Transfer Rumours The Summer Transfer Rumour Thread 2016

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saintrichie123 said:
I am being told we are now going to up our bid of £6m which was rejected for Bost, does anyone know if he is any good?
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I haven't seen a lot of him. He scores goals but seems that's about it.

There will be a lot of people who say he's not good enough and top players made him look good and he doesn't offer much else. I can't deny or confirm that from my brief views. I will say that if anyone thinks that, remember the "lump" we signed from Feyernoord? I ended up being very critical of Pelle (he's the one several said was nothing but a lump) but nobody can deny his contribution here and the fact he was a success.
 
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I would like to see us attempt to sign Josip Drmić. He's only 23, he went to Leverkusen and it didn't really work out due to lack of opportunities, he was on loan at Hamburg last season and lost his place in the Swiss national side for the Euros due to injury. I don't think he would cost us much at all but I've been impressed when I've seen him play.
 
NorthernIrishSaint said:
I would like to see us attempt to sign Josip Drmić. He's only 23, he went to Leverkusen and it didn't really work out due to lack of opportunities, he was on loan at Hamburg last season and lost his place in the Swiss national side for the Euros due to injury. I don't think he would cost us much at all but I've been impressed when I've seen him play.
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What position?
 
Ah sorry, he's a striker. A few seasons ago when he was at Nurnberg I remember reading that we were interested in him so I followed him after that. Seems to be in the wilderness slightly at club level but is a full Swiss international striker.
 
NorthernIrishSaint said:
Ah sorry, he's a striker. A few seasons ago when he was at Nurnberg I remember reading that we were interested in him so I followed him after that. Seems to be in the wilderness slightly at club level but is a full Swiss international striker.
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"Full Swiss international striker" doesn't have quite the same ring as "full Italian international striker" somehow. Does he have nice hair?
 
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fatletiss said:
I haven't seen a lot of him. He scores goals but seems that's about it.

There will be a lot of people who say he's not good enough and top players made him look good and he doesn't offer much else. I can't deny or confirm that from my brief views. I will say that if anyone thinks that, remember the "lump" we signed from Feyernoord? I ended up being very critical of Pelle (he's the one several said was nothing but a lump) but nobody can deny his contribution here and the fact he was a success.
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Dost is also very, very injury-prone. Before and after his one good season with Wolfsburg, his history has been periods of inconsistency, flashes of success, and long spells on the sidelines. Started this season right where he left off, cooled off, got injured again, and was basically useless upon return. That's been the Bas Dost story.
 
fatletiss said:
Ashby, fair comments, (you are right to be concerned about replacing goals from two players - although we did have that when we lost Rickie and Jay. Adam
Scored a few too I think) however the middle section isn't correct. We did narrow the gap on the top four and we improved our position again.

This point here is the crux of my angst this week. I am not being sarcastic now or having a tone to upset spacedsaint. I am saying that all week this type of post has been mentioned and I and others have replied pointing out the historical facts that the reality was different; We did improve. History tells us that we should see by the end of the summer.

I was accused yesterday if not engaging but I feel the lack of engagement is actually from posters such as spacedsaint. Apologies if your are insulted by me mentioning you - I don't mean to insult, but I'd rather be frank and honest so there is no ambiguity.

Here is how I feel it goes if you remove name calling, insinuation, sarcasm, moaning, etc:

(Please take these words as examples only)

Poster Concerned: " we don't seem to be singing any players and I think the board are saving the money"

Poster not yet concerned: "why don't we wait and see. This is similar to before"

Poster Concerned: "Other clubs are making signings, we need to improve the club"

Poster not yet concerned: "But this gets said every year. Every year we make signings and we improve"

This happens a bit and then I feel that the message is chosen to be ignored. I then lose my patience. Now spacedsaint said yesterday the conversation was good natured debate until I came along (there was a lot of people already countering before I signed in yesterday afternoon), but I think he fails to realise that this type of conversation happens so often that when I come on every day to read the same negative style being posted, I tend to show little sufferance.amd that is when I hit sarcasm straight off.

All I ask is that people such as spacedsaint at least consider what we say when we say that it's early, the club have been here before, rather than just say I am making their views invalid. I am not. I am countering them.

I think we all agree that it will be tough if we don't sign anyone.
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