January Transfer Window, 25/26 Season

[Paddingtonwolf]

Another damning indictment of the summer window

 

[leedswolf]

Lets say that they serve Yorkshire Gold in the Premier League and in The Championship they serve Lidl's own brand..

Yorkshire Gold is piss...

 

[Jinky]

Odd that Arias started to look ok in the midfield three, then got dropped. I don’t think he’s part of RE’s plans and I don’t think he’d stick around in the championship anyway, so if a bid comes in where we actually make a bit of money on him (albeit only £2.5m profit I think?) then we have to take it, really. Plus Angel will be ahead of him now as well.

There definitely seems a focus on freeing up space for more homegrown talent to come in.

 

[Wolftone]

Arias? Midfield?
25 apps. 1 goal 0 Assists.
Don't remember him ever making a tackle or winning the ball.

 

[Kenny]

Don't remember him ever making a tackle

He gave away a penalty, so there is 1

Jhon was the most exciting signing of the summer, even the SA experts were convinced he would be a star for us.
Guess a combination of settling into a new country, league, a disaster of a campaign and no real rest just means we will only ever have seen him at his "meh" level.

Take the money and run.

 

[Jinky]

He definitely had something about him. I thought he looked at his best picking the ball up deeper and then breaking forward. He was very good against Shrewsbury! ()

All in all, though - a massive let down. As you say, Stu, he came with a big rep and the ITK’s who watched him in Brazil said it was a real coup. Complete failure on that front. Great business getting our money back!

 

[basher]

I don't really give a shit what Tim Vickery had to say on Arias, on the evidence of my own eyes he has been total garbage.

 

[Loki]

At least he can add "played in the Premier league" to his C.V.

 

[Mel Evo]

There definitely seems a focus on freeing up space for more homegrown talent to come in.

Surely getting rid of foreign players frees up space for foreign players if we’re analysing beyond the general freeing up og space overall.

Clearly there is a focus on looking at homegrown players. Many will be happy with that. It’s not a good or bad thing per se to me, there seems no correlation between quality and commitment and place of birth to me. My own emotion is that I’m more sad than happy about seeing potentially exciting foreign players fail while journeymen Brits come in. It’s all about the coaching to me, an I’m wary of a team being built that’s easy to work with rather than a strategy of employing such a good coach that he can drive excellence from a diverse playing squad. But I accept we are where we are, and obviously there’s no harm in losing the version of Arias that we got to see.

 

[Langers]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2018963349523021993

Time to break out the 'Summer Window 2025' gif:

 

[White Wolf]

€25m would be making a profit on him which would be amazing if so. I'd get rid even if we only break even - he's absolutely rubbish, not good at anything. Every time I see him live I'm impressed by how little strengths he actually has. No real position that works for him either.

 

[Langers]

TBH I'd have taken a loss on him. He's rubbish.

 

[NicholasG1973]

Absolute gash, agreed.

 

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019006377512099856

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

A salutory lesson - never invest on the back of tournament performance.

 

[Kenny]

A salutory lesson - never invest on the back of tournament performance.

We were in for him before that though.

 

[Alan]

Damning indictment how badly we mishandled him.

 

[Kenny]

Damning indictment how badly we mishandled him.

Its a mix of everything, rather than all on ourside.

It hasn't worked out and hopefully we have a quick fix to it rather than it dragging on and costing us money

 

[Alan]

Its a mix of everything, rather than all on ourside.

It hasn't worked out and hopefully we have a quick fix to it rather than it dragging on and costing us money

True, but I always feel bad seeing good players misused. He won’t be the last, of course (and that’s transfers, innit; sometimes it’s a bad fit for any number of reasons).

 

[Kenny]

True, but I always feel bad seeing good players misused. He won’t be the last, of course (and that’s transfers, innit).

Its been the perfect storm for a transfer to fail. As witnessed by our whole summers dealings being a bit shit.

It hasn't worked out, he will go home and impress again and we will just remember him as a shit player.