Summer Transfer Window 2017

[davek]

Clucas to Swansea
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41002813

Wood to Burnley
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41001685

Arnautovic to West Ham
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40648924

Pretty much a level down to our spending.

 

[Doolstar70]

...as are we: a matter of urgency on a CB/LB/winger/CF.

Well then, pay up and complete the transfer, or wait for the melee on deadline day and hope you can fill the gaps.

 

[Smig1878]

No, dont wait. Bargain with a selling club. It's what happens...or rather it's what happens when a manager is not in an unseemly hurry and cant be arsed haggling.

When you are buying players who are perceived as ready (and all of them are full internationals) you pay that price I'm afraid.

I have always agreed on Pickford/Begovic but the lads doing well but it's his tendency to punch which worries me as he does it too often at the moment. Begovic is moot now though. We have to hope Pickford trains on.

Back to transfers though I am still generally very happy and I don't think we desperately need anyone with how we are set up but we have very little depth in a couple of positions as Koeman has highlighted.

 

[davek]

OK that's better. So you consider that Lukaku was an exception to your rule and in that regard was an acceptable outlay.

I would argue that he was still very much a work in progress at that time and not, as a 21 year old, established and proven at all. Chelsea were prepared to sell him and none of the "elite" clubs you speak of were prepared to take a punt on him at that stage. I would go one step further and say that the Lukaku deal is no different to us spending similar amounts on Pickford, Keane and Klaassen today. So I don't see why the Lukaku purchase should be considered an acceptable exception to your rule

Granted paying £45m on a 27 year old is a different ball game and time will tell if Sigurdsson is money well spent.

Two back to back seasons in the PL scoring 17 then 15 goals.

That was established.

 

[Barnfred 55]

James McCarthy, meanwhile, is no closer to recovering from his knee injury with the Everton boss suggesting it will be after the international break before he is fit.

You mean the same International break he's been called up to and will most probably play in.

Luckily it's after the window closes so hopefully will already have been sold by then. If not, don't expect him to be fit to play again until the next International break in October.

 

[hktoffee]

You mean the same International break he's been called up to and will most probably play in.

Luckily it's after the window closes so hopefully will already have been sold by then. If not, don't expect him to be fit to play again until the next International break in October.

Yup. No point of keeping a player who only plays for his national team.

 

[Efcjake]

Pretty much a level down to our spending.

Exactly and look at the crap that money has brought in.

Everybody is overpaying and experiencing the market inflation.

Championship strikers are regularly going for 15 million.

World's gone mad, I hope we can afford a striker before the next bump in prices comes in.

 

[Goat]

Pretty much a level down to our spending.

Spurs just spent 42m on a player from The Dutch SPL Dave.

 

[Zatara]

Think he was a favourite of @Zatara last summer window IIRC. Why do we seem to only be getting linked with attacking midfielders? Its strikers and CBs we want.

I was the one who didn't want him (even if he was a youngster), not been so good for samp and I preferred tielemans by miles at Anderlecht.

Its still a no from me...

 

[Brisan123]

So this is the Davek thread for the day then...

No it's really the Davek



Thread
He's been quite successful today
Must be a slow day on the stall

 

[hktoffee]

Slimiani? No. He's useless.

I think we can get a Plan B out of Benteke though. Beast in the air. I think we need to be able to go to that game against stubborn opponents.

Dave you suggested to buy a no mark striker from FC Köln to replace Lukaku.

 

[Brisan123]

Two back to back seasons in the PL scoring 17 then 15 goals.

That was established.

Not established enough for any of the top 6
Chelsea fans reckoned they bent us over when we bought him

 

[CRIMHEAD]

You can give your opinions as to what YOU would pay for someone, but sorry, the market doesn't reflect that.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Two back to back seasons in the PL scoring 17 then 15 goals.

That was established.

Not to justify the amount we paid for him bearing in mind £28m represented a damn site more of our turnover in the summer of 2014 than it does now. Plus as I said, none of the so called elite clubs were interested and one of them was actually offloading him. It was a huge gamble for us at that stage.

Don't get me wrong. I'm absolutely delighted that we took that gamble as I am that we have taken similar gambles on Keane, Pickford and Klaassen. I just don't agree with that you should make an exception for spending that sort of money on Lukaku, but criticise the other 3.

 

[Barnfred 55]

I was the one who didn't want him (even if he was a youngster), not been so good for samp and I preferred tielemans by miles at Anderlecht.

Its still a no from me...

Right. I knew you had an opinion on him. As you say, looks like things didn't work out for him at Sampdoria, so somehow that makes him ideal for us