Prowler 197 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 RB is clearly a priority considering we tried to sign Juanfran and are currently in negotiations with another :P Link to post Share on other sites
maddrenswillie 7 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 when are the real Madrid second string coming? Just after the Croatian wonderkids ;-) Link to post Share on other sites
borobaz 147 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Just saw Rhys Williams trending on Twitter... ... it's just the Welsh 400m Hurdles star banned for a doping offence :D and breathe... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ayresome Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I don't think any player we sign at this time in the club's history is a risk, in all honesty. Maybe we don't personally know about them too much but, as has been mentioned on here before, Gibbo will have dossiers the width of Hattie Jacques before he allows us to snap someone up. (Topical celebrity reference there...) Also, AK clearly isn't a ducker & diver/Strachan. He has a way of doing things and he'll no doubt take into account personality, training commitment and match ability before signing anyone. Vossen IS a risk if based purely on YouTube videos and Wikipedia. Boyd, McManus and Thompson weren't risks. I quite like that he's not just going for the names that are known to most of us. How in-depth must his research, scouting and targetting be if he isn't just bringing in people from Youtube/less than a full tank of petrol away. Mogga didn't have the luxury of the budget AK does; Strachan was purely lazy with it. I'd take a researched risk over a familiar "certainty" any day of any week. (Preferably a day and week not too far away though. This waiting is making me fidgety.) Link to post Share on other sites
Air Resistance 26 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Maybe Karanka wants to play 3 at the back and therefore wouldn't need a RB or a LB as a priority? Omeruo, Woodgate, Ayala, Gibson, Williams can all play CB My ideal team would be a 3-1-4-2 Omeruo, Gibson and Ayala Leadbitter Adomah, Clayton, Butterfield, Tomlin Vossen, Kike Defensively that team would get annilhalted. If we played wing backs it could look at bit more like.... Omeruo Ayala Gibson Albert leadbitter whitehead friend Butters Kike tomlin Link to post Share on other sites
ExiledSmoggy 5 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 From AV's blog... **AV writes: Talks are going on. We keep getting told “its really close,” and it that has been going on for a week now and you can understand people getting twitchy, but then, it was the same with Kike and people were starting to slag me off for making it up, saying we knew nothing and there was no imaginary foreign striker on the verge of signing. These things really do take time. Every clause needs to be translated and checked with lawyers back home. There is haggling over price, structure, payment methods, currency, rate of exchange, schools for kids, flights home for the wife, all kinds of things. Then the player has to go back to his club and unravel the contract there, wrangle over any bonuses due, maybe a buyout clause. Nothing is simple these days. The days of a 10 minute chat with the boss and a handshake are long gone. Link to post Share on other sites
ManBearPig 1,853 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 RB is clearly a priority considering we tried to sign Juanfran and are currently in negotiations with another :P Good job it's dinner time *takes out humble pie* Link to post Share on other sites
Prowler 197 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Maybe Karanka wants to play 3 at the back and therefore wouldn't need a RB or a LB as a priority? Omeruo, Woodgate, Ayala, Gibson, Williams can all play CB My ideal team would be a 3-1-4-2 Omeruo, Gibson and Ayala Leadbitter Adomah, Clayton, Butterfield, Tomlin Vossen, Kike Defensively that team would get annilhalted. If we played wing backs it could look at bit more like.... Omeruo Ayala Gibson Albert leadbitter whitehead friend Butters Kike tomlin STOP IT :@ Link to post Share on other sites
borobaz 147 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 From AV's blog... **AV writes: Talks are going on. We keep getting told “its really close,” and it that has been going on for a week now and you can understand people getting twitchy, but then, it was the same with Kike and people were starting to slag me off for making it up, saying we knew nothing and there was no imaginary foreign striker on the verge of signing. These things really do take time. Every clause needs to be translated and checked with lawyers back home. There is haggling over price, structure, payment methods, currency, rate of exchange, schools for kids, flights home for the wife, all kinds of things. Then the player has to go back to his club and unravel the contract there, wrangle over any bonuses due, maybe a buyout clause. Nothing is simple these days. The days of a 10 minute chat with the boss and a handshake are long gone. I can understand things aren't quite as simple as in Football Manager :D But it makes you wonder about these rushed deadline day deals that come out of the blue... Link to post Share on other sites
LukeR 44 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 From AV's blog... **AV writes: Talks are going on. We keep getting told “its really close,” and it that has been going on for a week now and you can understand people getting twitchy, but then, it was the same with Kike and people were starting to slag me off for making it up, saying we knew nothing and there was no imaginary foreign striker on the verge of signing. These things really do take time. Every clause needs to be translated and checked with lawyers back home. There is haggling over price, structure, payment methods, currency, rate of exchange, schools for kids, flights home for the wife, all kinds of things. Then the player has to go back to his club and unravel the contract there, wrangle over any bonuses due, maybe a buyout clause. Nothing is simple these days. The days of a 10 minute chat with the boss and a handshake are long gone. From this, it's pretty clear we're looking at a foreign player... I can understand things aren't quite as simple as in Football Manager :D But it makes you wonder about these rushed deadline day deals that come out of the blue... That's called "panicking and throwing money at a problem to make it go away" :P Link to post Share on other sites
Uwe 3,545 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 From AV's blog... **AV writes: Talks are going on. We keep getting told “its really close,” and it that has been going on for a week now and you can understand people getting twitchy, but then, it was the same with Kike and people were starting to slag me off for making it up, saying we knew nothing and there was no imaginary foreign striker on the verge of signing. These things really do take time. Every clause needs to be translated and checked with lawyers back home. There is haggling over price, structure, payment methods, currency, rate of exchange, schools for kids, flights home for the wife, all kinds of things. Then the player has to go back to his club and unravel the contract there, wrangle over any bonuses due, maybe a buyout clause. Nothing is simple these days. The days of a 10 minute chat with the boss and a handshake are long gone. From this, it's pretty clear we're looking at a foreign player... I can understand things aren't quite as simple as in Football Manager :D But it makes you wonder about these rushed deadline day deals that come out of the blue... That's called "panicking and throwing money at a problem to make it go away" :P you've just quoted the whole QPR (Harry Redknapp) buisness plan there :D Link to post Share on other sites
Trugdish 31 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Did Juanfran actually turn us down? Not heard anything about his move to italy yet Link to post Share on other sites
robbieboro 80 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I think they just moved on from him and accepted defeat in the chase . Link to post Share on other sites
Prowler 197 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 He said he didn't want to move here for fear of being homesick. Teesside is a massive change from Seville, after all :P Link to post Share on other sites
Kier 6 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I'm expecting Bamford to be announced after August 1st Link to post Share on other sites
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