Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[tomd2103]

My gut instinct at the moment is that we're heading for a bit of a car crash at the start of the season.

As it stands and without injuries, we are looking at a starting XI of:

                            Guzan

Hutton        Richards     Clark    Amavi

                 Sanchez        Gueye

Bacuna                Grealish           Sinclair

                          Agbonlahor

Subs: Bunn, Okore, Baker, Westwood, Richardson, N'Zogbia, Gil, Kozak

Not the worst side I have seen us field in recent times, but we desperately need to strengthen.

[RussellC]

That side has relegation battle written all over it. Where are the goals going to come from?

[Lobsterboy]

I'm taking my boots with me to Bournemouth.  I'm shit but I'll give it a go.

It never stopped Sylla...

[OCD]

Some people need to take their daily 'Man-the-fuck-up' juice.

I agree with TV. What has happened in the last week (hard to believe it's only been a week since Delph turned tail) hasn't gone un-noticed by anyone. The club will know how close we were to relegation last season and that we've lost 2 key players. Evidence of this can be seen by things like spending almost £10m on a position that wasn't a key one (left back).

It's hard to be patient when little seems to be happening on the surface and the season draws closer but accept that you have no control over it, find a way to keep yourself amused and have faith.

[andyh]

so, are we still in transition then?
It seems that however much of the dross and fringe players we get rid of, we still look a long way from a squad that will do anything more than just about survive.

 

[SashasGrandad]

I'm sure I've seen it written somewhere today that Tim has a master plan.

It had better be a good one!

[brontebilly]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

If the summer was over and the season had started I might agree. But it isn't so surely we should be judging this once the window closes. And any time our season isn't starting with neither TSM1 and TSM2 at the club it's a massive forward step.

Both those managers had far better CVs than our current supremo.

Very worrying that any future new signing wont really have had a pre-season with us so is likely to take longer to settle in.

What is the realistic number of league goals that Kozak, Gabby, Robinson, Gil, Grealish and Sinclair will contribute next season?

If its more than 10, I will be very surprised.

Whats our starting side at Bournemouth looking like at this rate? Not really many other options bar one of Grealish/Sinclair dropping out and Westwood or Bacuna coming in.

----------------Guzan
Hutton, Richards, Clark, Amavi
------Sanchez/Westwood, Gueye
------Grealish, Gil, Sinclair
--------------Gabby---------

[paul richard]

The general thrust of the article is spot on.  I went to Swindon the other night and our squad looks worryingly short of both quality and quantity.  I know there was no Grealish, Gueye, Okore or Sanchez, and there's the genesis of a potentially half decent defence taking shape, with Amavi, Clark and Richards likely starters at Bournemouth, but a midfield of Westwood, Gardener and Bacuna is championship standard.  And although there was some nice touches from Sinclair and Gil, Gabby showed familiar shortcomings.  A new striker and at least two new bodies in midfield are essential if we are to avoid yet another struggle.

[mr underhill]

and I'm sure that is what will happen - as to who they will be and if they meet the expectations of fans is another matter, but anyone thinking that we are relegated before a ball has been kicked is being ridiculously negative.

[David_Nab]

Apparently WBA are ''only '' paying Berahino 15k a week but they want to up it to 30k to ward off bids ...I highly doubt they would sell to us and he would cost alot but he knows where the goal is and would have a nice sell on value in future if he keeps up his scoring

[mr underhill]

as unlikely as O J Simpson being invited to the first KKK cook out upon his release

[Vegas]

Agree with Matt. Despite improvement under Sherwood we came 17th. From that side we've lost the 2 best players and 2 other first team regulars. We've bought 2 promising young players. Cold hard reality of that is it makes us relegation material.

And we could have prepared better. It wasn't hard to see that 3 of the main 4 who have left were going to leave, and the club knew about Delph's buy out clause even if we didn't. It does now have a sense of last minute panic about it, and arguably it didn't need to.

[OCD]

Agree with Matt. Despite improvement under Sherwood we came 17th. From that side we've lost the 2 best players and 2 other first team regulars. We've bought 2 promising young players. Cold hard reality of that is it makes us relegation material.

That would be true had Sherwood been in charge from the start. From when Sherwood came in, I think someone showed that when extrapolated across a season, it would have been a mid-table finish. People seem to making player judgments based on how Lambert had them playing.

[Tuscans]

The transfer window shuts in "40 days" and all I see is a lot of crying.

Have you all come from facebook?

[mr underhill]

precisely so buying two of the most promising/highly rated players in the French league is panic? And none of us know what is going on behind the scenes ; of course the club knew two were definitely going and will have  had contingency plans. as to Ron, thank fuck he didn't re-sign, given that the man of glass is now smashed. In the insatiable desire for news by the minute people are getting needlessly doomish.