CLOSING IN! 14:02 - Jul 10 with 1625 views | _clive_baker_ | Can never remember if that's before or after 'imminent' but it sounds promising! |  | | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:06 - Jul 10 with 1564 views | Mullet | Depends if you’re talking about signings or witness statements I guess. |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:13 - Jul 10 with 1461 views | jasondozzell | Appreciate these days it's nothing for the big clubs, but is it just me who gets a thrill simply reading that we're spending 10 million on a midfielder from abroad etc? Still not used to it! All those years of 'quiet transfer window expected at Portman Road' and Hawkins, Ward and Cornell etc etc. Great to have a Dutchman back in a Town shirt too! |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:16 - Jul 10 with 1412 views | tonybied |
CLOSING IN! on 14:13 - Jul 10 by jasondozzell | Appreciate these days it's nothing for the big clubs, but is it just me who gets a thrill simply reading that we're spending 10 million on a midfielder from abroad etc? Still not used to it! All those years of 'quiet transfer window expected at Portman Road' and Hawkins, Ward and Cornell etc etc. Great to have a Dutchman back in a Town shirt too! |
Surely a good omen! |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:23 - Jul 10 with 1326 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
CLOSING IN! on 14:13 - Jul 10 by jasondozzell | Appreciate these days it's nothing for the big clubs, but is it just me who gets a thrill simply reading that we're spending 10 million on a midfielder from abroad etc? Still not used to it! All those years of 'quiet transfer window expected at Portman Road' and Hawkins, Ward and Cornell etc etc. Great to have a Dutchman back in a Town shirt too! |
When was the last time we signed anyone abroad that wasn't a loan? Who was it and how much? Given how many years we have had of picking up frees and bringing in Journeymen and do a job types I think its quite understandable to get a little thrill from such developments. |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:32 - Jul 10 with 1253 views | jasondozzell |
CLOSING IN! on 14:23 - Jul 10 by BlueandTruesince82 | When was the last time we signed anyone abroad that wasn't a loan? Who was it and how much? Given how many years we have had of picking up frees and bringing in Journeymen and do a job types I think its quite understandable to get a little thrill from such developments. |
Quite! Larsen Toure perhaps?! It is exciting! |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:33 - Jul 10 with 1252 views | joshITFCporter |
CLOSING IN! on 14:23 - Jul 10 by BlueandTruesince82 | When was the last time we signed anyone abroad that wasn't a loan? Who was it and how much? Given how many years we have had of picking up frees and bringing in Journeymen and do a job types I think its quite understandable to get a little thrill from such developments. |
Tete Yengi signed for us from Newcastle (Australia) but never made the first team. The last first team player we've signed from a non-british club would technically be Steven Taylor from Portland Timbers, albeit he was a free agent. In 2015 were our last permanent signings from abroad, and we actually had multiple in one Window with Knudsen from Esbjerg (Denmark), Malarczyk from Kielce (Poland) and Tommy Oar from Utrecht (Netherlands), plus Larsen Toure on a free having previously been in the French lower divisions |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:35 - Jul 10 with 1237 views | tonybied |
CLOSING IN! on 14:23 - Jul 10 by BlueandTruesince82 | When was the last time we signed anyone abroad that wasn't a loan? Who was it and how much? Given how many years we have had of picking up frees and bringing in Journeymen and do a job types I think its quite understandable to get a little thrill from such developments. |
I just checked Transfermarkt and it seems to be 10 years! 2015/16 season we signed Jonas Knudsen, Piotr Malarczyk and Tommy Oar! |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:37 - Jul 10 with 1205 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
CLOSING IN! on 14:23 - Jul 10 by BlueandTruesince82 | When was the last time we signed anyone abroad that wasn't a loan? Who was it and how much? Given how many years we have had of picking up frees and bringing in Journeymen and do a job types I think its quite understandable to get a little thrill from such developments. |
