WBA Transfer Window: (Summer 2015) Starting early..

Beefy 1965 · 20-01-2015, 23:44

It is silly season ........

Essien Rolleyes

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/754348777?-11200:789

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · (This post was last modified: 21-01-2015, 02:00 by Ska'dForLife-WBA.)

Baggie79: "We have agreed a deal for a very promising young player who will not feature this season but could be a good long term first team player if he reaches the potential the club believes he has."

Not sure if this is a new contract for Nabi (who was rumoured to be defecting to Villa) or whether it's another Scott Allen style "underbelly signing". If it's the latter, we might be in for a looooong transfer window.

Baggie79: "Basically anyone brought in the previous window is for sale bar Lescott, Gardner, Poco & Baird, also several squad players are up for sale as well if suitable bids are made."

Seems like Samaras and Gamboa will also get the heave-ho if anyone wants them.

tidy · 21-01-2015, 01:49

It just goes to show what a hiding to nothing poor old Irvine was on. He had nothing to do with our latest transfer window fiasco but was proper hung out to dry by just about everybody.
His lack of experience in such a high profile role coupled with our scattergun approach to buying players could only ever have ended one way.
Casticated for playing Dorrans, crucified for persisting with 'undroppable' Brunt, ridiculed for not playing Varela, Blanco and Gamboa and ripped for taking too long getting Ideye up to speed.
No such a problem for Pulis.... Whistle

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 21-01-2015, 02:13

Yep. I do think that Pulis will be a lot better than Irvine at getting the best out of the incredibly limited first-team we have, and sticking Claudio Yacob in is a masterstroke from TP which always eluded Irvine, but all the same, this for me finally destroys the myth of the "top-half squad". I don't doubt that the players we acquired last summer have pedigree. Scott Sinclair and Nicolas Anelka had pedigree, too. They also had attitude problems a mile wide, and didn't give a toss about playing for our team.

The crucial thing now is to buy well this window.

BaggieMan · 21-01-2015, 02:48

Trouble is Ska'd, Pulis' buying record at Sjoke wasn't exactly what you would call successful.
In fact a lot of expensive failures interspersed with the odd good signing. Whilst TP can probably keep us up playing PTB football, I do fear for the long term quality of the type of play we will see at The Hawthorns.
These people who only a season or two ago were berating Pulis for his hoof ball thuggery tactics now regard him as the Messiah. Stoke got rid as it was so bad to watch and now people believe he's walking on water for us. Hmmmm..... Confused

Stairs · 21-01-2015, 11:32

Forest Winger, French Striker and ex Chelsea midfielder - We have been linked with as many players this January as we normally are in the summer!

Stairs · 21-01-2015, 11:35

Birmingham Mail says we will sell Dorrans to Burnley to help fund bringing Darren Fletcher in from Man Utd.

drewks · 21-01-2015, 11:55

(21-01-2015, 02:48)TheBaggieMan Wrote: Trouble is Ska'd, Pulis' buying record at Sjoke wasn't exactly what you would call successful.
In fact a lot of expensive failures interspersed with the odd good signing. Whilst TP can probably keep us up playing PTB football, I do fear for the long term quality of the type of play we will see at The Hawthorns.
These people who only a season or two ago were berating Pulis for his hoof ball thuggery tactics now regard him as the Messiah. Stoke got rid as it was so bad to watch and now people believe he's walking on water for us. Hmmmm.....

Agree re his past transfer record, BaggieMan, and that IS a tad worrying if he's been given 'total control' of ins & outs as we are led to believe. However, I don't think there's any Manager/HC that could say they haven't made errors in their transfer dealings - it just comes with the process I guess. (I'm sure that if I was spending a few million quid of my own I'd do a lot of homework first tho!)

The 'Stoke v CPalace' debate - which type of football we're most likely to see - is one that everyone will have an opinion on. Personally I think that with the success and plaudits TP got at Palace he'd be a right berk to revert back to hoofball - and a berk he certainly ain't!
I guess it all depends on what players he has right now and by the end of the month. Certainly NOW we're not suited to the Stoke way - let's hope that's the case come February 1st! Thumb up

Slick_Footwork · 21-01-2015, 12:36

(21-01-2015, 02:48)TheBaggieMan Wrote: Trouble is Ska'd, Pulis' buying record at Sjoke wasn't exactly what you would call successful.
In fact a lot of expensive failures interspersed with the odd good signing. Whilst TP can probably keep us up playing PTB football, I do fear for the long term quality of the type of play we will see at The Hawthorns.
These people who only a season or two ago were berating Pulis for his hoof ball thuggery tactics now regard him as the Messiah. Stoke got rid as it was so bad to watch and now people believe he's walking on water for us. Hmmmm.....

I hear a lot in football about 'long term' and 'projects' and to be honest, I don't believe in them.

Regardless of the style of play, the only thing we can build on, as a club, is staying in this league. Plus was the man with the most experience of that.

Staying up gives us a better platform to play good football long term. We could've got a manager in with no experience of the relegation dogfight who tries to play football now, but it would've been more of a risk than TP. If you do go down, you lose all of your best players, then the football could be dross and it's against the likes of Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Yeovil...

So while I agree that long term, it might not be great to watch. I'd rather see us 'park the bus' and stay up than try to go toe to toe with teams and go down. I must admit though, ideally, I'd have liked Pulis on a shorter term, so his primary job was just to stablise us.

Still, it could be worse, I've seen teams with far better players than we have (Eden Hazard and co) be set up to park the bus...

Foxman_WBA · 21-01-2015, 12:59

What I find crazy is that no-one thinks any of the players bought in have any prospect of development! Does anyone remember Billy Jones when he first joined, talk about useless! But he was allowed to develop and ended up one of our better players in the end.

Gamboa, Davidson etc are still quite young and could turn into good players.

To get rid of all the newbie’s plus some squad players, it’s going to cost us a fortune to replace them all! If you think on average an average player these days will cost you 5 mil, and assuming we will need 1 LB, 1 RB, 1 LW, 1 RW and 2ST’s, we will need 30mil and that’s just to stay the same not really improve the squad!

Crazy!