Robbie Brady confirmed (speculation)

Silkyskills1 · Post by **Silkyskills1** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:34 pm

'another target'

Do you really believe we've got one?

dermotdermot · Post by **dermotdermot** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:35 pm

Does anybody know what's going on?

northeastclaret · Post by **northeastclaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:36 pm

Its starting to look like we can't agree terms with Brady and haven't even agreed a fee with Norwich.

We shouldn't be surprised. Unless we get another financial partner/ benefactor like all the other premier League teams, we are in a different market for players than the other premier league clubs and many championship teams.

We are wasting our time trying to sign this calibre of player , its laughable from the beginning to believe we could sign the likes of Snodgrass and Brady, even though we all dreamed that it might happen.

claretinkorea · Post by **claretinkorea** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:37 pm

Is there even anything going on?

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:38 pm

northeastclaret wrote:Its starting to look like we can't agree terms with Brady and haven't even agreed a fee with Norwich.

We shouldn't be surprised. Unless we get another financial partner/ benefactor like all the other premier League teams, we are in a different market for players than the other premier league clubs and many championship teams.

We are wasting our time trying to sign this calibre of player , its laughable from the beginning to believe we could sign the likes of Snodgrass and Brady, even though we all dreamed that it might happen.

They should be looking at us instead of Palace though with that 10 point gap

taio · Post by **taio** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:39 pm

We are wasting our time trying to sign Brady? Rubbish. We are rightly trying to sign players that should improve us. It's the complexities of the market and you'd think people would realise that.

claretdom · Post by **claretdom** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:39 pm

Its almost a shame there is a match on Tuesday night, seems a shame to miss the hissy fits on here on deadline day.

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:39 pm

Norwich, Hull, Inter Milan... they can all go and whistle for me on their three-fingered Jew's Harp

Que sera, sera

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:40 pm

Patience is a virtue

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:42 pm

The argument that we can't afford the players doesn't stack up.

We had a bid accepted for £10 million for Snodgrass so the money is there.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:43 pm

northeastclaret wrote:Its starting to look like we can't agree terms with Brady and haven't even agreed a fee with Norwich.

We shouldn't be surprised. Unless we get another financial partner/ benefactor like all the other premier League teams, we are in a different market for players than the other premier league clubs and many championship teams.

We are wasting our time trying to sign this calibre of player , its laughable from the beginning to believe we could sign the likes of Snodgrass and Brady, even though we all dreamed that it might happen.

So how on earth did we sign Handrick & Defour then?

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:44 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:The argument that we can't afford the players doesn't stack up.

We had a bid accepted for £10 million for Snodgrass so the money is there.

But why pay over the odds, just because we have it. It's easy to draw simple analogies with your weekly Asda run (other stores are available

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IndigoLake · Post by **IndigoLake** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:44 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:'another target'

Do you really believe we've got one?

I bloody hope so. We should (should!) have a number of players identified for each position. I'd hope Brady was number 1 and that we're simply able to work backwards down the list. I would hope the club have learned from putting all of their eggs in one basket. (There's perhaps a joke there about Rovers and chickens if anyone wants to have a go at it).

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:45 pm

agreenwood wrote:Seems to be a lot of folk hanging onto Jason O'Connors every tweet without the foggiest idea who he is and how he'd know so much about Irish footballers.

He appears to be employed as a video analyst for the Professional Football Scouts Association. I'm not sure having a junior job within the PFSA would provide an inside track in itself (nor simply being Irish).

Trawling back through his tweets, I'm not sure he's said a great deal that couldn't be interpreted by reading media articles. There's a fair bit of hedging his bets going on too.

Glad someone else has finally thought the same as me.

Not to be derogatory to him or his position, but he is essentially a nobody. The reliable sources, whether you like them or not, are Alan Nixon and Chris Boden. People give constant pelters to Bodes on here, but he was first with Rouwen Hennings (when we were all thinking "who?") and was first with the bid for the initial bid for Snodgrass.

Until someone who is reputable says anything to back it up, I won't believe we are close to this signing at all.

LaLigaClaret · Post by **LaLigaClaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:48 pm

Please don't let it happen to us yet again. Sunderland may now have £14m for Van Aanholt going to Palace so will they go back in for Brady and we get stitched again ? I don't know why it is but we always seem to get messed about by clubs over transfers, is it something that the club are doing that causes this ? Hopefully we do get Brady but agree with others if he plays tomorrow he 's not likely to be coming to us. This all has a familiar ring to it. We are better placed to stay up this year but we may really screw things up by a failure to land targets and if that happens I think the board will go into meltdown. It is a bit concerning that the teams at the bottom are starting to land their targets. I know things can change and we might have some incomings but we do need to start actively making some more bids and not leave Norwich to screw us over.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:48 pm

jedi_master wrote:Glad someone else has finally thought the same as me.

