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Offline UK Redsox

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #405 on: May 29, 2019, 08:32:37 AM »
There might be a chance of another loan for axel if man u want to see him tested in the prem before taking a chance.

I'm really hoping we can get el ghazi and mings. I think we can

That would leave us needing:

LB (this guy from Luton? Obviously not experienced tho)
DM (reckon Hayden or Phillips quite likely)
Midfield cover
Two new wingers (Kent, Lolley, Bowen, amongst the options)
One or maybe two new strikers (Maupay an obvious shout but also suspect there are some foreign based options)

Plus a bit of a weird situation in goal. I assume we won't have given up on Kalinic yet. It can often take a keeper a bit of time to settle in English football. But then I really don't feel confident w any of our options

Listening to CP yesterday, he made the point that the days are gone when we need to loan players thus improving them for their parent clubs (and as mentioned, increasing their value in the process)

I'm pretty sure that we'll be looking towards building a team with our own players. 

Maybe not five loan players again, but if there's one or two that would improve the team (even if just for one season), I don't see anything wrong with that.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #406 on: May 29, 2019, 08:34:32 AM »
Yeh made it pretty clear that we are not in the loan market any more..

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #407 on: May 29, 2019, 09:38:11 AM »
Presumably we're going to be heavily linked with Gary Cahill over the next few weeks?

Given he spent half a decade playing alongside John Terry, his previous history with us and the fact that a bit of experience probably wouldn't go amiss, it's pretty likely to happen isn't it?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #408 on: May 29, 2019, 09:41:53 AM »
Presumably we're going to be heavily linked with Gary Cahill over the next few weeks?

Given he spent half a decade playing alongside John Terry, his previous history with us and the fact that a bit of experience probably wouldn't go amiss, it's pretty likely to happen isn't it?

I think it's an obvious connection that will be made Dave, but I'm not sure personally:

- I'm not sure that an older, super expensive wage sponge is the sort of player Purslow will be sanctioning.
- If we keep Mings, Hause and possibly Tuanzebe, with Chester as backup would we really need him?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #409 on: May 29, 2019, 09:49:30 AM »
how much would Danny Drinkwater cost?

could do a decent job for us in the first season of Prem .. 

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #410 on: May 29, 2019, 10:26:13 AM »
Who was the last Premier League player we signed permanently for a fee?

And for bonus points, who was the one before that?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #411 on: May 29, 2019, 10:49:38 AM »
Who was the last Premier League player we signed permanently for a fee?

And for bonus points, who was the one before that?

Was it Ritchie De Laet? And maybe Jedinak before him?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #412 on: May 29, 2019, 10:58:51 AM »
With no Euros or World Cup this summer, it's a good time to be looking at new players. No delays because players don't want to be distracted during a tournament and no clamouring to sign unheard of players just because they have a couple of good games on a big stage.

Hopefully this will mean that permanent transfers can be dealt with early in the off-season


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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #413 on: May 29, 2019, 11:06:08 AM »
Who was the last Premier League player we signed permanently for a fee?

And for bonus points, who was the one before that?

Was it Ritchie De Laet? And maybe Jedinak before him?

Glenn Whelan was more recent than both wasn't he?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #414 on: May 29, 2019, 11:06:40 AM »
Setting aside the current loan players for a moment, I expect Lolley and Cahill to join but I've no idea who else will arrive.

Finding an experienced but still mobile holding midfielder might be the most difficult signing. Depending on where Danny Drinkwater is in terms of fitness and legal matters, he might be an option.
Milner would be great for a couple of seasons and I wouldn't be adverse to Delph (with the appropriate mea culpa)

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #415 on: May 29, 2019, 11:08:52 AM »
Aye Wheelo was the most recent.

Scott Sinclair was one of the last Premier League players we signed as a Premier League outfit. Before that, N'Zogbia and Hutton and Given.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #416 on: May 29, 2019, 11:09:33 AM »
Yeh made it pretty clear that we are not in the loan market any more..

This is music to my ears.

We've been used as a 'second rate' club for too long. We're back in the top tier now. We need to start acting like a top tier club. It's not as though we're on the bones of are arse, financially.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #417 on: May 29, 2019, 11:11:49 AM »
I'd be perfectly happy for us to get a player in on loan if it benefited the club.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #418 on: May 29, 2019, 11:15:17 AM »
Aye Wheelo was the most recent.

Scott Sinclair was one of the last Premier League players we signed as a Premier League outfit. Before that, N'Zogbia and Hutton and Given.

Talking of Whelan, I always thought he was a calm, reserved even aloof sort of personality, but looking at the post match celebrations he comes across as teenage lunatic. Bloody brilliant.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread
« Reply #419 on: May 29, 2019, 11:15:57 AM »
It's a double edged sword. We've made Tuanzebe better and benefited from him, but we don't reap the benefits.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't sign Tammy permanently. If we're going to stay up, then we need a centre forward who can score 20 goals in this league and who has pace. That's going to cost £30m and that player isn't Tammy.

 


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