2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[jwarry]

Emery on the transfer window: "If we are trying to get someone, it’s because we are very convinced they will increase the level in our squad."

So FO with your Welbecks, Firminhos etc

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Cristiano Ronaldo. You have a point. Douglas Luiz says hello.

[Fasth56]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

[pauliewalnuts]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

They need dunking in a river.





except for where the surname is, say, pluralised, that's usually the sign of a fine, upstanding member of the community, loved by his peers

[VillaTim]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

as does Gary Shaw

[Sexual Ealing]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

As does Hank Marvin, you bastard.

[pauliewalnuts]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

as does Gary Shaw

And remember, keep 'em peeled!

[pauliewalnuts]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

As does Hank Marvin, you bastard.

Not to mention Cliff Richard, his mate.

[Sexual Ealing]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

As does Hank Marvin, you bastard.

Not to mention Cliff Richard, his mate.

Harry Webb? He can fuck off for inventing rugby.

[pauliewalnuts]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

As does Hank Marvin, you bastard.

Not to mention Cliff Richard, his mate.

Harry Webb? He can fuck off for inventing rugby.

The first thing I think of when I see Cliff on telly, even now decades later, is about how there was that rumour for about 30 years that he wore a colostomy bag.

[Sexual Ealing]

Suspicious of two first name/surname people in general, I'd need convincing.

Gareth Barry sends his regards

As does Hank Marvin, you bastard.

Not to mention Cliff Richard, his mate.

Harry Webb? He can fuck off for inventing rugby.

The first thing I think of when I see Cliff on telly, even now decades later, is about how there was that rumour for about 30 years that he wore a colostomy bag.

My mother-in-law, who has the broadest Black Country accent you can imagine, insists on calling the bag she puts her make-up etc in a "toilet bag". It never fails to kill me.

[Toronto Villa]

Fin gone official. Undisclosed fee.

[eamonn]

Boo! Disclose it you jerks!

[Small Rodent]

As does Hank Marvin, you bastard.

Hank's real name is Brian Robson Rankin.

Nicknamed Hank because of his bow-legged cowboy gait as a kid, and chose Marvin from country singer Marvin Rainwater.

[Richard E]

Boo! Disclose it you jerks!

No!! When clubs find out we got £200m for him the prices they want to charge us will go up!