I see that scouse lad that went to Sunderland is injured. Something they picked up in his medical apparently
Hull City have completed the signing of young striker Hugh Parker from League of Ireland First Division side UCD AFC, with the Tigers paying an undisclosed fee to get the deal done. The youngster has penned a two-and-a-half year deal and will go straight into the Under-21 setup at the club's Bishop Burton training centre, though reports claiming City paid a six-figure sum are understood to be wide of the mark, for a player who has played three times in the UEFA Youth League.
Just beat me to it mate, here's the full article if ya want to read it. Hull City complete transfer deal for highly-rated striker after catching Tigers' eye - Hull Live
My guess is we'll see that smaller squad next season, he mentioned it as a goal but with the amount we wanted to bring in we couldn't realistically get rid of enough this month to bring the squad size down significantly. It really is a big squad.
I agree, he’s had barely any opportunities in his preferred role, did quite well at RW in a couple of cameos and ok at LW initially, although struggled a bit more recently. Pedro isn’t going to be able to do 90 minutes twice a week, whilst Joseph is still a bit of an unknown quantity at this level and if either of them get injured we’re back to playing people out of position. I’m sure he’ll get some minutes and it can’t do either him or Joseph any harm spending time around Pedro in training.
Very mixed feelings about this transfer window now it's over. I've felt positive about it most of the way through January, but then after the Stoke game was again left feeling we are short of both a consistent RB and LB, very exposed if Pandur gets injured, and, while I like Pedro most of his best work is creating for others and i wonder if Joseph might be the same. Really not sure we have enough goals in us. And I find the signing of Egan puzzling unless his intention is to play him as left centre back and play Macca ahead of Jacob at LB.
I think the big acid test now is what happens with people like Matazo and Joseph. We've spent decent money on them on fairly long contracts. These deals need to work now. We're all positive about those players now like we were about Ömür this time last year, but we can't be in a position in a year's time where we're talking about moving them on and replacing them because Joseph doesn't score enough and Matazo doesn't fit the style of the manager we've replaced Selles with.
Agree. The signing of Egan in isolation is really good, but his signing without getting rid of another CB just seems odd - even if it had been sending Burns back, who surely now won't even get on the bench never mind on the pitch. Every one of the wingers signed, Lincoln, Amrabat, Barry and Gelhardt - in isolation potentially good to brilliant, but leaving us with 8 options when added to Burstow, Vaughan, Omur and Kamara (not even including Sinik or injured players) on the wing having only got rid of Longman is just frigging mental for a team toeing the line on FFP. Crooks and Matazo, v happy with both, but when Palmer comes back it feels like we've got 1 too many players there, not a massive issue, but additional expense we could do without, though admittedly in this case I don't think we could have reasonably shipped more than Mehlem and Simmons out. We've got to hope that we can ship out one, or two, more players to countries where the window is still open....getting Omur and Sinik off the wage bill, even if only a percentage of their wages would be progress
Absolutely. Who would've thought last January that Ömür would be someone surplus to requirements exactly 12 months later? The churn of signing highly-rated players for decent money and then selling them 6-18 months later at a considerable loss needs to stop.
I thought Joseph looked a real handful against Sheff Utd and kept them on their toes from the word go. Not really anything like that at all against Stoke, though at that point they were sitting deep and defending a lead. I think we need to use Joseph to gauge the opposition defence from kick off and try to tire them out before introducing Pedro later... But then Pedro gives you a lot in the build up so you're potentially sacrificing that if you've not got someone like Crooks on in the middle to win balls higher up and help support Joseph.
It might be the case that Joseph is more suited to away games whilst Pedro starts more often at home. Time will tell how it plays out but I could see how their play styles suit those different sorts of games.
