Summer Transfer Window 2017

[devogue]

Fake

 

[Barnfred 55]

I hear the camera adds 2 cups

Any idea where I can buy one?

 

[TyphooToffee]

Watching the highlights of the rs at Watford. My first impressions of Okaka are good

 

[Efcjake]

The hero we need.

 

[Blues Harp]

Made up I saw us win trophies since I started watching the Blues..... FA cups, Championships, European CW cup, .....Transfer windows ??? just do one..artificial situation manufactured by the TV companies and FIFA...........NEA

 

[Lanolin]

Well 1st of all, weve spent

Pickford - £30m
Klaassen - £25m
Keane - £30m
Onyekuru - £7m
Sandro - £5m
Bowler - £4m
Martina - Free
Gibson - £6m
Sigurdsson - £45m
= £152m

Sold

Lukaku - £90m + Rooney
Cleverly - £8m
Deulofeu - £10m
McGeady - £1m
Barry - undisclosed, let's say £1m
Kone - Free
McAleny - Free

=£110

That makes £42m spend...

Barkley looks like he will probably go, maybe we get £30m max, but we are still to sign Vlasic (£8m) and still hopeful of signing a striker (you would imagine £30m given the current going rate) and potentially a CB (let's be conservative and say £15m)...

At the end of the window, even with Barkley gone, that would still mean a spend of £65m if all the maybes become reality. Hardly breaking even, and that's before you factor in wages.

And just because it's a bug bear of mine anyway, why would breaking even, or God forbid, a negative net spend, be a bad thing anyway? If you can improve the team without spending fortunes each year, surely that is the thing to do?

Net spend means absolutely nothing, unless the team is not improved with your dealings.

Only if the 'maybes' happen exactly as you say, which currently seems unlikely.

I would be genuinely surprised if we spend £45m on the positions you mention. At the moment it seems more likely that it'll be loans or stop gaps rather than big fees.

There's also the 'maybes' you've ignored, like McCarthy/niasse/Lennon/mirallas/Robles leaving.

I have no interest in our net spend, simply pointing out that's a very skewed way of looking at it.

 

[Bellz]

Is there anyone that hasn't been mentioned?

Steven Naismith on loan.

 

[Lee Smith]

Haha, good lad Bry, is there nothing that can't be found on Twitter lol

 

[ProZ]

Pull the shutters down I think we are done, we go with what we've got.

 

[Bellz]

Watch this space.

 

[ToffeeDan]

Would be hilarious if RB Leipzig let Werner come to us now having let Keita go to the RS next season. Would be a massive 2 fingers to the RS telling them that they are prepared to let a key player go and guess to which team!!

 

[wainy]

Just seen koeman trying to strangle walsh with a telephone chord at FF. Had to be seperated by a crying Kenwright.

 

[Lee Smith]

Wish Sky would bring Kate Abdo back.

Works in the US now for Fox Sports. Still reeling here.

 

[argietoffee]

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Watching the highlights of the rs at Watford. My first impressions of Okaka are good

watched him in 2 games- against Liverpool and us.

He was good in both of them.

Obviously, the sample size is limited.

 

[People75]

Just seen koeman trying to strangle walsh with a telephone chord at FF. Had to be seperated by a crying Kenwright.

You didden't happen to take a photo? It would be a great Christmas postcard