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

[ChicagoLion]

Guendozi is never going to choose West Ham over us.

London innit.

[Drummond]

Guendozi is never going to choose West Ham over us.

London innit.

Yep, I get that for some signings, but Guendozi? With Emery? etc. Nah I don't see it. (*crosses fingers)

[Stu82]

Linked with midfield duo  Anida Pizkwik and Amaplattine Maleggges both at Real Sociedad.

That’s how I woke up this morning.

Excellent Percy

[Hookeysmith]

Let's say we gave somebody like Zaha a two and a half year contract on £250,000 a week. That would be £32.5m in wages. At the end of it you'd have no resale value, but I bet he'd have provided better value for money in that time than Bailey, who cost nearly that.

Yes but i could not stand looking at the 2nd most punchable face in football (with obvs choice of Ratface as #1)

[eamonn]

Guendozi is never going to choose West Ham over us.

London innit.

Yep, I get that for some signings, but Guendozi? With Emery? etc. Nah I don't see it. (*crosses fingers)

He gushed more praise on Emery than a bride receives on her wedding day as someone pointed out on here last week.

[OCD]

Did Tielemans play in the Leicester-Everton game? I saw it said that Emery was at the game. General assumption was that he was scouting Barnes but could he have been looking at Tielemans?

[Matt C]

Did Tielemans play in the Leicester-Everton game? I saw it said that Emery was at the game. General assumption was that he was scouting Barnes but could he have been looking at Tielemans?

He did and like most of Leicester’s midfield, was largely invisible. Not the player I remember.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Mentioned it on the going down thread but it's probably worth having a bit of a list of the free transfers available this summer, because there's some exceptional players on there:

Full List: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/statistik/endendevertraege

Highlights:
Skriniar
Rabiot
Thuram
Tielemans
Kamada
Zaha
Asensio
Aouar
Skhiri

Aside from those there are 7-8 others that I think would be worth a look as well, depending on our needs.

I expect that is Man U's shopping list. Until they have new owners they'll continue to shop in the bargain bin.

[Risso]

Probably the players that Chelsea will have brought in on the first day the transfer window opens.

[Dave]

I expect that is Man U's shopping list. Until they have new owners they'll continue to shop in the bargain bin.

Sancho, Antony, Martinez and Casemiro cost a combined £300m over the last two summers.

[Smithy]

Probably the players that Chelsea will have brought in on the first day the transfer window opens.

I don't see how Chelsea don't end up having a big clear out this summer, given the number of players they signed last summer who've barely featured, or not impressed at all.  Then you've got the new manager, who will definitely want to bring in some of his own players (no idea how they recruit a genuinely top coach by saying "we've bought all this shit, that's what you've got to work with").

Plus they've got no European football next season, which reduces even further the playing opportunities for their fringe players.

Maybe there will be a bargain to be had in their fire sale? From their fringes I'd take Pulisic and Chalobah as squad players, certainly.

[Smithy]

I expect that is Man U's shopping list. Until they have new owners they'll continue to shop in the bargain bin.

Sancho, Antony, Martinez and Casemiro cost a combined £300m over the last two summers.

Yep, this idea that Man Utd have been doing it on a shoe-string is baffling. It's closer to £350m if you include Varane from last summer, too.  I'm guessing it's because their spending hasn't been "record breaking", and looks almost timid compared to Chelsea. But they've spunked a shitload in the last couple of years.

Newcastle is similar, with quite a lot of people somehow thinking "yeah, they're owned by the Saudis, but it's not like they've been throwing money around" - ignoring the fact they spend £180m this season!

I'm really hoping we can splash the cash a bit this summer and bring in the two or three top class players that can turn is into comfortable European contenders, and potential top-four challengers.

[Dave]

I expect that is Man U's shopping list. Until they have new owners they'll continue to shop in the bargain bin.

Sancho, Antony, Martinez and Casemiro cost a combined £300m over the last two summers.

Yep, this idea that Man Utd have been doing it on a shoe-string is baffling. It's closer to £350m if you include Varane from last summer, too.

Sure, I was just picking the headline figures. Malacia and Ronaldo add another £30m or so as well.

[tomd2103]

I expect that is Man U's shopping list. Until they have new owners they'll continue to shop in the bargain bin.

Sancho, Antony, Martinez and Casemiro cost a combined £300m over the last two summers.

Yep, this idea that Man Utd have been doing it on a shoe-string is baffling. It's closer to £350m if you include Varane from last summer, too.  I'm guessing it's because their spending hasn't been "record breaking", and looks almost timid compared to Chelsea. But they've spunked a shitload in the last couple of years.

Newcastle is similar, with quite a lot of people somehow thinking "yeah, they're owned by the Saudis, but it's not like they've been throwing money around" - ignoring the fact they spend £180m this season!

I'm really hoping we can splash the cash a bit this summer and bring in the two or three top class players that can turn is into comfortable European contenders, and potential top-four challengers.

Yeah, that is the key for me.  I think the squad is a decent one and where we currently lie is probably about the top end of expectancy with a top manager in charge.

The challenge is now to not only push on to that next level, but stay in the higher reaches of the league for a sustained period of time.  To do that, we are going to have to continuously improve and going to have to be pretty ruthless in replacing players.

[Percy McCarthy]

I expect that is Man U's shopping list. Until they have new owners they'll continue to shop in the bargain bin.

Sancho, Antony, Martinez and Casemiro cost a combined £300m over the last two summers.

Yep, this idea that Man Utd have been doing it on a shoe-string is baffling. It's closer to £350m if you include Varane from last summer, too.  I'm guessing it's because their spending hasn't been "record breaking", and looks almost timid compared to Chelsea. But they've spunked a shitload in the last couple of years.

Newcastle is similar, with quite a lot of people somehow thinking "yeah, they're owned by the Saudis, but it's not like they've been throwing money around" - ignoring the fact they spend £180m this season!

I'm really hoping we can splash the cash a bit this summer and bring in the two or three top class players that can turn is into comfortable European contenders, and potential top-four challengers.

Yeah, that is the key for me.  I think the squad is a decent one and where we currently lie is probably about the top end of expectancy with a top manager in charge.

The challenge is now to not only push on to that next level, but stay in the higher reaches of the league for a sustained period of time.  To do that, we are going to have to continuously improve and going to have to be pretty ruthless in replacing players.

Yep. I see the players from our regular first XI that need replacing, or at least face direct competition, as Ramsay, McGinn, Buendia, Bailey, Watkins.

Guendouzi would replace McGinn in the hybrid right midfield position with the added bonus of being top class cover for Luiz and Kamara.

A striker who could combine playing the wide striker role while offering cover and competition for Watkins.

Don’t have names in mind for Buendia and Ramsay roles, but after that I think maybe right-back and definitely keeper cover. If I’m being greedy maybe an improvement on Cash, although I think he has potential to improve under Emery.