Ridout9399 Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 Whatever happened to our links with Luka Jovic or Tammy Abraham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HighPeakFox Posted 10 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 10 September 2020 1 hour ago, Ridout9399 said: Whatever happened to our links with Luka Jovic or Tammy Abraham? People that make stuff up moved on to other targets. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrifox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 So is tomorrow the day ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 Not normally one to panic but the lack of new players and quotes from well reputed sources is worrying. I am going to say now that I doubt we have another new face in for Sunday now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Fox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 10 minutes ago, Lineker's Left Foot said: Not normally one to panic but the lack of new players and quotes from well reputed sources is worrying. I am going to say now that I doubt we have another new face in for Sunday now. I think that's a fair assumption but was always unrealistic anyone would be able to walk right into the first team in any case. I'm not panicking yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 13 minutes ago, Lineker's Left Foot said: Not normally one to panic but the lack of new players and quotes from well reputed sources is worrying. I am going to say now that I doubt we have another new face in for Sunday now. Even if signed someone today, I think they would have come off the bench at best on Sunday. Rodgers already mentioned last week he didn't think we'd have anyone in before WBA but was confident on transfers coming in. That sounds about right to me as the window is open for quite a while yet. As is always the case, the last week will be the most frantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachhere Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 2 minutes ago, Silva Fox said: I think that's a fair assumption but was always unrealistic anyone would be able to walk right into the first team in any case. I'm not panicking yet! Yeah, especially with a good number of players on international duty. It was always going to be a weird window; it's hard to gauge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 1 minute ago, StriderHiryu said: Even if signed someone today, I think they would have come off the bench at best on Sunday. Rodgers already mentioned last week he didn't think we'd have anyone in before WBA but was confident on transfers coming in. That sounds about right to me as the window is open for quite a while yet. As is always the case, the last week will be the most frantic. Ok guess you’re right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raw Dykes Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Lineker's Left Foot said: Not normally one to panic but the lack of new players and quotes from well reputed sources is worrying. I am going to say now that I doubt we have another new face in for Sunday now. Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring! The club were already very good at doing business under the radar, and are apparently even better at it now. The Perez and Castagne signings were completed about a day after we found out about them. Still about a month to go, anyway. Edit: I think you're right about Sunday - it's a bit late for new faces in time for that, but I think we can still put together a side good enough to get a win. Edited 10 September 2020 by Raw Dykes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 2 minutes ago, Raw Dykes said: Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring! The club were already very good at doing business under the radar, and are apparently even better at it now. The Perez and Castagne signings were completed about a day after we found out about them. Still about a month to go, anyway. Edit: I think you're right about Sunday - it's a bit late for new faces in time for that, but I think we can still put together a side good enough to get a win. Not sure but think we will do business before the window closes. Like always it’ll be two or three that the media haven’t even linked us with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Scott Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 Yes no need to panic. Other than Castagne, it's over a year since we signed anyone & we will end up starting the season with half a reserve team. A complete shambles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 1 minute ago, Angus Scott said: Yes no need to panic. Other than Castagne, it's over a year since we signed anyone & we will end up starting the season with half a reserve team. A complete shambles Let me get you a dictionary 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Fox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 3 minutes ago, Angus Scott said: Yes no need to panic. Other than Castagne, it's over a year since we signed anyone & we will end up starting the season with half a reserve team. A complete shambles So who are 5-6 players you class as reserves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Scott Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 Nearly 14 months since Maguire was sold & we still have not signed a replacement. So on Sunday we shall either end up playing our best midfielder at centre half or somebody on debut with only one of our usual back 4 This situation cost us the Champions League & we have still not addressed it. A complete shambles 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lineker's Left Foot Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 7 minutes ago, Angus Scott said: Nearly 14 months since Maguire was sold & we still have not signed a replacement. So on Sunday we shall either end up playing our best midfielder at centre half or somebody on debut with only one of our usual back 4 This situation cost us the Champions League & we have still not