Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Steve67]

These links to Ben Mee are utter drivel and clickbait nonsense.  Why would we plump for him, free or not, when there is a better version, four years younger, and free, in James Tarkowski?  Just not happening.  Other than he's a thug bastard stuff. 

[ROBBO]

Every agent with an ageing player on his books will be putting crap like this about, seeing if some club bites. We have enough older heads now surely hope we go for more younger quality.

[Pete3206]

I wouldn't recruit Ben Mee to sell the hot dogs.

[SamTheMouse]

I wouldn't recruit Ben Mee to sell the hot dogs.

I'd recruit him to put him in the hot dogs.

[Villa in Denmark]

I wouldn't recruit Ben Mee to sell the hot dogs.

I'd recruit him to put him in the hot dogs.

After the horse meat scandal a few years ago i suppose donkey meat was the obvious next step.

[john e]

Can we shut up with the Ben Mee stuff please
I don’t want to hear any more about it

ah


Ah..:………stop it

[clash city rocker]

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

[Dante Lavelli]

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.

[villadelph]

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.

[Steve67]

The Robin Olsen deal is nearing according to Fabrizio on twitter.  Good second string keeper. Well thought of at the club as I understand.

[Brazilian Villain]

I wouldn't recruit Ben Mee to sell the hot dogs.

Not even if we could call it the 'Ben Mee Mega Chippy'?

[algy]

I wouldn't recruit Ben Mee to sell the hot dogs.

Not even if we could call it the 'Ben Mee Mega Chippy'?

Excellent

[Pete3206]

I wouldn't recruit Ben Mee to sell the hot dogs.

Not even if we could call it the 'Ben Mee Mega Chippy'?

Ha!

[ozzjim]

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.

[Sexual Ealing]

There was a three foreigners rule but way back in the nineties, as I recall. It became largely pointless when the EU adopted Freedom of Movement meaning they couldn't enforce it. It may have stumbled on for a little while being basically, as you say, three non-EU players but got scrapped eventually.

I think it only applied in European competition anyway, I remember we had to drop Bosnich and maybe one or two others for one of the Inter games but we could always play as many non-English players as we liked in the league.

‘‘Twas a strange rule for sure. Domestically, Welsh, Scottish, Irish players, etc, fill your boots. But in European competition? Apparently not; they were classed as foreigners. Very confusing to me as one entity (FA or UEFA) didn’t seem to be working things correctly. If someone could explain the differentials I’d quite like to know.

I think it's something to do with the Home Countries' insistence on having separate seats on the FIFA (or UEFA) board. The idea being that the rest of the world thinks that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland ought to compete under a UK banner, but the British associations do not. Hence them insisting that, if the international teams are separate, so are the players' registrations. Or something.