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Summer 2018 Transfer Window

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havrey0123 said:
and it needs to continue until moshiri gets it right.
its either that or try and get top 6 players by paying over the odds in transfer fee and wages.

its highly unlikely to get good players by paying a small fee, given the statistics available on every player in this day and age. you couldnt do what moyes did and get a jagielka or cahill from the lower leagues without paying a heavy transfer fee. Look at the prices quoted for grealish and maddison.
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If we had the resources to spend 50 million on every problem position, then I'd agree but we don't.

We might stretch to that figure again for one big signing, unlikely this summer and I think harsh lessons will have been learned by the way we got played by Swansea for Sigurdsson. Players genuinely worth that money are likely to be in demand and not consider us anyway. And there supposedly is BMD to pay for.

How many players do we realistically need over the next 2-3 years? For arguments sake, say we need four players in each of the next three seasons with another three for padding/adding depth. How much would those cost buying in the domestic market? 20 million doesn't get you anything at all, nor does 30 million. Bolasie, Keane, Schneiderlin, etc We have seen how easy it is to spend 200+ million to go backwards. That can't continue and won't be tolerated by any business taking itself seriously.

So we have to try to catch up any way we can. The only game in town now is signing young players from markets where we will get value and won't be bent over for the fee and wages to the extent seen over the last two years. There is no Abramovich or Mansour here. Thanks to Walsh and Koeman, we wasted the biggest opportunity we have had for 30 years and whilst I hope we can be extravagant if our situation improves, those chances are likely to be few and far between.

We have to start making money on transfers, let alone throwing hundreds of millions away.
 


Nymzee said:
Why is tackling an attacking mids primary job?????
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Because we would be employing him as a box to box thats the vacant midfield position


Jozzy said:
The fact you've said tackling is his primary jobs shows how little knowledge you've got on Mooy. I didn't know crossing accuracy was such a big deal for attacking players.

I'm not suggesting we sign him but you can make stats print any kind of picture you like.
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You should never assume another’s knowledge particuarly somebody you don’t know, it sets you up to look a muppet, case in point...

I said in my initial post i live in Australia and have to hear all the hyperbole about him, Australians are incredibly biased and narrow sighted people in regards to sports, i have seen more than enough him...

The position vacant is box to box midfielder the the ideal candidate will need to be able to press, tackle, break up play, move the ball and play crucial passes... what about Mooy’s career suggests he is capable?

Some of us want us to sign RLC, Tielmans and alike those that will better the club, not just make Australians happy and satisfy the impatients need for a signing


Just saying Mooy=Trash
 
dixiesdisciple said:
Usually agree with you @Eggsyblueskin but we’re talking about a Chelsea reserve player who’s on loan at Palace. Hype is ridiculous - to say he’s ‘way out of our league’!? Really? He’s a tidy midfielder but no better than a Dondonker or Nzonzi..
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N'Zonzi is a proven player at high levels, so he's nothing like the other two.

Dendoncker is slow as molasses. Are we thinking about him at center back? What does he give anyone beyond what Morgan Scheiderlin gives us?

I also don't understand why RLC is so revered. He's got size, maybe he's got potential, but not sure I quite see the same quality that others see.
 
I actually think it is a bit pointless a mid-table club (as we are at the moment, sorry) spending a whole load of money to try and bring in top players at peak. The real-deals will want to go to the more successful clubs of the moment - and all we'll get are the left-overs (Schneiderlin, Bolasie, Rooney) who won't get us anywhere.

Better to build the team from promising youth and then keeping hold of that youth. Pickford, for example, was expensive but a decent long-term signing.

Mooy ? Why ? Don't we need a left-back and centre-back anyway ? what's the point in buying another average midfielder, we've got a bundle.
 
Connor said:
Loftus-Cheek has it.

He would be very good to sign.

Therefore, we won't be signing him.
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What has he got? He keeps it well hidden whatever it is. Anonymous against a Panama pub team today. And for Palace last season he was average, they only performed when Zaha played.
 

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