Clarke-Harris looks a great investment for 1 million at 25 years old. Left-footer, very strong, scores inside and outside the box. And judging by the Guardian article is a top bloke.
I'd be happy with Greg Docherty, though don't know a lot about him, seems to have potential going by Ranger's fans comments.
If we get these over the line tomorrow I'd think that's a good start going into deadline day.
But Lyle must stay. ESI can't sell our star striker when we're in a relegation battle.
We need to be looking at players above division 3 level.
We signed Lyle Taylor from division 3 level.
We also signed Andy Gray from a high level. And he'd banged in goals.
It's all meaningless. It's about the player not the level.
The level you're in normally determines your ability.
Liverpool must have been crazy to sign Gomez. He had only played at Championship level. Clearly out of his depth in the Premiership or European level!
Maddison just couldnt agree terms with us after all terms had been agreed with Charlton and Peterborough
Birmingham bids pretty much the same as ours
Another mid-table Championship team about to sell two players, with that money they're likely to buy him tomorrow
Grosicki is going to WBA, so Maddison is off to Hull presumably.
Better geographically for him, and Grosicki would have been on high wages, so Hull could afford to pay Maddison a decent amount and still save money
Living in Hull vs London though. Obviously never been but hasn't it been voted the worst place to live in England? Bless him
Comments like this always make me laugh. It's not as if Maddison would be living in a tiny terraced house if he goes there. Bloke could probably buy a 4-5 bedroom house in the countryside for the price of a 2 bed down here.
Just found a 5 bed detached house for 249k on Rightmove!
Maddison just couldnt agree terms with us after all terms had been agreed with Charlton and Peterborough
Birmingham bids pretty much the same as ours
Another mid-table Championship team about to sell two players, with that money they're likely to buy him tomorrow
Grosicki is going to WBA, so Maddison is off to Hull presumably.
Better geographically for him, and Grosicki would have been on high wages, so Hull could afford to pay Maddison a decent amount and still save money
Living in Hull vs London though. Obviously never been but hasn't it been voted the worst place to live in England? Bless him
Comments like this always make me laugh. It's not as if Maddison would be living in a tiny terraced house if he goes there. Bloke could probably buy a 4-5 bedroom house in the countryside for the price of a 2 bed down here.
Just found a 5 bed detached house for 249k on Rightmove!
Maddison just couldnt agree terms with us after all terms had been agreed with Charlton and Peterborough
Birmingham bids pretty much the same as ours
Another mid-table Championship team about to sell two players, with that money they're likely to buy him tomorrow
Grosicki is going to WBA, so Maddison is off to Hull presumably.
Better geographically for him, and Grosicki would have been on high wages, so Hull could afford to pay Maddison a decent amount and still save money
Living in Hull vs London though. Obviously never been but hasn't it been voted the worst place to live in England? Bless him
Comments like this always make me laugh. It's not as if Maddison would be living in a tiny terraced house if he goes there. Bloke could probably buy a 4-5 bedroom house in the countryside for the price of a 2 bed down here.
Just found a 5 bed detached house for 249k on Rightmove!
Are you going to buy it?
No just found a 4 bed detached for 225k, keep this up and they’ll be giving em away, it’s like going back to the 1980’s up there!
Just under 40 hours remaining before we find out whether or not ESI are prepared to commit footballing suicide by selling our best chance to avoid relegation. My season ticket for 2020-2021 is dependent on that decision. If Taylor goes, our relegation rivals won't be able to believe their luck.
My view on the JCH bid is that he is a replacement for Lyle. Brentford have probably come back in for him, esp after losing last night & that's why we have put in a (late) bid for him.
I know RD supposedly said our bid for Toney last August was not a replacement for Taylor, but I dont buy that bullshit.....esp when it was with RD in charge.
At least we are looking at buying decent in form & experienced strikers (Toney, Gnadduillet & JCH) rather than very young loanees from Spurs, Watford or Norwich.
Cawley has already said our Toney bid was as a replacement for Taylor so it was massive BS from Roland
It was Bowyer who said that not RD.
Either way Roland had no intention of playing Taylor and Toney alongside each other
How do you know that?
Because Cawley revealed our bid for Toney was as a replacement for Lyle....
LB said he was to play alongside Taylor, depends whether you believe Cawley or LB
It's quite possible that Bowyer was told by TwoShits he could have Toney and Taylor but TwoShits was telling porkies and Taylor would have been sold against Bowyer's wishes once Toney had arrived. I don't know, however, how Cawley would have known TwoShit's intentions, perhaps he just surmised.
