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January Transfer Thread 2017

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Just timing of it, a couple of weeks after buying players would be more effective but just the fact they are going 'season tickets!' When it is a time when fans get their hopes up again.

Same as they sold the season tickets at the time 200 million war chests was in the news

Reckon it was just to start the AGM off with a real positive mate.

And it was never 200 million.

And it was in the Mirror...

DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH ASH
 
I'm not sure how early they announce these things normally but.....

Start of transfer window, talks of money being spent and loads of players coming in......

And they are announcing the season tickets already....

Yeah, coincidence?

You really think the club need to sell season tickets ? The revenue they bring in now is less than 12 % of projected revenue and that is assuming we sell 32000 @ 570 max price . Which can't happen as we have a wholly variable price structure.

Chill .
 

Sorry for nonsense post! But:

I'd absolutely love to see both Schneiderlin and Banega arriving this window, with Cleverley and Gibson exiting to make place.

Not at all sure if Koeman is open to the idea of recruiting a character like Banega who has always come across as a bit excentric and does not really measure up to the standards of athleticism that Koeman seems to favour. Seems more like a Martinez kind of signing in the "brilliant but flawed" category. But if we are to build a team with athletic, direct wingers and a second striker kind of no.10, it seems to me like a sizeable part of the creativity and distribution has to come from somewhere deeper down the pitch. Banega doing the thing he did at Sevilla would add a whole different dimension to our midfield play.

He might not be an automatic starter – but even with the more realist, direct tactical approach Koeman seems to have landed on, we are in need of more inventiveness in our buildup play. Ross never really responded well to the challenge of shouldering the whole responsibility by himself. Barry is in his twilight years, Gibson needs to be shipped out, and while it's been a good while since Baines was the playmaker full back who made the team tick, he still has an ability to bring key passes to the table that exceeds what can be expected from his successor whoever that may turn out to be.

If Banega is really being available for a cut-price, and if hasn't already set his mind on spending his prime years reaping silly wages in the chinese league, that would be a good way to address this soon-to-be worsening deficit.

Plus, playing alongside an argentine playmaker with plenty of caps should make the rest of the team feel at least 10% sexier at the pitch, bit like walking into a nightclub with a model on your arm...
 
Sorry for nonsense post! But:

I'd absolutely love to see both Schneiderlin and Banega arriving this window, with Cleverley and Gibson exiting to make place.

Not at all sure if Koeman is open to the idea of recruiting a character like Banega who has always come across as a bit excentric and does not really measure up to the standards of athleticism that Koeman seems to favour. Seems more like a Martinez kind of signing in the "brilliant but flawed" category. But if we are to build a team with athletic, direct wingers and a second striker kind of no.10, it seems to me like a sizeable part of the creativity and distribution has to come from somewhere deeper down the pitch. Banega doing the thing he did at Sevilla would add a whole different dimension to our midfield play.

He might not be an automatic starter – but even with the more realist, direct tactical approach Koeman seems to have landed on, we are in need of more inventiveness in our buildup play. Ross never really responded well to the challenge of shouldering the whole responsibility by himself. Barry is in his twilight years, Gibson needs to be shipped out, and while it's been a good while since Baines was the playmaker full back who made the team tick, he still has an ability to bring key passes to the table that exceeds what can be expected from his successor whoever that may turn out to be.

If Banega is really being available for a cut-price, and if hasn't already set his mind on spending his prime years reaping silly wages in the chinese league, that would be a good way to address this soon-to-be worsening deficit.

Plus, playing alongside an argentine playmaker with plenty of caps should make the rest of the team feel at least 10% sexier at the pitch, bit like walking into a nightclub with a model on your arm...

I like Banega but the problem is he's struggled in Italy, supposedly because of the slightly faster pace than the Spanish game, which is more technique-based.

Then again, he bossed the RS all over the pitch in the Europa so who knows?
 


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