| Latte Lath 18:10 - Jan 22 with 3923 views | Sparky85 |
Looks like the Atlanta Utd deal is being accepted at £16m + top ups. Makes me wonder why we are not jumping on this as surely the more attractive option. Edmundson could go the other way as a sweetener and make our outlay less.
I know we have heard we have moved on to other targets, but these targets are not materialising.
11 goals this season in addition to the 16 last year. Plays in a similar formation and role.
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| Latte Lath on 18:11 - Jan 22 with 3887 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
99% certain that we aren't interested then. |  |
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| Latte Lath on 18:12 - Jan 22 with 3845 views | bournemouthblue |
| Latte Lath on 18:11 - Jan 22 by Cheltenham_Blue |
99% certain that we aren't interested then. |
Well exactly, that might be the clue |  |
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| Latte Lath on 18:13 - Jan 22 with 3832 views | Sparky85 |
| Latte Lath on 18:11 - Jan 22 by Cheltenham_Blue |
99% certain that we aren't interested then. |
Would seem so wouldn't it. Unusual that our interest is that short term. We often stay in the hunt for someone longer than one window | | | |
| Latte Lath on 18:14 - Jan 22 with 3807 views | Exiled2Surrey |
| Latte Lath on 18:12 - Jan 22 by bournemouthblue |
Well exactly, that might be the clue |
I had read that Atlanta had moved their focus on to Eduoard at Palace - but of course that might have been to push Boro to move | | | |
| Latte Lath on 18:15 - Jan 22 with 3784 views | Herbivore |
It was a deal that made more sense in the summer when we were probably still weighing up whether Delap would be our number 9 or play as a wide forward but now I'm less sure.
He's 26 so in his prime years and he's done well at Championship level but without fully tearing it up. In our system and knowing what's required of our number 9 I'm not convinced he's a big upgrade on the younger Hirst. He offers different attributes for sure but that's a decent chunk of money for a player with limited resale value and no Prem experience to be coming in and being second or third choice behind Delap and possibly Hirst too. |  |
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| Latte Lath on 18:20 - Jan 22 with 3634 views | BloomBlue |
Probably in the summer he thought if he joined us he had a good chance of starting a lot of games. But now he's seen the form of Delap he knows he'll spend 95+% starting on the bench and therefore more than happy to go to Atlanta and thus his agent isn't dinging us to sign him. |  | | |
| Latte Lath on 18:20 - Jan 22 with 3634 views | Sparky85 |
| Latte Lath on 18:15 - Jan 22 by Herbivore |
It was a deal that made more sense in the summer when we were probably still weighing up whether Delap would be our number 9 or play as a wide forward but now I'm less sure.
He's 26 so in his prime years and he's done well at Championship level but without fully tearing it up. In our system and knowing what's required of our number 9 I'm not convinced he's a big upgrade on the younger Hirst. He offers different attributes for sure but that's a decent chunk of money for a player with limited resale value and no Prem experience to be coming in and being second or third choice behind Delap and possibly Hirst too. |
Good point. Remember thinking at the time that Delap seemed more of a right sided player for how he was being utilized at Hull.
Not many tearing it up in the Championship. ELL is third behind Maja and Sainz | | | |
| Latte Lath on 18:57 - Jan 22 with 3283 views | PhilTWTD |
I don't think we've shown interest this window at all. |  | | |
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| Latte Lath on 19:07 - Jan 22 with 3138 views | BarcaBlue |
| Latte Lath on 18:15 - Jan 22 by Herbivore |
It was a deal that made more sense in the summer when we were probably still weighing up whether Delap would be our number 9 or play as a wide forward but now I'm less sure.
He's 26 so in his prime years and he's done well at Championship level but without fully tearing it up. In our system and knowing what's required of our number 9 I'm not convinced he's a big upgrade on the younger Hirst. He offers different attributes for sure but that's a decent chunk of money for a player with limited resale value and no Prem experience to be coming in and being second or third choice behind Delap and possibly Hirst too. |
That's a fair summary...and welcome back! |  | | |
| Latte Lath on 19:36 - Jan 22 with 2921 views | berkstractorboy |
| Latte Lath on 18:13 - Jan 22 by Sparky85 |
Would seem so wouldn't it. Unusual that our interest is that short term. We often stay in the hunt for someone longer than one window |
Might suggest he was a bit of a back up choice to Broja when that fell through late in the window and with more time to assess KMc doesn't think he is what we need for the investment.
What it may also indicate despite all the reported Chelsea/Spurs interest is that Delap is going nowhere as most of us predict.
Now I've said that could be wrong and Delap goes and Awonyi or Ferguson signs permanently! | | | |
| Latte Lath on 20:02 - Jan 22 with 2730 views | StokieBlue |
Can you explain why we are the more attractive option than the team currently 3rd in Serie A?
They are 4 points ahead of 4th and heading for Champions League football at the moment.
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| Latte Lath on 20:03 - Jan 22 with 2716 views | JakeITFC |
| Latte Lath on 20:02 - Jan 22 by StokieBlue |
Can you explain why we are the more attractive option than the team currently 3rd in Serie A?
