Nahki Wells

[JohnMac]

I find it incredible the club can conduct business without consulting the plethora of experts on here first to seek approval. I mean the £455 + Pie Money invested every year should at least be worth having the final say on signings.

Welcome to the world of Narky Gits, Nahki Wells

[duncandisorderly]

An anagram of his name is 'Hell is w@nk'. Heh heh.

[burnley007]

Our rivals are looking at players like Demerai Gray, we're looking at Nahki the knacker.
What a mess.

[Tall Paul]

No egg on my face whatsoever whether we sign a central defender or not - I'm only referring to the comments Dyche has made

It was Hughes who described it as baloney when asked about it.

Don't you ever consider the possibility that football managers tell lies? Even those not named Owen Coyle.

[Jblonde002]

My old man is a Huddersfield fan, so I've seen just as much of them as I have us over the last few years, more often than not away from home. My thoughts on the transfer are that it offers us more balance. He's much more full of running and doing work in the channels than Vokes or Barnes (haven't seen a much of Wood but I doubt he will either from the limited amount I know). When I think about games against mid table sides that will play more open back lines like Swansea, Watford, Saints etc I genuinely think Wells could offer us something different. I know that we usually build slowly through a target man but realistically not all situations require that approach. I further agree that he' has not been played regularly in the position that would get him more goals. I'd welcome him in.

[Billyhamilton1982]

Absolutely 100%.

They have one job, to predict the weather. If they can't get it right 24 hours beforehand then yes, in my humble opinion that makes them extremely useless.

[Steddyman]

It was Hughes who described it as baloney when asked about it.

Nixon only said we were interested. Not that we had bid (yet)

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Our rivals are looking at players like Demerai Gray, we're looking at Nahki the knacker.
What a mess.

Which rivals? Spurs!?

[Walton]

An anagram of his name is 'Hell is w@nk'. Heh heh.

Wanki Shell

[bartons baggage]

I find it incredible the club can conduct business without consulting the plethora of experts on here first to seek approval. I mean the £455 + Pie Money invested every year should at least be worth having the final say on signings.

Welcome to the world of Narky Gits, Nahki Wells

I think you'll find it's a plethora of bed wetters.

[halfmanhalfbiscuit]

My old man is a Huddersfield fan, so I've seen just as much of them as I have us over the last few years, more often than not away from home. My thoughts on the transfer are that it offers us more balance. He's much more full of running and doing work in the channels than Vokes or Barnes (haven't seen a much of Wood but I doubt he will either from the limited amount I know). When I think about games against mid table sides that will play more open back lines like Swansea, Watford, Saints etc I genuinely think Wells could offer us something different. I know that we usually build slowly through a target man but realistically not all situations require that approach. I further agree that he' has not been played regularly in the position that would get him more goals. I'd welcome him in.

And still managed 49 goals in 152 appearances.

[AGENT_CLARET]

Sort of player we would have welcomed a few years ago.
Is he really up to PL standards now?

NO.............Huddersfield don't want him, why should we.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Maybe they don't want him as he won't sign a new contract rather than on his footballing ability?

[KefkaClaret]

I think Dyche thinks he can work his magic on this one. Unfortunately, it's difficult to polish a turd.

[summitclaret]

I hope Wells is not coming we moved on years ago. Also if our manager thinks 3 centre backs is enough he is losing the plot and needs to see a doctor.

[Gnulty]

From the town of Huddersfield, comes the sound of sad bells...
why and for whom a little boy ask..
A man has left for Burnley son..
he's name is Nahki Wells... I'll get my coat in a minute..

[Jimscho]

I think Dyche thinks he can work his magic on this one. Unfortunately, it's difficult to polish a turd.

I won't try polishing you then.

[Jblonde002]

And still managed 49 goals in 152 appearances.

I agree. Stats are stats, but also that excitement of a player who adds flair when we need it. We have options like that now with Brady and Defour who can unlock defences, but there's times where someone who can get a little toe on something before a keeper is exactly what we need.

[Duffer_]

From the town of Huddersfield, comes the sound of sad bells...
why and for whom a little boy ask..
A man has left for Burnley son..
he's name is Nahki Wells... I'll get my coat in a minute..

But the Terriers are filled with joy...
Cos the Clarets have paid for half of Aaron Mooy.

UTC!

[Rileybobs]

If Agent_Claret thinks this is a bad signing then I'm starting to think that this could be a genius move by Dyche.

[Lancasterclaret]

I'm stunned at the amount of time some of you spend watching other teams to have such a knowledge of these players.

[Braindead]

NO.............Huddersfield don't want him, why should we.

Huddersfield offered him a new contract last season which he refused.

[dsr]

Here's the thought process of some of the half-wits on here.

