Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[tomd2103]

I wonder if Dean Smith has an agreement with the owners and the CEO that we push the kids forward this season.  We are good enough to stay up with the squad we have, even if that means we fall slightly backwards and end up 17th, it will do the kids good for the experience and will make them stronger for it?  I hope I am talking complete bollocks and the owners want us to finish higher, even with the kids involved!  If Conor and Freddie are going, we have a severely depleted squad for the Chelsea game. Unless the government take Argentina off the red list all of a sudden.

With all due respect, that does sound like total bollocks!

The bit about promoting the kids may have some credence though.  There does seem to have been a bit of a shift to including more of the young players in the team and the squad recently.  We know promoting youth has been a focus in the past couple of years and we have spent a considerable amount of money snapping up academy players from far and wide. 

[VILLA MOLE]

I wonder if Dean Smith has an agreement with the owners and the CEO that we push the kids forward this season.  We are good enough to stay up with the squad we have, even if that means we fall slightly backwards and end up 17th, it will do the kids good for the experience and will make them stronger for it?  I hope I am talking complete bollocks and the owners want us to finish higher, even with the kids involved!  If Conor and Freddie are going, we have a severely depleted squad for the Chelsea game. Unless the government take Argentina off the red list all of a sudden.

With all due respect, that does sound like total bollocks!

The bit about promoting the kids may have some credence though.  There does seem to have been a bit of a shift to including more of the young players in the team and the squad recently.  We know promoting youth has been a focus in the past couple of years and we have spent a considerable amount of money snapping up academy players from far and wide. 

yep I hope we are good enough to embrace them

[Clark W Griswold]

We’re not signing anyone, are we…

A week ago after some of the comments from the club I’d have said not a fucking chance but seeing as since then Wesley has gone out, looks like Hourahane is and maybe even Guilbert, and with us also having an injury list as long as your arm i actually think we will tomorrow. Maybe even a couple, possibly one on loan.
It would be criminal not to really. Hourahane is the key to a new midfielder though I think.

[Mister E]

If we don’t bring anybody else in it’s been an uninspiring / borderline shit transfer window:
1. Lose a world class player and our captain
2. Net spend at a minus to get one solid premier league performer, an elderly but still versatile player and a couple of unproven / potentially good players in
3.  Failure to address an obvious flaw in our first team

At very best it’s consolidation, which is not what we’re being sold. 

100%

Bailey was playing at a high level in the bundesliga for last couple of years, hardly completely unproven. The stats say Ings is in the top 3 or 4 premier league strikers over last couple of years and buendia looks good to me so far and has improved with each game. Do we need more to challenge for Europe, maybe the well discussed DM, but I think it’s a bit early for the doom and gloom.

Agree with you, Rambo / Bruno (whatever your name is!). I'm not looking at net spend, I'm looking at the quality of the players we've brought in - it's good.
Now, bring in a CMF and we're good to go.

[Dante Lavelli]

Are there any known DMCs available for transfer tomorrow?

[ChicagoLion]

I wonder if Dean Smith has an agreement with the owners and the CEO that we push the kids forward this season.  We are good enough to stay up with the squad we have, even if that means we fall slightly backwards and end up 17th, it will do the kids good for the experience and will make them stronger for it?  I hope I am talking complete bollocks and the owners want us to finish higher, even with the kids involved!  If Conor and Freddie are going, we have a severely depleted squad for the Chelsea game. Unless the government take Argentina off the red list all of a sudden.

With all due respect, that does sound like total bollocks!

The bit about promoting the kids may have some credence though.  There does seem to have been a bit of a shift to including more of the young players in the team and the squad recently.  We know promoting youth has been a focus in the past couple of years and we have spent a considerable amount of money snapping up academy players from far and wide.

maybe, but it still looks like consolidation rather than driving towards Top 6.

[Demitri_C]

We need a cm bad come on lange get one in

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

We’re not signing anyone, are we…

...Hourahane is the key to a new midfielder though I think.

Let's hope so because if we have to rely on a 36 year old
pre-retiree to fill one of our midfield positions then I'd hate to think what kind of state we're in.

[Damo70]

I hope I am wrong but I have a really bad sense of foreboding that I just can't shake off about this season.

[Tuscans]

Smith playing Ings just behind Watkins leaves you 2 places in centre mid. And with 6 on the books I cant see us going in for another unless say Marvellous was sold and Chuk or Ramsey were sent out on loan which wont happen this summer.

[PaulWinch again]

We must be doing something to bolster the squad given Conor has gone.

[ozzjim]

Local press saying no one else in. I said a few weeks ago it's going to be a bumpy ride. In 5 games time, there is going to be some interesting threads on here.

[London Villan]

No quality reserve keeper, gaping hole in midfield, no right back cover, lots of injuries already, on top of a messy pre-season. Hold tight everyone.

[Sexual Ealing]

I hope I am wrong but I have a really bad sense of foreboding that I just can't shake off about this season.

Stick some cash on relegation to shore us up, Damo!

[VILLA MOLE]

i have a feeling he will end up playing Ollie wide 3 to compensate 3 in midfield