Are You Happy With Our Transfer Business This Window?

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

You should have added a then everyone would have got you.

[Assassin]

Oh ffs.

My feelings too.

Having not read several pages of drivel and going directly to the last page in the thread, has obviously led to my downfall. I even checked for white text

[Roboklopp]

is it not possible that PC plod has read the posts by IRWT and has made a joke?

Right, in any future Marsh/Craig heated debates, I'm clearly siding with Marsh in future given his ostensibly vastly superior intellect.

[CJ]

i have no idea how to take that.

i just settle for siding with who is right and reasonable.

[Roboklopp]

My feelings too.

Having not read several pages of drivel and going directly to the last page in the thread, has obviously led to my downfall. I even checked for white text

I agree a 3-option poll wouldve been less limiting for what it's worth.

[Roboklopp]

i have no idea how to take that.

i just settle for siding with who is right and reasonable.

Or not...

[CJ]

Or not...

those are the options

[CJ]

anyway back on topic.

i have voted happy. However i am not sure i would have voted yes if at the beginning of the window you told me the ins and outs we have made. Also a few deadwoods could be back next summer.

however it just feels like a squad reinvented and one that is improving rather than getting worse so i think that overall is a reason to be happy.

Go back a few years and we were linked with Villa and Silva etc so it is quite a change to get your head around to be buying adam and henderson etc.

[Roboklopp]

those are the options

I agree a 3-option poll wouldve been less limiting for what it's worth.

[Vermilion]

IRWT obviously voted no as he was not fully happy with our transfer business. It was a simple yes or no vote, he chose no, however, that does not make him a haphazard clown!

IMO the vote was too simple, there should have been at least a third option in between yes and no.

I voted yes, basically because I was reasonably happy with our transfer business so I voted yes, if there was an in between option I would have chosen that. IMO, we should have bought in another wide attacking option to make it a definitive yes vote for me

Cut IRWT some slack, he doesnt deserve to be ridiculed for voting no

It's the reason i've not voted.

[Neil Young]

Okay I've slept on it and here's my reason for voting 'No' as requested.

I was very happy with everything till I learnt the Chavs were tying up the deal for Raul with about 30 mins to go.
Now I agree Raul is not at all great on defence, but his ability to create and score goals - especially with his late untracked runs into the 18yrd box - is needed in a tight match.

I would have no prob with him going for two reasons.
1) We get an out and out winger in immediately
2) We sell him to another team, but not a rival for top 4 in any way.

Sadly, we have yet again been rumbled over by the chavs, and it's worrying that there is the possibility our players are being tapped up by the chavs. They've started a habit of buying our players, and they're in direct competition with us and they know we are a danger to them in the prem. I rem reading an article at the end of the 2010 season when Broughton had apparently told Charlotte Jackson at an eve do that the Chavs would go in for Torres in Jan 2011. Well it was rubbished by everyone (and her) but it did happen.

I was delighted Spurs stood their ground with Modric as i think he would have taken the Chavs play to another level. As it is they have got another creative mid in Raul. It's gonna give them the edge creatively with Mata & Ramires there now. I would have been really happy if we'd refused to sell him as we had no replacement to come in. We've given AVB a player he knows really well, so no doubt he'll be in the starting XI sooner rather than later.

I was really hoping we'd get in another winger, but we didn't and as it stands, if we lose Downing before Jan for any length of time, we're ****ed on the wings as his pace is valuable. Henderson is not a natural winger, his best position is the Gerrard attacking role in the middle of the park, as shown playing for Sunderland last season and at times against Bolton. Henderson is better than Cleverly in my book.

I thought we'd be buying two wingers at least, and we've only got one now. Maybe one of the ressies will get promoted but we really should have bought a right wing. The balance is perfect in the team except on the wings, and this really should have got sorted if Raul was going.

This whole last minute chav deal has left a sour taste in the mouth for me, as I don't believe it's what Man U or Man C would have done. We prob would have got A Johnson in, if that was the case. Don't forget Arse certainly plugged a few holes with their 4 signings yday, so we can't rule them out of top 4 for now.

Come to think of it, maybe we'll start to deploy Glen on right wing now?...

Very coherent but I don't agree with much of it.

It basically boils down to this - we no longer sell because the bank tells us, we sell because we want to. So it all makes sense to someone at the club, and I'd be very surprised if that doesn't include Dalglish.

I don't know the ins and outs of it but I'd rather go with the club's judgement than your speculations.

As for being rumbled by Chelsea or doing things clubs in the Champions League wouldn't do, well, I don't give a sh*t about any of that. It's pure guesswork anyway and we aren't in the same position as them.

And keeping a player who wants to leave but who is struggling to get into the team even with Gerrard injured may be something Moneybags City or Ferguson would do but I don't see why that means we should do it.

So, it's a pity you don't like selling Meireles but life's like that, we can't have everything.

[Mostar]

I agree and I hope we see us make one or two huge signings. A winger/attacking midfielder for added creativity would be nice.

Apparently we put the bid of 3m in for Boudebouz from Sochaux yesterday but our offer was rejected.

He is exactly that type of a player.

[Craig_H]

IRWT obviously voted no as he was not fully happy with our transfer business. It was a simple yes or no vote, he chose no, however, that does not make him a haphazard clown!

IMO the vote was too simple, there should have been at least a third option in between yes and no.

I voted yes, basically because I was reasonably happy with our transfer business so I voted yes, if there was an in between option I would have chosen that. IMO, we should have bought in another wide attacking option to make it a definitive yes vote for me

Cut IRWT some slack, he doesnt deserve to be ridiculed for voting no

Totally agree, there are far more things we can ridicule him for

[SB]

I'm not overly concerned about Meireles' departure given that Gerrard should be back soon.

My feeling is that people have too much faith in this happening.

Dave

[Jet K]

I think over all the 2 windows have been very good, we have got rid of the deadwood and players that didn't want to be here (Torres, Meireles) and brought in young, hungry players who will fight for the cause and the squad is a lot lot stronger.

Having made wholesale changes now which will benefit us going forward as we will only need to tweak the squad and also having spent approx £115 mill whilst recouping approx £75 means we have signed 7 players for approx £40 mill which means roughly £6mill a player as well as shaving £30mill off the wages bill... so come Jan/next summer we could splash out on a Hazard type player as the money should be there !!!