Quote from: Clampy on August 15, 2022, 01:37:05 PMQuote from: Rigadon on August 15, 2022, 01:31:46 PMObviously still a little while left, but with Carlos being out for the season and Bailey's league outings so far, our squad is looking mightily like the one that was so inconsistent last season. I'm starting to wonder if the owners are looking closely at Gerrard, or it's just that their targets aren't willing / aren't allowed to come. Or something else! I don't see what Carlos being out injured has anything to do with any of that. It has a lot to do with the first sentence, don't you think? Kamara will improve us no doubt, but that won't be enough to achieve what we all hope for in my opinion.
Quote from: Rigadon on August 15, 2022, 01:31:46 PMObviously still a little while left, but with Carlos being out for the season and Bailey's league outings so far, our squad is looking mightily like the one that was so inconsistent last season. I'm starting to wonder if the owners are looking closely at Gerrard, or it's just that their targets aren't willing / aren't allowed to come. Or something else! I don't see what Carlos being out injured has anything to do with any of that.
Obviously still a little while left, but with Carlos being out for the season and Bailey's league outings so far, our squad is looking mightily like the one that was so inconsistent last season. I'm starting to wonder if the owners are looking closely at Gerrard, or it's just that their targets aren't willing / aren't allowed to come. Or something else!
I can never see why people think we would have been able to spend hundreds of millions when we had just come up from the Championship, but would be struggling with FFP now we have years of Premier League cash plus Grealish installments to keep us going? If we were gonna struggle with FFP surely it would have been the first season we came up?Unless we are thinking about possible European football now and the UEFA rules on FFP are more stringent?
Quote from: Rigadon on August 15, 2022, 01:48:48 PMQuote from: Clampy on August 15, 2022, 01:37:05 PMQuote from: Rigadon on August 15, 2022, 01:31:46 PMObviously still a little while left, but with Carlos being out for the season and Bailey's league outings so far, our squad is looking mightily like the one that was so inconsistent last season. I'm starting to wonder if the owners are looking closely at Gerrard, or it's just that their targets aren't willing / aren't allowed to come. Or something else! I don't see what Carlos being out injured has anything to do with any of that. It has a lot to do with the first sentence, don't you think? Kamara will improve us no doubt, but that won't be enough to achieve what we all hope for in my opinion. I still don't get why you brought Carlos up. If you think we need more across the board, then fair comment, maybe we do.
Quote from: Clampy on August 15, 2022, 01:51:44 PMQuote from: Rigadon on August 15, 2022, 01:48:48 PMQuote from: Clampy on August 15, 2022, 01:37:05 PMQuote from: Rigadon on August 15, 2022, 01:31:46 PMObviously still a little while left, but with Carlos being out for the season and Bailey's league outings so far, our squad is looking mightily like the one that was so inconsistent last season. I'm starting to wonder if the owners are looking closely at Gerrard, or it's just that their targets aren't willing / aren't allowed to come. Or something else! I don't see what Carlos being out injured has anything to do with any of that. It has a lot to do with the first sentence, don't you think? Kamara will improve us no doubt, but that won't be enough to achieve what we all hope for in my opinion. I still don't get why you brought Carlos up. If you think we need more across the board, then fair comment, maybe we do. My point was that now he’s knackered, the team is only one (very promising) player better off than we we were for large parts of last season. Don’t see it being enough to realistically hope for a wildly different outcome. But, there is still time of course.
I believe - based on nothing more than casually observing transfer windows develop over the last 10-15 years - that we did as much business as was possible early in the window, but that every other player we have an interest in is either not yet available, or only available when their current club has a replacement lined up.I suspect, like in so many years before, there will be a flurry of activity as we get towards the end of the window, and that will free up players for potential moves. Including those in which we hold interest. It also seems to be the case more for forwards than other positions that deals happen late. In recent times, Benteke, Kozak, Hogan, Abraham, and Baston - all signed on the LAST day of the transfer window. Which suggests we either had to wait for them, or they weren't our first choices. Very mixed results with the players in that list, but I use it purely to illustrate how we do sometimes leave it late and how it's not always within our control to get things done quickly.I'd be very surprised if this were "it" for our summer dealings. Our net spend this summer is about £15m, so I just have a sneaking suspicion there is at least one big one coming...
Who are the four? Coutinho, Carlos, Kamara, Ings?
Quote from: AndyB6 on August 15, 2022, 03:49:11 PMWho are the four? Coutinho, Carlos, Kamara, Ings?That would be my guess.