January 2025 - Transfer Window Rumours and Discussion

Or we just do our due diligence and scout properly to avoid a) bringing in a player solely based on one game against us and b) bringing in an ineffective winger to play wing back

Lol I am sure that is not far wrong . Some dodgy cheap players from Europe are quoted as targets ,nobody knows anything about them including the management team it's a joke
 
Or we just do our due diligence and scout properly to avoid a) bringing in a player solely based on one game against us and b) bringing in an ineffective winger to play wing back

Fully agree. What I'm saying is, if we went to sign a player like Small, fans would at least understand the reasoning behind it.

20, built like a brick shithouse, fast, only has 6 months on his contract, shown he is capable and base attributes that the coaching team can work with.

Instead, we spend 1.7 million pounds; that we can't afford to waste, on a player that is simply not good enough.
 
Id have Kyle Joseph here from the little I've seen. Obviously not a starter but as a decent option, quite pacey, aggressive, hard worker, and has added goals to his game.

Saw him against Bolton and he plays the lone striker role pretty well.

Price dependent, mind, wouldn't be paying a lot.
 
Lol I am sure that is not far wrong . Some dodgy cheap players from Europe are quoted as targets ,nobody knows anything about them including the management team it's a joke

In their defence the club got Frøkjær and Osmajic right, I rate them both and I’m still holding out hope for Thordarsson, that his current form is just a temporary dip.

But Okkels is just an absolutely monumental balls up. It’s not just that he’s a poor player, it’s that he was clearly never a wing back and we paid a silly amount of money for him by our standard.
 
In their defence the club got Frøkjær and Osmajic right, I rate them both and I’m still holding out hope for Thordarsson, that his current form is just a temporary dip.

But Okkels is just an absolutely monumental balls up. It’s not just that he’s a poor player, it’s that he was clearly never a wing back and we paid a silly amount of money for him by our standard.

Why is Peter still here what a total fuck up .
 
Fully agree. What I'm saying is, if we went to sign a player like Small, fans would at least understand the reasoning behind it.

20, built like a brick shithouse, fast, only has 6 months on his contract, shown he is capable and base attributes that the coaching team can work with.

Instead, we spend 1.7 million pounds, that we can't afford to waste on a player that is simply not good enough.

Fair point. If Small has been on the radar for a while then I’d be happy with the signing, like you say he’s a good age and has decent attributes.

I just felt people were getting carried away by one performance, which is easy to do I suppose when someone stands out against us.
 
In their defence the club got Frøkjær and Osmajic right, I rate them both and I’m still holding out hope for Thordarsson, that his current form is just a temporary dip.

But Okkels is just an absolutely monumental balls up. It’s not just that he’s a poor player, it’s that he was clearly never a wing back and we paid a silly amount of money for him by our standard.

Two players correct out of how many ?
 
Fair point. If Small has been on the radar for a while then I’d be happy with the signing, like you say he’s a good age and has decent attributes.

I just felt people were getting carried away by one performance, which is easy to do I suppose when someone stands out against us.

I don't think he needs to have been on the radar for a while. He could be on it now and then see how he does for the rest of the season.
 
I thought you were just referencing the European signings.

If we’re opening it up to all signings then it’s pretty damning. Recruitment has been so, so poor since Grayson left really.

We need to be signing players that have just come off the back of a good season and are full of confidence.

Players like Bowler will only regress with how demanding the championship is.
 
Fair point. If Small has been on the radar for a while then I’d be happy with the signing, like you say he’s a good age and has decent attributes.

I just felt people were getting carried away by one performance, which is easy to do I suppose when someone stands out against us.

Probably are getting carried away. That's how desperate you become being a North Ender 😅 if you don't laugh, you cry.

If there's a plan then we can't complain. There just seems to be little planning with most signings.

There's small glimpses of planning with McCann, Gibson, Riis, Ozzie for example.
We just can't afford to make as many transfer mistakes that we do. We don't have the budget
 
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