Transfer Rumours January Window 2016

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I may well be proved wrong and if so great, but i'm disgusted at the seeming lack of ambition at this football club. There is a huge pot at stake and to quote our glorious leader, 'if theres someone out there that can improve us we will have a look'…. well stop looking and start ****ing buying City, because as sure as eggs are eggs other clubs will overtake us and fast with what we have and the way we set out to play. Blackman to Sheff Wed guts me… ****ing hell…


............. she screeched hysterically! Take a chill pill Flinstone, the window's only been open three days, if we're in the same place at the end of it you'll have something to wail about.
 
I think it will take a lot before anyone has spent as much on their squad at us. Bruce can't piss and moan about budgets and signings, he's spent more than enough as it is to get us out of this division. The players are more than good enough.

A bit light up front as it looks, but we've no idea how Diomande will do and it could turn out we're more than fine with him and Hernandez.

I'm not saying I don't wish to see any signings, but our squad is already seriously ****ing strong for this division and I don't think there's much we could do to strengthen, I don't think we could really get anyone in any position that is better than what we already have.
 
I think it will take a lot before anyone has spent as much on their squad at us. Bruce can't piss and moan about budgets and signings, he's spent more than enough as it is to get us out of this division. The players are more than good enough.

A bit light up front as it looks, but we've no idea how Diomande will do and it could turn out we're more than fine with him and Hernandez.

I'm not saying I don't wish to see any signings, but our squad is already seriously ****ing strong for this division and I don't think there's much we could do to strengthen, I don't think we could really get anyone in any position that is better than what we already have.

I would like to see a centre forward as a minimum. 2 isn't enough, I also think we'd be wise bringing in a centre half we have suffered with injuries and Dawson out has been a big loss. It will also depend greatly on who leaves us in the window.

It's not about how much we spent previously, that was to try and stay in the PL, or even the current value of the squad. QPR have demonstrated quite well that an expensively assembled squad does not guarantee results. Their squad value must be not too dissimilar in value to ours.

A quality signing will freshen things up, maybe help them kick on for the second half of the season.
 
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Bruce says that Elmohamady’s head has been turned by the rumours linking him with Premier League clubs.

"There has been nothing for Elmo (in terms of offers)," he said. "I think, with him in particular, it is affecting him. All this nonsense about he is going here, there and everywhere.
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Derby are trying to hijack Wednesday's deal for Blackman.

They were bound to, they can't have anyone else buying a striker...

It’s being reported as a seven figure sum. Usually, that indicates it won’t be much over 1,000,000.

**** me.

I think he's sort of player who'd make the transition to the Prem like the Watford lads - could not only help seal promotion but save the buying club millions in the summer
 
It’s being reported as a seven figure sum. Usually, that indicates it won’t be much over 1,000,000.

**** me.

I think he's sort of player who'd make the transition to the Prem like the Watford lads - could not only help seal promotion but save the buying club millions in the summer

Just seen someone claiming it's £12m, I can't see that, he's only got six months left on his deal.

If it's only about a million, we should double the offer.
 
Just seen someone claiming it's £12m, I can't see that, he's only got six months left on his deal.

If it's only about a million, we should double the offer.




I might be wrong but it has hallmarks of a cheap deal (if seven figure sum is correct) as it sounds like someone is putting spin on getting mugged.

If it was north of 4m – then that’d be quoted I’m sure, not ‘a seven figure sum’.

1m or 2m or even 3m has got to be worth us having a go.

The only positive of him going to Sheff Wed would be that it’ll really **** off the Sheff Utd fans.
 
In I would like to see:

Chester on loan
Rhodes although think he will be beyond our budget
Bamford

If we had to pick one player to lose sadly I think it would be Huddlestone
 
Could simply that he isn't half as effective playing as a right midfielder- that is where Sunderland played him before he joined us and they didn't rate him there either.


Absolutely- Sunderland had him at right midfield and they didn't rate him at the time. As soon as he went to right wing back for us, he was a revelation. Maybe he is just better coming onto the ball at pace from deep. Personally, I've not understood why Bruce didn't swap Elmo and Moses over because Moses has much more trickery about him to trouble defenders in tight areas, and Elmo could attack from a deeper position.

