Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Philips to Man City…£45m. Done.
It’s utterly obscene how they can hoover up players just to sit on their bench.
It’s almost like it’s a calculated ploy to keep uppity clubs in their place.

I suspect it’s more preventing rivals pick up players they may potentially want - at least I’m sure that’s part of the motivation. They’re not going to be remotely fussed about Leeds.

Paul, we all football, fans should be "fussed" about this as this strategy from mancity is making the league more and more uncompetitive. Despite my own disliking of Yorkshire Whites  I want clubs like them, Everton, us etc etc to be able to keep our best players and compete. We need equal distribution of talent throughout the League not the current fuckaboutry that started with Chelsea and is being exploited royally by the Abu Dhabi ******.   

I think you might have misunderstood my point Aftab - I think it’s a horrible cynical approach, my point was Man Citeh won’t be remotely fussed about Leeds. Their motivation won’t be keeping Leeds, as an “uppity” club down, it’ll be preventing someone they perceive as an actual rival getting a player that might help them.

[OCD]

He's not such a good player that the team he plays for would finish several places higher by having him or other clubs couldn't find similar players who could perform the same role. They wanted to replace Fernandinho, they decided to buy Phillips and pay the market rate that Leeds were prepared to sell at. In fact, £50m for a player with one year left on his contract is probably over market rate.

They can probably only accommodate 22 or so senior players in their squad and it's not like the pool of talent out there is so limited that they can fill their squad out and there's nobody left to buy.

Football goes through cycles. Currently Liverpool and Man City are the 2 dominant teams. In recent times it's been Chelsea, Man United, Arsenal. Liverpool had been out of the limelight for many years before Klopp took over and they got better at identifying players to sign.

It's not a monopoly, no matter how hard those teams try to make it for others to join them. Well run clubs can close the gap and possibly take their spot as a dominant side when outside events happen, like a manager leaving or the operations of the club breaks down. Man United had both of these things happen. Not just failing to adequately fill the gap when Ferguson left but the nature of the way their run leading to bad decision after bad decision to the point where their fast becoming a mid-table team.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Linked with Soucek from West Ham for £30m today - would be quite pleased with that.

[Dante Lavelli]

Linked with Soucek from West Ham for £30m today - would be quite pleased with that.

Apparently the reason he wants too leave West Ham is because he wants to play further forward so we might be buying a different player to what we’ve seen to date.

[OCD]

More that he's been used as an anchor in their midfield this season, which doesn't play to his strengths so he's been a lesser player for them this past season. He's more of a box-to-box type who gets his share of goals and is useful in the box at set pieces at both ends.

[algy]

Left back will be next as been rumoured by a few today

Why?
Serious question.

That Fabrizio guy said it today and he isn’t wrong on it

Romagnoli? As mentioned earlier by OCD, an experienced ball playing left sided CB who can also play LB and is out of contract wouldn't be the most surprising signing.

Don't know that much about him other than what I've read on Wikipedia, but would seem to be a sensible signing.

[KevinGage]

Linked with Soucek from West Ham for £30m today - would be quite pleased with that.

Apparently the reason he wants too leave West Ham is because he wants to play further forward so we might be buying a different player to what we’ve seen to date.

If Kamara was the one who sat back and Soucek was a bit further forward I'd have no qualms with that at all.

[RamboandBruno]

Linked with Soucek from West Ham for £30m today - would be quite pleased with that.

Apparently the reason he wants too leave West Ham is because he wants to play further forward so we might be buying a different player to what we’ve seen to date.

If Kamara was the one who sat back and Soucek was a bit further forward I'd have no qualms with that at all.

Yep all day long

[paul_e]

Not exactly what I want in the next midfielder we sign but he's so good at what he does that I'd absolutely take him.

[Dante Lavelli]

I think my ideal 6 for next season would be Nakamba, McGinn, Ramsey, Kamara, Chuk and another solid defensive mid so if we need to shift on Luiz and Sanson to do so that would be fine.

Can't see us going for this guy from Porto though, i'd have thought we were well stocked with creative players.

If you're up for keeping Nakamba then we don't need another DM, that's not where we'd be short with the 5 players you've named. What we could really do with is a player to pivot around who gets the most touches and plays loads of short passes to set the tempo, the sort of job Petrov did for us.

Someone like Neves

Neves or Tielemans would be ideal and equally unlikely.

[Scovilla]

Soucek? All day long as said before.

[john e]

Soucek’s best form came when he played alongside Declan Rice
Rice would make me look good

Not saying he’s not a good player just not as good as some think
Yeah they doubled up on Grealish and kept him quiet that day, Not even that quiet but they got into his head a bit and won and now everyone thinks he’s a world beater

[KevinGage]

Rice was CM in 2019/20 and they looked weak enough in that department to be dragged enough into a relegation scrap with worselves.

It was the signing of Soucek to play alongside Rice that eventually hauled them out of trouble that year and has pushed them on since.

Which is why I doubt they'll sell him, FWIW. All part of the game. His agent will be trying to get him a better deal there.

[OCD]

They've been trying to get him a better deal for the past year and West Ham have been refusing to give him a pay rise.

There's a general feeling there that he didn't play well last year. I wouldn't be too surprised if they sold him if they're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole and he's down to the last year of his contract.

[Clark W Griswold]

Yes he’s a cracking player. I think the media getting a whiff of him wanting to leave and knowing us, Newcastle and Everton are three teams that will be trying to improve and probably spending plenty is a case of speculation / guesswork though.