ARTICLE: Clarets sign Yorkshire Terrier Wells

Eloise Laws · Post by **Eloise Laws** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:18 pm

His body language on the picture in the report looks good/positive so that should please some fans at least.
Give the guy a chance - In Dyche we have to trust
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OssyClaret · Post by **OssyClaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:19 pm

He looks very adept with either foot and has ability to get early shots off. Skills that will get him goals at this level I'm sure. Goals per game not to be sniffed at and if Dyche has been after him for a while that's more than good enough for me.

To score more goals this year than Gray anyone?

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:19 pm

claptrappers_union wrote:Though I wrongly predicted on another thread that the speculation was a red herring, I also alluded to Wells being like a good deal you see at supermarket checkouts.

At just £5m, (which is peanuts in todays market) I think and a decent backup striker - different to what we already have.

Wells is a natural finisher ?????? ............He scores on average 11 goals a season, 10 last season "natural finisher"

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:20 pm

lifelongclaret wrote:A step backwards, we have wasted around 5 million, just hopefully we can move him on in January when the gaffer realised that we have bought a dud..
The club is supposed to be going forward , but hasn't learned from previous failures,
I have had a season ticket for 35 plus years, and this signing in my opinion is one of the bad ones..

You can't have been paying much attention in the last 35 plus years, if you think this is a bad signing!

It's hardly Ian Helliwell, is it?

Zom Zom · Post by **Zom Zom** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:22 pm

Well, enough comments on here about Wells that I am not comfortable with. Billy Bumface summed it up further up the board.
I'm staying away from this board now until the weekend at the earliest.

If there's so many folk on here who can do the job better than Sean Dyche, then you need to get yourselves sorted into managerial posts up and down the country. The lad hasn't kicked a ball for us yet and he's already being written off. The scourge of Championship Manager strikes again.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:23 pm

OssyClaret wrote:He looks very adept with either foot and has ability to get early shots off. Skills that will get him goals at this level I'm sure. Goals per game not to be sniffed at and if Dyche has been after him for a while that's more than good enough for me.

To score more goals this year than Gray anyone?

I'll take you up on that. How much?

Longside4evr · Post by **Longside4evr** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:23 pm

To score more goals than Gray anyone

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:23 pm

fidelcastro wrote:You can't have been paying much attention in the last 35 plus years, if you think this is a bad signing!

It's hardly Ian Helliwell, is it?

Spot on Over the last 35 years it's not a bad signing but looking at our last 2 years and the players we have brought in then this is right down there.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:24 pm

Zom Zom wrote:Well, enough comments on here about Wells that I am not comfortable with. Billy Bumface summed it up further up the board.
I'm staying away from this board now until the weekend at the earliest.

If there's so many folk on here who can do the job better than Sean Dyche, then you need to get yourselves sorted into managerial posts up and down the country. The lad hasn't kicked a ball for us yet and he's already being written off. The scourge of Championship Manager strikes again.

Quite right. The Northampton manager's job has just become available.

Perhaps some on here can show their expertise there!

NottsClaret · Post by **NottsClaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:25 pm

He's definitely suffering from not being signed from St Etienne or Pescara or ideally from some Argentine club.

These guys don't spend their lives on FIFA or whatever just for us to sign a guy from Huddersfield who we've heard of.

AGENT_CLARET · Post by **AGENT_CLARET** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:26 pm

OssyClaret wrote:He looks very adept with either foot and has ability to get early shots off. Skills that will get him goals at this level I'm sure. Goals per game not to be sniffed at and if Dyche has been after him for a while that's more than good enough for me.

To score more goals this year than Gray anyone?

He doesn't score that many at the level below, why/how will he score goals at this level

jojomk1 · Post by **jojomk1** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:26 pm

Sorry to all the happy clappers, but this signing shows the limitations of our recruitment team in identifying and signing new talent to take us forward
A player who, on history over several seasons, shows nothing better than our current group of 4 strikers
Will be a double blow if 1 of the 4 now goes elsewhere

BleedingClaret · Post by **BleedingClaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:26 pm

Longside4evr wrote:To score more goals than Gray anyone

You'd have laughed last year if he said Vokes to score more than Gray anyone

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:27 pm

AGENT_CLARET wrote:Spot on Over the last 35 years it's not a bad signing but looking at our last 2 years and the players we have brought in then this is right down there.

I'm not exactly doing a rendition of 'dancing on the ceiling' either, but let's give the lad a chance, eh?

Jimscho · Post by **Jimscho** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:29 pm

Leisure wrote:Certainly is. There's one poster calling the lad dogsh1t!

Glad you didn't call him a supporter.

Wokingclaret · Post by **Wokingclaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:35 pm

Bradford will be pleased with our CEO...nice Brucie bonus for them

burnley007 · Post by **burnley007** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:37 pm

What next??
Another keeper?
Desperate signing. Poor.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:37 pm

fidelcastro wrote:I'm not exactly doing a rendition of 'dancing on the ceiling' either, but let's give the lad a chance, eh?

