Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Percy McCarthy]

I think Gallagher would make a massive difference to the midfield. Box to box, great energy and intensity and chips in with goals. His pressing is fantastic.

Unless he’s changed tactics I think lung busting 8s are a bit wasted in his system where the midfielders drop in to cover the full-backs.

Exactly. We might as well play four full-backs.

[Risso]

I think Gallagher would make a massive difference to the midfield. Box to box, great energy and intensity and chips in with goals. His pressing is fantastic.

Unless he’s changed tactics I think lung busting 8s are a bit wasted in his system where the midfielders drop in to cover the full-backs.

Exactly. We might as well play four full-backs.

When your midfielders are as dire as Ramsey and McGinn were, I’m not sure what else could be done to be honest.

[algy]

No loans, please. We aren't in the Championship any more. If he's available, buy him. If not, buy someone else. I've no wish to develop players for Chelsea.

Agree. Only want loans where they're effectively sale-or-return now.

[Delboy Villan]

I think Gallagher would make a massive difference to the midfield. Box to box, great energy and intensity and chips in with goals. His pressing is fantastic.

Keep away from Jordan's would be my advice?

Difficult to sell the 'dream/vision' after yesterdays performance?
Indeed and, unlike some of our French signings, our record with midfielders called Conor is pretty good.

[Dante Lavelli]

I think Gallagher would make a massive difference to the midfield. Box to box, great energy and intensity and chips in with goals. His pressing is fantastic.

Unless he’s changed tactics I think lung busting 8s are a bit wasted in his system where the midfielders drop in to cover the full-backs.

Exactly. We might as well play four full-backs.

When your midfielders are as dire as Ramsey and McGinn were, I’m not sure what else could be done to be honest.

Ramsey and McGinn - any decent 8 - are at their best when then can use their energy and athleticism to get into attacking oppositions.  They’re not allowed to do this under the current tactics.  Toning down the full-backs a bit might actually make us more attacking.

[Percy McCarthy]

I think Gallagher would make a massive difference to the midfield. Box to box, great energy and intensity and chips in with goals. His pressing is fantastic.

Unless he’s changed tactics I think lung busting 8s are a bit wasted in his system where the midfielders drop in to cover the full-backs.

Exactly. We might as well play four full-backs.

When your midfielders are as dire as Ramsey and McGinn were, I’m not sure what else could be done to be honest.

We could give them a chance by asking them to play in midfield. Seems unfair for instance to play them as full-backs then moan that they don’t score or create. But I do agree about McGinn. He’s been shit since before SG, since  the championship IMO.

But still, you wouldn’t ask Big Emi to play off the striker for half the game then moan that he’s let a few goals in.

[Delboy Villan]

I wonder what Ivan Toney could do with 38 crosses?

[Axl Rose]

I wonder what Ivan Toney could do with 38 crosses?

At least 20 Zulu hand gestures, no doubt.

All joking aside, he's a good player, but I'd be after Jonathan David from Lille.

I'm thinking that if I mention him enough, we might sign him!

[ChicagoLion]

I wonder what Ivan Toney could do with 38 crosses?

the quality of those yesterday, fuck all.

[Axl Rose]

Two goals for David today vs Auxerre, too.

He's a wonderful striker. I'm very surprised nobody has snatched him away this summer.

[OCD]

Just set-up as a 4-2-3-1, with 2 genuine defensive prongs to shield the defence and control possession. Kamara's a good start. Recruit another and let the creative players in front create. Buendia can certainly play as a 10 and thread players in. Coutinho I'm still waiting to show what he can do at his best. I still like having some wide forwards who the full-backs back-up and support.

[cdbearsfan]

I think Gallagher would make a massive difference to the midfield. Box to box, great energy and intensity and chips in with goals. His pressing is fantastic.

Unless he’s changed tactics I think lung busting 8s are a bit wasted in his system where the midfielders drop in to cover the full-backs.

Exactly. We might as well play four full-backs.

When your midfielders are as dire as Ramsey and McGinn were, I’m not sure what else could be done to be honest.

Ramsey and McGinn - any decent 8 - are at their best when then can use their energy and athleticism to get into attacking oppositions.  They’re not allowed to do this under the current tactics.  Toning down the full-backs a bit might actually make us more attacking.

Some of our best play goes through the full backs, I wouldn't be toning then down. Wide players should be covering when they go forward. We often seem far too narrow so no surprise players have to travel twenty yards out of positon to cover for them.

[Risso]

We could give them a chance by asking them to play in midfield. Seems unfair for instance to play them as full-backs then moan that they don’t score or create. But I do agree about McGinn. He’s been shit since before SG, since  the championship IMO.

But still, you wouldn’t ask Big Emi to play off the striker for half the game then moan that he’s let a few goals in.

That was McGinn and Ramsey's heat maps for yesterday (our half is on the right, Bournemouth on the left), pretty much exactly where you'd expect to see your left and right sided midfielders.

[Paul.S]

He does Paul. There is definite quality in Bailey without a doubt.

[caster troy]

I can't see us signing a striker unless we shift out Ings, which doesn't seem likely. If only we could have signed Abraham permanently when we were promoted, it would have saved us a fortune.