January Window

[miller0863]

If only there had been a home grown England International CB available for ohhh I dunno … £20m? Far fetched I know but that would have been ideal.

[Insidious]

If only there had been a home grown England International CB available for ohhh I dunno … £20m? Far fetched I know but that would have been ideal.

If only Glasner hadn't let Crystal Palace know that he would depart the club if Guehi was sold - etc etc

Was as disappointed as anyone about Guehi, but we spent big in the Summer which is what most of the clamour has been about for the last 10+ years in here, so I find it hard to be too frustrated by it given that we (relatively speaking) spent loads - we were never going to have a "perfect" window and we did start it with 4 centre-backs (Van Dijk, Konaté, Gomez, Leoni) and a player who has made more appearances at centre-back than at defensive mid throughout his career in Endo.

Guehi is at Man City now and the past is past. The Leoni injury was so bloody unfortunate, annoyingly.

[miller0863]

All that is true but we thought Guehi a good idea when everyone was fit, I fail to see why he wasn’t a good idea when we had sever long term defensive injuries.

The £300k a week is a red herring, as even if we would have had to agree to that, we were paying £15m less in a fee.

The whole episode was ridiculous

[Insidious]

Ridiculous as many may have deemed it, we offered them £35m and it was accepted - and he did part of his medical.

Igor Julio's loan from Brighton to tide Palace through to January (that never materialised) did us no favours and Glasner made the threat that he made. What's done is done.

With luck we'll get it right next time. I think Gomez is due to be fit for the Man City game so with luck we have 3 available centre-backs (plus Endo who can cover without Grav having to come back in) going forward for our remaining 14 League games and whatever we accomplish in Cup Tournaments - with us having no mid-week game to worry about this week.

[RedMagic]

According to Fabrizio Romano, we have identified Rennes centre back Jeremy Jacquet as a priority target and will sign him in the summer for €60m.

[Kev0909]

Geertruida deal not happening according to Romano.

Well that was a climax.......

Imagine signing someone

Too complex.. to late in the window apparently

Oh we're leaving things late again?

Why I never

it's beyond a joke at this point.

[Kev0909]

If only someone had told Hughes, Edwards and Slot that the window was open on Jan 1st ….🙄

Exactly, it's a fucking pisstake, thngs need to change.

Could've done with someone like him, if we can find a better player in the summer who can play CB and RB would be great.

[Gurthers]

According to Fabrizio Romano, we have identified Rennes centre back Jeremy Jacquet as a priority target and will sign him in the summer for €60m.

There is still some noise about Chelsea trying to hijack the deal. Hard for us to compete with 7 year contracts at 300k per week.

[Kev0909]

According to Fabrizio Romano, we have identified Rennes centre back Jeremy Jacquet as a priority target and will sign him in the summer for €60m.

I thought i literally read a few days from official sources that he only wants chelsea?

is a 20 year old kid we need at the moment, or a more established player? 23-26

Leoni is the young CB

[jimmyliver]

Well we have signed him. 55 m pound , problem is he goes back to Rennes for the remainder of the season.