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I know Tony likes Rudy but I can definitely see this happening if we get an extra forward in. It might be a case of him OR Fletcher to go out, though.

 

Hopefully the appeal of Rudy is negating by Hugill who seems to be able to hold up the ball better than Gestede anyway

 

Exactly

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Last summer our recruitment was just... very messy, whoever greenlit Monk signing Fletcher when we already had 4 strikers and had no wingers since we'd cashed out on all the previous summers signings except Adama essentially that person shouldn't have a say around the club at all anymore for me. People forget Monk spent most of August chasing Ryan Kent and Sheyi Ojo on loan he was a strange guy to put in charge of rebuilding a relegated club we should have kept the reigns on him but we ended up panicking late on for a winger just like the August before with Adama except instead of an ex Barcelona youngster with raw potential we picked up League 1 Marvin. We went for good solid Championship players mixed in with Braithwaite and Fletcher wasn't a bad strategy it was more the execution but realistically since we got promoted vs Brighton we are well into the green on transfers there's no excuses for us not to go up now we have a better squad than we got promoted with.

 

You don't hire Tony Pulis on his kind of salary if you don't expect to spend money I don't buy the idea the club's cutting back I do buy the idea though that to get Bolasie was to replace Braithwaite which was proactive thinking but I don't buy we had no intention of spending Pulis wanted 6 in around deadline day I'm guessing he'll end up with 4 of them he'll be missing the Ritchie target if we take Puncheon as coming into the Bolasie spot I'm just saying for Boro to only be 1 first team position short at the end of a window... I've seen worse windows from us.

 

We really shouldn't sign lots of players for the same position when there are glaring weaknesses elsewhere.  Let's just be thankful this no longer happens here  :)

 

Last summer was the summer of the striker, this summer was the summer of the midfielder I guess next summer will be the summer of the winger we're recruiting according to the Chinese calendar next year's the year of the pig aka flying pigs aka wings aka wingers. :)

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Our primary targets this summer were Bolasie and Ritchie who would cost 30m in fees and both on over 100k a week combined not sure being too tight with money's our problem, got to remember the day before deadline day Pulis wanted 6 signings through the door if different bids got accepted we'd have Bolasie on a loan to buy 15 million, Ritchie 15 million, Vokes 8 million, Freeman 5 million, Bryan 6 million, Besic 6 million, Martina loan I mean that's nearly 60 million in potential fees on just those targets without wages obviously we'd probably have sold Gestede as well if we get Vokes so total incomings with Braithwaite's assumed sale would be close to 60 million but imagine the ballooning of the wage bill I mean yeesh.

 

We have apparently had 6 different first choice targets this window depending on who you believe.

 

However, the club have contrived to land none of them. And yet we as fans are still expected to believe the club are being massively ambitious.

 

I'm of the opinion that the club wanted to get rid of all high earners and those we could get a good fee for (whether they actively wanted to move on or not).

 

TP has been clever in that if he fails he can say he never got his targets (and can put it down to finances, something he can't control) and if he succeeds he has done so while making the club a huge profit during this window (which I believe he has probably been tasked to do - the huge profit bit, and will have received a huge bonus for. doing so).

 

Contrived. !, sometimes you just can’t buy the ones you want All these buys are auctions effectively but with the added bonus of the player still saying no if he doesn’t want to come. Some seem to think it’s as easy as walking down to Tesco and buying a loaf of bread

 

Yes rich, contrived. I chose that word very carefully. The whole point of my post was that I don't think we were ever really in for some of theseason "targets", and therefore contrived is the perfect word.

 

Even if we weren’t in for these players. It isn’t the club that’s said we were in for them so who is actually contriving it

 

Lets just say i dont think the media outlets are making up these "targets".

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Must be a centre back coming in soon then if Enes has gone

 

George Friend is an extra centre back now that McQueen can play the LWB role.

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We have apparently had 6 different first choice targets this window depending on who you believe.

 

However, the club have contrived to land none of them. And yet we as fans are still expected to believe the club are being massively ambitious.

 

I'm of the opinion that the club wanted to get rid of all high earners and those we could get a good fee for (whether they actively wanted to move on or not).

 

TP has been clever in that if he fails he can say he never got his targets (and can put it down to finances, something he can't control) and if he succeeds he has done so while making the club a huge profit during this window (which I believe he has probably been tasked to do - the huge profit bit, and will have received a huge bonus for. doing so).

