[Official TC Thread] January Transfer Window 2025 - 3rd Feb 11pm Deadline

Is he not a wrongun?

 

I think in the grand scheme, bringing back Jota and KT is two of the best bits of business we’ve done in years. Maybe ever. Especially within 6 months of each other.

The squad doesn’t look great but the league is basically won, the Scottish Cup has a handful of ties and how much could we really strengthen for Bayern?

I wouldn’t of been comfortable breaking any records again for the Danish lad, can’t be * attempting to spell his name. I think we should move on from it, if it was going to happen it would of happened.

We say this every year but the Summer is the biggest in a long time. Player retention is vital. We can’t lose CCV, Johnston, Kuhn or Maeda. I think we can and will lose Hatate, but the midfield needs a rebuild anyway because the current dynamic isn’t working despite them all being top players.

I’m hoping Idah kicks on, he’s shown great attitude since Kyogo left. His he can cement that position then we just need competition in the Summer. Then we need a right winger to compete with Kuhn, a CM or CDM, a LB depending on Taylor or Schlupp, a CB and even a RB to upgrade on Ralston.

 

No disrespect to the boy schupp, hope he does well but it’s just another Jeremy toljan, Diego laxalt scenario of a guy at a decent club who can’t get a game at his club, “ away to Celtic son for 6 months son “, so * amateurish

 

I don’t mind the Schlupp signing as a stopgap. I’ve seen him play a fair bit and even though technically he’s a bit iffy, he’s versatile and has genuine pace. But clearly we didn’t go into the window with Schlupp as a main target.

With the Kyoto situation, the club has known he wanted to leave for a long time, probably at least back in the summer when he changed agents. We missed out on our number one target to replace him for whatever reason, but it doesn’t seem like there was much if any contingency planning for that scenario.

And what that means is that now it only takes one injury to any one of Idah, Maeda, Kuhn or Jota for us to be looking incredibly light in attacking areas.

 

Selling Kyogo and not bringing in a striker is indefensible. The manager was as clear as day that he wanted another striker and noted that we knew this situation was coming for months. There’s no justification for this negligence. We are one injury away from a disaster.