January 2023 Transfer Window

[SotonianWill]

12 minutes ago, Crab Lungs said:

We’ve probably been haggling over Orsic since 2018. Good to get it over the line though.

He was plan B of quincy promes

[pimpin4rizeal]

Wasn’t it Manji that said we messed up a couple of deals  for attackers in the last window with semmens haggling over a couple of million?? Looks pretty believable now after the way we have handled this Jackson situation. Bournemouth showing us how to seal a deal.

get the impression it’s more of a priority for us to get perceived value and underpay on a signing   then to actually find the players who will make the differance  I mean what’s better to underpay by a couple of million on some average player or to overpay by a couple of million on the player you actually want and think will help our survival ??

hands up I was never a fan of the Jackson deal and thought the money would be better spent on a cf, but if the club have scouted him intensively and saw him as the next big thing it’s annoying to miss out haggling over a couple of poxy million..

all I want at this stage is us to target the players that are gonna get us out of this shit and be a bit decisive like Bournemouth just did. Wrap the deals up quick and stop with the lowballing crap ..

our premier league status is depending on it!

[Convict Colony]

I seem to remember Jones saying that good clubs plan for this window from miles out and we've had a plan in place for ages so I can't believe we're going to go around Europe begging for a goal scorer into next week.

We've learnt our lesson from not getting one in the summer haven't we ?

[coalman]

3 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

I seem to remember Jones saying that good clubs plan for this window from miles out and we've had a plan in place for ages so I can't believe we're going to go around Europe begging for a goal scorer into next week.

We've learnt our lesson from not getting one in the summer haven't we ?

I'm sure they had a plan. Whether it was a good plan is another question.

[DT]

Algorithms don't win football matches

[whelk]

We fucking deserve to go down

[saintant]

Still nothing to see here. Rasmus continuing to move at the speed of a glacier.

[UpweySaint]

I've never seen Jackson play and his record wasn't all that impressive relative to the mooted price tag. I think the meltdown is premature until the end of the window at least.

[Baird of the land]

Sure regardless of how well he does overall, Jackson is bound to score when we play them again.

[Sarisbury Saint]

4 minutes ago, UpweySaint said:

I've never seen Jackson play and his record wasn't all that impressive relative to the mooted price tag. I think the meltdown is premature until the end of the window at least.

West Ham and Bournemouth both got a deal done within a couple of days of showing an interest.

Proves it can be done if you don’t piss around.

Edited 24 January, 2023 by Sarisbury Saint

[DT]

Bamba Dieng. We're showing interest apparently. Sigh. one goal this season. Everton also interested. All a bad dream, surely.

Edited 24 January, 2023 by DT

[Give it to Ron]

9 minutes ago, DT said:

Bamba Dieng. We're showing interest apparently. Sigh. one goal this season. Everton also interested. All a bad dream, surely.

Being used in deal for Moffi apparently 

[UpweySaint]

11 minutes ago, Sarisbury Saint said:

West Ham and Bournemouth both got a deal done within a couple of days of showing an interest.

Proves it can be done if you don’t piss around.

Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be. Negotiating isn't 'pissing around'. We may have got this wrong, we may not - time will tell.

Let's say we set a spend limit on a wide forward because we want to put the budget towards a proper striker, Beto has been mooted at £30mil which is well above our record fee.

Legit know next to f*ck all about Jackson. Bournemouth's new owner has come in and they've spent £40mil + on two wide forwards without any experience in the league - they may take it by storm, they may flop, they may just bumble along or take 6 months + to settle in.

[ecuk268]

23 minutes ago, Sarisbury Saint said:

West Ham and Bournemouth both got a deal done within a couple of days of showing an interest.

Proves it can be done if you don’t piss around.

The deals were done within a couple of days of going public.

They could have been talking for weeks.

[LeBizzier69]

24 minutes ago, DT said:

Bamba Dieng. We're showing interest apparently. Sigh. one goal this season. Everton also interested. All a bad dream, surely.

We could do with Pierre-Emerick AuBambaDieng.

[DT]

2 minutes ago, LeBizzier69 said:

We could do with Pierre-Emerick AuBambaDieng.

We'll probably end up with Bamber Gascoigne

[SotonianWill]

ayoze perez fits the winger / forward demand. 

[Appy]

2 minutes ago, SotonianWill said:

ayoze perez fits the winger / forward demand. 

The only team he ever scored against was us, so that won’t work. 

[Dman]

Is anyone genuinely surprised? The same thing happens every single window. 

We’ll end up with no one or a token loan and the shit will be spouted about it being a tough market, everyone over priced etc. 

This club is a fucking joke at the minute and we deserve every thing we get. 

I couldn’t care about not getting this Jackson fella fwiw, if only real links are us and Bournemouth I’m not too convinced he’s any good anyway, it’s just we as a club have a rotten mentality. 

[manji]

1 hour ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Wasn’t it Manji that said we messed up a couple of deals  for attackers in the last window with semmens haggling over a couple of million?? Looks pretty believable now after the way we have handled this Jackson situation. Bournemouth showing us how to seal a deal.

get the impression it’s more of a priority for us to get perceived value and underpay on a signing   then to actually find the players who will make the differance  I mean what’s better to underpay by a couple of million on some average player or to overpay by a couple of million on the player you actually want and think will help our survival ??

hands up I was never a fan of the Jackson deal and thought the money would be better spent on a cf, but if the club have scouted him intensively and saw him as the next big thing it’s annoying to miss out haggling over a couple of poxy million..

all I want at this stage is us to target the players that are gonna get us out of this shit and be a bit decisive like Bournemouth just did. Wrap the deals up quick and stop with the lowballing crap ..

our premier league status is depending on it!

