Marquee signing ?

[The Crab]

Is this to keep the Desso dry?

 

[JJ Sefton]

This will bring down the wrath and ire of WalthamstowBlade.

You're fahkin' jokin'...

 

[Chali 2na]

High profile (for example).

That's two words.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

That's two words.

Apologies - it should be hypenated as one word: High-profile

 

[BushBlade]

I don't want a 'Marquee Signing', I just want us to sign the right players who fit in with the rest of the squad and makes us better. I don't care who they are, how much they cost or where they come from, as long as the manager and coaching staff are happy.

In my opinion so called marquee signings are a load of nonsense to appease overly needy fans and egotistical club owners. They are more trouble than, usually, than they are worth.

That ^^^^^^

 

[tyneblade]

Donatien Francois? Renowned for his offensive capability.

 

[SwitchBLADE Smiles]

I suppose Bramall Lane did have a pavillion once upon a time...

 

[Sean Thornton]

Wilders words about his budget are possibly being interpreted by some in the "think Liverpool" style of self delusion. Bigger internet space thingy needed Foxy

 

[mancunianblade]

Conor Coady

Would love him to come, but if im honest I don't think we are desperate for him

 

[blade too long]

i think the think liverpool was said at a time when liverpools budget was no wher near matching that of chelsea man utd and man city, ie not matching the then top 4

ie we will invest but dont expect top dollar
not we will match liverpools 64m , they spent that season compared to man citys 145m
again ie we might spend 10 to villas 65 m

 

[8lade]

What this thread reminds me is; thank fuck most of the users of this forum are not in charge of pursuing our transfer targets. OK I can accept where people throw in a good name and say but we won't be able to get him(but are clearly hoping we might try), most of the other names would be a misdirection or waste of United's limited finances.

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

What this thread reminds me is; thank fuck most of the users of this forum are not in charge of pursuing our transfer targets. OK I can accept where people throw in a good name and say but we won't be able to get him(but are clearly hoping we might try), most of the other names would be a misdirection or waste of United's limited finances.

Sorry we can't all be the perfect transfer target master like you must be.

 

[North somerset blade]

What kind of signing would make you go 'f*ck yeah, get in, we really mean business ! '

Joe Bryan would be a great signing to play in front of JOC, bombing forward and can defend. Better than Enda

 

[Cerberus Blade]

What kind of signing would make you go 'f*ck yeah, get in, we really mean business ! '

For me it would be one of this leagues best players, by all accounts, and no arguments from any quarter.
For example, Joe Bryan, John Egan, Kieran Dowell, Luke Freeman, John Swift, Oliver Norwood, etc etc.
Not sure it's going to happen, but I live in hope.

Swift is a very good player, would make us tick and be a great addition to the midfield, but he seems very injury prone. Was discussing him with some Reading fans when we played them at Reading (on that bitterly cold -10c night), and that’s what they reckoned anyhow.

Egan played for us before. He’s ok, I think we could do better tbh. I’d like a great big bully of a centre half - another Chris Morgan if one exists? Luke Freeman was great a few years ago, not sure about him lately though tbh. Others in your list I don’t really know.

I’d still like us to go and get Oztumer. He’s out of contract at Walsall and wants to leave. I think he’s quality personally and wouldn’t cost a lot. Not a marquee signing but a very sensible one imo.

The marquee signing for me will be a new, young, tall, fast, centre forward. He will be relatively unknown here but impressing in a foreign country. We will take a punt on him and he’ll be the new Brian Deane. I can’t reveal who this is but he will have a vowel in his name.

 

[BigBed]

 

[dc_blade]

I've always thought it was a misuse of the term "marque" brought about by poor literacy and spell checkers

They think so in India as well; I was once on the phone to Sky customer service and an Indian chap suggested I press some buttoin or other, once, twice, or even thrice!

Not, one time, two time or even three time



"Ratan Tata has been spending a lot of money on big tents recently. Or so one would assume from reading some of the reports of Tata Motors acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover last week. Many publications including, we regret to admit, this one, spoke of how Tata was buying these two marquees.

