HeyAnty Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, est1874 said: Half decent window but we still haven't managed to fill the one position that unequivocally needed filling. was the one position that really needed filling. O well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, PieFacE said: This is likely going to be 100% BS. But, may as well continue speculating as it's the last day of the window. So this account... Apparently knew about Ings signing the day before it happened. Do I believe it? Nah, not really. But figured I'd share cos you know, not much else going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Incoming 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 minute ago, Craigy1874 said: Our inability to fill that position is baffling and frustrating. Yep . We seem to have an inability to spend big in central midfield. Unless Gerrard is uninterested in anything other than a grade A star for the position and that is what we are waiting for. And in that scenario i think we lose out to those who can offer Chumps league. Extremely baffling and extremely frustrating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post It's Your Round Posted January 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, HeyAnty said: was the one position that really needed filling. O well Oh man! I’ve only just got my head around 6’s and 8’s, and now you’re telling me there’s a 100?! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Been busy for a few hours, anything happening and is there anything reading on here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMelvillan Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 6 minutes ago, PieFacE said: This is likely going to be 100% BS. But, may as well continue speculating as it's the last day of the window. So this account... Apparently knew about Ings signing the day before it happened. Do I believe it? Nah, not really. But figured I'd share cos you know, not much else going on. according to Ings his own family didnt know about the transfer a day before it happened so i very much doubt this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarpet Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: Oh man! I’ve only just got my head around 6’s and 8’s, and now you’re telling me there’s a 100?! Its even worse when you realise that a 6, is really a 4... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 If we don't get a 6 & an 8 who can play in a double pivot regista or mezzala I will hate NSWE for ever. NSWE OUT Double PIVOT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 minute ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said: Oh well, still a quality window. I guess the board think that pushing for a Europa League spot this year is a bit out of reach. Fingers crossed we secure our primary targets in the summer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, est1874 said: Hasn't Zakaria basically gone to Juventus already...? He is in Turin now, not sure if he has signed yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichiBoi11 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 6 minutes ago, Pissflaps said: If we don't get a 6 & an 8 who can play in a double pivot regista or mezzala I will hate NSWE for ever. NSWE OUT Double PIVOT Calm down Ross 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSvillain Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) I think we are done don't get me wrong, but seems a bit rich all these journalists posting what they think we are going to do when it's pretty clear they know F all Edited January 31, 2022 by MSvillain Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allani Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 25 minutes ago, HKP90 said: I like your optimism, and indeed those signings are great, but the problems we had controlling the game, liberating the ball and actually getting it to the world class front 3 at the start of the season are still there. You could have Messi up front but if the b***ard doesn’t touch the ball all game he may as well be Hogan. It’s a fundamental cog in the machine that’s missing, and we don’t get Marv back until, what, late March? Luiz will do his best (if he’s here), and it will be ok, but unless we sort this we will have half a team’s worth of wasted potential. With the best will in the world - trying to get the ball to a front three of AEG, Watkins and Trez is a lot harder than getting it to a front three of Coutinho, Buendia and Watkins simply because the latter make themselves available in better positions and are less likely to immediately lose the ball. Also there is no point winning the ball back if your front 3 are not capable of holding onto the ball when you get it. I think we have seen two issues recently that have summed up our challenge in the middle of the park. The second half of the Everton match showed that we won the ball back plenty of times but then failed to keep hold of it, kept giving the ball back to the opposition and inviting them back onto us. The first 30 minutes of the Man Utd game showed that when teams are dominating possession we can struggle to get the ball back off them. I think the signing of Coutinho and Digne will help address both of these issues because for the first half of the Everton game and second half of the Man Utd game we dominated possession and consequently also found it easier to win the ball back because the opposition were having to play longer balls that Luiz was better able to read and intercept (he was actually brilliant in the second half of that match rather than OK) and JJ / McGinn / Sansom were able to harrass their opposite numbers into making mistakes without necessarily having to tackle them. I am coming around to the idea that we don't need an upgrade on Marv (i.e. a good tackler but who can then hold onto the ball or pass it more effectively) but that a version of McGinn or Luiz who is more comfortable playing slightly deeper than they are. Dominating possession is our "strategy" rather than winning possession back. The more you dominate possession the easier it is to win the ball back because your opponents are fooled into trying to play too quickly when they do get the ball (exactly what we did against Everton second half). We do need that extra player but I think we have definitely more than half-solved the problem this window. So in short I think we are somewhere between the optimistic 10/10 window view and your opinion that we haven't addressed the midfield issue at all. I think our midfield 3 is stronger than it was before the start of the window - even though we haven't signed anyone in that position because Digne and Coutinho will make it easier for the midfield 3 to retain possession. A new deeper midfielder (as opposed to necessarily a defensive midfielder) would make the window pretty much perfect but it has still been the best window I can remember for many a year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 13 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: Been busy for a few hours, anything happening and is there anything reading on here? Our Communications Director, Tommy D, told Rob Dorset to piss off up the road. Presumably because we’re not signing anyone today. Of course, we all know that’s what he wants us to think 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loxstock92 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 17 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: Oh man! I’ve only just got my head around 6’s and 8’s, and now you’re telling me there’s a 100?! Yeah and a lot of cricket fans don’t like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post useless Posted January 31, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2022 We're not as desperate for a DM as is being made out, it just seems to be one of those things that's been repeated that many times that people just now go along with it. We've got Luiz and Nakamba who are both fine, Chambers was Fulham's player of the season as a DM, Iroegbunam has been our best player at U23 level this season. Signing an improvement would have been nice if possible, but it's hardly a disaster that we haven't and can wait until the summer. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Well at least now Alvarez has signed for City we get to see the 'here's what you could have had'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 17 minutes ago, Pissflaps said: If we don't get a 6 & an 8 who can play in a double pivot regista or mezzala I will hate NSWE for ever. NSWE OUT Double PIVOT Last day to Regista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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