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[Albion] Is this the quietest transfer window you can recall?



Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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You can grow an entire human in 9 months. Can't sign a striker though.

I like that statistic.

An Albion fan who went home after Wigan and "celebrated" promotion could have a baby now. The football club who started planning for Premier League football on the same day still don't have a striker.
 








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Wozza

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Jul 6, 2003
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January is never THAT busy, is it?

From last year...

Man City - Gabriel Jesus [£27m]; Yangel Herrera [undisclosed]
Arsenal - Cohen Bramall [£40,000] - who?
Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, Spurs - NONE
 


Drebin

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Jul 25, 2011
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I think it’s only fair to compare us to our relegation rivals, of whom only Huddersfield have made a significant signing (taking a player on big wages off a team who can’t afford them because they didn’t get promoted). Swansea, Newcastle, West Brom, Bournemouth and stoke seem to be in a similar situation to us. There aren’t many strikers to be had at the moment and as soon as someone scores a few their value goes through the roof and gives the agents all the power.

Clubs can’t take a gamble as spending an awful lot of money on a player doesn’t guarantee survival but it does guarantee a financial headache if you’re relegated. Bozza is right, apart from the biggest clubs every transfer window seems to get quieter and this is why.


Many of the transfers done early in the window have seen an unseemly amount of money being paid to agents. There’s a reason everyone has to wait until the end of the window to buy players and it’s more down to the agents demands than the club’s desire to buy.

The introduction of transfer windows hasn’t been a success in my opinion.
 






forumwayseagull

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Oct 22, 2005
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I can’t say on a public forum - just sit back, expect nothing & we won’t be disappointed. It will all wash out in the public forum by the end of the season
if true that is potential suicide to a season and makes getting into the PL a compete waste of time as we are/were not prepared to give it a real go...
 


Don Tmatter

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Jul 7, 2003
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I can’t say on a public forum - just sit back, expect nothing & we won’t be disappointed. It will all wash out in the public forum by the end of the season

If what you say is true, I'd wager that it won't come out before the ST renewals are due.
 


el punal

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Away from our own slowly slowly catchy monkey approach, I can't think of much activity of note anywhere else.

Have I missed much, or is it all generally a bit slow, not least considering there are 10 or 11 sides who will be wanting to avoid relegation out of the Premier League.

Early days. Need to wait for Sky Sports' Jim White to don his gold tie to ginger things up a bit . . . oh, and Peter Odemwingie to turn up at some random club's car park.
 








The_Viper

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Oct 10, 2010
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Yes - Huddersfield’s early purchases have really put us to shame ... they are just one point ahead of us with an 8-goal inferior goal difference.

Agreed, the fact that a team that finished 5th in the Championship 12 points behind us on a 32 inferior GD over 46 games in a season can overtake us is incredible. It seems the proof that signing players early in the window is most certainly a benefit!
 




chaileyjem

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Agreed, the fact that a team that finished 5th in the Championship 12 points behind us on a 32 inferior GD over 46 games in a season can overtake us is incredible. It seems the proof that signing players early in the window is most certainly a benefit!

Is the season over ? Thank god for that . We’re safe ! And without signing a striker. A miracle !!
 










Blue Valkyrie

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Sep 1, 2012
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Bozza will have to start a number of these threads to keep the click bait going as regrettably, as I said before Christmas, BHA are not in any meaningful talks with any meaningful players to join us in January. Regrettably the position as at last weekend is still the same.
How do you know ?
I can’t say on a public forum - just sit back, expect nothing & we won’t be disappointed. It will all wash out in the public forum by the end of the season
Very, very worrying.
 





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