1. Sean Dyche wants to do this.
2. I don't want to do this.
3. Therefore Sean Dyche is wrong.

To all of you, will there ever come a time when you accept that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than you do? Or will you forever live in your delusion that you are the expert and he is the amateur?

[RocketLawnChair]

He may well not, it won't change my view though

I agree with DCWat over Sean Dyche on this one, we are an injury and a suspension off having Tom Anderson or a makeshift Centre Half playing in the Premier League. That's not good no matter what Sean Dyche says.

[UpTheBeehole]

Here's the thought process of some of the half-wits on here.

1. Sean Dyche wants to do this.
2. I don't want to do this.
3. Therefore Sean Dyche is wrong.

To all of you, will there ever come a time when you accept that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than you do? Or will you forever live in your delusion that you are the expert and he is the amateur?

I wouldn't be spending £10m on someone who's literally just had surgery, no.

[Tall Paul]

I wouldn't be spending £10m on someone who's literally just had surgery, no.

It's a good job we aren't then.

[ClaretTony]

Don't you ever consider the possibility that football managers tell lies? Even those not named Owen Coyle.

I think they are all economical with the truth to be honest so I wouldn't be surprised to see a central defender come in although I think it will be more of a back up rather than a starter if it does happen. The difference between most managers and Coyle is that Coyle made it easy to work out when he was telling lies, it was when his mouth opened.

[kentonclaret]

If our Chief Executive rates Nakhi Wells so highly and is of the opinion that the player is good enough to replace Danny Ings one suspects that he has had a certain amount of input on this signing.

In the Chief Exec we trust.

[AGENT_CLARET]

Huddersfield offered him a new contract last season which he refused.

The 27 year old is currently recovering from ankle surgery and has slipped down the "pecking order" at Huddersfield following the signing of Steve
Mounie. slipped down the "pecking order" because they have better not because he refused to sign a contract, the contract offered was a low one because they didn't want him any more.

http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/sport-o ... s-13368441

[Braindead]

, the contract offered was a low one because they didn't want him any more.

Yeah, that's definitely why they offered him a longer contract, because they didn't want him

[JohnMcGreal]

Here's the thought process of some of the half-wits on here.

1. Sean Dyche wants to do this.
2. I don't want to do this.
3. Therefore Sean Dyche is wrong.

To all of you, will there ever come a time when you accept that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than you do? Or will you forever live in your delusion that you are the expert and he is the amateur?

I think almost everybody on this board would agree that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than any of us.

That said, he is only human and he is not infallible. He has signed some absolute dross in this position before, and people will rightly point out that Wells just looks like another one of those moments.

That doesn't detract from the many, many brilliant things that Sean Dyche has done for this club. By the same token, those brilliant achievements don't suddenly make him immune from signing the occasional turkey.

[Lancasterclaret]

Well known and cheap way of getting rid of players that!

- "Should we wait till his contract runs down so he leaves?"

- "Nope, if we offer him another contract for much longer but on less money, then he's bound to go. Its faultless. Never goes wrong"

[tiger76]

It certainly appears so although I'm praying that this wouldn't be the last of our signings.

An injury to either of our centre halves and we are up the creek, an injury to two (as happened as recently as the end of last season) and that leaves us right in it.

Most would agree that we are crying out for a quality player that can cover either the wing or centrally and Wells just isn't that man. That we've fallen back to such a signing, from what were links with players that looked to offer more to the starting eleven, is disappointing.

We of course got to put some trust in Dyche, he's earned it, but at this stage, to see this as anything other than an underwhelming signing would be stretching it. This time next year, hopefully he's proved all the doubters (myself included) completely wrong.

Our new European scout doesn't seem to have earned much of his corn this summer, unfortunately.

It is staggering that we don't have adequate cover at CB ,if in the Palace or Liverpool games, Tarks or Mee do their cruciate ,or another long-term injury we're f**ked until January,this for me was the most urgent need, and 30 hours before the window closes we are no further advanced bizarre. If we have 5 million to spunk on a reserve striker, i would rather that money went towards a permanent CB, or even covered a loan signings wages.

[Vegas Claret]

It's not moaning, it's opinion and it's the bickering 'please stay in Vegas' type comments in response that end up with tit for tat arguments. How about just expressing opposite opinions without the snide remarks?

This forum would be far better without the arguments.

Thank you DC

[aggi]

Here's the thought process of some of the half-wits on here.

1. Sean Dyche wants to do this.
2. I don't want to do this.
3. Therefore Sean Dyche is wrong.

To all of you, will there ever come a time when you accept that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than you do? Or will you forever live in your delusion that you are the expert and he is the amateur?

