Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Beard82]

I nervous of the french league - I dont think anyone we sign from there seems to work out.  Is that true?  Or is that my misconception? 

[Kevin Dawson]

Kamara's rather good.....

[Dave]

Bizot's done fine.

[Monty]

Do remember how shit we've been since mostly forever, so most signings we ever made can't be said to have 'worked out' really.

[cdbearsfan]

It was an simpler time when all of our signings came from the Premier League or Celtic and you didn't need to worry about any of this new-fangled scouting nonsense.

[eamonn]

Yeah, if only we'd looked abroad when buying Cascarino. We'd all be insufferable glory-hunters now facing 37 counts of financial doping. Would have been worth it though.

[Beard82]

Ah yeah...  so as per most of my views this one is at best completely outdated, at worst completely baseless

[Dogtanian]

If we all gave up our firm beliefs just because they were baseless and outdated, where would the world be then!

[Somniloquism]

Yeah, if only we'd looked abroad when buying Cascarino. We'd all be insufferable glory-hunters now facing 37 counts of financial doping. Would have been worth it though.

We didn't need to look abroad, just look at the other forward position instead.

[brontebilly]

It was an simpler time when all of our signings came from the Premier League or Celtic and you didn't need to worry about any of this new-fangled scouting nonsense.

Or the Steve Bruce approach, buy the latest flavour of the week from teams near us. Hogan, Lansbury, Hourihane. Worry about fitting them into the team afterwards.

[Sexual Ealing]

It was an simpler time when all of our signings came from the Premier League or Celtic and you didn't need to worry about any of this new-fangled scouting nonsense.

Or the Steve Bruce approach, buy the latest flavour of the week from teams near us. Hogan, Lansbury, Hourihane. Worry about fitting them into the team afterwards.

Shush. We were stabilised.

[cdbearsfan]

Hourihane and McGinn were pretty good, Lansbury seemed a perfectly reasonable cheap option at the time, and he did stabilise us. Unless you think we were better off before he turned up, which would obviously make you insane.

[Sexual Ealing]

Hourihane and McGinn were pretty good, Lansbury seemed a perfectly reasonable cheap option at the time, and he did stabilise us. Unless you think we were better off before he turned up, which would obviously make you insane.

The UK was better off when Sunak took over from Truss, but I'm not grateful to anyone for it, and it was still way worse than we should've expected.

[Dogtanian]

I do shudder at the memory of Brentford away, when he had just bought Hourihane, Lansbury, and Bjarnason and then chucked them straight in.

It was a week night and we raced down there straight from work, dumped the car at some church, and ran to the ground, arriving just in time to see their first goal go in.

[cdbearsfan]

Hourihane and McGinn were pretty good, Lansbury seemed a perfectly reasonable cheap option at the time, and he did stabilise us. Unless you think we were better off before he turned up, which would obviously make you insane.

The UK was better off when Sunak took over from Truss, but I'm not grateful to anyone for it, and it was still way worse than we should've expected.

Nobody is asking you to be. But, nevertheless, continually saying that "Bruce stabilised us" in a mocking manner as if the statement is worthy of ridicule when it is clearly factually correct is just silly.

We were more stable under Bruce than Di Matteo. Therefore he stabilised us.