Summer transfer madness thread

[Tayls_7]

Anyone's else worried by the lack of outgoings so far?  I know it only officially starts today but normally a few deals are already agreed by how.  Particularly when you think of how many we need to ship out.

Yes I am.

LOL it's July 1st

At the end of last season we would have been praying we could ship out shite like Agbonlahor, Richards, Bunn, Sanchez, Gil etc.

Lol.

[ozzjim]

Looking around I think outs going to be a bloody tough season.  Sheff Wed are strengthening again, QPR ended the season well and are buying, the noses will have a good season under Twitch and have bought a good couple of players in already, Rowett has sombre money at Derby although Hughes and Ince going may harm them, Boro will be very strong with Monk, Fulham were excellent last season and have a good manager, Brentford finished the season well and Jota looks a player.  All in all we are a decent way off at the moment I reckon.

Didn't QPR end with 9 defeats out of 11 or something.

I honestly don't see anyone out there on the level of Newcastle or even Brighton.

Sunderland still have a really poor squad so up to Grayson to wheel and deal a bit, Hull are an unknown quantity and Boro should be top 6 but their squad dosen't scare me like Newcastle's did as half of them used to play for us of course!

Of course teams like Derby and Sheff Weds should be up there again but history of championship tells us we should be more wary of teams who finished the previous year fighting relegation as promotion candidates. Which brings us to SHA....

No excuses for us not to be top 6 at the very least. I'd be really disappointed if we don't have a proper go at top 2 aswell.

I think we are a pacey forward away from challenging for the top 2. Newcastle had Gayle and Atsu that gave them the out. Brighton had guile and creativity in Knockaert. We don't have either to set ourselves apart.

[kippaxvilla2]

We absolutely have to find a forestieri type player in midfield.  It's worrying we don't appear to have been linked with any such player.  At the same time we are letting Gil leave.

[paul_e]

A player like that won't be a perfect panacea that turns us into the team we want to see and too many managers in the last few years have failed to understand that.  You have to know how to set a team up to make those players stand out and get the ball in the areas where they can go damage.  We have Grelaish, McCormack, Lansbury and Hourihane who have all done that job to varying degrees of success in the past but have looked lost in this team.

A bit of pace out wide would help because it masks shit tactics pretty effectively and is probably the the simplest solution.  My concern, as I've been saying for months, is that I don't like the idea of quick fixes to get back up and then worry about staying up and changing the club once we're there.  I think that's an arse about tit approach that will force us to speed horrific amounts of money to stand still.

[cdbearsfan]

McCormack will never play under Bruce again.

[ciggiesnbeer]

McCormack will never play under Bruce again.

Real shame. The bloke is talented. I dont blame Bruce but I wish they could somehow make it work.

[Axl Rose]

We absolutely have to find a forestieri type player in midfield.  It's worrying we don't appear to have been linked with any such player.  At the same time we are letting Gil leave.

I agree. Grealish should be that type of player for us, though I don't think he's busy enough.

[tomd2103]

A player like that won't be a perfect panacea that turns us into the team we want to see and too many managers in the last few years have failed to understand that.  You have to know how to set a team up to make those players stand out and get the ball in the areas where they can go damage.  We have Grelaish, McCormack, Lansbury and Hourihane who have all done that job to varying degrees of success in the past but have looked lost in this team.

A bit of pace out wide would help because it masks shit tactics pretty effectively and is probably the the simplest solution.  My concern, as I've been saying for months, is that I don't like the idea of quick fixes to get back up and then worry about staying up and changing the club once we're there.  I think that's an arse about tit approach that will force us to speed horrific amounts of money to stand still.

A striker who can hold the ball up is the key for me.  A player like that would enable some of the names mentioned above to play off him and I think we would see a lot more from them.

[Des Little]

A player like that won't be a perfect panacea that turns us into the team we want to see and too many managers in the last few years have failed to understand that.  You have to know how to set a team up to make those players stand out and get the ball in the areas where they can go damage.  We have Grelaish, McCormack, Lansbury and Hourihane who have all done that job to varying degrees of success in the past but have looked lost in this team.

A bit of pace out wide would help because it masks shit tactics pretty effectively and is probably the the simplest solution.  My concern, as I've been saying for months, is that I don't like the idea of quick fixes to get back up and then worry about staying up and changing the club once we're there.  I think that's an arse about tit approach that will force us to speed horrific amounts of money to stand still.

A striker who can hold the ball up is the key for me.  A player like that would enable some of the names mentioned above to play off him and I think we would see a lot more from them.

I agree. My choice would be Walters at Stoke - available for nowt too I think?

[mr underhill]

everyone we've been  linked with are  the wrong side of 30. Not a good policy imo,

[Malandro]

Looking around I think outs going to be a bloody tough season.  Sheff Wed are strengthening again, QPR ended the season well and are buying, the noses will have a good season under Twitch and have bought a good couple of players in already, Rowett has sombre money at Derby although Hughes and Ince going may harm them, Boro will be very strong with Monk, Fulham were excellent last season and have a good manager, Brentford finished the season well and Jota looks a player.  All in all we are a decent way off at the moment I reckon.

Didn't QPR end with 9 defeats out of 11 or something.

I honestly don't see anyone out there on the level of Newcastle or even Brighton.

Sunderland still have a really poor squad so up to Grayson to wheel and deal a bit, Hull are an unknown quantity and Boro should be top 6 but their squad dosen't scare me like Newcastle's did as half of them used to play for us of course!

Of course teams like Derby and Sheff Weds should be up there again but history of championship tells us we should be more wary of teams who finished the previous year fighting relegation as promotion candidates. Which brings us to SHA....

No excuses for us not to be top 6 at the very least. I'd be really disappointed if we don't have a proper go at top 2 aswell.

I think we are a pacey forward away from challenging for the top 2. Newcastle had Gayle and Atsu that gave them the out. Brighton had guile and creativity in Knockaert. We don't have either to set ourselves apart.

I'd give Hepburn-Murphy his chance

[PaulWinch again]

If we get it right I thinks RHM and Green could be hugely important for us.

[Damo70]

A player like that won't be a perfect panacea that turns us into the team we want to see and too many managers in the last few years have failed to understand that.  You have to know how to set a team up to make those players stand out and get the ball in the areas where they can go damage.  We have Grelaish, McCormack, Lansbury and Hourihane who have all done that job to varying degrees of success in the past but have looked lost in this team.

A bit of pace out wide would help because it masks shit tactics pretty effectively and is probably the the simplest solution.  My concern, as I've been saying for months, is that I don't like the idea of quick fixes to get back up and then worry about staying up and changing the club once we're there.  I think that's an arse about tit approach that will force us to speed horrific amounts of money to stand still.

A striker who can hold the ball up is the key for me.  A player like that would enable some of the names mentioned above to play off him and I think we would see a lot more from them.

I agree. My choice would be Walters at Stoke - available for nowt too I think?

I would take him. A good two season signing to help get us up and keep us up.

[Clark W Griswold]

McCormack will never play under Bruce again.

Real shame. The bloke is talented. I dont blame Bruce but I wish they could somehow make it work.

The only way anyone will know whether he'll play for Bruce again is if he's sold or loaned out again before the end of August. At the moment you can only be guessing.

[LeeB]

everyone we've been  linked with are  the wrong side of 30. Not a good policy imo,

I know, we need to worker harder with our rumour and conjecture.