Elephant

It’s weird that we are not going for Memphis Depay. He would be free and can play in many positions. He’s obviously not cheap, but no transfer fee needed. Juventus might not go for him after all so he is at the moment still available and desperate on getting transfer.

João Pedro Junqueira Jesus is his full name. Good to have him with Pope in our team.

29 minutes ago, FLUMPO235 said:

I saw an interview with someone who does prem medicals recently and it isn’t like I always imagined. It’s less like an MOT with pass or fail checks.

 

it’s more like one of those vehicle health checks they do now when you get a car serviced. It would just highlight he’s currently got a minor ankle injury. 
 

but would say stuff like, broke his arm aged 7. Had xxx operations and so on.

 

 

 

Haller passed medical at BVB and he has active cancer (which was complete surprise to everyone).

10 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

I cannot believe after a game like that. 

 

This is what someone is inspired to post. I mean fair play to you man. You are misery and misery is you.

 

 

 

We played excellent football and we have a chance to be really high this season, if we get the right players in.

Absolutely brilliant performance which shows that we have a really high potential with this manager and this starting XI.

It’s you own misery that you thought something like that. I’m sure many thought like me, that we have such a great potential here that with few great additions and we are pure class. With better players in we would have won that game.

Edit. It’s my bad actually, should have been more positive.

We need 3-4 players in, our subs are horrible.

Sell Wood now, please! Maybe some club is stupid enough to buy him. He’s absolutely useless.

Wood is absolutely useless, get rid asap.

Our subs are horrible, with better players in we would have won today.

Great performance still!

4 minutes ago, xLiaaamx said:

I smell a walk away incoming 

We are bidding too low and then walking away. It’s a strange and frustrating tactic. I wish we would just go for cheaper options rather than spending the whole transfer window chasing players we don’t clearly afford.

21 minutes ago, HTT II said:

I’m not denying he’s a class player, just I’m reliably informed he isn’t as class as he’s made out to be on a game to game basis by someone who does watch him with his own two eyes on a game to game basis.

My friend is huge Bayern München fan and he absolutely hated Thiago. He watched pretty much every single game and he thinks their midfield improved after he left, because now they have more direct and quicker approach.

Not my opinion, haven’t watched Bayern enough to say anything.

44 minutes ago, LV said:

1 loan from Chelsea is all I can see unfortunately. Probably CHO 

There’s only going to be one loan from Chelsea, because club cannot loan two players from same club. Probably nobody meant it here, but if it’s unclear to someone.

I’m surprised and bit disappointed that we haven’t signed any young players from Europe or elsewhere. That’s our best way to spend less money when we find those players early. Hopefully our scouting network will improve massively soon, that’s as urgent as signing new players.

Just now, Klaus said:

'Preparing a proposal'

 

 

We have been preparing proposals all summer, must be damn hard to do it!

”Dear Benfica,

We are Newcastle United and we would like to..”

44 minutes ago, Chicken Dancer said:

Bundesliga one of worst IIRC.

Horrible players like Son, de Bruyne, Firmino, Havertz.. and you can soon add Håland to that list as well. Not to forget how well Gundogan has played scoring 21 goals during last two seasons. 

”Other options being explored” is the most common thing you find Twitter with #nufc tag.

42 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Thorgan Hazard isn’t very good though. His stats aren’t too dissimilar to Fraser and Almiron 

I have watched almost every BVB game during last five seasons. He has been pretty much on the same level as Pulisic. Many don’t remember that Pulisic was not guaranteed starting XI at Dortmund. Hazard is very hard-working and very skillful, the physical side has been the problem (same with Pulisic). Hazard can also play as wingback.

There is lot of players we can sign without having to pay crazy fees, for example Thorgan Hazard and Julian Brandt. We just seem to target those who are not available, it seems stupid strategy and we are losing time with it.

Borussia Dortmund has put Julian Brandt and Thorgan Hazard for sale. I would go for both of them. Also Akanji is available, but we are not in need for another CB.

Hazard is good signing because he is very versitile. He can play also as full-back. Good work morale and highly skillfull. Probably available for £10M. Not the same sort of signing than Diaby, but has a lot of potential. Kind of similar to Pulisic.

Atletico Madrid is desperate to offload Griezmann, let’s see how long it takes for media to link him to us.

3 hours ago, Lotus said:

What about Akanji? Apparently won’t sign a new deal at Dortmund. Thought he would’ve been linked with a clubs now but haven’t read anything….

Linked to Bayern, but nowhere else for my knowledge.

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

Been linked here a while now:

 

 

Heavily linked to Atletico Madrid, also Borussia Dortmund very interested.

Adeyemi is completely different type of player than Håland, so BVB is still looking for at least one more addition to their attack.

Borussia Dortmund have already signed Niklas Süle, Nico Schlotterbeck and Karim Adeyemi (all German). If Lewandowski leaves and Marco Rose finally gets results, it will be interesting next season. I hope BVB transfer business is not done yet, Sebastian Haller and midfielder (Kamara or Neuhaus) is something I’m hoping. Ekitike also heavily linked.

Axel Witsel, Manuel Akanji, Dan-Axel Zagadou will all leave the club during summer, but with new signings those don’t matter. Also rumours of Emre Can, Thorgan Hazard and Julian Brandt leaving, but hopefully Brandt will stay. And really really hoping that likes of Nico Schulz and Marius Wolf will leave the club.

However my prediction is that Rose gets sacked before Christmas (replaced by Eden Terzic) and it’s going to be yet another season of underarchieving. I really do hope not, but Rose has not been convincing.
 

BVB is building a new era and I like the signings so far. There is also highly-rated youngster coming up, Moukoko and Bynoe-Gittens (English) as brightest ones.

We absolutely need to go in for Nkunku, should be high priority for us right now.

He is first player to win four times Player of the month in Bundesliga during one season.

19 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

It’s more based on the fact he hasn’t seemed to recover fully from his hip injury and dortmund fans seem to think he hasn’t been the same player since (that could be a touch of sour grapes on their part).

He hasn’t been as dangerous as he was before, but it might be low motivation level as he knows he is leaving. But yes, it’s true that after the injury he has not been that special anymore.

15 minutes ago, Disco said:

Athletic football podcast on Monday was saying he should be in the discussion for MOTY.

Should be easy pick, what he has done for us is incredible. Statistically we were in place which nobody else has survived before and we are now 11th one point off 9th.

I wanted to bring to statistics back because when it comes to previous years and all the history, we were in horrible place half way to this season (which nobody has survived before). Obviously this season is bit different (which was pointed to me earlier with respect), but still. This is HUGE. Massive.

It’s almost impossible to believe we are still playing the same season we started with Bruce and Ashley. Absolutely mind-blowing!

On 31/01/2022 at 20:30, Elephant said:

We need him to step up his game now, because after failing to sign new attacking players, he is our only hope when ASM gets injured. Bring back the form of last season!

I wrote this when the transfer window closed. He really has stepped up and become the player we wanted. I’m very happy to see him shine as he has potential to be a very good player for years to come.