Transfer Rumour Brandon Thomas-Asante (49 Viewers)

[Tea & Busquets]

I'm Coventry bred, do you like me?

I do like bad boys

 

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[SeaSeeEffCee]

I'm not surprised. It's the reason I was so reluctant to give his name, which I do regret. I'm not on Facebook, only on Twitter, which I barely use.
A friend did point out to me the day after I gave away his name on here, George Smith pops up. I've had a little look, he's not giving out names of apparent new signings coming in, that'll be because he doesn't know them. I didn't bother calling him out.

Can pretty much date all his tweets about his ‘ITK’ information back to identical posts made on here. Embarrassing the lengths people go to for a bit of attention.

 

[StrettoBoy]

Ryan Giles wants to leave already

Yes, supposedly off to Middlesbrough. I can see the attraction because he did well for them the season before last.

I wish we could have got him. I think he’s a really good player who fits well with our style.

 

[torchomatic]

Yes, supposedly off to Middlesbrough. I can see the attraction because he did well for them the season before last.

I wish we could have got him. I think he’s a really good player who fits well with our style.

Blimey. If that's true then they really are in a mess, aren't they?

 

[alexccfc99]

Blimey. If that's true then they really are in a mess, aren't they?

They signed him as they were obligated to as per the loan deal they agreed with Luton, despite the fact Giles does not want to be there

Surely Giles could have just said no to signing the contract?

Weird situation

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

They signed him as they were obligated to as per the loan deal they agreed with Luton, despite the fact Giles does not want to be there

Surely Giles could have just said no to signing the contract?

Weird situation

He’ll have agreed the contract and everything when they did the loan

 

[Tea & Busquets]

Yes, supposedly off to Middlesbrough. I can see the attraction because he did well for them the season before last.

I wish we could have got him. I think he’s a really good player who fits well with our style.

I disagree. He's a wingback not a fullback. We already want to bin off JDS for his performances as a makeshift lb. Someone in the Bidwell mold but quicker would be ideal.

 

[Jimmy87]

Can pretty much date all his tweets about his ‘ITK’ information back to identical posts made on here. Embarrassing the lengths people go to for a bit of attention.

Really strange behaviour.

 

[steve cooper]

Interesting read, (assuming it hasn't already been posted somewhere)

"Do you want a Zohore?" - West Brom slammed for Thomas-Asante decision as Coventry hijack Hull move

West Bromwich Albion's Brandon Thomas-Asante is closing in on a move to Coventry City after snubbing Hull City at the eleventh hour

footballleagueworld.co.uk

 

[SleepyGinger]

To be honest I’d rather just let him be the mouthpiece for SBT on Facebook/twitter than bring the rest of them over here

 

[Mr Panda]

Can pretty much date all his tweets about his ‘ITK’ information back to identical posts made on here. Embarrassing the lengths people go to for a bit of attention.

George Smith, Haji Wright SZN and Tommy Regan are the worst for this. Clearly all between the 12-16 bracket

 

[Matt smith]

George Smith, Haji Wright SZN and Tommy Regan are the worst for this. Clearly all between the 12-16 bracket

Waiting for this Turkish international to sign

done deal wasn’t it?

 

[Ccfcisparks]

George Smith, Haji Wright SZN and Tommy Regan are the worst for this. Clearly all between the 12-16 bracket

THat Haji Wright szn is like 29

 

[alexccfc99]

George Smith, Haji Wright SZN and Tommy Regan are the worst for this. Clearly all between the 12-16 bracket

The last two aren't... worryingly

 

[SkyBlueStallion_89]

Waiting for this Turkish international to sign

done deal wasn’t it?

I remember that one, from Rangers weren't it?
I just remember the tweet with it saying 'Turkish delight anyone PUSB' along those lines

 

[Tea & Busquets]

I disagree. He's a wingback not a fullback. We already want to bin off JDS for his performances as a makeshift lb. Someone in the Bidwell mold but quicker would be ideal.

That Busanello lad would be immense.

