January 2017 Transfer Speculation

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  • eskimokingeskimoking
    Palace are apparently paying £12m for another midfielder, medical tomorrow. Surely they won't sign 4 players over £10m in one window?
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Well according to the article, our best finish in the Premier League was 5th under Harry Redknapp in 1989...hahahaha
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    eskimoking said:

    Palace are apparently paying £12m for another midfielder, medical tomorrow. Surely they won't sign 4 players over £10m in one window?

    Very Newcastle esque
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Preston our best ever finish was 5th in 1998/9
  • alderzalderz
    3rd in 86?
  • McHammerMcHammer
    Oxford to Rangers loan complete according to Twit
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    alderz said:

    3rd in 86?

    1986 was our best top flight finish, however it was before the premier league era
  • MIAHammerMIAHammer
    alderz said:

    3rd in 86?

    That was in the old First Division not the Premier League.
  • LukerzLukerz
    West Ham pull out of Scott Hogan race, according to Sky Sources.

    Are we actually not going to bring in a new striker.
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    ;whistle

    IMG_2379
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Slaven_A_Laugh_Lukerz said:

    West Ham pull out of Scott Hogan race, according to Sky Sources.

    Are we actually not going to bring in a new striker.

    Could be Sky trying to create some drama. I'd be pretty unhappy if we didn't bring one in, because Carroll and Sakho have proven to be unreliable fitness wise and Ayew and Calleri have been far from convincing.

    Bats, Hogan or Defoe I'd be delighted with
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited January 2017
    Rav ;lol

    Also, I don't like the attitude that this season is done and dusted so there is no real need to rush and buy players, we go with what we have and settle for mid table.

    IMO we should be going for 7th, to equal our finishing position of last season, and be doing everything to achieve that, especially after the abysmal start we made. Think it sends out completely the wrong message to settle for 10th (ish), given we are trying to build ourselves up as a next level club with the stadium move. Clubs aspiring for the next level don't 'settle' for anything.

    A lot of our problems this season stem from not signing a striker last summer and not sufficiently filling that RB slot, leading to Antonio playing WB and Nord RB whenever Byram has been unavailable. So Sam basically has no competition for his spot.

    The board cannot seriously be expecting AC to see us through until May with his record. 5 months of continuous football? Can't see it, and we only have one other striker capable of reliably filling in and he's suffered more injuries than Andy! Add to that he wanted out 6 months ago and has played 1.5 games all season.

    I hate the 'do a job' mentality. As in, 'well if Andy breaks down we have Ayew who can sort of play there, Antonio who can sort of play there, and then we have Fletcher and Calleri', as if either of those two are good enough to start half a dozen games on the bounce when Andy tweaks something. Kind of making out we have four other options when really it's one.

    Really will be disappointed with no RB or striker signed, or at the very least one of them.
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    OldCastleSwift said:

    Chelsea being linked with Celtic's Dembele.

    I wonder if this leave Bats looking for a move ;hmm

    ;hmm

    Or Slav might just feel that our top scorer could always fill in as a striker if needed...
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    IMG_5361
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    jay_in_cpt said:

    OldCastleSwift said:

    Chelsea being linked with Celtic's Dembele.

    I wonder if this leave Bats looking for a move ;hmm

    ;hmm

    Or Slav might just feel that our top scorer could always fill in as a striker if needed...
    Which is kind of Luke's point. We don't want someone that can 'fill in'. We want a striker to play as a striker when Carroll breaks again.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    It's interesting that the only other interest in Hogan appears to be villa and palace

    You get the impression that Slav is not wholly sold on him ;hmm
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    I wonder if we might still get Defoe if Ulloa forces his move to Sunderland?
  • AdamAdam
    Cue Palace signing Hogan and scoring 10 in 16 games to keep them up.

    Sigh.

    I guess Bilic really rates Calleri. I guess we'll see how good he is if he gets a run of games.
  • Ravel49Ravel49

    BREAKING NEWS

    Free-agent Emmanuel Adebayor is in Istanbul for talks and a medical with a Turkish Super League club.

  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    edited January 2017
    Diamantis_Are_Forever said:


    BREAKING NEWS

    Free-agent Emmanuel Adebayor is in Istanbul for talks and a medical with a Turkish Super League club.

    Yeah I think the club is "Istanbul Diamantis "...
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Doesn't deadline day usually get its own thread?
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited January 2017
    Buzz kill from young Jackerz

    Jack Sullivan @jsullivanwhu
    Very unlikely we sign anyone today, unless someone quality comes available. The manger would prefer we hold the money till the summer.

    #gotowork(thenbed) ;wink
  • Ravel49Ravel49
    *puts tie back in it's place
  • LukerzLukerz
    Rav ;hug
  • LukerzLukerz
    Same place, same time next year folks?
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    The Manager is a very sensible boy....

    Saying that Suarez becomes available lets go after him...
  • LukerzLukerz
    So it's the manager who wanted Payet gone, hence G&S sold him.

    And the manager would prefer we didn't strengthen now, hence G&S didn't spend on a striker and RB.

    Glad they've covered themselves.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    edited January 2017
    Disappointed pulling out of the running for Hogan (or any striker)

    Would like a proper striker to come in so Fletcher could get a loan move as he is just a kid and needs game time at this point of his career

    Bilic must see something in Calleri as he blocked him leaving and has tried using him off the bench recently
  • LukerzLukerz
    One fluked goal and all of a sudden Calleri's the answer.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I dont understand why we write players off after less than 3 hours game time. ;hmm
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