Transfer Rumours Winter 2025 Transfer Thread

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You would hope that Selles has approved all this ...?.... as someone has said previously.. if he keeps us up, give him the keys to the city. And if he does keep us up any other club with real ambition will poach him in the summer.
 
TIGERSCAVE said:
You would hope that Selles has approved all this ...?.... as someone has said previously.. if he keeps us up, give him the keys to the city. And if he does keep us up any other club with real ambition will poach him in the summer.
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People said the same about Rohl and he’s yet to go
 
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bradymk2 said:
To be fair i think he was like 29-30 whem he joined us
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32 I recall.

So not as old by any stretch.

If it's a 6 month deal on low wages and he's here specifically in a mentoring role and to provide a little bit of nous late in games then I don't see a problem with it.

Obviously if we're bringing him in on 20k a week on a 3 year deal then it would be madness, but I highly doubt that will be the case.

From Baz's article it seems he's being brought in with nominal risk, though of course that won't stop the moaners moaning.
 
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Amrabat is a curious deal. Can't really imagine how a 37-year old on the wing works, but I'm sure there'll be examples of players who've done it well. Not sure I agree with the people saying it's a typical Acun signing; I guess he's coming from Greece which neighbours Turkey but that seems a stretch.

I remember him tearing us apart for Watford at Vicarage Road once. Might've been the 2016/17 season.

I think my biggest concern might be how this all works numbers wise. We do have wingers, it's just that they're not that great. With Kamara, Burstow and Amrabat you'll have three wingers who aren't really ones you want as first choice right now. Gelhardt sounds like he might play on the wing, but then you'd probably still want another, and then you've got five wingers which is a bit much.
 
Steven Toast said:
On your first point, I think this is good context for last season. Delap and Greaves aside, none of the others have really kicked on. You could argue that Tufan and Philogene didn't get a fair shake, but for whatever reason they've probably not achieved what they hoped they would with those moves.

On the second paragraph, yeah we should really have looked longer term, but I don't think anybody expected Philogene to do as well as he did in such a short space of time so maybe they thought they'd have him a bit longer than 12 months. Pandur was a good signing and probably should have come in ahead of Allsop, even if it was later on when he was getting pelters for making mistakes but then hindsight is always 20/20. Ohio would have been a sensible move, he looked like he was settling in and was improving week by week. Morton I don't think was ever achievable; he was stuck in the twilight zone of deserving a move to a bigger club, but also maybe breaking into the Liverpool first team. I also think Klopp announcing his departure from Liverpool in January shook things up a bit and Morton would have wanted to see whether he could do something under Arne Slot. I can only conclude that Slot told him he was needed for first team duties and that's why he didn't go out again. He signed a "long term contract" before he went out on loan to Blackburn the season before he came to us, so maybe the price for him is too high for clubs like us to afford. In any case, unless we get promoted at some point or Liverpool decide that somehow we are the best fit for a loan deal, we're unlikely to see him again.

Our midfield last season was so good at keeping the ball and shielding the defence and I think not replacing Morton and Seri has contributed to us conceding a lot more. The threat we had out wide with Philogene and Tufan stretched teams out allowing them to get on the ball more. I don't think, at the moment anyway, Kamara and whoever we play on the left have the same impact on the opposition in terms of threat, so teams are happier to leave them wide and focus on the middle of the pitch. It was a different story when we had Belloumi and Millar either side, but we have to play the cards we are dealt and getting a proper winger in is vital.

The question is, are we going to go for a pacey winger, or somebody without pace but decent technical like Marc Pugh had.

If we have the money, Emil Riis Jakobsen is out of contract in Summer and hasn't signed a new deal with Preston. Probably other clubs after him but he'd be perfect for this system.

Jed Wallace might be available, I've always liked him and if nothing else it'd stop him scoring against us every time we play him.

The other name I've been told surprised me, but more because I hadn't realised where he was playing and that's Ben Woodburn who is currently at Salford City.
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I just mentioned the other day how Woodburn used to be linked with us every window. Funny that that one's come up again.
 
PLT said:
Amrabat is a curious deal. Can't really imagine how a 37-year old on the wing works, but I'm sure there'll be examples of players who've done it well. Not sure I agree with the people saying it's a typical Acun signing; I guess he's coming from Greece which neighbours Turkey but that seems a stretch.

I remember him tearing us apart for Watford at Vicarage Road once. Might've been the 2016/17 season.

I think my biggest concern might be how this all works numbers wise. We do have wingers, it's just that they're not that great. With Kamara, Burstow and Amrabat you'll have three wingers who aren't really ones you want as first choice right now. Gelhardt sounds like he might play on the wing, but then you'd probably still want another, and then you've got five wingers which is a bit much.
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Stanley Matthews got Stoke back up when he was 50.
 
PLT said:
I just mentioned the other day how Woodburn used to be linked with us every window. Funny that that one's come up again.
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I'm not sure I'd take him; he's ended up at Salford because nobody else would take him and although he's doing alright there, I can't help but feel he's on a downward trajectory.
 
GEvans76 said:
Makes you realise a team consisting of
Greaves- Seri-Mortan- Tufan- Carvalho- Philogene- Delap- Zaroury did not finish in the top 6 was total failure.
Can’t get any ****er to sign now bottom 3 stragglers in the poorest Championship in respect of quality I can ever remember.
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Couldn't agree more. That team would have been pushing for a top two spot this season. Although it splits opinion, I can see why the owner got pissed off missing out last season. If he can pay silly money for people like Sinik what did have to fork out for that lot?
 
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