southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
- 5,653
Be realistic - any new signings are unlikely to be made before August. That's just how it is with us.
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Summer 2015 transfer window thread
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Machiavelli
Well-known member
Without wanting to break the doom and gloom, I think we will see two or three decent signings before the end of June, based on:
-- we waited until August last year, and look where that left us
-- we got in weeks before the transfer window closed when signing Kayal; that is, under Hughton
-- the club recognise that they need to generate the feel good factor so that they can shift more season tickets (not that sales so far are that bad)
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Some signings may depend on the playoff final result.
Will Middlesbrough no longer want Enrich if they go up ?
Will it be easier to get Bassong if Norwich stay down ?
Seems to me that a Middlesbrough victory potentially helps us more than a Norwich one.
Will Middlesbrough no longer want Enrich if they go up ?
Will it be easier to get Bassong if Norwich stay down ?
Seems to me that a Middlesbrough victory potentially helps us more than a Norwich one.
Hope you are right, but fear your last line is more probable sadly
Megazone
On his last warning
Bloom has his stupid transfer policy of doing it the difficult way. Until then, The first 5/6 games of the season will be written off.
Does he still go about telling every reporter that he doesn't like the January Transfer window too?
What next, he doesn't like buying players when it rains?
If only we had a chairman who loved football.
Does he still go about telling every reporter that he doesn't like the January Transfer window too?
What next, he doesn't like buying players when it rains?
If only we had a chairman who loved football.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Those points dropped before the end of last August could have seen us relegated.
Please, albion, have a full squad this time by season kick off.
Please, albion, have a full squad this time by season kick off.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
I am astounded that the club has been so professional in every department except in player recruitment over last two seasons. TB is an intelligent business man who has shelled out more money that most of us would struggle to earn in a couple of lifetimes, surely he is not going to make the same mistake again?
Waiting until two weeks into the season to try and pick up some left over bargains is such a flawed policy, I am astounded TB even went there once tbh.
Waiting until two weeks into the season to try and pick up some left over bargains is such a flawed policy, I am astounded TB even went there once tbh.
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Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
I think this is right. Bloom knows he's under pressure to deliver and we trust he'll have learnt the lessons from last summer's shambles. There have been encouraging noises from the club about "doing business early" so it'd be a major surprise if there weren't some signings announced by the end of June/early July. This is a critical close season. Everyone makes mistakes but this time, there can be no excuses. The club cannot afford to get it wrong again.
martin tyler
Well-known member
- Jan 25, 2013
- 5,860
No one is looking at the positive. Sign players late and we save on wages. We only need 14 players to start the season with really. Then the players that are left will be desperate to sign as no one else wants them and we can then play hard ball on their wage demands.
OzMike
Well-known member
They are going to win the Premier League!
Worth a punt!
Tommy Tradlles
New member
Maybe you should buy the club off him as you obviously love it more!
OzMike
Well-known member
That's right, then you have the ingredients for breeding loyalty and thinking that the club actually cares about you.
So you play like you didn't want to be there and hence a season like last season.
Yeah, I'm all for that, real positive move, getting all the players nobody else wants.
I guessed you were not being serious.
Megazone
On his last warning
I'm actually in the process.
Langley
New member
Why all this doom and gloom ? Most other clubs have yet to announced the players to be released, ít appears that most of you want to go into the market feet first, and get anyone that is for sale. Ithink the club have their targets and are waiting for them to come onto the market, in my opinion a better strategy, and I think CH will decide who comes in, not TB, Also I do not see many other clubs yet clawing at the market, and from what I read most of them are looking to strengthen various areas.
The club could be really crafty by doing nothing all through May, June and July. Perhaps get interest in players but then do not meet them, do not tie up any deals and wait and wait until they go to another club. Then, wait till we have lost loads of points already in the league and pick up a load of loans and transfers that no one else wanted.
deletebeepbeepbeep
Well-known member
- May 12, 2009
- 20,966
Oh dear it is getting a bit leaky in here.
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
As you clearly love it more, we expect you to plough at least 25m a year in every year. That ok?
Megazone
On his last warning
As long as it meets FFP......
The Brighton Buzz
Falmer here we come
- Jan 31, 2008
- 1,277
And so it begins. Expect a lot of this in the next few months. There will be a lot of players mentioned when they are released by their clubs. The Argus will say they are about to sign and then the following day they sign for someone else. That's the way it was last year and I don't expect that to change. Hope I am wrong and we don't get the "scraps" again.