[Archived] Transfer Window - January 2016

[Jim Royle]

So can this coach driver fella play left back?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Pretty sure that was a fake account on the wind up with a photoshopped picture.

Yes, I apologised earlier for my misinformation. Some people must have nothing better to do with their time.

So can this coach driver fella play left back?

Can Tommy Spurr drive a coach ?

[4000Holes]

Depends where we're paying for them to stay. They might just fancy a night in a posh hotel!

Well I can only speak from my own point of view, but if I fancied staying in a posh hotel and I was earning let's say £10,000 per week minimum. Then I would stay in a posh hotel, say for £500 per night any time I fancied doing without waiting for someone else to pay, but would actually prefer to be at home with my family.

[LewisF]

So does anyone know who these mysterious two who were having medicals are, as mentioned by this idiot boro fan

[bluebruce]

He can play centre midfielder or right back.

I see him more of a defensive midfielder/holding midfielder

At long last. A jack of all trades, and a defensive midfield specialist. What we've been crying out for for so long.

[Claytons Left Boot]

On the rare occasion I meet a Boro fan and they act Charlie Big Boots I just ask what's in their trophy cabinet other than one league cup.

Aye, one trophy and a shed load of dust!

[DE.]

So does anyone know who these mysterious two who were having medicals are, as mentioned by this idiot boro fan

Based on the bloke's credibility I think we can safely assume they don't exist. I'm sure we have targets based on a Rhodes sale, but I can't imagine medicals etc would be done until the transfer was completed.

[Lancaster Rover]

Also, why would McGeady and Vrla who I assume both live fairly locally due to the proximity of their clubs not just go home?

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Based on the bloke's credibility I think we can safely assume they don't exist. I'm sure we have targets based on a Rhodes sale, but I can't imagine medicals etc would be done until the transfer was completed.

Mm, I'm sure we had irons in the fire so to speak but " medicals being done after the transfer was completed " ? I hope not.

[AdamRochina]

I got banned for calling abbey a bafoon? Yer he can be as confrontationAl as he likes???

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Also, why would McGeady and Vrla who I assume both live fairly locally due to the proximity of their clubs not just go home?

To keep them away from other clubs ?

[VinjayV4]

Also, why would McGeady and Vrla who I assume both live fairly locally due to the proximity of their clubs not just go home?

I did actually say 2 pages back (which nobody appears to have noticed) that McGeady is in Sheffield undergoing a medical.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/sheffield-wednesday-close-to-signing-aiden-mcgeady-from-everton-1-7707088

As for Vela Alan Nixon said only one exit expected at Bolton and that's Samizadeh.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

I got banned for calling abbey a bafoon? Yer he can be as confrontationAl as he likes???

Can you get banned for spelling mistakes ? I didn't know that.

[Bucksrover]

From the Boro forum :

"Apparently Lambert is absolutely furious. 2 players had medicals today and they're now sat in a hotel cos they can't afford them"

Boro fans trying to make out we are the joke. Their club have been trying to buy rhodes transfer window after transfer window but can't afford the price they were offering.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Boro fans trying to make out we are the joke. Their club have been trying to buy rhodes transfer window after transfer window but can't afford the price they were offering.

They're talking rubbish. This is one of the few times our hands are clean.

[FGS5635]

If we didnt vastly overpay rhodes, then he wou'd be a boro player by now. So we need to shoulder some of the blame

[Norbert Rassragr]

Wish Venky's would make the shortfall since Rhodes is staying. It won't/can't happen though and Lambert will have no money in the summer.

[yeti-dog]

As illegal as it is you can bet your bottom dollar that Middlesbrough and Rhodes had been talking long before he went up to Middlesbrough. His demands shouldn't have been a surprise yet between the club and Rhodes and his agent they couldn't get it over the line?

Pathetic. .p**s ups and breweries spring to mind!!

[DE.]

Mm, I'm sure we had irons in the fire so to speak but " medicals being done after the transfer was completed " ? I hope not.

Rhodes' transfer, not the fantasy players in question.

[yeti-dog]

If we didnt vastly overpay rhodes, then he wou'd be a boro player by now. So we need to shoulder some of the blame

Nonsense..it's our fault that Rhodes, wanting to go, couldn't find a mutual agreement with Middlesborough because of what we pay him?

You're just being obtuse.

[AdamRochina]

Can you get banned for spelling mistakes ? I didn't know that.

I'm dyslexia mate and I have tiny buttons to press on this tablet ...just furious I got a ban for nothing but others get away with a lot more..A lot more

[Lancs Rover]

Nonsense..it's our fault that Rhodes, wanting to go, couldn't find a mutual agreement with Middlesborough because of what we pay him?

You're just being obtuse.

FGS5635 has a point. How can we get rid of a player who is reputedly on a £40,000 a week that we then extended for about three years? Not very easily probably.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

Wish Venky's would make the shortfall since Rhodes is staying. It won't/can't happen though and Lambert will have no money in the summer.

Sorry, misunderstood your post.

[VinjayV4]

Sure they might make something reasonably substantial available within Platini's cretinous rules. Unless Lambert completely gambled in the certain belief Rhodes would be sold.

[bluebruce]

FGS5635 has a point. How can we get rid of a player who is reputedly on a £40,000 a week that we then extended for about three years? Not very easily probably.

I'm afraid he doesn't have a point. Boro want the player, they can either pay him his rate (which they've known about and still courted him), negotiate it down, or swivel. They obviously don't want him enough if they won't pay him around what we do (maybe a bit more after bonuses), and a few million more than we paid for him (a few years down the line at that, after he's proven himself). It is in no way our fault that their eyes are bigger than their bellies, or that their chairman has suddenly developed schizophrenia.