Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

[toonotl 3413]

PSR fucked us massively with Anderson and Minteh deals. Forest made out like bandits. And Brighton too.

 

I think we could reasonably expect to have gotten a lot more money for Anderson if PSR didn't have us scrambling to sell him on a few days notice. We effectively got 15m for him when you consider the makeweight Greek goalkeeper who is seemingly completely worthless to us. Or worse than useless considering we're also paying his wages to do fuck all.

 

And Minteh would arguably be our starting RW by now. He'd at least be pushing Murphy very hard for a starting place. And longer term he could've been the solving of our RW problems given his capacity to develop further. Minteh scored a lot of goals as a teenager in a competitive European league. I mentioned this prior to us selling him that he had better goal scoring numbers for his age than a few very high quality players to come out of second tier European leagues. (And a few shit ones, i.e., Antony, but still a player who demanded a massive transfer fee.)

 

Make no mistake, the situation forced upon us by PSR absolutely fucked us on those two deals.

[RobinRobin 12440]

3 hours ago, OTF said:

Anderson still wouldn't be playing much for us though IMO, he's behind Bruno, Tonali and Joelinton. Minteh would be playing loads though.

 

People quickly forget that despite his limited minutes due to multiple injuries Barnes still has 10 goals (many of them key ones) and 4 assists. Hopefully one day we get to see his consistent best.

I reckon Anderson would have been ahead of Willock and so would have been playing when big Joe was injured and probably in the final ahead of Barnes, with Gordon out.  Minteh, as you say, would have been playing loads.  

 

While Barnes has scored some crucial goals, I don't think he has the defensive mentality or athleticism which Eddie usually expects.  Injuries have not helped there, so perhaps I am being mean.

[wykikitoon 22727]

No way are we getting more money for Anderson when we sold him as he was bang average playing on the left due to injuries and then he was injured. 

 

He's had a top season at Forest as he's moved position but in that position we have decent players. He would have again been a bench player but well ahead of Longstaff. 

[Ayatollah Hermione 14650]

7 hours ago, toonotl said:

PSR fucked us massively with Anderson and Minteh deals. Forest made out like bandits. And Brighton too.

 

I think we could reasonably expect to have gotten a lot more money for Anderson if PSR didn't have us scrambling to sell him on a few days notice. We effectively got 15m for him when you consider the makeweight Greek goalkeeper who is seemingly completely worthless to us. Or worse than useless considering we're also paying his wages to do fuck all.

 

And Minteh would arguably be our starting RW by now. He'd at least be pushing Murphy very hard for a starting place. And longer term he could've been the solving of our RW problems given his capacity to develop further. Minteh scored a lot of goals as a teenager in a competitive European league. I mentioned this prior to us selling him that he had better goal scoring numbers for his age than a few very high quality players to come out of second tier European leagues. (And a few shit ones, i.e., Antony, but still a player who demanded a massive transfer fee.)

 

Make no mistake, the situation forced upon us by PSR absolutely fucked us on those two deals.

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[Gemmill 49713]

Aye £35m for Anderson was considered a canny bit at the time. The lad was an unfancied 4th or 5th option for us. 

[ewerk 33103]

11 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Aye £35m for Anderson was considered a canny bit at the time. The lad was an unfancied 4th or 5th option for us. 

 

[toonotl 3413]

To ramp things up to the ultimate in ridiculousness, it could be argued that the fee is essentially even less than 15m at this point. We've learned now that Eddie has absolutely zero intention of using the Greek GK. So we've essentially agreed to pay a few million per season in wages (that Forest don't have to pay) on top of the 20m transfer fee for an unused bargaining chip. So it's 35m minus 20m transfer minus wasted wages on an unusable shithouse GK that our manager doesn't rate until we manage to sell him.

[Gemmill 49713]

Are you in the path of this cyclone I've just seen about on the news? 

[toonotl 3413]

4 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Are you in the path of this cyclone I've just seen about on the news? 

 

Yep. We're a touch in land so it'll likely be just a lot of rain for us. We've put seven sandbags in front of the garage door. So we're 100% prepared.

[Gemmill 49713]

Good luck! I hate this extreme weather shit. 

