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Author Topic: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.  (Read 1078623 times)

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #720 on: May 06, 2023, 06:20:14 PM »
Someone with pace and a decent shot would help enormously.
Archer?

Loan out Duran and get him back in the squad. We still need a proven final third player on top of that as I think we'll sell Bailey if Ajax show serious interest again like they did last summer.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #721 on: May 06, 2023, 06:20:17 PM »
Someone with pace and a decent shot would help enormously.
Archer?

I'd much rather have had him as the bench option than Duran.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #722 on: May 06, 2023, 06:44:28 PM »
There aren't really any excuses for a poor window. It needs to be exciting and precise.

I've seen some dating profiles with that description recently.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #723 on: May 06, 2023, 06:47:10 PM »
There aren't really any excuses for a poor window. It needs to be exciting and precise.

I've seen some dating profiles with that description recently.

Fucking hell, you're home early!

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #724 on: May 06, 2023, 07:27:17 PM »
Out
Olsen, Young, Chambers, Dendonker, Traore,  Couthino & Sanson. We'll be lucky to get £30m in total.

In
Back up keeper
First choice right back
Young centre half
First choice midfielder
First choice No 10
First choice right forward & a young left forward.
To make the improvement we need that's £200m

Add in Archer, Iroegbunam & Ramsey to the squad. If we get £20m+ for Archer we'll sell, likewise Digne & Bailey.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #725 on: May 06, 2023, 07:30:22 PM »
Bailey absolutely has to be moved on. He really is completely dreadful, a step down from even the likes of El Ghazi and Trez.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #726 on: May 06, 2023, 07:35:52 PM »
Bailey absolutely has to be moved on. He really is completely dreadful, a step down from even the likes of El Ghazi and Trez.
I would take Trez over him, at least he worked his nuts off and harassed defenders.

Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #727 on: May 06, 2023, 07:39:27 PM »
Bailey absolutely has to be moved on. He really is completely dreadful, a step down from even the likes of El Ghazi and Trez.
I would take Trez over him, at least he worked his nuts off and harassed defenders.

El Ghazi is better too. But we’ll improve on all of them next season.
« Last Edit: May 06, 2023, 07:47:25 PM by Percy McCarthy »

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #728 on: May 06, 2023, 07:45:07 PM »
Out
Olsen, Young, Chambers, Dendonker, Traore,  Couthino & Sanson. We'll be lucky to get £30m in total.

In
Back up keeper
First choice right back
Young centre half
First choice midfielder
First choice No 10
First choice right forward & a young left forward.
To make the improvement we need that's £200m

Add in Archer, Iroegbunam & Ramsey to the squad. If we get £20m+ for Archer we'll sell, likewise Digne & Bailey.

I don’t think you can put a price on it. Kamara was free so you never know.

But I mainly agree. In terms of names, I’d like Guendouzi for the first-choice midfielder. The rest - I dunno. Some Spaniards?
« Last Edit: May 06, 2023, 07:47:03 PM by Percy McCarthy »

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #729 on: May 06, 2023, 07:51:51 PM »
There aren't really any excuses for a poor window. It needs to be exciting and precise.

I've seen some dating profiles with that description recently.

Fucking hell, you're home early!

See post-match thread. Felt like the equivalent of the game.

Offline curiousorange

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #730 on: May 06, 2023, 07:52:09 PM »
There aren't really any excuses for a poor window. It needs to be exciting and precise.

I've seen some dating profiles with that description recently.

When I was online dating, I probably was exciting and precise. Now I'm a lot fatter with a prostate the size of a honeydew.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #731 on: May 06, 2023, 07:57:31 PM »
Out
Olsen, Young, Chambers, Dendonker, Traore,  Couthino & Sanson. We'll be lucky to get £30m in total.

In
Back up keeper
First choice right back
Young centre half
First choice midfielder
First choice No 10
First choice right forward & a young left forward.
To make the improvement we need that's £200m

Add in Archer, Iroegbunam & Ramsey to the squad. If we get £20m+ for Archer we'll sell, likewise Digne & Bailey.
I don’t think it will be that radical and we are not spending 200 mil.
I do not think we will sell Archer without giving him half a season in the match day squad.
I do agree we need RB, a top level  wide player and midfielder.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #732 on: May 06, 2023, 07:58:15 PM »
Personally I don’t have an issue with “Donk” I would keep him tbh

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #733 on: May 06, 2023, 08:01:46 PM »
Dendoncker seems okay. Every squad has its okay players. If we replaced him with good I'd be happy, but I'm not aching to improve on him like I am with some of our starting XI.

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Re: 2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.
« Reply #734 on: May 06, 2023, 08:02:14 PM »
Personally I don’t have an issue with “Donk” I would keep him tbh

He's an average midfield back up. Nothing against him, but I hope we strengthen suffciently so that the likes of McGinn become the back up and Deconcker moves on.

 


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