Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Monty]

Graun writers basically never put their byline on some made-up bollocks though.

[SamTheMouse]

The broadsheets are usually fairly reliable. There must be at least something in it.

[eamonn]

It's not Percy reporting it though.

After Percy, Doyle is solid. Reluctant to say the same about ReluctantNicko Nixon.

[OCD]

Just had a look at that Guardian article and they've quoted Smith as saying "“In terms of our recruitment, we talk about the sweet spots that we’re looking for...which is that the players have Premier League experience and are [ideally] British because there is no adaptation risk at all.”

Where does Sanson fall into that?

[LeeB]

Just had a look at that Guardian article and they've quoted Smith as saying "“In terms of our recruitment, we talk about the sweet spots that we’re looking for...which is that the players have Premier League experience and are [ideally] British because there is no adaptation risk at all.”

Where does Sanson fall into that?

I don't think he does, I think his may be a short stay. Arsenal are looking, maybe we could rinse them again?

[danno]

Just had a look at that Guardian article and they've quoted Smith as saying "“In terms of our recruitment, we talk about the sweet spots that we’re looking for...which is that the players have Premier League experience and are [ideally] British because there is no adaptation risk at all.”

Where does Sanson fall into that?

Isn't Dean talking specifically about what we're looking for in this window?  That's how I read it anyway.

[Percy McCarthy]

Just had a look at that Guardian article and they've quoted Smith as saying "“In terms of our recruitment, we talk about the sweet spots that we’re looking for...which is that the players have Premier League experience and are [ideally] British because there is no adaptation risk at all.”

Where does Sanson fall into that?

He falls into the last transfer window doesn’t he?

Where do Wesley, Trezeguet, Doug, Watkins, Konsa, Cash, Martinez, fall into that?

[Monty]

Yep, it's just about this window I think. These aren't MONish little islanders, they just have a specific focus for what the team needs.

[pauliewalnuts]

Yep, it's just about this window I think. These aren't MONish little islanders, they just have a specific focus for what the team needs.

Reminds me of that question to MON about whether we were interested in Radamel Falcao, "No, ha ha, I think we'll be shopping a little closer to home".

Cue signing Emile Heskey, aged 31, on a 3.5 year contract as highest paid player at the club.

If there's one single clear example of the fuckwittedness of Lerner, and hopefully the contrast with NSWE, it's that signing.

92 appearances, 9 goals, sat out his contract.

I seem to remember him being revealed on here (by someone who would know) as having been on 65k a week.

That's £11,830,000 - add in NI, thats about £13.5m cost to the club, and that doesn't involve win bonuses.

Add in the transfer fee of 3.5m, and that is at the very least £17m he cost us.

£1.9m a goal.

And I remember on here there were plenty of people finding excuses for a signing like that.

[Mister E]

Yep, it's just about this window I think. These aren't MONish little islanders, they just have a specific focus for what the team needs.

Reminds me of that question to MON about whether we were interested in Radamel Falcao, "No, ha ha, I think we'll be shopping a little closer to home".
Cue signing Emile Heskey, aged 31, on a 3.5 year contract as highest paid player at the club.
If there's one single clear example of the fuckwittedness of Lerner, and hopefully the contrast with NSWE, it's that signing.

Well said, sir!

[danno]

Good shout mr walnuts. Honorary mentions to:

Replacing Ashley Young and Stewart Downing, (Darren Bent's main source of goals) with only one player. Said player?  Charles N'zogbia. A player who didn't like playing on the left wing and had played his best football in a free role up front for Wigan.

Shay Given on a FIVE year deal.

Ireland for Milner.

[ozzjim]

I had a little sympathy with the Ireland one(we got 20 odd million too) because Ireland had been a very decent goalscoring midfielder at City. He was just a complete bag of spanners for us.

The others are horror transfers. Nzogbia looked the mutts nuts for Wigan to be fair, but there was never any plan of how we were going to fit him into the side.

With Smith and villa now, you can see players being bought for a specific role in the side and how they would fit.

[pauliewalnuts]

Ireland, N'Zogbia etc, agreed, but they're post MON signings (err, I think).

For us the problem started during the MON period. Yes, yes, we were finishing sixth and it was very nice, but even when throwing huge sums of money at it, Lerner made no effort to assume it was spent sensibly, beyond MON, a manager who bought everyone but two of his signings from the UK, and even one of those was only because he was offered him (Carew) in a swap deal.

So much money pissed away, with the default settings being that we'd never bother selling players unless they were the really good ones everyone wanted, all the others, we'd just let them see out their contracts and not use them.

Luke Young, Habib Beye, Zat Knight, Heskey, NRC, Shorey, all these players costing around 5-8m, lots of money at the time.

Sign them, see them in training, decide you don't fancy them, let them sitting around banking 40k a week for the next three years.

[pauliewalnuts]

Harewood, Marlon Fucking Harewood.

Anyway, I'll stop now, sensible but ambitious times are here.

[sickbeggar]

That's a list missing a MFH. edit: ah you remembered..