Tomorrows NEP

[thehockleyhustler]

What are we going for then?

"We will only sign players who are better than what we already have"
"It's hard to attract Premiership players down to The Championship"
"We will look to utilise the loan market"

OR

"The Forest board are a bunch of useless gutless to$$ers"

I hope I am wrong but I think we really are going to look back with big regrets in May

 

[earthworm]

I look forward to Kenny Burns' comments.

 

[LPF]

chill, winston

 

[Ravi]

"Billy's lawyers stick the boot into Non-League Nigel's Knees-up".

 

[yam]

Probably full of headlines about the thousands of Forest fans that have thrown themselves in the trent after making no signings.

 

[Jon NFFC]

Forest boss Davies blasts Arthur

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

BILLY Davies today blasted Mark Arthur after the Nottingham Forest manager was involved in a confrontation as tempers frayed over his inability to negotiate a discount on a bag of peanuts at a Nottingham public house

 

[uredsuns]

FFS

Do you all read the Daily Mail as well?

 

[Ken]

In fairness though, permanent signings have been thin on the ground even in Premiership.

We don't really need players simply to make up numbers, unlike sime clubs. To hang on to what we have got could be seen as an achievement. Good Premiership level players will not commit permanently until our fate next season is known, so always more likely to be active in loan market which I understand has a week or so still to run?

 

[Neurotica]

In fairness though, permanent signings have been thin on the ground even in Premiership.

We don't really need players simply to make up numbers, unlike sime clubs. To hang on to what we have got could be seen as an achievement. Good Premiership level players will not commit permanently until our fate next season is known, so always more likely to be active in loan market which I understand has a week or so still to run?

Surely we could have managed a left-back? We should have put all our efforts into that instead of unrealistic targets like Moses!

 

[Ken]

Yes left back (or lack of) was a bit surprising but they seem to be in short supply. Bizarre thing was that I heard Fulham also signed another left back in addition to Shorey, but presume he is going to be first choice.

 

[matt1982]

to be fair, i think it's such a difficult window to work in, and yes, unlike many clubs who are just panic buying anybody to avoid relegation, we are not in that sort of market. We want players that are better than we've already got and can help the squad/team. These players are in short supply, as their own clubs naturally don't want to let them go. And even if they were available you've got all the problems of us actually wanting them, them wanting to come, the clubs agreeing all the different things that make up a deal - fee, wages, personal terms,etc and doing it all in such a short space of time. Clearly there were a number of targets including Moses, Shorey, Pratley, Majewski (permanent?), possibly Charlie Adam, and maybe others etc, but as time went on it was looking increasingly unlikely with Moses and realisitcally he was going to the prem, but we did put in a bid. Shorey, yes it would have been great if he could have come back on loan at least, but i guess once fulham/premier league clubs saw how well he'd done with us/was available, we're always going to come up a bit short to them. I don't know about the Pratley thing, whether we even did actually put in a bid, that one seemed a bit unlikely anyway, in that swansea wouldnt want to sell and too late in any case. So I guess we've just got to look to the loan window now, maybe we can do some good business for a left back in that.

Taking Newcastle for example, you say they've strengthened - well how many of the players they got would Forest have actually wanted/needed: Fitz Hall - not for me,; Williamson - maybe?; Routledge - covered on the right already; Best - well covered up front. Plus Newcastle didnt really buy anyone last summer (yes granted they already had the majority of their prem squad still intact)

 

[incapable hulk]

We don't really need players simply to make up numbers, unlike sime clubs.

Billy davies does not agree with you :wink:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/f...se-regret/article-1783001-detail/article.html

Davies illustrated his belief that Forest need extra strength-in-depth by brandishing the back page of the programme following the 1-0 defeat to Derby at Pride Park, which showed the Rams to have ten more senior players.

"That is our squad, that is it. In comparison to other clubs in this division, that is the squad we have to work with," he said.

"People can try to spin the fact that Nottingham Forest are a big-spending club, but we are not. We are still playing catch up with many, many teams.

"We spent some money in the summer, but we spent nothing last January and we have spent nothing so far this January. We are still playing catch-up."

 

[Ken]

Billy davies does not agree with you :wink:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/f...se-regret/article-1783001-detail/article.html

I am beginning to think that Billy would complain about squad quality/size if he had Chelseas though....have you ever heard him say anything difference at Derby or Preston?!
No doubt we are lacking in defence and couple of signings would be a boost, but we are not exactly short of options in midfeld and up front.

 

[Erik]

"Billy's lawyers stick the boot into Non-League Nigel's Knees-up".

:think:

Mmmn.

You don't think that the 'kneesgate' affair is just there to deflect attention away from the transfer window and not the result on Saturday?

Plausible.

 

[red_outlaw]

FFS

Do you all read the Daily Mail as well?

Im not at all ashamed to admit that I do (well only The Mail on Sunday) but then I'm rather partial to a good moan . Then again, I've always been led to believe that's a very British past-time so I can't see the harm in it :happy:. Out of interest, what paper do you read? Almost all of them seem to take a good ribbing on here.