Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[cdbearsfan]

I was in a strop earlier but fuck it. Looking forward to the season again now.

Maybe Lou could replace Guess the Crowd with Guess the Lineup as it may be more difficult? 😄

[SteveN]

Still think were missing a bastard in midfield.

A bastard that can also play.

And me. What DM is actually realistic though? No daft Phillips-like suggestions. I'm not up to date with European teams. I don't think Smith is looking for one though.

Not that I think Phillips is worth £100m... But what is stopping us stomping over clubs for their best players like we have?  Rice?  We need to do the same to other clubs.

Milenkovic Savic from Lazio is the one for me. 6ft + and bit like Soucek at West Ham but technically better. Can play any of the three positions in midfield and Lazio didn't make CL so you never know.

Would offer 50m just to see what happens. He has been linked to many clubs in last few years but hasn't moved.

Sander Berge would fit the bill.

[Monty]

Martinez

Targett
Mings
Konsa
Cash

JWP (I hope)
McGinn

Buendia

Bailey
Ings
Watkins

With Traore and El Ghazi on the bench, with Sanson and Luiz, with Hause and Tuanezebe, with Ash and a host of supremely talented kids in the squad.

That's a top 6 side/squad.

I think it's one top creative midfielder short of top six.

[Dave]

Still think were missing a bastard in midfield.

A bastard that can also play.

And me. What DM is actually realistic though? No daft Phillips-like suggestions. I'm not up to date with European teams. I don't think Smith is looking for one though.

Not that I think Phillips is worth £100m... But what is stopping us stomping over clubs for their best players like we have?  Rice?  We need to do the same to other clubs.

Milenkovic Savic from Lazio is the one for me. 6ft + and bit like Soucek at West Ham but technically better. Can play any of the three positions in midfield and Lazio didn't make CL so you never know.

Would offer 50m just to see what happens. He has been linked to many clubs in last few years but hasn't moved.

Sander Berge would fit the bill.

He's right - Milinković-Savić couldn't be a more perfect final piece of this jigsaw if you were designing a player from scratch.

Berge is fine. But he's about a quarter of the player Milinković-Savić is.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

I’m really keen to know who will be coming into midfield we really need someone to come in and boss things.

[Des Little]

Is it widely unreasonable to hope for Cantwell and Ward-Prowse?

[cdbearsfan]

Is it widely unreasonable to hope for Cantwell and Ward-Prowse?

Seems perfectly fair to me.

[The Man With A Stick]

Just been downstairs having dinner, have we signed anyone else since half seven?

[ASHTONVILLA]

Is it widely unreasonable to hope for Cantwell and Ward-Prowse?

Vinnie reckoned a striker, two midfielders, back up GK and Axel. So yeah why not.

Cantwell is a good player, would prefer Madison but would not be unhappy with Cantwell at all. JWP would be a very good signing too.

Would also like the young Argie we keep getting linked with (Alvarez), but that's probably this years Rashica.

[Monty]

Coming round to Cantwell but only if we also sign Ward Prowse, so we can say we've signed the two best players from two different PL clubs. Not very nice, but it's an angle.

[paul_e]

Still think were missing a bastard in midfield.

A bastard that can also play.

And me. What DM is actually realistic though? No daft Phillips-like suggestions. I'm not up to date with European teams. I don't think Smith is looking for one though.

Not that I think Phillips is worth £100m... But what is stopping us stomping over clubs for their best players like we have?  Rice?  We need to do the same to other clubs.

Milenkovic Savic from Lazio is the one for me. 6ft + and bit like Soucek at West Ham but technically better. Can play any of the three positions in midfield and Lazio didn't make CL so you never know.

Would offer 50m just to see what happens. He has been linked to many clubs in last few years but hasn't moved.

Sander Berge would fit the bill.

He's right - Milinković-Savić couldn't be a more perfect final piece of this jigsaw if you were designing a player from scratch.

Berge is fine. But he's about a quarter of the player Milinković-Savić is.

I thought milinkovic-savic played further forward, he's always been more box-to-box when I've seen him.

[Monty]

SMS' position at Lazio is 'be, on the pitch, wherever you want'.

[KRS]

Do we really need to sign another defensive midfielder with Luiz and Nakamba? I'd prefer SJM was pushed further forward but he can obviously put a shift in that role too if required. I don't rate Nakamba tbf, and Luiz can be dodgy at times, so may be someone to make that position their own as a midfield enforcer wouldn't be such a bad shout actually.

[paul_e]

SMS' position at Lazio is 'be, on the pitch, wherever you want'.

Yeah, exactly, great player but not the disciplined option to protect the defence and let the 5 in front of him, and the full backs, bomb on.

Do we really need to sign another defensive midfielder with Luiz and Nakamba? I'd prefer SJM was pushed further forward but he can obviously put un a shift in that role too if required.

Nakamba is ok at breaking up play but doesn't read the game as well as I'd like and he's very limited at transitioning play, which is a huge part of being a good DM. He's a useful option but he'd be best served as a the destroyer when we need an extra defensive option in there.

Luiz is a funny one, I think he's nearly a good DM, reads play well, has a good range of passing and gets around the pitch well but he's just too naïve for his own good. He's been tricked into giving away soft free kicks far too many times. For now I think he'd be better playing a little further forward and competing with McGinn and Sanson.

A top drawer Defensive Midfielder in there would really help us in getting all the quality attacking players into the mix without giving up the battle in midfield.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Coming round to Cantwell but only if we also sign Ward Prowse, so we can say we've signed the two best players from two different PL clubs. Not very nice, but it's an angle.

Actually we already signed the two best players from both of them, moving on to the next best now!