 

Contrived. !, sometimes you just can’t buy the ones you want   All these buys are auctions effectively but with the added bonus of the player still saying no if he doesn’t want to come.   Some seem to think it’s as easy as walking down to Tesco and buying a loaf of bread

 

Yes rich, contrived. I chose that word very carefully. The whole point of my post was that I don't think we were ever really in for some of theseason "targets", and therefore contrived is the perfect word.

 

Even if we weren’t in for these players. It isn’t the club that’s said we were in for them so who is actually contriving it

 

Lets just say i dont think the media outlets are making up these "targets".

 

You think someone at the club is being paid to sit around and think of players that we don't want that we can leak to the media and end up not getting? Really? Not sure how the club gains from this at all

 

Isn't it more likely the media are making assumptions to fill column inches or printing info given by agents who want to drum up interest in their players.

 

Occams razor for me every time.

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If McQueen, saville and puncheon is what we’re getting I’m kind of pleased I guess.

 

Puncheon will take braithwaites place and (based on past form) should do a good job, saville if finally a goal scoring midfielder and McQueen will improve our left side.

 

So forgetting what we ended the season with, based on what we started the season with I think we will end the loan window better off (if puncheon performs). It should at least see us through to January in the top 6.

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I know Tony likes Rudy but I can definitely see this happening if we get an extra forward in. It might be a case of him OR Fletcher to go out, though.

 

Hopefully the appeal of Rudy is negating by Hugill who seems to be able to hold up the ball better than Gestede anyway

 

Karanka's Forest wanting Gestede really doesn't work with the narrative that was spewed by Karanka that he didn't want any of the players we brought in that prem jan transfer window.

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The implication is clear and is utterly ridiculous. Adama might have got in the team as the only winger. He stayed in there because he made us tick and subsequently was worth £18m of a Premier League club's money. I'm forced to ask if Adama Traore isn't a Pulis type winger, then who on Earth is?

 

Crouch?

 

Spot on, mate. Shame we couldn't bring him in.

 

 

I know Tony likes Rudy but I can definitely see this happening if we get an extra forward in. It might be a case of him OR Fletcher to go out, though.

 

Hopefully the appeal of Rudy is negating by Hugill who seems to be able to hold up the ball better than Gestede anyway

 

Karanka's Forest wanting Gestede really doesn't work with the narrative that was spewed by Karanka that he didn't want any of the players we brought in that prem jan transfer window.

 

What does Karanka wanting Gestede at Championship Forest have to do with us buying him in the middle of a Premier League season? Guedioura is also at Forest and getting his game when fit. He definitely wanted him when we were in the Championship. Karanka's issue that January was we didn't sign anyone who actually improved our first team. Those players do improve his team right now.

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Contrived. !, sometimes you just can’t buy the ones you want   All these buys are auctions effectively but with the added bonus of the player still saying no if he doesn’t want to come.   Some seem to think it’s as easy as walking down to Tesco and buying a loaf of bread

 

Yes rich, contrived. I chose that word very carefully. The whole point of my post was that I don't think we were ever really in for some of theseason "targets", and therefore contrived is the perfect word.

 

Even if we weren’t in for these players. It isn’t the club that’s said we were in for them so who is actually contriving it

 

Lets just say i dont think the media outlets are making up these "targets".

 

You think someone at the club is being paid to sit around and think of players that we don't want that we can leak to the media and end up not getting? Really? Not sure how the club gains from this at all

 

Isn't it more likely the media are making assumptions to fill column inches or printing info given by agents who want to drum up interest in their players.

 

Occams razor for me every time.

 

I’m with you on that, it’s all clickbait.

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Is the Pro-Stuani OneBoro club still increasing in popularity, Billy? I'm starting to wonder whether your signature is also bait now. That and it's been about half an hour since a post in here so I thought I'd get people's hopes up.

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Is the Pro-Stuani OneBoro club still increasing in popularity, Billy? I'm starting to wonder whether your signature is also bait now. That and it's been about half an hour since a post in here so I thought I'd get people's hopes up.

 

Just past 6 and I see ‘Last post less than one minute ago’, was buzzing

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Is the Pro-Stuani OneBoro club still increasing in popularity, Billy? I'm starting to wonder whether your signature is also bait now. That and it's been about half an hour since a post in here so I thought I'd get people's hopes up.

 

We don’t meet as often as we used to and to be honest, membership is on the wane. A lot of people have problems with the complex initiation ceremony.

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