Yet amazingly, Blackpool held firm, refused to deal at less that £14million, and so Adam remains beached at Blackpool. All of which is bad news for us ahead of our trip to the Tangerine Dreamers on Wednesday!
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Blackpool Boosted for Wednesday; Would You Adam and Eve it?
Yet amazingly, Blackpool held firm, refused to deal at less that £14million, and so Adam remains beached at Blackpool. All of which is bad news for us ahead of our trip to the Tangerine Dreamers on Wednesday!
Why is it bad news? You just said he's not that good. So boring reading these meaningless diatribes. I'm addicted though, in the way you can't look away from a car crash or you watch The Room starring Tommy Wiseau just to gawp at the incompetence.
ReplyDeleteSurely it's time now for your regular post transfer window apology for insisting yet again that Parker would be sold when yet again he wasn't.
ReplyDeleteIn line with a few of your recent posts, lets hope its not more practice for the championship!
ReplyDeleteDer Your Mum, he's not worth £10million but he is better than the player who would have replaced him. Relativity, it's a bitch of a subject. So complex! You are a moron my friend! Relatively speaking of course.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough Paulo, I wasn't predicting he would depart this time. Other blogs and newspapers did, however. Sorry they were wong though! ; }
ReplyDeleteLet's hope Adam has got the ache about not being sold. One word of complaint about his transfer to Liverpool being blocked and there's every chance Worzel Gummidge will park him on the bench for the evening. Either that or he'll start but not try, in which case Worzel pulls him off (if you'll pardon the expression).
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter, Fred said Noble is just as good.
ReplyDeleteThere's been much back slapping and congratulations over our transfer window dealings and on the face of it I would agree that Bridge and Keane are good acquisitions in our current position. But once again it is reactive rather than proactive business, as per usual with West Ham.
ReplyDeleteGollivan came in on their white charger condemning the previous regime's policy of paying excessive wages. Due to their failure to act proactively during the summer they have now had to pay out £4 million for two players to perform in 14 games with the hope of protecting their investment. And if we do stay up we have yet another thirty year old collecting excessive wages whilst the sun sets on his career.
If we had addressed the problem at fullbacks during the summer instead of spending the entire budget on two players (Barrera and Reid) who despite chronic injury problems to the rest of the squad have failed to make any impact whatsoever, we may well not have been in the position of having to break the bank to save our season.
Selling Diamante, our most creative player and second highest scorer last season and adding a bunch of journeymen to an inadequate squad have necessitated desperate measures and it is criticism and not congratulations that are due to our illustrious owners.
In 1986 we were the best team in the country and were unlucky not to win the league. Failure to act proactively saw us fail to push on and shortly afterwards we were relegated and sacked John Lyall; the best manager we ever had. There's one thing you can rely on with West Ham; we never learn from our mistakes!
Agree Marty
ReplyDeleteAint this the reaosn why you said you were leaving this blog stani becuase apparently HF twisted somehting you said i do believe i said noble is a similar type of player to charlie admam wiith there differnces of course and i also said the team looks unbalanced with parker in the team and id rayhe rhave have noble over hitz collison and parker
ReplyDeleteNot really Fred. But HF did invite me back in an email then though. Why? Would you like me to leave?
ReplyDeleteAgree Stani
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how the 25 man squad rule works?
ReplyDeleteLooking at the squad on the OS it would seem Tomkins, Sears, Stanislas and Stech do not have to be named as they are not over 21 on transfer deadline day.
That still leaves 28 members of the first team squad. Kurucz is injured so he is likely to be omitted. Any guesses on the other 2? McCarthy and Kovac?
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ReplyDeleteHF - your usually immaculate recall of facts seems to have deserted you and I would suggest that you owe Paolo a minor apology. On 7/12/11 in a post entitled 'Keane for Parker - Just as was planned at the end of the last window!' you said:
ReplyDelete"So now you're going to believe me! I kept saying that Parker was heading for Spurs in the last transfer window but the deal was scuppered by Van der Vaart's price reduction. I predicted some weeks before the window closed that Keane was heading across town with Parker going in the opposite direction, and we discovered, on the final day, that Babel was all set to fly south to join Tottenham in a three way transfer love in. The failure of Parker to sign that contract extension said it all - he wanted out!
Well it looks like the deal has been revived. Expect Cole to join Liverpool, Babel to move to Spurs, Keane to replace Cole and Parker to link up with 'Arry in January."
I posted at the time that I'd post on 1st Feb to say you were wrong, did so last night just after 11 and was happy to leave it there. But reading your put rejection of Paolo's claim had me searching back through the blog history, mate!
Aaaah the master of head, classic
ReplyDeleteAh yes, but that was last year mate wasn't it? (Your date is odd!) and before this window opened! A lot has changed since then! The sale of Torres opened a completely different avenue for Liverpool for starters. The purchase of Carroll at the price they paid is madness but they obviously were in to a whole new ball game once the Torres money was pumped into the system. When you have £50million burning a hole in your pocket, you don't waste it on Carlton Cole. Spanner one in the works. Also, it seems, 'Arry saw Adam as the better bet, chasing him down for £8million in the same way as he did Van der Vaart in the August window. He jumped horses once, why not again. He os a shifty bastard after all!
ReplyDeleteMy point is that I have not been suggesting Parker would leave DURING THIS window, unlike others. I thought he would go back in December, and I fully expect him to go in the summer - who knows what under the table deal has been done to secure Keane!
There is also 'Arry's comment about not being able to meet players' wage demands even when a price has been agreed. We know Parker earns a wedge, more than Tottenham would pay him under their much more tightly controlled salary policy, so perhaps that was a stumbling block? Perhaps that's why the Keane deal simmered for so long?
Let's go back to the original "deal" last August. Liverpool have been trying to offload Babel and we have signed Keane, so two pieces of the jigsaw I outlined fitted. Maybe the continued absence of Hitz and Collison forced the retention of Parker too. Maybe the attempt to unseat Grant was a factor too. Had Sidwell joined, wouldn't it have been easier to part with Parker?
My money is now on Parker exercising a release clause in the summer, with Tottenham given first refusal in return for letting us have RK on loan. Come the end of the season, if we stay up, we keep Keane and get £2million, Tottenham get Parker IF they want him. I may be wrong. But I may be right this time!
The odds are that you'll be wrong about Parker leaving yet again HF. You've not got a good track record with your predictions about him leaving.
ReplyDeleteThen again though, as your cringeworthy post above shows (00.06), you've now offered so many different variations since last summer of when and how he could possibly leave that you've probably covered every possible eventuality barring his retirement as a WH legend at the age of 40!
Keep trying though, it's certainly amusing to read your paranoid and defensive conspiracy theories that poorly attempt to hide any sniff that you could ever accept being wrong about anything.