 

 

[Dr Gloom 23564]

6 hours ago, RobinRobin said:

I reckon Anderson would have been ahead of Willock and so would have been playing when big Joe was injured and probably in the final ahead of Barnes, with Gordon out.  Minteh, as you say, would have been playing loads.  

 

While Barnes has scored some crucial goals, I don't think he has the defensive mentality or athleticism which Eddie usually expects.  Injuries have not helped there, so perhaps I am being mean.

 

i don't think you are. time is not being kind to the barnes signing - looks increasingly like an opportunistic signing rather than one the squad needed. but tbf to the club it's a rare one since the takeoever that hasn't worked out 

[Holden McGroin 7538]

Just now, Dr Gloom said:

 

i don't think you are. time is not being kind to the barnes signing - looks increasingly like an opportunistic signing rather than one the squad needed. but tbf to the club it's a rare one since the takeoever that hasn't worked out 

 

I think we were trying to buy 2 quality players for each position with the CL season in mind. I think he is a good player personally but I don't think he has been able to adapt to Eddies system enough.  He'll probably go to a mid PL team and  bang in 10 a season no probs.

[toonotl 3413]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

Good luck! I hate this extreme weather shit. 

 

 

 

Thanks Gemmers. Fingers crossed it's not too bad.

[thebrokendoll 10234]

1 hour ago, Gemmill said:

Good luck! I hate this extreme weather shit. 

 

 

 

yer fucking big tart, we don't get any extreme weather in this country.

they issue a red warning alert these days for a gentle breeze and half a dozen snowflakes.  when I was at infant school I was sent out, havasak on back, to trudge the mile to school through six foot snow drifts in siberia like temperatures. what's more, there was hordes of jimmy saville and gary glitter types hanging about every street corner.

we just got on with it, they bred proper men in 60s and 70s..

[Dr Gloom 23564]

13 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

yer fucking big tart, we don't get any extreme weather in this country.

they issue a red warning alert these days for a gentle breeze and half a dozen snowflakes.  when I was at infant school I was sent out, havasak on back, to trudge the mile to school through six foot snow drifts in siberia like temperatures. what's more, there was hordes of jimmy saville and gary glitter types hanging about every street corner.

we just got on with it, they bred proper men in 60s and 70s..

 

[Toonpack 11327]

19 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

yer fucking big tart, we don't get any extreme weather in this country.

they issue a red warning alert these days for a gentle breeze and half a dozen snowflakes.  when I was at infant school I was sent out, havasak on back, to trudge the mile to school through six foot snow drifts in siberia like temperatures. what's more, there was hordes of jimmy saville and gary glitter types hanging about every street corner.

we just got on with it, they bred proper men in 60s and 70s..

I believe all of that, apart from the “went to school bit”

[Gemmill 49713]

26 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

yer fucking big tart, we don't get any extreme weather in this country.

they issue a red warning alert these days for a gentle breeze and half a dozen snowflakes.  when I was at infant school I was sent out, havasak on back, to trudge the mile to school through six foot snow drifts in siberia like temperatures. what's more, there was hordes of jimmy saville and gary glitter types hanging about every street corner.

we just got on with it, they bred proper men in 60s and 70s..

 

CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER

[wykikitoon 22727]

30 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

yer fucking big tart, we don't get any extreme weather in this country.

they issue a red warning alert these days for a gentle breeze and half a dozen snowflakes.  when I was at infant school I was sent out, havasak on back, to trudge the mile to school through six foot snow drifts in siberia like temperatures. what's more, there was hordes of jimmy saville and gary glitter types hanging about every street corner.

we just got on with it, they bred proper men in 60s and 70s..

 

You need a union flag in your avatar

[thebrokendoll 10234]

6 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER

 

we'd spend hours painting the flap on our havasaks in black and white stripes, you meanwhile still use your plastic teletubbies lunchbox.

[Gemmill 49713]

4 minutes ago, thebrokendoll said:

 

we'd spend hours painting the flap on our havasaks in black and white stripes, you meanwhile still use your plastic teletubbies lunchbox.

 

It took you hours to do that? I don't think I would have let you walk to and from school by yourself.