I think you make a very good point, one I have made a number of times, although the discussion was about player interview responses in general. The feeling among some posters, me included, is that players would rather claim ignorance as to why we perform so poorly, as they do not feel able to express their true feelings about poor selection and tactics of the manager. But, of course, that is only a thought, in the absence of any other logical explanation. <whistle>

The question of where Dave and Elmo play, should be, for me, more about which one is played and I would prefer Elmo as he is the more complete RWB. His instructions are taking away his natural quality which should be ripping this league apart.

For the record, many Sunderland lads I know thought well of Elmo, McShane and Meyler; just as many Magpies liked Taylor - although it would certainly appear that he has broken down; unsurprising after his injuries, but a bit of a shame for him.<ok>
 
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I think you make a very good point, one I have made a number of times, although the discussion was about player interview responses in general. The feeling among some posters, me included, is that players would rather claim ignorance as to why we perform so poorly, as they do not feel able to express their true feelings about poor selection and tactics of the manager. But, of course, that is only a thought, in the absence of any other logical explanation. <whistle>

The question of where Dave and Elmo play, should be, for me, more about which one is played and I would prefer Elmo as he is the more complete RWB. His instructions are taking away his natural quality which should be ripping this league apart.

For the record, many Sunderland lads I know thought well of Elmo, McShane and Meyler; just as many Magpies liked Taylor - although it would certainly appear that he has broken down; unsurprising after his injuries, but a bit of a shame for him.<ok>

Ryan Taylor got a hell of a response on his return to the Newcastle team after 2 cruciate injuries. They really appreciated the work he'd put in.

I'm the same Fez, most Sunderland fans I talk to speak highly of Elmo and Meyler. McShane, it's a little more mixed.
 
Ryan Taylor got a hell of a response on his return to the Newcastle team after 2 cruciate injuries. They really appreciated the work he'd put in.

I'm the same Fez, most Sunderland fans I talk to speak highly of Elmo and Meyler. McShane, it's a little more mixed.

McShane lived just over the road from me and he kept his powder dry on managers, but his late father was a great guy and a tad more outspoken; especially about being used as a RB and not as he thought best, as a CB. Funny old game, hey!
 
............. she screeched hysterically! Take a chill pill Flinstone, the window's only been open three days, if we're in the same place at the end of it you'll have something to wail about.
At the start of the window the best players are snapped up by the serious clubs.

Midway through the window clubs with no intention of buying are embarrassed into pretending to enter "serious" transfer negotiations.

Towards the end of the window we hear the same old bollocks about how clubs won't sell and players won't move until the final day.

On the final day it's panic buying time with mediocre and poor players chased like they're superstars.

In the last few seconds of the last day the unambitious clubs finally buy or loan the cheap unknown foreigners they always intended to be their solitary acquisitions.

Days after the window shuts rumours of huge deals "not quite coming off" abound among the clubs who spent bugger-all.
 
Wouldn't it be just swell if nobody came in for Austin before the deadline, we won the next 3 at home, went top and then nicked him on deadline day?

I'd like to see us go for a couple this window, I'd take somebody like Ambrose at Celtic, big commanding centre half who wouldn't cost a bomb.
 
At the start of the window the best players are snapped up by the serious clubs.

Midway through the window clubs with no intention of buying are embarrassed into pretending to enter "serious" transfer negotiations.

Towards the end of the window we hear the same old bollocks about how clubs won't sell and players won't move until the final day.

On the final day it's panic buying time with mediocre and poor players chased like they're superstars.

In the last few seconds of the last day the unambitious clubs finally buy or loan the cheap unknown foreigners they always intended to be their solitary acquisitions.

Days after the window shuts rumours of huge deals "not quite coming off" abound among the clubs who spent bugger-all.

I know where you're coming from. Do you remember when we signed Aaron McLean on January 1st 2011 & Liverpool signed Suarez on the 31st?