Transfer Rumours Transfer Rumours/Rubbish January 2019

BBC website says "undisclosed!"

 

Nice. Cheap little deal.

 

Good spot gandy!!!

 

We signed a young striker called Kole Lambert

https://norwich.vitalfootball.co.uk/norwich-announce-striker-signing-2/

 

Having expected nothing from this window I feel the club has done well with Heise and the youffs signed. Hopefully the competition will help Lewis lift his game.

 

Wolves were supposedly ready to spend £3m on Heisse 18 months ago, so £200k or so definitely sounds a bargain.

 

Couple of other tidbits:

-Pinto to Ipswich is off, because they couldn't agree what would happen should Ipswich get relegated. Amazed that it was a permanent deal being discussed frankly, I'd have thought we'd have to help with Pinto's wages.
-An agreement is in place for Oliveira to sign permanently for Reading in the summer, should they want it.

 

Never heard of Kole Lambert. Interesting to see what's he's got to offer.

 

Scott McKenna CB from Aberdeen? Read from Newsnow website. Seems unlikely although Klose is injured and Handley seems out of favour.

 

Great player. Can't see us spending the amount of money he would be worth.

 

Supposedly £6.5m bids have been rejected, so unless he's Delia's long-lost son there's no way he ends up here.

 

After Pinto broke down. James Bree goes there on loan. Great young player.

Another good signing for Town.

 

Crouch to Burnley at 38?!

Vokes dropping down to the Championship in his place.

Such a strange deal. Vokes has been fantastic for Burnley, and he's got so many years on Crouch.

Crouch could come in and do a job. He could get some goals from the bench. I can't see him starting games. But this is a deal for the rest of the season, surely Crouch won't play another Premiership season at 39. Where as Vokes has been very effective, and has got another 3 or 4 years in him.

 

Burnley have 12M bid for Che Adams rejected. Wow.

We usually sell for that price. I thought Brum were in a worse state than us, financially.

 

Sounds like this deal was instigated by Stoke. Stoke are paying cash+Crouch for Vokes. I think Burnley were trying to sign another striker (Che Adams, presumably) but as that's fallen through they've taken Crouch to make sure they've got enough strikers.

 

IMO, that had been a rather excellent Transfer Window. SW has been able to fend off interested parties for some of our key players, we've loaned out a couple of players who could influence results against some of our competitors for automatic/playoff places and he's been able to bring in cover for LB.
If Carlsberg did Transfer Windows .......

 

Yep with Hanley in the wings i was less concerned about CB cover. Goalie was my only other "maybe" but DF and SW do seem quite happy with McGovern as backup for now. Most important thing was keeping hold of Aarons, Lewis and Pukki for another 6 months. Fingers X'd, Agent Oliveira can deliver the goods for us.

 

Jacob Murphy has agreed a loan deal to the Baggies.
I still feel that they are our biggest threat to us finishing in the automatic promotion places, but they concede a lot of goals..

 

Interesting insight into DF's thinking about Heise:

https://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/michael-bailey-daniel-farke-plan-for-philip-heise-1-5874822

The 7 goals and 22 assists in 90 games is impressive for a FB and Heise's ability to play midfield as well could prove useful. Coming on as a sub initially for his scoring/crossing ability when we're chasing games could be very useful as could his defensive abilities in midfield when we're seeing games out. My only concern is that with him coming in and Marshall going out, our homegrown players situation is even tighter.

 

Are we overblowing the homegrown concerns? If we fail to hit the target, we can only name 6 subs, right? Or we take the approach used at Wednesday, and stick some youngsters on the bench.

Given how Farke tends to wait until the 89th minute to make changes, does it really matter if he has one less senior option?