Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[LeeB]

I do think Albion have a point, to be fair. No reason why Barcelona can't be paying what they owe, the twats.

Of course they do, but, you know as they say in Spain, "Joder el Albion".

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I do think Albion have a point, to be fair. No reason why Barcelona can't be paying what they owe, the twats.

I agree, it’s peanuts to Barca. It’s still amusing that Albion are pissed off though!

[pauliewalnuts]

Don’t think this has been mentioned.
Just listened to BBC’s Football daily podcast from last night and there was an interesting section on Louie Barry.
He was at West Brom from the age of 6, didn’t sign pro forms with them but instead moved to Barca’s academy. A tribunal set a fee of €130k for the transfer which apparently Barca have yet to pay.
Former Albion academy boss has since taken up a similar post at villa and told us about Barry. BBC suggested a price of around £700k with various performance related add ons could see it rise to several million. Albion pissed off as they’ve developed him, as yet not received the relatively low compensation fee and now we’ve picked up ‘thier’ hot prospect. The delay appears to be because of the fee still owed from Barca to Albion.

Barcelona can act more than a bit shady at times "Més que un club".

Any chain of events that leads to us getting an excellent prospect from Barcelona AND Albion being royally fucked off and out of pocket is "Més que alright" for me.

[ktvillan]

I said in the summer Rodriguez is shithousery on legs but that's just what we could do with a bit of.  Plus he gets a few goals and it would stop him punching one in against us.

[Des Little]

I'm sure Albion would really give a flying fcuk if things were the other way round. 

They know what they are.  Bollocks to them.

[LeeB]

I said in the summer Rodriguez is shithousery on legs but that's just what we could do with a bit of.  Plus he gets a few goals and it would stop him punching one in against us.

We've played Burnley twice though, so he can't.

[SoccerHQ]

I said in the summer Rodriguez is shithousery on legs but that's just what we could do with a bit of.  Plus he gets a few goals and it would stop him punching one in against us.

I'd be surprised if he moved. He's first off the bench if anything happens to Wood or Barnes, hometown club etc so can't see why he'd swop their subs bench for ours.

He didn't do much when WBA went down in 17/18, just 7 goals so don't really think he's good enough as a starter at the top level since his injuries so wouldn't say much if we were targeting him as a first choice.

[cdbearsfan]

Football wise, a slight improvement on Jota. A slight improvement on Jota is nowhere near good enough to fix our problems up front.

We need to find our 2020 version of the Darren Bent signing, not be looking for yet another player that struggles to get a game for fucking Burnley.

Plus he has really shit hair, not sure if I mentioned it.

[Bad English]

When we get done over by teams with which we should be competing, it is often at the hands of niggly ****** in the opposition team. We need a niggly ****** or two.

[cdbearsfan]

I consoled myself with that thought when we signed Lansbury, who had been Arsehole-in-Chief for a thoroughly villainous Forest side that grabbed a massively undeserved draw at Villa Park.

He seemed to lose his ability to cheat, or play anything resembling football, as soon as he arrived.

And he had shit hair, too.

[Brend'Watkins]

I'd be surprised if he's leaving AC Milan's bench to sit on ours. I expect he'll be straight in, if fit, regardless of Nyland's form.

Correct.  If he becomes our player and he's better than Nyland he starts. Forget the sentiment and the possible fragility of current players egos.  What's best for the club comes first.

[dave.woodhall]

I do think Albion have a point, to be fair. No reason why Barcelona can't be paying what they owe, the twats.

You should know the house rules by now. No abuse, no libel, no being fair to the stripeys.

[cdbearsfan]

I was thinking that they were a bunch of twats while I was typing it, in my defence.

[Brend'Watkins]

Don’t think this has been mentioned.
Just listened to BBC’s Football daily podcast from last night and there was an interesting section on Louie Barry.
He was at West Brom from the age of 6, didn’t sign pro forms with them but instead moved to Barca’s academy. A tribunal set a fee of €130k for the transfer which apparently Barca have yet to pay.
Former Albion academy boss has since taken up a similar post at villa and told us about Barry. BBC suggested a price of around £700k with various performance related add ons could see it rise to several million. Albion pissed off as they’ve developed him, as yet not received the relatively low compensation fee and now we’ve picked up ‘thier’ hot prospect. The delay appears to be because of the fee still owed from Barca to Albion.

The bloke who was installing me a new fence yesterday was going on about this.  He knows his Dad and it's definitely happening, supposedly. 

Another great Brummie (North Birmingham) talent in our squad. Wonderful!

[chrisw1]

I do think Albion have a point, to be fair. No reason why Barcelona can't be paying what they owe, the twats.

You should know the house rules by now. No abuse, no libel, no being fair to the stripeys.

It's a good while since we've had one of your Albion rants Dave.  I had hoped we'd draw them in a cup just so we could revisit one.