Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Scott Nielsen]

Zinchenko to Arsenal. I was nurturing a slim hope he was headed our way. Seems a steal at 30m.

[Percy McCarthy]

Zinchenko to Arsenal. I was nurturing a slim hope he was headed our way. Seems a steal at 30m.

Damn!

[dorsetvillian]

Arsenal have done good business

[OCD]

Unfortunately they seem to have their shit together.

[Steve67]

Zinchenko to Arsenal. I was nurturing a slim hope he was headed our way. Seems a steal at 30m.

It does.  I imagine having Arteta there would have also been quite attractive for Zinchenko, given his form Man City connections.

[Toronto Villa]

Unfortunately they seem to have their shit together.

They do. We however signed permanently a world class player in Coutinho and Olsen, and a top CB in Carlos, a highly desired new French international in Kamara and a solid back up LB. All things we needed to do. I think we have done very well and I imagine we will add a very good piece or two before the window closes.

[Skerra]

I’m not so sure we will make anymore decent signings. Beginning to look like the last transfer window, early signings then linked with just about everybody but, they end up going to Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. Still feel we need a top goal scorer to give us any chance of a European place but, can’t see it happening. SG very enthusiastic about Ollie but I can’t see him ever being  20+goals a season striker which is what we need.

[eamonn]

Man City making a net profit in a window for...the first time ever?

[cdbearsfan]

They've only made a profit of £12 million so far, so plenty of time to turn that into a loss. 2005/06 was the last time they made a profit, mainly due to the sale of Shaun Wright-Phillips.

[Londonvilla]

Aston Villa, Everton, and West Ham United have joined Newcastle United in the race to sign Raul de Tomas from Espanyol this summer.

http://www.thehardtackle.com/transfer-news/2022/07/16/aston-villa-everton-west-ham-join-raul-de-tomas-race/

https://www.fichajes.net/noticias/cuatro-equipos-premier-quieren-fichar-raul-tomas-20220715.html

Top player but a weak link

[Beard82]

I was expecting more ins and outs to be honest.  I’m a bit conflicted - we have done good business - but at the same time I don’t see anyway we are going to worry the top 8 given their business and where we were last year. 

[RamboandBruno]

I was expecting more ins and outs to be honest.  I’m a bit conflicted - we have done good business - but at the same time I don’t see anyway we are going to worry the top 8 given their business and where we were last year.

Im
Not sure Wolves and West ham Have done amazing business? West Ham are a good team no doubt, but i think they are catchable. Again, i might be wrong but i don’t see wolves getting any better. You’d expect Man U to improve and Newcastle to fancy their chances, people talk about Leicester having a re-emergence but I’m not sure, Vardys dangerous but past his prime, as is Evans and Albrighton,  Tielemans looks like he’ll go.
I don’t know whether we’ll trouble the top 8-6, but i dont see anything to massively fear in those sides mentioned with the additions we’ve made already, including Januarys.

[Vegas]

We’ve done pretty well, but I’m a bit surprised we’ve only added one central midfielder. Our front 3 is ok for a top 6-8 finish I think (although could improve further with a genuinely clinical finisher), and we’ve improved at centre back plus added Digne and cover since Jan.

I just think our centre mid options are very “lower half” - we’re really banking on Kamara to hit the ground running, and Ramsay to have another stellar year of improvement if we’re to challenge the top 6. Both could happen, but it feels lightweight to me (unless we’re happy with 10th).

[Beard82]

We’ve done pretty well, but I’m a bit surprised we’ve only added one central midfielder. Our front 3 is ok for a top 6-8 finish I think (although could improve further with a genuinely clinical finisher), and we’ve improved at centre back plus added Digne and cover since Jan.

I just think our centre mid options are very “lower half” - we’re really banking on Kamara to hit the ground running, and Ramsay to have another stellar year of improvement if we’re to challenge the top 6. Both could happen, but it feels lightweight to me (unless we’re happy with 10th).

Yeah this is my opinion. A good recruitment just but I don’t see these transform us from say 14th to 7th

With where we are now I think top half is realistic - unless we think having a proper SG preseason adds 6 or 7 points to our total

[OCD]

If we do sell Chukwuemeka, it will be interesting to see if we bring in a replacement because he's not one we would have expected or wanted to sell. Gerrard wants a midfielder but it was presumed he would be a replacement for Luiz/Sanson.

Then again, Gerrard has used Chukwuemeka as a '10' after Coutinho, Buendia and Bailey so if we were to sell Traore/El Ghazi, maybe he would be looking for another option there.

Or maybe Aaron Ramsey or another, stays as an understudy instead of going out on loan and gets the game time that Chukwuemeka might have otherwise.