January Transfer Thread 2020

[Disgruntledgoat]

I take it that the FFP excuse will be trotted out again in the summer, seeing as though Niasse is the only big earner whose contract is up.

A lot of clubs seem to put a competitive team together and then worry about sanctions down the line, and it's laughable to think that this squad, with virtually no Champions League-level players at present, is going to get anywhere by making one or two revenue-funded additions.

I'll happily hold my hands up in the summer if we see serious movement in and out, but my gut feeling is that we're back to being strung along by a board that doesn't want to admit what its true ambitions are.

I reckon Carlo Ancelotti definitely signed up on the understanding, nee the insistence, that he'd get to work with Morgan Shcneiderlin for the entire 4.5 years of his contract.

 

[blue61]

Let's hope, if he's signed, we won't be filing Cengiz Under pants too

I'm sure he'll be well briefed.

 

[Toffeelover]

We don't need to sell Niasse or Martina to bring someone in - we can just deregister them from the 25.

But they are on the wages bill.

 

[Bob Elstone]

This is just fantasy thinking imo, People think all we need is a couple of signings and we'll waltz to Europa places. Buying in Jan landed us with.........Tosun and Walcott last time two players we want off the wage bill, What if the signings don't settle? What if they turn out to be garbage? We'll have just overpaid for players again, We should have definitely explored the loan market though but it's gonna be hard to find a player who just turns our midfield into something respectable.

you could sign a scarecrow and it improves that midfield by 100%.

just because an absolute buffoon like big Sam and Walsh sign poor players isn’t a reason to bury your head in the sand when opportunity knocks.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Don't want us to sign anyone if I'm honest - a loan or two would be fine, but January signings are usually the ones that clubs want rid of or otherwise you're forced to pay through the nose for. I would expect that given we have only had a new manager for a month or so, it takes longer than that to identify the more suitable targets. Happy to keep our powder dry until the summer. Especially given Gomes and Gbamin could be on the pitch within another month or so. Having said that, the bigger concern for me isn't January, it's what happens in the summer.

We continue to have to operate with one arm tied behind our back because of the dead wood in the squad that either don't want to leave (because of their fat contracts here) or nobody wants anyway. I scan the Brands thread and find myself shaking my head at the posts about how we should be selling players instead of loaning them out - do people really believe we wouldn't do that if it was possible? If we know they're dreadful, so does everyone else.

Martina
Keane
Schneiderlin
Sigurdsson
Walcott
Niasse
Tosun
Bolasie
Sandro

Only two of those are out of contract this summer - we are still 18 months or more away from having a clean slate to work from

 

[Dymak]

I think this is bad. The whole league is wide open and a couple of signings could make the difference between 16th and 5th.

I was worried when ancelotti said he’d wait until Jan 5 to sit down with brands.

our midfield is just so bad. Davies, Delph, Morgan are absolutely terrible. Even villa have grealish and McGinn.

missed opportunity this is.

It's seriously neglectful to sit on our backside and do nothing this window given how this season has gone. Not only are we bottling out of the competition for Europe as you say, but we are playing a lot of the top sides in the next couple of months, and things could very easily go badly wrong once again, and we will end up looking over our shoulder at the relegation zone.

 

[DrEFC]

We have confirmed Bergwijn. Now for a stand in striker.....

Jammy gits.
Don't fancy an Oumar, on the cheap? The maverick striker you need?

 

[Lord Buckethead]

According to a report from Italian media outlet TELENORD, West Ham are ready to offer €20 million (£17 million) for Sampdoria midfielder Ronaldo Vieira.

The Hammers are desperately short in the central midfield department. And reliable West Ham insider ExWHUemployee claimed last week on the West Ham Way podcast that the Hammers have identified Vieira as a potential solution to their central midfield woes.

Burnley enquire about Sampdoria midfielder Ronaldo Vieira after West Ham had £12m bid rejected

• Burnley have made an enquiry about a possible move for Ronaldo Vieira
• The former Leeds midfielder has been impressive for Sampdoria this season
• West Ham made an offer of £12million for Vieira last week but it was rejected

The home-grown factor again at play, he spent 3 years with Leeds, and has played for England u-21s.

Ronaldo Vieira?? Sounds like one of those dodgy players that FIFA makes up when you are far enough into the future that it's run out of players.

 

[Toffeelover]

Don't want us to sign anyone if I'm honest - a loan or two would be fine, but January signings are usually the ones that clubs want rid of or otherwise you're forced to pay through the nose for. I would expect that given we have only had a new manager for a month or so, it takes longer than that to identify the more suitable targets. Happy to keep our powder dry until the summer. Especially given Gomes and Gbamin could be on the pitch within another month or so. Having said that, the bigger concern for me isn't January, it's what happens in the summer.

We continue to have to operate with one arm tied behind our back because of the dead wood in the squad that either don't want to leave (because of their fat contracts here) or nobody wants anyway. I scan the Brands thread and find myself shaking my head at the posts about how we should be selling players instead of loaning them out - do people really believe we wouldn't do that if it was possible? If we know they're dreadful, so does everyone else.

Martina
Keane
Schneiderlin
Sigurdsson
Walcott
Niasse
Tosun
Bolasie
Sandro

Only two of those are out of contract this summer - we are still 18 months or more away from having a clean slate to work from

If not fopr Marcel the list would be much longer.

 

[Carlito]

I reckon Carlo Ancelotti definitely signed up on the understanding, nee the insistence, that he'd get to work with Morgan Shcneiderlin for the entire 4.5 years of his contract.

Walter Smith was brought here under what were essentially false pretences, and twelve months later he'd lost the spine of his team and was left with a situation that he was woefully ill-equipped to manage.

Of course, this is a different regime (Kenwright aside), but these things happen in football.

 

[ToothPlucker]

Ronaldo Vieira?? Sounds like one of those dodgy players that FIFA makes up when you are far enough into the future that it's run out of players.

He seems really average to be fair. Baningme surely is as good as this guy but hasn't been given a chance.

 

[Nymzee]

I reckon Carlo Ancelotti definitely signed up on the understanding, nee the insistence, that he'd get to work with Morgan Shcneiderlin for the entire 4.5 years of his contract.

I know this is laced with sarcasm but even if we can't sell him he leaves for free in a year.

 

[Dymak]

Can’t wait for the summer transfer window, when buying players becomes so much easier and cheaper, and we don’t end up leaving everything until the last minute.

 

[Bob Elstone]

Wait till we lose at watford on the back of no signings...

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Wait till we lose at watford on the back of no signings...

Do you wake up in the morning going "just wait until I fall down the stairs and break my neck"?