January Transfer window

[rob_of_the_rovers]

Dolan over Brewster for me. Younger, more prolific and less injury prone.

[islander200]

3 minutes ago, FE123 said:

Would take Brewster on the right deal. Clearly a player there, bear in mind a large number of those 95 appearances will have been while Sheff U were a premier league club. 
 

Theres potentially 100’s of reasons its not worked for him at Sheffield United, we’d certainly be sick if he signed for someone else and started banging them in.

 

Can anyone name me (aside from probably Adam Armstrong) who these proven championship goal scorers are? I can’t think of another who scores regularly at this level. Let alone the cost in January a player who scored regularly at this level. A forward with experience of scoring goals at this level is not going to happen.

If the club had any ambition they would go to Leicester City and offer them more money than Stoke City are paying for Cannon. 

Stoke are going nowhere so Cannon could very well be tempted to join a club with a chance of at least making the playoffs 

[Emerald Isle Rover]

14 minutes ago, islander200 said:

If the club had any ambition they would go to Leicester City and offer them more money than Stoke City are paying for Cannon. 

Stoke are going nowhere so Cannon could very well be tempted to join a club with a chance of at least making the playoffs 

I’m not sure that’s realistic to be honest

would be very bad faith between the clubs. If cannon wasn’t playing or wasn’t scoring or it simply wasn’t working out it would possibly make sense

But I don’t see why Leicester would take the risk in making the fella who’s playing regularly and performing well doing exactly set out in a loan deal move to another club

ps id love that to be a realistic option I think cannon would be perfect for us but I just don’t think it’s very realistic at all

if anything the only way he moves from Stoke if he is sold permanently and we simply couldn’t afford him 

[RevidgeBlue]

38 minutes ago, ... said:

I don't look into stuff that deep tbh mate I just saw it and linked it . What's your reliable source of information?

I wasn't criticising. Just pointing out most Internet stories are rewrites of another one.

I haven't got one ....about from this m/b!

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20 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

I wasn't criticising. Just pointing out most Internet stories are rewrites of another one.

I haven't got one ....about from this m/b!

No I know. Just a minefield of rumours reports etc there's no reliable timeline to follow 

[B16Rover]

This is a totally bonkers statement to make at this level of football but between Gueye, Hedges and Dolan leading our line we could do with a professional footballer who can strike a football cleanly 

[bluebruce]

53 minutes ago, islander200 said:

If the club had any ambition they would go to Leicester City and offer them more money than Stoke City are paying for Cannon. 

Stoke are going nowhere so Cannon could very well be tempted to join a club with a chance of at least making the playoffs 

Rumours are Sheff W and Luton are trying to do that.

I don't see him switching loan clubs, only either staying at Stoke or moving permanently, which would be out of our budget. We should have got him on loan in the summer.

[BankEnd Rover]

11 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

This is a totally bonkers statement to make at this level of football but between Gueye, Hedges and Dolan leading our line we could do with a professional footballer who can strike a football cleanly 

No word of a lie, none of them start for any other team in this league- Simply not good enough.

Edited 22 hours ago by BankEnd Rover

[Hasta]

8 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

No word of a lie, none of them start for any other team in this league- Simply not good enough.

Actually this league is littered with Hedges and Dolan. They are bang average championship fayre. 

Edited 22 hours ago by Hasta

[islander200]

46 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I’m not sure that’s realistic to be honest

would be very bad faith between the clubs. If cannon wasn’t playing or wasn’t scoring or it simply wasn’t working out it would possibly make sense

But I don’t see why Leicester would take the risk in making the fella who’s playing regularly and performing well doing exactly set out in a loan deal move to another club

ps id love that to be a realistic option I think cannon would be perfect for us but I just don’t think it’s very realistic at all

if anything the only way he moves from Stoke if he is sold permanently and we simply couldn’t afford him 

Offer them a loan to buy if promotion happens.Leicester won't Care if Stoke are unhappy.There season is going nowhere.

He is going to be sold in the summer by Leicester anyway 

[islander200]

11 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

No word of a lie, none of them start for any other team in this league- Simply not good enough.

Dolan does start for  some other championship clubs .

Dolan started plenty of matches when we finished 8th in the league,Hedges and Dolan started plenty of matches when we finished 7th in the league. Hedges and Dolan have started plenty of games this season when we are 7th in the league

 

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, BankEnd Rover said:

In the box I'd have him, probably, over any player we have. But anything else, he's very very poor. 

It's strange he's never been (as far as I can remember) tried as a striker. His all round game is poor but I bet he'd be a decent poacher.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

8 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Offer them a loan to buy if promotion happens.Leicester won't Care if Stoke are unhappy.There season is going nowhere.

He is going to be sold in the summer by Leicester anyway 

I just checked out of curiosity and it looks like sheff wed and Luton are both looking at a permanent move in Jan 

[islander200]

2 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I just checked out of curiosity and it looks like sheff wed and Luton are both looking at a permanent move in Jan 

Nixon wrote about it on Sunday 

It wasn't a story about Luton and Sheffield Wednesday buying him outright,  it was to offer Leicester more money to take over the loan deal.

