Transfer Rumours January 2018 Transfer Window

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I agree that we USED to look a different side without Davis. This season we are crap with and without. If you think Davis is still our saviour then you are being willfully blind IMO or not watching us play. As for you wanting to keep Long because he puts in a shift I am suddenly not surprised you want MP to stay. There has been no shortage of running around with the ball and producing absolutely nothing this season. If that's your thing, this is the season of all seasons and Long must be player of the decade.
 
st_brendy said:
I wouldn't be holding your breath about the January window being a big one. The summer window should have been a big one, or the January window before that, or the summer window before that.

Put forward any argument you like about why it should be a big one (and I'd almost certainly be agreeing with you, by the way), and I'll point out that the exact same argument applied previously too. And yet no action was taken then...
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Simple terms; the acquisition.

Agree they have all been huge windows, but feel we wouldn't imbalance the books.

I think 2 in, 2 out.
 
ChilcoSaint said:
I think most of us mean “big” in terms of “significant” Brendy. If the board back whichever manager is in place then by spending big on targets we should have got last summer, that will show ambition. If, on the other hand, we sell Virgil and Bertrand but don’t spend, that will signify Mr Gao is here to asset strip. The truthfully probably lie somewhere in between!
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Agree with the first part, second part may signal we just need to move them on, maybe they are slightly disruptive or that we have targets coming on the summer.

I honestly think Bertrand won't be a loss if he goes, I'd rather play Targett or Sam, and we have good quality if VVd goes too.

The attacking bit is a must though. Not just in personnel but also the tactics, which MP needs to deal with.

I said a year ago that if we went out to Beer... then we could be on a downward spiral, I don't think I'm wrong on that as our form has been pretty appalling in 2017.
 
William Tell said:
Agree with the first part, second part may signal we just need to move them on, maybe they are slightly disruptive or that we have targets coming on the summer.

I honestly think Bertrand won't be a loss if he goes, I'd rather play Targett or Sam, and we have good quality if VVd goes too.

The attacking bit is a must though. Not just in personnel but also the tactics, which MP needs to deal with.

I said a year ago that if we went out to Beer... then we could be on a downward spiral, I don't think I'm wrong on that as our form has been pretty appalling in 2017.
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Yes I wouldn’t actually be sorry to see Ryan and Virgil go, but money has to be spent elsewhere, mainly up front, AM, and a really top class keeper.
 
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I have been led to believe that Theo Walcott held discussions with club reps during the international break.

This is an unsubstantiated rumour I’ve been told which was supposed to have come from a member of his wife’s side of the family
 
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It does strike me the side does look unsettled.........I get the impression though that it is mainly the way they are asked to play. Some Of the players have natural talents but for what ever reasons are not being allowed to use them. Truly baffling........
 
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saintlyhero said:
I have been led to believe that Theo Walcott held discussions with club reps during the international break.

This is an unsubstantiated rumour I’ve been told which was supposed to have come from a member of his wife’s side of the family
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Tallies with what I heard/mentioned a while back. It has legs, and he wants to come. Whether it happens or not is another thing.
 
The Liebherr Legacy said:
Reckon we'd have to shift a high earner for that.

He's gonna want 80-100k.
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Yeah but we can do some cringey "sign da ting" campaign like Arsenal did to convince him to sign. Is his contract up in the summer? Can't imagine him wanting to be on 100k a week if not, must be on a fair bit more at Arsenal. Seems like the perfect West Ham signing to me tbh.
 
Saintmagic said:
Yeah but we can do some cringey "sign da ting" campaign like Arsenal did to convince him to sign. Is his contract up in the summer? Can't imagine him wanting to be on 100k a week if not, must be on a fair bit more at Arsenal. Seems like the perfect West Ham signing to me tbh.
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Eighteen months remaining on his deal. Could be worth it for him to take a lower number on a longer-term deal, but then we're looking at paying a player whose chief attribute is his athleticism through age 32 or 33, which carries some risk.
 
Beef said:
Bring back Shaw as well
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I'm not convinced that failed former players would come back to us at the level they left or that they would achieve it again. Personally I'm more interested in getting McQueen and target on the pitch. Totally convinced they would bust a gut on the itch.
 
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Schad said:
Eighteen months remaining on his deal. Could be worth it for him to take a lower number on a longer-term deal, but then we're looking at paying a player whose chief attribute is his athleticism through age 32 or 33, which carries some risk.
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Probably less risk than continuing to play redmond and tadic.
 
fatletiss said:
Ian, it feels like you come on this board sporadically, post your opinion and then make comments about things you're surprised at on this forum... if you only read it more often you'd see that there are a lot of people who regularly mention the things you have above.

Namely: the value of Davis, the poor crossing of Cedric and Boufal being given more of a chance

Sometimes You post like a man who has been locked in a vault for forty years and comes out surprised we dont think about using solar panels for energy.

I'm not surprised that you always seemed surprise.
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Your constant baiting of Ian is extremely tedious, extremely childish and well worthy of a word from a moderator frankly.
 
You know we so desperately lack a target man. I think we are all agreed on that. It seems we were very close to securing a top class one in the summer (though not all convinced by that rumour) but not prepared to spend a lot of money on a second best target. If we secure one in the January window then we will start to see the best of Long, Gabbi and maybe even Tadic(if he stays on his feet). If we don’t we could be in trouble. As a fallback I would even consider getting Gallagher back. No cost but at least he is the right style of forward we need to very low risk.
 
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