sne Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 We are basically Alex Bruce & Tom Huddlestone away from the Steve Bruce dream team. Yay? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 25, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, sne said: We are basically Alex Bruce & Tom Huddlestone away from the Steve Bruce wet dream. Yay? Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 25, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2017 Got option to buy 'pparantly - that's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomaspg Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 nice, think the loan suits us better anyways. hopefully he can deliver! welcome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 41 minutes ago, Jareth said: Got option to buy 'pparantly - that's good. as long as it's option not obligation I'm happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 8 minutes ago, Rodders said: as long as it's option not obligation I'm happy. Could be an obligation to an option ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMelvillan Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 (edited) £1.5m option to buy according to the chaps on KUMB. That cant be right surely... oh, now theres some debate about the actual option price - some saying double that at around £3m. Either way, they arent happy as they bought him for £10m apparantly Edited August 25, 2017 by TheMelvillan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 29 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said: £1.5m option to buy according to the chaps on KUMB. That cant be right surely... oh, now theres some debate about the actual option price - some saying double that at around £3m. Either way, they arent happy as they bought him for £10m apparantly Sounds like a deal we would have made 2010-2015. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 I would say if 1.5m is the buying price we are paying a lot towards the deal this year (wages) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Consider that in his time he's been a decent PL player, he's only 29 and the reported fee, I think this is a bit of a coup in the Championship. Hope it goes through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsworthvilla Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Fantastic signing, less than a year ago he looked like a world beater at Hull and was carrying their team week in week out. No idea whats went wrong at West Ham but they were justified on spending that amount on him at the time, he was putting an assist/goal in every week. Actually surprised one of the promoted sides hasnt snapped him up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 25, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2017 (edited) 23 hours ago, PieFacE said: Players don't fix terrible tactics. Well hang on. People blame Bruce for signing Hogan when we have no one to play passes to his strengths, but when we sign someone who can unlock defences and provide those passes they are not needed? Does not compute. Players can fix tactics if they are right for the system the manager is trying to implement to enforce his tactics. Can't have it both ways. Edited August 25, 2017 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted August 25, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2017 1 minute ago, sidcow said: Well hang on. People blame Bruce for signing Hogan when we have no one to play passes to his strengths, but when we sign someone who can unlock defences and provide those passes they are not needed? Does not compute. Players can fix tactics if they are right for the system the manager is trying to implement to enforce his tactics. Can't have it both ways. Hmmm. Respectfully disagree. I do believe we have the players who can play to Hogan's strengths, I see a complete lack of trying to do so. I don't see how Snodgrass is going to change that either. But hey, if Snodgrass is going to assist Hogan with 15 goals this season then great. I'm all for it. We'll just have to wait and see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn1982 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 21 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: No? Says who? You? Why are our players better than Readings? Because last time I checked, they were beaten play off finalists and we finished mid table. We have a strong squad in areas but a hugely unbalanced one. Snodgrass will help address this unbalance as we're s*** at creating chances for our strikers. I'd say as a whole our squad is better and you'd be in the minority to think otherwise. Individually we are a very good squad. Snodgrass is a right winger mainly so Bruce has just made the squad more unbalanced as he's already bought one and the one we had already was one of our highest assist makers last year! The last 2 games have shown we can create and score if you get the players to attack more. It'll be interesting where Snodgrass plays and how fit he is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 He should do well. I will welcome him and hope we can help us win this league. Well RS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vreitti Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Don't think we actually need him tbh, but I suppose he's (slightly) better than Bacuna at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted August 25, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25, 2017 If its a loan to buy I hope there aren't any clauses where, for example, he plays 20 games we have to buy him. Loan him in sure, but at the end of the season have the right to decide our future. If by some chance we go up we would have a massive amount of players that will need moving on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 19 minutes ago, vreitti said: Don't think we actually need him tbh, but I suppose he's (slightly) better than Bacuna at least. I take it thats sarcasm you cant be seriously suggesting he is onky a bit better than bacuna? And why are you even comparing a cm to a attacking forward ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 2 minutes ago, Villan_of_oz said: If its a loan to buy I hope there aren't any clauses where, for example, he plays 20 games we have to buy him. Loan him in sure, but at the end of the season have the right to decide our future. If by some chance we go up we would have a massive amount of players that will need moving on. If Grealish is back fit by December and ready to contribute, I wonder whether we could in theory terminate the loan early? If we wanted to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 Good player and I'd much rather him be on rotation in our squad than banging them in for one of our promotion rivals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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