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

[paul_e]

I think until Lansbury, Jota, Nyland and Kalinic - for starters - are gone, I would not want to talk about not having journeymen in our current squad.

I'd say only the first of the 4 deserves that, the other 3 are guilty of nothing more than not being good enough.

Although to be fair to Lansbury he appears to be a decent pro, and well liked, which given he arrived with stories of missing training and acting the twat at Forest is something.

True, I was thinking mostly about the fact that he's one of the top earners at the club (apparently) whereas I doubt the other 3 are on particularly big money.

[Risso]

Whenever I see Toney's name, I see it as Tonev, and a little part of me dies inside.

[VILLA MOLE]

As Brentford are so good at talent spotting let’s just take this guy from Peterborough 🤔😀

[Des Little]

Whenever I see Toney's name, I see it as Tonev, and a little part of me dies inside.

I automatically take cover

[kippaxvilla2]

Leicester want Matt Targett to replace Ben Chilwell.  If you believe The Daily Star.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Leicester want Matt Targett to replace Ben Chilwell.  If you believe The Daily Star.

Vardy plus £20m and they can have him. But seriously if we can get back what we paid and get him off the wage bill we should do it.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Whilst we are in no update land. Can someone explain if Engels is in training or has been mentioned lately ??

[ozzjim]

There were a lot of pics of him training in Wales.

[algy]

Leicester want Matt Targett to replace Ben Chilwell.  If you believe The Daily Star.

Vardy plus £20m and they can have him. But seriously if we can get back what we paid and get him off the wage bill we should do it.

Not sure that's a good idea, the only players moving at the moment are for silly money & we don't want to be stuck with Taylor as our only left back.

[PaulWinch again]

Leicester want Matt Targett to replace Ben Chilwell.  If you believe The Daily Star.

Vardy plus £20m and they can have him. But seriously if we can get back what we paid and get him off the wage bill we should do it.

If it were true they wanted him firstly I wouldn’t particularly want to sell, as I think he’s a useful player. Also if we were prepared to sell I’d bloody hope our staring position was better than, “give us what we paid for him”.

[Gareth]

Targett is another youd hope will have benefited from last season and will step up somewhat this year.....can’t for life of me think he is a player Rodgers would sign.  Taylor is the deciding point not Targett for me, if Dean & co think they can get another year out of Taylor & Hause being deputy for Targett I’m sure that’s what they will do.....personally I would like to see us sign a couple of full backs who can actually defend to give alternatives to Targett & Guilbert - I like Taylor & Elmo but they are both seen as back ups not competition

[ozzjim]

Targett has his faults, but not one we should be considering letting go.

Rumours Swift from Reading might be the first through the door. Very tidy squad player.

[PaulWinch again]

Genuinely never heard of him. What type of player is he? I would question the need for “squad players” as it feels like we have plenty of those. What we need to add is real quality.

Having said that I could be completely wrong and he might be exactly what we need!

[aj2k77]

I'm not going to lie, if our first transfer is a player from a lower half of the table Championship side then I'm very underwhelmed. Who is he supposedly displacing in the side? We don't need anymore players that will be alright filling in for 10-15 games. We need solid, walk straight in to the team improvements who displace current players to the bench.

We finished 17th, stayed up by 1 point and by and large were poor the entire season. Squad players from the Championship aren't good enough in my opinion.

[Risso]

I'm not going to lie, if our first transfer is a player from a lower half of the table Championship side then I'm very underwhelmed. Who is he supposedly displacing in the side? We don't need anymore players that will be alright filling in for 10-15 games. We need solid, walk straight in to the team improvements who displace current players to the bench.

We finished 17th, stayed up by 1 point and by and large were poor the entire season. Squad players from the Championship aren't good enough in my opinion.

I agree mostly.  We've been linked with Swift from Reading and Cash from Forest this morning.  They might be decent players, and it doesn't really matter what order you get players in I suppose, but if true, it's not much of a statement of intent.  I do wonder if playing for Smith is much of a draw.