It's more fun stamping your feet over and over when you don't get what you want. Most people grow out of that when they reach 6 years old but this message board seems to have a high concentration of infants. I'm surprised that CRB checks aren't required in order to register.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:39 pm

Rileybobs wrote:It's more fun stamping your feet over and over when you don't get what you want. Most people grow out of that when they reach 6 years old but this message board seems to have a high concentration of infants. I'm surprised that CRB checks aren't required in order to register.

I couldn't have put that better myself.

Wokingclaret · Post by **Wokingclaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:39 pm

Yep, I have re-found my youth

No Ney Never · Post by **No Ney Never** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:39 pm

Having signed Bards, Tinker, Woody, Walts, then surely this lad's going to be a Wellsy. Wellsy or Wellsey?

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:40 pm

Jimscho wrote:Glad you didn't call him a supporter.

Definitely not a supporter, especially for having an opinion different to the clique, who cannot bring themselves to criticise anything the club do.

NRC · Post by **NRC** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:41 pm

jojomk1 wrote:A player who, on history over several seasons, shows nothing better than our current group of 4 strikers

but I keep reading he's different from our other strikers - even Dyche says so. I don't think I've read anywhere HOW he's different. Is he a poor man's Jermaine Defoe?

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:41 pm

BleedingClaret wrote:Bit sad that some of our fans are becoming like the fans of other Premier league clubs that we found so cringeworthy in recent years.
Welcome Nakhi you'll get 100% of my support if you give 100%
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Yeah really sad that some fans consider a signing as bad business.... Oh wait fans aren't allowed an opinion. I'm sure we will all support him when he pulls on the shirt regardless of our opinion on his signing and that's all that matters. If hes our final signing I wont be impressed but ill want him to succeed as much as anyone.

Wile E Coyote · Post by **Wile E Coyote** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:42 pm

a bit shocked at the lack of enthusiasm and critical comments about this lad, cut him some slack for god's sake !!!
Looks a good signing to my mind.

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:42 pm

MACCA wrote:Definitely not a supporter, especially for having an opinion different to the clique, who cannot bring themselves to criticise anything the club do.

As opposed to criticizing EVERYTHING the Club do?

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:45 pm

fidelcastro wrote:As opposed to criticizing EVERYTHING the Club do?

I don't think I've seen anyone in this board that has that sort of record.
I think you've made that up.

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:46 pm

MACCA wrote:Definitely not a supporter, especially for having an opinion different to the clique, who cannot bring themselves to criticise anything the club do.

Looking at where Sean Dyche and the Board of Directors have brought us to, you need to be an extremely dissatisfied person to find anything significant to complain about. At what point in Burnley's history would you look at the club's current position and think that things are going wrong?

fidelcastro · Post by **fidelcastro** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:47 pm

MACCA wrote:I don't think I've seen anyone in this board that has that sort of record.
I think you've made that up.

I really haven't.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:48 pm

dsr wrote:Looking at where Sean Dyche and the Board of Directors have brought us to, you need to be an extremely dissatisfied person to find anything significant to complain about. At what point in Burnley's history would you look at the club's current position and think that things are going wrong?

So what your saying is the club do everything 100% right, a 100% if the time?

I don't think wells is up to the job, I think he will prove to be a very poor purchase. What's the issue?

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:49 pm

fidelcastro wrote:I really haven't.

I must not be in here as much as you, as I've not seen one.

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:49 pm

KRBFC wrote:Yeah really sad that some fans consider a signing as bad business.... Oh wait fans aren't allowed an opinion. I'm sure we will all support him when he pulls on the shirt regardless of our opinion on his signing and that's all that matters. If hes our final signing I wont be impressed but ill want him to succeed as much as anyone.

There are an apparently large number of supporters who have already decided that Wells is no good. When he comes on the field, how many bad passes will it take before they (and you) start booing?

And you've got this wrong before about not being allowed an opinion. You can post as much fatuous nonsense as you like; you have proved this time and again. What you persistently object to is people disagreeing with your opinion.

Jimscho · Post by **Jimscho** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:52 pm

MACCA wrote:Definitely not a supporter, especially for having an opinion different to the clique, who cannot bring themselves to criticise anything the club do.

Some people give a player a chance before calling them dogsh1t.Supporters support not criticise before they have kicked a ball .

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:54 pm

MACCA wrote:So what your saying is the club do everything 100% right, a 100% if the time?

I don't think wells is up to the job, I think he will prove to be a very poor purchase. What's the issue?

Nobody is right 100% of the time. The issue is with posters who believe they are right 100% of the time, so when Dyche thinks one thing, they think another, then Dyche is wrong.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:55 pm

MACCA wrote:Definitely not a supporter, especially for having an opinion different to the clique, who cannot bring themselves to criticise anything the club do.

