January Transfers and Rumours

[Guppys left peg]

 

[upthevale]

 

[MBE]

We even get the analytics for Dan Gore.

[Vtid]

What a signing that is!!! Welcome Dan 🔥 Well done to the recruitment team 👏🏻 

[ValeForever.]

What an unbelievable bit of media that is from the club. The bloke normally announces the biggest transfers in World football. Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar etc. He has 30 million followers.

Brilliant exposure for the club. The bloke is a huge name in World football. The fact he has tweeted about us 3 x this past week is quite astonishing.

It really does feel like some of the hard work is beginning to pay off in terms of changing people's perceptions of Port Vale as a football club. It was always going to take somebody taking a punt on us to get the ball rolling, & I think we got that shot when Spurs gave us Alfie.

We clearly did a great job with him, as well as Ollie, & it has started the ball rolling. We are in a great position to be able to pretty much guarantee these players first team football at League 1 level & we now have the evidence to back those claims up. 

The tide is turning & we are clearly making progressive steps. I think there's lots of things behind the scenes that are playing a part. The loan lads all live in a house together, they have the foodie footballer going in & walking them through how to cook their own nutritious meals, look after themselves & help with recovery. We've now got the T-Zone, the ice baths, the family area where their parents & friends can enjoy the match. They are really well looked after.

I also think our run in the Youth Cup last year will have really helped. I went to the Liverpool game where we somehow got beat 1-0. We played them off the park for large parts of that game. No doubt they will have been impressed with what they witnessed & word travels fast in footballing circles.

If you'd have told me before the season that we'd have 3 current England under 20 players joining us on loan this season, in addition to a lad that's played in Liverpool's 1st team & Champions League football, I'd have laughed it off. Massive credit to the club for starting to turn the tide & change opinions to help improve us. I'm really excited for the future. I think if we can stabilise & keep making small improvements & progress in the next couple of years, we'll be in a really good position to have a go at sniffing around the higher echelons of League 1.

[mbycars]

Welcome Dan, hope you have a successful spell at PVFC and help push us up the table 👍

[Guppys left peg]

Guess it’s all fun and games until we find out we blew the remainder of the budget on getting Fab to shoot that video 🤣 

Lets get another wingback and forward in  and anything else then is a bonus.

[valiant_593]

Amazing publicity that is. Let’s hope he’s as good as some are saying 

[Sam Kelly's Left Boot]

Fair play for getting this over line 👏🏻 

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[RPH-KV]

To the tune of the Edwin Star classsic ………WAR

 

Gore……..Ooo……ahhhhh

what is he good for…….

absolutley everything!!!

[valiant_593]

Few championship sides after him apparently. Guessing as more a squad player so our guaranteed 1st team football will have been a big case for us. Reads well about Man U scouting us previously 

[valiant_593]

LWB and ST permanently and I think it’s been as a good a window as possible 

[Guppys left peg]

3 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

LWB and ST permanently and I think it’s been as a good a window as possible 

Yeah preferably with some pace in both positions. Can never have too much of that. Also frees up Grant if the mood or situation takes to have him play inside too.

Interesting comments from Flitcroft on the official announcement that Man Utd have been scouting us for a while. Opening up some doors for us that weren’t there previously. Just so long as remember we have to have our own permanent core I like the strategy.

"We have worked tirelessly to create trust and bonds with the country's best clubs and we can now present evidence of the strategy through our successful loans in the first half of the season, highlighting game time opportunities, a platform to learn and develop and support systems on and off the pitch.

"We as a club have been scouted by Manchester United over a period of time, they have interviewed us and selected us based on how we play and how we support young players”

 

[JRC]

7 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Few championship sides after him apparently. Guessing as more a squad player so our guaranteed 1st team football will have been a big case for us. Reads well about Man U scouting us previously 

Or maybe the world gone upside down. 20 years ago clubs scouted players they wanted to sign, now the player's Club scouting the club they want the player to sign for 🤔

Let's hope he's a special as people say. The hype says he's more highly rated than the 2 we lost. If he is he'll be a pleasure to watch.

[philmpv]

"We as a club have been scouted by Manchester United over a period of time, they have interviewed us and selected us based on how we play and how we support young players”  

I have a hunch that may have been a very different outcome under Norman.

"Where are they taking all of those left over pies....?"