[Albion] There is ZERO chance of SIGNING anyone today.

b.w.2. said:

Based on knowing we wasted a lot of time and effort on Nunez and offed Muzza way too soon. Facts not BS. Grow up with the bed wetting comment BTW


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Farehamseagull said:

Re: our recruitment of strikers, in the last 5 years alone we've signed Hemed, Murray, Maupay and Connolly in that time, all a success so you can't say we consistently fail in this area. We're no different to every other club at every single level of the game, some will be a hit, some will miss.

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dwayne said:

Batshuayi possibly going to West brom on loan. They are looking pretty solid. Defensive with a little bit up top.

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dazzer6666 said:

Nunez will be one of several we were/are pursuing - you (nor I) have literally no idea how much effort is being expended on any of them - others may be taking much more effort, just lacking any publicity. We aren’t going to sign every player we want - if we ‘fail’, it’s only ‘wasted’ time and effort with the benefit of hindsight.

Muzza wouldn’t have got any game time this season.......absolutely right to let him go and play football, and get a large chunk of his wages covered - to fund others.

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peterward said:

Im not going to be one of them who jumps on you for getting frustrated. We all do at times. I get it.

But I will say mate, the Nunez statement above is a very simplistic, its also easy to claim we wasted time now he's at Benfica, but 5 days ago he wasn't, and the player even said when asked by a journo "I don't know anything about Benfica" and we were one of two clubs who were in the running with firm bids for someone who looks like they will be a massive star.

We had our clubs representatives over there (allegedly), who we can assume were doing their level best to try and secure a talented young striker and were acting in good faith, having scouted Nunez. If the agent or Almeria was using us to drive the price up (something that happens in this dirty game), it was they not acting in good faith and wasting out time, not our club. I would like to believe our club did its utmost to secure this promising and talented young striker, but when you're up against stiff competition and especially if player expresses an alternative preference very late in the day (4 days ago that became public). This can happen.

I dont for one second think we wasted time, I'm sure we did all we could for as long as it looked like we may be able to secure him. Its purely an assumption to think we were trying to get him after he said he wanted Benfica..... we may have already walked at that point for all anyone knows. But waste time is a bit baseless and without foundation.

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Reddleman said:

That’s all fine and I’m sure he was a hot prospect but I definitely getting frustrated with the clubs approach to strikers. It’s like we think we are smarter than everyone else in this department. The likes of Wilson at Bournemouth, PL experience, recent international, is exactly the sort of stoker we should be in for. Clubs that are very likely to be in and around us already are making bids, where are we? Likewise someone like Watkins, just pay the money and get him in. The points we could lose before mid October by the time a new player is signed and settled in could be the difference between relegation or not.

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Tyrone Biggums said:

Some teams are better at identifying and developing forward talent.

Some teams are better at identifying and developing defensive talent.

We are the latter.

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El Presidente said:

Pay the money how? The Albion will have lost £30m plus last season and don’t have unlimited funds.

Watkins is looking for £70k a week which would wreck the Albion’s pay structure and the fee is £22m for a player who has zero Premier League experience.

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b.w.2. said:

This is spot on. I touted Wilson at the start of the window and predictably got shot down by the NSC know-it-all mafia. Now Newcastle, a clear rival, are making statements like they want him in before the season starts, whereas we ‘play our cards close to our chest’, and the club-can-do-no-wrong posters stand and applaud the achievement of the square root of **** all again.


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Icy Gull said:

If the 70k a week expected wages is true it would be absolute madness to even discuss bringing him here. There’s taking a gamble and there’s fecking up everything that the club has been built on. I have my doubts that we’d pay those wages for an established and proven PL striker.

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Blue Valkyrie said:

We'd have to up Maupay's wages to £70k a week for sure.

So an extra £70k per week on the wage bill becomes a chunk more.


We are definitely smarter than this.

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nwgull said:

It could also be that we value a good defence more than attack. Our record signing in the Championship was a defender, and our record signing so far in he Premier League has been a defender. We’ve also turned down huge bids, in both the a Championship and Premier League, for our best defensive talent.

This philosophy doesn’t seem to have done us too much harm in the 5 seasons that the current recruitment team have been in place.

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nwgull said:

Zamora was quite good.

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b.w.2. said:

El Presidente said:

Pay the money how? The Albion will have lost £30m plus last season and don’t have unlimited funds.

Watkins is looking for £70k a week which would wreck the Albion’s pay structure and the fee is £22m for a player who has zero Premier League experience.

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Paper figures with no substance. Actually Watkins should be our number 1 target. May I remind you that Maupay was at exactly the same stage in his development (at the same club) when we splashed a very similar amount on him.


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peterward said:

£25-30 mill, and just “get him in”

Winstanley and Ashworth are paid decent wedge to scout and look at stacks of options. You think they’re not aware about Watkins or Wilson? We don’t know the exact profiles of the players sort after.

We are also notoriously secretive with everything. For all we know we could be in advanced negotiations with both?

Why haven’t they signed somewhere yet if was just as easy as click fingers and “get them in”?

btw Callum Wilson is 28, so we spend 25 million on him and how long a contract do we give? And that would make him how old after contract? How much is he then worth do you think?

“Exactly the type of striker” easy with someone else’s money isn’t it.

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b.w.2. said:

This is spot on. I touted Wilson at the start of the window and predictably got shot down by the NSC know-it-all mafia. Now Newcastle, a clear rival, are making statements like they want him in before the season starts, whereas we ‘play our cards close to our chest’, and the club-can-do-no-wrong posters stand and applaud the achievement of the square root of **** all again.


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b.w.2. said:

Paper figures with no substance. Actually Watkins should be our number 1 target. May I remind you that Maupay was at exactly the same stage in his development (at the same club) when we splashed a very similar amount on him.


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b.w.2. said:

Which is why we need to sign a striker urgently


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Farehamseagull said:

But they're not facts! You do not have a clue what happened with the attempt to sign Nunez, no one on here does despite some ridiculous posts in that thread. You have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever how much time we spent on the Nunez transfer, and even if we did spend some time on it, so what? It's part of recruitment, we might well have got him but you don't sign every target, and as we've been told many, many times, we have cluster targets so we would have also been working on other options at the same time.

And based on how much he played and contributed last season, you could say we offed Murray a year or 9 months too late so again, not a fact.

Re: our recruitment of strikers, in the last 5 years alone we've signed Hemed, Murray, Maupay and Connolly in that time, all a success so you can't say we consistently fail in this area. We're no different to every other club at every single level of the game, some will be a hit, some will miss.

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b.w.2. said:

This is spot on. I touted Wilson at the start of the window and predictably got shot down by the NSC know-it-all mafia. Now Newcastle, a clear rival, are making statements like they want him in before the season starts, whereas we ‘play our cards close to our chest’, and the club-can-do-no-wrong posters stand and applaud the achievement of the square root of **** all again.


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