It's What A Championship Club Should Be Doing

[animallittle3]

Kept everyone at the club including a cheeky contract extension for your top goalscorer .

Brought two lads in to the midfield who should cut the mustard at this level .

I'd have liked another striker but it wasn't to be .

Any other championship club it would have been just a regular deadline day .

Here it's greeted with a party likes its 1999 and stains in under crackers .

It's taken em fecking long enough .

Si thi .

[Doggydo]

I agree. A target man would have been nice but we have some good strikers at the club, our problems been, and no disrespect to any of the lads at the club but we didn’t have enough quality in midfield to create chances for them so hopefully we are now in better shape to create those chances.

[pass_and_move]

Exactly Animal.

[POGGYWELL]

Could have been a lot worse I’ve said on the Fire Sale thread: Well that’s the Fire almost burnt out so let’s get bunnywooding ready for January! Very interesting that ones going to be.

[animallittle3]

Could have been a lot worse I’ve said on the Fire Sale thread: Well that’s the Fire almost burnt out so let’s get bunnywooding ready for January! Very interesting that ones going to be.

That's the kind of point I was referring to , you starve a hungry man long enough any piece of rotten meat will delight him .

I wouldn't go as far to say rotten meat but our expectations must and should be along the lines of what we've done today .

This is a championship club who want to remain one and this is how you go about achieving it .

I'll give it a 7 out of 10 .

[SBRed48]

That's the kind of point I was referring to , you starve a hungry man long enough any piece of rotten meat will delight him .

I wouldn't go as far to say rotten meat but our expectations must and should be along the lines of what we've done today .

This is a championship club who want to remain one and this is how you go about achieving it .

I'll give it a 7 out of 10 .

All wiv done today Animal is--

--not sell anybody
-- allow our best striker to negotiate a better contract, probably putting in a better(for him) release clause and increase his wages
--be part of todays Liverpool big clear out of fringe players who were not going to make it
--loan a player who Leicester want us to get match fit and then want back in January

Sorry but my expectations are a bit higher.

[Jules88]

All wiv done today Animal is--

--not sell anybody
-- allow our best striker to negotiate a better contract, probably putting in a better(for him) release clause and increase his wages
--be part of todays Liverpool big clear out of fringe players who were not going to make it
--loan a player who Leicester want us to get match fit and then want back in January

Sorry but my expectations are a bit higher.

Would your expectations be to sign a young player from Scotland, that no ones ever heard of? Or another one of Inexperience?
We have signed a mixture today of “potential youth“ and experience, plus extended a 14 goal striker....(yes he is off the boil at the moment........but...) yes, James has injury rehabilitation issues, but he has shown he can operate at this level (in front of our very own fans)..... maybe you were boycotting the matches or not by this time, but he was a class player in my eyes....
Perhaps you can list two players you would realistically have signed today.
Name players please SB you would be happy with? You seem to be unhappy with a young lad from Liverpool, and a lad who performed very well last time he was here. You don’t want unknown youth to develop, you aren’t impressed with bringing experienced players like James.....
Just name some players YOU would be happy with us signing today..... realistic names.

[SBRed48]

Would your expectations be to sign a young player from Scotland, that no ones ever heard of? Or another one of Inexperience?
We have signed a mixture today of “potential youth“ and experience, plus extended a 14 goal striker....(yes he is off the boil at the moment........but...) yes, James has injury rehabilitation issues, but he has shown he can operate at this level (in front of our very own fans)..... maybe you were boycotting the matches or not by this time, but he was a class player in my eyes....
Perhaps you can list two players you would realistically have signed today.
Name players please SB you would be happy with? You seem to be unhappy with a young lad from Liverpool, and a lad who performed very well last time he was here. You don’t want unknown youth to develop, you aren’t impressed with bringing experienced players like James.....
Just name some players YOU would be happy with us signing today..... realistic names.

In this transfer window rather than just yesterday

1 Gone to £2 million to sign Lyndon Dykes

2 Ben Whiteman

We haven't "signed" any "experience" Jules. We have agreed to rehabilitate a player and get him match fit to send him back in ten weeks. I bet Leicester can't stop laughing. The "Liverpool player" has, like Christie Davies, played one or two games in the League Cup when Klopp was making a point about too many games/ Like I posted when he signed, "Good luck to the lad".

[Hodger1957]

Would your expectations be to sign a young player from Scotland, that no ones ever heard of? Or another one of Inexperience?
We have signed a mixture today of “potential youth“ and experience, plus extended a 14 goal striker....(yes he is off the boil at the moment........but...) yes, James has injury rehabilitation issues, but he has shown he can operate at this level (in front of our very own fans)..... maybe you were boycotting the matches or not by this time, but he was a class player in my eyes....
Perhaps you can list two players you would realistically have signed today.
Name players please SB you would be happy with? You seem to be unhappy with a young lad from Liverpool, and a lad who performed very well last time he was here. You don’t want unknown youth to develop, you aren’t impressed with bringing experienced players like James.....
Just name some players YOU would be happy with us signing today..... realistic names.

With regards strikers there were several loaned out to teams that are no bigger than us that could have done a job for us.
Paul Smyth - aged 23 ( ran Sunderland ragged live on Sky when playing for Accrington) loaned to Charlton.
Kenneth Zohore - loaned to Millwall.
Jack Marriott - Loaned to Wednesday.
Macauley Bonne (24) moved from Charlton to QPR.
If you wanted an extra body to throw on and mix things up - Leon Clarke scored for Shrewsbury yesterday - moved on a free.
The biggest miss for me is Michael Jacobs, released by Wigan, now playing for Portsmouth and twice as good as any midfielder we've had for years.
Mo Eisa - not started a game for Peterborough yet this season, scored 14 in 31 games last season.
We're desperately short of numbers and options all over the pitch.

[french_frog01]

With regards strikers there were several loaned out to teams that are no bigger than us that could have done a job for us.
Paul Smyth - aged 23 ( ran Sunderland ragged live on Sky when playing for Accrington) loaned to Charlton.
Kenneth Zohore - loaned to Millwall.
Jack Marriott - Loaned to Wednesday.
Macauley Bonne (24) moved from Charlton to QPR.
If you wanted an extra body to throw on and mix things up - Leon Clarke scored for Shrewsbury yesterday - moved on a free.
The biggest miss for me is Michael Jacobs, released by Wigan, now playing for Portsmouth and twice as good as any midfielder we've had for years.
Mo Eisa - not started a game for Peterborough yet this season, scored 14 in 31 games last season.
We're desperately short of numbers and options all over the pitch.

I've been banging on about Leon Clarke to anyone who'd listen since January. We should have gone and taken him on loan then. Given him a shop window to win his next contract and hopefully have taken him ourselves. Previous comments also correct that we've never replaced Moore, he was massively underrated in my opinion. We got lucky on Saturday in terms of the penalty. If teams get 10 men behind the ball we're going to struggle to get any clear chances in these games. For me it's a poor transfer window overall considering the positive position we came into it in, both on the field and financially. Not good enough Dane!!!!!