The hysterically annoying and totally unfounded, but traditional, Summer 2024 rumours thread.

[Jenks]

Have the pixels been checked?

Yeah not a lot of reality in that photo!

 

[glyn]

I am pleased the Zaha thing looks serious as if it works it will be great.

But I do have a nagging feeling it feels like it’s got big money return to the PL flop written all over it. The kind of thing West Ham used to do when we invested sensibly.

Hope I’m proved very wrong

 

[Miles Away]

I am pleased the Zaha thing looks serious as if it works it will be great.

But I do have a nagging feeling it feels like it’s got big money return to the PL flop written all over it. The kind of thing West Ham used to do when we invested sensibly.

Hope I’m proved very wrong

I get “one for the manager” vibes.

 

[SilverFox]

Wikipedia suggests he's an amazing striker, at least when playing for his country:

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Can we get a hypnotherapist to make him believe that LCFC is the Czech Republic?

That is quite the return

 

[Graz]

I am pleased the Zaha thing looks serious as if it works it will be great.

But I do have a nagging feeling it feels like it’s got big money return to the PL flop written all over it. The kind of thing West Ham used to do when we invested sensibly.

Hope I’m proved very wrong

It feels a bit West Ham, so the fact West Ham weren't in the running makes me feel better.

And it's a loan.

I think it's a cracking signing.

 

[lazzer]

I think he will opt for another club in the PL probably a London club.

 

[popillius]

Signing Zaha worries me. It's another one of those 'big names' that in all likelihood wants nothing more than a last payday in England.

It could work out, but it's more likely not going to.

 

[Brown Nose]

Signing Zaha worries me. It's another one of those 'big names' that in all likelihood wants nothing more than a last payday in England.

It could work out, but it's more likely not going to.

I've always loathed Zaha. He's probably second only to Kane in my shit list.

However, he's exactly what we need.

Loads of PL experience. Knows how to win fouls, slow or speed up the play, winds up opponents, gets at refs, etc.

In footballing terms, he can play anywhere in the forward line and has a good scoring record.

I expect him to get injured as that seems to be a thing with him nowadays and he's a prize **** of a person but if he was perfect he wouldn't be coming our way.

 

[Rock Fox]

I've always loathed Zaha...

However, he's exactly what we need.

At sometime or other I guess we all must've worked with someone who was undeniably good at their job -but in every other respect was the unbearable dickhead type.

Still, needs must - we need a player besides Vardy who has a clue of where the goal is

 

[popillius]

I've always loathed Zaha. He's probably second only to Kane in my shit list.

However, he's exactly what we need.

Loads of PL experience. Knows how to win fouls, slow or speed up the play, winds up opponents, gets at refs, etc.

In footballing terms, he can play anywhere in the forward line and has a good scoring record.

I expect him to get injured as that seems to be a thing with him nowadays and he's a prize **** of a person but if he was perfect he wouldn't be coming our way.

I totally agree...... If that's the Zaha we get. I hope it is but we may end up with the one who has a face like a smacked arse and doesn't want to bother half the time. That's the risk I guess.

 

[bocadillo]

I've always loathed Zaha. He's probably second only to Kane in my shit list.

Where was David Speedie on your shit list?

 

[camberwell fox]

Where was David Speedie on your shit list?

On a different one with Dennis Wise?

 

[H T B]

Where was David Speedie on your shit list?

Pretty high up until he played for us.
Actually felt for him getting sent off against Tranmere in the play off semi.

 

[Brown Nose]

Speedie and Wise are probably the two possibilities for Zaha.

Does he give his all for the club and get our grudging respect or does he just prove his ****ishness.

 

[homer]

Zaha is a vile arrogant cheating diving ****, who may well turn out to be a perennially injured mardy arsed twat who disrupts whatever morsel of team spirit we have left

Oh he might just be bloody brilliant

It's a massive gamble, but that's where we find ourselves

 

[Robin127]

He's been used to playing in an out of form team at the wrong end of the table too.

 

[Blue Maniac]

He's been used to playing in an out of form team at the wrong end of the table too.

He’s just won a league title…

 

[fitz]

Zaha has 20 out of 20 for diving in the football manager database that exists only in my head. Proper little cheating **** that lad. We'll stay up on pens alone.

 

[londonfox]

We don't need another nice, even tempered, well behaved young man in the squad. We need players with some bollocks who are going to get angry, and who are going to hold teammates accountable, and who are going to be pissed off when it's going to shit on the pitch. We've needed many of these types of players for years.

 

[Brown Nose]