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  1. Apparently Stoke have bid for Berahino while Crouch have also extended his contract. End of the line for Bojan?

     

    It's beyond me why they are still after Berahino, he's ***.

     

    Nor me, he is everything I despise in footballers, had one good season which makes him think he is better than he is, does nothing since and is paid millions!

  2. Nice to finally Nugent on our side, the git always scores against us.

     

    We seem to be getting some decent talent of you guys, wouldn't mind giving us Negredo as well? lol

     

    You have got a bargain there with Nugent, a steal at 2 million, and he will do well for you. Watched your lot beat WBA on Saturday at the Hawthorns and you deserved it, best player on the pitch, De Sart, look after him for us please.

     

    I'm happy with our dealings, we needed a striker like Nugent to partner Vydra so we have a good plan b right there imo. De Sart was awesome in the first half, faded a little 2nd half but its to be expected on his first start. 2m is a good deal, esp when we spent 3m on blackman lol....

     

    We have, apparently, Downing, Rhodes, Ayala, Nsue, De Pena, as well, any offers, have a word with Maclaren for me☺

  3. Nice to finally Nugent on our side, the git always scores against us.

     

    We seem to be getting some decent talent of you guys, wouldn't mind giving us Negredo as well? lol

     

    You have got a bargain there with Nugent, a steal at 2 million, and he will do well for you. Watched your lot beat WBA on Saturday at the Hawthorns and you deserved it, best player on the pitch, De Sart, look after him for us please.

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    Not at all. Why hamper ourselves deliberately just to stop another team getting someone our manager doesn't deem good enough for our team. I knows it's a tough question but it's a valid scenario to consider.

    If we are shipping a player out who AK doesn't think fits the club and he goes to a direct rival but we improve our first team options then surely that's a risk worth taking?! Or we sit there do nothing and don't improve and still be involved in a relegation scrap....

     

    Exactly this! Transfers happen all the time for a number if reasons and often a player will go on to do well at another club and even enjoy more success. This doesn't make the transfer bad business if that player works better in the managers system.

     

    Look at Forshaw who was struggling to get a game for Wigan and is now thriving here in a system that works for him.

     

    To be honest I think Forshaw was playing better at the start of the season when we were playing 4231 and he was one of the two. With us playing 433 now he usually has one less player in front of him and the movement is 'quite' static. This causes him to do the 'Forshaw spin' that's become quite common these days before passing  it off sideways or behind him. Earlier in the season he was receiving it on the half turn and was able to pass it to a more advanced player more easily. You can still see he looks for it but the options are more limited with how we play the 433. Just my two cents anyway.

     

    Yep I agree. I still like having Forshaw there because his first instinct is to look up the field. Unfortunately the way we play doesn't allow him to do that as often as he'd like and as such he ends up going sideways and backwards.

     

    At least he looks to go forwards first, show's he's still trying to make things happen when he can.

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    I have been puzzled why Forshaw seems to have changed his game lately and this pretty much answers it, loud applause for Curtis please.

  5. Went to watch West Brom yesterday, (my second team by reason of geography, it is an easy train ride), and I think I saw the future of our midfield. Julian De Sart was excellent, he sat in front of the Derby defence, broke up attacks and played the simple ball forwards. Quite frankly in the first half he was the best player on the pitch, he faded as the second half went on due probably to a lack of match fitness and the Baggies 'going route one', but still managed to hold onto the ball when it was cleared by the Derby defence. Obviously one performance does not make him a PL regular, but on the basis of that he is as good as anything we currently have as the holding mid-fielder and he really should be playing for us to-day. Hopefully Maclaren will give him game time and he can come back to replace Leadbitter as it will be a crying shame if he is not allowed to develop. Oh and for anyone who is interested, forget the bluster by Pulis, Derby deserved to win.

  6. Perhaps this is a cunning plan by Gibson. Negrado is off back to Valencia early, Gestde replaces him in the system and we save £70k a week in wages. We could also then use Rhodes as an impact sub in tandem with his old Blackburn mate. This is tongue in cheek by the way so no pelters please.

  7. This is what I think will happen with Gestede.  He's not as good as Negredo so he won't get any game time.  He'll work really hard in training, be really popular with the lads and the coaching staff but he won't get a single minute of game time no matter what.  Then right before the Liverpool game, with safety already assured, Karanka will be asked if he'll play him but he'll initially refuse.  However, one by one all of the players will go to Karanka's office, hand over their shirt and say they want Gestede to play in their place.  Karanka will see the effect that Gestede has had on the group and will have learned a valuable lesson about the value of heart, determination and a never give up attitude.  Then the hard hearted get will drop all of the players who came to his office and transfer list Gestede.  The end.

