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Post by werrington on Feb 3, 2015 13:00:47 GMT
2pm for Olssen Jesus wept it used to be waiting on Chelsea players apples to drop now he's started on championship clubs Seriously mate it's going to be a slog watching it this season as he will lament the lack of signings and make the CEO pay for it with tired turgid rancid football to prove his point I'm finding it a pisser in all honesty He did get Olssen in the end then? No mate hence my comment about him making them pay for it
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Post by davejohnno1 on Feb 3, 2015 13:05:43 GMT
He did get Olssen in the end then? No mate hence my comment about him making them pay for it Oh right. I hadn't realised. He was my one bit of transfer gossip that came back to bite me on the arse after posting it on here. In the summer of his final season, Olssen had all but signed for us, or so Pulis thought, and I posted it several times practically saying it was a done deal. The done deal never materialised and Pulis was furious that we wouldn't bow to his and the players demands. Had he arrived at West Brom, I'd have been interested to see where he would have played him because I'm convinced, though signing him as a left back, that he wouldn't continue with that for long, and would convert him into a defensive winger instead.
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Post by realstokebloke on Feb 3, 2015 13:11:00 GMT
If you needed all that surely your recruitment policy was well up the spout prior to Pulis joining? Yeh our recruitment since Ashworth left as been awful. Gone from being our biggest strength and probably the main reason for us being the PL/finishing top half to an absolute mess pretty much the moment Ashworth went to the FA. In fairness we didn't really need that much. A back up CF for Berahino would of been nice (not Carlton Cole) but we needed another source of goals for the starting 11 and some pace on the wings so really just a winger who could score 5 goals between now and May. We bought in Mcmanaman but Pulis got rid of Varela to do it so we were back to square one in that department. We only need creativity so much because Sessegnon cant get a game any more. We could of lined up on Sunday with Foster Wisdom McCauley Lescott Pocognoli Mulumbu Yacob Mcmanaman Sessegnon Varela Berahino Instead we will likely be Foster Wisdom Dawson McCauley Pocognoli Mcmanaman Fletcher Yacob Brunt Berahino Anichebe Spot the Pulis team Albion, you have our heartfelt sympathy for what you are about to receive.
He won't change, so you are in for a rough ride.
What happened to the Can't Control (Carlton Cole) deal in the end? Tightwad Pearce refused to cough up for a chauffeur driven gangsta Hummer to drive him back and forth to training from the smoke every day I bet?
And has (no) Ideye actually gone? Again, can't see Pearce too happy to take such a hefty hit on that deal?
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Post by Davef on Feb 3, 2015 13:34:45 GMT
Yeh our recruitment since Ashworth left as been awful. Gone from being our biggest strength and probably the main reason for us being the PL/finishing top half to an absolute mess pretty much the moment Ashworth went to the FA. In fairness we didn't really need that much. A back up CF for Berahino would of been nice (not Carlton Cole) but we needed another source of goals for the starting 11 and some pace on the wings so really just a winger who could score 5 goals between now and May. We bought in Mcmanaman but Pulis got rid of Varela to do it so we were back to square one in that department. We only need creativity so much because Sessegnon cant get a game any more. We could of lined up on Sunday with Foster Wisdom McCauley Lescott Pocognoli Mulumbu Yacob Mcmanaman Sessegnon Varela Berahino Instead we will likely be Foster Wisdom Dawson McCauley Pocognoli Mcmanaman Fletcher Yacob Brunt Berahino Anichebe Spot the Pulis team Albion, you have our heartfelt sympathy for what you are about to receive.
He won't change, so you are in for a rough ride.
What happened to the Can't Control (Carlton Cole) deal in the end? Tightwad Pearce refused to cough up for a chauffeur driven gangsta Hummer to drive him back and forth to training from the smoke every day I bet?
And has (no) Ideye actually gone? Again, can't see Pearce too happy to take such a hefty hit on that deal? www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/west-ham/11386675/Carlton-Cole-goes-ballistic-at-Sam-Allardyce-over-aborted-WBA-move.html
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Post by thebet365 on Feb 3, 2015 13:43:50 GMT
Yeh our recruitment since Ashworth left as been awful. Gone from being our biggest strength and probably the main reason for us being the PL/finishing top half to an absolute mess pretty much the moment Ashworth went to the FA. In fairness we didn't really need that much. A back up CF for Berahino would of been nice (not Carlton Cole) but we needed another source of goals for the starting 11 and some pace on the wings so really just a winger who could score 5 goals between now and May. We bought in Mcmanaman but Pulis got rid of Varela to do it so we were back to square one in that department. We only need creativity so much because Sessegnon cant get a game any more. We could of lined up on Sunday with Foster Wisdom McCauley Lescott Pocognoli Mulumbu Yacob Mcmanaman Sessegnon Varela Berahino Instead we will likely be Foster Wisdom Dawson McCauley Pocognoli Mcmanaman Fletcher Yacob Brunt Berahino Anichebe Spot the Pulis team Albion, you have our heartfelt sympathy for what you are about to receive.
