[Football] Babacar & Dembele - both seemingly available this window

Bladders · Jan 16, 2018

Sorry to go all Donald Trump but how come the shitholes can sing players but we cant?

Remember windows gone by when we would be linked with a player but so would say........ Stoke or Burnley.

We recoiled in horror that they would choose to go to those shitholes in the Prem and not beautiful Sussex to play for Brighton in the championship.

Now we have Prem money we still cant entice them.!!

Maybe we should stop lying about Brighton and own up that it too is a shithole, then the new players will come flooding in.

severnside gull · Jan 16, 2018

We've gone from 5/4 favourites to sign Dembele to Celtic being 1/5 to keep him.

LlcoolJ · Jan 16, 2018

fosters headband said:
Going on last summers window, players appeared to be added to the list in the final day or even final hour of the window, so it is still early yet.

I still can't believe I stayed up til stupid o'clock to find out that we'd not signed Vincent Janssen. Kind of like an anti climax to an anti climax.

Don Parasol · Jan 16, 2018

Dembele has already turned us down, according to reports...

fosters headband · Jan 16, 2018

LlcoolJ said:
I still can't believe I stayed up til stupid o'clock to find out that we'd not signed Vincent Janssen. Kind of like an anti climax to an anti climax.

i can't believe we appear as a club to have learned nothing from that window and three points were lost last weekend to a team that had not won for 20 games. the 6 weeks from January 1st had winnable games but 5 points I expected us to get have already been lost. Lose to West Ham, Saints and Swansea and our season will be over.

Juan Albion · Jan 16, 2018

Can we use this thread to moan about rumours Swansea are close to signing Kevin Gameiro?

Garry Nelson's Left Foot · Jan 16, 2018

fosters headband said:
i can't believe we appear as a club to have learned nothing from that window and three points were lost last weekend to a team that had not won for 20 games. the 6 weeks from January 1st had winnable games but 5 points I expected us to get have already been lost. Lose to West Ham, Saints and Swansea and our season will be over.

We didn't lose against west brom because of a lack of a striker. We lost because we were ****ing shit.

A new striker (as well as one or two other players) would be most welcome though.

GT49er · Jan 16, 2018

Weststander said:
Babacar & Dembele - both seemingly available this window!

Thank goodness for that! I thought we were never going to get any rumours about strikers we might sign this window.........

GT49er · Jan 16, 2018

Don Parasol said:
Dembele has already turned us down, according to reports...

I hope we've made it clear to his agent that for every week he holds out (to go to a bigger club - which roughly translates as 'more money') his wages if he signs for us are going down by £5K a week.

Gazz15 · Jan 16, 2018

LlcoolJ said:
I still can't believe I stayed up til stupid o'clock to find out that we'd not signed Vincent Janssen. Kind of like an anti climax to an anti climax.

Thank GOD!! He was a disaster at Tottenham!

LlcoolJ · Jan 16, 2018

Gazz15 said:
Thank GOD!! He was a disaster at Tottenham!

Yes, that was my point.......

middletoenail · Jan 16, 2018

GT49er said:
I hope we've made it clear to his agent that for every week he holds out (to go to a bigger club - which roughly translates as 'more money') his wages if he signs for us are going down by £5K a week.

I can imagine what his reply would be!

The power is all with the players and agents these days, unfortunately.

Sent from my SM-G9350 using Tapatalk

GT49er · Jan 16, 2018

middletoenail said:
I can imagine what his reply would be!

I'll run down my contract at Celtic (and then have no income if no-one meets my demands) - although maybe he doesn't understand that last bit.

middletoenail said:
The power is all with the players and agents these days, unfortunately.

Maybe, for the top, top players, but sooner or later some of these youngsters that think they are world beaters and worth a king's ransom (cough: Chelsea loanees) are suddenly going to find themselves without a contract. £0 per week wages, and presumably still a greedy agent to pay.

They might think - or their agents might tell them - that they are worth £80K - £100K a week, or whatever, but if every club that is interested says no, we don't want you for that much, and walks away, they will be left with nothing (well, probably quite a lot in the bank if they've been sensible, but no income).

Simontheseagull · Jan 16, 2018

GT49er said:
I'll run down my contract at Celtic (and then have no income if no-one meets my demands) - although maybe he doesn't understand that last bit.

Maybe, for the top, top players, but sooner or later some of these youngsters that think they are world beaters and worth a king's ransom (cough: Chelsea loanees) are suddenly going to find themselves without a contract. £0 per week wages, and presumably still a greedy agent to pay.

They might think - or their agents might tell them - that they are worth £80K - £100K a week, or whatever, but if every club that is interested says no, we don't want you for that much, and walks away, they will be left with nothing (well, probably quite a lot in the bank if they've been sensible, but no income).

Sadly true. Could even end up like Nile Ranger:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spor...ews/ex-newcastle-united-striker-nile-14113061

Stat Brother · Jan 16, 2018

Juan Albion said:
Can we use this thread to moan about rumours Swansea are close to signing Kevin Gameiro?

That's not possible.
Aren't you aware of the FACT that a lowly club is unable to attract and sign strikers.

Don Parasol · Jan 16, 2018

GT49er said:
I hope we've made it clear to his agent that for every week he holds out (to go to a bigger club - which roughly translates as 'more money') his wages if he signs for us are going down by £5K a week.

Unfortunately the player has the power in this case - or at least would have had at the start of the window... let's hope we remain an option. Unlike some of the players we've been linked with, I can see him really adding quality.

Weststander · Jan 16, 2018

Gazz15 said:
Thank GOD!! He was a disaster at Tottenham!

Which is a true.

£23m and high wages at 11pm on 31/08/17, smacked of desparation.

the right footed denilson · Jan 16, 2018

Musa and Niasse for me. Gonna cost what? £20-30 mil for both. Settled in the country, decent ages, pace, points to prove, would be assets if we're in the championship.

Bold Seagull · Jan 16, 2018

Gazz15 said:
Thank GOD!! He was a disaster at Tottenham!

2 goals in 11 appearances this season for Fenebahce. He would clearly have fitted right in with us.

GT49er · Jan 16, 2018

Don Parasol said:
Unfortunately the player has the power in this case - or at least would have had at the start of the window... let's hope we remain an option. Unlike some of the players we've been linked with, I can see him really adding quality.

On the other hand, he could be out of work come July. He'll probably get work then - but only what somebody's prepared to offer him, which may be a lot less than the inflated amount he's probably got in his head, now that his agent's filled his head with ideas that the top six are gagging to sign him. Which they're not (although after a successful 18 months with us in the PL, they might).

Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊

[Football] Babacar & Dembele - both seemingly available this window

Twats everywhere

Well-known member

Mama said knock you out.

Active member

Well-known member

Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

New member

Mama said knock you out.

Well-known member

Well-known member

Eye from the sky

Well-known member

Active member

Well-known member

New member

strong and stable with me, or...

Well-known member

Share this page