Tomaszk Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Don't mind Baston as an emergency body last minute to be honest. We know it's hard to get deals done in January. Lord knows what's gone on with Chester. I presume there's a recall option if we get an injury? If not, it's just foolish. We can't be loaning out players we might need around the squad just because it's the "right" thing to do, survival or relegation will shape the next 5+ years for us. The summer is when Suso made a mess, or priorities were messed up, don't know what happened and how we've ended up in this position. We obviously got mugged into buying Wes, someone made a killing there. So much more quality available for the money spent. I want him replaced even if we stay up. The whole system needs to come into the 21st century. Not Suso and his two pals watching as much as they can and asking agents who to sign. Dean has performed a miracle if we stay up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, PatrickCousens said: What's the point in having a Sporting Director if he can only muster up Borja **** Baston. 18 hours ago, terrytini said: In pretty much 6 months we’ve got Heaton, Reina, Guilbert, Targett, Konsa, Mings, Engels, Hause, Luiz, Nakamba, Jota, Trezuget, El Ghazi, Wesley, Samatta and Drinkwater. Some have done better than others for sure, but it’s recruitment made under difficult circumstances and with what seems to be at least some sort of coherent thought in it. And held on to Jack and McGinn. Pretty much each of which has cost a sizeable sum in wages or fees or both. Each of whom would’ve had offers from elsewhere. Most of whom have then had baptisms of fire in the toughest League. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 The main thing that's pee'd me off today is Brentford buying Baptiste and Fosu for £3m and Norwich signing Sam McCallum for probably less than £6m. Maybe not Fosu, but Baptiste and McCallum will be worth over £10m each in two years. Hopefully he's just lining all up his plans for the future and got derailed by urgent first team needs. Barry has obviously come from the academy director, Suso hasn't gone and found him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 35 minutes ago, PatrickCousens said: What's the point in having a Sporting Director if he can only muster up Borja **** Baston. It was a free transfer. How much money do you think the owners gave him to work with? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 17 minutes ago, LondonLax said: It was a free transfer. How much money do you think the owners gave him to work with? No issue with Baston on a free with 4 hours left in a hard window to buy in. He spent £22m on Wesley. Error. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LondonLax Posted January 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) 1 minute ago, Tomaszk said: No issue with Baston on a free with 4 hours left in a hard window to buy in. He spent £22m on Wesley. Error. I’m not writing Wesley off yet. Edited January 31, 2020 by LondonLax 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, LondonLax said: I’m not writing Wesley off yet. You aren’t ?? But he’s had nearly 31 hours of football ( and in a good side in an easy League !!) You crazy or what ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post useless Posted January 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, useless said: He also brought in the players that got us promoted, and the players that look like giving us a good chance of staying in the Premier league, and have gotten us to a cup final. I wondered why this hadn't got loads of likes, it was on the bottom of the last page... We had many transfer windows before Suso came in where people would get excited and talk about how things were going to change and how we were finanlly moving forward as a club and doing things the right way, but then when it came to the actual season we'd under perform, either being in relegation battles, or failing to get promtoed. At least since Suso's been at the club we've actually achieved something. Edited January 31, 2020 by useless 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Bigger teams than us couldn't get a striker over the line in January yet we got 2 United had to resort to Ighalo who people would have been fuming about if we signed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 1 hour ago, Zatman said: Bigger teams than us couldn't get a striker over the line in January yet we got 2 United had to resort to Ighalo who people would have been fuming about if we signed This is a great point although the word ‘bigger’ is upsetting 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 In fairness we have made some strange last minute signings. Tom Carroll and now Borja. Not expecting much and I guess it’s more of a case of a body has come in. Should we stay up I’d imagine this summer we will recruit more quality as opposed to quantity. Sad to see Chester leave though with no replacement, there is doing the right thing but also potential sabotage. We’ve been sort in the past and it wasn’t pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 7 minutes ago, dudevillaisnice said: Sad to see Chester leave though with no replacement, there is doing the right thing but also potential sabotage. He's not played for the first team in a league match in 41 games plus the finals. I think people are really exaggerating on this. Compare this with the slagging that Taylor gets who was a mainstay in our unbeaten run in the Championship and finals and played in the wins against Everton and Burnley. It beggars belief for me 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Really good video imo of the realities of the transfer window and the difficulties of making signings. I watched this after an 11 minute ESPN FC video where they were absolutely incredulous over the Ighalo signing but some were saying this is the reality of attracting players in the January window 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 The signings this window make sense. It's absolutely obvious we are restricted from spending due to FFP, so I won't go batshit over the signing of a championship reject. Pitarch has not disappointed or impressed so far. I'll give him another year I reckon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 If you go though the signings other teams have made it is hard to disagree that we have had a better January than most. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 I thought this thread would be a mad house. I was not wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, thunderball said: I thought this thread would be a mad house. I was not wrong. I agree there seems to be generally reasoned and balanced views expressed in here. It’s often what you do when things are difficult and results are not spectacular that makes the biggest difference when looked back with hindsight. I think Suso and the club have done a professional job in difficult circumstances. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 I'm not massively impressed with his work over the two windows in all honesty but if we do stay up then it's hard to complain too much since that is the only objective this season. The jury is out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 7 hours ago, Zatman said: Bigger teams than us couldn't get a striker over the line in January yet we got 2 United had to resort to Ighalo who people would have been fuming about if we signed Exactly. 3 weeks ago we didn't have a striker at the club, now we have Borja, Sammata, Davis and hopefully Wesley will come back stronger. On top of that if we do manage to stay up who's to say we won't bring in a really top class forward? Contrary to what some have claimed, we are in a far healthier position than we were 3 weeks ago, so from that perspective you have to consider the window to have been a successful one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 1 hour ago, KenjiOgiwara said: The signings this window make sense. It's absolutely obvious we are restricted from spending due to FFP, Our plans were also no doubt affected by the injuries to Wesley, Heaton and McGinn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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