January 2024 transfer window thread.

[Mile End Wanderer]

Noooooooooooo!

Sounds like from what Johnny Phillips said Neto is off in the summer for big cash. What we already knew in reality

See Cundle scored again today. Goal scoring midfielders are hard to come by. We have never really replaced Dave Edwards in that role as such. Always scored goals for us, fabulous trainer. Played under every manager. Some players could take a leaf out of our Dave’s book. We had Neves but he loved the perfect goal.

Hopefully Hobbs is looking at better calibre players than Danny *^%# Ings

 

[Wolf in Kenilworth]

Could be a viable option to replace Neto , next season....

I think Rodrigo Gomes is being seen as that.

Neto will be off 100%.

 

[Rhyl Wolf]

It's not a stretch of the imagination to speculate Neto may go for £80 million. A very handy purse for the recruiting team.

 

[Starsky]

No issue with Ings on loan with no option.

Other than that, it goes against everything we're trying to do - recruitment and style of play wise.

 

[Rubberball]

Similarly, we shouldn't have players brought to the club without any input.

We'll have to agree to disagree. I don't think GoN is qualified enough to give an assessment on a player.

He's a coach and you have to trust your recruiters to get the right players in. He's not been doing the job long enough in any capacity to have that ability yet.

 

[lets all have a disco]

Nailed on to go in the summer Neto....we will need a big sale I reckon to spin the new cycle with FFP....we will probably look back at not taking big money for either Raul, Neves or Adama a few years ago, which probably started the cycle to our current FFP problems.
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[Rubberball]

I find the concept of a manager having no say at all on player recruitment difficult to get my head around … especially when their fate is so closely linked to the players at their disposal. Probably a generational thing.

I think it is a generational thing.

Football has changed so much and coaches have become more specialised and recruitment is no exception.

The UK was quite a way behind in this regard but even the great Pep and Klopp let their recruitment teams work with little involvement.

GoN just doesn't have that experience yet, he's still finding his feet at this level. Recruitment would be challenge too far right now.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

I think it is a generational thing.

Football has changed so much and coaches have become more specialised and recruitment is no exception.

The UK was quite a way behind in this regard but even the great Prep and Klopp let their recruitment teams work with little involvement.

GoN just doesn't have that experience yet, he's still finding his feet at this level. Recruitment would be challenge too far right now.

After all he is a pe teacher but a good one …. Lol

 

[wwbug]

I find the concept of a manager having no say at all on player recruitment difficult to get my head around … especially when their fate is so closely linked to the players at their disposal. Probably a generational thing.

When a team costs £200 million to build and a manager leaves after a hissy fit , or loses 6 on the bounce and is sacked that manager has to hold only a custodianship.

 

[YouGottaRaulWithIt]

It's not a stretch of the imagination to speculate Neto may go for £80 million. A very handy purse for the recruiting team.

Whittaker could be an inexpensive replacement at right wing. Not as quick, but certainly has an eye for goal.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Arsenal eyeing future deal for Pedro Neto

According to Spanish outlet Todo Fichajes, Arsenal will make a summer approach to sign Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Pedro Neto. The Gunners have been long-term admirers of the Portugal international and they were first interested in signing him in 2022. Injuries have hampered the progress of...

football-talk.co.uk

 

[Ned]

WE don’t know, but the coaches who work with them daily will have a much much better idea of a players level and ability so I’d trust their judgement. What’s the alternative drop Lemina for a run of games to have a “look” at Cundle? They’ll already have analysed every minute he’s played at Plymouth to know where he’s at.

We had the same in the summer with Sanderson and Giles, some folk were apoplectic about them going when in real terms they were what they are, two championship level plodders.

City won’t care less about Doyle, they’ll have decided long ago that he wasn’t good enough to play for them in the short or medium term. They’ll have protection with a buy back clause if somehow his level sky rockets. They were happy for Cole Palmer to go, they really aren’t worried about TD

Yea to be fair I was fuming we let Giles leave but this season has shown that he wouldn’t have been anywhere near good enough. At least Giles actually stood out in the championship last season but Sanderson is just a championship level player who had a good game in the Asia cup once.

Cundle isn’t going to get any game time at all, we don’t play a 6 man centre midfield so he’s never going to get a chance. I’m happy to sell him for a low fee with a decent sell on and a cheap buy back… literally what every single big club does with youngsters in the same position (see Tommy Doyle).

 

[Himleywolf]

Ings never fit wtf is this club turning into. Past it when he was at villa. West Ham panic purchased him. Wtf are we thinking here

Would have been good 5 years ago, way past it now.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Would have been good 5 years ago, way past it now.

