Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 When you look at the huge loss West Ham have just made on Haller we have to start looking at the same like. Best option is probably loan him to someone in Germany, Holland, Portugal, etc, hope he has a good 5 months and we might get £12-16m back in the summer if we’re lucky (and about 50% of his wages). Club will probably try and get £30-35m for ASM to balance the mistake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Only running he did was first half when one of the Shitehouse Steve’s shouted ‘Go on Joe’ at him. Didn’t expect our record signing Brazilian forward to be a voice activated early version of a Boston Dynamics Robot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Jinx Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 When you look at the huge loss West Ham have just made on Haller we have to start looking at the same like. Best option is probably loan him to someone in Germany, Holland, Portugal, etc, hope he has a good 5 months and we might get £12-16m back in the summer if we’re lucky (and about 50% of his wages). Club will probably try and get £30-35m for ASM to balance the mistake. I’m not at all concerned by the supposed loss as the whole thing stinks anyway. What’s more concerning is that he’s taking up a squad place. They should try and do a swap loan deal, send him to Leicester and we get Slimani for 6 months (which is when his contract expires btw) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I truly hope the rumours of him not actually being £40m and the fee being exaggerated by the club with lots of add ons is true. I can't think of a worse player in history that has been transferred for such a sum. Sure there's been some shocking transfers over the years but this feels like the most expensive flop if he really cost as much as they said. He's got to be up there, surely. Really feel like it flies under the radar a bit as well. He's been a fucking horrible signing. I mean there'll always be Torres who'll go down as arguably the worst flop when it comes to transfer fee Vs. return, but even he scored somewhere close to 50 goals for Chelsea including some crucial ones in the Champions League. There's Shevchenko for Chelsea as well but, again, twenty-odd goals in a couple of seasons. Hardly the apocalytpically bad return that big Jeff has for us. Carroll? Kepa, maybe, if we can include non-strikers? Weird ones like Drinkwater, if you can call that a 'flop'? Soldado? Benteke to Liverpool for 42m is very similar. Wilfried Bony, Vincent Jansen,Eliaquim Mangala, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abra Dubravka Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 All those clubs had a track record of spending decent sized money on players. We didn't, we'd spent god knows how long until we broke our transfer record on Almiron, and years of scrimping. We blow our whole budget on one signing who plays like Harvey Price with Dwight Yorke's boots on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty66 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Absolute embarrassment that he's our record signing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 When you look at the huge loss West Ham have just made on Haller we have to start looking at the same like. Best option is probably loan him to someone in Germany, Holland, Portugal, etc, hope he has a good 5 months and we might get £12-16m back in the summer if we’re lucky (and about 50% of his wages). Club will probably try and get £30-35m for ASM to balance the mistake. I’m not at all concerned by the supposed loss as the whole thing stinks anyway. What’s more concerning is that he’s taking up a squad place. They should try and do a swap loan deal, send him to Leicester and we get Slimani for 6 months (which is when his contract expires btw) Doesn’t bother me about the finances either. It’ll be killing one man, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 To be honest the argument about him not playing the right position etc, there isn't a position he can fit into here and be better than another player. Its clear the reason he plays so many games is to justify the ego of the idiots behind the signing and recommendation of him in the first place. His key attributes from all the games I've seen,and there have been many, because he literally starts every game, he can hold the ball up relatively well, and bizarrely considering he's here for attacking purposes he wins tackles. Can't think of any attacking qualities he has that justify him being part of a front two or three? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1pe Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I think the reaction to him after a bad game is way over the top compared to most players. He’s been decent lately but yesterday he was completely ineffectual. I’d like to see two actual wide players playing instead of him with Wilson up front now, we’re always so one sided. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Been utterly woeful since day 1 and continues to be so. Feel sorry fir him but he has only ever resembled a footballer when playing League 1 opposition. £40m Charlie Wyke. Heads would roll at a normal club for sanctioning the signing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Only running he did was first half when one of the Shitehouse Steve’s shouted ‘Go on Joe’ at him. Didn’t expect our record signing Brazilian forward to be a voice activated early version of a Boston Dynamics Robot. Tbh I heard Bruce voice activating several players a few games ago. Matty, Wilson and Hayden in particular. Problem is it doesn't help if one player is pressing while rest of the team is in their own half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Been utterly woeful since day 1 and continues to be so. Feel sorry fir him but he has only ever resembled a footballer when playing League 1 opposition. £40m Charlie Wyke. Heads would roll at a normal club for sanctioning the signing. To think of the disdain Benitez apparently brought on himself with utterly harmless signings like Gamez, Murphy and Lazaar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie john Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Please, anyone, complete the following sentence. The reason I like Joelinton is ( ) ....seriously! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 because he totally vindicates Rafa when he told 'em to get fucked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikenewcastle Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I think the reaction to him after a bad game is way over the top compared to most players. He’s been decent lately but yesterday he was completely ineffectual. I’d like to see two actual wide players playing instead of him with Wilson up front now, we’re always so one sided. If he's been decent lately then it's only decent by his own standards. He's shown flashes of competence - no more. I'm struggling to think of a worse player who regularly gets a start, Boumsong maybe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I think the reaction to him after a bad game is way over the top compared to most players. He’s been decent lately but yesterday he was completely ineffectual. I’d like to see two actual wide players playing instead of him with Wilson up front now, we’re always so one sided. If he's been decent lately then it's only decent by his own standards. He's shown flashes of competence - no more. I'm struggling to think of a worse player who regularly gets a start, Boumsong maybe? We can't erase Alan Smith from the history books so thankfully for big Jeff, and anyone else who plays for Newcastle, they'll avoid that particular accolade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I saw him in the summer walking along Gateshead Quayside wearing his NUFC tracksuit while eating an apple. I knew then we’d found Shola’s replacement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abra Dubravka Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I think the reaction to him after a bad game is way over the top compared to most players. He’s been decent lately but yesterday he was completely ineffectual. I’d like to see two actual wide players playing instead of him with Wilson up front now, we’re always so one sided. If he's been decent lately then it's only decent by his own standards. He's shown flashes of competence - no more. I'm struggling to think of a worse player who regularly gets a start, Boumsong maybe? Reminds me of Jonas playing on the left for Pardew, but somehow worse. Sucked the life out of every attack because he was playing on the wrong side, and always cut in. No pace, no trick/skill, didn't create anything, didn't score. Safe option constantly or wins a foul. Could see what Bruce wanted to do in the second half on the left side, Dummett shuffles from LCB to LB, Ritchie moves up on the wing, and Joelinton inside to play alongside Carroll - then back into a 541 without the ball. Obviously didn't work because every player mentioned there is awful, as a team we can't keep the ball, and don't create any overloads/positional rotation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I saw him in the summer walking along Gateshead Quayside wearing his NUFC tracksuit while eating an apple. I knew then we’d found Shola’s replacement. Shola is George Weah compared to this fucking guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Indeed. Barely belongs in a sentence with Shola. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 I saw him in the summer walking along Gateshead Quayside wearing his NUFC tracksuit while eating an apple. I knew then we’d found Shola’s replacement. Shola is George Weah compared to this f***ing guy. My thoughts too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgarve Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Indeed. Barely belongs in a sentence with Shola. Agree shola cared and had a bit of fight Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Gouffran was twice the player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny36 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Tuesday night is a big game for us..Cant afford to be carrying passengers and Joelinton is in that bracket..Cant see Carroll playing either with him playing 105 mins Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abra Dubravka Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Gouffran was twice the player. Leon Best was twice the player. Would expect similar performances from Gouffran now, and he's 34 playing in the Amernian league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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