He won't change, so you are in for a rough ride.
What happened to the Can't Control (Carlton Cole) deal in the end? Tightwad Pearce refused to cough up for a chauffeur driven gangsta Hummer to drive him back and forth to training from the smoke every day I bet?
And has (no) Ideye actually gone? Again, can't see Pearce too happy to take such a hefty hit on that deal? Levy pulled the plug on Adebeyor signing for West Ham, so Big Sam pulled the plug on Carlton Cole leaving with the Gypo going off injured at the weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 13:54:14 GMT
Well that was a fucking shambles Blame needs to spread all round anyone who was involved in yesterday and the window in general but from all accounts it's Pulis who is calling the shots so he needs to shoulder the majority of it. No need to guess if Cole was a Pulis target or not... He/we seemed to have no plan at all (Mcmanaman aside) and just bid/registered interest on whoever became available. Hence no interest at all in Olsson until Norwich mentioned at 2pm we could have him if we wanted and we decided to go for it. Laughably the player couldn't even get to the ground before the window closed because the road were slippy. I'm not a Pulis fan and never have been. I didn't particular want him but grudgingly admitted he was the best man for the job in the circumstances. However he's bought all my worst fears about him, I thought I could stick it out until the summer at least with the knoldge he would probably keep us up (which I thought we would do with or without Pulis) but I'm fed up of the whole situation already and it's been less than a month. We desperately need pace, we desperately need a creativity and we desperately need goals. No surprise then that Pulis went after a 31 year old Bitish defensive midfielder whose best days are firmly behind him whilst seeing a move for Carlton Cole break down. Sorry mate but I'm literally crying here.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 14:02:50 GMT
Well that was a fucking shambles Blame needs to spread all round anyone who was involved in yesterday and the window in general but from all accounts it's Pulis who is calling the shots so he needs to shoulder the majority of it. No need to guess if Cole was a Pulis target or not... He/we seemed to have no plan at all (Mcmanaman aside) and just bid/registered interest on whoever became available. Hence no interest at all in Olsson until Norwich mentioned at 2pm we could have him if we wanted and we decided to go for it. Laughably the player couldn't even get to the ground before the window closed because the road were slippy. I'm not a Pulis fan and never have been. I didn't particular want him but grudgingly admitted he was the best man for the job in the circumstances. However he's bought all my worst fears about him, I thought I could stick it out until the summer at least with the knoldge he would probably keep us up (which I thought we would do with or without Pulis) but I'm fed up of the whole situation already and it's been less than a month. We desperately need pace, we desperately need a creativity and we desperately need goals. No surprise then that Pulis went after a 31 year old Bitish defensive midfielder whose best days are firmly behind him whilst seeing a move for Carlton Cole break down.Ahh...the transfer windows of old
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Post by crownmeking on Feb 3, 2015 14:28:51 GMT
Mega Lolz
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Post by albion1 on Feb 3, 2015 14:39:03 GMT
Well at least someone can take pleasure out of the situation at the moment because I'm certainly not :-)
Yes of course I meant Lescott instead of Pocognoli in the earlier Pulis team. It's natural reaction to put the left back in the left back position when writing a side but one I'm sure I'll get out of the habit of doing that soon enough with Pulis here.
Yes as stated West Ham pulled the plug at the last minute. I've no doubt we will be back in for him in the summer though so we have that to look forward to.
Re Olsson, I also suspect we would of seen him at left midfield rather than left back if he had signed. Guess we will never know now unless he is another one e look at again in the summer. Lescott has said he will be speaking with Pulis about being picked LB, he seems genuinely baffled by it rather than angry.
