[Football] Transfer Deadline Day

[jcdenton08]

We are half way there. A striker by the close of play tonight and we've done well.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

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I’m pleased to see someone so obviously down on his luck getting a PL contract. Hopefully a personal shopper will sort him out a new pair of jeans.

 

[Peteinblack]

I want deadline day done and I can get back on with my life, I've worn out my screen protector checking for the latest transfer news every 3 minutes since the window opened.

Same here - my concentration and output plummets every August

Plus I always end up disappointed that we fail to sign the striker we've needed for the last four seasons - not including those youngsters 'for the future' we send straight out on loan - and the manager says "we're happy with the players we have"

 

[Comrade Sam]

Watching BBC news with my Dad a couple of weeks ago when they went live to Paris for the Messi press conference. It just made me laugh as a young Arab billionaire told the world he had just bought his new best friend 'Messi!' I buzzed on my contempt for the rich shallow tw*t!
As for Cucurella, my ten year old thought he sounds like Manuel from Fawlty towers.

 

[Peteinblack]

We are half way there. A striker by the close of play tonight and we've done well.

What if the striker is a youngster 'for the future' who's sent straight out on loan for the season?

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Miserable g1t. Where’s your commitment to diversity?

Not sure if you are joking - I find an emoji helps.
Do you mean we should be happy for the 'pretend swede' to be on NSC ?

 

[Jim in the West]

Chelsea are the leaders in the use of their academy as a means of fattening players for market, an approach that we are clearly seeking to emulate.

yes - I just looked at the blog on the official site - there are 28 transactions in this transfer window. OK, two of them are contract extensions (Webster and Taylor Richards), but the other 26 are all deals, mostly involving loan deals for developing players:

- Jenks
- Cochrane
- Clarke
- Longman
- Ostigard
- Weir
- Mitomi
- Molumby
- Zeqiri
- Karbownik
- van Hecke
- Walton

There's a few other in-coming youngsters (Jack Hinchy and Jeremy Sarmiento) and a few departures (Mlakar, Yapi). Not sure whether you count Tau as an academy player - but if we'd sorted a work permit, I'm sure he would have started in the academy.

A helluva collection!

 

[junior]

There are clubs higher up the food chain or level with Palace who need a striker, yet have chosen not to move for Edouard, i.e. West Ham, Wolves, Leeds, Southampton, us. Clearly, there are factors at play that are putting these clubs off.

You missed Norwich and Brentford off that list.

 

[Napper]

sorted

Now for the striker !!!

 

[A1X]

 

[ukpolska]

If we do not sign a quality striker (goals/age/reputation) in this window then serious questions should begin to be asked of the recruitment team.

I do not, and would not, question TBs commitment (impossible to do so really), but the failure to recruit a decent striker in their mid 20s for EIGHT years is a damning indictment of those tasked with providing our manager(s) with suitable resources.

If you think that we are in a bad situation then look at WetSpam as they will have just one centre-forward at thier disposal until January – the exceptional but injury-prone Michail Antonio.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

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Looks like he's wet himself

 

[Farehamseagull]

If you think that we are in a bad situation then look at WetSpam as they will have just one centre-forward at thier disposal until January – the exceptional but injury-prone Michail Antonio.

Absolutely.

And we can't forget about poor old Pep with his one senior striker in his squad. I wish people would just take a bit of time to think of Man City!

 

[A1X]

Naylor suggesting no more "ins" other than Sima (who goes to Stoke), given up on Nunez

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Naylor suggesting no more "ins" other than Sima (who goes to Stoke), given up on Nunez

Cripes.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Naylor suggesting no more "ins" other than Sima (who goes to Stoke), given up on Nunez

Lucky Stoke!

What a great window for them.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Even if we do not think Sima is quite ready yet surely we need to keep him as an option?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Naylor suggesting no more "ins" other than Sima (who goes to Stoke), given up on Nunez

As long as there are no more First 25 outs, then I'm ok with that.

Striker would have been nice, but let's be honest, it hasn't looked likely for well over a week.
Nothing was going to change today.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Naylor suggesting no more "ins" other than Sima (who goes to Stoke), given up on Nunez

really not happy he is off to bloody Stoke, why bother....

We are Bloody short on attacking options, only we would buy a player and loan him straight out......

 

[Milano]

Let’s see how much Arsenal want to keep Nkiteh, if Palace sign that bloke from Celtic then they are likely no longer interested and we should throw a cheeky £10m or a loan to buy offer at Arsenal. I’d take the same approach with Origi at Liverpool.