[Albion] Knockaert joins Fulham on initial one-year loan

[Hugo Rune]

Sessegnon is a southpaw.

Well that theory is blown out of the water then although it was a touch far fetched!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Who cares? His name's not Brian, so .............................................

Indeed. Accuracy, what NSC so often lacks.

 

[kevo]

That wasn't my question.

What was your question? It's a parody account but everything in that tweet is true. How can 'free-scoring' Brighton offload one of our best attackers with more assists than Zaha, Dele Ali, etc. It's ridiculous.

You're the one being dumb.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

You would rather keep March As a winger he’s shite.

You must be the fella who sits about 5 rows behind me in the North stand.
Constantly spouting shite about March.

Absolute blinkered nonsense every time he's on the ball.

I take it you will be surprised if March starts a game under Potter, because we will have better options for Potterball?

 

[BrickTamland]

Wouldn’t surprise me if we go for wing backs for large parts of the season. Bernardo on the left, then either Montoya or March on the right. In fact I believe March has the attributes and discipline to make a fantastic wingback. Were this the case, we wouldn’t need as many wingers. Both AJ and Trossard look more suited to playing through the middle in a more fluid ACM role than AK.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

One of the many glorious memories was 1 hour before the playoff semi 2nd leg.

We knew it was going to be a tough ask. 2 down and the first team decimated with injuries.
Knocky clearly wouldn't play as he was carried off the pitch a few days earlier.

Then the team news came out.
Knocky starts!! How the ****! What a lift for us, what a shock for massive!

The whole ground roared out we've got Knockaert for what seemed like ages.
That started building the best atmosphere ever at the Amex.

And he was immense in that first half.
Wednesday, il prepared and scared to death by him.

God knows how many injections he had, just to make it onto the pitch that day.

And if that free kick had gone in, we might have made it through.

Saw a photo of his ankle after the game... it was a horrible mess of evil looking bruises..

Hero.
Legend

 

[blue-shifted]

Those players, Are they male?

Trossard isn’t unproven
And all reports say
Dunk isn’t going anywhere
We intend to make more signings
We’ve been linked with multiple expensive players you have heard of, of which some aren’t foreign and aren’t headed for the u23s.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

The club has proved time and again that money is not their motivator, so that leaves only that either Knocky wanted to go or the club wanted him out.

Thanks for the memories.

It's possible that after yet another winger gets signed, with other more obvious gaps around the squad, that Knocky thought "fair enough, you clearly don't rate me, I've done evererything I can. Time to move on"

in many ways I hope that was the scenario and the club have not stood in his way.

He deserves to leave on his terms IMO.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Two things will stand out for me.

The Palace goal last term and

 

[blue-shifted]

Straw clutching here, but that would at least make sense

And why wouldn't they be announced at the same time? Are we relying on some sort of gentleman's agreement from Fulham to carry out a deal they say they'll carry out?

 

[chaileyjem]

Those players, Are they male?

Lots of teams to strengthen this summer ...

 

[Gritt23]

So his value is now nothing? From Championship player of the year whom Newcastle allegedly were willing to pay 18 million for three years ago, to a player that we have to send out on loan with an option to buy at the end of the season. Maybe the undisclosed fee is massive if Fulham get promoted

Or maybe they don't take up the option to buy if they go up, as he's done the job they brought him in for.

 

[chaileyjem]

What was your question? It's a parody account but everything in that tweet is true. How can 'free-scoring' Brighton offload one of our best attackers with more assists than Zaha, Dele Ali, etc. It's ridiculous.

You're the one being dumb.

Solly March had the same assists as AK last season.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

More than a bit gutted reading the news about this, this morning. Really thought AK would be one to benefit from the more attacking style we are supposed to be playing.
Really disappointing

 

[Nixonator]

There are almost THREE WEEKS left in this transfer window-what do you think happens at this time of year?

You know we're in trouble when people start rounding up the time left in the window, rather than rounding down.

 

[blue-shifted]

1) Why would Potter do this? Knocky is, (was) at the very least our 2nd best wide man. Almost certainly our best. At the very least, you'd want him to come off the bench if we're 1-0 down with 20 mins left
2) The thought that we might be still be paying some of his wages had occurred to me as well. If we're paying a penny, it surely ranks as the worst deal in our history
3) Well, lets get those "other irons" in first, then think about who we can let go. That's what all the other clubs do
4) Well we can tell them, A) have you seen the competition in our squad? You'll probably get it. B) You signed a 4 year deal
5) Managed decline. What a great strategy. What about another strategy, whereby we try to stay up be keeping hold of our best players

Maybe.....
1) Potter made it clear he won't figure regularly in his plans
2) Fulham have agreed to pay ALL his wages on loan. They have been trying to get him for a long time.
3) We have other ' irons in the fire ' and needed to free up his wages.
4) The player + agent made it clear that they would prefer regular football.
5) We want to keep options open in case of relegation. A year on, it might make more sense to bring back AK and release certain other players.

Beyond this...I can't think of any other reasons.

 

[blue-shifted]

Well said sir

One of the many glorious memories was 1 hour before the playoff semi 2nd leg.

We knew it was going to be a tough ask. 2 down and the first team decimated with injuries.
Knocky clearly wouldn't play as he was carried off the pitch a few days earlier.

Then the team news came out.
Knocky starts!! How the ****! What a lift for us, what a shock for massive!

The whole ground roared out we've got Knockaert for what seemed like ages.
That started building the best atmosphere ever at the Amex.

And he was immense in that first half.
Wednesday, il prepared and scared to death by him.

God knows how many injections he had, just to make it onto the pitch that day.

And if that free kick had gone in, we might have made it through.

Saw a photo of his ankle after the game... it was a horrible mess of evil looking bruises..

Hero.
Legend

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

You know we're in trouble when people start rounding up the time left in the window, rather than rounding down.

At 5am this morning it became closer to TWO weeks than THREE weeks.

 

[blue-shifted]

And I wouldn’t argue with you for a minute, that we’ve certainly strengthened the women’s team, the u23s and the u18s

Lots of teams to strengthen this summer ...

 

[Horses Arse]

Maybe we want one of their players?

The Knocky Deal means that this other transfer now goes through?

I really hope there's something in that. Massive leap of faith to believe that's the case though.

This latest development has me absolutely flabergasted