Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Nearly half way through January and still no strikers in. I know these things take time, but even if all our current strikers were fit we still needed one in from the 1st Jan as we were left short last transfer window. Clearly nothing was being put in place in the intervening months. With Wesley's injury that's at least 2 strikers we need. With Kodjia likely to go and Davis a non-scoring injury prone alternative, we are going to be left short in the striking department this transfer window also. Not supporting Garde in his January transfer window was a surrender. Leaving our defence woefully short during Bruce's last transfer window was just plain stupid. Leaving our striking options short as we did in the summer and compounding it now is negligence imo, so
f-cking sort it out Villa!

[aj2k77]

So the brains trust haven't pulled anything out of their arses yet. Will we go in to another game with our famed 3-7-0 formation?

[Drummond]

Why do people talk as if bringing talent in is the easiest thing to do?

Pretty much everyone involved in the game hates January, discusses how difficult it is to do business as no club wants to release players.

Regardless of whether talks have happened or targets identified, it's just not as simple. Unless you throw absolutely ridiculous money about (and most clubs don't need it now anyway with theTV deal), and we aren't able to.

We're desperate too, which makes it even more of a seller's market.

It's shit. We're in the shit with it. And it stinks.

[cdbearsfan]

Yes, it's a terrible time to sign players. August wasn't, though. We should have brought in a bloody striker. Our lack of striking options are of our own making.

[Drummond]

Yes, it's a terrible time to sign players. August wasn't, though. We should have brought in a bloody striker. Our lack of striking options are of our own making.

Agreed.

[Jon Crofts]

Injured or not, in for him or not, it's interesting looking at the stats on Benteke's time at Palace and I remain in the undecided but 'kin hell hurry up and sign a striker camp.

When Pardew signed The Beast from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Palace were averaging over 200 crosses a season & Benteke thrived.

Woy changed the way Palace play to centre around Zaha, Palace now average around 60 crosses a season.

And you wonder why he's struggled under Woy, that said, I wonder how many crosses we manage a season?

[brontebilly]

Injured or not, in for him or not, it's interesting looking at the stats on Benteke's time at Palace and I remain in the undecided but 'kin hell hurry up and sign a striker camp.

When Pardew signed The Beast from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Palace were averaging over 200 crosses a season & Benteke thrived.

Woy changed the way Palace play to centre around Zaha, Palace now average around 60 crosses a season.

And you wonder why he's struggled under Woy, that said, I wonder how many crosses we manage a season?

No forward has done well there under Hodgson really. He bought some guy Sorloth that flopped aswell. Ayew does a good job for them without scoring much either. The likes of Zaha and Townsend are shoot on sight merchants.

[Luke8]

When Pardew signed The Beast from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Palace were averaging over 200 crosses a season & Benteke thrived.

Woy changed the way Palace play to centre around Zaha, Palace now average around 60 crosses a season.

And you wonder why he's struggled under Woy, that said, I wonder how many crosses we manage a season?

Those stats can’t be correct can they? Even if it means successful/completed crosses, only managing 1.5 per game seems ridiculously low.

I’m sure I remember Man United attempting something like seventy/eighty in one game under Moyes once.

[Drummond]

When Pardew signed The Beast from 'The Mighty Reds YNWA', Palace were averaging over 200 crosses a season & Benteke thrived.

Woy changed the way Palace play to centre around Zaha, Palace now average around 60 crosses a season.

And you wonder why he's struggled under Woy, that said, I wonder how many crosses we manage a season?

Those stats can’t be correct can they? Even if it means successful/completed crosses, only managing 1.5 per game seems ridiculously low.

I’m sure I remember Man United attempting something like seventy/eighty in one game under Moyes once.

Probably against us with Hutton at RB and Lowton at LB with N'Zogbia and Weimann on the wings in front of them, shudder.

[Drummond]

In fact, that full side from April 2015.

Guzan

Hutton Okore Clark Lowton

N'Zogbia Sanchez Delph Weimann

Benteke Agbonlahor

Fucking hell. How bad is that?

The bench...

Given
Baker
Vlaar
Bacuna
Gil
Cole
Grealish

[Jon Crofts]

And to think a few of those are still earning a living from football.

[darren woolley]

Let's hope we have a couple of strikers lined up.

[Drummond]

And to think a few of those are still earning a living from football.

You'd take Delph and Benteke from that team to fit into ours but that's it, isn't it? Grealish from the bench and at a push Given.

[SoccerHQ]

Benteke's been linked to Spurs hasn't he?

[Drummond]

Benteke's been linked to Spurs hasn't he?

Everybody we've been linked with has also been linked to Spurs.

The injury to Kane is another complicating factor in our recruitment drive.