Summer 2021 Transfer Thread.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I thought as much, because its you who's now said it !....it was rubbish when I said it a month ago but now you have said it today its now ok, what a know it all ******** you are (feel free to fill in the missing letters)

Ooh can I have a go!

Eight letters...

is it...


Wanderer?

[GhostoftheBok]

Wanderer?

First three letters and some on the end there were what he had in mind, I'm sure.

[Bertie Wooster]

Close DSB, not quite Bok ! but good attempts chaps....a clue is that it ends in hole.

He's just so sanctimonious.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Close DSB, not quite Bok ! but good attempts chaps....a clue is that it ends in hole.

He's just so sanctimonious.

Close with "Wanderer", ends in hole...

Got it! Bolthole!

[GhostoftheBok]

Close with "Wanderer", ends in hole...

Got it! Bolthole!

Better than "Wandhole"....it all went a bit Harry Potter porn parody.

Provisional title: Hairy Pothole.

[Prufrock]

Anyone got Jack wilsheres number?

[GhostoftheBok]

Anyone got Jack wilsheres number?

Every midfielder he's played against in the last 5 years.

[nicholaldo]

Anyone got Jack wilsheres number?

Every midfielder he's played against in the last 5 years.

To be fair, with his injury record that's not many.

[Worthy4England]

Anyone got Jack wilsheres number?

Yeah. Jack Wilshere.

[GhostoftheBok]

Evatt: "We've got what we've got until January. We have to batten down the hatches."

We're not getting any freebies in.

[LeverEnd]

Time to see now if he's learning and adapting, or blindly repeating stuff that doesn't work. It'll be an interesting few weeks. He's got credit in the bank in terms of promotion goodwill and points from a good start. I'm not particularly hopeful though.

[TANGODANCER]

Close with "Wanderer", ends in hole...

Got it! Bolthole!

Better than "Wandhole"....it all went a bit Harry Potter porn parody.

Provisional title: Hairy Pothole.

It's very hard to see Sunday as a day of goodwill when we keep losing on Saturday.

[GhostoftheBok]

It's very hard to see Sunday as a day of goodwill when we keep losing on Saturday.

Yeah, it is. It's always hard to watch your side lose and you can understand intellectually that there are reasonable excuses for some of it (by no means all), but you still feel every loss the same regardless.

There are reasonable questions to ask and we asked a lot of them in the summer. Evatt isn't the sort of manager to sit in a fan's forum and give detailed accounts of his actions, or not that I can see. Covid has meant he's not been asked to.

Why didn't we get fullbacks in in summer and why did we keep Tutte if there is money available for January? My suspicion is that they are waiting on long term targets and the guys available in the summer weren't players we felt could take us forward, but if it was purely gambling on fitness they need a reality check. I could accept that we are where we are because the long term plan called for investment to be held for next summer. The landscape has changed now.

[BWFC_Insane]

It's very hard to see Sunday as a day of goodwill when we keep losing on Saturday.

Yeah, it is. It's always hard to watch your side lose and you can understand intellectually that there are reasonable excuses for some of it (by no means all), but you still feel every loss the same regardless.

There are reasonable questions to ask and we asked a lot of them in the summer. Evatt isn't the sort of manager to sit in a fan's forum and give detailed accounts of his actions, or not that I can see. Covid has meant he's not been asked to.

Why didn't we get fullbacks in in summer and why did we keep Tutte if there is money available for January? My suspicion is that they are waiting on long term targets and the guys available in the summer weren't players we felt could take us forward, but if it was purely gambling on fitness they need a reality check. I could accept that we are where we are because the long term plan called for investment to be held for next summer. The landscape has changed now.

A reasonable question would be if you felt you couldn’t get the players required and stuck with a piecemeal squad why keep telling people we were the best side in the league? And what damage has doing so done?

[Worthy4England]

It's very hard to see Sunday as a day of goodwill when we keep losing on Saturday.

Yeah, it is. It's always hard to watch your side lose and you can understand intellectually that there are reasonable excuses for some of it (by no means all), but you still feel every loss the same regardless.

There are reasonable questions to ask and we asked a lot of them in the summer. Evatt isn't the sort of manager to sit in a fan's forum and give detailed accounts of his actions, or not that I can see. Covid has meant he's not been asked to.

Why didn't we get fullbacks in in summer and why did we keep Tutte if there is money available for January? My suspicion is that they are waiting on long term targets and the guys available in the summer weren't players we felt could take us forward, but if it was purely gambling on fitness they need a reality check. I could accept that we are where we are because the long term plan called for investment to be held for next summer. The landscape has changed now.

The bit about fullbacks and Tutte. The announcement we'd paid creditors off was in Sept and we satisfied a couple of charges this month...maybe they were balancing priorities for cash, given they'd also had to negotiate additional time to pay those tabs off?

[Prufrock]

It's very hard to see Sunday as a day of goodwill when we keep losing on Saturday.

Yeah, it is. It's always hard to watch your side lose and you can understand intellectually that there are reasonable excuses for some of it (by no means all), but you still feel every loss the same regardless.

There are reasonable questions to ask and we asked a lot of them in the summer. Evatt isn't the sort of manager to sit in a fan's forum and give detailed accounts of his actions, or not that I can see. Covid has meant he's not been asked to.

Why didn't we get fullbacks in in summer and why did we keep Tutte if there is money available for January? My suspicion is that they are waiting on long term targets and the guys available in the summer weren't players we felt could take us forward, but if it was purely gambling on fitness they need a reality check. I could accept that we are where we are because the long term plan called for investment to be held for next summer. The landscape has changed now.

A reasonable question would be if you felt you couldn’t get the players required and stuck with a piecemeal squad why keep telling people we were the best side in the league? And what damage has doing so done?

None? It's pop psychology, not a contractual promise. I wouldn't have said it but it doesn't matter.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

There are reasonable questions to ask

IMO, far and away the most reasonable question to ask Evatt is not particularly about transfers but "Why are we so sh*t at set pieces?" swiftly followed by "What are you going to do about it?"

For someone so data-driven, he must have noticed the enormous gaping f*cking hole in our attacking "conversion".

[GhostoftheBok]

The bit about fullbacks and Tutte. The announcement we'd paid creditors off was in Sept and we satisfied a couple of charges this month...maybe they were balancing priorities for cash, given they'd also had to negotiate additional time to pay those tabs off?

Perfectly reasonable. If that's the case, fine.

I'm used to the annual finances for the football department being more squared off than that, but given the situation we've been in that makes sense.

[Worthy4England]

The bit about fullbacks and Tutte. The announcement we'd paid creditors off was in Sept and we satisfied a couple of charges this month...maybe they were balancing priorities for cash, given they'd also had to negotiate additional time to pay those tabs off?

Perfectly reasonable. If that's the case, fine.

I'm used to the annual finances for the football department being more squared off than that, but given the situation we've been in that makes sense.

I'd be very surprised if most businesses hadn't had to do some financial replanning because of COVID. Even when the finances were previously considered squared off..

[GhostoftheBok]

I'd be very surprised if most businesses hadn't had to do some financial replanning because of COVID. Even when the finances were previously considered squared off..

I think our own somewhat unique crisis inside the general one has probably made us a bit more cautious.

I think your account of why we'd have held back finances is reasonable. Might not be right, but if it were I'd not argue.