Robertson

Burnley Ace · Post by **Burnley Ace** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:42 pm

How did we let that one get away? Another example of a lack of ambition at boardroom level?

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:43 pm

Correct

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:45 pm

Hull manager, nothing to do with Burnley.

Quickenthetempo · Post by **Quickenthetempo** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:52 pm

Charlie Taylor would look a world beater in this attacking Liverpool team.

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:02 pm

Yeh wonder why he wouldn’t sign for us when he knew Liverpool were also interested. So puzzling.

taio · Post by **taio** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:05 pm

Quite odd using that to criticise the Board for what ought to be blatently obvious reasons.

FactualFrank · Post by **FactualFrank** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:22 pm

Burnley Ace wrote:How did we let that one get away? Another example of a lack of ambition at boardroom level?

Not the time to be fishing. Far too cold.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 5:32 pm

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:Yeh wonder why he wouldn’t sign for us when he knew Liverpool were also interested. So puzzling.

We could have signed him long before Liverpool were interested but hey you keep happy clapping

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:54 pm

I was under the impression fee and terms agreed but the hull manager pulled the plug on the deal. Then again if you had the choice between Liverpool and Burnley who would you choose? That won't make an interesting thread on here as there's no stick to beat the club with.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:18 pm

NL Claret wrote:I was under the impression fee and terms agreed but the hull manager pulled the plug on the deal. Then again if you had the choice between Liverpool and Burnley who would you choose? That won't make an interesting thread on here as there's no stick to beat the club with.

Liverpool weren’t looking to sign him in Jan 2017 he signed for them in July 2017

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:25 pm

joey13 wrote:We could have signed him long before Liverpool were interested but hey you keep happy clapping

You know this for a fact? Lucky you being privy to players transfer talks.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:25 pm

Burnley Ace wrote:How did we let that one get away? Another example of a lack of ambition at boardroom level?

We didn't. Hull wouldn't sell him because they were in the relegation battle. Simple as that. And then Liverpool came in and we had no chance.

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:26 pm

joey13 wrote:We could have signed him long before Liverpool were interested but hey you keep happy clapping

You know this for a fact? Lucky you being privy to players transfer talks.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:33 pm

joey13 wrote:Liverpool weren’t looking to sign him in Jan 2017 he signed for them in July 2017

You are correct, in Jan 2017 Liverpool weren't looking to sign and the other line to include is that Hull weren't looking to sell him to Burnley as confirmed by CT. I think at the time Robertson was disappointed the deal fell through and the experts on here or CM were saying he wasn't good enough.

Like I said, no stick on this one.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 8:37 pm

Here you are

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Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:48 pm

Were we not linked with him in the following window as well?
Before Liverpool came in for him?

warksclaret · Post by **warksclaret** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:52 pm

.......and wasn't Coleman of Everton not on trial with us. Imagine him and Robertson as our two full backs

Goobs · Post by **Goobs** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:02 pm

Do you think that Adam fancied Eve? What if Eve could not conceive, and he'd had to breed with with Steve, we'd all be gay.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:12 pm

Goobs wrote:Do you think that Adam fancied Eve? What if Eve could not conceive, and he'd had to breed with with Steve, we'd all be gay.

Some on here are trying to find out if Dyche or the board are at fault for this.

Goobs · Post by **Goobs** » Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:20 pm

NL Claret wrote:Some on here are trying to find out if Dyche or the board are at fault for this.

Aye and some on here just want to bitch whine and moan without any clue what they are talking about or having any facts about the subject they are talking about.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:13 am

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:You know this for a fact? Lucky you being privy to players transfer talks.

Just read the papers it’s really not that difficult

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:32 am

Fine line between thick / stupid and naive

Down_Rover · Post by **Down_Rover** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:39 am

Signing players is not like going into a shop and buying a bag of carrots

aggi · Post by **aggi** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:16 am

Rumours at the time were that Silva had said he'd quit if Robertson was sold in that January window.

fatboy47 · Post by **fatboy47** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:24 am

Down_Rover wrote:Signing players is not like going into a shop and buying a bag of carrots

unless you were buying Leon Cort.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:38 am

Last season Ward was playing brilliantly at times so would we have been much better off had we signed Robertson?

No guarantee.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:33 pm

warksclaret wrote:.......and wasn't Coleman of Everton not on trial with us. Imagine him and Robertson as our two full backs

I think that may have been as far back as when Cotterill was in charge. IIRC he was injured during his trial period and consequently had to go back to Ireland.

Sometimes fate plays a part in these matters.

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:05 pm

Spijed wrote:Last season Ward was playing brilliantly at times so would we have been much better off had we signed Robertson?

No guarantee.

Ben Mee was also playing brilliantly at times but whilst there are still no guarantees I reckon we would be better off is we had signed Van Dyke !!

To answer your question seriously yes I doubt very much we would have finished higher than 7th with Robertson but we would have been a better team. As for this season if he was in our team now my guess would be that we would have more points....and looking for a new left back in January as one of the big teams sign him for £40m !

All immaterial - not sure the club did a lot wrong. Players choice to not join us and looks like he made a fantastic decision !!

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:37 pm

NL Claret wrote:You are correct, in Jan 2017 Liverpool weren't looking to sign and the other line to include is that Hull weren't looking to sell him to Burnley as confirmed by CT. I think at the time Robertson was disappointed the deal fell through and the experts on here or CM were saying he wasn't good enough.

Like I said, no stick on this one.

