January Transfer window

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, MarkBRFC said:

I imagine this guy is the answer to both our striker and winger problems.

I could also see a left back being bought in on loan at a push before the deadline, which would free up Beck for the left wing too.

And that will be that.

Beck is a poor left winger, so that'd fit with the model.

[Penwortham Blue]

1 minute ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Beck is a poor left winger, so that'd fit with the model.

He is a left back but to be fair to the lad, he has shown more out wide in an offensive sense, especially when chasing games, than Hedges / Dolan or any other ‘winger’ on the books.

[Exiled_Rover]

6 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

He is a left back but to be fair to the lad, he has shown more out wide in an offensive sense, especially when chasing games, than Hedges / Dolan or any other ‘winger’ on the books.

He's an excellent LB. He doesn't have a good enough first touch to be a winger.

[Bethnal]

5 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

He's an excellent LB. He doesn't have a good enough first touch to be a winger.

Think he could develop this more, he often looks a bit flustered in the final third but with a bit more time to think, he’s done well there. Just needs more experience doing it.

[booth]

If only we could sign Beck up permanently. Probably the best full back we've had in the Championship since Kean relegated us.

[Herbie6590]

1 hour ago, wilsdenrover said:

You need a sadder/angrier photo for this stage of the window.

 

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55 minutes ago, booth said:

I've always thought Swagg looked like a Viz caricature of a sleazy agent. Sadly he's real and the joke's on us.

Suhail Shaikh/Pasha/whatever he calls himself looks like that thick kid at school who ate wax crayons. It all boils down to him not putting his neck on the line to tell the owners what we need to maintain a promotion push, again. Combined with a complete lack of football knowledge or interest. The coward needs to be forced to speak to the fans about his continual failures.

Used car salesman 

[Eddie]

 

3 hours ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

So do we want JE to do a JDT and then get cut off from press conferences then leading to his exit?

JE did know what he was coming in to

but he’s handling it very well and any criticism of him regarding all this is just an agenda or dislike of him 

I don't want him to go as far as JDT. He went too far once he actually gave up on the team. I do want our manager to be making stronger public statements about how unacceptable it is that the club is running at such a net positive on transfers and yet is failing to commit money to a transfer budget.

I don't want those statements to be coded so that only supporters understand them. I want them to be plain and simple and make it obvious to the wider public what is going on here.

Look at Amorim calling this United team that worst side in their history. Or a dozen example from Mourinho, or Pep, or Klopp, or Postecoglou. Yes, they're bigger reputation managers with less to lose, but their public statements contribute towards holding owners and administration accountable.

2 hours ago, K-Hod said:

Well yeah, because it looks like you're being a contrarian for shits and giggles, tbh.

I've been on this messageboard for a long enough time to be accused of a lot things, but a contrarian is not one of them. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

Just now, Eddie said:

 

I don't want him to go as far as JDT. He went too far once he actually gave up on the team. I do want our manager to be making stronger public statements about how unacceptable it is that the club is running at such a net positive on transfers and yet is failing to commit money to a transfer budget.

I don't want those statements to be coded so that only supporters understand them. I want them to be plain and simple and make it obvious to the wider public what is going on here.

Look at Amorim calling this United team that worst side in their history. Or a dozen example from Mourinho, or Pep, or Klopp, or Postecoglou. Yes, they're bigger reputation managers with less to lose, but their public statements contribute towards holding owners and administration accountable.

I've been on this messageboard for a long enough time to be accused of a lot things, but a contrarian is not one of them. 

We’re 6th why would Eustace call us the worst team when in actual fact the current team are overachieving? Poor comparison 

managers when they challenge owners publicly doesn’t end well at all 

so he either goes after them and they take the hump and he’s gone or he gets the hump and he’s gone 

he’s gone about it the right way he’s the ‘coach’ and he’s doing his best and more 

this is on waggott / Rudy / venkys - nobody else

[davulsukur]

Shea Charles is now staying at Sheff Wed for the rest of the season. So we can forget that one.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

5 minutes ago, davulsukur said:

Shea Charles is now staying at Sheff Wed for the rest of the season. So we can forget that one.

Was never coming here Southampton asking for 70% wages paid plus a higher lump sum payment to extend the loan was never realistic 

[wilsdenrover]

1 hour ago, booth said:

I've always thought Swagg looked like a Viz caricature of a sleazy agent. Sadly he's real and the joke's on us.

Suhail Shaikh/Pasha/whatever he calls himself looks like that thick kid at school who ate wax crayons. It all boils down to him not putting his neck on the line to tell the owners what we need to maintain a promotion push, again. Combined with a complete lack of football knowledge or interest. The coward needs to be forced to speak to the fans about his continual failures.

Are you thinking of cockney wanker? 

[Penwortham Blue]

11 minutes ago, Eddie said:

 

I don't want him to go as far as JDT. He went too far once he actually gave up on the team. I do want our manager to be making stronger public statements about how unacceptable it is that the club is running at such a net positive on transfers and yet is failing to commit money to a transfer budget.

