Fantail Breeze

Well I’m sure they would prefer to be coached by Gerrard than lets say Bruce. But in no way is it the sole reason they’ve signed as Sky would like you to believe. If we chopped in offering x2 the salary with Bruce in charge, they’d be here.

Their owner has publicly said: ”We want €30m (£24.9m) fixed plus €10m (£8.3m) in realisable bonuses." “They offered us €35m (£29.1m) in total but with many bonuses, some of which were almost impossible to achieve - like, for example, winning the Champions League” Not sure that’s unreasonable at all. Not sure where the loan back and resale clause has come from.

This opinion that has been forced by the media is grim. Coutinho and Digne moved to Villa because the money was right and neither had a better offer. They’ve not gone there because of Gerrard ffs. They’re making it sound like he’s convinced them to join Forest Green.

Sorry. Wood has contributed to 4 points won and this guy won’t make it as a PL striker based on YouTube clips? And you’re telling me to be sensible? Wood has been appalling in those two games, more likely to say he’s contributed to 2 points dropped (vs Watford) rather than 4 gained. ”The same moaners would be furious”… Yet I’m clearly sat here saying the signing of Wood was dreadful, the fact it was for £25m was even worse and I’d be much happier to use that money for this player. At 19 btw, I’d have no issue with him starting in Wilson’s absence, if he’s deemed good enough. He doesn’t need hoying in the U23s. As I said, we need a squad of good players. We’re hideously under resourced, particularly upfront and £25m for Ekitike seems reasonable. Referring to him as a “skinny 18 year old” on the back of a YouTube clip is pathetic, especially as he’s 19. We’re clearly at opposite ends of the opinion but nobody is convincing me Wood is a good signing, at any price, never mind £25m.

A slow and clunky striker on the decline vs a promising young talent, is another way of looking at it. Mad that anyone would think £25m for this guy is too much, he could be a literal star in the future. If you want good up-and-coming talent, you unfortunately have to pay big fees to secure them. People keep talking about Wood being a “1 in 3 striker” but he certainly isn’t this season. He was suited to Burnley’s style of play and that’s why he scored goals. As I’ve also said in another thread, we don’t need to pretend Chris Wood at £25m is anything other than a crap signing, simply because of the new ownership. Even if we were relegated, we need to start building a squad of good players for the future. This guy could be one of them.

Mad they’ve taken so long to sort it out with the transfer window closing on Monday. Doesn’t look like he’ll be announced until tomorrow and that leaves them with no time to really do anything. Still keep convincing myself they might actually go down Win this and it’ll be a good start to making it happen.

Still think it’s mad we paid £25m for Chris Wood but wouldn’t pay a similar fee for this chap. Even if he was a total flop, due to his age, we’d be likely to reclaim a majority of that fee at some point.

Fuck me what is going on in the world when Wayne Rooney becomes likeable.

Expect this to happen on deadline day.

Would take him on a permanent deal, not sure how he’d be useful on a loan.

Yup. Today goes to show yet again that he can’t handle the pressure he is under. Shouldn’t play for us again.

Like a few of our players, he’s fairly likable but we need to be shifting these types of player on fairly quickly if we want to progress. Not convinced he’d get in another PL team tbh, says a lot in itself.

This cunt not won us the Champions League yet?

Think I’d say anything she asked me to as well.

“The vision is to sell every single one of you. You useless sacks of shit.”

@Manxst

Love it we’re at the stage of rich bastard club where we’re turning our nose up at Morata.

The only thing I’m surprised at by that video is the fact I cannot see either his mam eating her dinner in the background or some poor female bound and gagged.

@Sima not sure if you are aware but on RTG they seem to think you and @Tubestationatmidnightare the same person. Canny insulting that like

Can’t pretend I knew anything about this lad a week ago, but it’s an outstanding signing based on what journalists and those who have watched him have said.

What happened to the Leno rumours, by the way? Seemed to completely disappear.

A great window would be x2 CB, LB, DM, AM and striker. We could probably get away with two of those as a minimum. I still think we’re a better CB than Burn and a striker away from assuring safety. If we get someone like Lingard and he performs as well as he did for West Ham, we might get away with Wood upfront, otherwise we really need a striker. Not convinced Burn on his own will be enough to stabilise the defence, especially because I fear he’ll be played alongside Lascelles.

Yup. Same as Holland. Players often score for fun there and do fuck all here.

£10m up front and £660m when we win the World Cup.