Transfer News Summer 2023 Transfer Window Thread

[Dudders89]

Biggus Dickus?

Nah, I'm too old to play. Totally lost my fitness.

 

[Leysboy]

Lyle Taylor a complete and utter guess, and miles away probably.

Mo Eisa, Sam Nombe perhaps. Wishful thinking.

 

[werthersoriginal]

Sounds like this has been lifted straight from some (ancient) "Season Predictions" thread. ( I suppose that "1st Roman Emperor to be murdered" holds public attention a little better than "1st Roman Emperor to be sacked" does).

Barbarian of the year: Steve Evans
KR next job: vice-consul of Bithynia

 

[Marston Road yellow]

Following the thread this morning I recon there was a clue as to who the new player will be these are my guesses ( I’m obviously not ITK)

Roman Bürki
Roman Eremenko
Roman Zobnin

 

[Ox in the Box]

Right ... Back to the purpose of the thread ...

Oxy mentioned a 6 figure bid for a striker that ISN'T Marriott...

Guesses or answers on a postcard...

I’ll go for someone I’ve not seen mentioned much this window. Sam Cosgrove of Birmingham City. On loan at promoted Plymouth Argyle last season. Big lad who can also play a bit would really add a different option to what we already have.

 

[Left Wing Cross]

Lyle Taylor a complete and utter guess, and miles away probably.

Mo Eisa, Sam Nombe perhaps. Wishful thinking.

Taylor would be a free transfer as he is without a club

 

[Paul Cannell]

All very interesting but when was the first pizza made?

At least as early as the Romans, says the Grauniad.

If you think about it, you got dough, you got bits of meat and veg; why not stick them both in an oven together and get something relatively tasty while killing off bacteria. I'll go for pretty soon after farming grains got under way.

 

[Leysboy]

Taylor would be a free transfer as he is without a club

Had no idea, just a complete and utter guess.

So we can cross him off the list. We are narrowing it down

 

[Paul Cannell]

Well I'd debate that unless you meant the Ottoman empire and Turkiye has only existed for a short amount of time as it was the Ottoman empire ( Turkic tribes included) who invaded the Byzantine empire most famously Constantinople changing it from Christian to Islamic !

Dear oh dear, the Ottomans completed the destruction of Byzantium in 1453; Sicily was under arab occupation in 900-1000 ish, being then taken over by Normans (not Wisdom, Vaughan etc) sometime before 1100 ish.

There are (very few) villages in Calabria where the first language is still a form of Greek for old people. There won't be soon. I'm interested in this sort of stuff.

 

[North Wales Yellow]

I know it almost certainly isn't him, but what would it take to get Johnson Clarke Harris out of the Posh? Transfer listed and only a year left on his contract

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

Dear oh dear, the Ricky Ottomans completed the destruction of Byzantium in 1453;

YEAH WE DID BABY

 

[Swaby39]

Lyle Taylor a complete and utter guess, and miles away probably.

Mo Eisa, Sam Nombe perhaps. Wishful thinking.

I wondered whether Nombe was back on the agenda. I think I'm putting 2 and 2 together here and getting 5 but we had £500k to throw at Burey and £400k+ to throw at Marriott and it sounds like it wasn't an either/or scenario? With Burey now likely to be a loan, perhaps we've got the resource to put a competitive offer in for Nombe that's closer to the £1m they want. God knows. There aren't many obvious names around, I could be in la-la land.

 

[Golden Dr Otto]

Right ... Back to the purpose of the thread ...

Oxy mentioned a 6 figure bid for a striker that ISN'T Marriott...

Guesses or answers on a postcard...

I think you’re right about a possible six figures being involved …

 

[Marked Ox]

Well, apart from medicine, irrigation, health, roads, cheese and education, baths and the Circus Maximus, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Don't forget about Rabbits.

 

[n1]

Sam Cosgrove

Interesting shout. They paid £2m for him though so may be unrealistic for our price bracket unless its a loan.

 

[Marked Ox]

Any left backs found in Rome back then , or is it a modern invention, formations were not really covered in the 2 years I had to endure Latin at school

Their preferred team formation was the Phalanx and when they wanted to go direct they employed the Cavalry charge.

 

[Marked Ox]

Nah, I'm too old to play. Totally lost my fitness.

Could be Jim Smith (RIP) though.

 

[Marked Ox]

Lyle Taylor a complete and utter guess, and miles away probably.

Mo Eisa, Sam Nombe perhaps. Wishful thinking.

Exeter want £1m+ for Nombe apparently.

 

[Thomas/Brock/Jones]

Dear oh dear, the Ottomans completed the destruction of Byzantium in 1453; Sicily was under arab occupation in 900-1000 ish, being then taken over by Normans (not Wisdom, Vaughan etc) sometime before 1100 ish.

There are (very few) villages in Calabria where the first language is still a form of Greek for old people. There won't be soon. I'm interested in this sort of stuff.

I am aware of the dates and timing of events as indeed interested in most historical events , I may have worded it not so clearly but the general gist was correct I believe.
The various enclaves of Germanic, Greek ,Turkish and a myriad of others that lived in different regions of Europe especially but sadly changed after the two world wars in the main.
A Polish village was formed and still is a few miles out of Instanbul but has lost most of its 'Polishness ' .

 

[Belgium Yellow]

Biggus Dickus?

Or maybe the messiah?