I don't want those statements to be coded so that only supporters understand them. I want them to be plain and simple and make it obvious to the wider public what is going on here.

Look at Amorim calling this United team that worst side in their history. Or a dozen example from Mourinho, or Pep, or Klopp, or Postecoglou. Yes, they're bigger reputation managers with less to lose, but their public statements contribute towards holding owners and administration accountable.

I've been on this messageboard for a long enough time to be accused of a lot things, but a contrarian is not one of them. 

I understand what you’re saying and to some degree share the frustration that Eustace doesn’t call a spade, a spade or call them out quite as enthusiastically as JDT. However, on balance, I think he is probably going about it the right way, fighting it on the inside, whilst trying to keep morale up and hoping that things change.

[paullarrygher]

Looks like something is imminent:

https://x.com/roversduff/status/1882807444306526274

Edited January 24 by paullarrygher

[BankEnd Rover]

1 minute ago, paullarrygher said:

Looks like something is imminent:

https://x.com/roversduff/status/1882807444306526274

He/she has been reliable so fingers crossed.

[Herbie6590]

4 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I understand what you’re saying and to some degree share the frustration that Eustace doesn’t call a spade, a spade or call them out quite as enthusiastically as JDT. However, on balance, I think he is probably going about it the right way, fighting it on the inside, whilst trying to keep morale up and hoping that things change.

…& leave in the summer with his reputation not sullied by calling out his bosses…

[Ricceh]

6 minutes ago, paullarrygher said:

Looks like something is imminent:

https://x.com/roversduff/status/1882807444306526274

I really fucking hope it's Haaland

[booth]

5 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Are you thinking of cockney wanker? 

No, I meant he's a living caricature that wouldn't look out of place in Viz. Cockney Wanker is Mike Reid.

Swagg MD (Moronicly Defective) could be a satirical comic strip in 4000 Holes if anyone's good at doodling.

[Herbie6590]

8 minutes ago, Ricceh said:

I really fucking hope it's Haaland

He’s 52 now & his knee never recovered from the Keane tackle…we can surely do better…

[wilsdenrover]

Just now, Herbie6590 said:

He’s 52 now & his knee never recovered from the Keane tackle…we can surely do better…

Are you certain about that?

Edited January 24 by wilsdenrover

[RoversClitheroe]

I reckon it's a wind up.

[Eddie]

20 minutes ago, Penwortham Blue said:

I understand what you’re saying and to some degree share the frustration that Eustace doesn’t call a spade, a spade or call them out quite as enthusiastically as JDT. However, on balance, I think he is probably going about it the right way, fighting it on the inside, whilst trying to keep morale up and hoping that things change.

We've had a few managers fight it from the inside. None of that has worked. Don't get me wrong, I know it is complicated and it is very easy to tell someone else to do something that may cost them their job and potentially hurt their reputation slightly (although I doubt that bit).

But he is now basically singing from the club's hymn sheet again. He's very on message and there are calls for signings, but mitigations and excuses thrown in with each of those requests. 

Have a bit of backbone. He's doing good job on the pitch, if he can't stick up for himself now, then he never will. This is a manager that we are supposedly worried about being poached by top half Championship clubs and Premier League options, so why not call the club out for not signing players, make it nationally known how well you're doing on the most limited resources in the league, and hope that it has some positive impact. If it doesn't? Move on. 

I think JDT will regret that he didn't get us into the playoffs in his best season. He may even regret that he didn't become more vocal sooner than he did. But I very much doubt that he regrets that he eventually lost all patience with our leadership. 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

2 minutes ago, Eddie said:

We've had a few managers fight it from the inside. None of that has worked. Don't get me wrong, I know it is complicated and it is very easy to tell someone else to do something that may cost them their job and potentially hurt their reputation slightly (although I doubt that bit).

But he is now basically singing from the club's hymn sheet again. He's very on message and there are calls for signings, but mitigations and excuses thrown in with each of those requests. 

Have a bit of backbone. He's doing good job on the pitch, if he can't stick up for himself now, then he never will. This is a manager that we are supposedly worried about being poached by top half Championship clubs and Premier League options, so why not call the club out for not signing players, make it nationally known how well you're doing on the most limited resources in the league, and hope that it has some positive impact. If it doesn't? Move on. 

I think JDT will regret that he didn't get us into the playoffs in his best season. He may even regret that he didn't become more vocal sooner than he did. But I very much doubt that he regrets that he eventually lost all patience with our leadership. 

Eddie whilst your entitled to your own opinion I think the vast majority are in the side of JE 

you saying he’s complicit in all of this is quite frankly ludicrous 

[Rover1984]

25 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

He/she has been reliable so fingers crossed.

First to Forshaw news. Hopefully he’s right this time

[Ricceh]

Oh god imagine if it's Bamford