Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[SoccerHQ]

The best Romanian under 21 in the summer was Puscas who went to Reading for about 10m.

He's only scored six goals in the championship so hasn't lived up to expectations so far.

As much as his YT looks good he's got less experienced than Trezeguet at club and international level (Turkish league is better than Romanian one and he's played in major tournaments for Egypt) so think we need to cool down if anyone thinks he's coming in to fire us to safety, strikes me as another project tbh. You could also say El Ghazi is much more experienced and he's been very up and down at premier league level all season so I'd like to sign a wide player who's a little better than both of them.

Whatever happened to the Pedro link? Despite his pleas Barca aren't exactly rushing to bring him home.

[Ads]

I don’t know who this bloke is.

https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1215398819795521537?s=21

I can never read a Romanian name starting with an I, without hearing Sean Connery's line from the Last Crusade in my head.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Hmm, I work in Romania sometimes and don't get the impression that the league is even as good as the Welsh league or that (aside from Hagi jr) they have any good international talent these days.

[cdbearsfan]

29th ranked league in Europe, so eighteen places above the Welsh Premier League. Still fairly shit, though, thirteen places adrift of Scotland and also below the likes of the Kazakh, Belarussian and Azerbaijani leagues.

[eamonn]

Reading spent £10m on a player in the summer?  Game's gone, Jeff.

[SoccerHQ]

Reading spent £10m on a player in the summer?  Game's gone, Jeff.

Couple of days after they lured Pele out of retirement.

https://talksport.com/football/584116/reading-pele-george-puscas-inter-milan/

[mike]

Day 9, and still no new striker in. Plenty of interest in Kodjia and Hogan moving on. This is proving difficult which stems back to last August when the decision was taken not to sign another striker.....

You're not going to panic all month like you did in the summer when we went two whole days without signing anyone and we ended up with 12 players? Relax.

Despite which, Lansbury gets a game. However you look at it our recruitment or coaching is a bit tom tit.

I'm not a fan either but Lansbury getting game time is down to Smith. If he didn't rate him, he'd have let him go by now.

I was trying to say that if those 12 signings had been any good, we wouldn’t be playing Lansbury so I’m hoping that comparisons between the August and December are limited.

[Clampy]

Day 9, and still no new striker in. Plenty of interest in Kodjia and Hogan moving on. This is proving difficult which stems back to last August when the decision was taken not to sign another striker.....

You're not going to panic all month like you did in the summer when we went two whole days without signing anyone and we ended up with 12 players? Relax.

Despite which, Lansbury gets a game. However you look at it our recruitment or coaching is a bit tom tit.

I'm not a fan either but Lansbury getting game time is down to Smith. If he didn't rate him, he'd have let him go by now.

I was trying to say that if those 12 signings had been any good, we wouldn’t be playing Lansbury so I’m hoping that comparisons between the August and December are limited.

I think the 12 players we bought in have been mixed in terms of success and it still is early days. Luiz and Nakamba are new to the league and were always possibly going to take time to get used to it. As for playing Lansbury, don't forget we lost Mcginn so there was always going to be a space freed up for a midfielder. Now Drinkwater has come in, we may see less of him anyway, who knows.

[sid1964]

Piatek - mentioned this morning that he is on his to Spurz for £28 million - if true we can move on to our next target?

[ROBBO]

Okay he can go to them and sit on the bench months on end and wait for him to get injured again.

[mr underhill]

I don't think for a moment we were interested in him - the club or agent used us to put pressure on others to bid.

[Rigadon]

I don't think for a moment we were interested in him - the club or agent used us to put pressure on others to bid.

Looks like it.  But I've never heard of him anyway (not that this is any kind of barometer of quality).

[chrisw1]

Piatek - mentioned this morning that he is on his to Spurz for £28 million - if true we can move on to our next target?

I suspect he never was a target.  I doubt we'll be spending £20-£30m this window.

[Mossie Hennebry]

Piatek - mentioned this morning that he is on his to Spurz for £28 million - if true we can move on to our next target?

Levy will bid £2.8m and a slice of leftover Xmas cake. We could still be in the running...sure aren't we loaded?

[mallo]

Going from the highlights alone, Dennis Man looks a better prospect than Coman. Looks faster, better close control and better vision and altogether looks sharper. The only downside is that he seems to wear his shorts like he's in prison. Coman looks like a show pony. I think both would struggle badly here - they would be ones for the end of next season I would think but we do need to think forwards, so I wouldn't be adverse to a punt. Need replacements when we sell McGinn for £50M and Trez for £30. See what I did there.