Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[paul_e]

heh. well he's tall enough to be a 'keeper.

And what about the link to Man City superstar Lukas Nmecha?

he's a funny one, fantastic record in Belgium and with the German U21s but had a couple of championship loans and did very little of note. On that basis it'd be a no from me.

Based on that you'd have also said no to Harry Kane who in two loan spells at Norwich and Leicester played 16 times and scored only 3.

Nmecha has 3 in 53 at championship level which is a record similar to Davis who we'd be trying to replace. Every transfer is a judgement call but I don't think this one would be a good deal for us.

[cdbearsfan]

I still think Luke Moore, at least, could have gone on to have a fantastic career with the right manager to put his arm around him. Instead, we had that twat O'Leary dropping him not long after he scored a hat-trick at Middlesbrough and generally treating him, much as he treated the rest of the club, as an inconvenience.

That said, he still went onto have a more successful career than probably 90% of Premier League Academy players. So did Ridgewell.

More odd with O'neill I thought. Started off 06/07 really well, then did his shoulder at Chelsea and was barely played when he returned in the March of that season. Then signing Harewood basically meant he was out the next season bar the odd start.

No idea if O'Neill thought he should've come back quicker from injury and lost faith but he had his odd ways with players of course.

I think O'Neill just thought "I've got loads of money to spend I'm not gonna take any chances with youngsters". See also: Steve Davis and Gary Cahill. Agbonlahor was our only home grown regular under MON.

[Toronto Villa]

I’m not advocating for him. I don’t know much about him or if he’d be a fit for us or not. I’m just stating that players don’t all develop in the same way, and often their environment shapes their success or lack of. Ian Wright/Jamie Vardy spent years in the lower leagues before grabbing their chance. Nmecha might not have had decent service while on loan, or it might be that he wasn’t good enough during those spells. But he’s done ok elsewhere so it might not be all him. Lots of players don’t make it first time around and develop well. I bet Chelsea would love to get mulligans on Salah and KDB for example.

[cdbearsfan]

These Chris Woods rumours still seem to be doing the rounds. If Smith blows 30m on him, I'll be a bit bemused/horrified. I suppose he does hit double figures regularly but its a lot of money for a 29 year old reserve

Don't care about the money as I've stated. But don't particularly rate him and hope that our days of buying players because of their physical presence rather than ability (Heskey, Holt) are over. Plus they're terrified of Covid in Oceania so still haven't even started their World Cup qualifying campaign yet. They'll likely have to squeeze in the entire competition (up to ten games) between January and March so he would probably be missing lots of games.

As has been said before, we need to get someone to do what Nilis might have done or to offer what Cavani does for Man U. An experienced star who will still frighten the opposition if he comes off the bench but who doesn't expect to play every game.

[Dave]

heh. well he's tall enough to be a 'keeper.

And what about the link to Man City superstar Lukas Nmecha?

he's a funny one, fantastic record in Belgium and with the German U21s but had a couple of championship loans and did very little of note. On that basis it'd be a no from me.

But if I remember rightly, did get one of his very few goals for Preston against us. As is tradition.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

According to The Guardian we're interested in Chelsea's young full-back Tino Livramento. The YouTube clips are impressive, but shy on the defensive part of his game.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Left back?

[Toronto Villa]

Left back?

no he's a RB and can play RM. I don't see why we would be interested in him at all.

[cdbearsfan]

Because Smith doesn't rate Guilbert, I imagine.

[Mister E]

If we need cover for Ollie we certainly should be looking for a player better than King, if we want to progress we should be aiming for someone of Tammys ability. We saw how losing our best player for three months affected the teams results so if Ollie was injured for say three months I don't think King is the answer.

Yup, my view too.

[darren woolley]

I think it's safe to assume that we are going to be linked with hundreds of players this Summer in the media. 

I agree with you Des.

[nigel]

These Chris Woods rumours still seem to be doing the rounds. If Smith blows 30m on him, I'll be a bit bemused/horrified. I suppose he does hit double figures regularly but its a lot of money for a 29 year old reserve

Don't care about the money as I've stated. But don't particularly rate him and hope that our days of buying players because of their physical presence rather than ability (Heskey, Holt) are over. Plus they're terrified of Covid in Oceania so still haven't even started their World Cup qualifying campaign yet. They'll likely have to squeeze in the entire competition (up to ten games) between January and March so he would probably be missing lots of games.

As has been said before, we need to get someone to do what Nilis might have done or to offer what Cavani does for Man U. An experienced star who will still frighten the opposition if he comes off the bench but who doesn't expect to play every game.

Chris Woods is perfect for the way Burnley play. He wouldn’t fit into our system which is why I don’t reckon it will happen. I suppose it could be a smoke screen for McNeil, but now we’ve signed Buendia I can’t see that happening now

[eamonn]

I hope if we all just keep calling Chris Wood Chris Woods, that they'll both stay clear of Bodymoor Heath for the rest of their natural.

[nigel]

I hope if we all just keep calling Chris Wood Chris Woods, that they'll both stay clear of Bodymoor Heath for the rest of their natural.

Force of habit for me, as I know a Chris Woods 🙄

[Eckybloke]

We properly got sucked in by the 2002-04 crop. Was reading stuff like Liam Ridgewell was going to be our FA cup winning captain and Moore brothers of course better than Rooney etc when they all came through but big underachievement there with likes of Stephen Cooke completely fading out of game as soon as he got released.

...

The weird one of the whole thing was Scottish midfielder Colin Marshall.  Was sent on loan to Clyde in 03/04, then released.  He then very briefly (for 2 months) played for St Johnstone, was released, then spent the rest of 04/05 playing irregularly for Falkirk.  The following season he had short term contracts with Stranraer and Dundee.  Then he dropped off the radar for a couple of years.

Once you played for the Mighty Villa and the Bully Wee Clyde, the only way is down really

Dundee representing the low water mark of that career. 🤣