Knudsen? 2015? We had a couple of years of looking abroad..... Bajner and Bru 2014. |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:40 - Jul 10 with 1146 views | positivity |
CLOSING IN! on 14:35 - Jul 10 by tonybied | I just checked Transfermarkt and it seems to be 10 years! 2015/16 season we signed Jonas Knudsen, Piotr Malarczyk and Tommy Oar! |
tudor mendel-idowu last year (anderlecht) |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:41 - Jul 10 with 1113 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
CLOSING IN! on 14:40 - Jul 10 by positivity | tudor mendel-idowu last year (anderlecht) |
I think Knudsen is the last one that qualifies as signing a foreign player into our first team. |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:42 - Jul 10 with 1111 views | tonybied |
CLOSING IN! on 14:40 - Jul 10 by positivity | tudor mendel-idowu last year (anderlecht) |
Not sure I'd count youth players, although that caveat wasn't added, so I guess you win! |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:43 - Jul 10 with 1096 views | positivity |
CLOSING IN! on 14:40 - Jul 10 by positivity | tudor mendel-idowu last year (anderlecht) |
for a fee, do barry cotter & aaron drinan count? 0.3% of mick's irish signings... |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:45 - Jul 10 with 1049 views | PhilTWTD |
CLOSING IN! on 14:43 - Jul 10 by positivity | for a fee, do barry cotter & aaron drinan count? 0.3% of mick's irish signings... |
There have been a few similar academy signings from Ireland since then, Cameron Stewart, Edwin Agbaje, Darragh McCann, Leon Ayinde, Daniel O'Connor, Daniel Babb off the top of my head. |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 14:46 - Jul 10 with 1027 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
CLOSING IN! on 14:42 - Jul 10 by tonybied | Not sure I'd count youth players, although that caveat wasn't added, so I guess you win! |
I dont think signing english players from abroad, into the youth time adds the same excitement. |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:50 - Jul 10 with 991 views | positivity |
CLOSING IN! on 14:45 - Jul 10 by PhilTWTD | There have been a few similar academy signings from Ireland since then, Cameron Stewart, Edwin Agbaje, Darragh McCann, Leon Ayinde, Daniel O'Connor, Daniel Babb off the top of my head. |
seem to remember cotter and drinan were fees, though the exchange rate seems to be 100 drinans to the matusiwa |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 14:52 - Jul 10 with 960 views | positivity |
CLOSING IN! on 14:46 - Jul 10 by Marshalls_Mullet | I dont think signing english players from abroad, into the youth time adds the same excitement. |
not that knudsen provided much excitement for us (except for the excitement every time he wound up one of his "long" throws)! |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 15:05 - Jul 10 with 815 views | PhilTWTD |
CLOSING IN! on 14:50 - Jul 10 by positivity | seem to remember cotter and drinan were fees, though the exchange rate seems to be 100 drinans to the matusiwa |
There will have been fees for some of those, I'm sure. More Drinan than Matusiwa, obviously. And I suspect we paid something for Mendel to Anderlecht.
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CLOSING IN! on 15:07 - Jul 10 with 778 views | PhilTWTD |
CLOSING IN! on 14:37 - Jul 10 by Marshalls_Mullet | Knudsen? 2015? We had a couple of years of looking abroad..... Bajner and Bru 2014. |
The latter pair were free agents so not signed from a club per se, they came in on trial. |  | |  |
CLOSING IN! on 15:11 - Jul 10 with 712 views | pointofblue |
CLOSING IN! on 14:52 - Jul 10 by positivity | not that knudsen provided much excitement for us (except for the excitement every time he wound up one of his "long" throws)! |
Not sure if I'm misremembering but didn't he have a habit of scoring against Norwich? Also netted the last goal of the McCarthy era. |  |
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CLOSING IN! on 15:12 - Jul 10 with 696 views | positivity |
CLOSING IN! on 15:11 - Jul 10 by pointofblue | Not sure if I'm misremembering but didn't he have a habit of scoring against Norwich? Also netted the last goal of the McCarthy era. |
and got that leeds player sent off, maybe i'm under-rating him! |  |
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