08 Jan 2019 21:10:03
This transfer window has given me a bit of a reality check about where we are as a club and the necessity of our transfer strategy.

I'll hold my hands up and admit that when we sold Dembele for £19.7m on the last day of the transfer window I was expecting us to push the boat out this month and sign a striker of quality and reputation whilst dishing out a decent fee. And again I'll admit feeling underwhelmed when I heard our targets were Weah and Bayo.

However looking at the transfer window as a whole and seeing a player like Dominic Solanke, who has 1 senior goal in the EPL move for £19m makes me realise we have no option than to look for players like Bayo, develop them into top class players and sell them on for big money. And there may be occasions when we do pay a large fee for a player i. e Castagne for £6m for example.

I have decided to embrace this policy and look forward to seeing Burke, Weah and Bayo in action and whoever else come in between now and the end of the window. Who knows just because there is no option to buy included in the loan doesn't mean we can't make an offer at the end of the season for Burke. I can't see Weah coming here permanently. Anyway looking forward to the rest of the season and hopefully another treble.

1.) 08 Jan 2019
08 Jan 2019 22:03:47
If Weah and Burke play well during 6 months, i wouldn't be surprised if loans were extended like what happened with Patrick Roberts.

PSG and West Brom obviously rate them highly by their actions of extending Weah contract and West Brom paying £15m for Burke. With this in mind i believe we have loaned 2 good players.

Looking at bigger picture players we have developed over years i can see big clubs in future loaning us top class prospects that will give us a boost cause of the success rate.

2.) 08 Jan 2019
08 Jan 2019 22:21:10
I'd be happy for both loans to be extended. I just wonder if Weah has been brought in to cover Griff.

3.) 08 Jan 2019
08 Jan 2019 22:35:43
Read a report today suggesting Rodgers wants to utilise Weah through the middle and put Edouard on the Left Wing. I know French Eddie is class at cutting inside at edge of the box but other than that I don’t think he offers natural width or has a particular strength in crossing the ball. Then we have a young natural wide player who has started only a handful of senior games asked to come to a foreign country and play in a position alien to him.
After Mcgregor at full back shambles in old firm and now trying to play 2 players out of their natural position I’m less confident in Rodgers than I have been in the past.
His signings record is poor I hope he has got these 1s correct for our sake.
More importantly we NEED a CM, RB, back up LB and at least 1 CB and seem to only be linked with Attacking players and 1 RB who wants to play in Spain or Germany I think so where’s our next target? Surely we should have had at least 5 options on standby at RB as soon as window opened it’s so obvious we need help in there and teams know it and target that area of our team.

4.) 08 Jan 2019
08 Jan 2019 22:46:14
Ice man did the fact we had to pay 9 million for edouard not ram that fact for you.
He had only around 16 or 17 top flight games and 1 goal before his loan to us
He then scored 11 for us.

So a player with under 50 top team games and 12 goals cost 9 million
That's what we are up against. We need to go looking for gems like van djyk or use loop holes to grab players like dembele.
Will it always work? Naw
What we need to do is make sure enough of it works to keep us successful.

5.) 08 Jan 2019
08 Jan 2019 23:06:36
Kev83 I guess I still thought we may be able to bring in a decent level of player with a good reputation bit like I say seeing what's going on with to be quite frank average players going for tens of millions of pounds put things completely into perspective.

Our scouting system needs to be spot on and we need to take advantage of certain markets as well as continuing with our youth set up. Nothing makes me prouder than seeing KT, Calmac, Forrest and Mikey Johnston coming through the ranks. Here's to the future 🍀.

6.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 00:06:52
GGGG unless you heard Rodgers say it himself I wouldn't pay any attention to it.

7.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 00:28:06
Edouards still young and he has done well so far this season.

I do think though he works better with someone up front. Last season him and dembele were dynamite up front.

8.) 09 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019 08:32:20
We aren't going to push the boat out and sign another multi million pound striker when we paid £9m for Eddy, he is our No 1 striker but BR just doesn't want him playing so much.
Now on the other hand we still have 3 weeks of the window left and I do see them making a splash to get possible 3 or 4 more players in to bolster our defence, I also see Hayes, Allen, Compper and Boyata all moving on.