A Load of Squit 5,244 Posted September 1, 2021 Good work from football365.com https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-transfer-window-losers-newcastle-bruce-kane-liverpool-arsenal-arteta https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-transfer-window-winners-levy-crystal-palace-man-utd-chelsea-aston-villa https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-brentford-norwich-watford-promoted-excellent-transfers-ajer-rose 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thirsty Lizard 3,184 Posted September 1, 2021 Particularly enjoyed this bit on 'Transfer Window Losers' TalkSPORT Mission accomplished, it should be said: the clip in question was tweeted just once by talkSPORT but has been viewed more than 400,000 times. Engagement is king and presenter Alex Crook was wearing the crown. His unimaginative takedown of Norwich was immediately and summarily dismantled by supporters but it should be pinned up in the corridors of Carrow Road for the remainder of the season. Those points made on August 22 in the aftermath of heavy defeats to Liverpool and Manchester City should fuel the Canaries to prove a point. “Are they a club who want to try and compete to stay in the Premier League?” Crook asked of a team “just sort of making up the numbers” who “come up and spend very little money”. “I think in some ways it goes against sporting integrity when they are in a league where they have no real intention of competing,” he continued. “It’s almost like they are signing players for the Championship next season.” Liverpool were once linked with Milot Rashica and Ozan Kabak fared well enough at Anfield for half a campaign. Josh Sargent and Christos Tzolis are relatively unknown quantities with the potential to excite. Billy Gilmour and Brandon Williams both arrive from the Premier League’s elite. Angus Gunn, Ben Gibson, Pierre Lees-Melou and Dimitrios Giannoulis plug gaps that needed addressing. Mathias Normann is a club-record signing in the making if his loan works. Jamie O’Hara has since deleted his tweet of support for his colleague, advocating for the authorities to ‘revoke there membership’ and replace Norwich with teams ‘who actually want to stay in the Premier League and spend money’, presumably behind some of Just Banter defence. Or maybe he checked the numbers and saw the Canaries had made five of the 11 most expensive signings in their history this summer. Imagine if they had any intention of competing… 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Hairy 3,806 Posted September 2, 2021 Who's Rocky van Wolfswinkle? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crabbycanary3 994 Posted September 2, 2021 15 minutes ago, Ken Hairy said: Who's Rocky van Wolfswinkle? I think a more relevant question is who (the fluck) are Alex Crook and Jamie O'Hara, Ken? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glory.win or die. 270 Posted September 2, 2021 I remember rocky and bullwinkle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wcorkcanary 4,355 Posted September 2, 2021 14 hours ago, Ken Hairy said: Who's Rocky van Wolfswinkle? I wish we'd signed him, he'd have punched Snoddy and taken that penalty himself. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flying Dutchman 744 Posted September 3, 2021 Key passage to contradict some of this forum's armchair experts: The much-fabled ‘Premier League Experience’ is an exaggerated virtue in any player, sought by clubs and cited by pundits as if football in England is an entirely separate sport. Yet history is littered with those who excelled at this level having never encountered it before, as well as many others who have developed an understanding and knowledge of the division’s idiosyncrasies and eccentricities at one club before failing miserably at another. There are so many variables involved in whether a player succeeds in a different environment with new teammates and a fresh manager that boiling it down solely to whether they have played 50 games for Stoke is laughable. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
