City transfer thread

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@PJBuckingham: Steve Bruce says it's a "stalemate" in Norwich's pursuit of Robbie Brady. The last bid was rejected. "I hope they don’t make another one."
 
lewisc29 said:
I don't have anybody on ignore. Hat's come close, but nobody really disrupts the board to the point of ignoring them!
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The ignore button is brilliant but should be reserved for those 2 percent of posters that really make you want to vomit. I post my ignore list on my profile page so they don't waste their time.
 
Smartarse™ said:
The ignore button is brilliant but should be reserved for those 2 percent of posters that really make you want to vomit. I post my ignore list on my profile page so they don't waste their time.
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Come off it, you're only here to wind us up anyway.
 
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PLT said:
They really wouldn't. Jelavic yes. Hernandez would struggle and an unmotivated N'Doye won't be too useful.
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The aggressive, motivated Hernandez who ran Everton all over the place at the KC at end of last year would be brilliant if we can find him again. I think we were too excited about him when he arrived, and have been too critical of him since. Don't know what went wrong, but he was injured a lot and then clearly something else as well. That day at Soton when Brucie even brought Sagbo on before him suggested either they had fallen out or his attitude stank, but do feel there is a really good player in there. Reality is he will probably go but really don't think he would struggle if we were to keep him.
 
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kingstontiger said:
The aggressive, motivated Hernandez who ran Everton all over the place at the KC at end of last year would be brilliant if we can find him again. I think we were too excited about him when he arrived, and have been too critical of him since. Don't know what went wrong, but he was injured a lot and then clearly something else as well. That day at Soton when Brucie even brought Sagbo on before him suggested either they had fallen out or his attitude stank, but do feel there is a really good player in there. Reality is he will probably go but really don't think he would struggle if we were to keep him.
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In my dream last night I went to Hernandez's house but he was a grey old woman. I was thinking how can this 24 year old supposedly fast striker be so old, slow and frail.

Powerful metaphor though, it summed him up quite well I thought. Well played subconscious me.
 
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kingstontiger said:
The aggressive, motivated Hernandez who ran Everton all over the place at the KC at end of last year would be brilliant if we can find him again. I think we were too excited about him when he arrived, and have been too critical of him since. Don't know what went wrong, but he was injured a lot and then clearly something else as well. That day at Soton when Brucie even brought Sagbo on before him suggested either they had fallen out or his attitude stank, but do feel there is a really good player in there. Reality is he will probably go but really don't think he would struggle if we were to keep him.
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Well, if he can't make it in the level below Premier League then he is cactus.
Showed a bit of promise at times but the hard cold facts are that he is well held by his marker. A true 'striker' is someone who can shake his marker, find the empty space and (above all) find the back of the net. Hernandez does not appear to have this quality to me. Both N'Doye and Jelly may lack a bit of pace and can't find the empty space but both have shown that given the ball in the penalty area they can put the ball away. In the Premier League they had few opportunities but took them when they got the chance. In the Championship they will certainly get more chances but both consider themselves too good for this level and want out. The Club also want rid (as well as Hernandez) for financial reasons but nobody appears to be beating a path to the KC door for either of them.
 
I'm not sure why anyone gives a **** about the Wagner rumour, it started when we were one of four clubs listed in an article on Football League World, which as about as reliable a source as next doors cat.
 
originallambrettaman said:
I'm not sure why anyone gives a **** about the Wagner rumour, it started when we were one of four clubs listed in an article on Football League World, which as about as reliable a source as next doors cat.
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I read this on a number of sites yesterday OLM including "Kick-Off" so I thought something might have happened.
P.S. My next door's cat source is my workshop area on which it delights in dropping it's load every night. I have learned to shovel it up and throw it back over the fence each morning as I was continually treading in it and bringing it into the house.
 
kingstontiger said:
The aggressive, motivated Hernandez who ran Everton all over the place at the KC at end of last year would be brilliant if we can find him again. I think we were too excited about him when he arrived, and have been too critical of him since. Don't know what went wrong, but he was injured a lot and then clearly something else as well. That day at Soton when Brucie even brought Sagbo on before him suggested either they had fallen out or his attitude stank, but do feel there is a really good player in there. Reality is he will probably go but really don't think he would struggle if we were to keep him.
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Against Everton he was given a licence to run at their defence and play on their shoulder, etc. This was because Jelavic was doing all the donkey work, winning headers, holding the ball up, which allowed Hernandez to do what he does best. Whenever he was given a chance from the start, he always had his back to goal as he was played as a form of target man (When Jelavic was injured), he is definitely not a target man as we all know.

Quite often the ball would be lumped up to him in the air and he obviously didn't want to mess up his hair half the time as he bottled it 99% of the time. This is where playing to someone's strengths come to mind, which Bruce did once against Everton, which was his best game in a city shirt.

A Jelavic and Hernandez partnership in the Championship would be lethal, but we probably won't ever see it again.
 
So... When do we think we will hear anything about the Board meeting tomorrow?
It is Bruce who has put that meeting into the public domain but it's not usual for the club to release a press statement following a Board meeting.

Should we take it as no news is good news?
 
TigerRoo said:
I read this on a number of sites yesterday OLM including "Kick-Off" so I thought something might have happened.
P.S. My next door's cat source is my workshop area on which it delights in dropping it's load every night. I have learned to shovel it up and throw it back over the fence each morning as I was continually treading in it and bringing it into the house.
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I'll send the Vietnamese round after dark for you Roo.
 
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Smartarse™ said:
So... When do we think we will hear anything about the Board meeting tomorrow?
It is Bruce who has put that meeting into the public domain but it's not usual for the club to release a press statement following a Board meeting.

Should we take it as no news is good news?
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The club will only announce something if it's something they want us to hear.

More likely, if it was a bad outcome, we'd find out from some media reports, then later the club would give their version which paints a different picture.
 
Be a case of if bruce releases a pissed off statement hes gone within weeks and the allams are petulantly running us into the ground

Orrrrr

We'l suddenly announce a few signings
 
Im kinda of hoping jelavic stays, workmanlike and has the physicality for the championship if we can shift the other two strikers and keep jelavic great
 
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