Transfer thread Summer 2015

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Tony_Munky_Canary said:
I dunno, 14 goals in 43 appearances for Rennes last season is pretty good, reckon if we'd have signed him that summer he'd have done well for us and possibly even kept us up. He does still seem like an arse though to be fair, and in the grand scheme of things relegation turned out to be the best thing to happen to us so I guess I should be happy we didn't sign him as well.
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You're right - he's not a bad player (though oddly despite a good record for Rennes as you point out his stock seems to have fallen) I was more meaning the prima donna part.

I definitely agree that relegation seems to me like it will prove to be the step back we needed to take us two steps forward. It was a close run thing though!
 
Tony_Munky_Canary said:
Hooper would appear to be a bit of an enigma, and I'm not entirely sure what to make of him and his future with us. When we signed I'll admit I was somewhat underwhelmed as I didn't have high hopes for him south of the border and saw him as a bit of a 'flat track bully' with all his goals for Celtic. However, whenever I've seen him play I've been impressed, he's got a great touch and good movement, he was comfortably our best striker in the relegation season and scored some great goals last year and put in some match winnings performances when given the chance to do so. My problem is the lack of opportunities he was getting, and the fact he always seems to be third/fourth choice when everyone is fit both surprises me and makes me wonder how much our gaffer rates him.

I'm definitely a fan of his, hope he does sign a contract and is happy here and I would love for him to do a Charlie Austin next season and back a dozen or so goals, I just don't expect him to play enough games to be able to do that unfortunately.
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His definitely a second striker his technical ability and football intelligence is absolutely superb, I don't think people give him enough credit for it, in one of the games against Ipswich he came on for Jerome but ended up filling in for Wes and was brilliant, linked up everything perfectly, he may not have Wes's trickery but his thinking three passes ahead of everyone else.
 
toastehmonstah said:
Rumours on Twitter (I know, I know) that Hooper has signed a new contract
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Unfortunately these rumours seem to originate from our unknown friend on twitter, if we don't believe him when he say things we don't like we can them believe him when he says something we do. Plus he's so frequently wrong its laughable.

That said I'm a big fan of Hooper, as others have said he's a much better around footballer than he get credit for, he's not just a poacher. What he can't do is get the ball out of the air and hold it up for the midfield like Jerome does, however when played into his feet he's a hard man to move off the ball.
 
Hooper would be amongst the first half dozen players in my squad for the PL campaign. I fail to see how he "doesn't fit the way AN plays". He's not one-dimensional. The whole point of a squad is to have tactical options, not just cover for injuries. Hooper has scored some immense individual and team goals and is about as efficient in front of goal as any striker could hope. A striker who can convert the fewer chances that we'll get in the PL is just what we need.
 
The strike force is a concern in some respects because when you see the quality of other PL outfits, ours do appear a little light overall. We seem a little betwixed and between, very good for the Championship but not quite there for the PL. I guess that RvW was that missing link in the last campaign and we know what happened there! Hooper could play a vital role in us staying up I reckon.
 
Complete and utter tosh that one IMO, no way we'd spend £ 5.5M on a player who will be 30 next birthday and TBH I wouldn't want us to.
 
KIO said:
Complete and utter tosh that one IMO, no way we'd spend £ 5.5M on a player who will be 30 next birthday and TBH I wouldn't want us to.
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Completely agree, and wonder if this is nothing more than lazy journalism based on the fact we've just signed Mulumbu, who is a Congolese team mate of this fella (who I've never heard of).
 
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I have heard of Mbokani, didnt he used to play for Aderlecht? I think he might have been a decent signing 2-3 years ago but not at that age/price.
 
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