Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Scott Nielsen]

Makes it odd we were sort of linked to Damsgaard today.

What does 'sort of linked' mean, mate? Most of the links, at the best of times, I believe to be entirely made up.

[Demitri_C]

Unless they want to suprise us i cant see anyone coming in. I think this is going to be absolutely fatal mistake.

I think smith is going to be reliant on chuk and ramsey to be more involved in the first team. As good as chuk looks he is 17. Ramsey has impressed this year so im hoping he can kick on now as he was generally average most of last year.

I just think if luiz picks up a injury we are stuffed.

[Mister E]

The biggest concern regarding playing options is the amount of international football planned for the next 15 months: with more internationals and a currently-small squad, the international absences will hurt us.
This is perhaps where Smith's lack of big-club experience will bite us.
This is the strongest argument for bringing in a couple more players now.
Koopmeiners and Sanches are two that I think we've missed a trick on.

[sickbeggar]

Well we're told he's happy with his squad. I don't believe that for a second, so there's either something happening today or the club have put the mockers on any more spending because even  a stopgap is better than nothing. If he is actually happy, then unfortunately I think he may have sacked himself. A week is a long time in politics but a month is even longer in football and if we struggle as predicted in the next 4 games, then come October we better be beating the teams we're expected to beat.

[Gareth]

If we don’t bring anyone in today in midfield will it make me nervous betw now and January? absolutely, will it be a disaster, doom & gloom scenario? No way.

Club have invested a lot in Sanson, we need him on the field so we can judge if he is good enough, you don’t spend 14m on a player who was valued much higher before the French tv crisis crashed the market over there and not see him as a likely starter - he needs to be fit and play.

If there is an opportunity to bring in a player who can consistently do the good things Nakamba does in one off games but is also capable of actually passing the odd ball forwards then would hope to get it done- if that player isn’t available or doesn’t want to come to us then we go with what we have.

[Big Ming]

Generally happy with our dealings with plans obviously altered when Alice Band Ltd went off to Citeh.

I do think it would be a mistake to go into the season with Nakamba as our only true DCM. He's not good enough for where we aspire to be.

[Rigadon]

A bigger problem with Nakamba is that he isn’t good enough for where we are right now, let alone where we are supposedly trying to get to. 

[richtheholtender]

A bigger problem with Nakamba is that he isn’t good enough for where we are right now, let alone where we are supposedly trying to get to. 

He is. He is actually perfect, similar to El Ghazi I'm that he is good enough to compete but not great to create a lot of interest elsewhere which makes them the perfect back up player. We just can't have him starting too many.

[Demitri_C]

If we don’t bring anyone in today in midfield will it make me nervous betw now and January? absolutely, will it be a disaster, doom & gloom scenario? No way.

Club have invested a lot in Sanson, we need him on the field so we can judge if he is good enough, you don’t spend 14m on a player who was valued much higher before the French tv crisis crashed the market over there and not see him as a likely starter - he needs to be fit and play.

If there is an opportunity to bring in a player who can consistently do the good things Nakamba does in one off games but is also capable of actually passing the odd ball forwards then would hope to get it done- if that player isn’t available or doesn’t want to come to us then we go with what we have.

But even with sanson he isnt the dm we are looking for. He is more of a creative attacking player.

We are so lightweight in the middle of the park its unbelievable. If smith cant see that he is more clueless than we thought

[Gareth]

If we don’t bring anyone in today in midfield will it make me nervous betw now and January? absolutely, will it be a disaster, doom & gloom scenario? No way.

Club have invested a lot in Sanson, we need him on the field so we can judge if he is good enough, you don’t spend 14m on a player who was valued much higher before the French tv crisis crashed the market over there and not see him as a likely starter - he needs to be fit and play.

If there is an opportunity to bring in a player who can consistently do the good things Nakamba does in one off games but is also capable of actually passing the odd ball forwards then would hope to get it done- if that player isn’t available or doesn’t want to come to us then we go with what we have.

But even with sanson he isnt the dm we are looking for. He is more of a creative attacking player.

We are so lightweight in the middle of the park its unbelievable. If smith cant see that he is more clueless than we thought

I don’t think he’s clueless at all so that’s a ‘you’ or ‘I’ not a ‘we’

We are light in there undoubtedly but it has to be right player incoming, someone who demands a shirt every week

[richtheholtender]

Looks like sanches is off to wolves on loan. Wouldn't have cist us a fee

[ozzjim]

I am not convinced he's all that great to be fair, although he will probably be incredible now.

[KRS]

If we don’t sign anyone today to strengthen the midfield then I think the biggest problem will have been the communication and expectation level the club set the fans this season. We all know the current squad isn’t good enough to realistic push the European places however the sound bites coming out of the club was that this was the aim for this season so we were led to believe further signings would be incoming after the initial three main signings so far. If the targets have changed since we sold Grealish then that message hasn’t been communicated to the fans in any way…other than the fact that they haven’t done any further business. When most of the best teams above us are strengthening their squads, the gap only becomes wider, and if DS is genuinely happy with this squad and believed it’s good enough to push for Europe then he’s completely deluded. If we don’t see any quality incomings today then we’ll know for certain that our actual targets don’t meet the ones they publicly communicated.

[mr underhill]

agreed - we haven't spent anything this summer which is worrying, especially so when we have so many injuries, plus people risking themselves on international duty.

[ROBBO]

I get to watch all matches over here and it looks to be a harder season, Arsenal for all their performances so far will not be relegation material, Wolves should have beaten United easily, only Newcastle, so far can as i see, are going to struggle.