Not to be derogatory to him or his position, but he is essentially a nobody. The reliable sources, whether you like them or not, are Alan Nixon and Chris Boden. People give constant pelters to Bodes on here, but he was first with Rouwen Hennings (when we were all thinking "who?") and was first with the bid for the initial bid for Snodgrass.

Until someone who is reputable says anything to back it up, I won't believe we are close to this signing at all.

Didn't Boden say there was nothing in the Joey Barton story a day before we signed him?

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:49 pm

Spijed wrote:Didn't Boden say there was nothing in the Joey Barton story a day before we signed him?

A local reporter will often be told what to trot out to supporters, and will get the 'go' word only when something is done and dusted (Hennings) or when it suits the club's transfer activity to put the information out there (Snodgrass).

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:49 pm

Boden wasn't first with the Snodgrass bid. He just responded to the Sky Sports tweet and got confirmation.

quoonbeatz · Post by **quoonbeatz** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:50 pm

northeastclaret wrote:Its starting to look like we can't agree terms with Brady and haven't even agreed a fee with Norwich.

We shouldn't be surprised. Unless we get another financial partner/ benefactor like all the other premier League teams, we are in a different market for players than the other premier league clubs and many championship teams.

We are wasting our time trying to sign this calibre of player , its laughable from the beginning to believe we could sign the likes of Snodgrass and Brady, even though we all dreamed that it might happen.

he's a lower PL/upper Championship player.

we've got a team full of them that we've already managed to sign.

mickleoverclaret · Post by **mickleoverclaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:53 pm

northeastclaret wrote:Its starting to look like we can't agree terms with Brady and haven't even agreed a fee with Norwich.

We shouldn't be surprised. Unless we get another financial partner/ benefactor like all the other premier League teams, we are in a different market for players than the other premier league clubs and many championship teams.

We are wasting our time trying to sign this calibre of player , its laughable from the beginning to believe we could sign the likes of Snodgrass and Brady, even though we all dreamed that it might happen.

We signed Defour who is a class above either.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:54 pm

LaLigaClaret wrote:Please don't let it happen to us yet again. Sunderland may now have £14m for Van Aanholt going to Palace so will they go back in for Brady and we get stitched again ? I don't know why it is but we always seem to get messed about by clubs over transfers, is it something that the club are doing that causes this ? Hopefully we do get Brady but agree with others if he plays tomorrow he 's not likely to be coming to us. This all has a familiar ring to it. We are better placed to stay up this year but we may really screw things up by a failure to land targets and if that happens I think the board will go into meltdown. It is a bit concerning that the teams at the bottom are starting to land their targets. I know things can change and we might have some incomings but we do need to start actively making some more bids and not leave Norwich to screw us over.

I know what you mean.

We had the "we will start planning for January now" statement on the 1st of September yet it took until the 25th of January ( 6 days before the window closes ) to get a bid accepted for a player.

I know there's a knock on effect, but we do seem like those people who do their xmas shopping on Christmas Eve.

( I still beleive Brady will sign )

SussexDon1inIreland · Post by **SussexDon1inIreland** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:55 pm

Having a foreign owner might bring us more cash but looking around the leagues it also brings heaps of problems ask Leeds, Blackburn etc do you really want that?? I wouldn't swap our Board/owners for anybody.

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Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:03 pm

Funny if we do land Brady we will be all smiles and with the " I told you it would happen " on the other hand if we don't , hummmmmmmmmmmmmm

HendricksHair · Post by **HendricksHair** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:05 pm

agreenwood wrote:Seems to be a lot of folk hanging onto Jason O'Connors every tweet without the foggiest idea who he is and how he'd know so much about Irish footballers.

He appears to be employed as a video analyst for the Professional Football Scouts Association. I'm not sure having a junior job within the PFSA would provide an inside track in itself (nor simply being Irish).

Trawling back through his tweets, I'm not sure he's said a great deal that couldn't be interpreted by reading media articles. There's a fair bit of hedging his bets going on too.

The name O'Connor is enough for me

Tall Paul · Post by **Tall Paul** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:05 pm

MACCA wrote:I know what you mean.

We had the "we will start planning for January now" statement on the 1st of September yet it took until the 25th of January ( 6 days before the window closes ) to get a bid accepted for a player.

I know there's a knock on effect, but we do seem like those people who do their xmas shopping on Christmas Eve.

