Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[brontebilly]

With Cash coming in and rumours of Hause going on loan, I wonder if they're thinking of going 3 at the back? Bring in a stronger CB to play alongside Konsa and Mings, using Targett and Cash as wingbacks, and having a MF 3 of JG, McGinn and Liuz. Then, Watkins and Wilson / Abraham upfront.

Sincerely hope we don't try that again. Mings was absolutely hopeless as the middle of the three centre backs. So unless we can find a sweeper type and push Mings left then I think we should stick with 4.

[Brazilian Villain]

Showing you age if you remember Blind Faith.

Quick, name the original line-up.  No Googling!

Winwood
Clapton
Baker.

Ric Greece

All correct.  Fabulous band, short lived.  That is Winwood, Clapton, Baker and Grech.

Never heard of them (bit before my time) or knew they were a follow-on from Cream. As always H&V is a fount of information.

[ozzjim]

Diangana looks the sort of player you would like in the squad, young, pacey, skillful winger that can cause problems. Think it is likely to be Albion leaked paper talk to make them look better when they sign him and they can say the beat us to him though. It is an old school Tesco bag trick.

[DB]

Showing you age if you remember Blind Faith.

Quick, name the original line-up.  No Googling!

Winwood
Clapton
Baker.

Ric Greece

All correct.  Fabulous band, short lived.  That is Winwood, Clapton, Baker and Grech.

Never heard of them (bit before my time) or knew they were a follow-on from Cream. As always H&V is a fount of information.

Winwood tried to join Blind Faith earlier but they wouldn’t let him leave his other band, whenever anyone asked him why that was he just said “I am stuck in Traffic”.
One for the Jokes thread...

[Rudy Can't Fail]

WTF. Am I on oldhippiesreunited.com?

[john e]

Ginger Baker  now they don't make em like that anymore

[SoccerHQ]

During the lockdown, the backroom team would have analysed our failings as a team & individual performances up to that point in finite detail. Fans only remember sections of games, often with a bias.

After the restart Guilbert became 3rd choice right back & now we've spent £16m on a new one, that tells me all I need to know.

Wasn't he injured around that time? He came on v Arsenal and did fine and was steady in the West Ham game when we needed a disciplined performance so wouldn't write him off just yet.

[Astonite]

Diangana is one of the few saleable assets that WHU have. Many of their fans want to keep him. The owners want Benrahmi and that is the only way they can fund it.

[Mister E]

Ahemmm, Re Diangana, I'd draw your attention to this:

Perhaps we should 'up' the bidding for Diangana, just to wind up the Bitters.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/02/west-brom-bid-grady-diangana-west-ham-transfer-news

I know it's bad form to quote oneself, but I couldn't resist    :-)

[Toronto Villa]

I just want one big signing that gives me that warm feeling, that glow, a tickle in my sack. Everton fans must be besides themselves right now and they ended the season not that much better than us. Just give me something that is really exciting this summer. Cash, Watkins, Benrahma all nice and would make us better. But I want one signing that convinces Jack Villa is where needs to be.

[Richard E]

Has James Rodriguez ever done anything other than that one cracking goal in the World Cup, over 6 years ago?

[pauliewalnuts]

Has James Rodriguez ever done anything other than that one cracking goal in the World Cup, over 6 years ago?

He's made us fundamentally rethink how we pronounce 'James'.

[paul_e]

Has James Rodriguez ever done anything other than that one cracking goal in the World Cup, over 6 years ago?

He's done a great job of looking light-weight in leagues that are less physical than the premier league. I still think he's an incredible talent but I'm not sure he's suited for the premier league. Still a bit jealous though because I'd love us to sign a player or 2 from that level.

[Richard E]

Has James Rodriguez ever done anything other than that one cracking goal in the World Cup, over 6 years ago?

He's made us fundamentally rethink how we pronounce 'James'.

And we should be grateful to him for that, but it's still a lot of money.

[eamonn]

Has James Rodriguez ever done anything other than that one cracking goal in the World Cup, over 6 years ago?

He's made us fundamentally rethink how we pronounce 'James'.

We need to talk about Ham-ez.