NUFC Transfer Rumours

[beardsleymagic]

Although I agree we shouldn't just rush in and buy somebody without making sure they are right for the squad, the fact is we have a favourable start to the season.

Are we not missing a trick by trying to have a couple of quality players in and hopefully having a flying start to the season? 

I would have hoped that the club would have also thought this after the fixtures came out.

Leicester showed what a good start and momentum and belief can do if things fall right for you.

[SteV]

1 minute ago, beardsleymagic said:

Although I agree we shouldn't just rush in and buy somebody without making sure they are right for the squad, the fact is we have a favourable start to the season.

Are we not missing a trick by trying to have a couple of quality players in and hopefully having a flying start to the season? 

I would have hoped that the club would have also thought this after the fixtures came out.

Leicester showed what a good start and momentum and belief can do if things fall right for you.

Rushing to buy someone that we’re not convinced about because we want them to play against Southampton at home, is not a coherent and robust transfer strategy.

[Checko]

There's quite a good episode of the Overlap where they discuss who should have final say in bringing in players at a football club.

 

One thing people could agree on was that bringing in the wrong player can set you back a long way.

[stozo]

Will be interesting to see if we get outbounds sorted before inbounds. You would assume that our budget is very different if we sell Trippier, Almiron, Wilson etc. Vs. if we don't do that. Shifting those three opens up circa. £35m of allowable spend a.k.a potentially three £50m players. 

[beardsleymagic]

13 minutes ago, SteV said:

Rushing to buy someone that we’re not convinced about because we want them to play against Southampton at home, is not a coherent and robust transfer strategy.

To be fair I started my post by saying we shouldn't rush in and buy somebody for the sake of it.

 

[Tiresias]

Again agents aren't exactly motivated to help moves happen quickly, know it can and is done but their leverage does get better if they delay and look for competition. It's not as simple as club just deciding lets do it early. Club can say we do it now or not at all, but agents know if the club really wants someone probably means they'll come back, or someone else will have em. Honestly I think it's why so much effort goes in to tapping up players in advance so the player just insists to get it over and done with so they can move, but our director of football situation has probably harmed that. 

[SweMag]

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

1 hour ago, Groundhog63 said:

 

Surely you mean "under" his head if you're referring to little Dennis

A 5’ 8” giant of a personality towering over a 5’6” weasel of a man child. 

[Coffee_Johnny]

So hated Wise having anything to do with us. 

 

 

Edited July 26, 2024 by Coffee_Johnny

[Skeletor]

1 minute ago, SweMag said:

 

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

1 hour ago, Groundhog63 said:

 

Surely you mean "under" his head if you're referring to little Dennis

A laws of physics defying huge two inch gap. 

 

 

Edited July 26, 2024 by Coffee_Johnny

[Joey47]

1 minute ago, SweMag said:

 

Interesting, football insider not the best source but if they were just farming clicks wouldn’t they go with “bid made” or “interest shown”?

[SteV]

5 minutes ago, beardsleymagic said:

To be fair I started my post by saying we shouldn't rush in and buy somebody for the sake of it.

 

So you’d already answered your own question really.

[aussiemag]

I think Howe could transform Madueke into a Gordon level player quite quickly. 

[SUPERTOON]

23 minutes ago, SteV said:

Rushing to buy someone that we’re not convinced about because we want them to play against Southampton at home, is not a coherent and robust transfer strategy.

You would imagine in a summer window you are already sure of all your targets before it opens ?

[SUPERTOON]

7 minutes ago, SweMag said:

 

Someone better tell Chelsea and Madueke then, he did an interview a couple of days back saying he is their number one RW this season.

[Ben]

Is he any good ?

[Lee Charnley]

You'd all be calling me every cunt under the sun if we hadn't made a signing by now.

[gbandit]

Would be delighted with Madueke. Don’t want to give Chelsea cash but hopefully we can stiff them as they need to offload some squad members 

[Bunk Moreland]

 

[Coffee_Johnny]

3 minutes ago, Joey47 said:

Interesting, football insider not the best source but if they were just farming clicks wouldn’t they go with “bid made” or “interest shown”?

Daniel Cordone, Andreas Andersson, Allan Saint-Maximin, Noni Makueke. Illustrious list of  hairband heroes! 

[gdm]

1 minute ago, gbandit said:

Would be delighted with Madueke. Don’t want to give Chelsea cash but hopefully we can stiff them as they need to offload some squad members 

Im honestly not seeing what you are seeing. Hes largely been terrible when I’ve saw him and his stats are similar to Murphy

[gdm]

3 minutes ago, Bunk Moreland said:

 

Think Thiaw will be the CH we buy. Reckon a deal will get done soon. Just my feeling 

[Mahoneys Tache]

3 minutes ago, Lee Charnley said:

You'd all be calling me every cunt under the sun if we hadn't made a signing by now.

We’d be doing that if you’d signed prime Maldini, Eusebio, Jimmy Greaves and Tom Finney. 

[The College Dropout]

7 hours ago, Pata said:

IMO Barnes was an opportunistic signing but there's some history being re-written here. Gordon hadn't nailed down that LW spot when we signed Barnes and one reason we went for a pure LW was that Gordon was seen as a LW/RW/SS. After few games into the season Gordon had been so good at LW that moving him to get Barnes in to the lineup didn't make sense anymore and the void at RW started to look worse. Didn't help that Barnes wasn't fit during the autumn/winter injury crisis when we had so few players available that we probably would've needed to move Gordon to RW for some games in any case.

 

In hindsight it's easy to say to that Barnes was unnecessary signing and the funds should've been used for a RW but it wasn't that clear when he was signed. In other universe Gordon was injured for most of the season and Barnes carried us at LW, there's always some luck and chance at play and criticizing decisions afterwards is never hard.

 

 

 

There’s zero evidence that Howe intended to play Gordon RW. 

 

Barnes joined in July and only started a game in September due to the CL games kicking in. All evidence is that’s the role he was brought in for.   Rotation and competition with Gordon.  Thats a decision with some logic but not a wise one imo considering our limited budget and more pressing concerns. 
 

Signing Barnes would be like us signing a £30m left back in January last season because Hall had not settled in yet.  
 

We knew Gordon wasn’t the finished article when we signed him. He was a long term investment.  
 

We should’ve done what we’ve now done at LB. Get in a relatively cheap option on loan or permanently to provide competition.  It was oppportunistic because the player was available.