Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Is this Alvarez bloke any good?

I can’t pretend to know anything about him.

Tim Vickery compared him to Gary Shaw...

He played today (Alvarez, not Vickery) for River Plate in their last 16 Copa Libertadores, first leg game. River were held at home 1-1 by Argentinos Juniors. Second leg is next Thursday, if River win I'd be surprised if they sell him as they're likely to play Boca in the quarter final with the 2nd leg around the 19th of August. The semi final is around the 21st of September, long after the window closes.

It may explain why it's gone very quiet or it could be just a bullshit rumour. If it is true we're interested, next Thursday could be decisive or failing that immediately after the 19th August.

I think part of the reason why he was being mentioned is because of a buy out clause so them not wanting to sell might not matter for much.

I think they need to sell, like so many clubs in South America not to mention Europe. One key stat from the River Plate game was 'Attendance: 0'.

EDIT: I keep having to remind myself he's third party owned. I'm not sure how that works between club and owner.

[Dante Lavelli]

It's a difficult summer targets wise. Our bench was painfully limited last season, but Chukwemeuka and Buendia coming through, Sanson getting fully fit and Wesley coming back add some bodies to the squad with potential quality. To improve the team now, we need to be buying better players than we have in their roles. Difficult across the back 5. A top quality holding midfielder would be a big step forward though. Beyond that another creative forward and a backup striker. Finding them will be tough, but get 2-3 right and we will be right up there next season. (Provided we keep Jack!)

If Trez hadn’t got injured I’d have jettisoned one of El Ghazi or Trez to create some room in the squad and also sell whilst their value is high.  Hopefully next season we will have Europe which will create natural headroom to invest in the squad again.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'd cash in today on El Ghazi whilst his stock is high. The problem is I can't see many European teams willing to cough up around £15m for him. Maybe one of the promoted teams but I doubt it. Newcastle maybe? I think he's very much a player that needs to be loved and he won't get much of that sitting on our bench.

[Mister E]

But seriously, I think he is Tammy’s brother! Really !

He is, Tammy is 23 and Timmy is 20. He has been on loan at Raith.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Abraham

Tommy’s probably the best of the three.

His Tummy is too big.

I prefer Temmy, their scottish cousin.

[TelfordVilla]

Swap El Ghazi for Pereira

[cdbearsfan]

I wouldn't wish that on El Goalzi.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Not sure El Ghazi would be thrilled at dropping down a division

[KevinGage]

El Ghazi already took a step down in his career after starting out at Ajax and Lille before switching to us in the Championship. Don't think he needs to do it again.

He's never gave it the Billy Big Bollocks attitude, bought into the idea of helping us turn things around and played a big part in getting us up.

All about opinions and that, but unless we are offered silly money, he's way down the list of players I'd be looking to move on.  Even if we get an upgrade for that position, nowt wrong with a bit of squad depth.

[TelfordVilla]

He just might want to play every week

[Villan82]

AEG is not a player I would be letting go, he is a man who scores and a man who lays on assists.

[AV82EC]

AEG is not a player I would be letting go, he is a man who scores and a man who lays on assists.

Errr, goals yes, assists no.

[SoccerHQ]

El Ghazi would be in 10-15m bracket. I mean his stats were better than Traore's weren't they who cost us 18m so always a bit amusing when a few fans elsewhere on loan want us to dangle him as 5m makeweight in deals (so yes 2-3m less than we signed him for despite 10 prem goals last season!)

One big surprise to me is we've not been linked to any CBs unless I've missed an obvious target. That feels like a signing out of the blue in August to me as we obivously need one. One injury and we're down to Mings/Konsa and Hause and then kids on the bench. Revan was on loan last season but it was at non league level before people get carried away so can't see him being in serious contention.

[TelfordVilla]

What about what he might want at this stage of his career

[rougegorge]

AEG is not a player I would be letting go, he is a man who scores and a man who lays on assists.

Errr, goals yes, assists no.

He's a confidence player, but 10 league goals from 17 starts and 11 sub appearances was a very good return and he does shoot on target more often than not. I wouldn't be letting him go either

[Steve67]

I'd probably consider letting AEG go if it was part of a player swap.  Just not consistent enough.