Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Paul.S]

He’s one of them but on his own it’s not enough. The form of those around him has been that bad we need another. Someone who can physically hold his own and drive us forward. We are too lightweight and have been for a few years now.

[DeKuip]

Kamara impressed me again on Sunday. What’s missing and has been for a while is a central midfielder with presence and of course quality. If we fail to address this we are in for a struggle yet again. It’s a massive few days for us.

Kamara is that player.

BREAKING NEWS… Aston Villa offer Aston Villa £30m for central midfielder.

[brontebilly]

Kamara impressed me again on Sunday. What’s missing and has been for a while is a central midfielder with presence and of course quality. If we fail to address this we are in for a struggle yet again. It’s a massive few days for us.

Kamara is that player.

Or is meant to be...I've seen him four times this season (not Everton) and he has been average/poor in each of them including Bolton. Another reason we need to toss this 433 in the bin, give Kamara a partner to let him settle.

[richtheholtender]

Kamara impressed me again on Sunday. What’s missing and has been for a while is a central midfielder with presence and of course quality. If we fail to address this we are in for a struggle yet again. It’s a massive few days for us.

Kamara is that player.

BREAKING NEWS… Aston Villa offer Aston Villa £30m for central midfielder.

Grab the suitcase from the van

[richtheholtender]

Coutinho always in his pocket....grab the suitcase from the van.... we want to be the best ones, purslow dont ask question and Gerrard your the man!!!

Cos why we always get united is a mystery, it wouldn't be case but for the BBC....always the eleven driving me berserk.... why do our signings never work la la la la la

[Stu]

Honestly, I’m not fucking about here, are you ok Rich?

[richtheholtender]

Yeah, that was just a little light hearted post.

https://twitter.com/talksport/status/1564363051893153796?s=24&t=QoqjtYVGfD10jdv1w-KykQ

[Stu]

Well as long as you’re alright. Sometimes when I’ve had too much internet, and I’m an absolute fiend for twitter these days, I put my phone in another room and try and settle with a book or go out for a walk or something. Too much of it gives you brain worms.

[richtheholtender]

Well as long as you’re alright. Sometimes when I’ve had too much internet, and I’m an absolute fiend for twitter these days, I put my phone in another room and try and settle with a book or go out for a walk or something. Too much of it gives you brain worms.

👍👍 I will take it on board

[SoccerHQ]

West Ham just signed a midfielder for fifty million, we're in the market for Bednarek, just about sums us up at the moment. Not liking Gerrard saying it's up to the players when he consistantly plays Inga and Watkins together totally ignoring it has never worked and never will.

We were doing that in January in fairness. Bidding for Bentancur and Bissouma in same window.

For whatever reason we seem to have given up and just not bid for anyone else since. Or Gerrard really does think Kamara on his own is all that is needed which is naive in the extreme.

[ROBBO]

Under Smith we were buying young players who had potential with sell on value, Gerrard has bought older players who are as good as they will ever be with the problem of no add on value and the problem of being stuck with high wages if they don't work out. It could be the owners are as worried as the rest of us that gerrard is a busted flush.

[aev]

I thought the whole point of Lange was that player recruitment was not the sole remit of the manager, so that when they change we don't end up having to buy new teams each time?

To not get reinforcements in to cover glaring gaps in defence and midfield would be madness - other teams are strengthening and if we don't I think there is a real chance we go down.

[Dave P]

I think the role of Lange is for the manager to say I want player X, and he does the negotiating to get him. He may field calls from agents trying to flog players, but the final decision surely lies with the manager.

[Ian.]

I don’t know why but I get the feeling that the plan was scrapped by Gerrard, maybe not formerly but I wonder if he doesn’t like interference in recruitment. It’s only a feeling and complete speculation on my part. Something isn’t right though, to many rumours and too many players looking confused and unhappy in their roles.

[Dave]

I think the role of Lange is for the manager to say I want player X, and he does the negotiating to get him. He may field calls from agents trying to flog players, but the final decision surely lies with the manager.

We're not going to sign anyone the manager actively doesn't want but it's far more collaborative these days.

The manager shouldn't be saying "I specifically want this player" because he shouldn't be spending the amount of time it would take to really know about them.

As an example, I'd hope he wasn't spending the back end of last season watching random Sevilla or Marseille games and therefore knew that Kamara or Diego Carlos were the right players. What if the perfect striker is playing in Switzerland? Or the next promising new left-back plays for Genk?

There'll be exceptions (Coutinho) but broadly speaking it'll go:

"I need a Nakamba, but one that can pass the ball and at a push dribble it past someone"
"OK, here are six different options and why they might be better or worse than each other"
"K, him first, him second, him if we have to, forget the others".