in mf.

As much as I like Thompson and as much as I doubt the conditioning of a 37 year old goalie who has barely played in years, I very much doubt Garry Thompson saw Reina play away against Genoa in October and paid particular notice to his physical condition.
 
File under hype and bullshit.
Ok maybe he didn't see him playing. I might of misheard him. It was along the lines of "last time i saw him he looked like Pepe Reina had eaten Pepe Reina". Don't know why Garry Thompson ex-Villa player who seems to have an affection for the club would make that up.

No idea. But unless Villa have done extensive photoshop work on the photos and videos of Reina's signing, Garry Thompson ex-Villa player needs a new pair of glasses.
I really hope he is wrong and/or bullshitting but i definitely heard him say it on last nights show.A fit Pepe Reina will be a fantastic asset in our fight to beat the drop.

Pepe Reina was in the stands Sunday and didn't look like he'd eaten himself. Thompson's talking out his arse.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2503 on: January 15, 2020, 05:39:42 PM »
He will help them claw their way to safety.

You've been on form recently, Brian!

Offline brian green

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2504 on: January 15, 2020, 05:41:28 PM »
It's the thought of getting my Benteke shirt out of the pawnshop Olly.

 


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