More transfer rumours

[SUPERTOON]

Just now, Dokko said:

We've bid on more players this week than we've got points. 

Wouldn’t take much in fairness 

[Danh1]

2 minutes ago, xLiaaamx said:

I was having a laugh to those sensitive souls who get worked up

 

Steer clear of Choudhury though from what Ive seen in seriousness. 

Get him in just for round 2 against Ritchie IMO. 

[KaKa]

10 minutes ago, Clockwork Cheese said:

Think he's 10 years too late at Spurs - he would have loved playing for Redknapp.

 

"MK Don's, National Team. BANG!" At some point he's taken his foot of the gas, and doesn't have that killing hunger that forced Poch to throw him straight in and saw him through the first few seasons of his career.

 

Towards Pochettino's end he eventually pissed him off, and his form tanked. Mourinho became at his whits end with him, and now it seems Conte has given a limited chance he hasn't taken. 

 

Poch, Mourinho, Conte - three managers that all share a core tenant that you need to sweat and eat grass to play for them. I'm in Mourinho's camp on this one.... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, Redknapp is the exact sort of manager that would have got the best out of him.

 

He comes across as being a bit cocky, but it's all a front. The guy isn't that confident I don't think, and needs a manager that can cajole a performance out of him.

 

 

[Clockwork Cheese]

3 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Yeah, Redknapp is the exact sort of manager that would have got the best out of him.

 

He comes across as being a bit cocky, but it's all a front. The guy isn't that confident I don't think, and needs a manager that can cajole a performance out of him.

 

 

 

Bit highlighted makes me think to compare Shelvey's slow, painful fall from grace to where he is now - albeit having the success in first few years. League 1 club to top Premier League club. 

 

Liverpool had that Doc with Rodger's first pre-season, remember him not really taking to Shelvey then. Jonjo has always come across cocky, but every couple of years he'll come out and do an interview professing to finally live up to his talent/hype and you can see he's not confident and it being a front.  

 

 

He's an enigma when you think about it, as Pochettino essentially developed him and got him performing to a point where he was one of the best young players in Europe and was smashing all sorts of stats for his age in comparison to Lampard/Gerrard. Poch is million miles away from what Redknapp was, or what a modern day interpretation of a Redknapp motivator type.

 

Used to always seem to have that bit of shithouse in him on the pitch, which personally I don't mind - albeit annoying when your a fan on the wrong end of. On the Doc he comes across as if he just doesn't give a shit; the exact sort of big time bastard attitude you'd expect him to have in a parallel universe where he's still at MK Don's - sour that he never got his move, all talent, no application.

 

Spurs fans will probably be able to pin point where he fell off. Can remember talk that Man United/Mourinho were interested, rumours of Real Madrid. Wouldn't be surprised that he became disenchanted when Levy told him he's staying put, and to swivel for a bigger deal. Instead of getting his head down, he let it get to him and he's now too far gone. 

 

Can only dream to have watch the dressing downs Conte has given him if that's what Mourinho had to say.   

 

 

 

[HWTL]

Think if Ali was in a team where he was one of the most important players and treated like by manager and players he would improve. Not sure if he will ever get back to the player he was but if he was 90% of that it would be a huge improvement on what we have. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, HWTL said:

Think if Ali was in a team where he was one of the most important players and treated like by manager and players he would improve. Not sure if he will ever get back to the player he was but if he was 90% of that it would be a huge improvement on what we have. 

Just a 5 month spell on loan where he has a good run of form will do.

[MarkyMark]

I know it hasn’t been seen as a priority, but if the rumour mill is correct (ha!), I reckon Leno would be a cracking signing.  I don’t think it can be understated just how much our piss poor goalkeepers are making our piss poor back line even more nervous than they would be otherwise.

 

Probably just the usual paper talk - but for me it would sit alongside our centre halves and centre mids in terms of an obvious area to strengthen.  The team’s spine is shite 

[LFEE]

Each to their own but I’d take Dubs over Leno everyday of the week ?‍♂️ 

[KaKa]

1 hour ago, MarkyMark said:

I know it hasn’t been seen as a priority, but if the rumour mill is correct (ha!), I reckon Leno would be a cracking signing.  I don’t think it can be understated just how much our piss poor goalkeepers are making our piss poor back line even more nervous than they would be otherwise.

 

Probably just the usual paper talk - but for me it would sit alongside our centre halves and centre mids in terms of an obvious area to strengthen.  The team’s spine is shite 

 

As someone who follows Arsenal quite closely due to having a ton of friends that support them, I'm really not sure about Leno at all.

