Speculation The hysterical and annoying, but traditional, totally unfounded winter 2018/19 rumours thread.

[Graz]

Apparently Man Utd are willing to let Fellaini leave on loan during the Jan window.

I think it could be an option for us...

Decent player still, but also feels like a Puel-like option while giving us something different. If Puel wants to persist with 3 midfielders designed to make us more solid, then Fellaini can do that. But he can actually get forward a bit too, and would give us someone that can actually get on the end of the many crosses we put into the box.

If we're stuck in Puel's current system, he feels like a player that could improve it.

 

[Lako42]

Apparently Man Utd are willing to let Fellaini leave on loan during the Jan window.

I think it could be an option for us...

Decent player still, but also feels like a Puel-like option while giving us something different. If Puel wants to persist with 3 midfielders designed to make us more solid, then Fellaini can do that. But he can actually get forward a bit too, and would give us someone that can actually get on the end of the many crosses we put into the box.

If we're stuck in Puel's current system, he feels like a player that could improve it.

Could have actually used one of the 498 lofted crosses into the box on Satdee

 

[Fox Fan]

Apparently Man Utd are willing to let Fellaini leave on loan during the Jan window.

I think it could be an option for us...

Decent player still, but also feels like a Puel-like option while giving us something different. If Puel wants to persist with 3 midfielders designed to make us more solid, then Fellaini can do that. But he can actually get forward a bit too, and would give us someone that can actually get on the end of the many crosses we put into the box.

If we're stuck in Puel's current system, he feels like a player that could improve it.

He would have scored a few headers on Saturday!

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

No, not know for it at all, apart from the club's moto - foxes never quit.

During our last 'successful' period under O'Neill, we were hardly renown for our flair, skill and quality of football - we were a team full of 'bastard' type players and scored a lot of our goals from set plays, corners etc.

Are people seriously trying to suggest we have as much chance as Man Utd of winning the league? Even if you discounted history and wealth etc and just considering the teams as they are now, they are way ahead of us. That's not defeatist or negative but realistic.

That's not what I'm trying to suggest at all. Nice reading in between the lines there... I'm simply saying that Man U's or our own past traditions has feck all to do with the type of football our fans want to be seeing now.

 

[popillius]

Are people seriously trying to suggest we have as much chance as Man Utd of winning the league?

No. Nobody said that. People are saying that perhaps our manager shouldn't be saying that we can't mix it up with the 'big boys' for 6th, even if that's what he feels. It sends a really awful message to the players and the fans. We are 10 points from 6th and we have lost to a 10 man Southampton team, an awful Cardiff team and drawn with the likes of Brighton, Burnley and Fulham. If we had a manager with any idea whatsoever of how to break down these teams who have all done exactly the same thing in parking eleven men behind the ball, we would absolutely be in the mix for 6th. Maybe its not that we can't achieve 6th, but more that he can't.

At least he seems to be aware of his limitations.

 

[Skitzo]

anyway a couple of options for the number 8 we are so clearly short of and in need of.

Yaya Toure
positives - available on a free transfer, has a good range of passing and would be a leader on the pitch, we could probably get a year or so out of him in the same way as Esteban Cambiasso
negatives - wages would likely be huge, legs going but that could be masked by having Hamza and Wilf next to him.

Jonjo Shelvey
positives - great range of passing, relatively cheap, knows the league and wouldn't need time to adjust
negatives - is prone to a red card tackle

Aaron Mooy
positives - would probably be keen to come, young likes to get forward and score as well as pull strings from deep
negative - Huddersfield probably won't sell cheap, injured until next month

 

[M17TT C]

Way ahead of us in terms of mentality as well.

If the only thing that sets us apart is our desire and mentality, then sure to **** we need a manager who actually understands that?

But it's not is it - there is also a small thing called ability that plays a part to.

Strong desire & positive mentality are certainly worthwhile traits in a footballer but you do need that combined with ability if you want to be the best or to compete with them.

 

[M17TT C]

That's not what I'm trying to suggest at all. Nice reading in between the lines there... I'm simply saying that Man U's or our own past traditions has feck all to do with the type of football our fans want to be seeing now.

Of course it doesn't and I'm sure that Macclesfield Town fans would want to see them play like Barcelona, but it is unlikely possibility.

 

[TornadoShaunUK]

Of course it doesn't and I'm sure that Macclesfield Town fans would want to see them play like Barcelona, but it is unlikely possibility.

You still miss the point. The point was that the traditions of us or Man U or whoever the feck else has feck all to do with sacking Puel and 'releasing the shackles'. Arguably even if we did go down the traditions route, our recent tradition for hard work and graft or 'qualiteeee set pieces' under O'Neill have both gone down the shitter under Puel...

 

[FOX Franks]

anyway a couple of options for the number 8 we are so clearly short of and in need of.

Yaya Toure
positives - available on a free transfer, has a good range of passing and would be a leader on the pitch, we could probably get a year or so out of him in the same way as Esteban Cambiasso
negatives - wages would likely be huge, legs going but that could be masked by having Hamza and Wilf next to him.

Jonjo Shelvey
positives - great range of passing, relatively cheap, knows the league and wouldn't need time to adjust
negatives - is prone to a red card tackle

Aaron Mooy
positives - would probably be keen to come, young likes to get forward and score as well as pull strings from deep
negative - Huddersfield probably won't sell cheap, injured until next month

Superscout is back!!

 

[TommyK]

anyway a couple of options for the number 8 we are so clearly short of and in need of.

Yaya Toure

Jonjo Shelvey

Aaron Mooy

Yaya Toure's legs went two years ago. No longer good enough for the premiership.
Shelvey is one of the most overrated players in the league. not sure how he got an England cap.
Mooy I would take. Excellent player.

 

[H T B]

According to the Sun, we are lining up Brendan Rogers as Claude's replacement.

Hmmmm......

 

[Skitzo]

According to the Sun, we are lining up Brendan Rogers as Claude's replacement.

Hmmmm......

Style the owners want, good record with younger players when at Swansea, could do a lot worse

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Style the owners want, good record with younger players when at Swansea, could do a lot worse

More a case of at the minute couldn't do any better. A year ago I'd have considereed him a backward step. I wouldn't now.

**** all chance of any meaningful signings in this window though. January prices are inflated to **** & why would the club waste money when we're perfectly safe, out of the cups & have absolutely nothing left to play for? I can see a couple of loans maybe at most.

I have a horrible feeling that aiming for 7th is going to quietly slip away & never be mentioned again after the next couple of weeks. We could very easily lose the next 4 games. If we do it'll shift from "we're aiming for 7th" to " we'd like top 10"

To be perfectly honest I wish it was ****ing May.

 

[Blaarev]

Huddersfield rumoured to chase Arteta as their new manager. Just saying like.

 

[Blaarev]

Ali Reghba; one for the future?

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/.../leicester-city-striker-transfer-news-2433389

 

[bocadillo]

To be perfectly honest I wish it was ****ing May.

After last night's vote, I would say that she is already ****ed.

 

[Robin127]

Huddersfield rumoured to chase Arteta as their new manager. Just saying like.

I was only thinking yesterday that I wouldn't be surprised if he gets offered a job soon. He was one of the names that came into my head when it came to a possible new manager at City.

 

[Blaarev]

 

[SJN-Fox]

BBC Leicester Sport‏ Verified account @BBCRLSport 7 minutes ago

CP: "We have this money to spend in the transfer window. We cannot make decisions under pressure without looking properly, we must avoid bad decisions. We know we have the resources to improve the team in the future, but if it is not the right time to do this, we will be wise.