But there are many examples of Sean Dyche being wrong, he's a good manager but he's not infallible.

[Spijed]

I think almost everybody on this board would agree that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than any of us.

That said, he is only human and he is not infallible. He has signed some absolute dross in this position before, and people will rightly point out that Wells just looks like another one of those moments.

That doesn't detract from the many, many brilliant things that Sean Dyche has done for this club. By the same token, those brilliant achievements don't suddenly make him immune from signing the occasional turkey.

Sam Vokes looked like he was going to be totally rubbish when he first joined us.

Perhaps you should give ALL of our signings a chance before writing them off!

No manager in the history of football has signed perfect players every time.

[AGENT_CLARET]

Yes it could of been a longer contract, it could of been 2 years, 5 years or 10 years but if the money was only a slight increase at just say 2k a week more............Who knows, but a neat trick if you want a player out.

[Lancasterclaret]

Yeah, if you are on crystal meth.

[AGENT_CLARET]

Sam Vokes looked like he was going to be totally rubbish when he first joined us.

Perhaps you should give ALL of our signings a chance before writing them off!

No manager in the history of football has signed perfect players every time.

It's not the point of writing him off, but we should be buying better than him now

[UpTheBeehole]

Perhaps you should give ALL of our signings a chance before writing them off!

No manager in the history of football has signed perfect players every time.

If we gave ALL of our signings a chance before writing them off we'd have had to sit through months and months of Sordell, Jutkiewicz, Reid, Hennings, Vossen, Chris Long etc before we realised they were terrible.

Sometimes it's obvious from the off that it's going to be a terrible move, and it was definitely called in advance on at least half of those players.

[KRBFC]

The money isn't available to sign players for £10M+, major cash flow problems or an unwillingness to really back Dyche from the board, you decide. We obviously wanted Waris, wouldn't pay the fee £12M max, moved on to the cheap option. We wanted Robertson, wouldn't pay the fee, went with the cheaper option in Taylor. Bardsley and Walters another two cheap options. Not to say they wont be good signings but its certainly a step backwards from last year when the board really backed Dyche.

We are set to make a profit in this transfer window which just isn't good enough, especially after Garlicks big talk in the summer.

BACK THE FKN MANAGER AND HE WILL GET RESULTS.

[Wile E Coyote]

we've just beaten chelsea and drawn with spurs in London, I'm fairly happy with the clubs recent business. This seems added strength to the squad. UTC

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

But there are many examples of Sean Dyche being wrong, he's a good manager but he's not infallible.

True but by now he's probably earnt the right to at least be given the benefit of the doubt.

[Inchy]

Here's the thought process of some of the half-wits on here.

1. Sean Dyche wants to do this.
2. I don't want to do this.
3. Therefore Sean Dyche is wrong.

To all of you, will there ever come a time when you accept that Sean Dyche knows more about managing Burnley Football Club than you do? Or will you forever live in your delusion that you are the expert and he is the amateur?

Clearly Dyche knows more about managing than all of us, no one is suggesting otherwise. People are just disappointed for understandable reasons, myself included. The only positive about this signing is he will be managed by Dyche who will get the best out of him.

Nothing wrong with a little moan

[Jimscho]

The 27 year old is currently recovering from ankle surgery and has slipped down the "pecking order" at Huddersfield following the signing of Steve
Mounie. slipped down the "pecking order" because they have better not because he refused to sign a contract, the contract offered was a low one because they didn't want him any more.

http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/sport-o ... s-13368441

Where in that article does it say the contract offer was a low one or are you just making that up.You don't offer new contracts to players you don't want to keep.

[Jimscho]

The 27 year old is currently recovering from ankle surgery and has slipped down the "pecking order" at Huddersfield following the signing of Steve
Mounie. slipped down the "pecking order" because they have better not because he refused to sign a contract, the contract offered was a low one because they didn't want him any more.

http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/sport-o ... s-13368441

Where in that article does it say the contract offer was a low one or are you just making that up.You don't offer new contracts to players you don't want to keep.

[ClaretTony]

If our Chief Executive rates Nakhi Wells so highly and is of the opinion that the player is good enough to replace Danny Ings one suspects that he has had a certain amount of input on this signing.

In the Chief Exec we trust.

I don't think for one minute that our chief exec selects the players

[ClaretTony]

the contract offered was a low one because they didn't want him any more

Then why offer it?

[Spijed]

It's not the point of writing him off, but we should be buying better than him now

You mean like Heaton, Mee, Vokes, Arfield, Ward etc. who must have cost less than £2 million combined?

That's almost half our first team.

It shows that with the proper judgement cheap players can turn out to be just as good as more expensive ones!

[Dyched]

In the hope someone would be daft enough to buy him perhaps?