Old Codger 3,064 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 If it's McNair, think it would be less of an impact than Saville...and corners might arrive in right place occasionally 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BoroJake 2,345 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I quite like saville. Definitely more potential to be good for us than mcnair in my opinion 5 Link to post Share on other sites
DanFromDownSouth 1,706 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, DevKWat said: Tav - Williams - Howson that’s the midfield 3 sorted if we can get it over the line 🤞🏼 With Saville, McNair and Wing in reserve. Malley and Liddle to provide emergency cover too potentially. *before outgoings. But I can see McNair leaving. Edited August 19, 2020 by DanFromDownSouth Link to post Share on other sites
DurhamRed 2,047 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Now Brentford have bought Goode he will turn out to be class. I can't believe we didn't agree £1 million pound when are desperate for a CB. Yet may be forking out X amount of millions to give Gibson a 2nd chance in football! Link to post Share on other sites
SzilardNemethsCurtains 2,844 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, DurhamRed said: Now Brentford have bought Goode he will turn out to be class. I can't believe we didn't agree £1 million pound when are desperate for a CB. Yet may be forking out X amount of millions to give Gibson a 2nd chance in football! its in excess of a million with add ons, a fee that could rise to 15 George Friend's Link to post Share on other sites
DurhamRed 2,047 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, SzilardNemethsCurtains said: its in excess of a million with add ons, a fee that could rise to 15 George Friend's This club should not be being outbid by Brentford FC how far we have fallen my days 3 Link to post Share on other sites
ManBearPig 1,853 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 In the grand scheme of things, it’s a gamble on Goode with that figure. If it comes off, he’s another bargain buy. But if it doesn’t pan out, he becomes another Dijksteele, where you question the fee paid for a low league player. I’d personally have given them their price due to needing a CB to come in, but if Gibson is coming back then it doesn’t make sense to spend money on a league 2 player who will play second fiddle. Especially when we need to get bodies in elsewhere. I’ll be happy we didn’t up our offer for Goode if we get Gibson back AND reinvest that money in areas we actually need addressing. I was gutted we didn’t get him, but after thinking it through, it’s not as bad as it seems in my opinion. Link to post Share on other sites
mendieta420 1,008 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 16 minutes ago, DevKWat said: Tav - Williams - Howson that’s the midfield 3 sorted if we can get it over the line 🤞🏼 When has Warnock shown any interested in using Tav in midfield? And when has he played well there? Link to post Share on other sites
Old Codger 3,064 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 8 minutes ago, DurhamRed said: Now Brentford have bought Goode he will turn out to be class. I can't believe we didn't agree £1 million pound when are desperate for a CB. Yet may be forking out X amount of millions to give Gibson a 2nd chance in football! might happen...might not...I remember people saying that we should have tried harder to sign McEachran when he signed for Brentford..but he never really moved on and hasn't made much of an impression at Birmingham....in a years time, Goode might be getting loaned out to a League One club....or somewhere even more obscure like Lindelof and Maguire....more important things to fret about than that...and if not signing him saves the job of someone else on a lot less pay ...I am glad 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DanFromDownSouth 1,706 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, mendieta420 said: When has Warnock shown any interested in using Tav in midfield? And when has he played well there? He'd played Tav centrally against Sheffield Wednesday didn't he? In that game Tavernier looked our best player by a country mile. Link to post Share on other sites
SzilardNemethsCurtains 2,844 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, DurhamRed said: This club should not be being outbid by Brentford FC how far we have fallen my days So we should just pay whatever the selling club wants? Also I really dont get the attitude that we are somehow superior to Brentford, they finished 3rd in the league last year and will be selling Watkins and maybe Benrahma for millions. They are one of the favourites to go up too 1 Link to post Share on other sites
J.T. 640 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 1 hour ago, GrimsbyBoro said: If Ben Gibson wasn't one of our own would people still be happy us chasing a footballer for several transfer windows even though he hasn't played football in nearly two years. Yes! Okay he hasn’t played much football over the last 2 season. But there’s not a hope in hells chance that any other player of his stature (touted to be an English international just 2 years ago and played for England at all youth levels), who would be welcomed by pretty much every club in the Championship, and is only 27 years old, would ever actively pursue a move to us had it not been for the fact that he is from Middlesbrough and supports the club. There’s absolutely zero chance that we would currently be able attract a player of his quality otherwise. 5 Link to post Share on other sites
Tobermory 101 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Smogzilla said: Aye that's right. I really like Folarin in particular. Has mega pace and seems to have good positional awareness and intelligence. Is there anywhere on the MFC website or elsewhere to see how many games he has played for the U23s with goals and assists? I've been on but I can't see anything obvious. Link to post Share on other sites
Smogzilla 7,484 Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 Just now, Tobermory Whitby said: Is there anywhere on the MFC website or elsewhere to see how many games he has played for the U23s with goals and assists? I've been on but I can't see anything obvious. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-middlesbrough-u21/startseite/verein/9256 Transfermarkt is the place to go for that stuff. Its youth football sections are pretty good 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Barnaby 957 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 1 hour ago, wilsoncgp said: True but we're also pretty short in terms of our squad at the moment. It's not like we just need players for the first team right now, in some positions we do just need players, like the wide positions where we're either gonna be putting players out of position or relying on kids, Browne aside. Hall and Fry are our only first team centre backs without relying on Wood (who should probably be going out on loan) and Stubbs. There's still time to go but like I said, we all thought the same during the Pulis days, he'll sign someone so we'll be okay. Then he packed our team full of centre mids as they were the only ones who wanted to be here. I'd rather use "Kids" than put our cub in jeopardy again....I think some of them will surprise us Link to post Share on other sites
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