I know Ipswich played him on the left (despite having Clarke!) but he is a forward and if available would be of interest to most of the top 7 esp Sheff U, Sunderland and Blackburn who are chasing after strikers. Little chance of coming here
Footy fan comes across this snippet. His demeanour changes rapidly, turning him into a living wreck trying to make sense of what he is reading. Finding the strength to continue, lips quivering, shaking with uncontrollable rage, he reads the article for a second time... 'When dividing his reported transfer fee by the limited amount of times Sinik has featured for Hull in nigh-on three years, it is estimated that each individual appearance has cost the club a total of £307,692.' FFS
I'm really, really hoping the transfer fee paid was one of those typical headline grabbing numbers that includes all sorts of add-ons and other factors and that the underlying 'real' fee paid was more like 1.5-2m (which is still nuts).
With transfers you know you are going to get some right, and some wrong for various reasons. Hopefully the majority right, but the recent signings of Sinik, Omur (albeit after a bright start) and Giles have been abject failures of the highest calibre. Can we arrange for 'The Brain Team' to have a labotamy?
Omur has played a total of 83 minutes since selles came in (he played in 10 consecutive games before selles) You could say he had a knock after boro But he spent 3 full games as an unused sub
It really does highlight why Acun was not happy with Liam, when you see the players we had who are now in the EPL, Philogene, Greaves, Delap, Morton and Carvalho, we should have at the very least been in the playoff's.
If that's what you think it highlights and that's how Acun thinks then Acun is an idiot. As demonstrated by how we're travelling this season. Young teams can't simply be assembled and progress in linear fashion. Philogene has barely played this season and I'm skeptical he'll do anything amazing for Ipswich right away. Delap has been incredible and was progressing under us before his injury which coincided with our drop off. We had no right to 'at the very least' be in the play offs, but if we'd somehow managed to hold the squad together with LR we could certainly have said that this year. But we didn't.
When you look at it closer Morton has not made a single prem app this season, not sure why liverpool didnt send him out Carvalho is also not playing regularly Southampton are on course for the lowest points in prem record, fun As the playoff winners
Morton not playing, Carvalho can't get in Brentford's side, Tufan struggling over in Turkey, Philogene barely played, let's see how he does at Ipswich. Yes Delap doing pretty well, Greaves not looking out of place, but that's two players. People demanding that we should have at minimum had a play off place off the back of 2-3 players who have gone on to do well is crazy. Let's remember for half a season we had Greaves, McLoughlin, Jones and Coyle as our back 4, in the other half of the season we regularly had Slater at RB. We got Carvalho on loan in January who did well in the second half of the season but we didn't have him for the full season. Philogene and Delap missed large portions of the season with injury, and Tufan scored in purple patches. As a lot of us said when heading into that January, turning some of our loans into permanents or bringing in promising players on long term deals to set us up for the following season should have been the priority, not signing expensive loanees or old players on short contracts. Omur, along with Pandur, was ironically the only player that followed what we 'should' have done, and he hasn't worked out. Really we should have signed Ohio on a permanent early in the Summer to give us continuity in attack, and should have pushed hard to get Morton back somehow. Then even with Delap, Carvalho and Philogene leaving, you don't suddenly look so piecemeal.
On your first point, I think this is good context for last season. Delap and Greaves aside, none of the others have really kicked on. You could argue that Tufan and Philogene didn't get a fair shake, but for whatever reason they've probably not achieved what they hoped they would with those moves. On the second paragraph, yeah we should really have looked longer term, but I don't think anybody expected Philogene to do as well as he did in such a short space of time so maybe they thought they'd have him a bit longer than 12 months. Pandur was a good signing and probably should have come in ahead of Allsop, even if it was later on when he was getting pelters for making mistakes but then hindsight is always 20/20. Ohio would have been a sensible move, he looked like he was settling in and was improving week by week. Morton I don't think was ever achievable; he was stuck in the twilight zone of deserving a move to a bigger club, but also maybe breaking into the Liverpool first team. I also think Klopp announcing his departure from Liverpool in January shook things up a bit and Morton would have wanted to see whether he could do something under Arne Slot. I can only conclude that Slot told him he was needed for first team duties and that's why he didn't go out again. He signed a "long term contract" before he went out on loan to Blackburn the season before he came to us, so maybe the price for him is too high for clubs like us to afford. In any case, unless we get promoted at some point or Liverpool decide that somehow we are the best fit for a loan deal, we're unlikely to see him again. Our midfield last season was so good at keeping the ball and shielding the defence and I think not replacing Morton and Seri has contributed to us conceding a lot more. The threat we had out wide with Philogene and Tufan stretched teams out allowing them to get on the ball more. I don't think, at the moment anyway, Kamara and whoever we play on the left have the same impact on the opposition in terms of threat, so teams are happier to leave them wide and focus on the middle of the pitch. It was a different story when we had Belloumi and Millar either side, but we have to play the cards we are dealt and getting a proper winger in is vital. The question is, are we going to go for a pacey winger, or somebody without pace but decent technical like Marc Pugh had. If we have the money, Emil Riis Jakobsen is out of contract in Summer and hasn't signed a new deal with Preston. Probably other clubs after him but he'd be perfect for this system. Jed Wallace might be available, I've always liked him and if nothing else it'd stop him scoring against us every time we play him. The other name I've been told surprised me, but more because I hadn't realised where he was playing and that's Ben Woodburn who is currently at Salford City.
Woodburn from liverpool academy wasnt he Dunno how he plays But his stats are woeful Another attacking player who doesnt score or assist 8 goals in 100+ apps And that includes spl League one League 2 Champ
Hull City will sanction the departure of winger Ryan Longman this month with a deal in principle agreed with Championship rivals Oxford United. U's boss Gary Rowett took Longman to Millwall last summer and remains a big fan of the 24-year-old now he's moved to the Kassam Stadium, breathing fresh life into their hopes of staying in the Championship. Longman will be allowed to leave City, but not before the Tigers bring in at least one winger in the next two weeks with the club in talks with three potential arrivals, one of which has been frustratingly close for a number of days. The 24-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and has not been offered fresh terms at the MKM Stadium, but City will get a fee from their Championship relegation rivals.
