Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[brontebilly]

The club shouldn't be giving Gerrard another cent to spend. So we dump Trez, Traore, AEG et al as we had no need for wingers, buy another no.10 in Coutinho and now we are backing buying a winger again! Utter madness.

[Brazilian Villain]

Alfredo Morelos..?

Walking red card

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62529334

[PaulWinch again]

The club shouldn't be giving Gerrard another cent to spend. So we dump Trez, Traore, AEG et al as we had no need for wingers, buy another no.10 in Coutinho and now we are backing buying a winger again! Utter madness.

If the club back him they should, as they should with any manager they believe in. You might feel differently and that’s fine, but a club shouldn’t hamstring a manager they want to keep. Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger. Personally I’d be prioritising a centre-mid, but hopefully they’re doing that too.

[LeonW]

The club shouldn't be giving Gerrard another cent to spend. So we dump Trez, Traore, AEG et al as we had no need for wingers, buy another no.10 in Coutinho and now we are backing buying a winger again! Utter madness.

If the club back him they should, as they should with any manager they believe in. You might feel differently and that’s fine, but a club shouldn’t hamstring a manager they want to keep. Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger. Personally I’d be prioritising a centre-mid, but hopefully they’re doing that too.

Agree with this. If they don’t, they should have replaced him at the end of last season.

[villadelph]

Alfredo Morelos..?

Walking red card

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62529334

 

That’s amazing. For the record, I wasn’t advocating for him. I just saw a lazy link and threw it out there.

[Dave]

Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger.

Why then, would they hire a manager who uses full-backs over wingers to provide attacking width?

[PaulWinch again]

Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger.

Why then, would they hire a manager who uses full-backs over wingers to provide attacking width?

That I don’t know the answer too, except potentially he/they do want to adapt their style in some way. Or of course I’m wrong on that and they don’t see him as a winger.

[Brazilian Villain]

Alfredo Morelos..?

Walking red card

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/62529334

 

That’s amazing. For the record, I wasn’t advocating for him. I just saw a lazy link and threw it out there.

I know that, I just recalled it being posted during the week when I read their match report today.

[Dave]

Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger.

Why then, would they hire a manager who uses full-backs over wingers to provide attacking width?

That I don’t know the answer too, except potentially he/they do want to adapt their style in some way. Or of course I’m wrong on that and they don’t see him as a winger.

Well, if he's adapting his style then he's not shown any signs of it yet. Meaning that the "rip it all up and just buy a winger" panic, is a panic.

And if the plan is to adapt a definite winger into a more central player, you'd think he'd either try that at some point with Bailey first, use Buendia a bit more, or not bomb out Traore without trying him there. Given he plays there fairly capably for his country.

[PaulWinch again]

Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger.

Why then, would they hire a manager who uses full-backs over wingers to provide attacking width?

That I don’t know the answer too, except potentially he/they do want to adapt their style in some way. Or of course I’m wrong on that and they don’t see him as a winger.

Well, if he's adapting his style then he's not shown any signs of it yet. Meaning that the "rip it all up and just buy a winger" panic, is a panic.

And if the plan is to adapt a definite winger into a more central player, you'd think he'd either try that at some point with Bailey first, use Buendia a bit more, or not bomb out Traore without trying him there. Given he plays there fairly capably for his country.

Fair points - you could well be right, and if that’s the case it’s clearly a worry. I just hope there’s some more science to it, because to date I think the signings have been good on the whole.

[Dave]

Also the winger point, it may be that the club thinks we need a higher standard of winger.

Why then, would they hire a manager who uses full-backs over wingers to provide attacking width?

That I don’t know the answer too, except potentially he/they do want to adapt their style in some way. Or of course I’m wrong on that and they don’t see him as a winger.

Well, if he's adapting his style then he's not shown any signs of it yet. Meaning that the "rip it all up and just buy a winger" panic, is a panic.

And if the plan is to adapt a definite winger into a more central player, you'd think he'd either try that at some point with Bailey first, use Buendia a bit more, or not bomb out Traore without trying him there. Given he plays there fairly capably for his country.

Fair points - you could well be right, and if that’s the case it’s clearly a worry. I just hope there’s some more science to it, because to date I think the signings have been good on the whole.

I'd agree. It's just the the bloke responsible for putting them into a team hasn't really shown much of a sign of knowing how to.

[Gareth]

Remember back we got Gerrard and people were concerned he’d get the Liverpool job…..lol!!!

A centre half and another class DM to go alongside Kamara….no more bloody wingers please

[Legion]

Our version of the 4-3-3 makes no sense with the current squad we have.

How are Bailey, Buendia, Watkins, Coutinho, Buendia, Ramsey and Sarr supposed to be on the pitch at the same time?

A senseless log jam at a wide position we don’t even use properly. We struggle to get the ball out wide to Bailey as it is. This wreaks of an Everton signing.. expensive and doesn’t seem very well thought out. I hope I’m wrong. We better not be done in the market, far bigger issues than a wide player. 

This. Don't see the point in signing Sarr. We have more pressing issues to resolve elsewhere.

[ChicagoLion]

I have no idea why we are buying Sarr.

[Paul.S]

Hopefully it means we’ve got more coming in and this is the first of a couple. If not, it’s a strange one on its own.