Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[KRS]

I don’t think signing Konsa for £12 million and leaving the frontline so short was a particularly good idea.

It wasn't an either/or.

Pretty sure Konsa will be an excellent signing for us for many years to come. Can’t fault any of our transfer business this summer even if we are a bit light up front.

[Clark W Griswold]

The certainty that some have that Davis and Kodjia will be of no use next season has no firm basis and is unfair. Davis is a young kid who has generally shown himself to have a decent attitude on the pitch, he looks like a handful and a good team player. He will only get better. If he'd gone out on loan and we'd have got someone in i would have been fine with it, but i'm also not too worried about him staying and being an understudy to Wesley. If someone else had come in for big money and hardly played they would probably have been unsettled anyway.
In addition we also have Kodjia who is still in his peak, he looked every bit a player that could play in the PL in his first season with us and then he got injured. He hasn't returned to his best yet but he was played out of position for the most part last season and it takes some players a while to come back fully, look at Fabian Delph.
It is possible that they could both look out of place at this level but they won't begin the season as starters anyway, the window opens again in January so it's not the end of the world. The point is that no one can know for sure as neither have had the chance to try till now.

[Mister E]

The certainty that some have that Davis and Kodjia will be of no use next season has no firm basis and is unfair. Davis is a young kid who has generally shown himself to have a decent attitude on the pitch, he looks like a handful and a good team player. He will only get better. If he'd gone out on loan and we'd have got someone in i would have been fine with it, but i'm also not too worried about him staying and being an understudy to Wesley. If someone else had come in for big money and hardly played they would probably have been unsettled anyway.
In addition we also have Kodjia who is still in his peak, he looked every bit a player that could play in the PL in his first season with us and then he got injured. He hasn't returned to his best yet but he was played out of position for the most part last season and it takes some players a while to come back fully, look at Fabian Delph.
It is possible that they could both look out of place at this level but they won't begin the season as starters anyway, the window opens again in January so it's not the end of the world. The point is that no one can know for sure as neither have had the chance to try till now.

Agree with your first paragraph, but I don't see Kodjia as a Premier League player.
I think Smith sees our attacking line-up being a combination of Wes as link-man and - at times - playing without a recognised striker; using our midfielders and wingers in more forward roles.

[not3bad]

I don’t think signing Konsa for £12 million and leaving the frontline so short was a particularly good idea.

It wasn't an either/or.

Pretty sure Konsa will be an excellent signing for us for many years to come. Can’t fault any of our transfer business this summer even if we are a bit light up front.

There are goals all over the team so I'm not stressing. Yet.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Dean Smith was canny enough to bring in players on loan last year with a view to a permanent move - not seen that yet have we this window?

[Clark W Griswold]

Dean Smith was canny enough to bring in players on loan last year with a view to a permanent move - not seen that yet have we this window?

On the other hand training our own youngsters up like Davis rather than Chelsea's or Man Yoo's or anyone elses is surely a good thing. I hope with the infrastructure and money we now have at the club we've seen the last of that unless there is an extremely good reason which can only be a major benefit to us.

[Tuscans]

Dean Smith was canny enough to bring in players on loan last year with a view to a permanent move - not seen that yet have we this window?

But has said no more business less than 2 hours ago.

[nuninho]

Birkir Bjarnsson has left. Mutual termination according to official twitter.

[Three Spires Villa]

The certainty that some have that Davis and Kodjia will be of no use next season has no firm basis and is unfair. Davis is a young kid who has generally shown himself to have a decent attitude on the pitch, he looks like a handful and a good team player. He will only get better. If he'd gone out on loan and we'd have got someone in i would have been fine with it, but i'm also not too worried about him staying and being an understudy to Wesley. If someone else had come in for big money and hardly played they would probably have been unsettled anyway.
In addition we also have Kodjia who is still in his peak, he looked every bit a player that could play in the PL in his first season with us and then he got injured. He hasn't returned to his best yet but he was played out of position for the most part last season and it takes some players a while to come back fully, look at Fabian Delph.
It is possible that they could both look out of place at this level but they won't begin the season as starters anyway, the window opens again in January so it's not the end of the world. The point is that no one can know for sure as neither have had the chance to try till now.

Agree with your first paragraph, but I don't see Kodjia as a Premier League player.
I think Smith sees our attacking line-up being a combination of Wes as link-man and - at times - playing without a recognised striker; using our midfielders and wingers in more forward roles.

I dont know for certain that Kodja or Davis wont be any good in the premier league, its an opinion. Interesting that Kodja has never played in the top division, until his first appearance. Just as you dont know for certainty that they will be good enough, again your opinion, this is what these forums are for. What I do know is that I hope you are right, and I am badly wrong

[Smirker]

I trust the management. We will be OK. I have a feeling Trezeguet can be played as a CF also BTW. If we need to do it.

[Baldy]

Will be a nightmare for opposition defences if we play without an orthodox striker. Their centre half's wont know whether to 'stick or twist'. Then they get hit by the 'charge of the light brigade'. I love it, I just love it. 

[eamonn]

Any chance we can get any dosh for the outgoing players rather than giving them away?! Can BB have been on such big wages that we couldn't sell or even loan him somewhere?

[KRS]

Unfortunately that’s the problem with buying crap players on high wages.

[mr underhill]

Yep - but we might be able to get a few bob for one of our 30 or so goalkeepers before the European window closes.

[villadelph]

Did anyone mention Scott Carson to City on loan for a year? 

Is there some English player requirement they need to satisfy?