January 2014 Transfer Thread

[thompsonsnose]

Do we even know who's doing the negotiating?

[Baltar]

Our dithering board cost us another target. Well done, idiots.

[thompsonsnose]

Our dithering board cost us another target. Well done, idiots.

Im going to pretend, very hard, that Johnson and Lucas have changed everything.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

We really are total fucking amateurs when it comes to transfers!

 

Still stung from the Dalglish/Commolli debacles?

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

You thought Ricky van Wolfswinkel would be good for us. He's got 1 in 13 for Norwich. There is no exact science here. Except with hindsight.

Exactly. That said, he might well have been good here. It's a sliding scale of risk. Sometimes it pays off, like Sturridge. Sometimes you get Aspas. For me, we've started to fix the ratio.

[redfromtubebar]

Please stop quoting the £16m figure. Chelsea bought our number one target, that we've had the entirety of January to complete, for £11m. Fact. 

 

I can completely agree with not being fucking daft with out spending such as with Carroll and Downing but the current transfer committee approach is what causes us to miss out on Mkhitaryan and Willian and up up with Victor fucking Moses. Destined to fail.

[spider-neil]

Exactly. That said, he might well have been good here. It's a sliding scale of risk. Sometimes it pays off, like Sturridge. Sometimes you get Aspas. For me, we've started to fix the ratio.

 

We'll get our money back with Aspas. Ilori and Alberto are for the future and Cissokho and Moses are loans, so no harm no foul.

Also there is a open path to the first team for Ibe.

[Alan Sex]

I want my mummy.

[BCM]

 

"What do you mean you dont trust me"

[spider-neil]

Please stop quoting the £16m figure. Chelsea bought our number one target, that we've had the entirety of January to complete, for £11m. Fact. 

 

I can completely agree with not being fucking daft with out spending such as with Carroll and Downing but the current transfer committee approach is what causes us to miss out on Mkhitaryan and Willian and up up with Victor fucking Moses. Destined to fail.

 

Can't blame the board for Micky as he wouldn't even talk to us. We were blown out of the water with regards to Willian by Spurs never mind Chelsea. Costa used us to get a pay increase.

[BigMike]

Salah to Chelsea? Why? He'll never get a game! Loaned out to Everton for the start of next year.

 

Not bothered, not what we need (not that we are going to get them either).

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Why did no cunts try and gazump us when we were paying £35m for Carroll and £16m for Downing?

[spider-neil]

Why did no cunts try and gazump us when we were paying £35m for Carroll and £16m for Downing?

 

Too busy laughing to pick up the phone.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Johnston out 'indefinately' as he has been struggling with various injuries? Will we get a LB in this window?

[Jairzinho]

We'll get our money back with Aspas. Ilori and Alberto are for the future and Cissokho and Moses are loans, so no harm no foul.

Also there is a open path to the first team for Ibe.

 

If we miss out on Champions League football, again, the club falls further back. So of course there is harm in having wasted the limited resources we do have on players that aren't good enough.

 

Cissokho and Moses may only cost their wages, plus whatever their loan fees were, but the point is that they're in the squad. Cissokho, because of Enrique's injury, is currently our left back. Moses stank the place out a couple of months ago. It is damaging our season that they're part of the squad, and will damage us financially if we finish 7th again.

[spider-neil]

I'm hoping this is a big smokescreen for quality fullbacks, and any minute now the joke will be on Chelsea...

 

 

Any minute now...

[TheHowieLama]

It would probably help if we could just stay poised, instead of depoising and then having to repoise.

[celeryBADboy]

All these people saying he won't get a game for Chelsea give it a rest. You said the same about Willian they sold Mata for a reason, I don't think they have bought him cops we wanted him they night him because they want him and are not getting many goals.

 

done ffs

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Exactly. That said, he might well have been good here. It's a sliding scale of risk. Sometimes it pays off, like Sturridge. Sometimes you get Aspas. For me, we've started to fix the ratio.

Genuine question. How are we fixing the ratio in your eyes?

 

To me, it looks like we've lurched from overspending and backing the manager at all costs, which resulted in Carroll and Downing, to placing "value" as the centrepiece of the entire strategy.

 

The problem is value is relative to many things, and the market is arguably the least of them. Value to the team seems to have fallen down the pecking order, so we're happy to acquire players in positions we don't need if they're bargains unlikely to depreciate, but not spend the requisite amount to rectify a glaring hole in the squad if no one's available at the right price.

 

We went into last summer with the same mantra as we've headed into this window - add quality.

 

We lucked out with Coutinho and Sturridge, and with each pasing day they look more like they're held up as the rules rather than the exceptions they so clearly were.

[redfromtubebar]

Ayre needs to go. What does he actually do well other than ride around town on a Harley, climb on Robbie Fowler's shoulders while pissed up on a pre-season tour, and leave early to beat the rush hour traffic on transfer deadline day.

 

Anyone?

[Deebo]

We should cancel the moses loan, send him back to the chavs, give them their shite back and give salah more competition....hahah sorry moses is really shit.

[Gym Beglin]

I'd rather give gametime to Ibe, he's sound.

 

I'd also really like to have access to the £11m Borini who we bought, and yet cannot use.

 

 

 

I'll say this though, next season we're going to have a fucking good squad. The experience that Borini, Assaidi, McLaughlin, Suso, Illori and Wisdom are getting out on loan is very good news. Also bear in mind that Sterling, Ibe, Rossiter, Smith will be that bit more older and physically developed.

 

I'd love to keep Suarez, love him, but if he leaves then it's not the end of the world either. We showed in the first few games what we can achieve with just Sturridge up front.

 

I feel sorry for Rodgers, he's been dealt a cunt's hand with injuries so far this season.

 

Next season squad:

 

GK - Mignolet, Jones/Ward

LB - Enrique, Smith

RB - Flanno, McLaughlin, NEW RB

CB - Sakho, Agger, Toure, Illori, NEW CB

CM - Hughes, Allen, Henderson, Rossiter?

AM - Sterling, Coutinho, Suso, Ibe, 2 NEW quick attackers

CF - Sturridge, Borini, NEW CF

[Cardie]

You'd never lose on a transfer of £11m for a 21yr old like Salah. It's risk free, as there is no way we wouldn't have been able to get our money back on him.

Sarcasm?

 

[RobbieOR]

Ayre needs to go. What does he actually do well other than ride around town on a Harley, climb on Robbie Fowler's shoulders while pissed up on a pre-season tour, and leave early to beat the rush hour traffic on transfer deadline day.

 

Anyone?

 

How do you know he does nothing? Have you shadowed him or something?

 

Typical reaction to missing out on a player nobody wanted because someone else paid over the odds to get him. Hysterical nonsense. 

[INTORRESTING]

It's what they did with willian and spurs.

 

They have sold Mata to take points off rivals and sabotaged the salah deal.

 

Or is it all a carefully engineered plan to free us up to go for our real target? (Doubt it)

 

I expect he was offered huge wages and it shows you have to act fast but to be fair he may have been waiting for a better offer anyway - who knows!