Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[cdbearsfan]

Fucking BOO.

[SoccerHQ]

We just need a 20+ goals a season striker now. Any ideas ? Plus can't cost more than £60 m.

Those players are very rare nowadays.  Three, maybe four players getting 10+ should be the objective.

We did that with the Greasy Joe money. We need a proper striker now. Not a hard worker, not a team player, not one for the future - a proper striker.

Watkins and Ings missed enough very decent chances to give us 10-15 more points last season. Signing a genuine 20-25 goal a season striker immediately takes pressure off the defence too. They cost a fair whack though, and are pretty hard to find.

Yes we need to find one of those mythical strikers that never ever misses any chances. We will, of course, ignore games like Brighton where Watkins took the ball from his own half and smashed it in. Or Newcastle where Ings scored an overhead kick.

Watkins scored 11, expected goals 11.23.  Ings scored 7. Expected goals 7.6. I doubt those 0.83 goals would have got us 10-15 points.

The idea that they're constantly missing chances is a false narrative. Create more chances and they'll score more goals. Start by picking Buendia and Coutinho in the same team more often.

Yep. Claiming Watkins and Ings cost us 10-15 points last season is just drivel.

If we want to be challenging for europe we simply need to be better at taking key chances in games.

Look at final few....Watkins misses a one on one v Wolves. We score that and I don't think we lose and perhaps rouse ourselves to finish above Wolves.

Next week v Spurs Ings can't sort his feet out in first half and we don't score with our dominance. Son then brutally punishes us in second half.

Even v Liverpool Ings missed a presentable chance at 1-1 I think.

With Davis being sold and Archer seemingly going out on loan again then there will be space for another striker so interesting what sort of profile we go for.

[LeeB]

Tenuous link to Quentin Merlin (20yo Nantes/France U21 left back) in the Mirror.

Need to enquire about Arthur from Juventus.

We should be looking at players of this excalibur

Disagree. Don't think he's Gawain to improve us much.

Interesting that we are looking for a defender rather than a striker - Archer doesn't have much experience but Gerrard clearly trusts Camelot.

He brings more than just goals to the, err, round table

[Dave]

Tenuous link to Quentin Merlin (20yo Nantes/France U21 left back) in the Mirror.

Need to enquire about Arthur from Juventus.

We should be looking at players of this excalibur

Disagree. Don't think he's Gawain to improve us much.

Interesting that we are looking for a defender rather than a striker - Archer doesn't have much experience but Gerrard clearly trusts Camelot.

Wrong call for me. Bedivere on the side of caution and bring in someone a bit more experienced.

Like if you were boosting defensive midfield. You'd go more Gana, than Iroegbunem.

[UK Redsox]

Fucking BOO.

Great Fred MacAulay quote

[Brazilian Villain]

It would be apt if Quentin was our fifth signing of the summer.

[thick_mike]

Tenuous link to Quentin Merlin (20yo Nantes/France U21 left back) in the Mirror.

Need to enquire about Arthur from Juventus.

We should be looking at players of this excalibur

Disagree. Don't think he's Gawain to improve us much.

Interesting that we are looking for a defender rather than a striker - Archer doesn't have much experience but Gerrard clearly trusts Camelot.

He brings more than just goals to the, err, round table

He would be guaranteed a raptor-ous reception.

[eamonn]

This is the most cultured pun-fest in H&V's fabled history, I'd wager.

[papa lazarou]

He'd be alright for a spell.

[Drummond]

Tenuous link to Quentin Merlin (20yo Nantes/France U21 left back) in the Mirror.

Need to enquire about Arthur from Juventus.

We should be looking at players of this excalibur

Disagree. Don't think he's Gawain to improve us much.

Interesting that we are looking for a defender rather than a striker - Archer doesn't have much experience but Gerrard clearly trusts Camelot.

Sorry, but that sounds like a bit of a lottery.

[nigel]

This is the most cultured pun-fest in H&V's fabled history, I'd wager.

Have to admit it’s gone right over my head.
What on earth have these got to do with Quentin?

[Drummond]

This is the most cultured pun-fest in H&V's fabled history, I'd wager.

Have to admit it’s gone right over my head.
What on earth have these got to do with Quentin?

It's Summervilla isn't it?

[eamonn]

Quentin Fortune. South-African midfielder that we were heavily linked with in 1999 before he joined ManUre.

[Clark W Griswold]

Just a question but how can we offer Luiz in exchange for Kean from Juventus when he's not even their player? If the media are just going to make shit up out of thin air you'd think they would do their homework.

His scoring record for Everton in the PL is something like 2 in 30 games, and last season for Juve it was something like 5 in 35 so i wouldn't be too enthusiastic about this one anyway.

[eamonn]

Moise? Hope he ends-up with his namesake at WHam.