An I the only one pleased about this? I really don't think Long is all that good. £5m is a bit much, I think we could do better for that at another time. Gary Hooper cost that, we could have paid that way back when. I think he's better than Long. Along with other strikers who have moved for around that amount that we could have for had we acted earlier. The question we should be asking is why wernt we spending this money that's suddenly available on the better strikers that we could have got earlier in the window? I personally think Gedo is better than long, I'm more pleased about getting him. Graham is also a very good player and we've yet to see what Sagbo has to offer. We have plenty of good striking options for a team playing one up front. We now have a battle fund in case there's any area we really need to strengthen in January. James Chester has surprisingly looked very suspect to me so far. Figueroa could break his leg and leave Dudgeon marking the likes of Walcott, Valencia, Oscar and David Silva. I think we're better off to be honest.
Happy to say this but all we can do is give our thank's and support to what the Allams and Steve Bruce has achieved in such short time, getting us to the premier league, bringing in some quality signings in the form of a left back and 2 central midfielders and 3 strikers, 2 quality goalkeepers with experience and a CB that looks quality and has experience, not forgetting the blend of youth with brady etc. What a dichead!
You'd have thought the Leicester fans would be more concerned about getting out the Championship than our Striker situation.....but there not bothered about us!!!!!
BBC Radio Manchester ‏@bbcradiomanc 19m #manutd confirm 3 men who reportedly attempted to negotiate a deal for Ander Herrera were imposters & not acting on club's behalf #mufc At least it wasn't that bad?
I got the impression they'd tried for others, but for whatever reasons the deals didn't work. It's like a house exchange when there's a chain, it's all got to click together or it doesn't happen. I don't think there's blame to throw at s or West Brom or Everton for that matter. It's just the way the system is. West Brom were (rightly) covering their options. If they got the extra player, we get Long, if they don't they need him.
Do you not think Bruce isn't gutted? He is the one who put the faith in Fryatt and Prossy to come good, and clearly they've come up short. Most of you before today would have taken Deeney or Rhodes ahead of Long anyway. I can't remember Longs name coming up in any previous discussions before today so he can't have been the "obvious" solution.
Should I take the blue pill or the red pill? I'm not convinced the voices don't say the same thing, but they sound different.
BBC Humberside Sport ‏@HumbersideSport 2m Hull City fail to close Shane Long transfer as WBA keep the striker. Gedo returns on season long loan.
haha, You can **** right off. Trying to be the "Look at me, I know whats happening!!" When really you knew about as much as most of us on here, jack ****.
You can talk, you use to dribble loads of sh1te on that site you either worked on/admined (hullcitylive). I never forget a name. You're negativity is not welcomed nor needed at least in my eyes. we have a far superior squad and we are capable of staying up.
You've had all summer to sign a PL quality goalscorer. This culminated with a 5m panic bid for Shane Long, 5 hours til the deadline. So many players have passed you and it'll be interesting to see what happens with you in terms of goalscoring.
Speak for yourself. That's because there was no indication that WBA would sell him. I'm still very surprised that they (sort of) were.
Stan Collymore has just announced on twitter that WBA have signed Anichebe, could we still pull this off given that we have shown intent to complete the signing before the 11pm deadline?
Doubt it, looks like they was playing us all along sadly. Even if West Brom did say they will approve it if I was brucie and the allams I would tell them where to f*cking stick it.
Now WBA have apparently signed Victor Anichebe ****ng hell, Steve Clarke is a grade A twat. Put Long through a lot tonight then pulls him out of his own deal to then give him more competition.
West Brom now have a pissed off player having jumped through the hoops and sat it out all day, only to have to get up for an early morning flight back to training and then turning out for a Club that he was happy to leave and they were happy to let him.
The voice in the left ear is the voice of reason, the voice in the right questions the reason Unless you're left handed & then it's the other way round Read this it'll help http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1903387.Voices_In_My_Ear
