Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[LeeB]

Yeah I hope he's off too, free up the space for Lansbury

[Monty]

lets hope that it is true that Conor is on his way - apart from taking the corners and the odd free kick I do struggle to see what he does during the game - in fact I forget that he is on the pitch - as the guy who sits by me (pre-covid) calls him the "hider".

I get this, but the fact is that we stayed up by 'the odd set piece'.

[ChicagoLion]

Yeah I hope he's off too, free up the space for Lansbury

Or Drinky maybe

[chrisw1]

lets hope that it is true that Conor is on his way - apart from taking the corners and the odd free kick I do struggle to see what he does during the game - in fact I forget that he is on the pitch - as the guy who sits by me (pre-covid) calls him the "hider".

Why on earth would you hope one of our most productive goal threats is on his way?  Is it because our squad is littered with people who create and score goals and we've got loads of game changers on the bench?

I get that we may want to bring in more quality, but moving Conor on should be right down the bottom of our priorities.

[WRVilla]

I’d like Conor to stay. He’s a threat from set pieces and let’s face it for the last few years we’ve been crap in dead ball situations so we need him.

I shudder when I think of Westwood’s ‘floated’ corners and long range ‘shots’ from the likes of Tonev etc. Yep, Conor has his faults but he is class compared to some of the dross we’ve seen over the last few years.

[Ian.]

No way should we sell Conor, that’s absolutely bonkers if we do.

[Des Little]

I can think of a number of players we should be shifting before we let Hourihane go. 

[Clampy]

How long before someone at the Mail turns a few random twitter rumours about Hourihane into a click bait story?

edit. They already have.

[DB]

Have you seen their latest 'story' on Twitter? Just says 'medical booked' for a player I am not sure we were even linked with going to Juve. Clickbait.
 

[paul_e]

The strong views on here on Davis (I actually think he made a decent impact from the bench in quite a few games), I would hold for Matt Targett. If he is our starting left back this season I'll be livid. A lot of focus on the goals for stat from last season but less focus on goals against which was a disgrace. I can already see Sheff United kicking every single ball over to our left back position if he is playing.

and yet he was part of the defence that did very well after the lockdown. Some people on here have a bad habit of blaming the fullbacks for defensive problems that are more about tactics than individual errors. If the example you give were to happen then our coaches should be highlighting it as a threat and working with Targett to address it, rather than getting him to tuck inside and let teams have space behind him.

[maidstonevillain]

Fee for Watkins just gone up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53929973

[Tebepaul]

Stalemate in the Milot Rashica transfer situation: the player would still like to move to RB Leipzig to play international football, but Red Bull's unlovable marketing trinket refuses to bid more than €15m + €3m in bonuses. Werder Bremen are looking for a fee of ca. €25m and are now claiming that they don't need to sell Rashica this year anyway, which no-one quite believes due to their financial worries.

An unnamed London club has apparently also expressed an interest in Rashica, which may meet his need for moving to a 'cool city'. The player has doubts about Leipzig and Birmingham (sacrilege!) in that regard.

[john e]

Stalemate in the Milot Rashica transfer situation: the player would still like to move to RB Leipzig to play international football, but Red Bull's unlovable marketing trinket refuses to bid more than €15m + €3m in bonuses. Werder Bremen are looking for a fee of ca. €25m and are now claiming that they don't need to sell Rashica this year anyway, which no-one quite believes due to their financial worries.

An unnamed London club has apparently also expressed an interest in Rashica, which may meet his need for moving to a 'cool city'. The player has doubts about Leipzig and Birmingham (sacrilege!) in that regard.

the more info you give us about this fella the more i feel not arsed about him

[Monty]

Poor Red Bull, if they spent big they'd be accused of artificially destabilising the financial balance of the Bundesliga (otherwise known as 'Bayern's Buffet'); spend sustainably, and everyone calls them cheap and piss-takers. They can't win.

[Clampy]

Stalemate in the Milot Rashica transfer situation: the player would still like to move to RB Leipzig to play international football, but Red Bull's unlovable marketing trinket refuses to bid more than €15m + €3m in bonuses. Werder Bremen are looking for a fee of ca. €25m and are now claiming that they don't need to sell Rashica this year anyway, which no-one quite believes due to their financial worries.

An unnamed London club has apparently also expressed an interest in Rashica, which may meet his need for moving to a 'cool city'. The player has doubts about Leipzig and Birmingham (sacrilege!) in that regard.

I don't quite get that. He's supposedly still keen to move to Leipzig but has doubts about living in Leipzig?

I'm with John on this one. It's easy to lose interest in it until anything happens.