January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[Gareth]

We should make a bid for Maguire, £20m?

Him and Mings would be a brick wall and give us time to ease Carlos in.

 

ew, no.

After years of mistakes at the back, the last thing we need is a ManU reject trying to revive his career. Go let him fade away somewhere else.

Buying a reject Man Utd centre half will never work will it…the one Sir Graham rescued was soooo terrible:-)

[paul_e]

We should make a bid for Maguire, £20m?

Him and Mings would be a brick wall and give us time to ease Carlos in.

 

ew, no.

After years of mistakes at the back, the last thing we need is a ManU reject trying to revive his career. Go let him fade away somewhere else.

Buying a reject Man Utd centre half will never work will it…the one Sir Graham rescued was soooo terrible:-)

That feels like a comparison that should never be made, even in jest!

[Clive W]

We should make a bid for Maguire, £20m?

Him and Mings would be a brick wall and give us time to ease Carlos in.

 

ew, no.

After years of mistakes at the back, the last thing we need is a ManU reject trying to revive his career. Go let him fade away somewhere else.

Buying a reject Man Utd centre half will never work will it…the one Sir Graham rescued was soooo terrible:-)

He was dreadful wasn’t he?
He even limped onto the pitch before the kick off

[SoccerHQ]

We should make a bid for Maguire, £20m?

Him and Mings would be a brick wall and give us time to ease Carlos in.

You are Martin O'Neil and I can claim my five quid to buy his book in the Works.

[brontebilly]

It’s a lead weight now in hindsight, but at the time we signed a young, raw and promising Brazilian CF. Dreadful business were the deals we had Micah Richards or Shay Given.

Shay Given had a good first season for us didn't he? Was never the same keeper after the Euro 2012 debacle (maybe was in decline anyway). Same for Richard Dunne.

Richards was the worst really, some "free" transfer that was. Lansbury stands out as dreadful too, as lazy a signing as he was as a player.

Since we came back up, obviously likes of Jota, Drinky and the likes failed. An 11m loan fee + wages for that charlatan Ross Barkley our worst business I'd say. Sanson, given his reputation from Marseille, also a big disappointment unfortunately.

[Dave]

Shay Given had a good first season for us didn't he? Was never the same keeper after the Euro 2012 debacle (maybe was in decline anyway).

He was fine. It was still a phenomenally stupid decision to give a five year contract to a 35 year old though.

I wonder if any other 35 year old anywhere in football has been given a five year contract, before or since?

[SoccerHQ]

Wasn't that to make up the shortfall in wages to what he was earning at Man. City? Had to give him extra two years as a top up compared to standard three year deal we gave Friedel who was I think 36 when he signed.

[Toronto Villa]

Whatever it was it was bonkers to give that length of contract to a player or that age.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Linked with Weston McKennie from Juventus again. Looked decent for the US at the World Cup.

[Dave]

Wasn't that to make up the shortfall in wages to what he was earning at Man. City? Had to give him extra two years as a top up compared to standard three year deal we gave Friedel who was I think 36 when he signed.

We didn't have to. We could have just not wasted the money on him in the first place.

[eamonn]

Yep, we got star-struck just cos he was a senior player at one of the (new) big boys. He was on the wane and we dozily threw money at him.

[pauliewalnuts]

Shay Given had a good first season for us didn't he? Was never the same keeper after the Euro 2012 debacle (maybe was in decline anyway).

He was fine. It was still a phenomenally stupid decision to give a five year contract to a 35 year old though.

I wonder if any other 35 year old anywhere in football has been given a five year contract, before or since?

It was absolutely insane, incredible to think of the sheer stupidity of the people running the club at the time.

Another particularly bad one was giving a 31 year old Emile Heskey, fresh on the back of scoring 3 and 4 goals in his previous seasons at Wigan, a 3.5 year contract and making him the highest paid player at the club.

[pauliewalnuts]

Wasn't that to make up the shortfall in wages to what he was earning at Man. City? Had to give him extra two years as a top up compared to standard three year deal we gave Friedel who was I think 36 when he signed.

We didn't have to. We could have just not wasted the money on him in the first place.

Indeed.

I'd also suggest that great though he was for us, a 3 year deal for a 36 year old keeper in Friedel was not in any way standard.

[bob]

Mings isn't slow, is he?

[Risso]

Wasn't that to make up the shortfall in wages to what he was earning at Man. City? Had to give him extra two years as a top up compared to standard three year deal we gave Friedel who was I think 36 when he signed.

We didn't have to. We could have just not wasted the money on him in the first place.

McLeish's first signing, at which time he said:

"It was a tremendous deal, sometimes the timing is not right but this was spot on." *Voiceover man* It wasn't a tremendous deal.

"He seemed very keen to come here, though." I bet he fucking was.