Oliver Skipp - confirmed official

[st albans fox]

Reading this thread makes me feel some sympathy for rudders

please stop this 

or I could stop reading 😄

[UniFox21]

 

 

Would've rather we chuck mid 20's at them for both 

[JimJams]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Doubtful this is knee jerk, was rumoured early in the window, just coming to fruition I am assuming.

The thread was started on July 17th.  That's some knackered knees to take this long for a reaction.

[Dahnsouff]

If we are aiming to be secure in midfield and defence, it is not the worst idea in the world, but how we score or even create looks very dependent upon wide areas.

Or maybe this signals what so many have been screaming for, Bouba go bye bye 

If we are going creative in wide areas primarily, then Viktor needs to go to and be replaced.

[JimJams]

2 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

 

 

Would've rather we chuck mid 20's at them for both 

Don't count it out!

 

Just had a quick check. He's on 70k a week at Spurs, almost double Skipps wage.  Maybe not.  Though he's only got a year left.

Edited 18 August 2024 by JimJams

[ozvaldo]

£20m+ ???

 

Surely we could have got Szmodics + a creative midfielder for that? 
 

 

[Essingtonblue]

39 minutes ago, JonnyBoy said:

I’m sorry…. Some of the reactions on here are blue tinted beyond belief. Yes 20 mil is a lot of coin but he played a lot of matches for a top 6 prem team last year.. he is a mid table prem player being realistic, we are a 18-20th prem team, i’m surprised he has agreed to come to us.

 

People need to wake up from 2016 and realise we are not the draw we once were. As long as still have money for a striker I don’t mind this at all I this it is a good signing 

& how is still having the money for a striker of any use whatsoever when we don’t have a midfielder capable of getting the ball to him? Skip would be a slight upgrade on choudhury, nothing more.

[coolhandfox]

33 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Looks like we are blowing pretty much our entire summer budget on a CB and a CDM, neither of whom are obviously better than what we have. Meantime, we're relying on a 19 year old loan signing to be our sole creative midfielder and we don't have a single striker under the age of 37 who looks PL ready. 

We aren't.

 

This has been sorted for a while, its only not done because we are playing Spurs.

 

We have been for attacking players, I suspect we will spend 30m-40m after this.

Edited 18 August 2024 by coolhandfox

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, JimJams said:

The thread was started on July 17th.  That's some knackered knees to take this long for a reaction.

If someone has been jerking on my knees for this long, I better be in line for a big pay day.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

16 minutes ago, funkyrobot said:

He was massively under-used in pre season. Got token minutes at the soft end of the games when all the subs had been made and the minutes were being played out. Cooper then signs a lad the same age, but one who had actually been trusted significant game time by his parent club to play in his position. Doesn’t exactly send positive signals to Alves or the fans. If Alves is good enough (and I think he is) and when it’s clear we are struggling to buy creativity, he should be a much bigger priority within the squad. 

You’re talking about a player that’s yet to make a professional appearance.

 

The best way to ruin a young talent is to heap too much on them too early.

 

You have to nurture talent, put them in situations you feel they can cope with, ones that don’t require much thinking; ones that build confidence - and being involved in the first team setup and getting 10/15 minutes here and there across pre-season will be have been a massive boost to him.

 

We’re tipped for relegation - so you can’t shove the lad into the starting 11 now and add the teams expectation of beating relegation onto his shoulders - the focus he needs is to just play and play without fear, so that will be selected minutes off the bench to start with.

 

The signing of Buonanotte shouldn’t be seen as a negative either.

 

It’s a temporary move so if Alves shows he is capable of taking on more later in the season, he will get more and more minutes; but in the meantime Facundo will give Alves a direct comparison in training of the sort of levels he needs to reach.

[HankMarvin]

1 minute ago, UniFox21 said:

 

 

Would've rather we chuck mid 20's at them for both 

Buy one get one half price?

[Dahnsouff]

Just now, ozvaldo said:

£20m+ ???

 

Surely we could have got Szmodics + a creative midfielder for that? 
 

 

Yes, that is exactly how the real world works, transfers is just like Amazon.

[Ric Flair]

1 hour ago, LeePhilpottsBaldSpot said:

Good signing - talented player with top flight experience but his best years still ahead of him.

 

Goes straight into the first team and already has a long-established relationship with his midfield partner.

 

Still our fans moan 

Reminds me of when i went Aldi and did all my bunce on a mig welder from the middle aisle and the wife went berserk as I'd only enough for some crisps and super noodles for the kids. So negative at times.

[coolhandfox]

Just now, Ric Flair said:

Reminds me of when i went Aldi and did all my bunce on a mig welder from the middle aisle and the wife went berserk as I'd only enough for some crisps and super noodles for the kids. So negative at times.

Welder every time.....

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

 

 

Would've rather we chuck mid 20's at them for both 

Already tried earlier this summer supposedly. 

[marcymarc666]

We agreed to pay Spurs another million providing they bring him up on their team bus tomorrow afternoon.

[UniFox21]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

Already tried earlier this summer supposedly. 

Shame, he had something about him 

 

We're really not looked upon will in football anymore.

[Reg Vardy]

Decent signing, English, 23, Premier League experience, in my opinion, back 5 Ricardo, Faes,Vesty New signing ,Justin,mid four Fatawu, Winks Skipp Mav

admit a new striker would improve us, but that has a fair sprinkling of international players……

[South Shire Fox]

Deffo be loaning a striker now if they've spunked most the budget. Fofana probably

Edited 18 August 2024 by South Shire Fox

[DerbyshireFox]

Could be a decent acquisition, but for that price 
 

[South Shire Fox]

3 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said:

Decent signing, English, 23, Premier League experience, in my opinion, back 5 Ricardo, Faes,Vesty New signing ,Justin,mid four Fatawu, Winks Skipp Mav

admit a new striker would improve us, but that has a fair sprinkling of international players……

That team is dreadful 🤣

[JimJams]

Absolutely 100% some PSR fiddling going on if true.

[Claudio Fannieri]

Just asked my Spuds supporting brother about Skipp, and says very similar to Winks, more of a holding midfielder than box to box, says he will be good for us, didn’t really fit with Ange’s playing style at Spurs. 
 

At 23 he is a solid acquisition with plenty of opportunity to push on and in 2/3 years could well be sold on for a decent profit.

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

3 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said:

Could be a decent acquisition, but for that price 
 

Oh dear god.

[moore_94]

£20m + £5m add ons - it isn’t getting better lmao

Edited 18 August 2024 by moore_94