January Transfer Window, 25/26 Season

[basher]

That's it... I'M DONE!!

 

[From Distant Shores]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1993660451872448727

He may be one-dimensional but if he can trap the ball further then Munesti and Wang, he'll go straight into the first team squad if he were ever to get a work permit.

On the topic of trappting the ball, in the game aganst Palace, I thought I saw Strand-Larsen layoff a ball just inside their half to a Palace player not far from our box. I could have been wrong, perhaps he has been working on trapping the ball in training.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I want to know why we choose to operate on a £0 net spend strategy (which I get but don't agree with) but have also spent £20m on Nasser Djiga, Bastien Meupiyou and Enso Gonzalez in the last two years (one league start between them, and one has already been chucked for free).

It's gross negligence at very least.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

It’s an obsession with trying to unearth hidden gems whilst at the same time having a skeleton recruitment team. Recruitment is always a minefield but we’ve flip flopped between using Mendes and relying on Hobbs, a man who offered Doherty a three year contract during a round of golf. The surprise isn’t that we’ve finally reaped the consequences but that it’s taken so long. Lop’s one January window kicked the can down the road for a couple of seasons.

 

[Haggstone]

That was a good window tbh. Lemina and Dawson both came in and made a big difference straightaway, Cunha took longer to settle but we still had enough in the squad to survive comfortably in the end. That should have been the wake up call resulting in a change of approach but not with our CEO. We have been circling the drain ever since, probably lasting as long as we have only because we had a nucleus of premier league quality players in the squad left over from the Nuno era and the immediate replacements that followed.

I genuinely think this squad will be bottom half championship. I’m putting the tree up this weekend and we still haven’t won a game. It’s a bloody catastrophe and nothing we will do in January is fixing this.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Lopetegui also took over from a complete chancer and a League Two fill-in, both of whom had the squad massively underperforming relative to the quality that was already there. That was no way a relegation squad when we kicked off the season, but we did 100% have a relegation manager.

I couldn't claim that Vitor was doing a good job or that he didn't deserve to be sacked but I do question if anyone could do that much better with what we've got (with the caveat that we're led to believe that he personally wanted most/all of these dud signings from summer 2025, so if so, that element is on him to an extent).

 

[Alan]

I can’t believe it I thought he was gonna be the one

I'll remember this when we sell him to PSG for £150m in 5 years

 

[Lycan]

I'll remember this when we sell him to PSG for £150m in 5 years

XuBin Neves the saviour

 

[Alan]

XuBi[n] Alonso

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Christ.

Its like watching people dragging one another down in quicksand.

I don't know what you mean!
Anyway my final offer for Gomes is 23 million!
Go on then.... We'll include a meal + drinks voucher on the train to Piccadilly, call it 18 Million...

 

[big mean bunny]

I couldn't claim that Vitor was doing a good job or that he didn't deserve to be sacked but I do question if anyone could do that much better with what we've got (with the caveat that we're led to believe that he personally wanted most/all of these dud signings from summer 2025, so if so, that element is on him to an extent).

The thing that holds me off being too critical is are they the targets he specifically picked, or the targets he ended up picking as were within budget and constraints?

It does seem we went cheaper relative to some of the initial names and people who it seemed didnt want to sign.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

There was a Spurs fan on 606 saying their problems are linked to a bloated squad of sub standard players bought in the hope of getting a bargain. We are not alone! Obviously Spurs are shopping in a different market but they have different expectations. The truth is that generally in life you get what you pay for and whilst there will always be exceptions they are exactly that. Quite incredibly our exceptions lately have been players that are actually worth considerably less than the fees we’ve paid for them.

 

[prawnking]

The thing that holds me off being too critical is are they the targets he specifically picked, or the targets he ended up picking as were within budget and constraints?

It does seem we went cheaper relative to some of the initial names and people who it seemed didnt want to sign.

Wolfe and Tolu were on his List FFS.

His mate was DOF and it was bandied about that this meant a larger say in football matters for Vitor than gimps like Lage and GON had.

No club gets all it's first choice signings, the key is to make sure that your second and third choices aren't catastrophic drop-offs.

How have his other mooted first choice signings done elsewhere? Pubill and Uche haven't exactly pulled up any trees, can't remember who he wanted for LWB?

 

[prawnking]

Quite incredibly our exceptions lately have been players that are actually worth considerably less than the fees we’ve paid for them.

We hardly splashed out fees-wise in the summer though; we replaced our key departed WBs with bargain basement £10m dross and then wonder why Hoever and Hugo get in the team before them

 

[Tredman]

Wolfe and Tolu were on his List FFS.

His mate was DOF and it was bandied about that this meant a larger say in football matters for Vitor than gimps like Lage and GON had.

No club gets all it's first choice signings, the key is to make sure that your second and third choices aren't catastrophic drop-offs.

How have his other mooted first choice signings done elsewhere? Pubill and Uche haven't exactly pulled up any trees, can't remember who he wanted for LWB?

Compared to Munetsi and Jackson those two are ballon d'or contenders.

 

[AndyWolves]

This is why we need a DoF with a bit of football knowledge and not the managers mate.

Brooks, Wilson and kwp wouldn't have set the world on fire but they wouldn't have been awful.

 

[Lycan]

This is why we need a DoF with a bit of football knowledge and not the managers mate.

Brooks, Wilson and kwp wouldn't have set the world on fire but they wouldn't have been awful.

It's obviously been a disaster but moving away from Hobbs in the summer was the right decision. Appointing his assistant 4 months later doesn't fill me with much hope for the future. Hopefully Jackson is at least less of an embarrassment than 'Hobbsy'.

 

[Derby Wolf]

He might not stomp down to the tunnel to remonstrate with the officials but I wouldn't bet on it Eddo has already referred to him as Jacko.

It's these sickly nicknames for me. I get you can't rule with an iron fist but there's no professionalism, same with O'Neil. I defy anyone to tell me that the delay in sacking O'Neil wasn't in part because they were all bezzy mates behind the scenes and an already over promoted charlatan couldn't bring himself to sack him.

 

[Loki]

He named JSL as Jorgy in his last press chat.

 

[prawnking]

'Lazy' or 'Mardy' would be more appropriate