Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Shrek]

The owners can see what we can, that the guy needs to go, they will have to have a big kitty for any new manager.

This is my worry, I don’t think they do. Do they have a clue about football? They’ve let Purslow free reign with his vanity project. We are now in a situation that when Gerrard is inevitably sacked, the next manager will have a disjointed, unbalanced squad with only 30 games of a season left.
We are in big big trouble

[Gareth]

If we don’t pull a couple of good deals out of the hat today then the questions will be asked of Lange & Purslow not so much Gerrard….with the uncertainty around Gerrard they should be buying players for the clubs future not just to suit Gerrard.

I’d say 2 today is a bare minimum, ideally 3 and 3 that we haven’t been linked with to give us some invigoration…have a horrible feeling for a panic loan at 10.30pm like Carroll & Dawkins were

[Mister E]

We are fucked aren't we. We really are. After all the hard work, this chancer has bollocksed up good and proper. The next manager is going to have some job on.

Yup.

[LeonW]

If we don’t pull a couple of good deals out of the hat today then the questions will be asked of Lange & Purslow not so much Gerrard….with the uncertainty around Gerrard they should be buying players for the clubs future not just to suit Gerrard.

I’d say 2 today is a bare minimum, ideally 3 and 3 that we haven’t been linked with to give us some invigoration…have a horrible feeling for a panic loan at 10.30pm like Carroll & Dawkins were

The recruitment element has always been slightly unclear and it is one thing that can't solely be laid at Gerrard's door. The final say element isn't necessarily so clear here. Take Sarr; Gerrard had said that he, Lange and Purslow had to all give the green light. Maybe it wasn't Gerrard who pulled the plug with the move, unless I missed something? It's the same with some outs. Gerrard might have asked for an upgrade in certain position and the club have then said that sales have to happen first. But the manager will always want to have a Nakamba or a Hause if the upgrade doesn't appear. It's not necessarily transparent. If you'd have asked Gerrard at the end of the window if he'd be happy to have lost Traore and Hause with no replacements, the answer will of course, be no.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

If a centre back, and nasty horrible bastard of a central midfielder don't come in then they may as well cancel plans for a new north stand. It won't be needed in the championship. 

[LeonW]

Our poor start to the season is not going to help attract potential signings. An additional win at Bournemouth and a point elsewhere could have made all the difference.

[FatSam]

Our poor start to the season is not going to help attract potential signings. An additional win at Bournemouth and a point elsewhere could have made all the difference.

Yes, the risk with waiting until the end of the window to complete your business is that you demonstrate the complete disparity between how you talk the talk and walk the walk within the first 5 games of the season.

[eamonn]

What do Lange and Purslow say to a prospective new player's representatives when they ask if Gerrard is likely to be sacked?

Be Billy Bullshitters and say "Nah, course not" or that regardless who our manager is, "we want you to be part of 'the project' and if you don't get on with a new manager or him with you, we'll put a clause in loaded in your favour" ?

The best Tesla salesman would struggle with our predicament today.

[richtheholtender]

Lack of signings effects a teams performance in more ways than one. The morale of team gets lower if they thing the club isn't pushing on, the team stands still, so players that have 3-2 years left on their contracts will then start having 2-1 and think why would I stay here (probably a casing point would be carney /Luiz?). If they want to run a self sustaining club that's fine, but you need to do it at a Brentford or lower league club, no club in Europe does it by being sustainable now and they certainly don't get there with that operation in place.


Stop selling rola cola and sticking coca cola on the label, people eventually won't buy it anymore. In the circumstances of said Rola cola customers through word of mouth would eventually stop going to that particular store.....the same will happen here. I will renew my ST but there are others whether we like it or not that won't be interested if we aren't competing, that's the nature, we saw it when we dropped.

This team just isn't good enough, it's needed significant investment that it hasn't received and yet people still try and say these players are good enough. All them players that were in the championship up until mid 20s plucked by us and start every week and we expect performances like Messi. We sold our golden goose, west ham, Newcastle, Palace and wolves have kept theirs and added to their squads that were already better than us as proved by the league positions last year!

I've was critised for labelling the owners the trotters and ill admit that was distasteful and disrespectful......there's no way the trotters would have sold people down the riverine this.


UTV and happy transfer deadline day or as we call ot Thursday

[ozzjim]

Rich... Same post continuously, it is a one line agenda, and getting tiresome.

[Richard E]

Reports we are back in for Sarr.

[eamonn]

Presumably that would mean us throwing more money at him and them/loaning them Archer.

Watford said the other day that they wouldn't entertain further bids and wanted to tie him down to a new deal.

[Risso]

Reports we are back in for Sarr.

Christ almighty, really? If I was Watford I'd be sticking another £10m on the asking price.

[ChicagoLion]

Reports we are back in for Sarr.

Christ almighty, really? If I was Watford I'd be sticking another £10m on the asking price.

They have and justified it by throwing in Troy Deeneys old jock strap.
The Jock strap to replace the Jock we have in midfield.

[pauliewalnuts]

This is all one gigantic fuck up, none of them - owners, Purslow, Lange, Gerrard - are free of blame here.