Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[aev]

The two main CM never materialised. One was JWP and we wouldn’t pay what they were asking. No idea on other. It’s beyond odd how we’re gone for an all or nothing type approach. Isn’t this what scouting is for so you have options 1/2/3/4 all better than what you have already and you execute one of them?

I thought that was the point in having such a big investment in a scouting network.

Very odd. And the players we have signed didn’t really smack as left field / unheard of signings.

The reckoning will be (I guess) at the end of the season, but teams like Brighton and Brentford do seem to have pulled a few rabbits out of the hat.

[john2710]

Kamara - never seen or heard of him.
McKennie - never seen or heard of him. Was apparently too good for us but now being offered to Burnley.
Choudhury - seen him & he's shit.

Some people writing the season off already.

How I long for the days where DrX was giving us cryptic clues & we were buying up the championship.

[Dave]

But what if option 3 who is actually available isn’t as good or not significantly better than what we have?

Then six months ago option three should have been booted off the options list and another dozen options looked at instead?

[VILLA MOLE]

Kamara - never seen or heard of him.
McKennie - never seen or heard of him. Was apparently too good for us but now being offered to Burnley.
Choudhury - seen him & he's shit.

Some people writing the season off already.

How I long for the days where DrX was giving us cryptic clues & we were buying up the championship.


shit shoes

[aev]

But what if option 3 who is actually available isn’t as good or not significantly better than what we have?

Then six months ago option three should have been booted off the options list and another dozen options looked at instead?

The idea that there aren’t loads of players out there that would improve us isn’t one that I would agree with.

[john e]

Talking about players that some were keen to sign in the past
Does that Maupay still get in the team at Brighton

[ozzjim]

Yeah scored a couple this season.

[Scovilla]

Kamara is an excellent midfielder and for 15 mil euros a real bargain.  Gutted we did not go for him.

[ozzjim]

Kamara is an excellent midfielder and for 15 mil euros a real bargain.  Gutted we did not go for him.

It's a strange one for sure. Especially when Sanson cost less from there

[Sexual Ealing]

Were all gagging for midfielders but Dean Smith doesn’t exact have the best record when signing centre midfielders. Luiz is decent, but Barkley, Drinkwater, Nakamba….. Sanson has played about 4 minutes.

Maybe we’re better off not signing someone. 😂

That post cheered me up lol. He's got a shit record hasn't he!

*glances at the exasperated Sexual Ealing, weeping in the corner*

I've given up banging that drum. I have accepted that DS scouts and signs the players, negotiates their wages and fees, clips the kids around the ear, meets agents in motorway service stations and has spies in every boozer to let him know how many pints of Watneys the players are sinking on Tuesday afternoons. He's omnipotent.

[Dave]

Talking about players that some were keen to sign in the past
Does that Maupay still get in the team at Brighton

Given it was the summer we spent north of £20m on Wesley, suggesting that spending that same money on Maupay instead would have been a massive error is somewhat wide of the mark in my opinion.

[Ads]

Talking about players that some were keen to sign in the past
Does that Maupay still get in the team at Brighton

Given it was the summer we spent north of £20m on Wesley, suggesting that spending that same money on Maupay instead would have been a massive error is somewhat wide of the mark in my opinion.

Disagree. We'd have a striker on the books on 50k a week, nowhere near the side as Ings and Watkins are both miles and miles better options.

He'd have been a lot harder to move on this window than Wesley.

[john e]

Talking about players that some were keen to sign in the past
Does that Maupay still get in the team at Brighton

Given it was the summer we spent north of £20m on Wesley, suggesting that spending that same money on Maupay instead would have been a massive error is somewhat wide of the mark in my opinion.

Quite
We would have probably been better off with him as it all turned out

[Monty]

Kamara - never seen or heard of him.
McKennie - never seen or heard of him. Was apparently too good for us but now being offered to Burnley.
Choudhury - seen him & he's shit.

Some people writing the season off already.

How I long for the days where DrX was giving us cryptic clues & we were buying up the championship.

Yeah, I mean, holy shit do I not miss that

[Beard82]

Interesting seeing how mixed the reaction is to our transfer business.  Some people thinking we have "Won" the window, others thinking Randy is back in charge. 

Other clubs supportors / media def in the first camp.

So this I think is the crux of the issue:  the players we have signed are undoubtably very good players, and are good signings.

But - we were lost the best player in a generation, and none of our competiors did, and he was worth more than 100m to us.
We have chosen not to address midfield, which many people think is our weakness

Both sides could well be proven to be right, but our past makes the "glass half empty" people worry. I am worried

I spoke to my brother yesterday, who is very much "glass half full" kind of person and he is not worried.

Time will tell - maybe just wish I was more a "glass half full" kind of a guy