Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[mike]

Nzonzi would walk in to this side.

And then he can walk around the pitch like the others.

[Walmley_Villa]

We need energy which to be fair to Wesley he did have. The pressing game that was successful earlier in the season depends on it.

[ozzjim]

To lose your best central midfield player, striker and keeper for half a season is as unlucky as it gets really.

[Dr Butler]

To lose your best central midfield player, striker and keeper for half a season is as unlucky as it gets really.

I said exactly this the other day...

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[Toronto Villa]

With the striker issues surprised we haven’t brought Hepburn-Murphy back from loan, not sure if he is injured at the mo?

He might not be injured now but he would be as soon as walks through the doors of Bodymoor

[Gareth]

The Mirror linking us with Steven Nzonzi who has had a fallout at Galatasaray.

He's 31.  Roma paid 27m euros for hin in Aug-18 and loaned him out a year later.

Sounds very unlikelyy to me as surely we're beyond saddling ourselves with big contracts on ageing players, but short term he could be very useful in shoring us up in midfield.

He'd be a decent upgrade if we are thinking about replacing Driinkwater.

Can’t beat writing off a player after 1 game against the 2nd best side in the country :-)

[Malandro]

The Mirror linking us with Steven Nzonzi who has had a fallout at Galatasaray.

He's 31.  Roma paid 27m euros for hin in Aug-18 and loaned him out a year later.

Sounds very unlikelyy to me as surely we're beyond saddling ourselves with big contracts on ageing players, but short term he could be very useful in shoring us up in midfield.

He'd be a decent upgrade if we are thinking about replacing Driinkwater.

Can’t beat writing off a player after 1 game against the 2nd best side in the country :-)

Just joking!

[Gareth]

The Mirror linking us with Steven Nzonzi who has had a fallout at Galatasaray.

He's 31.  Roma paid 27m euros for hin in Aug-18 and loaned him out a year later.

Sounds very unlikelyy to me as surely we're beyond saddling ourselves with big contracts on ageing players, but short term he could be very useful in shoring us up in midfield.

He'd be a decent upgrade if we are thinking about replacing Driinkwater.

Can’t beat writing off a player after 1 game against the 2nd best side in the country :-)

Just joking!

I know :-)
Doesn’t say a lot for Lansbury / Hourihane / Nakamba / Luiz that we might have a completely different centre midfield by end of January.

I wonder if the January end game is to offload Kodjia / Hourihane for 7/8m combined and use that cash to fund a raft of loans to get us through to May?

[FatSam]

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.

Sørloth has scored 12 in 17 games this season on loan for Trabzonspor. Although he didn’t pull up any trees in the EPL, we don’t have a striking option out on loan at anything like that level. Mind you, Hogan cost us significantly more than they spent on him.

[mr underhill]

i think we don't have a pot to piss in worth speaking of which is going to see us loan in as many as we can, due to being right on the FFP limit. I want to be proved wrong, but the two signings thus far point that way.

[paul_e]

i think we don't have a pot to piss in worth speaking of which is going to see us loan in as many as we can, due to being right on the FFP limit. I want to be proved wrong, but the two signings thus far point that way.

Or they point to the fact that 2 straight-forward loan deals for players that aren't needed at their current clubs and with no real competition takes a lot less time and effort than signing someone who his club don't want to sell without a replacement or who has numerous offers or who the club and trying to push the price up for.

The entire league has seen 7 players come in to premier league clubs, 4 loans, 1 signing of an out of contract player and 1 kid moving to the Everton reserves and 1 actual signing with an actual fee (of about half a million).  It's that simple, no one does any meaningful business in the first half of this window. We might see a couple of decent deals later this week but more likely it'll stay quiet for another 7-10 days and then we'll get a rush of activity in the last week or so.

[exigo]

With the striker issues surprised we haven’t brought Hepburn-Murphy back from loan, not sure if he is injured at the mo?

He might not be injured now but he would be as soon as walks through the doors of Bodymoor

With our luck, he'd probably walk into them.

[Risso]

i think we don't have a pot to piss in worth speaking of which is going to see us loan in as many as we can, due to being right on the FFP limit. I want to be proved wrong, but the two signings thus far point that way.

Or they point to the fact that 2 straight-forward loan deals for players that aren't needed at their current clubs and with no real competition takes a lot less time and effort than signing someone who his club don't want to sell without a replacement or who has numerous offers or who the club and trying to push the price up for.

The entire league has seen 7 players come in to premier league clubs, 4 loans, 1 signing of an out of contract player and 1 kid moving to the Everton reserves and 1 actual signing with an actual fee (of about half a million).  It's that simple, no one does any meaningful business in the first half of this window. We might see a couple of decent deals later this week but more likely it'll stay quiet for another 7-10 days and then we'll get a rush of activity in the last week or so.

At which point it might be too late.  Smith himself said that there are a lot of games in January, so that it was important to do business early.

[Ads]

i think we don't have a pot to piss in worth speaking of which is going to see us loan in as many as we can, due to being right on the FFP limit. I want to be proved wrong, but the two signings thus far point that way.

Or they point to the fact that 2 straight-forward loan deals for players that aren't needed at their current clubs and with no real competition takes a lot less time and effort than signing someone who his club don't want to sell without a replacement or who has numerous offers or who the club and trying to push the price up for.

The entire league has seen 7 players come in to premier league clubs, 4 loans, 1 signing of an out of contract player and 1 kid moving to the Everton reserves and 1 actual signing with an actual fee (of about half a million).  It's that simple, no one does any meaningful business in the first half of this window. We might see a couple of decent deals later this week but more likely it'll stay quiet for another 7-10 days and then we'll get a rush of activity in the last week or so.

At which point it might be too late.  Smith himself said that there are a lot of games in January, so that it was important to do business early.

Aspiration meets reality.

[ozzjim]

Wonder how Kodjias illness is going. Might need him at Brighton.