I don't think there's a clique on here. I don't think this is a great signing, but it's happened and I'm willing to sit back and see how it works out. What's the point in banging the same drum over and over and over. Our club and management team have proven they know what they are doing so if they think that Wells is worth signing then I'm certainly not going to dismiss him.

I also think it's particularly unfair on the player that he is being written off before even pulling the shirt on. He shouldn't read this message board but if he does, and he probably will, I can't imagine he'll feel very welcome.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:55 pm

Jimscho wrote:Some people give a player a chance before calling them dogsh1t.Supporters support not criticise before they have kicked a ball .

I've watched him dozens if times. I've formed an option based on that, as I did with Reid, Sordell, juke, Anderson etc.

He will get my backing, I'm just going into it with my eyes fully open. Not hoping for a miracle.

Burnleyareback2 · Post by **Burnleyareback2** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:56 pm

Welcome to Burnley!

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:58 pm

MACCA wrote:I've watched him dozens if times. I've formed an option based on that, as I did with Reid, Sordell, juke, Anderson etc.

He will get my backing, I'm just going into it with my eyes fully open. Not hoping for a miracle.

Have you really watched him dozens of times?

Inchy · Post by **Inchy** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:58 pm

I have no problem with calling a player crap if they don't play for us and whenever I have seen them play they have been crap.

Now he plays for us I will judge him on his performances for us.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 3:59 pm

whoops wrong thread.

Continue ladies and gentlemen

BleedingClaret · Post by **BleedingClaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:01 pm

NRC wrote:but I keep reading he's different from our other strikers - even Dyche says so. I don't think I've read anywhere HOW he's different. Is he a poor man's Jermaine Defoe?

He's quick with a low centre of gravity.
Sort of player that can pounce on loose balls in and around the box before the gazelle like defenders and fellow attackers can get their lanky legs going.
Gray was this, in theory, he's gone
Chris Long is this but he's probably not considered first team material as yet.
There you go he offers something different.

Inchy · Post by **Inchy** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:05 pm

I called Wells crap the other day whist he wasn't a Burnley player based on the 15-20 I have seen him play. Does that mean I am not a Burnley supporter?

I also think the majority of Rovers team is crap based on what I saw the other week. Does that mean i am not a Burnley supporter?

Now that he has signed i wish him all the best and hope he proves to be a good signing

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:12 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Have you really watched him dozens of times?

If I was to count, it would probably be nearer 20.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:12 pm

dsr wrote:There are an apparently large number of supporters who have already decided that Wells is no good. When he comes on the field, how many bad passes will it take before they (and you) start booing?

And you've got this wrong before about not being allowed an opinion. You can post as much fatuous nonsense as you like; you have proved this time and again. What you persistently object to is people disagreeing with your opinion.

I don't think he's good enough having watched him play, ill be delighted if I'm proven wrong. Why would I boo a Burnley player? I hated Gifton upfront, still cheered his hat trick.

I have no problem if people think he's a good signing, that's completely up to them to form their own opinions. If I disagree with an opinion, it doesn't make me correct which is the concept you're struggling to deal with.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:17 pm

MACCA wrote:If I was to count, it would probably be nearer 20.

Thought not.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:18 pm

Rileybobs wrote:Thought not.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:21 pm

Rileybobs wrote:I don't think there's a clique on here. I don't think this is a great signing, but it's happened and I'm willing to sit back and see how it works out. What's the point in banging the same drum over and over and over. Our club and management team have proven they know what they are doing so if they think that Wells is worth signing then I'm certainly not going to dismiss him.

I also think it's particularly unfair on the player that he is being written off before even pulling the shirt on. He shouldn't read this message board but if he does, and he probably will, I can't imagine he'll feel very welcome.

Do the robot fans genuinely think he wont get all the supporters backing? Do the really think he will get abuse when he plays?
He will get everyone's full backing when on the field, just because we are not hanging out the bunting and celebrating his arrival doesn't mean we wont support him.

He has already pulled on the shirt by the way, just saying like.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:21 pm

Here's here now so welcome to Burnley, time to prove the majority of us wrong

boiledclaret · Post by **boiledclaret** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:23 pm

MACCA wrote:Sky sports news interview. I'm hoping to be on the grass in 7-10 days"

I'm warming to him.

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Thu Aug 31, 2017 4:26 pm

MACCA wrote:Do the robot fans genuinely think he wont get all the supporters backing? Do the really think he will get abuse when he plays?
He will get everyone's full backing when on the field, just because we are not hanging out the bunting and celebrating his arrival doesn't mean we wont support him.

He has already pulled on the shirt by the way, just saying like.

Apart from your "robot fans" being nonsense, yes, I genuinely think he won't get all the supporters' backing, just as Brian Laws didn't get all the supporters' backing. If there is a sizeable number of fans who think he's useless, they will be a lot quicker to see a misplaced pass and start booing. A player with the fans' goodwill behind him has a much better chance of success.