Wasn't it just a case of James said no?
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Wasn't it just a case of James said no?
Newcastle will be all over some of the free transfers going, likes of tarkowski & nketiah would choose them over us id imagine with the daft wages they'd likely offer. Thats the issue were gonna have this summer
Expect lampard to go to chelsea for a loan or two, hopefully we can get johnson in from forest
Expect lampard to go to chelsea for a loan or two, hopefully we can get johnson in from forest
Lucky escape, he's poo.
toffee-L
Player Valuation: £20m
Our £1.7m budget was just a little short of what Porto were asking for I believe.
Thats fair mate, no issue with lads rolling the dice on their opinion chips and putting them on the table, whether i agree or nay - wish more with be that brave, respect that.
Case to made for + and - 's - so we're trusting our own judgements.
Agree to differ and all that.
P.S. i would have went Vladimar Smicer.
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That was the original rumor, then the papers claimed Porto never wanted James and just wanted the money.
Jeff Jones
Player Valuation: £35m
I thought we had a deal that involved James going in part exchange but that he wouldn't go.
Edit. How much would he have cost without James?
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £40m
Don’t think we’d have got Diaz short of 35-40 million and including James wouldn’t have reduced that by much as they’d have had a massive wage to cover.
I don’t think we were ever close to getting Diaz. He was maybe lined up as a replacement if we got big money in for Richy (who may have gone to psg late in the window if Mbappe had moved) but we’ve only been able to spend what we get in for the last year so without a departure it wasn’t happening.
I don't think it'd be too difficult to replace Allan, for what he's brought to the side I'm sure we could have found that in another player for the fraction of the price.
Getting in two quality centre halves in one window however will be a big test for the new recruitment team. Mina needs selling due to his contract and injuries, Holgate and Keane are not good enough, Godfrey has his flaws, has regressed as a footballer since last season and has missed a worrying amount of gametime this season and there's also Branthwaite who needs a loan out IMO.
I would like to see us bring in a left-footed CB as one of the 2 we should be bringing in.
Mr Happy
Player Valuation: £15m
Why?
Bob Elstone
Player Valuation: £35m
Flog DCL first. He can jog about somewhere else for 90 mins. He should be the first saleable asset gone
I think he will be sold, but your assessment is based on this season when he has clearly been injured.
It’s difficult to claim that he won’t be missed when he hasn’t played, however, I think he will be an asset to whichever club he joins and that is when we will remember what he is capable of.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
We were supposedly rating him at £60mil last summer i think so £40mil seems like a level where West Ham or Newcastle may be keen.
If Richarlison were to leave id sell DCL anyway and start afresh up front.
We really need to shift the deadwood as well.
Lenglet is the 1st choice who Brands wanted before we signed Mina in the same window. He's become pretty poor for Barcelona, their fans dont like him.
Gavi though is 99% to stay with them or join an elite club...if we could sign him + Gilmour then its like Xavi and Iniesta lite
Hes class...wanted him a year ago. Very good specialist DM...quick, good attitude and good all round player.
I think they'll do a great job
With Chelsea you never know...sold some really high potential and high quality young players over the last few seasons.
For the right price i think they'd be tempted to sell and sign a ready made elite player.
Depends of course with the new owners...if theyre patient or want Abramovich level of instant success.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
If we managed to sell our non-high value players at 'reasonable fees e.g:
Keane £10mil
Kean £25mil
Mina £10mil
Allan £10mil
Gomes £0
Gbamin £5mil
That takes us to £60mil in transfer fees.
Add Sigurdsson, Tosun, Delph, Lonergan, El-Ghazi, Van De Beek and the wages saved would be enormous...
Perhaps £60mil on fees and £800k+ a week in wages.
We'd still look like this will all those outs + excluding any promoted u23 players:
GK: Pickford / Begovic
LB: Mykolenko / Nkounkou
CB: Branthwaite / ???
CB: Godfrey / Holgate
RB: Patterson / Coleman
DM: Davies / ???
CM: Doucoure / Iwobi
AM: Dele / ???
LF: Richarlison / Gray
CF: DCL / Rondon
RF: Gordon / Townsend
This would be amazing before any high-value players are sold.
Im hoping Thelwell can move those 6 players out pronto with Kean talks already underway.
If we plan to use 3 at the back then we'd need 5 centre backs. I think Holgate and Godfrey would be fine there and Branthwaite as the rotation option for the central position.
So we would need 1 central player in the back 3 and one left sided left footer.
CB: Tapsoba / Botman / Lacroix / Kossounou / Zabarnyi / Bremer / Harwood-Bellis
LCB: Guehi / Badiashile / Ndicka / Colwill / Lisandro Martinez / Inacio / Lukeba / Hincapie
A lot of high quality young players out there for both positions.
I wonder if we had a top DM screening and with Pickfords experience behind...if we would need that experienced senior centre back.
Guehi is marshalling Palace's defence as captain and is only 21.
NeilA1878
Player Valuation: £6m
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