I said we should sign him. He was light years ahead of Brady and still is. Many, many light years ahead of Taylor.

Longsidejono · Post by **Longsidejono** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:58 pm

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:Yeh wonder why he wouldn’t sign for us when he knew Liverpool were also interested. So puzzling.

I know haha, same with that shaqiri...board out!!!!!!

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:13 pm

Longsidejono wrote:I know haha, same with that shaqiri...board out!!!!!!

You haven’t read the thread have you !
It’s much better if you do before making the same wrong comment as a previous poster

Longsidejono · Post by **Longsidejono** » Mon Oct 08, 2018 7:28 pm

joey13 wrote:You haven’t read the thread have you !
It’s much better if you do before making the same wrong comment as a previous poster

No your right I didn't the point of a board is about opinions on a subject if it's the same as someone else's then fair enough they obviously have a great mind like me, if you read hundreds of comments before you comment then it's a boring life

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:29 pm

Longsidejono wrote:No your right I didn't the point of a board is about opinions on a subject if it's the same as someone else's then fair enough they obviously have a great mind like me, if you read hundreds of comments before you comment then it's a boring life

Best we just have OP’s then and not threads

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:17 am

Spijed wrote:Last season Ward was playing brilliantly at times so would we have been much better off had we signed Robertson?

No guarantee.

Yes we would as Robertson was and is an infinitely better footballer. Absolute guarantee barring injury.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:19 am

January 2017 was unfortunate but I would like to know what happened early in summer. I’m aware Liverpool eventually signed him but there was plenty of news about us still trying. Zero guarantee even early on personal terms would’ve been agreed given bigger interest, but it sounded to me like we couldn’t even agree a fee even with Hull having a fire sale.

Not that that surprises me in the slightest mind.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:54 am

SGr wrote:January 2017 was unfortunate but I would like to know what happened early in summer. I’m aware Liverpool eventually signed him but there was plenty of news about us still trying. Zero guarantee even early on personal terms would’ve been agreed given bigger interest, but it sounded to me like we couldn’t even agree a fee even with Hull having a fire sale.

Not that that surprises me in the slightest mind.

Why did it sound like that to you?

I will put a different way for you to try and get you away from the "it must be the board's fault " mentality.

Players have agents who will be wise to other interest. If there was interest from Liverpool, it sounds to me like there was, who is the agent and player going to choose?

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 2:05 pm

NL Claret wrote:Why did it sound like that to you?

I will put a different way for you to try and get you away from the "it must be the board's fault " mentality.

Players have agents who will be wise to other interest. If there was interest from Liverpool, it sounds to me like there was, who is the agent and player going to choose?

I quite clearly stressed that there was zero guarantee of us signing him had we agreed a fee. Learn to read.

Regarding your question, because there were further reports of us attempting to agree a fee, from sources such as Nixon (who like it or not, is reliable). Plus Boden put his usual “wide of the mark” story out which normally means the opposite. That’s what gave me that impression, and as I implied, it wouldn’t surprise me.

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 4:25 pm

SGr wrote:I quite clearly stressed that there was zero guarantee of us signing him had we agreed a fee. Learn to read.

Regarding your question, because there were further reports of us attempting to agree a fee, from sources such as Nixon (who like it or not, is reliable). Plus Boden put his usual “wide of the mark” story out which normally means the opposite. That’s what gave me that impression, and as I implied, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Not interested in hearsay or rumour. As I've said earlier there is no stick to beat the club with on Robertson.

Who would you sign for if you had the choice? Liverpool or Burnley?

Off to learn how to read.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:01 pm

NL Claret wrote:Not interested in hearsay or rumour. As I've said earlier there is no stick to beat the club with on Robertson.

Who would you sign for if you had the choice? Liverpool or Burnley?

Off to learn how to read.

And once again, I never said he’d have chosen to join us, merely that I believe we were trying to sign him nonetheless. Don’t see what the point of commenting on transfer talk is if you’re not interested in rumours mind

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:34 pm

SGr wrote:And once again, I never said he’d have chosen to join us, merely that I believe we were trying to sign him nonetheless. Don’t see what the point of commenting on transfer talk is if you’re not interested in rumours mind

I don't see the point in having cheap digs at the board without having any facts. That's just me I guess.

joey13 · Post by **joey13** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:15 pm

NL Claret wrote:I don't see the point in having cheap digs at the board without having any facts. That's just me I guess.

Maybe if the board made an half arsed attempt at bringing in some decent signings in the summer nobody would be making digs at the board.
Just a thought
Now the players are taking a leaf out of the boards book and not bothering about trying to do the basics in a game
Just another thought

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:09 pm

NL Claret wrote:I don't see the point in having cheap digs at the board without having any facts. That's just me I guess.

I’ll stop having cheap digs at the board when the board stops having *cheap* digs at transfer targets

NL Claret · Post by **NL Claret** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:47 pm

Start a thread " cheap digs at the board " rather than using one about a player that we almost once signed and due to circumstances beyond our control we didn't and now he plays for Liverpool.

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:20 pm

NL Claret wrote:Start a thread " cheap digs at the board " rather than using one about a player that we almost once signed and due to circumstances beyond our control we didn't and now he plays for Liverpool.

Nah thanks, think the people on here would rather talk about Tommy Robinson than our board

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 10:35 pm

NL Claret wrote:Why did it sound like that to you?

I will put a different way for you to try and get you away from the "it must be the board's fault " mentality.

You'd be better off banging your head against a wall