andy78
Striker
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Could have just called me a sad bastard like, it would have been easier.
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If Mr O'Neill thinks he's good enough, he's good enough, end of debate
If Mr O'Neill thinks he's good enough, he's good enough, end of debate
Struggling to think of a better player in the prem to get on the end of the quality crosses we have from either wing now.
This would be an example of trying to be cheap actually costing you more.
£1.5m for a 35 year old has been as a cheap option, plus an 18 month contract that will cost £2-3m.
So probably about £4m all in for a short term fix of a signing that we would need to replace basically straight away.
If it is truly more expensive to buy in January, we'd be better off putting some of that £4m towards paying the 'January premium' for a longer term solution, who would also be a better player, eg Barios.
Or failing that, just give the lads we already have a chance and review the situation in the summer.
Why do we have to sign a Premiership player?
Struggling to think of a better player in the prem to get on the end of the quality crosses we have from either wing now.
Not true at all. O'Neill is a fantastic manager, there's no doubt about that but he has received a lot of criticism over his signings in the past.
This one doesn't get the pulse racing, in fact, it's an odd one.
As has Ferguson, Wenger, and Mourinho.
With it being mid season the likelihood of getting something meaningful in the short term from a signing is greatly increased by shopping domestically. Foreign signings made in January tend to take until at least the following season before showing their true ability. Sess is the most obvious example.
As has Ferguson, Wenger, and Mourinho.
You're just looking for excuses.
Sessegnon played very well last season. The problem was the players around him were performing poorly. Bruce didn't know how to stop the rot and we had no strikers when Gyan and Welbeck broke down.
There's no reason a capable foreign player can't hit the ground running. They're just as more likely to do a job and burst onto the scene than Davies is. Everyone knows him in the league and from his showings this season he looks finished.
You're just looking for excuses.
Sessegnon played very well last season. The problem was the players around him were performing poorly. Bruce didn't know how to stop the rot and we had no strikers when Gyan and Welbeck broke down.
There's no reason a capable foreign player can't hit the ground running. They're just as more likely to do a job and burst onto the scene than Davies is. Everyone knows him in the league and from his showings this season he looks finished.
No they haven't. They've received criticism, but not a lot.
O'Neill tends to sign players from the UK. He rarely goes shopping aborad. He signs foreign players but usually after they've already made the transition to the UK.
I'm unsure what I make of that. He likes British players, he seems a bit old skool in that respect.
No. It's fairly well accepted that foreign lads coming in mid season take some time to settle. Evra and Vidic are two more examples. And the difference between Sess last season and this is as clear as day.
Yes they have. Take Ferguson, for example. How highly do you think people rate his record in the transfer market on keepers, having signed Taibi, Bosnich, and De Gea? Or when he signed Poborsky and Cruyff in the same summer? Or how we laughed when he spent millions on David Bellion? Or when he signed Eric Djemba Djemba as Roy Keane's replacement? Or when he spent millions on Kleberson or Bebe?
See the points I made. Sessegnon was our best player to the end of last season.
He didn't spend millions on Bellion. Of course having a career as long as Ferguson, he's going to make some poor signings but his good signings far outweigh the bad.
The difference is, Ferguson has a bigger budget than O'Neill. Therefore if O'Neill makes a poor signing it's more difficult to contend with.
We'll have to wait and see, I'm just hoping this Davies rumour is a load of shite and O'Neill ends up bringing in some class.
He didn't spend millions on Bellion. .
I could've told MON before he signed Harewood, Curtis Davis or Reo-Coker that those would not be good signings.
See the points I made. Sessegnon was our best player to the end of last season.
Lanchesterredandwhite said:Ferguson did spend millions on Bellion. Every SAFC fan at the time was laughing at it, and were proved right.
And O'Neill's not had a short career so by the same token there will be transfer errors. For some reason some people (including some of our own fans who didnt want him) have unfairly latched onto his record in the transfer market.
But for every Curtis Davies there is an Ashley Young, a Stewart Downing, or a James Milner. Or when it comes to forwards who everyone has written off, when he signed Tony Cottee from some backwater in Turkey and he was superb for Leicester.
Personally, I reckon he will quite enjoy demonstrating what he did at Wycombe and Leicester in getting extraordinary results with limited resources.
1.5 yes please.
1hardcoresuperstar1 said:no no no
If he can't get in the Bolton side he shouldn't be near are 1st team
Is rather take a chance n sign Rhodes or eccleston