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Transfer speculation
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Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Were Everton linked to Sissoko before we got him? Maybe a part exchange on the cards.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
They might be scoursers but even they cant be that stupid as to sign Sissoko
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
They did pay £30M for Bollasie so you never know
Gazza
Frederic Kanoute
Cryptic?
You have to laugh or you'll cry. How can anyone in their right mind think he'll add anything to this squad? You can get at least two significantly better players from abroad for that money.
Bullet
Andy Thompson
Yes. He will dribble and dance and hack and slice, meanwhile our thoroughbreds will be waiting in space thinking 'er.... pass me the ball'
We don't need that type of player imo
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
Bottom line if Poch does not want him he will not make a bid, if he does he probabl
I get the impression you have not seen a lot of him recently
I get the impression you have not seen a lot of him recently
Its not obvious to me that Zaha is much better than Shooty McShooterson (aka Andros Townsend). I can't see him being our first choice 11 and I think we could get better for the £30m - £40m that he'd cost.
How about Yannick Carasco? Plays in a similar position, similar age, adds to our Dutch contingent but much higher quality than Zaha if you ask me and I think we'd have a pretty decent chance of getting him if we offered Athletico the sort of money which we'd need to pay for Zaha.
Need to add some quality depth so that we can complete in the CL next year. How about this for a window:
In:
CF (young, pacey) - £15m
Carasco - £30m
A young CM - £15m
A decent CB - £20m
Out:
Bentaleb - £16m
Sissoko - £20m
Njie - £10m
GKN - £10m (I like him but we would have Dele, Eriksen, Lamela, Carasco, Son and Edwards for the 3 positions behind the CF)
Fazio - £4m
Vorm - free
Net spend: £20m
How about Yannick Carasco? Plays in a similar position, similar age, adds to our Dutch contingent but much higher quality than Zaha if you ask me and I think we'd have a pretty decent chance of getting him if we offered Athletico the sort of money which we'd need to pay for Zaha.
Need to add some quality depth so that we can complete in the CL next year. How about this for a window:
In:
CF (young, pacey) - £15m
Carasco - £30m
A young CM - £15m
A decent CB - £20m
Out:
Bentaleb - £16m
Sissoko - £20m
Njie - £10m
GKN - £10m (I like him but we would have Dele, Eriksen, Lamela, Carasco, Son and Edwards for the 3 positions behind the CF)
Fazio - £4m
Vorm - free
Net spend: £20m
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Logic is fine but who are the players you mean to buy??
A player I'd like us to go for is Lacazette who would be £40m I guess
He has everything to succeed here and is not being mentioned as much due to the lad form Monaco taking over
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Yeah. Wishful thinking.
I can't provide you all the names as I'm not a full-time football scout, nor have a scouting team working for me!
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
That's it though
We're all keen to suggest where we need to replace and I get that.
But in reality we should only strengthen with players who will actually work and strengthen what is a formidable squad
It has to be top drawer players now as we're that good. Not gambles like NKdou and njie
I watched him for 90 minutes today and he was rubbish. Some of his fudgeups were something else.
Hotshot-Tottenham
Edgar Davids
Very hard to do with the level we're at and our available finances.
I think we're going to have to rely on Alli / Dier / Janssen type signings for the time being.
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
CF - where would we play him? Janssen is our backup physical striker, and Son fills the role of a backup 'pacy' striker. One would have to leave if we're going down this route.
Carrasco - sure, but that assumes that we're sticking with the 4-2-3-1 for next season and need a winger to fit that system. If we're going 3-4-2-1, we don't need a winger, and already have (again) Son + Lamela who can act as out and out pacy wingers/inside forwards in a pinch - plus possibly Gorgeous George.
CM - agreed, although important that this young CM ticks a *lot* of boxes in terms of being a rotation option for Dembele alongside Winks, imo - he needs to be physically powerful, tall, have great dribbling skills, decent defensive instincts and abilities, a great engine...basically the ideal Dembele replacement, since we already have a considerably different type of option there in Winks who we can use to change the game up if necessary. That will cost a lot - maybe a lot more than 15m.
CB - entirely agreed - needs to be adept at long passing and be a decent blend of pace and physicality. Maybe Stefan De Vrij, of Lazio? Heading into the last year of his contract there, iirc, and very highly rated as cool, commanding CB (possible injury issues aside). Or Michael Keane of Burnley, although I'm not sure if a) he has the technique we need, and b) if he'd come to only be a (frequent) rotation and depth option at first.
Personally I think we'll need two CBs, not one, because I'm assuming Wimmer's on his way out and we've settled on a) a three-man back line, and b) Davies as a backup to Rose, not as an auxiliary centre-back. That leaves us with the first three of Dier, Toby and Verts, and then just CCV as our backup - so two CBs would round out the team in that respect. Terence Kongolo from Feyenoord interests me, being a young CB entering the last year of his contract with Feyenoord, and a physical, pacy sort with (apparently) a good work ethic, a quiet nature and an ability to dribble, pass and cross so well that he's been used more at LB than he has at CB this season - which is another plus, because in the event of Rose being injured and Davies not cutting it against the very top sides, we'll have another option if we bring him in (although being from the Eredivisie, there will be some settling-in issues, probably). Other than him, De Vrij or Keane would suit me fine, or someone of that type. A summer where we sign Pau/ a GK to replace Vorm (who's surely leaving), two CBs and a CM to provide cover and competition for Dembele alongside Winks would be perfect in my book.
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K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
These things look good when you write them, but in the real world almost impossible to do, particularly decent CB at 20m
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
I don't really think so - as I said, you have to look for unique situations to exploit in terms of contracts running out in 2018 and so on, but thankfully there are a load of those this summer that we could exploit. Michael Keane's Burnley contract runs out in 2018. Stefan De Vrij's Lazio contract runs out in 2018. Terence Kongolo's Feyenoord contract runs out in 2018. One or more of those could definitely be had for 20-odd million, I feel.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
But we spent £60m this summer gone
We get more money from TV now and if it means with sales having a bet spend still of say £40m that's well within our finances
Don't forget we have sold fazio and Bentelab for an estimated £20m in January ish
Sell Njie and sissoko day and that's another £30m on top
That's £50m before we take into account our increased TV money and we will get money from champions league too