Yes it was . We’d have had Gapko otherwise.

[davefizzy14]

Surely we have to go all out for Beto. 

[miserableoldgit]

1 hour ago, hackedoff said:

Maybe it is time to change the club badge.

How about something along the lines of a sloth wearing a dunces cap,holding a pitchfork ?

I am sure that someone with better technology skills than me could tidy it up but......I like it!! Slothampton!!

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Crab Lungs said:

We’ve probably been haggling over Orsic since 2018. Good to get it over the line though.

That’s why we tracked Elyanoussi for 6 years. Our first bid of £1.3m was rejected in 2014

[AlexLaw76]

13 minutes ago, Turkish said:

That’s why we tracked Elyanoussi for 6 years. Our first bid of £1.3m was rejected in 2014

We tracked Pellegrino for a while.  His style is high-press, on-the-front-foot style

Did well, yes?

#BlackBoxMagic

[AlexLaw76]

 

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

Always our first choice 

[Hawkswood]

11 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

Urgh, whatever.

[Dirkdiggler]

So bloody tinpot 

[Baird of the land]

15 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

The guy who agreed terms with Leeds on transfer deadline, changed his mind at the last minute rocking up at nice only to fail a medical. Guess nothing could possibly go wrong there then. Plus he doesn’t seem great.

[waylander]

Are we still in for Haji Wright?

[Suhari]

What happened to that Muffi fella?

[Dellman]

1 hour ago, ecuk268 said:

The deals were done within a couple of days of going public.

They could have been talking for weeks.

I didn't want either so am not worried about them, but fact remains we seem incapable of clinching deals after all the talk

[Saint Billy]

Are we still after that Moroccan Mustafa Bigpocket. 

[Convict Colony]

Europes top goalscorers, some expensive names, familiar names and some unknown but fucking Dieng isnt on there and neither is Jackson.

I think SR seems to be fascinated with multi positional players but it will mean we have a load who can play anywhere but none of them can score.

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/golden-shoe-2022-23-european-football-top-scorers/blt3d377ad3bff06120#cs7f80a16e09cf0053

[SaintJackoInHurworth]

4 minutes ago, Convict Colony said:

Europes top goalscorers, some expensive names, familiar names and some unknown but fucking Dieng isnt on there and neither is Jackson.

I think SR seems to be fascinated with multi positional players but it will mean we have a load who can play anywhere but none of them can score.

https://www.goal.com/en/lists/golden-shoe-2022-23-european-football-top-scorers/blt3d377ad3bff06120#cs7f80a16e09cf0053

Most of them will play left back or right back - left back in the changing rooms or right back behind the goal.

[Toussaint]

39 minutes ago, Suhari said:

What happened to that Muffi fella?

He smelled something fishy

[Fitzhugh Fella]

2 hours ago, UpweySaint said:

I've never seen Jackson play and his record wasn't all that impressive relative to the mooted price tag. I think the meltdown is premature until the end of the window at least.

So why have SR pursued him and spent hours trying to sign him. Are they premature?

[Miltonaggro]

6 minutes ago, Fitzhugh Fella said:

So why have SR pursued him and spent hours trying to sign him. Are they premature?

Or simply incompetent. 

[Miltonaggro]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

Bambi Dong, the name on Ankersen’ lips all along! 

[CB Fry]

I'm not even going to bother looking that guy up on Wikipedia before I write him off. Just looks shit from the name alone.

Edited 24 January, 2023 by CB Fry

[Manuel]

Chasing straights and flush draws as usual.  

[AlexLaw76]

Everton put up for sale - apparently

[FarehamSaintJames]

Cue’s just missed another one on one against Newcastle. But apparently we don’t need a clinical striker 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Jonnyboy]

*edit,wrong thread*

Edited 24 January, 2023 by Jonnyboy

[trousers]

Dear Sport Republic,

Buy. A. Clinical. Striker. FFS.

That is all. 

Thanks, 

Trousers (Lord)

[Miltonaggro]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Everton put up for sale - apparently

Dragan could buy it as Goztepe’s feeder club. 

[Wade Garrett]

For fucks sake, can we have a centre forward who knows where the back of the net is.  We’re trying to win games with one hand tied behind our backs.

[bogwoppit]

Doesn’t matter who we buy, we need a change in manager.

[HarvSFC]

I don't hate Adams, he plays a good support striker, but as the main man he's hopeless. We create at least one big chance every game and he fluffs it.

Man United at home, I'm sure someone put him through and he eased it to De Gea.

Wolves open goal.

Home against Everton which would have put us 2-0 up.

West Ham, which to be fair he created the chance and beat their makeshift centre-backs, but again he hit at Fabianski.

Villa on the weekend, offside.

Lincoln one on one for his hattrick.

Tonight, again through, but hits it at the goalkeeper.

This is why we need a clinical striker. The strikers aren't getting loads of chances, so we need to make the most with the ones we are getting, which we aren't at the moment. A new winger doesn't fix the issue.

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, bogwoppit said:

Doesn’t matter who we buy, we need a change in manager.

I disagree slightly. I'm not a big fan of Jones, but we've been largely competitive in recent games but have been hamstrung by not having a striker who actually knows how to kick a football and beat a keeper. 

It's just ludicrous that the recruitment team have allowed the present situation to unfold over the last season and a half and haven't yet addressed it in this window.