They are 4 points ahead of 4th and heading for Champions League football at the moment.
SB |
Atlanta (Georgia, USA) instead of Atalanta. |  | | |
| Latte Lath on 20:05 - Jan 22 with 2696 views | bluefunk |
| Latte Lath on 20:02 - Jan 22 by StokieBlue |
Can you explain why we are the more attractive option than the team currently 3rd in Serie A?
They are 4 points ahead of 4th and heading for Champions League football at the moment.
SB |
You might want to read the OP again |  | | |
| Latte Lath on 20:07 - Jan 22 with 2671 views | StokieBlue |
| Latte Lath on 20:03 - Jan 22 by JakeITFC |
Atlanta (Georgia, USA) instead of Atalanta. |
Indeed - I totally misread that probably because it's such a strange one. Just one of many failings of the human brain.
SB [Post edited 22 Jan 20:51]
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| Latte Lath on 20:26 - Jan 22 with 2480 views | bournemouthblue |
| Latte Lath on 18:14 - Jan 22 by Exiled2Surrey |
I had read that Atlanta had moved their focus on to Eduoard at Palace - but of course that might have been to push Boro to move |
I do agree, we could have used Edmundson as part of a deal
It seems a fairly obvious one | |
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| Latte Lath on 20:28 - Jan 22 with 2449 views | Sparky85 |
| Latte Lath on 18:57 - Jan 22 by PhilTWTD |
I don't think we've shown interest this window at all. |
Thanks Phil. I know you can’t mention any names but are we active on anything with regards to a no9? All seems very quiet | | | |
| Latte Lath on 20:33 - Jan 22 with 2396 views | Swansea_Blue |
If the Atalanta interest was known to us, it would have been pointless wasting energy on him even if we wanted him. There’s no chance we’re competing with guaranteed Champions League football. |  |
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| Latte Lath on 20:37 - Jan 22 with 2341 views | pointofblue |
| Latte Lath on 20:33 - Jan 22 by Swansea_Blue |
If the Atalanta interest was known to us, it would have been pointless wasting energy on him even if we wanted him. There’s no chance we’re competing with guaranteed Champions League football. |
Atlanta Utd - MLS team, not the Serie A one (Atalanta). [Post edited 22 Jan 20:44]
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| Latte Lath on 20:45 - Jan 22 with 2261 views | PhilTWTD |
| Latte Lath on 20:28 - Jan 22 by Sparky85 |
Thanks Phil. I know you can’t mention any names but are we active on anything with regards to a no9? All seems very quiet |
I'm sure we are but not heard anything up to now. | | | |
| Latte Lath on 21:06 - Jan 22 with 2016 views | NedPlimpton |
| Latte Lath on 18:15 - Jan 22 by Herbivore |
It was a deal that made more sense in the summer when we were probably still weighing up whether Delap would be our number 9 or play as a wide forward but now I'm less sure.
He's 26 so in his prime years and he's done well at Championship level but without fully tearing it up. In our system and knowing what's required of our number 9 I'm not convinced he's a big upgrade on the younger Hirst. He offers different attributes for sure but that's a decent chunk of money for a player with limited resale value and no Prem experience to be coming in and being second or third choice behind Delap and possibly Hirst too. |
I've seen this mentioned a lot, but do we actually know that Delap was signed to play as a right sided forward? I get that McKenna likes versatility but he also likes a very specific type of striker so the suggestion that we were "weighing up" where to play him after forking out a significant chunk of money, doesn't feel very McKenna-esque |  | | |
| Latte Lath on 21:20 - Jan 22 with 1884 views | Herbivore |
| Latte Lath on 21:06 - Jan 22 by NedPlimpton |
I've seen this mentioned a lot, but do we actually know that Delap was signed to play as a right sided forward? I get that McKenna likes versatility but he also likes a very specific type of striker so the suggestion that we were "weighing up" where to play him after forking out a significant chunk of money, doesn't feel very McKenna-esque |
McKenna is always very clear that he's more interested in attributes than in positions. Other players have played different roles for us. The injury to Hirst forced our hand somewhat, I'm not sure when we signed Delap that the plan was to straight away use him as our starting number 9 and for him to play more or less every game in that role. | |
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| Latte Lath on 21:59 - Jan 22 with 1658 views | BondiBlue |
| Latte Lath on 21:20 - Jan 22 by Herbivore |
McKenna is always very clear that he's more interested in attributes than in positions. Other players have played different roles for us. The injury to Hirst forced our hand somewhat, I'm not sure when we signed Delap that the plan was to straight away use him as our starting number 9 and for him to play more or less every game in that role. |
Hence why we were trying so hard to spend big on broja as well as delap. | |
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| Latte Lath on 22:12 - Jan 22 with 1552 views | Herbivore |
| Latte Lath on 21:59 - Jan 22 by BondiBlue |
Hence why we were trying so hard to spend big on broja as well as delap. |
Indeed. Not sure we'd have been looking at that Broja deal if we thought Delap was a nailed on starter every week as a 9. He wouldn't have been coming here to be a bench warmer. Delap's performances mean our requirements have changed a bit since August. We still need another number 9 but probably not someone to come in and be first choice. | |
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