A marquee is a big tent, derived from the French marquise, a linen canopy used in army camps to signal the tent of the commanding officer who would probably be a nobleman or marquis. Marquees are used in fairs and circuses and its certainly pleasant to think of Mr Tata cracking his whip as a ringmaster in one. But of course what he was spending billions to buy were obviously not such tents, but the Jaguar and Land Rover marques, another French-derived term meaning a brand.

This is used almost exclusively by the auto industry and while it's common usage with journalists covering the sector, the creators of the word processing software are evidently less familiar with it. So when the spell-check programmes queried the correct marque, all too often it got changed and suddenly Mr Tata was big into tents."

In American English a "marquee" is not a tent--it's one of those big lighted signs with interchangeable letters you get above a cinema or theatre. Therefore, a "marquee signing" is the big name you put up in lights above the venue to attract punters.

Nothing to do with tents, much to the detriment of this puntastic thread.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

In American English a "marquee" is not a tent--it's one of those big lighted signs with interchangeable letters you get above a cinema or theatre. Therefore, a "marquee signing" is the big name you put up in lights above the venue to attract punters.

Nothing to do with tents, much to the detriment of this puntastic thread.

Really?

So in the land that bastardizes the Mother tongue, they've got it right have they?

 

[dc_blade]

Really?

So in the land that bastardizes the Mother tongue, they've got it right have they?

I wouldn't go that far, but since their version of marquee makes more sense in this context I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

(Note that I said "cinema" and not "move theater." )

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

I wouldn't go that far, but since their version of marquee makes more sense in this context I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

(Note that I said "cinema" and not "move theater." )

Fair enough. I don't disagree, seems plausible.

I still think that if we had this conversation 10 years ago we would be using marque rather then marquee. I just can't stop thinking "Big Tent" every time I see the word :;

Don't get me going on "Too big of a ...."

 

[BigBed]

In American English a "marquee" is not a tent--it's one of those big lighted signs with interchangeable letters you get above a cinema or theatre. Therefore, a "marquee signing" is the big name you put up in lights above the venue to attract punters.

Nothing to do with tents, much to the detriment of this puntastic thread.

But were not American, thank God!

 

[sufcboy95]

James beatie and Jon Brayford

 

[Bladesthorpe]

What is a marquee signing?

Get thi sen into Go Outdoors they'll tell thi.
Player suggestion, Mendies Laing from Cardiff. NW might do us a favour if he thinks he can't make the step up to the prem, we missed out big time after he ran us ragged for Rochdale and then let Warnock sneak in and get him. He was poor for us first time round but has developed into a top championship player that possesses pace and strength that we lack at the moment.

 

[groveblade]

What kind of signing would make you go 'f*ck yeah, get in, we really mean business ! '

For me it would be one of this leagues best players, by all accounts, and no arguments from any quarter.
For example, Joe Bryan, John Egan, Kieran Dowell, Luke Freeman, John Swift, Oliver Norwood, etc etc.
Not sure it's going to happen, but I live in hope.

Higdon

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Blackman permanently would be quite marquee.

Someone like Ollie McBurnie, Lewis Grabban or Benik Afobe would be marquee as fuck.

Blackman + 1 of the above would be superb, or Dicko.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Higdon

That's not a marquee, that's PT Barnums fucking Big Top!

 

[8lade]

Sorry we can't all be the perfect transfer target master like you must be.

Here's irony; Coady was a good attainable suggestion (given Wolves promotion and they'll be looking for better players). I have nothing to add to the list given I don't know enough about most players but lower league players are not marquee and we really don't need any more short arse strikers; Abraham is a great shout as a loan but could we step in front of Swansea?

 

[HighfieldBlade]

That's not a marquee, that's PT Barnums fucking Big Top!

'The Greatest Slow On Earth'

 

[Johnstreet John]

Hoolihan, Agbonlahor, Hernandez at Hull, John O'shea.... All out of contract. All could do a great job for us, and are all available on a free.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Hoolihan, Agbonlahor, Hernandez at Hull, John O'shea.... All out of contract. All could do a great job for us, and are all available on a free.

Agbonlahor hasn’t tried a leg for three years, and John O’Shea is one of the main reasons why Sunderland’s dressing room has been shite.

Wes Houlihan is 36

 

[Cerberus Blade]

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