The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread

[Risso]

Same thing applies in my opinion.

[chrisw1]

Phillips would be a massive addition to our midfield. For me as much as I like Doug, Phillips is better. However it would add a man bun to the squad. Not sure how I feel about that.

Phillips is not that much better than luiz in my opinion. I think luiz has the potential to be better.

Phillips is a good player bit the money leeds woild ask no thanks. They would want 60m+

Philips is a superb player, absolutely fucking brilliant in the quarter back role he plays for Leeds.  Not many players can carry that off.

Unfortunately if he leaves them it won't be to us.

I remember when a few people on here were convinced Declan Rice wasn't very good. 

[OCD]

We missed our chance to get Phillips when we were in for him when we got promoted but couldn't afford the £30m Leeds were asking. Paid the cost there of having to perform major surgery on the squad. Need to find the next ones now.

[paul_e]

Phillips would be a massive addition to our midfield. For me as much as I like Doug, Phillips is better. However it would add a man bun to the squad. Not sure how I feel about that.

Phillips is not that much better than luiz in my opinion. I think luiz has the potential to be better.

Phillips is a good player bit the money leeds woild ask no thanks. They would want 60m+

Philips is a superb player, absolutely fucking brilliant in the quarter back role he plays for Leeds.  Not many players can carry that off.

Unfortunately if he leaves them it won't be to us.

I remember when a few people on here were convinced Declan Rice wasn't very good. 

I don't quite agree, Phillips is a good player but he's another of the crop that almost forces you to play a 3 because you need a defensive destroyer next to him to avoid him being exposed. This season Leeds haven't had that balance and it's meant they've been very easy to play through in midfield (which is why they're 16th with the 3rd worst defence in the league).

[eamonn]

I think Rice would make more of a difference to us than Jack.

[sickbeggar]

Phillips is a good player, but he's not coming here and he's bad value anyway.

Boubacar Kamara man. Young,  DM, Comedy first name, out of contract.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/endendevertraege

Apparently ManU want him now. Doh!  If the club had listened to me a month ago

[chrisw1]

Phillips would be a massive addition to our midfield. For me as much as I like Doug, Phillips is better. However it would add a man bun to the squad. Not sure how I feel about that.

Phillips is not that much better than luiz in my opinion. I think luiz has the potential to be better.

Phillips is a good player bit the money leeds woild ask no thanks. They would want 60m+

Philips is a superb player, absolutely fucking brilliant in the quarter back role he plays for Leeds.  Not many players can carry that off.

Unfortunately if he leaves them it won't be to us.

I remember when a few people on here were convinced Declan Rice wasn't very good. 

I don't quite agree, Phillips is a good player but he's another of the crop that almost forces you to play a 3 because you need a defensive destroyer next to him to avoid him being exposed. This season Leeds haven't had that balance and it's meant they've been very easy to play through in midfield (which is why they're 16th with the 3rd worst defence in the league).

Well put it this way, I think he would be perfectly suited to playing the Fabihno or Henderson / Thiago roles at Liverpool and in due course he probably will.

[algy]

Phillips would be a massive addition to our midfield. For me as much as I like Doug, Phillips is better. However it would add a man bun to the squad. Not sure how I feel about that.

Phillips is not that much better than luiz in my opinion. I think luiz has the potential to be better.

Phillips is a good player bit the money leeds woild ask no thanks. They would want 60m+

Philips is a superb player, absolutely fucking brilliant in the quarter back role he plays for Leeds.  Not many players can carry that off.

Unfortunately if he leaves them it won't be to us.

I remember when a few people on here were convinced Declan Rice wasn't very good. 

I don't quite agree, Phillips is a good player but he's another of the crop that almost forces you to play a 3 because you need a defensive destroyer next to him to avoid him being exposed. This season Leeds haven't had that balance and it's meant they've been very easy to play through in midfield (which is why they're 16th with the 3rd worst defence in the league).

I'd have Phillips, but it'd have to be at the right price.  If Leeds end up getting relegated I'd be in like a shot for him, likewise if he was getting close to the end of his contract ... but I'm not sure I'd shell out the amount Leeds would inevitably want for him right now.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

It will be really interesting to see "what" market we're shopping in now we have SG in the driving seat!!

[LeeB]

I'm not all that sold on Phillips, and he'd cost too much for what he'd bring.

[chrisw1]

I'm not all that sold on Phillips, and he'd cost too much for what he'd bring.

He's not coming anyway so you can all breathe a sigh of relief.

[mike]

I'm not all that sold on Phillips, and he'd cost too much for what he'd bring.

He's not coming anyway so you can all breathe a sigh of relief.

He’s a lifelong Leeds fan and it’s his city, he even stayed with them in the Championship so there’s no way he’ll rat on them….

[London Villan]

He'd do well at somewhere like Arsenal - can't see any of the big clubs buying him.

[Smithy]

I don't think it's any surprise that the three teams going for the title this season all have a world-class defensive midfielder in their 11 most weeks.  Kante/Fabinho/Rhodri would all walk into most teams around the world. It's clearly a key element to successful teams in the modern game with such focus on transition and pressing, and one where we probably need to recruit a specialist rather than 'make do'. 

Marv can do the job and was improving (though not to the level of the names mentioned above), but with him absent I can see us going into the market in January for one.  The question is though, how big will be willing to go? 

I do wonder if we'll look at Kamara from Rangers (lots of media links) - Gerrard really rated him in his time there, he plays the position how he likes it played, but I don't know much about him as a player (and I wonder if at 25 he would have gone elsewhere already if he was good enough?).

But beyond that, I'm not sure who would be available in January?

Longer-term, do we have any academy players of that mould? It seems all the focus (understandably) has been on the attacking talent coming through but is there anyone in the youth/U23s that could be our own Phillips or Rice?

[OCD]

Iroegbunam who's been making the bench lately, Bogarde can play there and maybe Lindley.