( I still beleive Brady will sign )

It's not really a surprise that not a lot has happened, that's how the market works since the transfer windows were introduced.

Hull and Swansea are the only PL teams that have made significant moves in the market before this week and one of those is having to sell their best players to fund those moves.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:06 pm

Leeds have had turmoil, for sure, but they are on the cusp of the PL. Playing well, good team and a good manager in Monk.

If they get up, with their size, they will stay up.

CombatClaret · Post by **CombatClaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:07 pm

Not surprised it's going to the wire. Unless we are buying from a lower league and/or cash strapped team we haven't the financial or brand clout to get deals done early.
Any Prem or stable Championship side with player worth selling to us is going to keep their options open as long as possible and play the market.

Reecey1987 · Post by **Reecey1987** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:13 pm

I bet he never even got the chance to set off to the north west like it was sudjested last night . I bet bradys agent told him not to bother once the news had broke that the sporting lisbon defender had decided against signing for norwich

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:15 pm

Brady has been training with Norwich and will be in their squad tomorrow.

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Paulclaret · Post by **Paulclaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:16 pm

Neil just said that Brady trained with Norwich today and is in the squad for tomorrow, but at this time of year, things can change.

jedi_master · Post by **jedi_master** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:16 pm

ClaretAndJew wrote:Brady has been training with Norwich and will be in their squad tomorrow.

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Then we need to move on - winger and centre mid needed desperately.

Forget Brady, we cannot rely on Norwich getting their own house in order before we can sign him, the risk is too great.

taio · Post by **taio** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:22 pm

We shouldn't forget Brady if there's still a decent chance of signing him. That doesn't stop us being interested in other players. There's often a chain reaction in the transfer market and/or clubs holding out for the best possible fee. That's why we usually see a frantic last few hours. It's par for the course.

NRC · Post by **NRC** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:27 pm

How can we have a frantic last few hours if all managers are at games until at least 10pm. That's a helluva last frantic hour and a lot of private jets

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:29 pm

I'd write deadline day off for us, especially considering we have a game.

claretdom · Post by **claretdom** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:30 pm

There seems to be quite a few going to have Mike Garlick in their line up on Tuesday

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:31 pm

I assume nothing will be happening today, and weekends don't usually have anything going on, so that leaves Monday to sign 3-4 players.

Pessimistic, or realistic?

SGr · Post by **SGr** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:32 pm

Always has to be a snag

Royboyclaret · Post by **Royboyclaret** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:34 pm

Where's brigante with his 'Garlick's Last Stand' thread?

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:35 pm

As above can't see us doing 4 deals by Monday but hopefully be wrong.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:36 pm

Realistically, we only need 2 players.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:36 pm

Winger, Midfielder and Striker.

FCBurnley · Post by **FCBurnley** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:36 pm

mickleoverclaret wrote:We signed Defour who is a class above either.

Yes but only for 60 minutes

taio · Post by **taio** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:37 pm

Definitely don't need 4 players

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:37 pm

Who are the other 3 targets I wonder

claretdom · Post by **claretdom** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:38 pm

Factually we have until Tuesday night not Monday.

14 out of the 20 teams have games on Tuesday night, probably just us though who can't sign a player on the day of a game.

taio · Post by **taio** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:39 pm

Suspect there will be signings on Tuesday

Steve-Harpers-perm · Post by **Steve-Harpers-perm** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:40 pm

If we do half time entertainment could be the players doing medicals and signing contract in centre circle.

claretandy · Post by **claretandy** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:40 pm

jedi_master wrote:Glad someone else has finally thought the same as me.

Not to be derogatory to him or his position, but he is essentially a nobody. The reliable sources, whether you like them or not, are Alan Nixon and Chris Boden. People give constant pelters to Bodes on here, but he was first with Rouwen Hennings (when we were all thinking "who?") and was first with the bid for the initial bid for Snodgrass.

Until someone who is reputable says anything to back it up, I won't believe we are close to this signing at all.

Boden's only source of info on Brady has been O'connor so he's not in the loop, he only finds things out by getting it from the other teams local reporter which we all can do if we follow them on twitter.

Steddyman · Post by **Steddyman** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:41 pm

I say screw em and move on. Can't do with these clubs that think they are better than us and dick us about. If it doesn't get done today, then somebody else will panic bid for him on the last day and offer more wages.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:42 pm

jedi_master wrote:A local reporter will often be told what to trot out to supporters, and will get the 'go' word only when something is done and dusted (Hennings) or when it suits the club's transfer activity to put the information out there (Snodgrass).

Boden gets all of is info off twitter, like everyone else