Just under 40 hours remaining before we find out whether or not ESI are prepared to commit footballing suicide by selling our best chance to avoid relegation. My season ticket for 2020-2021 is dependent on that decision.
Agree, ESI have a fantastic opportunity to get 20k crowds for the rest of this season, to unite the fan base and propel the club towards being an established Championship club. A small step forward is acceptable, A giant leap backwards isn't.
Maddison just couldnt agree terms with us after all terms had been agreed with Charlton and Peterborough
Birmingham bids pretty much the same as ours
Another mid-table Championship team about to sell two players, with that money they're likely to buy him tomorrow
Grosicki is going to WBA, so Maddison is off to Hull presumably.
Better geographically for him, and Grosicki would have been on high wages, so Hull could afford to pay Maddison a decent amount and still save money
Living in Hull vs London though. Obviously never been but hasn't it been voted the worst place to live in England? Bless him
Comments like this always make me laugh. It's not as if Maddison would be living in a tiny terraced house if he goes there. Bloke could probably buy a 4-5 bedroom house in the countryside for the price of a 2 bed down here.
Just found a 5 bed detached house for 249k on Rightmove!
Are you going to buy it?
No just found a 4 bed detached for 225k, keep this up and they’ll be giving em away, it’s like going back to the 1980’s up there!
Just under 40 hours remaining before we find out whether or not ESI are prepared to commit footballing suicide by selling our best chance to avoid relegation. My season ticket for 2020-2021 is dependent on that decision.
Agree, ESI have a fantastic opportunity to get 20k crowds for the rest of this season, to unite the fan base and propel the club towards being an established Championship club. A small step forward is acceptable, A giant leap backwards isn't.
Yep, show some intent in the next 48 hours and il be buying a season ticket next season even though I cant get to enough games to break even.
Just under 40 hours remaining before we find out whether or not ESI are prepared to commit footballing suicide by selling our best chance to avoid relegation. My season ticket for 2020-2021 is dependent on that decision.
Agree, ESI have a fantastic opportunity to get 20k crowds for the rest of this season, to unite the fan base and propel the club towards being an established Championship club. A small step forward is acceptable, A giant leap backwards isn't.
Shame there appears a lot of dependency on whether people go with what signings we make, but hey ho
If we sign the bristol rovers guy, the transfer fee matches millwalls record signing.
my points
1. lets laugh at millwall 2. Millwall are better than us at the moment (kind of cancels out point 1) by signing the right player for the right price. It does t matter what division the player currently plays in as long as they are good enough. Millwalls record signing was from Walsall?
Have we ever had a good January window? I honestly can’t remember one.
Players lost
Murphy Yan Parker Holmes Grant
Year we signed Bradley Wright-Phillips and then the following when we brought in Danny Haynes and Leon Cort are the sole two January Windows which have been good
Maddison just couldnt agree terms with us after all terms had been agreed with Charlton and Peterborough
Birmingham bids pretty much the same as ours
Another mid-table Championship team about to sell two players, with that money they're likely to buy him tomorrow
Grosicki is going to WBA, so Maddison is off to Hull presumably.
Better geographically for him, and Grosicki would have been on high wages, so Hull could afford to pay Maddison a decent amount and still save money
Living in Hull vs London though. Obviously never been but hasn't it been voted the worst place to live in England? Bless him
Hull's historic area is very nice, while there are plenty of nice places to live not far from there where you can buy a mansion for the price of a London semi!
Yep, Cottingham is only ~4 miles outside of Hull, Beverley around 10 miles. Rossman, worth you spending a weekend up that and getting to know the area!
Maddison just couldnt agree terms with us after all terms had been agreed with Charlton and Peterborough
Birmingham bids pretty much the same as ours
Another mid-table Championship team about to sell two players, with that money they're likely to buy him tomorrow
Grosicki is going to WBA, so Maddison is off to Hull presumably.
Better geographically for him, and Grosicki would have been on high wages, so Hull could afford to pay Maddison a decent amount and still save money
Living in Hull vs London though. Obviously never been but hasn't it been voted the worst place to live in England? Bless him
Comments like this always make me laugh. It's not as if Maddison would be living in a tiny terraced house if he goes there. Bloke could probably buy a 4-5 bedroom house in the countryside for the price of a 2 bed down here.
Just found a 5 bed detached house for 249k on Rightmove!
