Surprised he didn’t sign a 5 year deal too 

Ship has sailed, won't make it now. Find a lower league team that'll buy him and lets offlload

4 hours ago, DisposeOfDeadwood said:

Ship has sailed, won't make it now. Find a lower league team that'll buy him and lets offlload

In other news, water is wet.

4 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

In other news, water is wet.

Is it though?

16 hours ago, Munkworth said:

Is it though?

FFS, you're not one of those people that goes on about water not being wet it just makes you wet, are you?

43 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

FFS, you're not one of those people that goes on about water not being wet it just makes you wet, are you?

No, I’m simply an annoying little prick. Come on, I’ve been around long enough 

does anyone know the status of Lewis Baker? The last I heard he was at Düsseldorf . Since the Bundesliga has concluded with their season, I am sure he has come back to Cobham

He's not still on loan is he? Jesus, he must be nearer 30 than 20 now.

I believe he came back to Cobham a while ago. He's RLC's age, so 24/25. Such a promising player who had an excellent loan spell at Vitesse and a very successful time with England at all age-groups bar the seniors.

Really don't know why he has failed to progress. Barely played at Dusseldorf - maybe a couple more times than Ampadu at Leipzig. Must be set for yet another loan, as he's still under contract, but has no realistic chance with us.

Edited July 9, 20206 yr by Backbiter

He's barely played at every club he's been on loan to in the last few years, as far as I remember. He was always getting called back or rumoured to get called back due to lack of games. Needs to find himself a League 1 club and just move on.

Was playing well at Vitesse and up until then, easily one of our most promising players I remember and was destined for great things.

But for some reason, as soon as his time at Vitesse was over and he was getting loaned out to Championship clubs, he could hardly get games and wasted away.

This is the problem with some of the loans we do, we just end up loaning players to clubs where they never really get a chance to play and it completely ruins their confidence and momentum they built up. I can almost say with 100% certainty that if he lhad been oaned to a prem club where he was guaranteed playing time, he could have easily been part of our squad today and a key member. But instead he was loaned out to worthless championship clubs where those idiotic managers never play loaned players like him.

Edited July 9, 20206 yr by driller97

I believe Baker might be going back to Leeds - Here is an article addressing the rumor

12 hours ago, robdog said:

I believe Baker might be going back to Leeds - Here is an article addressing the rumor

Lets hope its a permanent sale if he does go back, good luck to him if he does!

13 hours ago, driller97 said:

Lets hope its a permanent sale if he does go back, good luck to him if he does!

Also in the article, Sheffield United is in the mix too - again it is the silly season & these are rumors - I don't have sources

The moment Havertz came into the picture,  there's no hope for him anymore

On 15/07/2020 at 01:46, robdog said:

I believe Baker might be going back to Leeds - Here is an article addressing the rumor

Highly doubt it. Bielsa got him on loan two seasons ago and rarely played him. The loan ended up being cancelled and he then went to Reading on loan. This was when Leeds were in Champiosnhip, so with Leeds being in Prem now, would be very surprised. 

9 hours ago, STATS said:

Highly doubt it. Bielsa got him on loan two seasons ago and rarely played him. The loan ended up being cancelled and he then went to Reading on loan. This was when Leeds were in Champiosnhip, so with Leeds being in Prem now, would be very surprised. 

again it was a rumor & we are in the silly season - in that article it mentioned that Sheffield United was possibily interested

 

 

On 22/07/2020 at 17:13, Deino said:

The moment Havertz came into the picture,  there's no hope for him anymore

I think the hope died years ago.

Off he goes on another loan to Turkey... f**k me we really are loan merchants arent we? Its becoming so embarrassing at this point

On 28/04/2013 at 21:46, True Blue23 said:

Do you think he can make it through? A perfect striker of the ball with either his left or his right foot, very good defensively and also a very good passer. He also captaind our team in the next gen series and looks a far better prospect to me than Ruben Loftus Cheek . What are your thoughts about him?

Great to see his patience rewarded

Shame he had to play at the back instead of midfield. Oh well. At least he gets to say he played more than 2-3 minutes for us.

Played well out of position. Made more of his chance than Barkley

Given the opportunity, would probably do better than all of Saul, Barkley and RLC. Contract ends in the summer as it stands ...  

Don’t know much about him. Surely the club will let him go?

18 hours ago, JM7 said:

Don’t know much about him. Surely the club will let him go?

They put him on a long contract a few years ago and obviously felt he had a decent chance of making it. He was excellent at Vitesse and for Eng u21s (Southgate really rated him) but the last few loans have been a huge let down. I'm sure the club are doing what they can to find him a new club.