100% if we want past it strikers there are plenty about Lukas Jutkiewicz do a job for 60 mins another goal today. Proper target man Lyndon Dkyes another prob get both of them for 3m. Why spend big when we can lump it to these kind of players, impeccable hold up play.

 

[Plastic Shrapnel]

I think Rodrigo Gomes is being seen as that.

Neto will be off 100%.

I think Rodrigo Gomes is being lined up for future Semedo replacement.

Ickle Lemina will be Pedro's replacement long term.

 

[JOSWolf]

Isn’t cundle playing in a more attacking role at Plymouth?

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Isn’t cundle playing in a more attacking role at Plymouth?

Yes behind the striker

 

[North West Wanderer]

100% if we want past it strikers there are plenty about Lukas Jutkiewicz do a job for 60 mins another goal today. Proper target man Lyndon Dkyes another prob get both of them for 3m. Why spend big when we can lump it to these kind of players, impeccable hold up play.

Are you ok hun?

 

[Timberwolf]

Hope there's some self-reflection going on at the club when we have the best part of £80 million worth of forwards out on loan -none of which have any obligation on those clubs to buy.

I know that the club still have hopes for Fabio long-term, despite reports to the contrary. I also know that prior to Fabio’s emotional breakdown after conceding ‘that’ penno, GON thought he was making good progress with him. Not heard anything about Sasa though.

 

[Timberwolf]

Let the jizzing commence.

I remember the buckets of Guedes related jizz. I think I’ll use my tantric sex skills to hold on this time. At least until he scores a worldie at Anfield.

 

[wolvesjoe]

Neto owes the club another year. He has been supported through three injuries now.

And he obviously loves the club and his teammates.

Build next season's top 6 side around him.

 

[North West Wanderer]

Neto owes the club another year. He has been supported through three injuries now.

And he obviously loves the club and his teammates.

Build next season's top 6 side around him.

This is an interesting one worthy of debate. I actually agree with you. I think him saying he isn't going anywhere in January is nice, but in reality, let's get a full season.
On the other hand, is he another Jota? Supremely talented but injury prone?

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Neto owes the club another year. He has been supported through three injuries now.

And he obviously loves the club and his teammates.

Build next season's top 6 side around him.

He’s gone mate

 

[Summer_Wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1743726499977363566

 

[yateleywolf]

Struggle to understand why we would be interested in Ings . West Ham desperate to off-load him and his wages. Won't even be match fit.

 

[steve vena]

Unless we give our youth a chance… How do we know if they are good enough??

Same example Doyle and Man City. I am sure they are now thinking twice about selling him to us… Especially after his recent performances

Sazsha out the door we should be expecting a striker surely

I'm sure they are not.

 

[Northampton_wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1743726499977363566

Ings makes no sense really to me 150k wages or something stupid

 

[Summer_Wolf]

Struggle to understand why we would be interested in Ings . West Ham desperate to off-load him and his wages. Won't even be match fit.

Everything O'Neil supposedly doesn't want either. Not mobile, unfit, big wages. We may as well have kept one of Silva or Sasa if this is the best we can do..

 

[lets all have a disco]

Ings is a smokescreen I reckon.....

 

[theweave]

Neto owes the club another year. He has been supported through three injuries now.

And he obviously loves the club and his teammates.

Build next season's top 6 side around him.

Signed for 9 ish million. Sold for somewhere around 60, he'd owe us nothing

 

[Hoganstolemywife]

I like Ings. Good striker when fit

 

[WKFWolf]

Late in the window suggests he's our backup if our main target doesn't get done...

 

[SuperGran]

Neto owes the club another year. He has been supported through three injuries now.

And he obviously loves the club and his teammates.

Build next season's top 6 side around him.

Footballers careers are short, he owes us nothing.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

Anyone but Ings

Give me Che Adams

 

[SuperGran]

https://x.com/jakebonjourno/status/1743735785969332272?s=61&t=VrwFHotyvNBj2kkyIxbQTA

 

[wolvesjoe]

Footballers careers are short, he owes us nothing.

I dont think most footballers think like that, tbh. Loyalty and respect matter, as far as I can make out.

Neto, in particular, seems like someone who realises he has been looked after.

 

[North West Wanderer]

100% if we want past it strikers there are plenty about Lukas Jutkiewicz do a job for 60 mins another goal today. Proper target man Lyndon Dkyes another prob get both of them for 3m. Why spend big when we can lump it to these kind of players, impeccable hold up play.

If you lived where I did, you'd never mention Lyndon bloody Dykes

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

If you lived where I did, you'd never mention Lyndon bloody Dykes

Flower of Scotland? Lol

 

[StaffordWolf]

Late in the window suggests he's our backup if our main target doesn't get done...

Hopefully assistant to the back-up.

 

[North West Wanderer]

Flower of Scotland? Lol

Im more Scottish