CONFIMRED - Deniss Rakels

[TBM]

Have a Polish friend in Reading who supports Legia Warsaw. He says according to Legias website they have agreed a fee of 500 euros with Cracovia for Rakels and he has agreed terms with them. Either Reading have come in very late on this one, or it is not going to happen.

500 Euros?!

Thats, what, £380

[Sutekh]

Have a Polish friend in Reading who supports Legia Warsaw. He says according to Legias website they have agreed a fee of 500 euros with Cracovia for Rakels and he has agreed terms with them. Either Reading have come in very late on this one, or it is not going to happen.

500 Euros?!

Thats, what, £380

Someone's lost track of a decimal point somewhere. Its about £385,000 that we're supposedly bidding for him.

[Pepe the Horseman]

My Posh supporting m8's girlfriend lives in Krakow, so he tends to be out there every other weekend to watch Cracovia. Reckons Rakels is much better than Washington.

[Sutekh]

Goalscoring record for Rakels according to Wiki is

Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2009 FK Liepājas Metalurgs-2
2009–2010 FK Liepājas Metalurgs 40 (27)
2011–2014 Zagłębie Lubin 9 (0)
2011–2013 → GKS Katowice (loan) 47 (16)
2014– Cracovia 61 (26)

So that's 69 goals in 159 games or an average of .43 goals game which is about 1 goal every 2.5 games. Not too shabby.

[genome]

rofl

Why is everyone worked up about missing out on a player they hadn't even heard of this time last week?

[Only one Trevor Morley]

His names sounds like he should be a pensioner from Staffordshire....

[trebornam]

a friend of mine who is a westham supporter has heard they are interested in Jake cooper.

[Norfolk Royal]

My Posh supporting m8's girlfriend lives in Krakow, so he tends to be out there every other weekend to watch Cracovia. Reckons Rakels is much better than Washington.

That has put everyone's minds at rest.

[Snowball136]

How can anyone say he looks meh?

Very tidy player but clearly likes to play wide and in a fast-breaking side

Not sure he'd suit us when we are playing tippy-tappy, but a decent player

and cheap.

[genome]

It annoys me that his parents misspelled the name Dennis.

Wasn't Cracovia the name of the war-torn country Tom Hanks was from in The Terminal?

[Ouroboros]

It simply beggars belief that anyone can suggest with a straight face that the Thais are going to come up with a completely obscure player from a backwater of Europe and insist our manager signs him !

Yes.

It's not exactly Florentino Perez stuff is it.

Washington was too expensive, the owners said no, move on to your next target. Big fucking deal.

[Nameless]

Ferdinand was a whole different kettle of worms, undoubtably not someone the then manager identified as a prime target but at the same time not an unreasonable deal.

[Norfolk Royal]

Ferdinand was a whole different kettle of worms, undoubtably not someone the then manager identified as a prime target but at the same time not an unreasonable deal.

I do wish people wouldn't mix their idioms on this board. It's bad enough trying to work out idioms from the usual banter, let alone two erroneous idioms contained in what should be one idiom.

[Royal Ginger]

a friend of mine who is a westham supporter has heard they are interested in Jake cooper.

What did Deniss Rakels have to say about it?

[K.URZ13]

lmao@ a kettle of worms

[genome]

I prefer the term "can of fish".

[Colin Cheeselog]

Having just discovered this human exists, I will be ripping up my plastic season ticket if we do / don't sign him, as either decision will clearly show a lack of ambition by the club.

[John Smith]

Neck tattoo - get him in. He'll rough up a few of the lads

[K9hassel]

Def a Thai based decision.Cheap no risk signing and if it doesn't work out you have a ready made plumber for Royal Elm Park.

[Longhorn1970]

Def a Thai based decision.Cheap no risk signing and if it doesn't work out you have a ready made plumber for Royal Elm Park.

no frills, no debt, no risk. no ambition .. The owners