Summer transfer window 2023

[Rich1878]

Yet again

I know

 

[roydo]

It's pretty rare.

Tis, hence "shrewd". Gareth Barry is the obvious example to lead with.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

all for Gyokeres and Ndiaye. Plenty of championship players have made the step up at a later age, Toney, Watkins, Bowen...

I’m not sure either of them on their own would be the solution but if we could find a way to get both we’d have a lot of bases covered.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Prince Rupert Tower reckon we are interested in Joaquin Correa

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Just looks like a bum gas Internet rumour.

 

[Rich1878]

Just looks like a bum gas Internet rumour.

I'm guessing it is, a recycled guff rumour. Just thought I'd join in

 

[Exeter_Gently]

I'm guessing it is, a recycled guff rumour. Just thought I'd join in

Yeah think it is pal...

 

[sandybrownsbighead]

I’m not sure either of them on their own would be the solution but if we could find a way to get both we’d have a lot of bases covered.

Hard to imagine Everton bringing us news as pleasing as that...but we live in hope

 

[heatmeiser]

Expensive, late 20s, exactly the sort of thing we’re trying to cut out unless it’s a loan.

But on the other hand I do love the name Joaquin.

Especially if you pronounce it to sound like a ricochet from a cowboy gun on a frying pan

 

[DanB90]

Imagine my immense heartache as a 32 year old, when I log in here and see people at the age of 26/27 being called “too old”.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Tis, hence "shrewd". Gareth Barry is the obvious example to lead with.

Well that example would be wrong because it was a free transfer.

Not to say we should build a team of free transfers old guys either but Barry and Tarkowski are at least not something we had to pay for and therefore aren't actively harming our ability to build depth.

 

[roydo]

Well that example would be wrong because it was a free transfer.

Not to say we should build a team of free transfers old guys either but Barry and Tarkowski are at least not something we had to pay for and therefore aren't actively harming our ability to build depth.

Kinda irrelevant isnt it? There is no such thing as a free transfer anyrate. Just that a fee to another football club doesnt get paid.

 

[billyblue80]

Not over joyed by the links to Victor Gyokeres. He's scored 21 and 17 in the last two seasons in the Championship and is 25 years old. Based on the average drop off from coming up to the Premier League would suggest he'd be fortunate to hit 10-12. Better than what we had last year, but we'd have to hope for an outsized contribution.

For reference, some other returns in the Championship recently:
- Neil Maupay - 25 goals for Brentford in 18/19 - hit 10 once in the prem.
- Timmu Pukki - hit 29 and 26 in the Championship and followed it up with 11 in the prem bith times
- Che Adams and Jarrod Bowen both had 22 goals in the Champioship
- Solanke hit 29 in the Championship

IMO, the only type of player we should be looking for in the Championship is someone who is 22 or under, or if there was a striker that is a clearly suited to Dyches style (e.g. big and good in the air).

All to say it would be risky and we need as close to a sure thing as we can get.

I agree it's sometimes hard to translate Championship form to EPL it's a big step up. But there have been other examples of players who have stepped up, off the top of it head Vardy, Toney, Johnson et al every player you recruit is a risk, you have to scout thoroughly

 

[Furey1878]

If the idea is we'll be safe in 2025 with these signings I'd suggest the guy you'd have to turn around and start replacing in 2025 wouldn't be a good idea.

This is why age is everything. When you buy younger players you increase the odds that they won't need to be replaced in the next 3 to 5 years and on the occasion that they don't need replacing you can then build depth. Once we build some depth of talent we can actually remove ourselves from this year to year survival. 27 year old mediocre players aren't saving us.

A 30 year old Doucoure kind of saved us.

27 is not old in football, it's a player's prime.

I get we need young assets with resale value, but just as you can't have a team full of 30 year olds you also can't have a team full of 20 year olds.

I don't even know who this player is but all I know that we desperately need first 11 quality players at CF, CB and LB minimum, and if we can find players of good enough quality for low enough fees then I don't care about their age because we need improving now. The squad has plenty of young players, Onana, Garner, Patterson, Mykolenko, McNeil, Branthwaite, Cannon...

 

[TheBigIguana]

Kinda irrelevant isnt it? There is no such thing as a free transfer anyrate. Just that a fee to another football club doesnt get paid.

OK those transfers had the no transfer fee. It's still saving money and for a club with none that matters.

 

[Papa Shango]

Tis, hence "shrewd". Gareth Barry is the obvious example to lead with.

Paul Power, Andy Gray and Richard Gough being 3 more.

Of course there is always the risk of getting a Ginola or Mark Hughes, they were proper old though not 28 or whatever is deemed old now.