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

[Gareth]

Either Lange et al have a plan and have it all under control, or we are in for a bumpy few weeks. Signing a keeper and right back before the 2 wingers and striker that we are desperate to bring into the squad seems a bit odd.

Those targets may have become available so you get them, if this 28m price tag for Watkins is true then there is a lot of Levy-esque haggling to be done :-) & you wouldn’t necessarily want to be going for Watkins & Benrahma for monster fees when neither actually bring PL experience??

[The Edge]

Hause can go for me, along with quite a few others - they are just not good enough

The thought of Wilson and the Man Utd reserve goal keeper signing for us is so exciting LOL (i will have to have Sky Sports News on all day), if those are  the best players that our sporting director can entice to the club, then for me he is not very good at his job, and most on here could do the role.

Give him a chance. He's hardly had time to take his coat off yet.

[algy]

Either Lange et al have a plan and have it all under control, or we are in for a bumpy few weeks. Signing a keeper and right back before the 2 wingers and striker that we are desperate to bring into the squad seems a bit odd.

I think it's rrassuring that we've not jumped straight in to signing players. It'd have meant Lange had just straight away identified signings, and that would almost certainly been players who would be good for Copenhagen rather than us.

With the slower pace, there's at least a chance that some level of thought & consideration is going in to it, rather than the Bruce-style buy first, think later approach.

[ozzjim]

The nature of the beast if you join a club that is one of the 3 favoourites for relegation at the start of a transfer window. I love the fact (and I do it more than most) our players always improve so much when we aren't playing. 45 minutes into the Sheffield United game we will all remember what it is like.

[chrisw1]

If we're aiming to only bring in 4 or 5 players to avoid too much churn and we've already done a keeper and right back, then we really shouldn't be looking at replacing Hause in this window.

I think Wilson is a decent player and he'd certainly improve us, but I'd prefer Watkins who I feel has a higher ceiling.  I'd also still like Benrahma, but it looks like we've moved on from him.

[Chris_Jephcott]

If it is 5 players, Cash and Romero being the two that look most likely to be completed, that leaves 3 left.

Watkins, Wilson and Benrahma? I would actually love that.

I just hope that Watkins doesn’t end up as this window’s Juninho. I’m genuinely excited by him as a talent, not proven at Premier League level, but until last season, neither was Jack.

Back to another day of clicking and refreshing this thread.

[Monty]

If we're spending the best part of £50m on two strikers surely we're expecting to play them together at some point? The only way I can see us doing that is with either 3 at the back or a 4-3-1-2/4-4-2 diamond.

[ozzjim]

Or Watkins will play wide left coming in at home with Jack at 8.

[sid1964]

i thought that Lange was at a champions league club - that is a higher standard of football than we are playing in? - surely during his scouting of European teams he may have seen a few that he thinks can do a good job for us and improve our starting 11 (which we need to do)?

[WRVilla]

Cash confirmed

[TaxDodger]

Cash confirmed

How much and who are we going to spend it on? Wayhey.

[Dave P]

If it is 5 players, Cash and Romero being the two that look most likely to be completed, that leaves 3 left.

Watkins, Wilson and Benrahma? I would actually love that.

And me.  I also think the'll be a surprise stocking filler signing like Tuenzebe towards the end of the window.

[paul_e]

I'll be very unhappy if there isn't a centre mid in by the end of the window, For me that's the most important signing we need to make.

[ozzjim]

Winger surely? Luiz, McGinn, Hourihane, Nakamba are all capable in different ways. El Ghazi and everywhere apart from in front of goal, Trez, are utterly frustrating.

[Mister E]

I'll be very unhappy if there isn't a centre mid in by the end of the window, For me that's the most important signing we need to make.

Like Dacoure you mean? - ooops!