7 players plus Nkounkou is too many in one window
2 more players for me. Right sided player and a GK.
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7 players plus Nkounkou is too many in one window
2 more players for me. Right sided player and a GK.
Blue Shoes
Player Valuation: £10m
Think we'll have to sell a few before we get anyone else in now (after doucoure). Right back is the next priority and personally I'd want an experienced centre back as next option. We're way too light there, branthwaite and gibson look good prospects, but they shouldn't be 4th choice for me yet, they have 2 or 3 pl games between them, that's quite risky.
Yes it'd be nice to get another attacker in, but we have a lot of options, a lot of players who will improve so much with a midfield behind them now. We all love to knock them, but it was very hard for any of them to make a difference when we were so slow and pedestrian, by the time they'd received the ball the opposition was always back in position and they had nobody making any runs to go on.
Yeah we'd like everything done this summer, but that won't happen. I don't want us doing an iwobi again and just lashing money at another body instead of saving that money.
We need a striker who can get us 20 goals, we already have the guys in who will provide good back up for him. Would much rather us wait until next summer and lash £40m or so at a top quality striker than throw another £10m-£15m at someone who will get 8 or 9 this season.
Yes it'd be nice to get another attacker in, but we have a lot of options, a lot of players who will improve so much with a midfield behind them now. We all love to knock them, but it was very hard for any of them to make a difference when we were so slow and pedestrian, by the time they'd received the ball the opposition was always back in position and they had nobody making any runs to go on.
Yeah we'd like everything done this summer, but that won't happen. I don't want us doing an iwobi again and just lashing money at another body instead of saving that money.
We need a striker who can get us 20 goals, we already have the guys in who will provide good back up for him. Would much rather us wait until next summer and lash £40m or so at a top quality striker than throw another £10m-£15m at someone who will get 8 or 9 this season.
Isn't that very close to what DCL did last season ?
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
Agree with this 100%. These 3 signings have been massive but in order to ‘balance’ it, we need to be looking at serious outgoings and getting decent fees for most of them (easier said than done). Let’s say we shift Tosun, Walcott, Delph, Sandro?, JJK?, Besic
It opens the door to another signing realistically. I take your point about waiting and then going ‘big’ on a ‘proven’ striker but I will add that before Maxi Gomez got his big money move, he was being courted by elite clubs (and West Ham). To be able to get him for something stupid like 14mil in today’s market is a bit of a joke and one we should at least be looking at. But it’s all on the caveat of major outgoings.
The Iwobi ‘deal’ feels more ridiculous the more times I think about it. Impossible to shift now, draining more resources - it hampers our ability to dip in for these opportunistic deals that pop up ie Maxi going for peanuts
Gomez maybe quite similar to Tosun would be my impression? Only seen him play a few times, but he is more of a target man no.9 type of forward I thought.
Paul Rideout
Player Valuation: £40m
we shift them and I’ll need Reattachment surgery after I rip my old boy off in excessive joy.
the Icelandic ice age goes and I’ll have to deal with becoming a Eunuch
BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £40m
Looks like Brooks is off to Leicester. On to the next one!
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £20m
Yeah, no way we will move all of them - these are just what I see as the ‘easiest’ to sell individually. Iceland and Iwobi will not be leaving due to wages and the fee we initially payed
Deco
Player Valuation: £40m
It would be great to go out and buy a top forward but assuming we don't have the funds to throw mega money to do so, I don't think there's much point in going for a Maxi Gomez etc.
DCL and Kean should be the players getting minutes up top to maximise their value and potential. DCL scored 13 PL goals last season in a really poor side that didn't create any chances - our team is a different prospect now.
Don't get me wrong, if we went out and got Cavani I'd be delighted but I can't see it given our other weaknesses.
We need another quality wide player with pace, a good modern right back to match Digne, and competition in goal.
DCL and Kean should be the players getting minutes up top to maximise their value and potential. DCL scored 13 PL goals last season in a really poor side that didn't create any chances - our team is a different prospect now.
Don't get me wrong, if we went out and got Cavani I'd be delighted but I can't see it given our other weaknesses.
We need another quality wide player with pace, a good modern right back to match Digne, and competition in goal.
Stuartisitc1878
Player Valuation: £25m
I want Zaha too. he's always got 2-3 players on him and now with the likes of Rodriguez & Richarlison, the space he'd free up we could really do some damage.
I know he's not a superstar but I'm surprised there isn't a thread for Doucoure. I thought I'd have a look to see who else is following him on Instagram...
little elfin
Player Valuation: £10m
Works both ways though doesn't it. At Palace he's very much the star man, and the team is set up in a way to maximise his impact. Yes it means he's sometimes double marked, but it also means he gets given the ball all the time and is excused a lot of the donkey work. Personally i'm not so sure he'd be as effective in a team where he was expected to be a bit more rounded in his play and not just be given licence to try and skin everyone everytime he got the ball.
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