 

[shmmeee]

Giles is never going to beat Leon Clarke’s journeyman record by repeating clubs. The six months at each club is good, but this is a rookie mistake.

 

[SkyBlueStallion_89]

Giles is never going to beat Leon Clarke’s journeyman record by repeating clubs. The six months at each club is good, but this is a rookie mistake.

There is one person who would claim to be journey man king, a GK who was only signed it seems as an emergency signing....... Tony Warner

 

[Domo]

Giles is never going to beat Leon Clarke’s journeyman record by repeating clubs. The six months at each club is good, but this is a rookie mistake.

Trevor Benjamins list was impressive too

 

[Gibbo]

I liked Giles (what little we saw of him) but he does not fit four at the back at all. He has been messed around, so I hope he does well at Boro, where I think Carrick is a younger version of MR

 

[AOM]

It's looking good on paper. You don't win the league on paper though.

Let's see where we are after 10 games.

Lose on Saturday and we'll be needing 4 new centre backs

 

[Torquay Sky Blue]

Ryan Giles has only ever played competitively for one team he was actually signed on with and that's Luton. All the rest have been loans . He's been passed around all over the place .

 

[ProfessorbyGrace]

Goals weren't the only criteria and try reading the last sentence..

He is still cheaper and less risk than Stamenic over all considerations.

I think we were after Stamenic because his ability was rising meteorically, and judging by what I’ve seen of him, the reality is there is that he is already an incredibly talented CMF/DMF with vision, passing range, speed, tenacity, defensive awareness and drives the team forward. Very much similar to Bernede, who we were rumoured to be looking at too.

In my opinion he will be worth treble that £4 mil if he storms the Greek league this season.

I feel we definitely saw a star in the making, with Stamenic, and in all honesty, in my opinion, he was worth the £4 mil and would have driven us in a similar way to how Gus did.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

As we only know so well following the Mowbray season, think Hull are about to get a tough lesson on the overreliance on loans!

They had a good side last year which should have got into the Top 6, they have been left with the core of that team stripped away and are now being frustrated in the transfer market with just two players signed (and one of those in Ryan Giles wants to leave already) with 9 days till the new season

Not one bit surprised if they struggle this time around

Hull went for broke last season and it didn’t pay off. For all the comparisons our fans made to them last year, we’re far better off being patient and signing our own players.

We’ve easily got players worth a total of £50-60+ million in our squad. If we don’t get promoted this year or next, we can cash out and keep rebuilding.

 

[Deleted member 9744]

Hull went for broke last season and it didn’t pay off. For all the comparisons our fans made to them last year, we’re far better off being patient and signing our own players.

We’ve easily got players worth a total of £50-60+ million in our squad. If we don’t get promoted this year or next, we can cash out and keep rebuilding.

It worked for Ipswich and I think you are underestimating the cost of long term contracts. Basically it comes down to signing the right players and having a good management team.

A balanced approach is the most likely to succeed.

 

[Flying Fokker]

Hull went for broke last season and it didn’t pay off. For all the comparisons our fans made to them last year, we’re far better off being patient and signing our own players.

We’ve easily got players worth a total of £50-60+ million in our squad. If we don’t get promoted this year or next, we can cash out and keep rebuilding.

Except I‘ll have 3years of a 5 year bet to think about…

 

[Hobo]

I think we were after Stamenic because his ability was rising meteorically, and judging by what I’ve seen of him, the reality is there is that he is already an incredibly talented CMF/DMF with vision, passing range, speed, tenacity, defensive awareness and drives the team forward. Very much similar to Bernede, who we were rumoured to be looking at too.

In my opinion he will be worth treble that £4 mil if he storms the Greek league this season.

I feel we definitely saw a star in the making, with Stamenic, and in all honesty, in my opinion, he was worth the £4 mil and would have driven us in a similar way to how Gus did.

You might be right ? I know very little about him and if we were prepared to spend 5m we must have seen something as we know we tend not to pay inflated prices.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

It worked for Ipswich and I think you are underestimating the cost of long term contracts. Basically it comes down to signing the right players and having a good management team.

