Best January signing ever

[Raw Dykes]

2 hours ago, Foxy-Lady said:

Fair point on Mahrez but i think you've probably answered your own question here as we probably wouldn't even have been in the Premier League for Mahrez to make that impact (let alone won it!) if wasnt for the impact that Huth made when we signed him.

"The Great Escape" from relegation really was the start of everything that has followed and if that hadn't happened, we probably wouldnt even be talking about Mahrez, Tielemans, Cambiasso or Ndidi.

I suppose you could make the same argument about Morgan and getting us to the top flight prior to that. I agree, by the way. Without Huth, we probably wouldn't have stayed up.

[shen]

On 28/01/2021 at 15:24, nwl fox said:

I wonder if Sky will land on a Man Utd or Liverpool player as the best January signing of all time....

On the BBC poll, Bruno Fernandes is leading which is frankly insulting and just shows how much opinion can be swayed.

What have Man Utd achieved since his arrival? Beating us to a top 4 place? Hardly something a club with their pedigree can boast about.
At least Van Dijk was a central cog in winning the first PL title for Liverpool.
Suarez and Coutinho being major exports to the (at the time) best club in the world.

I'd even rate Vidic above Fernandes at this time.

 

How Coleman gets a shout but Huth doesn't is unfathomable - but I'm sure the argument will be semantics of how we just loaned him in January and signed him on a permanent in the summer.

[PhillippaT]

17 minutes ago, shen said:

On the BBC poll, Bruno Fernandes is leading which is frankly insulting and just shows how much opinion can be swayed.

What have Man Utd achieved since his arrival? Beating us to a top 4 place? Hardly something a club with their pedigree can boast about.
At least Van Dijk was a central cog in winning the first PL title for Liverpool.
Suarez and Coutinho being major exports to the (at the time) best club in the world.

I'd even rate Vidic above Fernandes at this time.

 

How Coleman gets a shout but Huth doesn't is unfathomable - but I'm sure the argument will be semantics of how we just loaned him in January and signed him on a permanent in the summer.

Meh - popularity contests in places like this are usually the same.  They either need to be really limited or really widespread - anything in between is too easy to manipulate.

Edited 29 January 2021 by PhillippaT

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, shen said:

On the BBC poll, Bruno Fernandes is leading which is frankly insulting and just shows how much opinion can be swayed.

What have Man Utd achieved since his arrival? Beating us to a top 4 place? Hardly something a club with their pedigree can boast about.
At least Van Dijk was a central cog in winning the first PL title for Liverpool.
Suarez and Coutinho being major exports to the (at the time) best club in the world.

I'd even rate Vidic above Fernandes at this time.

 

How Coleman gets a shout but Huth doesn't is unfathomable - but I'm sure the argument will be semantics of how we just loaned him in January and signed him on a permanent in the summer.

It's recency bias. Next!

[shen]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

It's recency bias. Next!

Exactly. I just wonder if recency bias is an increasing phenomenon. People used to hold legends in high regard, even if they never saw them play. The world keeps on harping about the legends of Maradona and Pele, but the number of football fans who actually witnessed them must be sharply dwindling. With the 'short-termism' prevalent in football, maybe even Messi and CR7 will not endure as long as we think.

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, shen said:

Exactly. I just wonder if recency bias is an increasing phenomenon. People used to hold legends in high regard, even if they never saw them play. The world keeps on harping about the legends of Maradona and Pele, but the number of football fans who actually witnessed them must be sharply dwindling. With the 'short-termism' prevalent in football, maybe even Messi and CR7 will not endure as long as we think.

If you were to look at any '100 greatest' lists, be it, albums. number one singles, guitarists etc, they would always reflect the latest flavours more. Generally, certainly within popular culture anyway, people forget quite quickly. You do, of course, get the other side of the same coin, where you get someone dogmatically insist that Ritchie Blackmore is the finest guitarist ever, ignoring the number of great players that have emerged since.