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Racism?
*January Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings*
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A decent young keeper who actually has the promise of being a #1. Plenty of them in Germany.
Joel is terrible he can't catch a ball, he's slow off his line, he can't punch the ball clear and can't command the area at all.
Same reason why no one else has signed him so far, don't think he's got over his injury yet.
Racism?
Oi, I'm no Dave Whelan lad!
1) We don't need a backup keeper, we need a #1. Howard has been naff for a while, makes mistakes which cost us games. Joel is woeful he can't catch a ball.
2) Distin was rubbish last season as well, Jags and Stones were key last year. Distin only kept it together last season and probably before that as well because of his pace which seems to have left him along with his ability to do anything.
3) The extra games from Europa League have had no impact on our league form, if anything they've actually made the players fitter after our disasterous pre-season, if you haven't noticed we cruised through the group stages.
4) I have never been an advocate of Martinez and said at the end of last season that I was pleasently surprised and impressed but didn't expect it to last.
5) I'll put you back onto ignore now.
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You need a no.1 keeper... and if you have a no.1 you don't need a back up, ah, magic. Please send an e-mail along to the entire premier league telling them they no longer require back up keepers if they need a no.1 keeper also. You should not buy a back up but only a no.1, leaving you no back up...... Getting Al Habsi(which is simply a paper rumour) on a short term contract both doesn't prevent you buying a genuine no.1, doesn't stop you buying a younger keeper for the future, it gets you a crucial available keeper today which is what you need. It's particularly nice though that after a half season of not his best form you're willing to throw Howard straight under the bus.
It's like saying Arsenal shouldn't buy a back up CB because we need to replace Mertesacker... we need to do both.
Distin was excellent last year and started 33 games for Everton, Stones started 15 games for everton while subbing into another 6, he played probably a bit less than half as much as Distin and maybe around a third of the season. Distin didn't play in the Southampton loss or the Liverpool losses in the second half of the season, Stones didn't play in the Chelsea/Spurs losses. AS far as I can see you had a better win ratio with Distin than with Stones but Stones was crucial and Distin(regularly praised by fans/media/pundits alike throughout last season) was crap. But you wanted Martinez to predict Stones injury and then buy a CB... who would have been so good that Stones wouldn't have been playing if fit, ah, the hindsight signing, sure.
Extra games in europe improve fitness and haven't effected league form, well you're quite literally talking out of your behind at this point. A couple of decades of proof that 99/100 times a smaller squad will be significantly less good in the league in a year with european than football than without but Everton are the exception.... sure. Even bigger squads have european hangovers from time to time though as the squad size/quality/wages gap increases those hangovers have decreased. 7-8 years ago it was pretty normal to see the few losses a year a Utd or Chelsea would suffer would often come after a european tie, but again Everton are totally immune to it.
I don't think anyone has signed Valdes yet because he (probably) wants to be number one and wants big money too. Personally he isn't that great a keeper but because he's played for Barcelona everyone thinks he's world class. He's good but there are better 'keepers already playing. And I would say Tim Howard is just as good. Don't you know he was the US Secretary of Defense for a few minutes after the World Cup?
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Valdes was overrated imo!
Lewis MacLeod signs for £1m from Glasgow Rangers on a three and a half year deal. Looks like we'll be having a busy January transfer window as we look to get promoted to the Premier League at the first time of asking!
The Rangers fans must be raging that their players are first seeing Dundee Utd and now Brentford and Huddersfield as a step up.
Also MacLeod is exceptionally, nay staggeringly average.
I think Carvalho is going to be a great player in years to come, not sure if its 3rd party issues holding up any potential transfer or Sporting wanting a lot more than the supposed £20~m , think he is ideal for the EPL. Given his age it may take him 6 months - a season to settle in fully and get used to the quality and pace of the EPL but really hope he comes over here (would love him at Utd, but doubt that will happen now)
A few people saying he's not all that great, and to be fair £825,000 (as the fee is now being reported) is quite a bit for a Scottish Championship footballer who has never played in the SPL.
That said, he's only 20 with a fair amount of time to improve, and we've got a great platform on which he can develop. A huge amount of work goes into our scouting, so I'll see how he progresses over the next 12 months - doubt he'll start a game this side of August!
A few people saying he's not all that great, and to be fair £825,000 (as the fee is now being reported) is quite a bit for a Scottish Championship footballer who has never played in the SPL.
That said, he's only 20 with a fair amount of time to improve, and we've got a great platform on which he can develop. A huge amount of work goes into our scouting, so I'll see how he progresses over the next 12 months - doubt he'll start a game this side of August!
No doubt he has room to improve. Highly doubt he'll ever be of Premiership standard though. Even top end of the Championship is a stretch. That said, there's the beginnings of a renaissance in Scottish football now, and £1m won't get any of the best prospects under contract.