[Menace]

Most of my mates support Arsenal too, Leno gets beaten near post far too often. He's better than Dubravka though 

[Chris_R]

3 hours ago, HWTL said:

Not sure if he will ever get back to the player he was but if he was 90% of that it would be a huge improvement on what we have. 

 

If he has 2 functional legs he'll be a huge improvement on what we have.

[TRon]

1 hour ago, LFEE said:

Each to their own but I’d take Dubs over Leno everyday of the week ?‍♂️ 

 

I don't even know why Leno is even being discussed tbh. Dubs is the least of our problems. 

[KaKa]

6 minutes ago, Menace said:

Most of my mates support Arsenal too, Leno gets beaten near post far too often. He's better than Dubravka though 

 

Yeah, Leno can be very shaky. Dean Henderson is who we should be aiming for, even if it means waiting till the summer.

[Dokko]

Dubravka isn't the same player under Rafa and at his stage of his career he isn't bringing it back round, it's downhill from here and here isn't good enough. 

 

A new keeper which commands and organises, someone the defence can rely on will reduce the panic we keep seeing. No one on the pitch trusts ours keepers and for good reason.

[bhoywhonder]

8 hours ago, TRon said:

 

I don't even know why Leno is even being discussed tbh. Dubs is the least of our problems. 

 

I agree he isn't high priority, but he has fcked up more this season than any other.

[Nine]

22 days into the window and we have signed 2 players, neither in the most key areas (CB, CM). Although Wood was very important after Wilson’s injury. 
 

If you had known that on Jan 1st would you have been okay with it? 

[nufcnick]

3 minutes ago, Nine said:

22 days into the window and we have signed 2 players, neither in the most key areas (CB, CM). Although Wood was very important after Wilson’s injury. 
 

If you had known that on Jan 1st would you have been okay with it? 

Would you fuck, it’s an abstract failure by the owners, they will panic next week and we will end up with the likes of Phil Jones and Hamza Choudhury on high wages for stupid money, Watford and Everton had players quite sharp and we just pissed around 

 

 

Edited January 22, 2022 by nufcnick

[Slim]

How do you buy players if clubs won't sell them?

[elbee909]

6 minutes ago, Slim said:

How do you buy players if clubs won't sell them?

 

Prep for 'I think Howe is poor' diatribe ad infinitum 

[1964]

17 minutes ago, Nine said:

22 days into the window and we have signed 2 players, neither in the most key areas (CB, CM). Although Wood was very important after Wilson’s injury. 
 

If you had known that on Jan 1st would you have been okay with it? 

Surely people knew this was going to happen tho??  

 

The January window last one month, we are desperate for players, we are wealthy, put those two together and think as a selling club when is the most profitable time to sell?  First couple of bids in week 1, or towards the end of the window when you will likely get ultra premium price for your player?

 

Couple that scenario with clubs that neither want nor need to sell their assets, why would they sell early and lose a player they don't want to lose?  Even if they accept that they will be selling they would want to keep them while they scout a replacement so would be unlikely to sell early.

 

In short it's unreasonable to expect anything different to where we are now in my opinion 

[nufcnick]

13 minutes ago, Slim said:

How do you buy players if clubs won't sell them?

Offer money they can’t refuse at the start of the window, not halfway through the longer you wait in the window the higher the price gets, get yourself ready for Phil Jones and Hamza Choudhury for £25-30 a piece next week. 

[christ]

1 minute ago, nufcnick said:

Offer money they can’t refuse at the start of the window, not halfway through the longer you wait in the window the higher the price gets, get yourself ready for Phil Jones and Hamza Choudhury for £25-30 a piece next week. 

You must be a used car salesman’s wet dream.

[Manxst]

2 minutes ago, nufcnick said:

Offer money they can’t refuse at the start of the window, not halfway through the longer you wait in the window the higher the price gets, get yourself ready for Phil Jones and Hamza Choudhury for £25-30 a piece next week. 

Why would they just accept a price at the start of the window though when you yourself state they would potentially get a higher price the longer the window goes on? It’s a sellers market in January. 

[LV]

2 minutes ago, nufcnick said:

Offer money they can’t refuse at the start of the window, not halfway through the longer you wait in the window the higher the price gets, get yourself ready for Phil Jones and Hamza Choudhury for £25-30 a piece next week. 

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