Ideye is a strange one. Basically he was going to a club in Qatar if Cole signed but we cancelled the deal. I think their window is open until mid Feb so it's possible we could still let it go through. According the the rumours he actually cost us £3.5m with the rest all made up of add ons for appearances and goals (no danger of those being met. The £10m was a bit of PR spin by the club as it came shortly after Irvine was appointed and everyone was pissed off. Now he's stunk the joint out it's suddenly leaked that actually cost £3.5m. I guess the truth is probably somewhere in the middle but if we could sell tomorrow for around £4m to £5m we probably wont have lost much, if anything, on the deal
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 15:28:27 GMT
Well at least someone can take pleasure out of the situation at the moment because I'm certainly not :-) Yes of course I meant Lescott instead of Pocognoli in the earlier Pulis team. It's natural reaction to put the left back in the left back position when writing a side but one I'm sure I'll get out of the habit of doing that soon enough with Pulis here. Yes as stated West Ham pulled the plug at the last minute. I've no doubt we will be back in for him in the summer though so we have that to look forward to. Re Olsson, I also suspect we would of seen him at left midfield rather than left back if he had signed. Guess we will never know now unless he is another one e look at again in the summer. Lescott has said he will be speaking with Pulis about being picked LB, he seems genuinely baffled by it rather than angry. Ideye is a strange one. Basically he was going to a club in Qatar if Cole signed but we cancelled the deal. I think their window is open until mid Feb so it's possible we could still let it go through. According the the rumours he actually cost us £3.5m with the rest all made up of add ons for appearances and goals (no danger of those being met. The £10m was a bit of PR spin by the club as it came shortly after Irvine was appointed and everyone was pissed off. Now he's stunk the joint out it's suddenly leaked that actually cost £3.5m. I guess the truth is probably somewhere in the middle but if we could sell tomorrow for around £4m to £5m we probably wont have lost much, if anything, on the deal The only positive is he MIGHT get out of his 'survival mode' that he's definitely in now. The ends justify the means for Pulis at the moment. There was a spell (third season in here) where he played with two out and out wingers and two proper strikers and it was actually very good. It seemed to be a similar story at Palace, where I think getting relegated wouldn't have really damaged his reputation that much. (He got manager of the year for keeping them up, which shows that the media saw it as inevitable they were going down). Its just after that when the problems arrived for us, he was under pressure to sign good technical footballer but didn't change his system to fit them in. We went from Pennant and Etherington bombing down the wings, with Jones at his peak winning headers and holding players off and Walters chasing everything up front to a team unable to dominate a game seemingly overnight. Even the results went by end and that was probably the main reason for him going.
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Post by albion1 on Feb 3, 2015 15:41:01 GMT
The problem is we don't even have 2 wingers at the club as he got rid of Varela. Brunt is the only other wide option we have and although I'm a fan (he probably splits opinion amongst us like Pulis does here) he's not the pacey option we are crying out for. We had Craig Gardner on at right wing for the last half hour on Saturday
The current formation leaves our best attacking midfielder (Sessegnon) on the sidelines and negates all the strengths of our only goalscorer.
I hope your right but I can't see anything other than a continuation of what we got a Everton. From what you guys have said we can expect to be told that's all we can expect and anyone who wants more than 30% possession in home games or 0 shots on target in away games will be labelled unrealistic. Of course there's no way playing anything resembling half decent football will ever work in our position and will automatically lead to relegation.
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Post by Kjones9 on Feb 3, 2015 15:43:40 GMT
I don't get was he's trying to do at the baggies. Were the signings they made a necessity?
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Post by crapslinger on Feb 3, 2015 15:46:38 GMT
The problem is we don't even have 2 wingers at the club as he got rid of Varela. Brunt is the only other wide option we have and although I'm a fan (he probably splits opinion amongst us like Pulis does here) he's not the pacey option we are crying out for. We had Craig Gardner on at right wing for the last half hour on Saturday The current formation leaves our best attacking midfielder (Sessegnon) on the sidelines and negates all the strengths of our only goalscorer. I hope your right but I can't see anything other than a continuation of what we got a Everton. From what you guys have said we can expect to be told that's all we can expect and anyone who wants more than 30% possession in home games or 0 shots on target in away games will be labelled unrealistic. Of course there's no way playing anything resembling half decent football will ever work in our position and will automatically lead to relegation. I know a few baggies fans, they never let up telling me how shit Pulis ball was when he was at Stoke, sort of poetic justice that he should end up there really, hopefully for you he will revert back to the type of football he oversaw at Palace cause if not you better be prepared to playing for set pieces, constant timewasting and two banks of four for the rest of this season.
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Post by albion1 on Feb 3, 2015 16:10:11 GMT
I don't get was he's trying to do at the baggies. Were the signings they made a necessity? Fletcher could go either way, but in terms of the type of player he is possibly the last player we needed to sign. The other position we are well stocked is left back but that didn't stop him playing a centre back there whilst freezing out a Belgian international and attempting to bring in another. I dont really understand what we were trying to do in the window having been pretty convinced about the type of players we would b targeting at the start of the month. I don't really believe Pulis had much of a plan himself. 'better be prepared to playing for set pieces, constant timewasting and two banks of four for the rest of this season. ' This is exactly what are getting t the moment, and I dont se Darren Fletcher as the type of player to change that
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Post by wuzza on Feb 3, 2015 16:16:30 GMT
Looks like the chaps are getting their claws into you Mr Albion - and you are buying it !!!! You've got a great manager - relax and go and put your feet up, everything will be fine (assuming your aim is to have a successful club).
