Just seen this on x about the lad we’ve signed, Sounds positive https://x.com/mickyjnr__/status/1933755542867976656?s=46
Remind me, in the past 2 windows what drama did we have? I remember real deadline drama during Brucies era.
In January it wasn't as bad, we just signed Egan. Last Summer we signed Kamara, Belloumi and Palmer on deadline day, while also missing out on Datro Fofana and Deivid Washington. The season before was when we had Philogene, Morton and Furlong join on deadline day in the Summer and then Omur and Zaroury join on deadline in January. Baz has this thing about saying "clubs at the bottom need to wait for others to do their business", but in reality, that isn't true. The players you want should be available, it shouldn't ever be a case of "well he might be available if this other club sell this player" because that's relying on others doing stuff to build your team. We don't *need* to wait, we just chose to in the past and it cost us more than once. We pissed about in both windows last season trying to sign a good, reliable striker on the cheap and ended both windows without signing one. Given what happened last season with our pathetic goals return, a striker should be through the door in time for the flight to Turkey. If not, something is serious ****ing wrong with our recruitment department.
Solid player, they already signed Ricardo Santos from Bolton so obviously they weren't happy with the centre halves they had. Which is odd because I thought Cabango was half decent. They also signed that Inoussa that we were linked with.
The ‘clubs down the pecking order need to wait until other clubs have had incomings’ is a load of bollocks. Baz isn’t the only one who says it either. Acun himself has said during those Q&As that a lot of our transfers get done late into the window because we’re waiting for bigger clubs to sanction loan moves or permanent transfers for their young or fringe players. Let’s not sugarcoat the obvious. We just have a crap recruitment system. I can’t think of one signing we have made under Acun’s ownership that is anywhere near as good as some of the signings during the Pearson/Barmby/Bruce periods under the Allams. It’s not like Philogene was some bargain either. We signed him for £5 million + a 30% sell-on clause. Nowhere near as good a deal as signing Chester for £300K and selling him for £8 million or signing Clucas for £1.3 million and selling him for £15 million. The two players who netted pure profit for us under Acun were academy players that made their breakthroughs because of the previous ownership’s desire to improve the academy and McCann having faith in them.
"Hull City have pulled off a gem with Reda Laalaoui. At just 20, he’s smart, sharp, and full of flair. A natural No.8 with technical skill, tactical brains, and North African grit. Trust me, this kid will shine in the Championship. Africa and Morocco will be watching! #Transfers#HullCity#AfricanFootball" The poster has 292K followers so seems respected.
Looks like we are delving into North African market this year. It is opposite of northern European football where physical and disciplined game thrives. How tall is this Reda guy, google and couple of sites say 1.85, but transfermarkt says 1.90. Football manager portrays him as physical player with good athletic skills. I hope that's correct, we need some muscles in this squad, current boy are bullied during games.
I don't know GFAW I don't have a twitter account. If I click on your link it just takes me right to that tweet with a side banner asking me to become part of Elon's doom scrolling cult.
I agreed with the general point there until you started talking about Jaden. A hard disagree on that part. Philogene can't possibly be considered anything but great business. We've done some poor business by all means but Jaden wasn't anything other than a very good bargain. We managed to get a player in of that quality, on what was essentially a loan which we then made a sizeable profit on. If we could somehow do that type of business with ten players for one season, we'd have enough cash to fund a title challenging squad the following season. To claim Philogene wasn't a bargain because players from years ago made more profit just comes across kind of desperate to be honest.
It would probably be a sell on of any profit though wouldn't it? Are they likely to make a profit on him?
We’ve done some terrible deals and wasted a small fortune in recent years, but let’s not pretend they were all rubbish, Seri, Tufan, Philogene, Hughes, Belloumi, Matazo (and others I’ll have forgotten) were great additions, along with some good loans.
