January Transfer Thread 2020

[Toffe3m4n]

Ancelotti pretty much confirming that, unless something significant comes up last minute, no incomings.

Be nice when the window shuts really. Gets people so wound up on the internet I'm telling ya.

 

[Brisan123]

Now I've got this out the way, who's monitoring flighttracker.com?

I have sent @Eggs down to the cash link in west derby

 

[Yarrgh]

Just browsed some Wigan fan comments.

They think he's utterly bang average

Edit: some of them actually want baines

Wigan doing good work there.

 

[MikeH72]

Cuco goes on loan to WBA, Antonee Robinson goes to Ac Milan for 10 mill.

Nice work Everton.

Hopefully Garbutt signs a new long term contract.

Is this a weird attempt at being edgy? What exactly are we losing by giving Cuco Martina away?

 

[msb]

What a dumb post.

excellent. If you are so prescient, this week's lottery numbers, if you would be so kind, or next week's?

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

We are four points off Europe despite being that crap. By rights the season should be over, but it technically isn't.

If the club had ambition, they'd go for it. I'm not saying by bringing in 5+ and spending stupid money, but I expected a centre-mid bare minimum as a blind person can see it's not good enough, and possibly a wide attacker.

To do nothing and actually weaken the team this window is abysmal. I'm not buying FFP as the reason - even if it were, you'd expect Brands to do his job and offload Niasse and Martina well before now. He managed it with Tosun easily enough, it's not impossible to find buyers or loans for these players, even if you have to cover a portion of the wage.

I find the defence of Brands here bizarre. I'd get it if we were 10 points adrift of Europe and relegation, complete no man's land, but we're not. We're 4 points off Europe and miraculously in better form over the last six games than all but one of the teams above us from 5th down. Yet he's done absolutely nothing to push us on.

Perhaps they believe they have just as much chance of making Europe this year with the current squad as the chances of making it with 1 or 2 expensive additions. I think thats the calculation they have to make. don't think its about writing off the season other than noting that we cant win any of the 3 major trophies we were taking part in for 2019/20 season.

 

[Neiler]

Is this a weird attempt at being edgy? What exactly are we losing by giving Cuco Martina away?

We would have different definitons of edgy.

 

[Neiler]

excellent. If you are so prescient, this week's lottery numbers, if you would be so kind, or next week's?

Number combinations i can imagine are difficult.

 

[Bob Elstone]

Brands played a blinder.

signed a kid from Carlisle we’ll never see, shifted 2 kids to tranmere and fleetwood.

that’s strategy and progress right there.

well worth that couple of mill salary.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Think a number of people just need to step back and look at the bigger picture for once. It's all too reactionary around here.

Both Marcel Brands and Carlo Ancelotti know far more about football, and the business of it, then any member of Grand Old Team forums. Let's just leave them to it, ey?

For what it's worth - Ancelotti is correct when he says that, for now, the squad is fine. We'll be right were we deserve to be at the end of the season and that's really the long and short of it. The summer is when we can, once again, get another bit of a rebuild underway should it be strictly necessary.

Chill out, people.

 

[marsh]

Injuries incoming tomorrow

 

[Eggs]

I have sent @Eggs down to the cash link in west derby

...just on my way, Bri. Heavy rain ffs, but anything for the cause.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

...just on my way, Bri. Heavy rain ffs, but anything for the cause.

Does it have a little roof for shelter - a portico?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

I can't even remember the name of the first club we played in qualifying under Koeman, but I know we barely edged it.

Ruzomberok from Slovakia, we won both games 1-0.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Happy enough that we haven’t signed any waste of money stop-gap to be honest. Could have done with shifting others but hey