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Offline brontebilly

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1500 on: August 05, 2020, 07:05:45 PM »
Wasn’t the brief for a proven Premier League striker? Is Ollie Watkins really going to come to play as a 2nd or 3rd fiddle centre forward?

Quick, direct and can play across the front three. Ticks a lot of boxes for us. If Tammy isn't gettable, Watkins would be a decent alternative. Not sure if Brentford could be mugged off to take one or more of our deadwood as part of the deal (Jota, Hogan, Lansbury come to mind).

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1501 on: August 05, 2020, 07:09:57 PM »
Thanks guys. I couldn’t remember their names but I remembered they were fucking good players. Shame about all the other mugs they had to play with.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1502 on: August 05, 2020, 07:13:08 PM »
I know nobody has actually moved yet but all the talk about fees being reduced because of COVID seem wide of the mark.

Norwich looking for 20m for each of their young defenders is pretty eye watering.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1503 on: August 05, 2020, 07:17:05 PM »
£20m is the new £5m.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1504 on: August 05, 2020, 07:18:28 PM »
I know nobody has actually moved yet but all the talk about fees being reduced because of COVID seem wide of the mark.

Norwich looking for 20m for each of their young defenders is pretty eye watering.

Brighton will apparently want £35m from Leeds if they want to take 22yo Ben White permanently, but only if Dunk doesn't leave.

Offline SheffieldVillain

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1505 on: August 05, 2020, 07:21:14 PM »
I know nobody has actually moved yet but all the talk about fees being reduced because of COVID seem wide of the mark.

Norwich looking for 20m for each of their young defenders is pretty eye watering.

Not so sure. If we were to sell Konsa, I'd be disappointed with less than £20m and he has a similar background - one season in the Prem after impressing in the Championship.

Is it Aarons and Lewis they're quoting that for? Aarons has impressed me the few times I've seen him.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1506 on: August 05, 2020, 07:31:40 PM »
Get Abraham and Watkins and have Wesley available too, and the job is done upfront.  Trez, AEG also available on the bench. Offload Samatta.
Bring in a couple of MF (Bunedia and EZE for me) and a LB - job done.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1507 on: August 05, 2020, 07:39:20 PM »
I know nobody has actually moved yet but all the talk about fees being reduced because of COVID seem wide of the mark.

Norwich looking for 20m for each of their young defenders is pretty eye watering.

Brighton will apparently want £35m from Leeds if they want to take 22yo Ben White permanently, but only if Dunk doesn't leave.
Mind you , that Ben White looks a proper player

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1508 on: August 05, 2020, 07:45:03 PM »
Get Abraham and Watkins and have Wesley available too, and the job is done upfront.  Trez, AEG also available on the bench. Offload Samatta.
Bring in a couple of MF (Bunedia and EZE for me) and a LB - job done.

I'd swap one of your midfield choices for a big unit of a defensive midfielder but other than that, that would be a great transfer window.

Offline Dante Lavelli

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1509 on: August 05, 2020, 09:05:35 PM »
Watkins at £18m seems a no brainier.  He and Wes can duel it out for the central striker role.
That leaves £40m for a pacy right winger and another £40 for an athletic CM.

Watkins is insurance policy but the two £40m players should significantly improve the first XI.

Loans can fill the other areas where we need depth and options.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1510 on: August 05, 2020, 09:13:32 PM »
Apparently according to SSN Brentford want £25M for Watkins and same for Benrahma.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1511 on: August 05, 2020, 09:19:22 PM »
Get Abraham and Watkins and have Wesley available too, and the job is done upfront.  Trez, AEG also available on the bench. Offload Samatta.
Bring in a couple of MF (Bunedia and EZE for me) and a LB - job done.

I'd swap one of your midfield choices for a big unit of a defensive midfielder but other than that, that would be a great transfer window.

By all accounts it was a Pitarch move* so unlikely to be resurrected, but I'd chuck a two year deal at N'Zonzi.

*then again, it looks like three different regimes tried to sign Kalinic, so God knows.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1512 on: August 05, 2020, 09:33:57 PM »
Apparently according to SSN Brentford want £25M for Watkins and same for Benrahma.

awesome a bidding war after we activate the alleged release clause of £18M

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1513 on: August 05, 2020, 09:41:53 PM »
Now, allegedly, there is no release clause for Watkins.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1514 on: August 05, 2020, 09:57:20 PM »
Now, allegedly, there is no release clause for Watkins.

So we offer £18,000,001?

 


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