The January New Manager Warchest Transfer Thread

[sickbeggar]

I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10. Could have easily been a 9.

Phil - Could be a masterstroke but he's on loan and there's always the chance he does well and buggers off.
Digne - upgrade or a different kind of fullback to Targett. Either way we're still stuck with one decent left-back
Chambers - no better than Tuanzebe imo apart from we own him.
Olsen - looks an upgrade on Steer

Overall, yes the 1st team is better but very much as you were in terms of squad depth.

[chrisw1]

We're in a fanstastic place.  I'd have preferred a DM more than any other position, but the updside is Dougie is more likely to renew if he continues to get gametime.  We are one injury away from a major issue though.

We now need a strong second half of the season to persuade our best players the project is worth sticking with and prospective players we are the club to jump of board with.

I'm still pretty angry we let Targett go to Newcastle.  If they stay up they'll be chucking money around like smarties and will make our job in the summer that much harder.  I can see them going in strong for Bissouma for example.  It looks like only us and Brighton did business with them willingly and if we were going to do so we should at least have rinsed them for a fee.

[Axl Rose]

We're in a fanstastic place.  I'd have preferred a DM more than any other position, but the updside is Dougie is more likely to renew if he continues to get gametime.  We are one injury away from a major issue though.

We now need a strong second half of the season to persuade our best players the project is worth sticking with and prospective players we are the club to jump of board with.

I'm still pretty angry we let Targett go to Newcastle.  If they stay up they'll be chucking money around like smarties and will make our job in the summer that much harder.  I can see them going in strong for Bissouma for example.  It looks like only us and Brighton did business with them willingly and if we were going to do so we should at least have rinsed them for a fee.

This.

[Holy Trinity]

Agree with that Twitter post a bit back - over the last 3 transfer windows the first team has improved immeasurably, with a low net spend. I'd be confident that our 'backup' players now would beat the side that we finished our first season back with, which in 18 months is a remarkable shift.

Think we were right not to pursue Bissouma if the prices suggested were right - £50m for a player with 18 months left on his contract and a potential gaol term hanging over his head.

I also think the backlash Mason Greenwood has seen over the last few days has been eye opening for the club and we didn't want the bad publicity of signing someone who has that dark cloud over his head at the moment.

[PeterWithe]

I'm still pretty angry we let Targett go to Newcastle.  If they stay up they'll be chucking money around like smarties and will make our job in the summer that much harder.  I can see them going in strong for Bissouma for example.  It looks like only us and Brighton did business with them willingly and if we were going to do so we should at least have rinsed them for a fee.

Totally agree, they will be shopping in exactly the same markets as us in the summer. Wrong decision to help them stay up.

[The Edge]

Agree with that Twitter post a bit back - over the last 3 transfer windows the first team has improved immeasurably, with a low net spend. I'd be confident that our 'backup' players now would beat the side that we finished our first season back with, which in 18 months is a remarkable shift.

Think we were right not to pursue Bissouma if the prices suggested were right - £50m for a player with 18 months left on his contract and a potential gaol term hanging over his head.

I also think the backlash Mason Greenwood has seen over the last few days has been eye opening for the club and we didn't want the bad publicity of signing someone who has that dark cloud over his head at the moment.

I do think that the club were in for Bissouma but it didn't happen for a variety of reasons including the one you mention. Brighton were trying to get as much as they could for him as is their prerogative we were not going to be pushed into anything rash as is ours. Purslow has said we're set up for an exciting summer and that'll do for me. If Bissouma gets cleared of the charges we can go back for him and with his contract down to one year left Brighton's hand is weakened. The downside is that we may face stiff competition for him by then. I think he's a very good player but if it doesn't happen we move on. One things for sure this lot will not be resting their laurels and they will be hard at work looking for the right players to get us where we want to go.

[Clampy]

Another centre midfielder would have been nice but I think we have enough to tide us over. There was no point in just signing anybody. Its interesting that he's kept Tim Iroegbunam around and not loaned him out. He must see something in him. I'd have kept Targett but we don't know what's gone on there. Overall, a petty pleasing window.

[sickbeggar]

For the conspiracy theorists our net spend of 2.5m dovetails nicely into that story that we only had 5m to spend due to FFP. 

[AGRIPPA]

For the conspiracy theorists our net spend of 2.5m dovetails nicely into that story that we only had 5m to spend due to FFP. 

I don't get that we spent 25m on Digne

[sickbeggar]

Dunno. From this tweet,

https://twitter.com/marshallavfc/status/1488246530595295232

[algy]

For the conspiracy theorists our net spend of 2.5m dovetails nicely into that story that we only had 5m to spend due to FFP. 

That explains a few things:

- Why we didn't buy a defensive midfielder that everyone on here wanted
- Why we got rid of Targett - wages off the books
- Why we still haven't got the cable car sorted out, or the underground tunnels.

Our finances must be worst than when Dr Shitshoes was in charge.

[sickbeggar]

For the conspiracy theorists our net spend of 2.5m dovetails nicely into that story that we only had 5m to spend due to FFP. 

That explains a few things:

- Why we didn't buy a defensive midfielder that everyone on here wanted
- Why we got rid of Targett - wages off the books
- Why we still haven't got the cable car sorted out, or the underground tunnels.

Our finances must be worst than when Dr Shitshoes was in charge.

heh. Aye. Selling Luiz could have got the tunnels at least started. #ShortsightedPurslow

[AGRIPPA]

Dunno. From this tweet,

https://twitter.com/marshallavfc/status/1488246530595295232

AAAH...ALL SEASON!!

[ozzjim]

I think to have the squad we have now with a net spend of £2.5m from last season is a pretty decent effort. I think we are running a bit skinny on first team numbers in some areas (full back notably), but all in all we are in decent shape. It also probably gives us se decent room to go spending this summer. If a couple of academy products have good loan spells there may be some decent income from them too, which always helps with FFP. If Doug signs a new long term deal his FFP value changes too.

I think had we wanted to we probably could have got Bissouma done, but £45m plus add ons to agents, signing on etc, plus wages for a guy with a police hearing over his head is a gamble too far surely.

[sickbeggar]

According to the mancs, Boubacar was available for 12m and the Glaziers wouldn't pay it. We should have been in there imo.