Were rumours that when he joined us, an agreement had been made that he'd spend a season here and then we would sell him to Arsenal....or something along those lines.
Could we be original and use the 'Brown Eyed Girl' song? (Stattmeister made me think of it) His name fits in the 'brown eyed girl' part and sure someone could come up with some lines. Also every football fan loves a do do do do do
I just feel J-Rod was bought by Adkins and Mayuka and Ramirez were Cortese signings. Nothing wrong with that but it has left us with too many forwards. Is J-Rod any better than Sharp?
Another thing is whose signings were they? I'm sure that Adkins had his list and I would have thought J-Rod was top of that along with Clyne. Then it seems Cortese wanted a 'sexy' signing so went big on Ramirez, but also Mayuka by the sounds of it was sorted by the chairman without any agents etc. Is this why we suddenly are a bit 'top heavy' in our options?
I don't think it was, given the fact he'd agreed to come 10 days before the window closed. There is no doubt we were after atleast 1 more defender, possibly two. It's time for Fonte and Fox to step up in the next few weeks - lets hope they improve with the 2 weeks out.
There is no reason why we couldn't have got GR and also strengthened the defence. It sounded like Adkins was expecting a busier last evening on deadline day, going by his interview during the day, therefore get the impression that we failed with a few defensive targets.