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

[Clampy]

Makes you wonder what the Man City sell on clause is. Cant really blame Boro for trying to cash in.

[OCD]

Boro could still get a play-off place and selling now doesn't give them any them any time to replace him with someone of a similar quality. Might be able to do a deal for £8-10m in the summer, assuming they don't get up through the play-offs.

[KevinGage]

Wham are a bit dull and unimaginative (a Moyes side? never!) at this signing forwards malarkey arent they.

Whole wide world out there and they limit themselves to (a) our forwards  or (b) forwards we bid for

It's flattering I suppose.

[Clampy]

We've put a third bid in for Rogers according to that Romano chap. £15m he reckons.

[Toronto Villa]

I imagine it will be something like 10-12 up front and a few add ons. Seems this one is getting done by the deadline. Emery must really like him.

[VillaTim]

Seems a lot for someone unproven , bit like Duran . Can't imagine Duran stays if Rogers arrives

[Risso]

Seems a lot for someone unproven , bit like Duran . Can't imagine Duran stays if Rogers arrives

You don't see many deals going through when the player is injured though.

[PeterWithe]

Isn’t Minworth also where the sewage plant is that gets a regular mention in the shithouse thread?

At the back of the Minworth Sewerage works were some football pitches, our Sunday team played there as a home ground for a few seasons. Beyond the pitches were some pits where shite from septic tanks, collected by mobile container tank trucks was deposited.

Many was a time when, after a few Saturday bevvies, we'd turn up half cut on Sunday morning, the tanks would turn up and empty, and as the stench wafted over, half the players would start retching and chucking up.

We soon moved on.

[LeeB]

I played there a few times, it was bloody horrible and always boggy underfoot.

[Steve67]

I imagine it will be something like 10-12 up front and a few add ons. Seems this one is getting done by the deadline. Emery must really like him.

I think Emery will improve him further and get the very best out of him. 

[eamonn]

I played there a few times, it was bloody horrible and always boggy underfoot.

"It's a shit business".

[Dave]

I imagine it will be something like 10-12 up front and a few add ons. Seems this one is getting done by the deadline. Emery must really like him.

I think Emery will improve him further and get the very best out of him.

Maybe. Given the talk though about how we, like everyone else, has no money to spend and we're triple checking the scouts' expenses receipts lest we fall foul of the FFP judges, it seems like an odd use of our worldwide scouting genie and the apparent little money available.

Thoroughly look forward to this being thrown back at me in two years time though when he's dancing through the Real Madrid defence in the Champions League final though.

[PeterWithe]

Does make you wonder why Monchi was such a priority hire if we cant spend anything?

[Dave]

Does make you wonder why Monchi was such a priority hire if we cant spend anything?

I'd assumed that he was supposed to find a Dani Alves, an Ivan Rakitic and a Luis Fabiano for relative buttons so that we didn't need to buy the guy who was doing just fine for Middlesbrough.

[Steve67]

I imagine it will be something like 10-12 up front and a few add ons. Seems this one is getting done by the deadline. Emery must really like him.

I think Emery will improve him further and get the very best out of him.

Maybe. Given the talk though about how we, like everyone else, has no money to spend and we're triple checking the scouts' expenses receipts lest we fall foul of the FFP judges, it seems like an odd use of our worldwide scouting genie and the apparent little money available.

Thoroughly look forward to this being theown back at me in two years time though when he's dancing through the Real Madrid defence in the Champions League final though.

It's a fair point Dave and I reckon there is far better value abroad, but I just wonder whether they are hedging their bets that Rogers develops quicker and is fitter than any foreign player we bring in for that position at the moment.