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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26

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nicoclaesen said:
I only used him and Richy because of the money we spent. There’s been so many but there’s no way scouts go and watch them two and come away really impressed by them. If it’s going down the route of stats and data driven as you pointed out with Brennan’s stats then there will be continued mistakes made by recruitment teams.
A great man once told me before that you need to see a player play well,play poorly and play in games that they win and lose in before you can make a decision on them. He said it might take 4 games or it might take 15 games but you’ll see all the attributes they have,weaknesses they have and character traits you need to know if they are what you are looking for.

Stats and data hide so much of that. The eye test is the most important thing in scouting. Of course there is a place for stats and data but watching players closely over longer periods in different scenarios is a must.
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All fine.

I don't think Johnson is part of any worst basket of buys we have made.

Lots of teams make poor acquisitions and it's often that the perceived paucity is at a time when success or consistency of high performance is absent.

I am sure players are observed or whatever, but the facts are that often it just doesn't work out.

What we need to do in my opinion is got the managerial appointment right in the first instance, and then find a model of acquiring players that manager can develop,that has greater or closer synergy with the heritage of the club, without being suffocating.

And even with all that, there will still be players who either can't make the grade or are simply a wrong fit.

Let's not seek to find perfection in an imperfect set of conditions.
 
it’s shaping up to be a very depressing second half of the season . Manager playing atrocious football , injuries galore. We are unlikely to buy any quality players and likely they get injured or we waste them if we do. Add to that Woolwich top of the league with a healthy lead , our CL run will likely end in embarrassment soon as we meet a half decent team . A scouting , medical , management structure and ownership that in the eyes of most is a disaster to say the least .
I genuinely cannot think of one positive thing about our club right now , Bilbao seems decades ago now in terms of any feel good factor .

This is going to be a very long road back , it’s why we must play decent football at least . If we are not going to be seriously competitive for 4 or 5 years which seems the case I would prefer to lose or win 4- 3 than grind out 1 nil losses or victories.
 
Notabadsquad said:
All fine.

I don't think Johnson is part of any worst basket of buys we have made.

Lots of teams make poor acquisitions and it's often that the perceived paucity is at a time when success or consistency of high performance is absent.

I am sure players are observed or whatever, but the facts are that often it just doesn't work out.

What we need to do in my opinion is got the managerial appointment right in the first instance, and then find a model of acquiring players that manager can develop,that has greater or closer synergy with the heritage of the club, without being suffocating.

And even with all that, there will still be players who either can't make the grade or are simply a wrong fit.

Let's not seek to find perfection in an imperfect set of conditions.
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Totally agree. Some players will struggle for a multiple of reasons especially at a big club like ours.
We will never find the perfect fit but in our last two appointments we’ve had a gung ho style and a boring style with no ambition to create and entertain which from the outside should have been identified.

Finding that happy medium from those two styles is what we need to find.
 
Ed Vanderlay said:
it’s shaping up to be a very depressing second half of the season . Manager playing atrocious football , injuries galore. We are unlikely to buy any quality players and likely they get injured or we waste them if we do. Add to that Woolwich top of the league with a healthy lead , our CL run will likely end in embarrassment soon as we meet a half decent team . A scouting , medical , management structure and ownership that in the eyes of most is a disaster to say the least .
I genuinely cannot think of one positive thing about our club right now , Bilbao seems decades ago now in terms of any feel good factor .

This is going to be a very long road back , it’s why we must play decent football at least . If we are not going to be seriously competitive for 4 or 5 years which seems the case I would prefer to lose or win 4- 3 than grind out 1 nil losses or victories.
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You forgot to mention that VDV and Romero will be handing in transfer requests very soon and who can blame them
 
I mentioned this before , we better hope Mason Melia and Vuskovic are world beaters otherwise

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The latest from Sly Sport....

'Tottenham weighing up January signing after Kudus injury'​

Tottenham are weighing up whether or not they will sign an attacking player in January after scans have shown Mohamed Kudus' injury is worse than first feared, according to The Telegraph.

Kudus limped off during the draw against Sunderland, and subsequent scans have revealed he is set to miss several games, potentially forcing Spurs to act in the market.

Tottenham boss Thomas Frank admitted ahead of the game against Bournemouth that his side were short on attacking options having already sold Brennan Johnson to Crystal Palace.

We are a fucking joke, just fold the club and I can do something more productive with my time.
 
Distaste for scouse said:
The latest from Sly Sport....

'Tottenham weighing up January signing after Kudus injury'​

Tottenham are weighing up whether or not they will sign an attacking player in January after scans have shown Mohamed Kudus' injury is worse than first feared, according to The Telegraph.

Kudus limped off during the draw against Sunderland, and subsequent scans have revealed he is set to miss several games, potentially forcing Spurs to act in the market.

Tottenham boss Thomas Frank admitted ahead of the game against Bournemouth that his side were short on attacking options having already sold Brennan Johnson to Crystal Palace.

We are a fucking joke, just fold the club and I can do something more productive with my time.
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Shirt on attacking options, we can't much shorter as the team barely has a shot on target.
 
Love how we're a week into the transfer window and still no credible links to any LW. Solanke, Maddison, and Deki have all been hurt for months, so the club should've had targets identified the moment the window opened and moved on them. Yet here we are, with matches like Sunderland showing how pitiful our current attacking options are. We win that match 3-1 had we brought in an attacker who isn't a complete donkey.
 
Contrast said:
I dunno why I thought this window would be different.

I thought when we sold Johnson it was all part of a plan. Bless me.
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There is a "plan" its to sign some 19 year old prospect with potentially big sell on value in the future. And we will keep throwing that particular dart at the board since it worked with Bale.

And then we will monitor the other clubs who are under financial pressure in the hopes we can squeeze out a last day bargain mediocre turd of a player that Frank doesn't want, doesn't fit the system and turns out to be shite.
 
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