Transfer Gossip

[Bigtoe]

I still think we will add a free agent or two to the mix

[tarian1979]

Though granted I've never seen him so let's see (unlike when signed trotter when instant comment that's proved bang on could be made)

[tarian1979]

I also think alf will get us goals in this league if used correctly.

[Blondi]

If the birm kid was a great talent he'd be in their no wins in ten d ogshit side take as given

Yeah but Zola is the Brum manager and he's a fooking useless cluless manager.

[Zico]

I thought undisclosed was common to possibly stop other clubs knowing what you have to spend. Seeing we cant buy anyone, it just seems a bit strange.

 

other clubs aren't our problem

 

suppliers are

 

same thing probably

 

Heathcoate might be banging on the door this morning saying pay up as per your contract, we know you've just got £3m, KA can say, no we've not, we only get £3M if Forest win the Champions League, till then, it's 120k

[bwfc2003]

I wouldn't say weaker yet, the kid from Brum is supposed to be a great talent so, fingers crossed he's a Ameobi replacement. Sad to see Clough go, but delighted ALF is back. Time will tell in the next few games if we're weaker.

problem with this Brummie is he hasnt played a first team game for 3 years (according to Wicki)

[gonzo]

There's a reason only forest and Bristol offered less than £3 million for the lad.

 

He's not some mythical £5 million beast nobody knew about.

 

Folk need to get a grip and remember where the fuck we've been for the past 3 seasons with him in the side.

[Carlos]

No real point disclosing fees unless you get the breakdown, people out there genuinely believe clubs receive the full amounts stated.

[Blondi]

problem with this Brummie is he hasnt played a first team game for 3 years (according to Wicki)

Incorrect.

http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=87736&season_id=145

Edited February 1, 2017 by Blondi

[gonzo]

No real point disclosing fees unless you get the breakdown, people out there genuinely believe clubs receive the full amounts stated.

I get the feeling KA is going to have give a statement every day to appease our numbskulls.

[jules_darby]

The team Stronger or weaker? Nobody can possibly say until the lads have played, but logically it all makes sense

 

Also, perhaps frustratingly, more important is that the club is stronger with the Clough money

[Zico]

There's a reason only forest and Bristol offered less than £3 million for the lad.

 

He's not some mythical £5 million beast nobody knew about.

 

Folk need to get a grip and remember where the fuck we've been for the past 3 seasons with him in the side.

I'm not saying we should have got more or that he should've gone to the PL or someone better

 

It's how important he is to us this season and in the grand scheme of things he could have been worth more than £3m to us if he helped us get up as there's no denying he's a big reason why were pushing for top 2 so far

 

Beevers and Vela are equally important and they attracted interest from scuthorpe and a 500k bid from wigan, is there a reason why that's the only interest they generated? Though it doesn't matter as they are also important to our push for automatic promotion so they are worth more than that to us

 

Clough would still have been worth 3m in the summer

 

We went into jan thinking we didn't have to sell

 

So it's a bit shit

 

Going for only 3m doesn't make him not that good all of a sudden, no doubt we'd have been worse off without him the last 3 years

[Ratwhite]

Zero chance? I'd hate to be in the trenches with you!

 

Been thinking overnight and with no Clough/Sammy, this season could literally go either way depending on these signings. Big gamble but if we go up PP/KA deserve massive credit for the decision making. We were stalling so the changes excite me!

 

I think we'd hit play offs at worst whatever they did in the transfer window so with us ending up net financially and gaining a goalscorer and 2 more forwards for Clough I think true moves we made are entirely understandable.

Great summary and agree

[passmosster]

Hope that we are getting plenty of the Forest money up front.

[marple whites]

Not a bad window in fairness.  Clough for me has been trying not to get injured since early December and apart from set pieces hasn't offered a great deal.  ALF offers a true finisher and things like 1 on 1's and being a menace in the box are right up there.  

This lad from Burnley seems ok from what I have heard from a Burnley fan at work.

