Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Matt Collins]

I definitely want cleverley. I've not heard a single suggestion of a better value option

Would buy two Fwds to replace benteke and weimann - or get one on loan

One more attacking midfielder

And a left back and young keeper

Tripper is better than what we have  and I'd take him for £3.5m, but the positions above are bigger priorities for me.

I hope sherwood doesn't go too far down the young and hungry route. We need a mix.

[Matt Collins]

We're being linked with James Chester. Can't say I've ever really noticed him. Mirror suggesting £10m which must be a joke surely?

Any views?

[Malandro]

We're being linked with James Chester. Can't say I've ever really noticed him. Mirror suggesting £10m which must be a joke surely?

Any views?

Decent defender. Goal scoring was Hulls problem. I can't see us paying that for a centre back however.

[ciggiesnbeer]

One bonus. We do have those Bent wages freeing up. Thats a pretty big chunk to pay someone else. Give half of it to tekkers for a start.

[pauliewalnuts]

Whether it's Cleverley, Benteke or anyone else...if they do decide they want to go elsewhere, fuck 'em. Nobody's bigger than the club and nobody's irreplaceable. We'll find somebody who does want to be with us.

Totally agree.

It is far easier to sell a player than to buy a replacement, particularly after you have finished 17th.  In our position we should try our best to keep our better players.  We cannot afford to cut off our nose to spite our face.

Agree.

We're all angry still at events last weekend, and disappointed from the whole season, but some of the suggestions that we sell and replace up to a dozen players are a bit over the top, I think. That's a massive, massive churn of players, I can't see us shifting anything like that many.

If we are going to try to make changes on that scale, or any scale for that matter, we should be starting with the ones that clearly aren't good enough.

[pauliewalnuts]

I definitely want cleverley. I've not heard a single suggestion of a better value option

Would buy two Fwds to replace benteke and weimann - or get one on loan

One more attacking midfielder

And a left back and young keeper

Tripper is better than what we have  and I'd take him for £3.5m, but the positions above are bigger priorities for me.

I hope sherwood doesn't go too far down the young and hungry route. We need a mix.

Isn't that what Steer is?

I know we've seen bits of him here and there, but enough to write him off?

Surely we need a proven, starting keeper to replace Given and Guzan?

[PaulWinch again]

Whether it's Cleverley, Benteke or anyone else...if they do decide they want to go elsewhere, fuck 'em. Nobody's bigger than the club and nobody's irreplaceable. We'll find somebody who does want to be with us.

Totally agree.

It is far easier to sell a player than to buy a replacement, particularly after you have finished 17th.  In our position we should try our best to keep our better players.  We cannot afford to cut off our nose to spite our face.

Agree.

We're all angry still at events last weekend, and disappointed from the whole season, but some of the suggestions that we sell and replace up to a dozen players are a bit over the top, I think. That's a massive, massive churn of players, I can't see us shifting anything like that many.

If we are going to try to make changes on that scale, or any scale for that matter, we should be starting with the ones that clearly aren't good enough.

I agree. The thing is the bargain basement approach to purchasing over the last few years means that we can't repair the damage in one summer. It's going to take a while whatever we do. We can't just get rid of half the squad and replace it that's not realistic. What's critical is that we keep the best players we have as a core to build around. Ok Benteke may go, but if he does we need to be very smart with how we spend that money.

[Lobsterboy]

Unfortunately the three players Sherwood has said he wants to retain and/or build a team around (Benteke, Cleverley and Vlaar) seem the three most likely to not be here...

We have so much rubbish in the squad that doesn't even make our match day 18 that we have to get rid of it is absolutely frightening the amount of work to be done to even turn us into a decent mid table team.

Not sure how many of the likes of Herd, Helenius, Tonev, Sylla, Stevens, Bennett and Luna are at the end of their contracts but I am hoping most of them as I don't see us being inundated with offers for any of them

[Dr Butler]

I definitely want cleverley. I've not heard a single suggestion of a better value option

Would buy two Fwds to replace benteke and weimann - or get one on loan

One more attacking midfielder

And a left back and young keeper

Tripper is better than what we have  and I'd take him for £3.5m, but the positions above are bigger priorities for me.

I hope sherwood doesn't go too far down the young and hungry route. We need a mix.

Isn't that what Steer is?

I know we've seen bits of him here and there, but enough to write him off?

Surely we need a proven, starting keeper to replace Given and Guzan?

Tom Heaton from Burnley as our keeper would be a good buy....

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[pauliewalnuts]

He was excellent against us, but again, I fear he's going to have better options than us.

That's one of the things about 17th. You don't look as appealing as you might otherwise do.

[Monty]

If we have over £30m to spend - which we may well do, especially if Benteke goes - then I wouldn't like to see us sign more than five players, and preferably four, with that kind of money. We need to upgrade the first team, and there are current members of that first team who would still be useful as squad players and don't need to be sold.

[Lobsterboy]

If we have over £30m to spend - which we may well do, especially if Benteke goes - then I wouldn't like to see us sign more than five players, and preferably four, with that kind of money. We need to upgrade the first team, and there are current members of that first team who would still be useful as squad players and don't need to be sold.

I agree; not sure why people seem to want to sell most of the first team! The likes of Bacuna, Baker, Westwood, Agbonlahor, Richardson and Hutton are all useful squad players for me

[J]

I don't see why people want rid of Guzan either. He's not been at his best lately but he was excellent last season.

[chrisw1]

I definitely want cleverley. I've not heard a single suggestion of a better value option

Would buy two Fwds to replace benteke and weimann - or get one on loan

One more attacking midfielder

And a left back and young keeper

Tripper is better than what we have  and I'd take him for £3.5m, but the positions above are bigger priorities for me.

I hope sherwood doesn't go too far down the young and hungry route. We need a mix.

Isn't that what Steer is?

I know we've seen bits of him here and there, but enough to write him off?

Surely we need a proven, starting keeper to replace Given and Guzan?

Is Guzan really that bad?  He may have lost some confidence but he's still a decent keeper.  Are we going to get anyone much better at our current level?

[pauliewalnuts]

I definitely want cleverley. I've not heard a single suggestion of a better value option

Would buy two Fwds to replace benteke and weimann - or get one on loan

One more attacking midfielder

And a left back and young keeper

Tripper is better than what we have  and I'd take him for £3.5m, but the positions above are bigger priorities for me.

I hope sherwood doesn't go too far down the young and hungry route. We need a mix.

Isn't that what Steer is?

I know we've seen bits of him here and there, but enough to write him off?

Surely we need a proven, starting keeper to replace Given and Guzan?

Is Guzan really that bad?  He may have lost some confidence but he's still a decent keeper.  Are we going to get anyone much better at our current level?

Sorry, post was a badly worded re needing a keeper, I'm talking in the sense of "if we are going to buy a keeper".