Gents, am I the only one who's a bit concerned or alarmed at what seems to be a lack of activity in regards to selling or buying players this summer? I know we've already purchased Trippier and Wimmer, but seemingly not much else seems to be happening.
Dumping the deadwood? Barely heard a word of any outgoings. Plenty of players we need to shift as we've got a bloated squad so we'd need to create space for any new recruits. Really hope we can press ahead with shifting out the unwanted but I suspect Levy will play hardball to the extreme again.
Links with Martial about 2 and a half weeks ago? I haven't heard a peep since!
We've either got the most undercover transfer dealings on the planet taking place, we're biding our time, or I'm just impatient and in need of something to raise my spirits for the coming season?!
Summer transfer activity
posted on 24/6/15
They pîssed the league, and his oppo Hazard had the freedom to cause havoc, so Willian has more than justified his place. When people moan about Lennon's goals or assists, it simplifies the argument and doesn't take this in to account - the impact on the team as a whole.
Good PL winning sides have often had players of his ilk - Park Ji Sung and Ray Parlour immediately spring to mind.
posted on 24/6/15
The first criteria for me is that a player in that position should be a threat in an attacking sense. If he works hard and defends then that's a good bonus. I've not checked out what his chance creation stats are in all honesty, but I can't imagine his goals and assist figures are up to much. I'm not too sure whether Parlour or Park started the majority of games as Willian did.
£30m to them is probably like £20m to us. So while it seems like an obscene amount of money to spend on him, their finances are different to ours.
posted on 25/6/15
It's about finding a balance and Willian provides that for them. Hazard and Diego Costa are capable of score enough goals to win matches and so Willian is able to contribute differently.
Someone always step up to replace goals and assist and I think without Hazard or their other goal scorers then Willian would see more of those statistics to his name. He could have brought that to Spurs because in our team we don't have the players Chelsea has and people like Willian would have to play differently, more attacking and direct.
Definitely better than Townsend and as it stands Lamela too. I do agree though that £30m is a bit steep for us anyway and purely because of that he would have got some abuse (that price tag people are expecting double digit goals and assists).
Ideally, we could do with another experienced CB. Definitely a central midfielder and a striker that is also able to play on the wing if need be because I don't see us buying another 4/5 players. The turnover is too much and we need to stablize transfer to create a core group of players that are together regularly.
posted on 25/6/15
Schneiderlin has come out and said he expects his future to be resolved within the next few days, a transfer is in the offing it seems...
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/24/morgan-schneiderlin-southampton-manchester-united-arsenal-tottenham-transfer
posted on 25/6/15
if we are up against man u and arsenal then whats the point in us bothering? as soon as we get an offer accepted they will both match it. then its down to wages and cl football.. which we obviously come out second best on..
the two areas we could have the upper hand on are guaranteeing first team football, and poch having worked with him before...
but still.. its all about money isn't it
posted on 25/6/15
I think he's quite adamant he wants CL football so if that's the case then let's leave him to it and go after someone else.
posted on 25/6/15
Not worried at all there will be a lot of integration within the squad as in grant ward, Tom Carroll, veljkovic, Harry winks and onomah will be with the first team all summer training. Ccv and glover are due to be supplemented in too.
It will be a new look squad and I honestly believe every single piece of deadwood will be out. I think we will get Morgan S Aswell.
posted on 25/6/15
"It will be a new look squad and I honestly believe every single piece of deadwood will be out. I think we will get Morgan S Aswell."
Such a WUM.
posted on 25/6/15
LLM - poch rates carroll then?
posted on 25/6/15
comment by look like modric (U7431)
posted 3 hours, 26 minutes ago
Not worried at all there will be a lot of integration within the squad as in grant ward, Tom Carroll, veljkovic, Harry winks and onomah will be with the first team all summer training. Ccv and glover are due to be supplemented in too.
It will be a new look squad and I honestly believe every single piece of deadwood will be out. I think we will get Morgan S Aswell.
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Are they good enough though? When I say good enough I mean top 6 quality as a minimum? I don't want kids thrown in for the sake of it so we can celebrate that we're using loads of academy players.