 

Massive month coming up and for me - lets see what happens Saturday.

[gonzo]

I'm not saying we should have got more or that he should've gone to the PL or someone better

 

It's how important he is to us this season and in the grand scheme of things he could have been worth more than £3m to us if he helped us get up as there's no denying he's a big reason why were pushing for top 2 so far

 

Beevers and Vela are equally important and they attracted interest from scuthorpe and a 500k bid from wigan, is there a reason why that's the only interest they generated? Though it doesn't matter as they are also important to our push for automatic promotion so they are worth more than that to us

 

Clough would still have been worth 3m in the summer

 

We went into jan thinking we didn't have to sell

 

So it's a bit shit

 

Going for only 3m doesn't make him not that good all of a sudden, no doubt we'd have been worse off without him the last 3 years

Aye it's all about on the pitch opinions.

 

I think we are a stronger unit without him. His head goes all the time then it's like playing with 10 men. But you're scared to take him because he's got that one turn of pace in locker.

 

I'd rather mould an attack round a goal scorer that doesn't miss 6 a game and a fanny that can't win a ball.

 

We weren't going up relying on goals from Clough.

 

I'm happy to have the money in the bank and a new strike force to have a go with. Set pieces and deflections weren't getting us up anyway.

[Horwich]

If the birm kid was a great talent he'd be in their no wins in ten d ogshit side take as given

Plus we just got rid of anderson who scored a hat-trick at the weekend

[bolton va va]

On paper, we're weaker now by losing our 2 most creative players , Ameobi & Clough.

 

It's hard to see how ALF fits in.......a tittyliner   out & out goalscorer in a team that creates no chances & it might be that Long & the brummie will turn out to be the more influential signings.

 

It'll be interesting to see how PP shuffles them all but it would be a shame if it all means that Vela is pushed back into a more defensive role.

[radcliffe white]

Henry really needs to up his game, had high hopes

[Didledee]

So if the January transfer window didn't exist, Bolton wouldn't come summer? 

[Ratwhite]

Clough is still unproven.

 

He is extremely intermittent. His dead ball ability is good (but so is Spearings), he has struggled to beat a man, and more often than not gets knocked off the ball. He also has a shit injury record to date.

We cannot afford to loose many more "winnable" games (Swindon, Walsall, Chesterfield, Charlton etc), We need some fucker to stick the ball in the onion bag. Madine will never do it consitently, but with a new foil (Le Fondre / Long / Octobor) things may change. We were getting turgid and to continue with same tactics we would fail. At least we have shaken things up, got rid of Chris Taylor and tried to do something different.

 

.......and if all else fails we still have Trotter

[Casino]

I'm hoping ALF can play the role Clough was playing

 

Cos if he can, he will score more than Zach

 

If it means we rip everything up and go 442 or ALF up top on his own, then I'm not so sure

[Farrelli]

Clough is still unproven.

 

He is extremely intermittent. His dead ball ability is good (but so is Spearings), he has struggled to beat a man, and more often than not gets knocked off the ball. He also has a shit injury record to date.

We cannot afford to loose many more "winnable" games (Swindon, Walsall, Chesterfield, Charlton etc), We need some fucker to stick the ball in the onion bag. Madine will never do it consitently, but with a new foil (Le Fondre / Long / Octobor) things may change. We were getting turgid and to continue with same tactics we would fail. At least we have shaken things up, got rid of Chris Taylor and tried to do something different.

 

.......and if all else fails we still have Trotter

Agree. The last two home games have shown we are struggling in the final third, something had to change. Clough wonderful goal Saturday but not much else. Sorry to see him go for that money but we are skint and that was the offer we had. Hopefully plenty of clauses included.

[Guest]

We'd have won had Clough bagged that sitter on Saturday

 

Sad to see him go, but we'll now see if Parkinson has any "plan Bs"

[Happy Wanderer]

Why undisclosed?

 

It will be £4.5M as that was always the selling price for our players