A balanced approach is the most likely to succeed.

Define balance. Ipswich topped off their signings with loanees. They had a pretty solid base with their L1 business - we weren’t ready to compete last year and a few loanees wouldn’t have bridged the gap.

In reality, we have a small squad that’s still behind the depth of 22/23 and teams aren’t going to loan us players to be bit part for us.

If there’s a loanee out there that improves what we have, brilliant. If not, we need to keep building our squad with our own players. So far, it’s going really well and if we have the resources to sign permanent players, the better.

 

[Deity]

Of all societal issues we have in the UK right now the odd teenager copying transfer rumours and passing them off as being ITK isn’t one any of us should worry about.

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Except I‘ll have 3years of a 5 year bet to think about…

A lot of us do but we’re also protecting ourselves from inflation because that £500-550 rate we’ve locked in is good value when ST prices are now £400-450 and will rise next season.

 

[shmmeee]

Hull went for broke last season and it didn’t pay off. For all the comparisons our fans made to them last year, we’re far better off being patient and signing our own players.

We’ve easily got players worth a total of £50-60+ million in our squad. If we don’t get promoted this year or next, we can cash out and keep rebuilding.

Hot take: if we don’t go up this year Robins goes and his successor gets the profits from Wright/Simms/MvE/Sheaf/whoever.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Define balance. Ipswich topped off their signings with loanees. They had a pretty solid base with their L1 business - we weren’t ready to compete last year and a few loanees wouldn’t have bridged the gap.

In reality, we have a small squad that’s still behind the depth of 22/23 and teams aren’t going to loan us players to be bit part for us.

If there’s a loanee out there that improves what we have, brilliant. If not, we need to keep building our squad with our own players. So far, it’s going really well and if we have the resources to sign permanent players, the better.

The depth of 22/23? We literally flogged Vik and Hamer to death as we had nobody that could enable either to rest. As striking options we had Vik, Godden and Maguire. In the play off final our only attacking option apart from Godden on from the bench was to bring on a half fit Palmer. We had no back up left back to Bidwell. Putting out a reasonable starting 11 was dependent on loan players.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

That and retaining Andy Thorn. Imagine if we’d hired someone like MR soon after relegation and allowed him the summer to recruit and clear out the amateur mentality that clown had instilled.

Im glad we never looking back, the rise from the bottom makes it even more special to where we are now.

 

[Brylowes]

The depth of 22/23? We literally flogged Vik and Hamer to death as we had nobody that could enable either to rest. As striking options we had Vik, Godden and Maguire. In the play off final our only attacking option apart from Godden on from the bench was to bring on a half fit Palmer. We had no back up left back to Bidwell. Putting out a reasonable starting 11 was dependent on loan players.

I may well be in a minority here but I honestly feel that losing the play off final was a blessing, we were nowhere near ready for the massive step up, not just the playing side of things’ I’m talking about the entire setup of the club, we were still basically being ran as a mid sized league 1 club at that time.

Promotion could well have proved to be a disaster imho and could have set the club back years, losing that game has allowed the club to grow organically, putting all the necessary building blocks in place to achieve it’s objective ‘promotion on the back of a meticulously well constructed 5 year plan.

Running before you can walk‘ usually ends with a heavy fall.

 

[Sick Boy]

I may well be in a minority here but I honestly feel that losing the play off final was a blessing, we were nowhere near ready for the massive step up, not just the playing side of things’ I’m talking about the entire setup of the club, we were still basically being ran as a mid sized league 1 club at that time.

Promotion could well have proved to be a disaster imho and could have set the club back years, losing that game has allowed the club to grow organically, putting all the necessary building blocks in place to achieve it’s objective ‘promotion on the back of a meticulously well constructed 5 year plan.

Running before you can walk‘ usually ends with a heavy fall.

Can’t agree because it would still have allowed us to grow organically. We’d have invested in the infrastructure and the squad as whole. We’d have inevitably been relegated but we’d be in a very strong position now to go back up.