     

    ha Ha, Love it :D

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    Mate, you're whinging more than KM this window, what's up with you!? Give the lad a chance, for goodness sake.

     

    Sorry to sound so negative but I really am struggling to understand this signing, a player who has only really had 2 good seasons in his whole career, which were in the championship, cant even get in a midtable championship side, plus at his age there will be little resale value. 6 million is a pretty big fee for a player with his record

     

    desperate for goals and this signing wont help us

     

    And how would not signing him and keeping it the same help?

     

    Well we could save 6 million quid, plus wages, for a start, to spend elsewhere. Just a thought  :rolleyes:

     

    When we sell Rhodes we will have £11m plus more wages to spend else where :)

     

    Should the 'when' not be an 'if' though, there are not many teams in the Championship who can afford £40k, (?), a week in wages. If that is the case at the end of this window and Rhodes is still bench warming, (and clearly he will not get a game under Karanka), then what a monumental waste of money and resources. Personally I have no thoughts either way on Gestede, not excited but not a bad target man in the air, if that is what we want. I just hope that the real problem areas of the team are addressed rather than just add another centre forward to a squad where two of them, (costing £17 million between them), cannot get a game.

  9. Guess where you end up when you sign championship players....

     

    Mate, you're whinging more than KM this window, what's up with you!? Give the lad a chance, for goodness sake.

     

    Sorry to sound so negative but I really am struggling to understand this signing, a player who has only really had 2 good seasons in his whole career, which were in the championship, cant even get in a midtable championship side, plus at his age there will be little resale value. 6 million is a pretty big fee for a player with his record

     

    desperate for goals and this signing wont help us

     

    And how would not signing him and keeping it the same help?

     

    Well we could save 6 million quid, plus wages, for a start, to spend elsewhere. Just a thought :rolleyes:

  10. I cannot get my head around this 'Gibson signing'' or 'Karanka signing' thing, surely there must be a level of discussion between all parties before astronomical amounts of money like the Rhodes fee and wages are splashed out. If I bought an employee a new car and he refused to drive it because he, either did not have a say in it or wanted a different one, and then he spat his dummy out and refused to drive it, then he would very quickly become an ex employee. Conversely we have a squad of nearly 30 full time professionals and nearly a third of them have not had a game this season, were a lot of those signings therefore ones that Karanka had no say in, makes you wonder, but surely not, top class football cannot be that petty and vindictive. Do our ex players never write 'tell all' books as I would love to know what goes on behind the scenes in our club.

  11. Because our mindset in games is not to lose, rather than to believe that we are a better team and look to gain three points. this now seems to pervade into every game we play, be it Burnley away or Man U away, or indeed against Leicester. Although today we had more possession in the second half we still did not commit players forward into the box and edge of the area and try to win the match, we were once again happy with a point, as per AK,s post match comments.

     

    I must be remembering wrongly, didn't De Roon and Forshaw both miss very good chances in the box? How did they get them if we weren't committing men into the box?

     

    The thing I like about you Will, is that when you come back at me it is at least based upon sensible facts rather than bluster, as in some cases. I concede the Forshaw one but confess that I cannot remember De Roon. My point was that for the whole of the first half and large parts of the second we were content to play with one man in the box and with the three midfielders not pushing up, leaving Negrado with a dogs chance. If our memories of this match are at a divergence then, if I remember rightly, the Sky pundits quoted that we have had less shots and less shots on target than any other team in this division, that does not sound like a team going out to win games.

  12. Because our mindset in games is not to lose, rather than to believe that we are a better team and look to gain three points. this now seems to pervade into every game we play, be it Burnley away or Man U away, or indeed against Leicester. Although today we had more possession in the second half we still did not commit players forward into the box and edge of the area and try to win the match, we were once again happy with a point, as per AK,s post match comments.

  13. Remember last season, where people kept screaming for Adam Forshaw to be brought on to add a bit of creativity to our attacking play, which on a side note was also poor even in the championship?

     

    What on earth has happened to him? Karanka has made him in to a spindle.

     

    Like a robot going: "Must not create chances (out of fear to lose the ball)... must stand on the ball, spin around and pass it backwards... beeeep

     

    I agree with you SmogDane, he has just gone into his,(defensive), shell and is not even looking to play balls forward, and we are now relying on DeRoon to move forward, which he patently is not used to doing. The worrying part is, even if we buy in the transfer window, will it make any difference if the new players are then instructed to play to the same tactical format.

  14. Get to the games, support the boys rather than sniping on an Internet forum!

     

    Armchair fans, where we you on the cold away days to Posh, Charlton..

     

    Usually in the *** end of nowhere, unable to afford to get to them because of lack of affordable transport and having a family that comes first I guess. Now either get off your high horse or kill yourself. Either would be great.

