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Summer transfer window 2023

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The sad truth is that the way that we will ned to function is to sell a key player every season. It's largely the Brighton way.

Richy last season
Gordon has gone this season
Moise Kean and Gordon in one season may mean that we don't have to this season but we will have little to spend.
I suspect that Onana will go within the next 1-2 seasons.

It's a system that can work if you can buy 2-3 prospects every year and develop them and get it right.

Brighton are a great example but it used to be Southampton and there has to come a point where you grow sufficiently to stop doing it.
 
Got a bad feeling Pickford will be sold.

I can see him at Man United because I don't think De Gea is going to sign his new deal and United smell blood so £40m for Pickford would be hard for our board and finances to take
 
mccole said:
Got a bad feeling Pickford will be sold.

I can see him at Man United because I don't think De Gea is going to sign his new deal and United smell blood so £40m for Pickford would be hard for our board and finances to take
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He just signed a new deal. Surely we're looking at north of 40 million?
 

Goodisongang said:
Have I logged on to find someone advocating a move for wout weghorst????
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Honestly think there's some dramatic tempering of expectation levels required here

Do I think Weghorst would change our fortunes dramatically? No

Do I think he's better than Maupay or Simms? Yes

Would I be happy if he were the only striker we signed? No

But we have to bring in (probably) a reserve keeper, a left back, a centre back, at least one centre mid, a wide player and a couple of strikers this summer on a budget of next-to-nothing

There's going to have to be some compromise along the way - for instance, we don't need to sign two strikers who are as good as or better than DCL - one of them just needs to be better than Maupay/Simms and the other needs to be DCL level.

The main arguments I'm seeing against Weghorst is his record in the PL - he's scored twice and assisted 4 times in 37 appearances in the PL (although it works out at about 25 full games), not great numbers for a striker, but he played in midfield a fair bit for United at times and, for all he misfired in front of goal, he does have some attributes which are useful - there's a YouTube video somewhere in this thread of his highlights from one game which give you an idea about what he brings to the table.

If he were a loan and coming in alongside another striker, I could see the logic in the move. We will not be spending money on every player we need as we don't have it, so loans and frees are going to be important this summer. Having said all that, I would be surprised to see Burnley loan him out again, so it sort of becomes a moot point as I wouldn't want us spending actual money on a 30 year old
 

I heard last week that Maupay was around 48th on a list of players put together by our Data / Analytics team at the club....and everyone ignored them and the list.
 
toffeeblue9 said:
Honestly think there's some dramatic tempering of expectation levels required here

Do I think Weghorst would change our fortunes dramatically? No

Do I think he's better than Maupay or Simms? Yes

Would I be happy if he were the only striker we signed? No

But we have to bring in (probably) a reserve keeper, a left back, a centre back, at least one centre mid, a wide player and a couple of strikers this summer on a budget of next-to-nothing

There's going to have to be some compromise along the way - for instance, we don't need to sign two strikers who are as good as or better than DCL - one of them just needs to be better than Maupay/Simms and the other needs to be DCL level.

The main arguments I'm seeing against Weghorst is his record in the PL - he's scored twice and assisted 4 times in 37 appearances in the PL (although it works out at about 25 full games), not great numbers for a striker, but he played in midfield a fair bit for United at times and, for all he misfired in front of goal, he does have some attributes which are useful - there's a YouTube video somewhere in this thread of his highlights from one game which give you an idea about what he brings to the table.

If he were a loan and coming in alongside another striker, I could see the logic in the move. We will not be spending money on every player we need as we don't have it, so loans and frees are going to be important this summer. Having said all that, I would be surprised to see Burnley loan him out again, so it sort of becomes a moot point as I wouldn't want us spending actual money on a 30 year old
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Good post my expectations are very low/realistic.
 

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