Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[Clampy]

Is it me or do the Birmingham Mail seem to get even worse over time with their shit stirring, click bait non-story bullshit. I purposely don't click on any of their shit but i see the 'stories' come up listed when you google search us.

I was going to mention this. Their click bait shite has gone into overdrive this month.

[Holy Trinity]

Is it me or do the Birmingham Mail seem to get even worse over time with their shit stirring, click bait non-story bullshit. I purposely don't click on any of their shit but i see the 'stories' come up listed when you google search us.

I was going to mention this. Their click bait shite has gone into overdrive this month.

They wrote a story based on a reddit post I made the other day and quoted a few of the people in the thread. It's such lazy bull shite "journalism"

[Villan82]

Grabban came out of the Sunderland documentary quite badly, looks like a bit of a 'bad egg' in my opinion.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't think he did, really. Only Rodwell came across as a twat.

[Nii Lamptey]

Benteke not in Palace's squad today.... just sayin' !

[Drummond]

Don't be so patronising.

ha ha I’m laughing by bollocks of reading that

Drumond calling someone else out for being patronising lots of kettles and pots come to mind
I do love you Drum bit that’s got to be a contender for ironic post of the year so far

Fuck off John

[Sexual Ealing]

He's injured.

[AsTallAsLions]

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

In about 1970?

Yes, in about 1970, of course that's what he meant.

[Drummond]

Benteke not in Palace's squad today.... just sayin' !

Yep, saw that.

[cdbearsfan]

In fairness, they brought it back more than once, we last got rid of it in 2016.

Not that I mind, I always thought it was a bit of a naff motif. I'd have preferred something fancy in Latin.

[algy]

I think, this window, it's a case of taking what we can get. Realistically we aren't going to get a player with current Premier League experience because whatever team they play for isn't going to want to sell players to a rival mid way through the season. It's always going to be one of: a punt from abroad (but probably not one of the 'big' leagues), getting a player who's barely playing at the moment, or paying so much that the team we're buying from can't afford to say "no" (eg a championship club with questionable finances)

That in mind, Drinkwater seems a reasonable move. Reina will bring experience and cover. Dunno how good he is now, but he was playing regularly for Napoli 18 months ago so presumably is at least half way competent. If he's helping on the coaching side too, he might turn out to be quite an asset even if he is only warming the bench.

I'd happily take Benteke on loan in the circumstances. Not that I think he'll even be 50% of what he was, but he's likely to be the best of set of bad options. He should also work as a plan b, so we can be more adventurous and get in a youngish foreign striker. If he settles and starts scoring, Benteke will be handy to be knocking around, maybe helping Wesley with his game. If he's rubbish/doesn't settle straight away, we'll still have Benteke, who regardless of form is better than not having any forwards available.

[hilts_coolerking]

Not that I mind, I always thought it was a bit of a naff motif. I'd have preferred something fancy in Latin.

Mea culpa, perhaps.

[aj2k77]

What is  ''we desperately need a striker'', in Latin?

[cdbearsfan]

Not that I mind, I always thought it was a bit of a naff motif. I'd have preferred something fancy in Latin.

Mea culpa, perhaps.

Applause.

[Virgil Caine]

Attacitus desperandum