duke313 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, bobzy said: They’ve replaced like for like! You're not seriously suggesting that a 19 year old with 18 career goals, is a like for like swap with a 30 year old whos scored 68 premier league goals? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSvillain Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 The only journalists who may know what we are doing are Percy and Collomosse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Nice to see VT is still home of the bed wetters. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 99% of football journalism is guess work. Don’t get worked up by speculative stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 minute ago, duke313 said: You're not seriously suggesting that a 19 year old with 18 career goals, is a like for like swap with a 30 year old whos scored 68 premier league goals? We’ve swapped a striker for a striker (and possibly one who is better suited to how Emery wants us to play). Though I appreciate that we should have filled the Ings gap with someone more like Chris Wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 The beauty of how we tend to do business is that we find out about it when it is either done, or 99% of the way there. So it's kind of anyone's guess what is actually going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 11 minutes ago, bobzy said: Sell your aging backup striker for a younger backup striker and look for proven quality in the summer, which is a much better market to be shopping in. What a shambles. Top scorer..in January. With no replacement coming in with any level of experience. You could look at it like that also. If it was another team doing this wouldn't you laugh at them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Don’t follow Serie A closely but see Nicolo Zaniolo being linked to WHU & Leeds as well as Spuds … would he be a good fit for us ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Just now, bobzy said: We’ve swapped a striker for a striker (and possibly one who is better suited to how Emery wants us to play). Though I appreciate that we should have filled the Ings gap with someone more like Chris Wood. A sound transfer policy. Signing a player who MIGHT fit the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 minute ago, duke313 said: A sound transfer policy. Signing a player who MIGHT fit the system. Surely our 4 time European winning Coach will know if he fits his system or not. You know, slightly better than say, you for example. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 Just now, Steero113 said: Surely our 4 time European winning Coach will know if he fits his system or not. You know, slightly better than say, you for example. Dukey boy has won the European cup 5 times, to be fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, duke313 said: A sound transfer policy. Signing a player who MIGHT fit the system. Well I'm guessing he does, which is why we've signed him, but I've never watched the kid play football. Neither have you (again, guessing) so I don't see how certain you can be that he won't improve us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Pissflaps said: Top scorer..in January. With no replacement coming in with any level of experience. You could look at it like that also. If it was another team doing this wouldn't you laugh at them? Firstly we don’t even know that there is no replacement coming in so let’s wait and see about that. Secondly if we were signing a soon to be 31 year Ings for 15 million and big wages in January even though he was top goal scorer at his current team. I don’t think it would be a great move. Edited January 19, 2023 by Vive_La_Villa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 minute ago, PaulMcGrath_5 said: Dukey boy has won the European cup 5 times, to be fair. Oh fair, I stand down. Didn't know. He should get back in work, that's a decent record. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 I can't believe we have sold Ings without a plan to replace now. I am assuming something is happening before the end of the window 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 4 minutes ago, Pissflaps said: Top scorer..in January. With no replacement coming in with any level of experience. You could look at it like that also. If it was another team doing this wouldn't you laugh at them? Personally, no. Cristiano Ronaldo scored plenty of goals for Man Utd. At some point he had something like 12 of Man Utd's last 15 goals. However, it was obvious he didn't work well as part of what their manager wanted to do. They got rid of him and, lo and behold, Man Utd look a different beast now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Jareth said: Old Duncker is some shit hot journo - Ings is sold to the surprise of everybody at 8am and Dunckers already knows what we plan to do next - caveated by an entirely opposite scenario. I'm pretty sure emery is not an idiot. He won't be expecting a 19 year old to replace a proven PL striker a) unless he is sure Duran will hit the ground running or b) has another striker lined up. It might be that the short term cover will be a hybrid winger/forward, similar to Bailey but with better finishing. Then a more high profile, permanent option in the summer. Edited January 19, 2023 by Made In Aston 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 1 minute ago, bobzy said: Well I'm guessing he does, which is why we've signed him, but I've never watched the kid play football. Neither have you (again, guessing) so I don't see how certain you can be that he won't improve us? It was you who said it, not me. Still seems a massive risk, no? What if he doesn't hit the ground running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 If anybody thinks we're not signing a senior striker in this window, and soon, I'm sorry but you're a scuttering eejit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted January 19, 2023 Share Posted January 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, Pissflaps said: I can't believe we have sold Ings without a plan to replace now. I am assuming something is happening before the end of the window I can't believe you're believing Twitter. We haven't even sold Ings yet! Let alone had time to reveal even the slightest inkling of a plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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