2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[AV84]

I'm quite happy with the window as it stands, but it is quite funny that before it opened we'd all have said RB, striker, and back up goalie were priority, and we haven't signed any of those 3.

To be honest though I feel like the signings we have made improve us way more than if we'd just filled those positions. So I'm still happy.

Edit - just looking at stats there and Diaby scored 9 goals last season, and Zaniolo scored 5 in 10 games for Gala. Even a repeat of that makes them better than what the other players contributed last season.

[SamTheMouse]

Not sure I agree. I think we still need a RB, a backup 'keeper and another striker, and pretty bloody urgently. I genuinely don't understand why those positions haven't been addressed. We're meant to be aiming high this season, but even a medium term injury to Martinez, Cash, or Watkins would be sufficient to knacker it completely.

[Clark W Griswold]

I’d have said a ‘number 10’ and GK the most pressing, we did get Diaby for the ‘number 10’. The thing is, with things on the up and all the extra games in a euro competition that we have to be one of the favourites for, now would be the time to not leave any gaps for a change.
I agree with ozzjim though, I think it’s pretty obvious that we need to move Digne before bringing in Acuna but I think he’s probably right about Archer too. If we can move him for a decent fee with a buy back that would be perfect and then get someone in who has more experience that can hopefully slot right in as a Watkins alternative. GK and right back wise it’s all very quiet.

[pauliewalnuts]

The right back situation urgently needs addressing, of all the remaining possibilities. More than the striker one (though that too needs addressing)

I still think Olsen is nowhere near good enough but have accepted Emery seems to have decided he is.

[Clark W Griswold]

The right back situation urgently needs addressing, of all the remaining possibilities. More than the striker one (though that too needs addressing)

I still think Olsen is nowhere near good enough but have accepted Emery seems to have decided he is.

I think they both need addressing but would be less concerned about Chambers at right back than Olsen in goal !

With Mings being out for the season it leaves us with 7 senior defenders which isn’t enough. Not for the potential number of games anyway.

[Risso]

The right back situation urgently needs addressing, of all the remaining possibilities. More than the striker one (though that too needs addressing)

I still think Olsen is nowhere near good enough but have accepted Emery seems to have decided he is.

Maybe Emery has decided that Cash is? There haven't been any concrete links that I've seen to right backs.

[ChicagoLion]

The right back situation urgently needs addressing, of all the remaining possibilities. More than the striker one (though that too needs addressing)

I still think Olsen is nowhere near good enough but have accepted Emery seems to have decided he is.

Maybe Emery has decided that Cash is? There haven't been any concrete links that I've seen to right backs.

when you consider that Young kept him out the team and the performance against Newcastle it’s a strange one.

[VillaTim]

Still desperately need -

Olsen replacement
Nr 9
RB

I think its been a poor window in the sense that the big Priority areas have not been addressed. Clearly they aren't seen as priorities by Emery

[Risso]

The right back situation urgently needs addressing, of all the remaining possibilities. More than the striker one (though that too needs addressing)

I still think Olsen is nowhere near good enough but have accepted Emery seems to have decided he is.

Maybe Emery has decided that Cash is? There haven't been any concrete links that I've seen to right backs.

when you consider that Young kept him out the team and the performance against Newcastle it’s a strange one.

If you were going off the Newcastle game it'd be a whole new first eleven.

[dr.chekov]

Still desperately need -

Olsen replacement
Nr 9
RB

I think its been a poor window in the sense that the big Priority areas have not been addressed. Clearly they aren't seen as priorities by Emery

No more, if Carlsberg did summer windows, no? Also, it's not closed yet.

[AV84]

If you were going off the Newcastle game it'd be a whole new first eleven.

People are using the Newcastle game to make whatever point they want to make against specific players. Through the week I've seen the entire thing blamed on several individual players. Cash is to blame. Bailey is to blame. Konsa is to blame. Kamara is to blame. Watkins is to blame. etc. etc.

A sensible person would think if so many are to blame it was indeed a team failure, but who needs sense when you can keep banging whatever drum you've been banging all summer.

[Clark W Griswold]

There’s a difference between blaming players for a loss and saying they should be replaced. Rissos comment is tongue in cheek and I’ve not seen anyone say players should be replaced on the strength of just that performance. For instance I think 9/11 were crap but the only one I generally wouldn’t start very often (as things stand) would be Bailey, but I thought that before the game.

[85kota]

9/11 were crap talk about understatement of the century

[Sexual Ealing]

9/11 was a bummer, man.

[AV84]

There’s a difference between blaming players for a loss and saying they should be replaced. Rissos comment is tongue in cheek and I’ve not seen anyone say players should be replaced on the strength of just that performance. For instance I think 9/11 were crap but the only one I generally wouldn’t start very often (as things stand) would be Bailey, but I thought that before the game.

I know Risso's comment was tongue in cheek, but that doesn't mean I can't reply to it with a serious comment. I'm not going to trawl through a week of posts in multiple threads to back up my point, but I have seen people using Saturday's game as "proof" that Watkins isn't good enough, that Cash is rubbish, that we should sell Kamara to Liverpool if they want him, that Bailey shouldn't be anywhere near the starting 11, that Konsa only functions with Mings pulling his strings, and other such things.

People are entitled to their opinions, and maybe even some of them are 100% right in them, but the point stands, people have very definitive opinions about certain players and they will use what was an entire team capitulation for 30 minutes to lump blame on whichever player they already want out of the team.