Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[danno]

If it's MON only, it's gotta be Cahill out Zat Knight in.

[The Man With A Stick]

Always felt some sympathy for Luke Young, he should have played more often but from what I recall that dinosaur prick would always prefer to stick either a centre-half (usually Cuellar) or Craig fucking Gardner at RB.

[pauliewalnuts]

Always felt some sympathy for Luke Young, he should have played more often but from what I recall that dinosaur prick would always prefer to stick either a centre-half (usually Cuellar) or Craig fucking Gardner at RB.

Or Milner, Barry, Mellberg or NRC. While Luke Young would mostly play at LB, despite being a RB.

I wonder what percentage of his subs happened on around 75 minutes and involved Sidwell on and a shuffle around at RB.

[brontebilly]

Always felt some sympathy for Luke Young, he should have played more often but from what I recall that dinosaur prick would always prefer to stick either a centre-half (usually Cuellar) or Craig fucking Gardner at RB.

Or Milner, Barry, Mellberg or NRC. While Luke Young would mostly play at LB, despite being a RB.

I wonder what percentage of his subs happened on around 75 minutes and involved Sidwell on and a shuffle around at RB.

Fairly sure Luke Young's first game at LB was that away day at Arsenal...why didn't Barry take the peno etc. MON gave up on Nickey Shorey fairly quickly, found out he was as slow as a snail. I think that move ruined Luke Young in the long term as he was a fine right back at his best.

[john2710]

The contrast with the previous owners & management team is clear as it could be. Specific players, with specific skills & traits to match the needs of the team. Calculated risks, where the odds of success are stacked in our favour. We’re doing our homework & whilst everything won’t be a success we’ll get it right more often than not.

Then tying down performers on long-term deals, whilst developing the next generation at a rate not seen in decades.

If you add in a little bit of luck, anything is possible.

[Monty]

Always felt like MON was surprised at the existence of the right back position. Like he had picked his team without thinking about it, and at the last minute Robertson would stumble out of a cloud of tobacco smoke and slur 'but, boss, what eboot reet back?' and MON would think 'oh feck not again' and throw someone in on the fly.

[danno]

Mellberg at right back.  Still seems crazy all these years later.

[London Villan]

Pacy, attack minded Olaf…

He’d have been better playing with Laursen at centre back.

[danno]

He did alright to be fair, but moving him to accommodate Curtis Davies. Well...

[SamTheMouse]

Lerner was utterly clueless and had no balls whatsoever. Anyone else would have been apoplectic at seeing their cash spunked away on stupid transfer fees and even more stupid wages for players whom O'Neill didn't appear to have watched before they arrived. And promptly decided he didn't like after about three games.

[Dave]

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

To play devil's advocate (and I note the "hopefully"), right now feels like the Young / Carew time. You can virtually plot the Young / Buendia similarities on a graph. 

It's all great, and there is absolutely nothing to complain about. It just feels a bit premature to compare the worst of other eras to the very good of now, when there were also good times in the recent past that might be better comparisons.

[Toronto Villa]

I’d rather also that we don’t once again litigate the worse aspects of the MON/Lerner years at a time when the club is very much on the way back up. This feels absolutely great right now to be getting another excellent player and being linked with others as we climb our way back to footballing prominence and relevance. And we haven’t even won anything yet so hopefully there are loads of great times in front of us. Let’s keep this thread a happy place.

[KevinGage]

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.

Insomnia was a 1 good game in 5 player for Wigan even at his best.

More like 1 in 35 for us.

[sickbeggar]

Still, you could see MON's Moneybags reserve squad spearheading a successful Bruce Newcastle premiership survival bid if they were around now

[danno]

Are we going to sign some defenders this window?  Or is there a likely deputy for Targett already at the club?