How would Sheffield Wednesday have the £6+ million to take him permanently?Luton do most likely have that money,  but no evidence to say they are willing to spend that sort of money?They could have done in the summer 

[bluebruce]

6 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I just checked out of curiosity and it looks like sheff wed and Luton are both looking at a permanent move in Jan 

From what I read it sounded like loans. Just that they'd have to stump up more money (loan fee, maybe wage contribution) for Leicester to see it as worthwhile.

Leicester apparently want 7 million for him. I could see Luton doing that with their parachute money, they're not going back up but they should have the funds and that's probably a decent deal for a 22 year old with a nearly 1 in 2 goals record at this level. Likely get their money back or with profit in a few years if they want. Luton seem to do things on the cheap though, even when they went up. I doubt Sheff W have that much spare cash.

We should do, but of course we don't. I'd be trying to offer what Islander said, a loan with a guaranteed purchase if we go up.

Edited 22 hours ago by bluebruce

[BankEnd Rover]

10 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

It's strange he's never been (as far as I can remember) tried as a striker. His all round game is poor but I bet he'd be a decent poacher.

Yeah, my comment is abit harsh on Dolan but he's not a winger that's for sure. His ability to beat a man is more or less non existent and when given space in front his ground coverage is poor.

 

[roversfan99]

24 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Dolan does start for  some other championship clubs .

Dolan started plenty of matches when we finished 8th in the league,Hedges and Dolan started plenty of matches when we finished 7th in the league. Hedges and Dolan have started plenty of games this season when we are 7th in the league

 

To be fair, Jason Lowe was our captain when we finished 8th/9th. Gueye has played plenty this season. Not saying either Hedges or Dolan are on par.

[BlackburnEnd75]

1 hour ago, FE123 said:

Would take Brewster on the right deal. Clearly a player there, bear in mind a large number of those 95 appearances will have been while Sheff U were a premier league club. 
 

Theres potentially 100’s of reasons its not worked for him at Sheffield United, we’d certainly be sick if he signed for someone else and started banging them in.

 

Can anyone name me (aside from probably Adam Armstrong) who these proven championship goal scorers are? I can’t think of another who scores regularly at this level. Let alone the cost in January a player who scored regularly at this level. A forward with experience of scoring goals at this level is not going to happen.

His record is poor but i remember him scoring a good goal for Swansea at Ewood when he was on loan and thought he looked a player. 

Would have to be the right sort of terms though. Maybe a gamble on wages with a small transfer fee with some add ons if he does well. 

[islander200]

8 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

To be fair, Jason Lowe was our captain when we finished 8th/9th. Gueye has played plenty this season. Not saying either Hedges or Dolan are on par.

Hedges at this point fair enough but if Dolan doesn't sign a new contract here he will have offers in the championship and he would be starting for some clubs 

I'm obviously not saying both are brilliant but the championship is littered with players of equal or less ability .

 

[bluebruce]

17 minutes ago, BankEnd Rover said:

Yeah, my comment is abit harsh on Dolan but he's not a winger that's for sure. His ability to beat a man is more or less non existent and when given space in front his ground coverage is poor.

 

Dolan? I thought we were talking about Siggy.

[Emerald Isle Rover]

30 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Nixon wrote about it on Sunday 

It wasn't a story about Luton and Sheffield Wednesday buying him outright,  it was to offer Leicester more money to take over the loan deal.

How would Sheffield Wednesday have the £6+ million to take him permanently?Luton do most likely have that money,  but no evidence to say they are willing to spend that sort of money?They could have done in the summer 

I think the main point that I am making is that rovers aren’t in the same league financially for those interested in his services (plenty of interest I’d suggest)

solid Leicester was going to the highest bidder you best believe that rules us out 

[BankEnd Rover]

5 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Dolan? I thought we were talking about Siggy.

My bad.

[islander200]

20 minutes ago, Emerald Isle Rover said:

I think the main point that I am making is that rovers aren’t in the same league financially for those interested in his services (plenty of interest I’d suggest)

solid Leicester was going to the highest bidder you best believe that rules us out 

Why aren't we in the same league financially as Sheffield Wednesday?Surely Stoke can't pay a permanent transfer fee without getting into bother with ffp with all the money they have spent and no big sales?

I know we won't be in for him but we should be.We have plenty of room with Ffp have made a transfer profit of 35+ million over the last 2 seasons .

What is stopping us from offering more money than Stoke are now and agreeing to pay the money Leicester want if we get promoted. The thing stopping us is our useless owners and their lack of ambition.

It wasn't so long ago they paid out a similar fee on Brereton who barely made a start in his first 12 months. 

P.S the club would have us believe that the owners signed off on a similar deal when they agreed to O' Brien only coming here and that was before bringing in millions from player sales

 

Edited 21 hours ago by islander200

[Tom]

1 hour ago, BankEnd Rover said:

No word of a lie, none of them start for any other team in this league- Simply not good enough.

I think there is some word of a lie there personally - I think all 3 would get games in a lot of clubs. 
 

There’s no chance we are 7th in the league regularly starting 3 players that nobody else would play.

Hell we probably said that about Amari’i Bell at one point then he was a mainstay in a promoted team, we always think ours are worse (or better depending on viewpoint) due to confirmation bias 

[Ossydave]

15 minutes ago, islander200 said:

Why aren't we in the same league financially as Sheffield Wednesday?

 

That cunt Suhail holding the purse strings for one?