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Post by Kewstokie on Feb 3, 2015 17:24:36 GMT
Has he started talking up the opposition yet? …lucky to be playing at this level… look how much they have spent….. when you play us he'll have you believe we're Germany
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Post by nenepotter on Feb 3, 2015 20:58:59 GMT
Looks like the chaps are getting their claws into you Mr Albion - and you are buying it !!!! You've got a great manager - relax and go and put your feet up, everything will be fine (assuming your aim is to have a successful club). He is a great manager, one of Stoke's best ever, and forever grateful. He did an unbelievable job establishing us in the Premier League for the first time but when it came to taking us to a new level he couldn't do the job Hughes is doing now. West Brom are an established Premier League team but have gone back to where Stoke were 6 years ago. But staying in the Premier League, FA Cup Final, Europe, it was so good!
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Post by sheikhmomo on Feb 3, 2015 21:19:44 GMT
Quite a lot of residual hatred and bitterness in the last few pages of this thread. Then again when Stoke's recruitment team completely fuck up yet another deadline day, you have to get your kicks some how I suppose.
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Post by werrington on Feb 3, 2015 21:21:43 GMT
Quite a lot of residual hatred and bitterness in the last few pages of this thread. Then again when Stoke's recruitment team completely fuck up yet another deadline day, you have to get your kicks some how I suppose. It's all correct though sheiky
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Post by mywaydesolzan on Feb 3, 2015 21:22:42 GMT
Quite a lot of residual hatred and bitterness in the last few pages of this thread. Then again when Stoke's recruitment team completely fuck up yet another deadline day, you have to get your kicks some how I suppose. Really, I thought it had been quite jolly.
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Post by Olgrligm on Feb 3, 2015 21:24:50 GMT
Are all West Brazilians this precious and unstable?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 21:25:01 GMT
Quite a lot of residual hatred and bitterness in the last few pages of this thread. Then again when Stoke's recruitment team completely fuck up yet another deadline day, you have to get your kicks some how I suppose. Chortle
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Post by padders01 on Feb 3, 2015 21:43:58 GMT
Quite a lot of residual hatred and bitterness in the last few pages of this thread. Then again when Stoke's recruitment team completely fuck up yet another deadline day, you have to get your kicks some how I suppose. Ha ha pisser! I think yesterday'sdeadline day shows that the club has more forward and has envolved into a great club. We don't need to panic buy anymore. We have shown we can look around Europe and pick up class talent all year round, not just a few weeks in January. January is notorious for huge fees and panic buying. What position do we REALLY need to strengthen right now that can't wait until the summer?
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Post by chuckrocky on Feb 8, 2015 11:48:43 GMT
Looks like the Baggies fans are in for another treat at Burnley, Lescott and Baird at full back, Fletcher straight into the team as captain and Berahino on the bench.
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Post by agingerstokie on Feb 8, 2015 11:49:58 GMT
That was brilliant, to be fair.
Interviewer: You said Saido Berahino was in the naughty chair in the week, is that why he's on the bench today? Pulis: No, said that tongue in cheek got three games this week changing the players Interviewer: Will you find it hard to replace the goals of Berahino? Pulis: Well I hope not. Interviewer: How will you try to do this? Pulis: With the players on the pitch.
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 8, 2015 11:51:48 GMT
Ha ha!!
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Post by viewfrominside on Feb 8, 2015 11:52:13 GMT
News reaches the Super sunday studio Pulis has dropped Berahino Caragher's words of wisdom " it's tactical because what manager rips his nose off to spite his face" i know one that would, Jamie
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Post by Paddypotter on Feb 8, 2015 11:53:28 GMT
I hadn't realized Burnley were such a good team, until I heard that interview.
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Post by wearestoke80 on Feb 8, 2015 11:54:43 GMT
Haha
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Post by Pugsley on Feb 8, 2015 11:59:41 GMT
That was brilliant, to be fair. Interviewer: You said Saido Berahino was in the naughty chair in the week, is that why he's on the bench today? Pulis: No, said that tongue in cheek got three games this week changing the players Interviewer: Will you find it hard to replace the goals of Berahino? Pulis: Well I hope not. Interviewer: How will you try to do this? Pulis: With the players on the pitch. Such golden nuggets of wisdom are hard to come by these days. Tremendous insight.
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