Just fully fell out of my seat.
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Just fully fell out of my seat.
Bit harsh that IMO, on paper it looked like we had signed some decent players. Klaassen had just had a 20 goal season at Ajax and got to a major european final. Sandro had scored 15 in la liga and looked good at the under 21 tournament. Pickford was a great signing, Keane was very well spoke of and Iceland had just had his best season in the EPL.
Every transfer is a gamble at the end of the day.
An unbelievable hatchet job. What professional club goes 4 months without a left footed player in the match day squad?
TheBlueGibbon
Player Valuation: £40m
Tbf we did have one in the team, he was just in goal. Pickford would probably have been better at LB than Cuco though.
We should’ve registered Unsworth instead of him.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Can't really see many of the links from last summer that are turning up again being goers
But we all knew a centre forward and the defence was a priority, however we plodded on collecting midfielders and spending half our budget on one player. I don’t think a week before the start of the season, ANYONE was convinced we were anywhere near ready.
Nor me.
I’m inclined to perhaps listen a little more to players we’re linked with from now, seeing as both Brands and Silva are actually in work.
We signed Keane for centre half and Sandro was bought to play CF, unfortunately they both turned out very badly.
Not arguing that we bought too many midfielders though or players for the same positions. Also there was a severe lack of pace in the side.
Toffee in Jandals
Player Valuation: £35m
Paper talk I know I know, but lots of interesting links there to Spanish and Portugese clubs.
After what Silva said to the Echo, my guess is that we get 5 decent players.
Probably:
A left-back
Centre half
Central midfielder - probably Willt C
A winger - possibly even two depending on Lookman’s decision
Striker
Probably:
A left-back
Centre half
Central midfielder - probably Willt C
A winger - possibly even two depending on Lookman’s decision
Striker
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
We'll end up signing 4-5 players for the first team max I reckon.
On the surface looks like we need two cbs for example, reality is if we sign the right left back and one cb, then the need for another cb cb s as we should be signing ones that help cover it compliment the players around them, same with a cm,
Gut instinct would say Lozano, Carvalho, Ismaily and maybe Lascelles. Then maybe a loan for a striker or creative mid like Silva at Milan, Gomes at Barca, Hernandez at west ham etc.
Throw the for I said unto the team right now, we'd end up with something like this.
Pickford
Coleman - Holgate/Keane - Lascelles - Ismaily
Gueye - Carvalho
Walcott - Sigurdsson - Lozano
Tosun
Comfortably the seventh best side by a mile and one finally with a load of balance.
On the surface looks like we need two cbs for example, reality is if we sign the right left back and one cb, then the need for another cb cb s as we should be signing ones that help cover it compliment the players around them, same with a cm,
Gut instinct would say Lozano, Carvalho, Ismaily and maybe Lascelles. Then maybe a loan for a striker or creative mid like Silva at Milan, Gomes at Barca, Hernandez at west ham etc.
Throw the for I said unto the team right now, we'd end up with something like this.
Pickford
Coleman - Holgate/Keane - Lascelles - Ismaily
Gueye - Carvalho
Walcott - Sigurdsson - Lozano
Tosun
Comfortably the seventh best side by a mile and one finally with a load of balance.
polish
Player Valuation: £35m
Can see Carvalho dragging. It's the same reason Napoli withdrawn their interest in Rui Patricio, they wouldn't want to mess with FIFA and their governement bodies due to the complicated contractual situation. TBH I hope we just pay a nominal fee for him and Sporting will let him go, but their president is apparently mental so he's not an easy guy to deal with.
Andre Gomes is an interesting one. He was brilliant at Valencia and he's very universal midfielder, exactly what we need IMO. He can defend, drive with the ball forward and his passing is a joy to behold. If we manage to sign him, it would be great piece of business.
Andre Gomes is an interesting one. He was brilliant at Valencia and he's very universal midfielder, exactly what we need IMO. He can defend, drive with the ball forward and his passing is a joy to behold. If we manage to sign him, it would be great piece of business.
Kinky Koeman
Player Valuation: £8m
I’m going to be patient, this year will be a learning curve for the players who stay, we will see who has improved and fits in going forward. The few we sign will add to the system Silva wants and with that I feel we will show improvement on the pitch in our style of play. I’m sure we will not finish higher than 7th, but Marcel will have a year to prepare bigger and better signings behind the scenes and that to me represents overall improvement as we’ve been in the shadows for too long without a clue how we would get better.
Gomes would very much be a West Ham like signing. On paper, a great name and you think a great coup but the reality of it is: his attitude will probably stink and he’ll turn and run at the first sign of danger.
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