The hysterically annoying and totally unfounded, but traditional, January 2025 rumours thread.

[HFox]

Nearly went Birmingham but concerns over playing time

 

[ThaiSweetChilli]

Perfect for Alves.

Still waiting for a proper juicy rumours from Percy or Romano,

 

[Miles Away]

We are ****ing it up again, aren’t we?

 

[Feidlimid]

Are we only looking at loans now?

 

[popillius]

We are ****ing it up again, aren’t we?

Not really. It was always going to be almost impossible to get what we needed in this window. I'm looking around at other clubs and I don't see any who I think have done what you might describe as 'good business' this window. I'd rather we just go with what we have than buy any old shit simply because it's available. Lamptey would have been good but that's not happening. We might get another one in but we were never going to rectify the errors we made in the summer.

 

[Brown Nose]

We're not short of numbers, we're short of quality.

If we're skint, all we can do is beg to borrow randoms from European clubs. That doesn't seem a likely route to quality signings.

 

[homer]

Find it hard to believe that we couldn’t find one ****ing half decent signing FFS

It’s genuinely pathetic

 

[SilverFox]

Find it hard to believe that we couldn’t find one ****ing half decent signing FFS

It’s genuinely pathetic

Decent centre half would be massive for us.

 

[Graz]

We're not short of numbers, we're short of quality.

If we're skint, all we can do is beg to borrow randoms from European clubs. That doesn't seem a likely route to quality signings.

Agree, but is it really that hard to find an improvement on our centre backs?

Signing a ****ing postbox and leaving it in on the pitch would be an improvement on now.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Decent centre half would be massive for us.

Especially when considering our massive centre back isn't decent at all.

 

[popillius]

Find it hard to believe that we couldn’t find one ****ing half decent signing FFS

It’s genuinely pathetic

We may have. We haven't seen Coulibaly properly yet.

 

[lesterboy]

Find it hard to believe that we couldn’t find one ****ing half decent signing FFS

It’s genuinely pathetic

We haven't managed it since the signing of Kante.

 

[OzzieFox]

Here's an idea to save a lot of stress. Instead of having a winter window of 4 weeks, why don't they do it for 4 minutes?

 

[Miles Away]

We haven't managed it since the signing of Kante.

Right.

Maddison
Tielemans
Ndidi
Ricardo
Hermansen
Maguire
Fatawu
El Khannouss

That’s just off the top of my head.

Kante has to go down as one of the greatest signings in football history, along with Mahrez and Vardy. To expect that is to expect miracles.

 

[OzzieFox]

Right.

Maddison
Tielemans
Ndidi
Ricardo
Hermansen
Maguire
Fatawu
El Khannouss

That’s just off the top of my head.

Kante has to go down as one of the greatest signings in football history, along with Mahrez and Vardy. To expect that is to expect miracles.

Don't forget Maguire and Fofana, and the money they brought into the club when we sold them.

 

[homer]

And Ryan Bennett

 

[Robin127]

I would say that Evans in his first couple of years was also a very good signing, especially for the price.