Jamie-H 1,322 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 A window where we've chased a specific trio of targets, in hopes of signing 2/3, to lose out on them on the 29th of January to Mainz, Las Palmas and West Ham is not a good look. Here's the problem with it'll all be fine don't worry, we ended the summer being at least one short in winger/no10 and now we're ending january in the same position except our main playmakers had his head turned and how committed to a relegation fight will he be now knowing he probably has a relegation release clause that LCFC can activate in the summer. The end isn't nigh but it's closer than it was a few weeks ago on the bright side Gestede and Bamford should be very capable in the Championship for us if the worst happens so not a totally incompetent window by us. Link to post Share on other sites
Alves car salesman 152 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Yarmolenko being offered round by legitimate people at a lower price than before. Wages still big. But it's causing interest. He's a player Link to post Share on other sites
edinboro 815 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Imagine the mood on here if we don't make anymore signings, lose Ramirez and lose to West Brom on Tuesday. Justifiably worried and disheartened. We seem to be going backwards tactically and in form. Even yesterday other than Downing and Fabio was flat Link to post Share on other sites
Lurker 2,118 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 The biggest worry with it all is at different times we thought we had all 3. (I don't mean all 3 would sign) Snodgrass is understandable as Hull wouldn't let him go but the Bojan one is a worry. I really hope it wasn't because we prioritised others and it's meant that we've missed out on him Link to post Share on other sites
"KM" 1,656 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Tallentire can sugarcoat it however he likes, this is turning into a disaster of a transfer window. Link to post Share on other sites
Downsouth 6,327 Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 Just heard from VB and he has advised me that Boro were "confident" of signing Jese so I could well imagine that there will be a downbeat mood all over the place if latest developments prove correct. He will let me know about the "unexpected" as he is going to ask about him. NOT A WIND UP Link to post Share on other sites
J.T. 640 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I felt we needed two attacking midfielders/wingers in addition to Ramirez at the start of the window. It's now a strong possibility that we could get none and lose Ramirez. This is starting to turn into a disaster. New tactic... play 8 at the back, Traore in front of them and Negredo up top. Don't concede and hope Traore can beat their whole team, get tackled by the last man and hope it drops to Negredo to finish. In all seriousness we could be left with these attacking midfield options: Fischer - don't want to write him off but what I've seen of him so far is very very poor in my opinion. Downing - all, but a performance against a poor league two side, has been very average. Stuani - bags the odd goal but there is more creativity in my grans big toe. Traore - I really like him and he has bags of potential but we will be relying on a player who, to date, has yet to contribute with a goal or assist. Very worrying! Let's just pray we have something else lined up. Link to post Share on other sites
Snowblind 1,734 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Bojan quite understandably didn't want to sign a permanent deal until we were guaranteed Premier League football next season, so wanted an initial loan. Stoke wouldn't loan him out to a fellow Premier League club. Link to post Share on other sites
Tudders80 674 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Stoke have said that they refused to sell/loan bojan to a pl club according to ssn. So again absolutely nothing the club could do about that one. Guessing we were hoping that no one else would come in and their hand would be forced on deadline day. If we knew this I have no doubt there was a plan b and c in case the worst happened Link to post Share on other sites
MikeyBoro 374 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Boro were seriously in (Watford also considered) but Stoke demanded £12m+ and refused to loan to PL clubs. No clause for permanent deal. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Boards Of Teesside Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 This Window has been a complete mess. Wrong areas improved (if improved is the right word), players being ostracised for seemingly no reason, and now our key targets appearing to tell us to do one. Not a great image for the club at all. Then to top it all off, rumours of unrest behind the scenes. I bloody hope we get this amazing name VB has been talking about, otherwise to quote Mick Mccarthy a few weeks ago in his post match presser "we'll be up a very muddy stream without a paddle" Link to post Share on other sites
Snowblind 1,734 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 This Window has been a complete mess. Wrong areas improved (if improved is the right word), players being ostracised for seemingly no reason, and now our key targets appearing to tell us to do one. Not a great image for the club at all. Then to top it all off, rumours of unrest behind the scenes. I bloody hope we get this amazing name VB has been talking about, otherwise to quote Mick Mccarthy a few weeks ago in his post match presser "we'll be up a very muddy stream without a paddle" Snodgrass - Hull refused to sell him to us as we're fellow relegation candidates. Jese - Only ever wanted to go to Las Palmas, but there's still a ray of opportunity there. Bojan - See my above post. Not a single element of this is the clubs fault. There's still time, wait and see what happens over the coming days. Link to post Share on other sites
BillyWoofs_shinpad 1,884 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Bojan quite understandably didn't want to sign a permanent deal until we were guaranteed Premier League football next season, so wanted an initial loan. Stoke wouldn't loan him out to a fellow Premier League club. That makes perfect sense, hopefully we'll hang on to Ramirez. It's not been a great window. But how many teams sign more than a couple of players in January? We've spent £12m, which is a lot for us. Yes we are in danger of being relegated, but we've known that would be the case since we gained promotion last season. We aren't going to spend our way to safety, we are going to have to play our way to safety. If at the end of the season we fail, we'll re-think, re-group and start again. At the risk of being called a retard again ...I still genuinely think that we can stay up with our current squad and manager. UTB Link to post Share on other sites
akadave 2 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Got to wonder how far down the target list we've gone! Brady from Norwich? is it our list, or the gazettes list? was jesse the only true target and the others newspaper conjecture? Link to post Share on other sites
Arskite 75 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I'm hoping VB's "expect the unexpected" is Martial on loan for the rest of the season. :D Link to post Share on other sites
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