The difficulty a lot of clubs have is preventing bosmans. You could have picked up John McGinn from St Mirren in the summer for compensation, and he's a good deal better.
A few very dodgy sources are suggesting Utd will complete the Falcao transfer in the next few days (I think they are all based on a Marca article which makes them even more dodgy)
don't believe there is any rush to complete this deal, we have him until the end of the season anyway , and whats more I believe we can sign him outside the window anyway (as he is already on loan), but while his comeback has been slow , he has looked promising in most of his appearances but not enough to justify the £40m+ price tag
I hope LvG /Woodward goes after a defender or two (Coleman and Hummels would be fab but cant see either happening) - I think we could manage without and get top four, but it will be a lot easier if we get at least one in Jan (plus it should also mean less possibility of forcing players back too early from injuries and getting recurring ones)
don't believe there is any rush to complete this deal, we have him until the end of the season anyway , and whats more I believe we can sign him outside the window anyway (as he is already on loan), but while his comeback has been slow , he has looked promising in most of his appearances but not enough to justify the £40m+ price tag
I hope LvG /Woodward goes after a defender or two (Coleman and Hummels would be fab but cant see either happening) - I think we could manage without and get top four, but it will be a lot easier if we get at least one in Jan (plus it should also mean less possibility of forcing players back too early from injuries and getting recurring ones)
IF LvG can get him back to his Atletico form, then it will be a bargain, but at the moment I don't think Utd should be spending anything on a striker, and should concentrate on CM/DM and defence (which will then free up Rooney to play permanently up top... ).
How long do Utd give Falcao to show if he will get his fitness /form back....If he hasn't really started by Feb / March to score frequently then I think that will be that - and we will send him back to Monaco in May. His touch imo was frustratingly bad vs spurs where it seemed to be so much better vs everton earlier in the season (or even in other games where he didn't score but his movement was just better).
A little more controversially I would also sell off Mata (if we can given his wages), even for 1/2 what we paid for him. He has been good for us in patches, but Im not anywhere convinced that he has been as good as his price tag / Chelsea form suggested he would be. Sometimes he is down-right invisible in games and given Rooney can play, some would say even better, in his position - it wouldn't be that much of a loss.
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How can someone at 29 be a bargainat thatprice. Even if he hit good form, wouldit last a year, maybe 2? Then he's 31. Is that really worth that money given what we'veseen so far? I thought he'd he ace, the injury had taken a lot out of him amd his age is extremely prohibitive.
Cut lossesamd sign cavani for 30m
Cut lossesamd sign cavani for 30m
So just because of a number you picked out of the air he is suddenly no good in two years time no matter what....
Strikers / forwards usually cost more than any other type of player, its been like that for years - and with the money in the EPL those figures have shot up to eye watering levels.
As I said in my other post, Utd should be spending the money elsewhere, but its possible if Falcao gets back to his best it may not be as bad a deal as it stands now
Your theory would also mean saying goodbye to RvP practically immediately.........
Strikers / forwards usually cost more than any other type of player, its been like that for years - and with the money in the EPL those figures have shot up to eye watering levels.
As I said in my other post, Utd should be spending the money elsewhere, but its possible if Falcao gets back to his best it may not be as bad a deal as it stands now
Your theory would also mean saying goodbye to RvP practically immediately.........
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I would kiss falcao goodbye at the endof the season.
had he hit 20 goals so far and looked like he might do so for the next 3 seasons, then yes you have a $60 million striker on your hands.
Give it 12 months you'll probably agree with me but want to argue right now
just like people tried to tell me i was negative or wrong about Juan Mata - apparently i was embarrassing myselfin this thread. Yet now hardcore fans want mata sold on. Has the earth spinning the wrong way or are there other fans who should be embarrassed by themselves?
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sh...ht=mata+username_the+running+man#post25703338
on the one hand you've got dreamers like Loki, on the other you've got cynical hacks like me. Give it time and eventually you'll agree but then disagreed that you agreed at all. It's prettystandard around here.
had he hit 20 goals so far and looked like he might do so for the next 3 seasons, then yes you have a $60 million striker on your hands.
Give it 12 months you'll probably agree with me but want to argue right now
just like people tried to tell me i was negative or wrong about Juan Mata - apparently i was embarrassing myselfin this thread. Yet now hardcore fans want mata sold on. Has the earth spinning the wrong way or are there other fans who should be embarrassed by themselves?
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sh...ht=mata+username_the+running+man#post25703338
on the one hand you've got dreamers like Loki, on the other you've got cynical hacks like me. Give it time and eventually you'll agree but then disagreed that you agreed at all. It's prettystandard around here.
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Have heard that Gerrard is talking to other clubs now. He is definitely on the move though, no longer living in his old place and hasn't been for a while
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