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

[OCD]

I hope we just walk away now.

They have every right to try to keep him and it's perfectly reasonable they stand firm.  But I just don't see how this lad is worth more than £8m let alone £15m.

And we should put Boro on our shit list when it comes to future loans too.

He's not someone that stood out to me but our recruitment department have been good for a few years and I trust Emery's judgment (and prepared to give Monchi a chance).

But why should Boro go on our shit list? Because they've put a value on him that so far we haven't met? I don't see that they've done anything wrong. I'd actually go the other way and offer them Kellyman on loan for the rest of the season to cover them until they can get someone in permanently in the summer.

[Dogtanian]

I hope we just walk away now.

They have every right to try to keep him and it's perfectly reasonable they stand firm.  But I just don't see how this lad is worth more than £8m let alone £15m.

And we should put Boro on our shit list when it comes to future loans too.

He's not someone that stood out to me but our recruitment department have been good for a few years and I trust Emery's judgment (and prepared to give Monchi a chance).

But why should Boro go on our shit list? Because they've put a value on him that so far we haven't met? I don't see that they've done anything wrong. I'd actually go the other way and offer them Kellyman on loan for the rest of the season to cover them until they can get someone in permanently in the summer.

Steve Gibson is probably still moaning about how much we spent in the Championship. Maybe he's holding out for £15m + a look at our books.

[Villafirst]

Apparently, according to the Telegraph, our latest offer is £7.5m for Rogers?? If so, they're not going to agree to that. As others have said, it should have been factored into the Azaz deal - £2.5m is a joke....same as we agreed a paltry £5m to let Philogene go to Hull. City. The market has become over inflated with player valuations, mainly due to Chelsea and Manure paying silly money for the likes of Mudryk, Antony and Jadon Sancho etc., All these players were sold for North of £70m each according to reports. Crazy money and on ridiculously long 7-8 year contracts in some cases.

[Demitri_C]

How can JPB go for 5m and rodgers 15m? That makes no sense to me

Just move on he doesnt even look that brilliant tbh

I thought JPB showed more potential tbh

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

How much did we buy Moreno for, about £10m wasn’t it?
You’d think they’d have a few players lined up in that category, probably playing overseas, where you can get better value rather than getting bent over by Boro. Not that I’m blaming Boro at all.

[robleflaneur]

I hope we just walk away now.

They have every right to try to keep him and it's perfectly reasonable they stand firm.  But I just don't see how this lad is worth more than £8m let alone £15m.

And we should put Boro on our shit list when it comes to future loans too.

He's not someone that stood out to me but our recruitment department have been good for a few years and I trust Emery's judgment (and prepared to give Monchi a chance).

But why should Boro go on our shit list? Because they've put a value on him that so far we haven't met? I don't see that they've done anything wrong. I'd actually go the other way and offer them Kellyman on loan for the rest of the season to cover them until they can get someone in permanently in the summer.

Steve Gibson is probably still moaning about how much we spent in the Championship. Maybe he's holding out for £15m + a look at our books.

And we could ask about Gibson's dodgy dealings on behalf of the Teeside Freeport scam.

[Gareth]

I guess it depends if Monchi/Unai and their talent spotting team see something in Rogers that they can work with and turn that 15m into a 40/50m player down the line.  As it stands it looks like January will only be players for the future which is reasonable if we don’t have the FFP/P&S space or loan space to buy someone who would go into first XI. 

[pablo_picasso]

Why on earth didn't we tie this into the Azaz deal? If Rogers really is Monchi and Emery's first choice this transfer window, then any sort of leverage at all would have been useful.

This frustrates me to no end.

With them wanting Azaz, we had some leverage.

I really would love to know who fucked the pooch on this one...

[Sexual Ealing]

Why on earth didn't we tie this into the Azaz deal? If Rogers really is Monchi and Emery's first choice this transfer window, then any sort of leverage at all would have been useful.

This frustrates me to no end.

With them wanting Azaz, we had some leverage.

I really would love to know who fucked the pooch on this one...

It was a lad at my school called Peter Carruthers, but he only wanked it off. That was the rumour anyway.

[chrisw1]

Why on earth didn't we tie this into the Azaz deal? If Rogers really is Monchi and Emery's first choice this transfer window, then any sort of leverage at all would have been useful.

This frustrates me to no end.

With them wanting Azaz, we had some leverage.

I really would love to know who fucked the pooch on this one...

It was a lad at my school called Peter Carruthers, but he only wanked it off. That was the rumour anyway.

excellent.

[eamonn]

If another club had offered more than £2.5m for Azzaz, presumably we would have accepted it. As it was, only Boro came in for him and he was out of contract (I think) in May so it made sense from that perspective. They won't feel they need to do us any favours with a lower amount for Rogers.

[Risso]

If another club had offered more than £2.5m for Azzaz, presumably we would have accepted it. As it was, only Boro came in for him and he was out of contract (I think) in May so it made sense from that perspective. They won't feel they need to do us any favours with a lower amount for Rogers.

He had longer than that on his contract I think, as he signed an extension last summer.

[ozzjim]

See some journos now talking Duran Broja swap.

[coreyfeldman]

See some journos now talking Duran Broja swap.

Actual journos or twitter folk?

[chrisw1]

Broja had a middling season at Southampton 2 years ago and hardly kicked a ball for Chelsea before or since that loan.  If anyone goes in for him it would be a massive gamble.