Daylight robbery!! My next door neighbour paid £90k for his three bed-detached last year. Quiet back street with lovely panoramic views of the city. 👍
I think this is more about intent going forward AFKA, and that has ever been the case. When we sold Hinton, Bonds, Glover, Campbell, Hales, Parker, Kermogant et al, that gave supporters a very clear message as to what they could expect from the board. Losing a key member of the playing staff at such a crucial stage of the season gives a clear message of intent as far as I am concerned. I pray I am wrong, and am hoping for the best, but preparing myself for the worst.
Just under 40 hours remaining before we find out whether or not ESI are prepared to commit footballing suicide by selling our best chance to avoid relegation. My season ticket for 2020-2021 is dependent on that decision.
Agree, ESI have a fantastic opportunity to get 20k crowds for the rest of this season, to unite the fan base and propel the club towards being an established Championship club. A small step forward is acceptable, A giant leap backwards isn't.
Shame there appears a lot of dependency on whether people go with what signings we make, but hey ho
The one bit I dont understand is the fact they have paid 50 million ish for the club so surely want to protect that investment yet are stalling over bringing in a few extra bodies mainly from lower leagues so surely we are offering them a better deal than they are currently on? I dont understand why we cant get any over the line also in the past we've done some cracking business in the loan market? Or maybee January is that much harder to get deals done or all the agents are being greedy bumping the prices up because they think we have money? Just hope we can get a couple of deals done as it took us a long time to get us where we are now Back to league 1 seems a grim possibility But will kept the faith still 40 hours to go
Do we know they’ve paid £50m? So far they’ve only bought the team, not the Valley or training ground and Roland said he’d be happy to sell the team for £1. We probably won’t see if they are actually going to really invest until the end of the summer.
Last January was ok. We lost Grant but Williams and Purrington arrived. Short term deals but both are still here.
Losing Gallagher and Taylor would make this one 10 times worse.
Agreed. As I see it, Bowyer went into the season knowing that his squad was good but thin. He absolutely thought that when the takeover went through there would be fresh faces to IMPROVE and bolster the squad. Not happened so far. Wonder what he's really thinking.
Although Hull is definitely at the end of the road (the only one for miles), there are some good things about it.
The crappy back to back Victorian tenement terraced housing creates a decent community even today and not all have more than one head.
the Deep is a great aquarium sunk down a vertical shaft where the fish including shark live at their natural levels and you walk down a ramp around the outside of the tank.
Not been there now for 15 years maybe but wasn’t anywhere close to being as bad as I thought,
Visit Hull, as we have a number of suppliers there, as with everywhere is has good areas and some shitholes. The area around Hull has some lovely little villages and the price of houses are eye watering low.
Just under 40 hours remaining before we find out whether or not ESI are prepared to commit footballing suicide by selling our best chance to avoid relegation. My season ticket for 2020-2021 is dependent on that decision.
Agree, ESI have a fantastic opportunity to get 20k crowds for the rest of this season, to unite the fan base and propel the club towards being an established Championship club. A small step forward is acceptable, A giant leap backwards isn't.
Shame there appears a lot of dependency on whether people go with what signings we make, but hey ho
Keeping Taylor: I gave up my season ticket for 3 seasons because of Duchatelet, and only relented because of Lee Bowyer, who deserved the backing. At least to the end of the season, and if the "model" doesn't accommodate a skilled goal scorer, who was instrumental in our return to this division, then Lyle leaves BUT at least our chances of staying in the Championship are increased, Four fold if he stays to the end of this season.
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If Taylor goes, our relegation rivals won't be able to believe their luck.
to unite the fan base and propel the club towards being an established Championship club. A small step forward is acceptable, A giant leap backwards isn't.
Murphy
Yan
Parker
Holmes
Grant
my points
1. lets laugh at millwall
2. Millwall are better than us at the moment (kind of cancels out point 1) by signing the right player for the right price. It does t matter what division the player currently plays in as long as they are good enough. Millwalls record signing was from Walsall?
Losing a key member of the playing staff at such a crucial stage of the season gives a clear message of intent as far as I am concerned.
I pray I am wrong, and am hoping for the best, but preparing myself for the worst.
He will need some minutes as Pratley is on 9 bookings and staring down the barrel of a ban ?
Keeping Taylor: I gave up my season ticket for 3 seasons because of Duchatelet, and only relented because of Lee Bowyer, who deserved the backing.
At least to the end of the season, and if the "model" doesn't accommodate a skilled goal scorer, who was instrumental in our return to this division, then Lyle leaves BUT at least our chances of staying in the Championship are increased, Four fold if he stays to the end of this season.
Stark choice for ESI so early in their tenure.