WBA Transfer Window: (Summer 2015) Starting early..

tidy · 21-01-2015, 13:13

(21-01-2015, 12:59)Foxman_WBA Wrote: What I find crazy is that no-one thinks any of the players bought in have any prospect of development! Does anyone remember Billy Jones when he first joined, talk about useless! But he was allowed to develop and ended up one of our better players in the end.

Gamboa, Davidson etc are still quite young and could turn into good players.

To get rid of all the newbie’s plus some squad players, it’s going to cost us a fortune to replace them all! If you think on average an average player these days will cost you 5 mil, and assuming we will need 1 LB, 1 RB, 1 LW, 1 RW and 2ST’s, we will need 30mil and that’s just to stay the same not really improve the squad!

Crazy!

This is ALL of our own making as well... Doh

... Appointing 'wrong' people at various levels at the club and not doing proper homework on potential signings.

Somehow we have managed to go from a well run club with a blueprint others followed, to a complete mess in less than 2 years.

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(21-01-2015, 13:13)tidy Wrote:
(21-01-2015, 12:59)Foxman_WBA Wrote: What I find crazy is that no-one thinks any of the players bought in have any prospect of development! Does anyone remember Billy Jones when he first joined, talk about useless! But he was allowed to develop and ended up one of our better players in the end.

Gamboa, Davidson etc are still quite young and could turn into good players.

To get rid of all the newbie’s plus some squad players, it’s going to cost us a fortune to replace them all! If you think on average an average player these days will cost you 5 mil, and assuming we will need 1 LB, 1 RB, 1 LW, 1 RW and 2ST’s, we will need 30mil and that’s just to stay the same not really improve the squad!

Crazy!

This is ALL of our own making as well... ... Appointing 'wrong' people at various levels at the club and not doing proper homework on potential signings.

Somehow we have managed to go from a well run club with a blueprint others followed, to a complete mess in less than 2 years.

Suspect its a three word answer to how we achieved this....no Dan Ashworth. Many of us thought he was a huge loss; now appears bigger than huge. Should have kidnapped him when he visited the academy recently.

tidy · 21-01-2015, 14:01

(21-01-2015, 11:32)Stairs Wrote: Forest Winger, French Striker and ex Chelsea midfielder - We have been linked with as many players this January as we normally are in the summer!

According to SSN, WBA are either preparing or have placed a bid for Mikhail Antonio.

Thats the Forest player.

WBA_KRIS_12 · (This post was last modified: 21-01-2015, 14:14 by WBA_KRIS_12.)

I'd have Antonio and Lennon on either flank

Essien for experience.

Would also go and sign Podolski in the summer.

Joel Campbell i'd also add to that list.

wba_1996 · 21-01-2015, 15:54

Really hope we go in for Antonio, Forest fans rate him as their star player - exactly the type of winger Pulis likes: fast, strong, direct and with a very good goalscoring record. With them under a transfer embargo and in desperate need of balancing the books I would love to see us test the waters with a £10m double raid on Antonio and Assombalonga.

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 21-01-2015, 16:09

A chance to make Forest fans cry again? Ah, why not Laugh

drewks · 21-01-2015, 16:29

(21-01-2015, 15:54)wba_1996 Wrote: Really hope we go in for Antonio, Forest fans rate him as their star player - exactly the type of winger Pulis likes: fast, strong, direct and with a very good goalscoring record. With them under a transfer embargo and in desperate need of balancing the books I would love to see us test the waters with a £10m double raid on Antonio and Assombalonga.

Awh come on 1996 - you MUST have made that last name up, surely?? Confused

wba_1996 · 21-01-2015, 16:42

(21-01-2015, 16:29)drewks Wrote:
(21-01-2015, 15:54)wba_1996 Wrote: Really hope we go in for Antonio, Forest fans rate him as their star player - exactly the type of winger Pulis likes: fast, strong, direct and with a very good goalscoring record. With them under a transfer embargo and in desperate need of balancing the books I would love to see us test the waters with a £10m double raid on Antonio and Assombalonga.

Awh come on 1996 - you MUST have made that last name up, surely??

Haha, he is only 22, bought from Peterborough by Forest for £5m rising to £8m, think he is mates with Mulumbu but is in the process of switching allegiance from DR Congo to England. If TP wants another striker he could do worse than look at this guy:

Here is Antonio as well, very good in the air for a winger:

aries22 · (This post was last modified: 21-01-2015, 16:55 by aries22.)

If five or six really good players cost us £30 million, that's fine by me. That's about half a season's TV money for players who could last us four or five seasons. That's the sort of investment I like.

Tidy, I don't think we are a complete mess. Jeremy Peace made a questionable appointment in Pepe Mel then didn't back him or give him enough time, then he appointed proven failure Alan Irvine. But JP saw the error of his ways in time, we're still in the Premier League and I reckon we'll stay up and finish mid-table. We have made a spot-on appointment in Tony Pulis, the old coaches and the UK and Europe heads of recruitment have gone, some average-looking players will be transferred out and hopefully replaced by much better ones, and I believe we have turned a massive corner but there's still work to do. If you want to see what a complete mess looks like, have a look at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Birmingham City.

wba_1996 · (This post was last modified: 21-01-2015, 17:00 by wba_1996.)

(21-01-2015, 16:46)aries22 Wrote: If five or six really good players cost us £30 million, that's fine by me. That's about half a season's TV money for players who could last us four or five seasons. That's the sort of investment I like.

Plus the potential resale value if promising players such as McManaman, Antonio etc. break into the England squad.

Not targeting these sorts of players and going for loans and past-it players like Anelka and Lugano is the reason why we have fallen behind the likes of Southampton and Swansea from a position of relative strength.