collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

Aston Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread by eamonn
[Today at 01:40:51 AM]


Press-ing on again by dave.woodhall
[Today at 01:22:21 AM]


Matty Cash by darren woolley
[Today at 12:44:15 AM]


Ollie Watkins by tomd2103
[Today at 12:08:40 AM]


Emi Buendia by eye digress
[October 26, 2025, 11:38:00 PM]


Wake me up when it's over by Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle
[October 26, 2025, 11:37:55 PM]


MOTD by Brazilian Villain
[October 26, 2025, 11:27:39 PM]


Jadon Sancho (loan) by brontebilly
[October 26, 2025, 11:21:21 PM]

Recent Posts

Re: Aston Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread by eamonn
[Today at 01:40:51 AM]


Re: Press-ing on again by dave.woodhall
[Today at 01:22:21 AM]


Re: Matty Cash by darren woolley
[Today at 12:44:15 AM]


Re: Press-ing on again by darren woolley
[Today at 12:43:30 AM]


Re: Aston Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread by darren woolley
[Today at 12:40:44 AM]


Re: Ollie Watkins by tomd2103
[Today at 12:08:40 AM]


Re: Aston Villa v Man City Post-Match Thread by astonvilla82
[October 26, 2025, 11:44:50 PM]


Re: Emi Buendia by eye digress
[October 26, 2025, 11:38:00 PM]

Follow us on...

Author Topic: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread  (Read 437941 times)

Offline rob_bridge

  • Member
  • Posts: 9814
  • Age: 53
  • Location: Shirleyshire
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2685 on: January 31, 2022, 04:38:08 PM »
Will be interesting to see how Dele Alli fares at Everton. Not jeal, we didn't need him. He might well go the Aaron Lennon way, from Spurs dazzler to outcast to Toffee water-treader.

A cross between Ross Barkley and Danny Drinkwater would be my guess

Offline Toronto Villa

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 59020
  • Age: 52
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • GM : 23.07.2026
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2686 on: January 31, 2022, 04:40:31 PM »
Dele Alli is utter shit. And apparently £40m with add on proves Everton have learned nothing at all. Good fucking grief. Just imagine if that was us right now.

Offline Small Rodent

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 11352
  • Location: Streatham
  • GM : 30.01.2026
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2687 on: January 31, 2022, 04:41:02 PM »

Not sure we should be in for Bissouma regardless, given his legal issues.

I’m still very uncomfortable about this in all honesty.

Lets not forget he has been banned from driving for speeding not once but twice. That's a good flicker of the twatometer for me.

Online LukeJames

  • Member
  • Posts: 5411
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2688 on: January 31, 2022, 04:41:08 PM »
Paul Merson has given our transfer window a hit, that's very reassuring for all of us.

I put SSN on earlier just in time to hear Merson say Dele Alli to Everton could be the greatest transfer ever made in January. I turned it straight off.

Offline LeeB

  • Member
  • Posts: 35819
  • Location: Standing in the Klix-O-Gum queue.
  • GM : May, 2014
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2689 on: January 31, 2022, 04:44:00 PM »
Will be interesting to see how Dele Alli fares at Everton. Not jeal, we didn't need him. He might well go the Aaron Lennon way, from Spurs dazzler to outcast to Toffee water-treader.

Tell me more of this Toffee water you speak of.

Offline sickbeggar

  • Member
  • Posts: 7781
  • Location: Universities are full of people educated beyond their intelligence
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2690 on: January 31, 2022, 04:45:05 PM »
40m for Alli is mental.

Offline Jon Crofts

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 21825
  • Location: Lost In The Supermarket
  • GM : PCM
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2691 on: January 31, 2022, 04:51:00 PM »
Will be interesting to see how Dele Alli fares at Everton. Not jeal, we didn't need him. He might well go the Aaron Lennon way, from Spurs dazzler to outcast to Toffee water-treader.

Tell me more of this Toffee water you speak of.

It's similar to animal food trough water.

Offline Flamingo Lane

  • Member
  • Posts: 6278
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2692 on: January 31, 2022, 04:51:37 PM »
I'm not entirely sure why, but I quite like Dele Alli and think he could well become a good player again, given a new start.  £40 million though would be some gamble.

Online LukeJames

  • Member
  • Posts: 5411
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2693 on: January 31, 2022, 04:54:12 PM »
Are there any examples of a player being shit for 3 years and then re-discovering there form again?

Offline Risso

  • Member
  • Posts: 89942
  • Location: Leics
  • GM : 04.03.2025
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2694 on: January 31, 2022, 04:58:15 PM »
I'm not entirely sure why, but I quite like Dele Alli and think he could well become a good player again, given a new start.  £40 million though would be some gamble.

I could understand it if it was just one manager, like Mourinho who'd he'd fallen foul of, but it's been the last three.

Offline sickbeggar

  • Member
  • Posts: 7781
  • Location: Universities are full of people educated beyond their intelligence
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2695 on: January 31, 2022, 05:00:11 PM »
It gets funnier. 2 and a half years with the first 10m paid after 20 games. So its basically a free transfer.

Offline Gerrin

  • Member
  • Posts: 999
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2696 on: January 31, 2022, 05:00:36 PM »
Are there any examples of a player being shit for 3 years and then re-discovering there form again?

None that I can think of, he couldn't care less anymore, complete waste of money.

This is the guy on the Amazon Spurs doc when asked by one of the staff if he'd learnt to do anything in lockdown. Replied yeah I learnt how to cook beans. He meant baked beans in a microwave.

Offline Brazilian Villain

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 50439
  • GM : 25.07.2026
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2697 on: January 31, 2022, 05:01:01 PM »
Are there any examples of a player being shit for 3 years and then re-discovering there form again?

Hopefully Coutinho. ;)

Offline Jon Crofts

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 21825
  • Location: Lost In The Supermarket
  • GM : PCM
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2698 on: January 31, 2022, 05:01:02 PM »
Wasn't Dele Alli the originator of that ridiculous hand signal over the eye thing? Absolute chopper.

Offline Smithy

  • Member
  • Posts: 7230
  • Location: Windsor, Royal Berkshire, la de da
  • GM : 12.12.2024
Re: The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread
« Reply #2699 on: January 31, 2022, 05:02:48 PM »
Isn't it "up to £40m"? For Alli? I read somewhere that the first £10m doesn't even kick in until he's had about 10 first team appearances.  If it turns out he's shit, I don't think he'll cost anywhere near that much, but it's still a pretty bold gamble - especially as he'll be on pretty good money.  It's not like Lampard had long to do anything, so I suspect this has been done out of desperation.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal