Bedfordspurs
Terry Naylor
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The transfer thread
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
To be honest, even i would have chosen Juve over Spurs. Better weather, food and women - i definitely would have gone for the Turin life over brickhole London
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I would like Openda from RB think he would do a great job for us.
Bedfordspurs
Terry Naylor
Very much a CF though
Bullet
Chris Jones
I hear you, I agree except Turin is colder than London in winter, absolutely brutal up there near the alps
Bullet
Chris Jones
I've only seen him play twice, both for Sweden, and was very impressed. He linked up with Isak and Deki so well. He plays a bit like Deki, but better, and with far more goal threat.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Tom Huddlestone
Sweden are in a weak group like England, looking at his record with club and country he does well against poorer teams. He's young enough but the money will be too high for someone who's only played at a low level league.
braineclipse
Terry Dyson
I'm OK with it. I think he has some of that "elite" level quality. But unsure about his suitability to playing for us and against a low block (one of our biggest issues). Seems a more transitional player to me.
We seemingly tried, he chose Juve, it happens. Only half way through January, hopefully we have other good targets to pursue.
??? Guy is 25, with 75 goals in 80 games for Sporting, 15 goals in 26 for Sweden
Last 4 seasons are (so starting at 21), 18, 22, 43 and this season 32 in 30
Nothing to with City game mate, someone is going to take a punt on him this summer.
On the basis of only scoring against poorer teams you wouldn't have had Kane at his PL peak then?
ALL strikers score against weaker teams, rarely do you see the top teams let in 5 or 6.
braineclipse
Terry Dyson
The pattern is quite clear that there typically aren't a lot of rumours for players we're trying to sign until they're fairly close to completion.
Not saying we didn't try for Muani, quite a lot of credible links and even though we try to keep things quiet that won't always be possible.
My point though is that we have no way of knowing what's happening next. We're only half way through January, already signed one player who looks really good this window (plus Yang who was already done earlier on). Ange has been pretty clear that he wants reinforcements, I don't think he would say those things if he didn't think it was likely that we'd get someone in.
I think the wide attacker market is pretty good. Even another Odobert type signing could be very useful imo.
braineclipse
Terry Dyson
That really hasn't been the script recently, even in January. I guess Werner could fit in that category, but certainly Porro, Bentancur, Kulusevski and Dragusin don't. Neither does Kinsky.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Tom Huddlestone
They may but like all transfers it's a "punt" and too expensive for us.
We didn't have to pay for Kane, there are far more weak teams in Portugal than PL. I think probably only Woolwich and Chelsea would pay the sort of money they would want.
Bishop
Frederic Kanoute
Both are very much strikers though and Solanke is fine. He's not a weak point in the team or squad whereas the right hand side definitely is. Muani is primarily a rwf who could cover striker as well, neither of the guys you mentioned play the same role. So we are looking for a RWF with versatility it seems rather than a an outright no9 which the guys you mentioned are.
thfcsteff
Vic Buckingham
I wonder if his rumoured 200k wages figured into any decision? Perhaps the thought was we'd sign him and pay those wages but offload Werner and his wages. Perhaps Werner's injury scuppered it?
The point was, on the basis of "only scoring against weaker teams" you would rule out 90% of players, including Kane if you had to buy him, seeing as weaker teams are more likely to concede goals than top teams are.
You can't select players on a single point of reference but on their overall game.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Its more just that we move for our good long term targets early in the window, then panic buy the cheap crap at the end.
braineclipse
Terry Dyson
Some of those I mentioned definitely arrived late in the window. And some of them even had similar descriptions of them before they even played.
braineclipse
Terry Dyson
If we "have to" sign a versatile player that can play both RWF and striker for sure that limits our options severely. And probably Muani was one of the best of rather few options that could do that.
Will be interesting to see what we do. I hope we don't value versatility too highly if that makes sense.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Tom Huddlestone
Like Soldado?