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

[Monty]

Jonathan David. Not sold. Two first names for a whole name. Bad news. Move on.

:-) that Gareth Barry was absolute garbage wasn’t he? :-)

He does seem to be a player that is linked to the league a lot but stays in France…be interesting to see if he is good enough

Barry isn't a real name.

[Gareth]

Jonathan David. Not sold. Two first names for a whole name. Bad news. Move on.

:-) that Gareth Barry was absolute garbage wasn’t he? :-)

He does seem to be a player that is linked to the league a lot but stays in France…be interesting to see if he is good enough

Barry isn't a real name.

My old man would beg to differ :-)

[LeeB]

Jonathan David. Not sold. Two first names for a whole name. Bad news. Move on.

:-) that Gareth Barry was absolute garbage wasn’t he? :-)

He does seem to be a player that is linked to the league a lot but stays in France…be interesting to see if he is good enough

Barry isn't a real name.

My old man would beg to differ :-)

No problem Gary.

[Monty]

Ha, decided against making the flippant joke about the guy's name, end up making it about his actual dad. Welcome to my Friday.

[Gareth]

Ha, decided against making the flippant joke about the guy's name, end up making it about his actual dad. Welcome to my Friday.

:-) :-) can’t believe we haven’t kicked off a whole list of  first name surnames

I was going to mention David James but I got Wembley flashbacks

[Monty]

Ha, decided against making the flippant joke about the guy's name, end up making it about his actual dad. Welcome to my Friday.

:-) :-) can’t believe we haven’t kicked off a whole list of  first name surnames

I was going to mention David James but I got Wembley flashbacks

The worst case in football history, as I keep saying, is Trent Alexander-Arnold, a man with two first names neither of which are his first name, which is a surname.

[Gareth]

Ha, decided against making the flippant joke about the guy's name, end up making it about his actual dad. Welcome to my Friday.

:-) :-) can’t believe we haven’t kicked off a whole list of  first name surnames

I was going to mention David James but I got Wembley flashbacks

The worst case in football history, as I keep saying, is Trent Alexander-Arnold, a man with two first names neither of which are his first name, which is a surname.

That could be why the commentators/pundits only use that surname to refer to him

[Monty]

Indeed - who can blame them?

[LeeB]

Trent as a secondary, suffix affair eg Terence Trent, I can get with. But on it's own it's nothing short of a disgrace.

[brontebilly]

He's no Calum Chambers.

He's fairly shite

[Percy McCarthy]

Birmingham World have a story about us opening talks with Jonathan David.

That’s not the kind of signing that screams  ‘struggling to keep within PSR’.

The vagaries of the PSR system mean that in June we have a year dropping out of our "three year FFP calculation" in which we made a not insignificant loss. That is replaced by the most recent year, in which we did okay, financially speaking.  So I think technically, our FFP position will improve after June.  Enough buy someone like Jonathan David? I've no idea, probably unlikely.  But being close to the FFP limit today, doesn't mean we will still be close it in the summer.

However, by the same token, the £100m-ish profit we got for Grealish will drop off our three-year calculations NEXT summer, causing the reverse problem.

Actually, the £99m loss drops off this year, a £37m loss the year after, and the break even JG year (well, £400k profit) the year after that.

[Drummond]

Ha, decided against making the flippant joke about the guy's name, end up making it about his actual dad. Welcome to my Friday.

:-) :-) can’t believe we haven’t kicked off a whole list of  first name surnames

I was going to mention David James but I got Wembley flashbacks

The worst case in football history, as I keep saying, is Trent Alexander-Arnold, a man with two first names neither of which are his first name, which is a surname.

That could be why the commentators/pundits only use that surname to refer to him

They fucking wouldn't if he played for Luton instead of Liverpool.

[jwarry]

It's been reported in Spain that we've offered a 2 year deal to Nacho, whose contract at Real Madrid ends in the summer.

Last pay day for him then. Ding as he’s 34, but could do a job for us

[Somniloquism]

So are we signing Jonny Dave?

[eamonn]

So are we signing Jonny Dave?

Poor old Johnnie Ray, sounded sad upon the radio, moved a million hearts in mono.