     

    Prowler, I dont care how tongue in cheek its meant mate, thats going abit too far.

    Also Alves, you have absolutely no idea how many games over how many years people here have attended so stop acting like a knob.

     

    Well, I'm not close enough to kill him myself.

     

    Im gunna pretend I didnt laugh at this

     

    I cannot pretend. That is really funny :) :)

  15. [quote='SmogDane' pid='516518'

    But our players MUST run more without the ball.. We have no one to pass to!

     

    Agreed that was frustrating. The amount of times the players pass the ball then stop... fluidity of movement is needed. Think we seriously need someone in the back room staff with an attackers mentanlity showing them wtf to do.

     

    Good points these, when you think back our midfield do their job, win the ball, pass it, and their first movement is to check the oppositions players and cover them instead of looking for space to move forward into. It just has to a mentality thing coming from the coaches, which is fine if there are other attacking options, but when the whole of your midfield do it then you end up with stalemate. Forshaw is a prime example at the moment he seems to have lost all forward momentum.

  16. This insipid and frustrating brand of football AK insists on is not going to win us many friends, nor points it seems.

     

    Home team creating one shot on target and only one real chance of winning a very boring game says it all, does not matter who we bring in if there is no flexibility in the way we play then we at going to struggle for the remainder of the season.

     

    At least SG looked totally miffed off with what we were all watching

     

    I fail to see how you can dig into Karanka after this game. 

     

    Alright, put effing Rhodes in - and what? Seriously, what? Leicester played with 9 men behind the ball, and we're no Man Utd. 

     

    As I said in a previous post, we were dominant because we didn't have that second striker. This isn't Football Manager. You take that extra CM out, we're bound to lose pressure as we won't win as many second balls. 

     

    I didn't find our 2nd half boring to watch. What do you seriously want? More crosses? Short passes in midfield? Traore can't dribble without us all calling "No end product". I seriously fail to see how Karanka is at fault here.

     

    Exactly. Putting Rhodes on would have been pointless. Huth would simply have just put him into his back pocket and we might have lost control of that midfield that allowed us to snap up every lose ball. We pinned Leicester back for the last 20 mins put lacked an attacking midfielder with a bit of skill to play alongside Ramirez. Sadly we could only put Downing on who doesn't offer much when the opposing team sits so deep with 8-9 men.

     

    Surely the point is that if Rhodes, had come on, then that gives Huth and Morgan someone else to worry about, as it was, they had Negrado in their pockets and as you say we do not have the attacking midfielder as an alternative. Bringing on another defensive midfielder just underlines our lack of intent to win a match instead of making sure we do not lose.

  17. We were slightly better in the second half and that is it really, straws clutched at! So which is it, are some of the players just not good enough at this level or is it all down to tactics and a lack of ambition.

     

    For what its worth I think its a bit of both.

     

    I think some of our players just aren't PL quality and some of our more recent signings are still adjusting.

     

    Thing is, Boro have limited financial resources, so Karanka isn't going to be able to buy his way out of trouble.

     

    That leaves changing the team's style of play to a system that plays more to their strengths.

     

    Defensively I think we're pretty sound, but our midfield and forward lineup needs to be geared to help our most potent attackers and get the ball to them in areas where they can really do damage.

     

    Seems clear to me that Negredo on his own up front is struggling...so AK has to make some changes to improve the service he gets.

     

    Good point we are chipping away, quick back to back games to be considered with an outstanding performances against  M. United and let us not forget  Leicester were champions so all said and done we have done well collectively. I believe A.K has a solid plan and will not be swayed by the blind bigots.

     

    4 points from 18 and awful performances against Burnley and Southampton and yet you think we have done well, sorry I must be a bigot, or you need to take the blinkers off.

  18. My first new years wish, please let Traore have a blinder and score a couple it would do mountains for his confidence. The lad has most things, physique, speed, ball control etc but just lacks the football brain to know what to do at the vital moment. We have to start putting some points in the bag now as it is looking like a five horse handicap for the drop and unless things change in the January window I cannot see us getting more than the 18 points we got in the first half of the season. The good news is I think that there are three worst teams than us , just look at the goal difference at this stage of the season and it is usually a pretty good decider as to who is heading for the trapdoor.

  19. Happy New Year Friendly LCFC, what was it like being every neutral fans favourite team last season, a hell of an achievement. I think the 'morning after' anti climax got to your team this season, coupled with competing in the Champions League, but you surely have enough good players at your disposal to climb out of trouble, probably when you exit the CL and give your full attention to it. It should be a good game between us and it will be interesting to see what teams both managers put out, at our end there must be some bruised and battered defenders out there after the heroics at Old Trafford I think we might just edge you on this one, but it is going to be a tight affair I think.

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