January transfer window

He's nowhere near as good as willock

 

Wood to Cooper
“ in training there was a lad at nufc who put it on my head with every cross, he could be a real asset here”
Context- all the other players had went for lunch and Murphy and Wood were 6 yards apart

 

Agree, but I don't think Shelvey will fit into too many PL teams these days. The pace of the game doesn't allow for that style of player in most set ups. I think he'd be better off somewhere on the continent

 

Shelvey just floats long passes around... they can all do that if they're allowed to hide in front of a back 4

 

90% off them go to the opposition or out of play

 

Ok that's nice

They can have him then and we can continue to be happy he's leaving

I'm not gonna start feeling upset for Jonjo

 

We have become Forest's feeder club.
Next window it will be Murphy, Fraser, Lewis & Lascelles all joining them.

 

They gave us Laecelles, Darlow and Jenas, this is our long overdue repayment of ****e.

 

Howe: I don't want Jonjo to go but understand his decision; we'll look at a loan replacement

 

Gallagher on deadline day then? Or maybe we need a plodder every January; Wood last year, McTominay this.

 

Gallagher hopefully, or the lad from Sheff Utd. Berge.

 

Howe: I'm delighted with Gordon signing
Eddie Howe has been speaking in a press conference ahead of Newcastle's Carabao Cup semi-final second leg with Southampton and sung the praises of new signing Anthony Gordon.

The forward signed for £45m from Everton this week and Howe believes the 21-year-old will bring a lot to his team this season and in the future.

"He’ll give us a lot. He's a young player with huge attributes, huge potential to have a big impact on our season," said Howe. "He's a quick, dynamic player. Versatile, can play off both sides. The best is yet to come from him and he can add something different for us. I'm delighted to get him.

"We’re getting someone fiercely determined and ambitious. He's got a nice balance between confidence and knowing there are areas to improve in his game. I have no doubts about his character. We do a lot of research with every signing but we’ve tracked him for a long time, since the early days at Everton and the loan spell he had. We know the player and I’m really pleased he’s now part of our team.

"We saw the player and talent he has and tried to vision what he can do in our team. We felt he’d be a good fit for us. Time will tell if that’s a good decision or not. But I believe from the brief meeting with him yesterday and [how he] trained with us yesterday, I was very excited by what I saw.

"I believe he will fit our style of play. He’s an incredible athlete, he’s got ability to run box to box at high speed, good endurance levels and turn of pace as well. He has the athletic durability we want in our wide players. I do see it being a good mix – but he’ll have to earn that support the crowd will give him.

"On either wing I see being his primary position. He can play as 10 or 9… he gives us that flexibility with Chris Wood’s absence.

"Anthony has been a long term target for us. We were keen not to sign anybody in January who isn’t part of our long term plans, so I'm delighted to get a player we’ve admired for a long time.

"For someone of his age, we’re going to really need to support him and guide him through this move. Certainly how he handled yesterday, I thought he was excellent -meeting new team-mates, coaching staff, getting a lot of information, trying to settle in, I thought he handled himself really well."

 

Hearing it could be Sander Berge

Is he better than Shelvey?

 

That's a fairly glowing report.

Intetesting that Eddie already sees him as versatile across both wings, plus at either #9 or #10. (cue Magdad's "Told you so" )

 

If he can run then yes.


He's tall too, so hopefully a threat from set pieces.

 

If he can hit the target from 6 yards out he will go far

 

Some fans just have totally unrealistic expectations of what pro footballers are capable of these days.

 

I remember when players use to hit the ball from thirty yards out with an inch of clarts on it
and still find the back of the net

 

Youtube highlights (so not the best) but he looks a handful. Almost impossible to stop if he gets his body in front of you and impossible to body out the way - you'll also hear "great feet for a big man" about 10 times a season if he plays for you I'd imagine

Set pieces I'm disappointed we don't score more but teams would brick it with:
Burn 6'6
Botman 6'4
Berge 6'5
running at them

 

Nah, he's off to Fulham, sounds like an agent looking for a last minute bonus.

From what Eddie's saying, has to be a loan with an option to buy. Probably rules out anyone from abroad.