I'm sure there is a B,C,D,E etc. Some of these may have already been and gone as price/wages were out of our reach. I think it is fairly clear that Nunez was our A target though and, I agree, think we were pretty confident of getting him. Given how it appears transfers work, I'm sure we've been...
Think you're right about him. In a few years time, I imagine we could well be talking about how we nearly got him (like we do today about Van Dijk). He was the perfect signing for us I think.
Although I have complete confidence that something big is going to be announced, on the off chance that there is no announcement at 5pm, will you at least then let us know what it was that you heard? So we can have an announcement from you at least, if not the club...
I wouldn’t worry about lack of rumours. The club are trying to bring a striker in. They also however constantly plan for every single position (including the manager’s role) in case they need to bring in replacements. Who know If the Martínez rumours are true but it wouldn’t surprise me if he...
First time I’ve seen us linked with Origi (Turkish journo with 70k followers). I’d have thought he was pretty much exactly the sort of striker we’d be looking for...
https://twitter.com/ekremkonur/status/1304875010289475589?s=21
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8719723/Adam-Lallana-fresh-start-battling-ulcerative-collitis-love-Mauricio-Pochettino.html
Nice article on Lallana.
Hope you're right as I also think that he could be a decent player for us if he's played in the right position and gets a run of games. However, I didn't take the same thing from the answer - to me, it sounded like GP was desperately trying to think of attacking players to name so that it didn't...
Haha! So true. At the end of any of these, I always think :
Did I learn anything new from it? No
Is that an hour of my life well spent? No
Did they confirm a striker coming in over the next 24 hours? No
Will I tune in next time? Of course I will...
Blimey - the reaction of some people on here...
He could and is likely to be a fantastic player in the future. It is a great signing for the club.
Just because we've signed him, I don't think it means we have given up on signing a first-team striker.
It's one thing to loan him (which I think is exactly the right thing to do as long as we get another forward in) but the option to buy seems very odd to me... Why give anyone an option? If he does well, they'll get him for far less than they would in the open market and if he does badly, they...
Very surprised about that... Think he could end up being very good and, given how we've not exactly found it easy to recruit centre forwards, I would have thought it would have been better to keep him as an option for the future.
Am sure it’s nonsense - however the only thing that gives it any sort of credibility is that, with Duffy going, we have lost a huge physical presence at the back for when we need it. Whilst we are going to have a great footballing back 3 or 5, I do worry about our ability to defend set pieces...
https://twitter.com/reonboeringa/status/1301601235817115649?s=21
Looks like this is indeed still happening (he’s just not being loaned to Utrecht...)
From Dutch journo on twitter...
In addition to Pawel Bochniewicz, SC Heerenveen is going to get another central defender: Jan Paul van Hecke...