No, not that one – a young lad from Manchester United named Josh.
The 20 year old has swapped reserve team outings with the English champions for a crack at first-team football with the Tigers, and joins on loan for the rest of the season. The Oslo-born forward has represented Norway at every age group from U15s to U21 and signed for Vålerenga as a teenager before heading to England. He has a single League Cup outing for Man U to his name and a handful of appearances for Preston and Borussia Mönchengladbach, and arrives with a reputation for pace and power that’ll hopefully add to City’s slightly limited attacking.
Would be nice if we actually signed someone with a reputation for goals rather than pace & power.
His statistics in league football are hardly anything to write home about & seems to be rather injury prone.
Comment by Johnny Reggae Reggae — January 16, 2012 @ 11:19 pm
Watch e guy out on You tube!! Not just speed and power: check out his skill, control and God-given balance. Some talent.
Comment by steve — January 17, 2012 @ 12:48 am
Hope Foxes come in for Fryatt now Billy Sharp has turned them down. Fryatt’s ball control is astrocious. Bet Billy would come to Hull!!
Comment by KC Stadium West — January 17, 2012 @ 8:01 am
Get a fucking grip Johnny Reggae Reggae, Cameron Stewart couldn’t even get a game off the bench at Yeovil Town for fucks sake, we plucked him from obscurity and now he’s subject to over £1.5 million bids from those cunts at Leicester, and you’re knocking this fucker before he’s even pulled a City shirt on.
Comment by Carlostomy Bag — January 17, 2012 @ 10:50 am
Agree with you Carlostomy Bag!
Johnny – maybe his stats in league football aren’t anything to write home about but he has hardly got much league football experience for you to judge that on! He is only 20 years old and I think Stewart is the ideal player to look at to prove there’s possible potential!
Comment by scott — January 17, 2012 @ 12:12 pm
Well he may prove to be what we need, but I didn’t like Warren Joyce’s comment about him not being as strong as Campbell. Cheap option imo! Still think we need a big, more experienced mobile guy up front….with a record for scoring! See NP is interested in Vardy at Fleetwood who I also spotted in the cuptie. Maybe he can spot players afterall!
Comment by gjhdurham — January 17, 2012 @ 3:43 pm
HISTORICAL SIGNING
He is the first ever norwegian playing for The Tigers. An international U-21 player with skills.
Oslo Tiger
Comment by Oslo Tiger — January 17, 2012 @ 6:08 pm
To summarise my previous post: Fucking. Fucks. Cunts. Fucker. I do like my swears.
Comment by Carlostomy Bag — January 18, 2012 @ 1:37 pm
[...] Nick Barmby has added Josh King to the squad but ultimately is likely to make no changes to the starting XI whatsoever, assuming Robert Koren recovers from a dead leg – the noises emerging from the club seem to suggest he will. King, meanwhile, is supposedly gifted but raw, and although Matt Fryatt isn’t having the best of times, it would be a manager who mistakes bravery for panic that drops City’s prime goalscorer in favour of a kid on loan from Manchester United who has barely been fitted for a shirt. Like last week, however, there will be intrigue about who makes the bench, with King’s status as a keen young centre forward likely to give him a spot ahead of someone else – one of the two defenders Barmby picked last week seems likeliest to make way. [...]
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