Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[sickbeggar]

Probably desperation. I'm not sure if we're going to spend 40+m on a player this window so Hughes is a cheaper option.

[ozzjim]

If true, and it is only, speculation so this is based purely on the hypothesis, then agreed, it would be a desperate move. He's a good age and does have decent defensive stats but it would be a mightily underwhelming signing. Unless there is a want for 2 players and the bulk of the spend will be on a more 10 style player.

[sickbeggar]

Well its just speculation on my part that we're not going to spend another 60+m on two players really. He's out of contract next summer, they've started well without him so you can see them wanting about 20m for him. If we were bidding 25m for JWP as was claimed then that sort of hints there's limited funds for me. I don't really think JWP is the answer, but even I know 25m is a ridiculously low ball figure on an England international on a long contract, especially from a club who've just pocketed 100m. It's a nice idea that we're going to spend every penny we get in on players, but the reality is we've invested millions staying in the league last summer and the summer before so maybe they want a summer where we don't go seriously into the red on transfers.

[KRS]

Why are there murmurings about Will Hughes on twatter. He's really not the answer.

Perhaps everything you read in the papers and Twatter is not true and should always be taken with a pinch of salt/ignored?

[Big Ming]

Just to pose the question....let's say we spend 40m on Ward Prowse. Is that really all we need to make top ? I would say it's very very unlikely and that's the question we have to ask if we're signing players for 40m +, can they get us in top 6 in near future otherwise a couple of short term moves make more sense while likes of Bailey and Bunedia settle in.

No. We need to spend double that so we get JWP and a quality DM. Then we might credibly start to look at a top 6-placing.
That would still only have us at a 70m transfer surplus which, frankly, is less than I had expected/hoped for this summer.

JWP would be in the category of 'nice to have' but what we actually need is a rock of a DCM who can win,pass,carry and distribute the ball.
I would go with Anguissa simply because he has already done it in the PL.

[mr underhill]

Will Hughes is actually a decent footballer - unlike the not-so-marvellous Marvellous

[chrisw1]

Will Hughes is nowhere near as bad as people are making out.  I think he would improve our 1st XI.  He's not a dream signing and top 4 clubs won't be kicking down Watfords door to get him, but he's someone who would fit well in our stystem, defensively solid and with a good range of passing and some flair when needed.

I'm far from forming a Will Hughes fan club, but if he does arrive I think a few peole will be pleasantly surprised once he's settled in.

[Risso]

I thought Hughes was going to Palace?

The only place I've seen him mentioned is that idiot Villa Whispers, who is really, really poor at making stuff up.

Anyway, I'm sure Hughes is a perfectly decent player, but he's not the DM we need and if Smith is going to persevere with 4-2-3-1 he's just another player who isn't really suited to that, so what would be the point?

[Big Ming]

Somehow we seem to have ended up with another season of major changes which is always causes difficulty with integrating new faces. The Grealish thing didn't help but concerned that by the time we get it sorted we might be substantially off the pace again.

Looking forward to future seasons when we just have to tweak one or two positions.

[cdbearsfan]

We need a psycho who can play. Will Hughes does not fit the bill. I'd rather have Will Hughes for about ten million than Harry Winks for about five times that. But only in the same way that I'd rather be slapped in the face that kicked in the bollocks.

[mr underhill]

very harsh, even though Will looks like both has happened.

[dave shelley]

Will Hughes is actually a decent footballer - unlike the not-so-marvellous Marvellous

Will Hughes is poor.  Opinions innit?

[Brazilian Villain]

Perhaps everything you read in the papers and Twatter is not true and should always be taken with a pinch of salt/ignored?

I hope so. Papers reporting today that Arsenal will go for Conte if when Arteta is sacked and that Chelski plan to sign St. Jude instead of Declan Rice this window both of which would be unwelcome developments.

[Ger Regan]

I thought Hughes was going to Palace?

The only place I've seen him mentioned is that idiot Villa Whispers, who is really, really poor at making stuff up.

Anyway, I'm sure Hughes is a perfectly decent player, but he's not the DM we need and if Smith is going to persevere with 4-2-3-1 he's just another player who isn't really suited to that, so what would be the point?

Just checked there, and is that not a "parody" account of the other whispers. Very meta.

[ozzjim]

Why are there murmurings about Will Hughes on twatter. He's really not the answer.

Perhaps everything you read in the papers and Twatter is not true and should always be taken with a pinch of salt/ignored?

Or maybe this is a discussion forum, in a thread where utter rubbish is discussed?? I really don't get posts like this, when I have prefaced it with the fact that it is twitter rubbish and clearly posted for conversation, not as fact.

There was the video of Ben Foster asking Hughes not to go to Villa a few weeks ago too, so maybe there is something in it.