addressed it. A complete shambles Not saying we won’t get anybody in eventually but it’s worrying. Remember no Evans either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bert Posted 10 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 10 September 2020 24 minutes ago, Angus Scott said: Nearly 14 months since Maguire was sold & we still have not signed a replacement. So on Sunday we shall either end up playing our best midfielder at centre half or somebody on debut with only one of our usual back 4 This situation cost us the Champions League & we have still not addressed it. A complete shambles That’s because we’d already signed his replacement in Soyuncu 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbury Fox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 (edited) People saying it's fine because the window is open for a few more weeks are failing to appreciate how thin our team is going to be for these first 2 winnable games. 3 reserves will start in defence on Sunday (assuming there is too little time to assimilate Castagne). Meanwhile, I can't see Maddison starting in midfield and we'll have the same old limited wingers playing. It's all a bit underwhelming when many of our rivals seem to be a lot more active in the market. Edited 10 September 2020 by Sunbury Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaijaFox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 25 minutes ago, Angus Scott said: Nearly 14 months since Maguire was sold & we still have not signed a replacement. So on Sunday we shall either end up playing our best midfielder at centre half or somebody on debut with only one of our usual back 4 This situation cost us the Champions League & we have still not addressed it. A complete shambles Didn’t need one. We had anticipated his leaving and pre-signed accordingly. And anyway we had Bennett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaijaFox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 2 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said: People saying it's fine because the window is open for a few more weeks are failing to appreciate how thin our team is going to be for these first 2 winnable games. 3 reserves will start in defence on Sunday (assuming there is too little time to assimilate Castagne). Meanwhile, I can't see Maddison starting in midfield and we'll have the same old limited wingers playing. It's all a bit underwhelming when many of our rivals seem to be a lot more active in the market. The best time to bring on new players is before the season starts, the second best time is whenever you can. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Fox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 29 minutes ago, Angus Scott said: Nearly 14 months since Maguire was sold & we still have not signed a replacement. So on Sunday we shall either end up playing our best midfielder at centre half or somebody on debut with only one of our usual back 4 This situation cost us the Champions League & we have still not addressed it. A complete shambles Playing a DM at CB when we have Mendy as DM cover isn't a complete shambles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lad1966 Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 Normally our usual way dealing with transfers, from scouting to negotiating a deal for a player is brilliant, but these aren’t normal times. The problem now is this system isn’t going to work get results quickly enough for the start of the season and following on from the dismal end of last season I fear this is going to be a difficult season, although I don’t think we will get in any sort of relegation battle. We need to built on last season but as things stand now I fear we will regress 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhYesNdidi Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 21 minutes ago, NaijaFox said: Didn’t need one. We had anticipated his leaving and pre-signed accordingly. And anyway we had Bennett. Not sure we did. We'd have signed Dunk or Tarkowski as Maguire' replacement if the price was not obscene (this was all after we sold maguire). I think the club got quite lucky with how good Soyuncu became... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaijaFox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, OhYesNdidi said: Not sure we did. We'd have signed Dunk or Tarkowski as Maguire' replacement if the price was not obscene (this was all after we sold maguire). I think the club got quite lucky with how good Soyuncu became... But we did. And bought, not 1 but 2, potential replacements. While I also don’t think anyone anticipated how soon and how good Soyuncu would turn out (many were thinking Benkovic would be the better/sooner CB signing), but we had clearly anticipated Maquire’s leaving at least beginning from the season before he eventually left and had taken some anticipatory action by buying 2 CBs when there was no terribly pressing need even for 1. Only when it looked like Soyuncu wouldn’t be quite ready and Benkovic was injured that, with 85 million quid burning a hole in our pockets, we started looking at Dunk, Tarwoski and Ake. In retrospect, glad they were overpriced. Edited 10 September 2020 by NaijaFox 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post UpTheLeagueFox Posted 10 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 10 September 2020 £30m for young English talent with PL experience - AVERAGE, OVER PRICED, HE PLAYS AT BLOODY BURNLEY £25m for young foreign talent with no PL experience - GREAT DEAL, GET IT DONE, WOW 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 10 September 2020 Share Posted 10 September 2020 2 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said: £30m for young English talent with PL experience - AVERAGE, OVER PRICED, HE PLAYS AT BLOODY BURNLEY £25m for young foreign talent with no PL experience - GREAT DEAL, GET IT DONE, WOW Crazy isn't it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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