Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[DrGonzo]

I feel our owners may not have taken Jack's departure as personally as everybody else.  I'm sure they are disappointed but £100mil and 200k a week wages goes a long way in terms of development.  With Buendia and Bailey they are probably hoping they have already found a succesor, and still have room to expand.

[gpbarr]

there will be at least one more in by kick off - possibly two. we are progressing. keep the faith

[chrisw1]

I don’t see JWP as a defensive midfielder unless we are playing three 8s.  His game is about energy, buzzing around whereas we need a player with discipline and strong positional sense if we plan to play all our attacking players at the same time.

Exactly, I've been saying this for ages.  I really like him but don't feel he's the DM we're looking for.

[pauliewalnuts]

Doesn't JWP have the same agent as a certain scab bound player of ours? I'm sure I read that somewhere on H&V.
If he has our owners may not want to deal with that parasite again.
It's Maddison for me. That would be a huge statement signing. It doesn't matter about his coventry connections. We should all know by now loyalty plays no part in a footballer's mindset.

Maddison being from Coventry would actually help as it means he already thinks about us most of the time.

[Demitri_C]

Id love maddison but cant see us paying 60m

[chrisw1]

Id love maddison but cant see us paying 60m

Me too, I think he's a fantastic player.  But agree, Leiceter would want the lions share of the Grealish money and will be reluctant to sell to a likely direct rival.

I'm also thinking we're a bit light on players for our left.  Buendia, Bailey & Traore are better operating on the right, although I think we're pushing Buendia to 10.  If we bring in a 10 like Maddison then one of them has to play on the left.  Bailey can certainly do it but it's not his favoured role.

I'm still a fan of Cantwell who could naturally fit on the left, but I'm not sure I want us spending £35m+ on him.  I'd rather our recruitment team go and get someone better value from Europe.  Same of JWP really, I don't think we should pay the £50m + Southampton will want. And for both these clubs we've already taken one player I can't see them rolling over and letting us take a second.

[frank black]

I would say that a brilliant defensive midfielder is the absolute priority now, not another attacking player. We should pay £60 mil if that’s what it takes to improve overall

[cdbearsfan]

We could pay £60 million easy IMO. I don't know that he would want to join us unless (i) he has really fallen out with Rodgers and (ii) the Arse really don't look like being able/willing to provide the required funds to sign him.

[Chris Smith]

With Grealish gone and the number of free kicks we win dropping by 80% the arguments in favour of JWP reduce by a similar amount.

[PeterWithe]

With Grealish gone and the number of free kicks we win dropping by 80% the arguments in favour of JWP reduce by a similar amount.

I agree, and given that he's going to want a big wage increase and they will want a huge fee, it looks to me like pretty poor value at the figures quoted.

[TaxDodger]

James Ward-Prowse is almost done says Gary Poulton. Pretty sure a former Apprentice contestant is as reliable a source as the majority of 'ITKs' on Twitter.

[Ads]

JWP and Maddison would be some football manager stuff.

We'd be able to field an England side near enough and be able to beat the current 7-2-1 set up Horseface deploys.

Check out JWP stats, he is exceptional and a huge upgrade on McGinn. I say that as a man who loves McGinn and has just deployed his 6 year old to football camp for the day, on Merseyside in a McGinn shirt.

[Steve67]

With Grealish gone and the number of free kicks we win dropping by 80% the arguments in favour of JWP reduce by a similar amount.

I agree, and given that he's going to want a big wage increase and they will want a huge fee, it looks to me like pretty poor value at the figures quoted.

I agree.  If we look at our buying criteria, we would be unlikely to make our money back on JWP and there has to be a walk away point. It's a really good point about the reduction of free kicks. I would like a more forceful player than JWP in terms of physicality for that role and wonder if there is better abroad for the kind of money we'd be paying.  As for Maddison, billy big bollocks, not sure he's a Dean Smith sort of player and I think that is another reason we are ok with Grealish going.

[andyh]

Why am I warming to the idea of the ‘poor mans rat’ Todd Cantwell coming in ?

[danno]

Ward-Prowse would be a great signing. I think sometimes overpaying slightly is offset by weakening a rival team.