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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2340 on: June 06, 2023, 03:10:01 PM »
We don't want to be like a Hyena, picking every last scrap from the dead carcass of a relegated side, we want prime, fresh meat only.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2341 on: June 06, 2023, 03:12:34 PM »
Whilst we're talking about Leicester the other player I would take a look at is James Justin. I think they've really missed him this year (and he's not as tainted by the relegation as most) and he's versatile enough to be decent cover in a few different positions. Wouldn't want to pay a huge amount though after he's been out for 8months, might need a while to get back to his best.

Yes he looked handy. Dewsbury-Hall and Luke Thomas are supoosedly highly rated but I think they're both toss.

Deswbury-Hall just looks like a pound shop Emile Smith Rowe.

More like a poor man's Harry Winks

Dewsbury-Hall sounds like the kind of place a landfill Indie band play on a Wednesday night.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2342 on: June 06, 2023, 03:15:08 PM »
Not keen on Tielemans, part of why we’re good at the moment seems to be a great team spirit and I wouldn’t want some billy big bollox half arsed fucker who only does it when he feels like it to potentially upset that.

As I said earlier though, none of them wanted to play for Rodgers, just like none of our team wanted to play for Gerrard. He'd be coming into a club in great spirits, with a superb manager and a happy squad. At his best he helped them to two 5th placed finishes and the FA Cup.

It's a strange one with Rodgers. Obviously he was their FA Cup winning coach and 2 x 5th placed finishes (granted didn't they bottle CL football both of those seasons late on ?). But last summer he was clearly trying to engineer his firing with the club not spending money, extending contracts etc. Of course he could have always resigned (and likely would have been heavily linked with the likes of Spurs, Chelsea, other clubs if he did so). By hanging on both his reputation, the chairman and the clubs suffered.

As much as he whinged about lack of investment, he still had his expensive flops like Vestergaard on the bench. MON esque behaviour really.

There was ring of MON and Arry - not got enough money for spending, engineering an outball

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2343 on: June 06, 2023, 03:15:26 PM »
Whilst we're talking about Leicester the other player I would take a look at is James Justin. I think they've really missed him this year (and he's not as tainted by the relegation as most) and he's versatile enough to be decent cover in a few different positions. Wouldn't want to pay a huge amount though after he's been out for 8months, might need a while to get back to his best.

Yes he looked handy. Dewsbury-Hall and Luke Thomas are supoosedly highly rated but I think they're both toss.

Deswbury-Hall just looks like a pound shop Emile Smith Rowe.

More like a poor man's Harry Winks

Dewsbury-Hall sounds like the kind of place a landfill Indie band play on a Wednesday night.

And it would kick off with Nazi skinheads in the crowd

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2344 on: June 06, 2023, 03:19:22 PM »
Whilst we're talking about Leicester the other player I would take a look at is James Justin. I think they've really missed him this year (and he's not as tainted by the relegation as most) and he's versatile enough to be decent cover in a few different positions. Wouldn't want to pay a huge amount though after he's been out for 8months, might need a while to get back to his best.

Yes he looked handy. Dewsbury-Hall and Luke Thomas are supoosedly highly rated but I think they're both toss.

Deswbury-Hall just looks like a pound shop Emile Smith Rowe.

More like a poor man's Harry Winks

Dewsbury-Hall sounds like the kind of place a landfill Indie band play on a Wednesday night.

National Trust property somewhere in Kent.

Built by some obscure Tudor. Fell into disrepair until the family bequeathed it to the nation.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2345 on: June 06, 2023, 03:22:01 PM »
Tielemans appears to be signing or signed .

Based on my WhatsApp group erupting? Not sure of source, I shall await Percy

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2346 on: June 06, 2023, 03:25:43 PM »
Whilst we're talking about Leicester the other player I would take a look at is James Justin. I think they've really missed him this year (and he's not as tainted by the relegation as most) and he's versatile enough to be decent cover in a few different positions. Wouldn't want to pay a huge amount though after he's been out for 8months, might need a while to get back to his best.

Yes he looked handy. Dewsbury-Hall and Luke Thomas are supoosedly highly rated but I think they're both toss.

Deswbury-Hall just looks like a pound shop Emile Smith Rowe.

More like a poor man's Harry Winks

Dewsbury-Hall sounds like the kind of place a landfill Indie band play on a Wednesday night.

National Trust property somewhere in Kent.

Built by some obscure Tudor. Fell into disrepair until the family bequeathed it to the nation.

The family then moved into the slightly less grand Manor Solomon.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2347 on: June 06, 2023, 03:25:49 PM »
We don't want to be like a Hyena, picking every last scrap from the dead carcass of a relegated side, we want prime, fresh meat only.

Indeed. Apart from maybe Barnes anyway.

I do wonder whether going for 3 time champions league winning Real Madrid players still in their prime (or similar) might be a bit 'run before you can walk' as well. We need to be finding and signing players that are on the cusp of greatness who will get noticed more-so after joining us. See Martinez and Kamara plus plenty of players that the likes of Brighton and other punch above their weight clubs seem to be finding regularly.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2348 on: June 06, 2023, 03:28:02 PM »
Dewsbury-Hall sounds like somewhere you used to go on a school trip.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2349 on: June 06, 2023, 03:30:06 PM »
Dewsbury Hall sounds like a haunted boarding school.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2350 on: June 06, 2023, 03:33:11 PM »
Tielemans appears to be signing or signed .

Based on my WhatsApp group erupting? Not sure of source, I shall await Percy

Some nobody on Twitter with a few hundred followers has said that he's signed a four year deal. I wouldn't be getting excited just yet.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2351 on: June 06, 2023, 03:35:50 PM »
Dewsbury Hall sounds like a publisher specialising in titles to do with interior decorating and up-cycling old furniture.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2352 on: June 06, 2023, 03:48:54 PM »
Or perhaps a BBC period drama set in the 1920's with a very fruity if humourless leading lady, and her overly amiable father and rather rotund and straight-laced butler supporting.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2353 on: June 06, 2023, 04:07:30 PM »
Nah, it's the back page advertisement in the Radio Times opposite the one selling old folk a free pen for taking out life insurance by selling them a freshly baked Plate with a dodgy artists impression of the late Princess Diana dancing with John Travolta.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #2354 on: June 06, 2023, 04:12:30 PM »
Dewsbury-Hall sounds like somewhere you used to go on a school trip.
Yes indeed. Everytime I hear a commentator mention that name I think to myself "have I been there?"

 


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