Brad Jones

[Newport]

Cavalieri is a good keeper but good old woy wants his englishmen.

 

Bradley Scott "Brad" Jones (born 19 March 1982) is an Australian footballer

 

Btw, on Wikipedia it says he plays for Liverpool FC

[Kobayashi Maru]

Poor poor piece of business. Shocking waste of money, for a club which needs to be as diligent with whatever money is available. Nearly £7m used on 2 players who imo will not improve the squad but are highly questionable on the value they will bring, and not taking into account, if needed at all.

 

Roy still seems to be in Fulham mode. Tbh, this would have been a piss poor piece of business even for Fulham.

 

Would not surprise me if we come up short by a couple of Million on a high value target and lose out because of it. Then start the whole 'not enough money available' argument again. Really is a revolving circus with our transfer policy, and we don't seem to learn from it. Whilst our European counterparts seem to be a lot less averse to tapping into existing resources from their reserves or academies to build their squads.

[Kobayashi Maru]

If Reina ever gets injured, it will be no more of a risk having Gulasci between the sticks than proven shite like Brad Jones.

[Randy Marsh]

 

He isn't English!

 

Fuckin hell Roy. You've impressed me so far but you need your head testing on this one. The lad is fuckin shite, even as a back up. You're signing a player for Liverpool now not fuckin Fulham. Gulacsi or any one of our other 18 youth keepers (Bouzanis, Hansen etc) could have provided adequate cover.

[laddo]

Gulacsi or any one of our other 18 youth keepers (Bouzanis, Hansen etc) could have provided adequate cover.

 

They dont qualify as homegrown. Jones does.

[Original202]

We can't be that desperate for another home grown player though Shirley?

 

I'd rather we signed someone like Carlo Nash or Richard Wright on a free if we're that desperate for someone else to fill this quota.

 

There is absolutely nothing positive about this signing.

 

We've signed around 20 keepers in the last 6 years or so and spent a small fortune on them. At least sell a few first.

[MLB]

A truly atrocious piece of business. I'm really, really disappointed about this to be honest. Surely we have 8 "homegrown" players already anyway? Carra, Gerrard, Cole, Johnson, Kelly, Shelvey, Spearing, Wilson. You could even throw in Darby and Amoo. I would rather have ANY of them in our squad for the season than spend £2+ million on a completely shit goalkeeper from Middlebrough.

[clockspeed]

We can't be that desperate for another home grown player though Shirley?

 

I'd rather we signed someone like Carlo Nash or Richard Wright on a free if we're that desperate for someone else to fill this quota.

 

There is absolutely nothing positive about this signing.

 

We've signed around 20 keepers in the last 6 years or so and spent a small fortune on them. At least sell a few first.

 

 

Stunned by this myself Carlo Nash or especially Richard Wright brilliant call if you think about it

[MLB]

I would have Richard Wright over Brad Jones any day of the week. This deal is so inexplicable I would actually have suspicions about there being something dodgy about it.

[redfromtubebar]

Fucking shite signing for a club where transfer funds are extremely limited.

 

He might be the worst goalkeeper I have ever seen play in the top divisioin. A fucking joke of a player and I bet he can't believe his luck that Liverpool are going have him on the payroll.

 

Hodgson is just chasing his Fulham targets it seems.

[piscinin]

They dont qualify as homegrown. Jones does.

 

They are U21 so it doesn't matter.

[Iantn]

They dont qualify as homegrown. Jones does.

 

I don't think we need to fill this though. I think it's more the fact we can only have a maximum of 17 who aren't classed as homegrown. Given the number of young lads we've got that are under 21 so don't actually count I wouldn't be too worried if we didn't submit a full 25.

[MLB]

They are U21 so it doesn't matter.

 

 

I just checked the rule and doesn't it say that they have to have been at the club for three years between 16-21? Surely that means they can be 19 or 20 and still be eligible? This rule is a fucking mess. I mean, why is there a lower limit? Is a player not "homegrown" if he's been at the club since he was 14, is now 17 or 18, and is good enough to be in your squad? What a load of fucking shit.

[Guest TK-421]

Never seen him play.

[fowler9]

thing is Gulacsi will count as homegrown once he is 21!

 

Jones is absolute gash and a championship back up keeper, i'd rather sign someone like Scott Loach who'd probably cost less and actually has potential

[Best Believe It]

A good mate of mine is from Middlesbrough and supports them. He does not have fullsome praise for Brad Jones.

 

I'm yet to see the merit of signing him, unless we sell Cavalieri and if that thing happens that I won't say for fear of jinxing something, we play Gulasci instead and just have Jones in the squad to make up the numbers.

[piscinin]

I just checked the rule and doesn't it say that they have to have been at the club for three years between 16-21? Surely that means they can be 19 or 20 and still be eligible? This rule is a fucking mess. I mean, why is there a lower limit? Is a player not "homegrown" if he's been at the club since he was 14, is now 17 or 18, and is good enough to be in your squad? What a load of fucking shit.

 

Its rules written by lawyers!!

 

You only have to name players over 21. Players under 21 are freebies as far as the quota is concerned and any number can be used. Hence, whether he's homegrown or not doesn't matter until he's 21.

[Red Mist]

Strange, strange signing. How many fucking 'keepers do we need? We already have the best in the world who never misses a game, why the hell do we need another 15 'keepers behind him? What a waste of money we barely have.

[The Party Boy]

I don't see the fuss, he's homegrown and better than Cavilieri.

[fowler9]

I don't see the fuss, he's homegrown and better than Cavilieri.

 

he isn't, Cavalieri is okay top club back up, Jones is gash Championship back up

[The Party Boy]

Cavalieri is pretty turd.

[RedKnight]

Did anyone see Pepe's body on his holiday? He ain't getting injured unless someone knees him in the face.

[PaulMcC]

Hopefully Gulacsi doesn't see his route to the first team squad getting blocked by shit players and want to leave.

[The Party Boy]

He's gonna have to leave at some point anyway cos Pepe's what 27?

[PaulMcC]

He's gonna have to leave at some point anyway cos Pepe's what 27?

 

I'd rather he stayed few years, at least, to show he's a good keeper when given the chance in cup games for us.

 

It'll mean we'll get a good fee for him.