[Albion] 2025 January Transfer Window OPEN - incoming/outgoing

[junior]

I think people are being a bit blinkered when talking about Lamptey. Apart from him finding form conveniently in the last week or so, he's been poor or injured for what seems like years now. I'd be interested to see what his 'days out injured' stats are.

It's no suprise with his contract coming to an end he's managing to find a bit of form and score a goal, but we'll never see that old TL from a few seasons ago again I fear. If he were to sign a new contract, I'll put money on him being out injured again within a few weeks.

Sentiment aside, I'd much rather we let him go at the end of the season, have Offiah as his replacement/succession plan, and us Tariq's wages better elsewhere on the pitch than sat on the treatment table.

If he was to accept a new 1 year contract, I'd not be against that, just to see if he could stay injury free. But I suspect he wouldn't accept that and would rather take a new 3 year contract with another club somewhere.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I think £60 million would do it for Tony.

I know it's a gamble, but given what he's currently doing and his age, he could be the best prospect we've ever had. I'm not even sure £60M would do it

 

[Han Solo]

NSC currently has 391,790 threads.

My guess is that about four or five of those stayed on topic throughout.

Yup... not sure how off topic I went either when talking about our striker situation in a transfer thread... I'd say there are at least 2 or 3 times when I've ventured further away from the subject

A list of rumours and transfers without much talk in between is quite useful to have, like in the first post, but in the thread of course the current squad will also be mentioned as it plays some role in what we're bringing in. Well, unless they are goalkeepers or wingers of course, never gonna have enough of those.

Could see us signing a maximum of two first team players in January and 90% sure they will be defenders in that case. Not so sexy maybe, but something we need more than strikers atm.

 

[pigmanovich]

Sentiment aside, I'd much rather we let him go at the end of the season, have Offiah as his replacement/succession plan, and us Tariq's wages better elsewhere on the pitch than sat on the treatment table.

Just flagged this in the loanee tracker thread but Offiah's contract appears to expire in May

 

[Seagull58]

I know it's a gamble, but given what he's currently doing and his age, he could be the best prospect we've ever had. I'm not even sure £60M would do it

Well, Levy has a stratospheric reputation for throwing money around in massive quantities for any player that catches his eye*. I've no doubt he will find the take-out number pretty soon

*this may not be 100% accurate

 

[Han Solo]

Just flagged this in the loanee tracker thread but Offiah's contract appears to expire in May

Would be cruel bringing the player back to sit on the bench or the stands for us AGAIN now when he's finally making a name for himself.

He's 22 years old and needs to play first team football and despite his good performances at Blackpool he is VERY unlikely to play for us again.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Just flagged this in the loanee tracker thread but Offiah's contract appears to expire in May

From what I’ve seen Offiah isn’t the long term internal answer anyway. At a real stretch Tasker might be but not for a while. He’ll need more U21 football or a loan. If Tariq goes we’ll almost certainly see a ready made (ish) replacement purchased or the RB role alternate between Veltman and Ferdi.

 

[pigmanovich]

From what I’ve seen Offiah isn’t the long term answer anyway. At a real stretch Tasker might be but not for a while. He’ll need more U21 football or a loan. If Tariq goes we’ll almost certainly see a ready made (ish) replacement purchased or the RB role alternate between Veltman and Ferdi.

I'd rather we recruit a new RB externally too but it would be a shame if Offiah left on a free.

 

[Han Solo]

From what I’ve seen Offiah isn’t the long term internal answer anyway. At a real stretch Tasker might be but not for a while. He’ll need more U21 football or a loan. If Tariq goes we’ll almost certainly see a ready made (ish) replacement purchased or the RB role alternate between Veltman and Ferdi.

Exactly... like Michael Kayode. Parma involved now as well but I know who I'd pick out of Parma, Brentford and Brighton...

I'd rather we recruit a new RB externally too but it would be a shame if Offiah left on a free.

My guess it that we have an optional year for Offiah and that the plan for him this season was to be good in League One so we can use the option and sell him to a Championship club.

 

[Zeberdi]

Yup... not sure how off topic I went either when talking about our striker situation in a transfer thread... I'd say there are at least 2 or 3 times when I've ventured further away from the subject

A list of rumours and transfers without much talk in between is quite useful to have, like in the first post, but in the thread of course the current squad will also be mentioned as it plays some role in what we're bringing in. Well, unless they are goalkeepers or wingers of course, never gonna have enough of those.

Could see us signing a maximum of two first team players in January and 90% sure they will be defenders in that case. Not so sexy maybe, but something we need more than strikers atm.

It wasn’t just you, it was me too. I was just suggesting we BOTH save OUR deeper discussion for another thread!

It’s all good.

I do think we might look at the USG forward I mentioned earlier in the thread though

 

[Hiheidi]

 

[Bozza]

I do think we might look at the USG forward I mentioned earlier in the thread though

There are already articles saying that we are...

[Albion] - Franjo Ivanovic

21-year-old Croatian forward with Union Saint-Gilloise, who we are now allowed to do business with again. https://www.voetbalnieuws.be/news/813882/union-sg-dreigt-ivanovic-al-snel-kwijt-te-spelen

www.northstandchat.com

 

[Han Solo]

Makes sense due to his contract situation I guess.

More likely than not to get sold I would imagine. I'd put a fiver on West Ham or Marseille.

 

[Titanic]

Life is too short to read this ridiculously long thread. Has anything happened yet?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Life is too short to read this ridiculously long thread. Has anything happened yet?

Not a dickie bird. Teenage sex syndrome, lots of talk absolutely no action

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It has been nearly 48 hours and NOBODY

PBOBE and his puppet master OUT.

Scouting staff OUT (oh they are already - no wonder).

 

[Hiheidi]

"West Ham have contacted Brighton about a potential loan move for striker Evan Ferguson, talkSPORT understands.​

Arsenal are also plotting a move, along with Fulham who are also interested."

 

[pigmanovich]

"West Ham have contacted Brighton about a potential loan move for striker Evan Ferguson, talkSPORT understands.​

Arsenal are also plotting a move, along with Fulham who are also interested."

The Fulham and Arsenal interest is laughable

 

[The Fits]

"West Ham have contacted Brighton about a potential loan move for striker Evan Ferguson, talkSPORT understands.​

Arsenal are also plotting a move, along with Fulham who are also interested."

Good enough for West Ham, Fulham AND Arsenal but not us.
Crazy times. I would be amazed if we loaned him to a rival.

 

[BluesRockDJ]

Good enough for West Ham, Fulham AND Arsenal but not us.
Crazy times. I would be amazed if we loaned him to a rival.

He's "injured?"