Transfer rumours !

aaron_bwfc wrote:Bloody hell, he still can't be on that much surely?!   

Well if he is then he certainly will not be coming to us.

Forget I said Zigic, I reckon it's Glenn Murray

Is that the one from Palace ?

Certainly sounds like Murray going off Nixon's comments, I'd imagine he would be available for a loan move this season. Can't imagine Palace want to do Dougie any favours though!

if Glenn Murray can pick up where he left off when Palace got promoted he would be very handy!

Murray would actually be a decent acquisition for the Championship but it will not satisfy everybody. Some will see it as a lack of ambition on Dougie's part. Hey Ho!

Don't forget he'd be 'yet another Palace reject'.

The same fans slating Dougie for not having a plan B when we missed out on Juke, will be slating him for having a plan B which they don't like.

He can't win.

bwfc1874 wrote:Don't forget he'd be 'yet another Palace reject'.

The same fans slating Dougie for not having a plan B when we missed out on Juke, will be slating him for having a plan B which they don't like.

He can't win.

Exactly. Until the season starts every personal opinion is pure speculation. I can't understand why some fans seem to think a manager would deliberately go out of his way to assemble a shite squad.  

Coyle did.

Maybe ask that to Sammy Lee RT

Key word was deliberately Sluffy.

bwfc1874 wrote:Key word was deliberately Sluffy.

Did anyone REALLY think the signings of players such as Mears, Ngog, Andrews, Mills, etc and giving Knight a new two year contract, and Kevin Davies a further one (even though everybody could see his legs had gone) would improve the side?

If they weren't going to improve on what we had then he must have deliberately weakened it then.

After all he is the best manager he's ever been.

QED

All the players you mention there had decentish reputations when they joined, especially in the cases of Andrews and Mills at Championship level.

Coyle's problem was that he brought players for a reasonable price but didn't look at if they were value for money and didn't use them in the right way. What motivation would he have to deliberately reduce the quality of the squad?

aaron_bwfc wrote:Bloody hell, he still can't be on that much surely?!   

I seriously doubt he'd on that kind of money at present and don't call me Shirley.

  

Sluff were you calling for OC to be sacked when we were sitting in the top 10 of the prem, playing attractive football and about to go to a semi final at Wembley? #justasking

Not sure I agree.

I was only messing around when I said Coyle as I have him down as totally inept rather than deliberately fecking us up.

Andrews did have a good little spell at Ipswich - but that was totally at odds with what he had done before - and by all accounts he wasn't that good at Blackburn - his main club up to that time.

Same with Mills - had big problems at Leicester - who now on reflection had paid well over the odds for him - and as been less than stellar since he's been with us.

Still can't get over Owen pinning all our hopes on Sordell when we were clearly needing a replacement for Holden in midfield.  Three sub appearances later we were relegated.

Masterstroke!

Owen you truly are a genius!

JAH wrote:Sluff were you calling for OC to be sacked when we were sitting in the top 10 of the prem, playing attractive football  and about to go to a semi final at Wembley? #justasking

And when was that? Apart from the Wembley semi-final we went rapidly downhill under Coyle. I liked the guy but the reality was that he wasn't good enough to manage the team. It proved it at Wigan.

JAH wrote:Sluff were you calling for OC to be sacked when we were sitting in the top 10 of the prem, playing attractive football  and about to go to a semi final at Wembley? #justasking

Yes, if you want to know the truth.

I had worked him out by then - if you want to search my back history of posts on Burnden Aces you will see what I was saying at the time.

His points in the previous half season were almost identical to what got Megson the sack, he had brought players in yet he was playing Megson's players who presumeably he had brought to replace them with, and his adherence to 4-4-2 with two attacking wingers was already obvious to me - and clearly to every other manager who played us from then on.

I'm certainly not being wise after the event as you seem to be suggesting.

Apart from showing Sluffy has more foresight than the rest of us, it's a pretty irrelevant point to make isn't it? Why look at the 4-5 months when we were in the top 10 and ignore all the damage since?

I would consider Murray a very good signing at this level. Pulis gave him a few games towards the end of last season in the PL so I'd be amazed if he's ready to drop down to Bolton though.