Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[PeterWithe]

To make the same mistake two windows running would seem a bit daft.

Yes my thoughts exactly. Once is unfortunate, twice....

[Jon Crofts]

Very poor business this January, considering injuries, squad depth and that we are in a relegation fight.

If true about no more signings then very difficult to disagree with this.

We were in desperate need of at least 1 more striker before Wesleys injury, so we should have been getting plans in motion prior to the window opening.

There is a hell of a lot of pressure on Samatta now to be 1: Brilliant. 2: Brilliant immediately. 3: Under no circumstances at all consider picking up an injury.

Or suspensions.

[Nev]

We didn't have enough goals in the team to avoid a relegation fight when we started the season, we look like maintaining that position so prepare to tense your sphincters for the rest of the season.

[VILLA MOLE]

Good Morning all

Dean said himself we needed another striker after signing Simatta  so what has changed ?

[TelfordVilla]

A little over 24 hours ago we had the euphoria of a 95th minute winner in a semi final. But already the doom and gloom merchants are back predicting relegation and injuries a plenty. Where is your faith, hope and spirit. Don't bother to respond I wont be reading it.

[chrisw1]

We've left ourselves desperately short. 

Betting the house on Wesley in the summer was absolute madness and we've done exactly the same thing, except with one less back-up and the other back-up just back from a 14 week lay-off.

I assume they will pull the Chester loan too.

Rather than protecting us, FFP is making relegation and subsequent financial strife far more likely.

I try to be glass half full when I can, but if there's no more signings today then this is absolutely shite.

[dave.woodhall]

Given that two of the signings we've made were replacements for players injured after the transfer window opened, we've improved the squad by one Danny Drinkwater. It defies all logic.

[chrisw1]

Good Morning all

Dean said himself we needed another striker after signing Simatta  so what has changed ?

I presume the club we were hoping to loan / buy from are not prepared to deal, maybe because their own targets have fallen through.  Hypothetically, perhaps Palcace would have let us have Benteke if they got Bowen?

[AsTallAsLions]

Good Morning all

Dean said himself we needed another striker after signing Simatta  so what has changed ?

The problem appears to be that he is not in direct control of transfers and doesn't seem to have real-time updates on the situation. Perhaps Suso gave him positive feedback last weekend and then nothing concrete has been forthcoming since. We know things change very quickly in the January window and it's nearly always a case of In The Shirt, In Front of the Camera before we can count on anything.

My hunch, as others have said, is that we've tried a number of options and none of them have come off, and that's the update we'll get tomorrow after the dust has settled etc.

Having said that, Suso et al have until 11pm tonight to make something happen. Nearly another 12 hours. There's still time.

[richrunner]

We didn't have enough goals in the team to avoid a relegation fight when we started the season, we look like maintaining that position so prepare to tense your sphincters for the rest of the season.

Yeah my thoughts exactly, we can't just rely on last minute winners to keep us up, my heart wont take it! The front 3 simply dont score enough goals and to rely on sicknote Keinan Davis as backup is bordering on negligence!

[Dante Lavelli]

Any signing made with just the remainder of the season in mind will be a mistake in my opinion, unless it is a loan.  On that basis I hope we do not do any business unless it is a Bowen-esquire signing or a decent loan deal.

Sturridge, even Samatta, are just eating up crucial wages for the next three years.

[AsTallAsLions]

Any signing made with just the remainder of the season in mind will be a mistake in my opinion, unless it is a loan.  On that basis I hope we do not do any business unless it is a Bowen-esquire signing or a decent loan deal.

Sturridge, even Samatta, are just eating up crucial wages for the next three years.

We're in a scrap for survival. So we've no choice but to think primarily about the rest of the season right now.

Purchasing players solely based on future potential is one of the reasons we find ourselves in this situation to begin with.

[Steve67]

There is a gaping hole in the middle of midfield, we need a right-sided centre back if Chester goes to stoke and we need another forward. So, all this bollocks about bringing in quality players who know the Premier division, all a bit meh, because we have only replaced injured players and certainly not added MORE quality.  Dean’s comments about his teams been better in the second half of the season, really do need to be true in this instance.

[Clark W Griswold]

If true....

We don't really know what has gone on behind the scenes and how much effort has been put in, whether we've had bad luck or just not found deals that are right, but....

We've lost 3 players to injury for the best part of or the entire rest of the season, we've sold 2, and we've brought in 3, one of which we already know is a waste of bastard time.
Fucking Piss-flaps.

[Jon Crofts]

Good Morning all

Dean said himself we needed another striker after signing Simatta  so what has changed ?

The problem appears to be that he is not in direct control of transfers and doesn't seem to have real-time updates on the situation. Perhaps Suso gave him positive feedback last weekend and then nothing concrete has been forthcoming since. We know things change very quickly in the January window and it's nearly always a case of In The Shirt, In Front of the Camera before we can count on anything.

My hunch, as others have said, is that we've tried a number of options and none of them have come off, and that's the update we'll get tomorrow after the dust has settled etc.

Having said that, Suso et al have until 11pm tonight to make something happen. Nearly another 12 hours. There's still time.

Still time if the player is UK based. Possibly. Maybe.