January Transfer Window 2022

Some football manager gems there and they are not really doing that well. :sweat_smile:

Yeah, this thread is a good lesson sometimes to remind ourselves how some careers (for whatever reasons) can go south really quickly.

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Any idea what’s with wunderkind Halilovic fella? Has his father finally destroyed his career?

Down at Reading. Don’t know if it’s his father or mainly himself (probably the latter), but he’s just another one of a bunch of those lazy talents who quickly became comfortable with money, not improving futher (mostly not defending well enough and/or not creating/scoring enough goals), etc. Same goes for Ante Coric and a bunch of others.

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Haha, you are reading my mind. I was just thinking of Coric. He was on loan from Roma to Olimpija last year. When was in the mood to play some football (10-15 mins per game) he made some nice plays. But that happened rarely and then he did his ACL (I think). Lazy bastard as you’ve said.

Yeah, they are technically really sound players. Who knows all the factors, we can only speculate from outside. But it’s obvious if they’re falling down the football pyamid that something isn’t right or not as it was planned (or overhyped). The similarity of those players is that they probably want the ball into feet and they’re nowhere to be seen in the defensive phase of the game. Sometimes they’re not physically up to it, sometimes they’re lazy, sometimes it’s also a bit of change of motivation/crap decisions/bad luck, often it’s both of the first two mentioned.

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Emanuel Insua (Emiliano’s younger brother) from AEK to Velez Sarsfield on a free.
Ohi Omoijuanfo from Molde to Red Star Belgrade on a free.
Cristiano Piccini from Valencia to Red Star Belgrade on a free.
Jesus Medina from NY City to CSKA Moscow on a free.
Davide Biraschi from Genoa to Karagumruk on loan.
Patrik Walemark from Hacken to Feyenoord for £2.9m.
Martin Satriano from Inter to Brest on loan.
Kouadio-Yves Dabila from Lille to Seraign on loan.
Oscar Rodriguez from Sevilla to Getafe on loan.
Chiquinho from Estoril to Wolves for £3.1m.
Tonny Vilhena from Krasnodar to Espanyol on loan.
Sava-Arangel Cestic from Koln to Rijeka on a free.

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Lucas Da Cunha from Nice to Clermont on loan.
Josh Martin from Norwich to Doncaster on loan.
Bonke Innocent from Malmo to Lorient on a free.
Rafael from Reading to Cruzeiro on a free.
Maximilian Ullmann from Rapid Vienna to Venezia for £450k.
Noah Katterbach from Koln to Basel on loan.
Sead Kolasinac from Arsenal to Marseille on a free.

Bit rich.

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Nice name , considering the present climate.

Interesting name.

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They’re all innocent and successful down in Nigeria.

:joy:

All those promises

Yusuf Yazici from Lille to CSKA Moscow on loan, option to buy.
Hatem Ben Arfa has signed for Lille as a free agent until the end of the season.

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Thought he is around 40 by now, but found out he is just 34.

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Pablo Mari from Arsenal to Udinese on loan.

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“Player crisis”

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Vagner Love from Kairat Almaty to Midtjylland on loan.
Leonardo Campana from Wolves to Inter Miami on loan.
Goncalo Cardoso from West Ham to Betis II on loan.
Ansgar Knauff from Dortmund to Eintracht on loan.

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