Byram Bid Accepted

[Titus Bramble]

Shame if we don't get him, but if West Ham offered him first team football can't really blame him for picking that over bench warming for us.

 

[Zezti]

Look at it this way, West Ham fans will be gloating about getting a player who knew he was unlikely to displace Coleman.
That's 60 grand seamus coleman, too. Over £4m Byram.

There have been worse days in our transfer history.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

So that's the end of our transfer window folks, unless Gibson and mcgeady follow Naismith out, so much for ending each window stronger

 

[LinekersLegs]

Lukaku and Deulofeu were loan signings which then allowed us to sign them permanently after developing a decent relationship with them.

With Lukaku in particular we took advantage of a manager who in hindsight was beginning to show the first signs of losing the plot.

Had we had to compete for their permanent signatures from the get-go I suspect the outcome would have been very different.

Disagree but that is something we'll never know. Overall as I say think we've done well with transfers with the odd exception of course.

Going back to Bryam, what specifically do you think the club/Martinez did wrong or should have done differently to get the deal over the line?

 

[blue to the bone]

Lukaku and Deulofeu were loan signings which then allowed us to sign them permanently after developing a decent relationship with them.

With Lukaku in particular we took advantage of a manager who in hindsight was beginning to show the first signs of losing the plot.

Had we had to compete for their permanent signatures from the get-go I suspect the outcome would have been very different.

Have you any theories on who shot jfk
Or what really happened lord lucan

 

[Kev The Rat]

Disagree but that is something we'll never know. Overall as I say think we've done well with transfers with the odd exception of course.

Going back to Bryam, what specifically do you think the club/Martinez did wrong or should have done differently to get the deal over the line?

The club as it is now - nothing. Well perhaps announce new ownership and new stadium.

Higher in the league (ie genuinely challenging for top 4) would I suspect have swung it.

But the club in the state it presently us will find it difficult/impossible to compete with the like of West Ham and even as we saw with Shaqiri the likes of Stoke.

 

[sageyefc]

 

[TheAlmightyFloater]

They wouldn't even be able to afford him if they paid for their own stadium.


But in all seriousness, is anyone actually bothered?

 

[chippy1722]

We've been linked with this lad for months, Martinez has talked specifically about him too, something he wouldn't do without a clear serious interest. Heard Rumours Martinez called the lad a phenomenal diamond of a player with huge potential.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Says it all really

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

With Lukaku in particular we took advantage of a manager who in hindsight was beginning to show the first signs of losing the plot.

There were plenty on here who said Martinez had lost it,and Mourinho had took the piss out of us by getting us to pay £28m for Lukaku, it turned out to be a good piece of business.

 

[Woolly Blue]

So that's the end of our transfer window folks, unless Gibson and mcgeady follow Naismith out, so much for ending each window stronger

Are you related to @Kev The Rat by any chance ?

 

[Kev The Rat]

There were plenty on here who said Martinez had lost it,and Mourinho had took the piss out of us by getting us to pay £28m for Lukaku, it turned out to be a good piece of business.

Ok but my real point is we grabbed him on loan and that to me was the key to the whole deal

 

[LinekersLegs]

The club as it is now - nothing. Well perhaps announce new ownership and new stadium.

Higher in the league (ie genuinely challenging for top 4) would I suspect have swung it.

Think it was more about gametime myself, which matches with the information we have to date, but each to their own.

 

[marsh]

If were honest its dopey Everton messing about once again. Just offer the money n get him. Same old but different transfer window