I just quizzed EDP's Paddy Davitt on January transfer targets. His reply was suitably vague and obscure and tells me precious little! I was hoping for specific positions to be identified, but hey ho... Jon Dunn @cromercanary @paddyjdavitt Has AN actually identified which positions he's looking to strengthen in Jan, please, to your knowledge? Paddy Davitt @paddyjdavitt @cromercanary On the basis they didn't get all the deals they wanted over the line in the summer safe to say same areas of the side apply
The margins between us an them this season could be as thin as a striker like Grabban getting a few. I'm happy to see him go but my preference would be to a championship team. Weren't Leeds interested? That would work.
Pete O'Rourke @SportsPeteO Brighton have agreed a deal to sign attacking midfielder Richie Towell from Dundalk in January. #bhafc So, having frozen Wessi out of the picture while he was at NCFC, Hootun now decides to sign a clone!!
??? He also signed Harry Kane for us, not sure I've read him getting any credit for that anywhere on here, or seen anyone suggesting that he was incredibly unlucky that he got injured because if he'd kept fit and had anything like the impact during that season that he has in the two seasons since we'd have stayed up that year no problem.
Fair comment, Munky His poor decisions (Elmander, RvW, alienating Hoolahan) still outweigh the good, though - imho.
I thought Elmander did ok personally, he was never going to score a shedload of goals but I thought he was one of our better players that year - ok admittedly he didn't have a lot of competition! I also remember how so many people were creaming themselves after watching RVW (a dutch international striker no less) banging in goals on Youtube, and I also remember a fair few saying Wes was finished, surplus to requirements and some even suggested he was a potential bad egg after his reaction during the Villa game. Funny how things turn out ain't it
I also liked Elmander. Never got the criticism personally - he wasn't there to bang in a hatful, but his issue was he was always going to be compared to Holty despite actually being a very different sort of player.
Agree with that Rob. Elmander worked his socks off for us and worked well as a second striker to Hooper. It's not his fault that RvW never really got going.
Good grief! I merely mentioned Hughton signing an unknown Irish attacking midfielder for BHAFC and it's turned into the Goalmander appreciation society!
And you didn't "merely mention Hughton signing an unknown Irish attacking midfielder", you were trying to be somewhat more mischevious than that I do believe
Not sure this guy is on the same wavelength? Disastrous window last summer? Brady? Jarvis? Wisdom? I'd suggest none of them fit the 'disaster' category The other thing he fails to appreciate is the difficulty enticing the right calibre of player to the club with the threat of relegation still in the frame. Ain't as easy as identifying a target and signing them - they may be reluctant to come if we're near the foot of the table, have a more attractive offer from elsewhere, and so on. http://readnorwich.com/2015/12/01/january-transfer-window-vital/
IMO, all of our signings have been good, so I'd include Dorrans, Mulumbu and Mbokani as well. Yes, it was a pity that we couldn't get another CB in, but what we got is good.
Having read the whole article now, I particularly like the suggestion that we solve the problem of our 'ageing defence' by signing Jonas Olsson, who is a sprightly 32! The plus side would be that we could adopt MaOls and JoOls to avoid confusion!
