January Transfer Window Rumours

My join date is nov 7 2002. I don’t post a huge amount on there now.

 

What if Defoe wants to see out his career dahn sarf, and just said no ta to us?

 

Just seen this. When I get tagged it doesn't show in my alerts.

Last I heard was we made our final offer yday and it was "decision" time.

 

Thanks for the info. We can move on now.

 

My Oxford mate thinks he’s chosen there.

All signs are pointing to that for me. Even prehabs use of “final offer” hints at us being wide of his expectations initially and getting closer to it but not meeting it

 

Nobody ever guarantees goals mate, not even Defoe. Barely kicked a ball in anger for 2 years. He may get them, he may not be match fit, he may pull a hamstring in game 1. We are one of the top scoring teams in the country, so going into January we would have had different priorities. This came along and we put a value on it and that may not be enough for Defoe. We need a backup for Stewart badly and Defoe could not be that for me. We also need someone who can give Neil the sort of licence that will make us unplayable. I wish Defoe good luck, but for me he was not a priority.

 

If he’s not signing then we move on.

sign a ****house def mid and another striker and I think this will still have been a good window.

although I suspect lots will use Defoe not signing as a stick to beat LJ with.

 

Do you know if we have any other irons in the fire regarding strikers? Anyone close to joining?

 

If Defoe doesn't come here, it won't be lack of ambition from the club, because of JD wanting to get into media, it'll be purely Geography.

 

If by all accounts we’ve made an offer. If JD doesn’t accept it’s up to him. Nowt we can do about it. Club clearly wanted him enough to make the offer.

onto the next one on the list imo.

 

Will score winner against us in play offs won't he

 

I've not really posted on this transfer/Defoe much thread at all as I listened to LJ last week say 'a million things need to fall in place'.
Obviously they've not happened for whatever reason. We'll all have our opinions on what they were, and depending on agenda's....will judge accordingly. Imo it's that he wants game time, we can't give him that as we have the leagues top goalscorer in our side. Why leave Rangers where he was a bit-part player to come to #safc to....... be a bit-part player.

 

I was speaking to a coach from a scottish club last night and he thinks Defoe is done, past it and thinks we would be wasting our time signing him. You have to remember hes not played this season and, trust me, the standard of the Scottish premiership is L1 level at best. Why has a new manager come in and binned him? Cos hes not interested in sentiment and feels hes not good enough anymore.
I'm.sitting somewhere in middle. If he doesnt sign, I think we should just all accept it and move on and not blame club. If he wants silly money at the age of 39 I think we might be better of spending it elsewhere

 

Hope we have someone else lined up. We need a striker and DM in pretty quick imo. In case of injuries etc.

 

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Hopefully he hasn’t turfed us.

 

I've kept quiet but I'm not concerned at all if Defoe doesn't sign and I think many fans are lost in sentiment rather than thinking this through in terms of what we actually need.

At 39 years old he's simply hasn't got enough left in the tank to be a Saturday/Tuesday replacement for Stewart if he got injured and that's important, hugely important.

It only makes sense to me if we are getting two strikers in this window. One could then be Defoe if the other had an excellent fitness record.

If we are only getting one then I'd see Defoe as a huge risk to be honest rather than a huge positive.

 

This is the worry for me. We can cope without Defoe but not without Defoe or an/other and Stewart. We need to add more sources of regular goals and quick.

 

Wonder what Oxford can offer that we can't? Surely money can't be the issue .

 

more game time.