metalgear
Luka Modric
Speaking about Mitchell, it seems like we do miss him... Have we completely reverted back to old school scouting?
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Transfer speculation
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
What's the hurry? Whichever player we sign won't trouble our starting 11 till well into the autumn
Bernardo Silva is the only signing so far this summer that I think would have improved us/has particularly strengthened a rival
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Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
We mainly just promoted John McDermott to DoF. We appointed that one new scout the other day, but don't seem to have really replaced the lot we cleared out at the end of 2016
Legohamster
Ian Walker
With Son/Lamella out of the start of the season someone will get a chance to get the shirt.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Son has a minor break
He could easily be back
I was playing football 6 weeks after a multiple fracture of my wrist and I was in hospital for 3 days. And medicine has moved on a lot in 30 years
We dealt without Lamella all last season didn't we
I think its pretty much guaranteed that we will be buying someone on transfer deadline day.
You're probably right. And its not as if you get better deals on deadline day!!
StephenH
David Ginola
Come on it's not the same without some spurious guff. I've missed it
It's not the "spurious guff" per se, although some of it is a little tiresome.
It's the needy sods who start to fret when we have not signed someone. Then start the Spurs fans go to whinge, Levy.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Yeah - Son was only going to miss the first week of pre-season, not the season. He should be back this/next week then.
Wolves have shattered their transfer record to sign Ruben Neves in a £15million deal from Porto and confirmed a loan deal for defender Willy Boly.
Defensive midfielder Neves has signed a five-year deal to link up with former manager Nuno Espirito Santo.
Boly follows Neves from Porto and has penned a season-long loan deal as the Sky Bet Championship side continue to revamp their squad.
The club are also close to signing former Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy on a free transfer after Carl Ikeme’s shock leukaemia diagnosis.
Portugal international Neves made 76 appearances for Porto and the fee tops the £12million Wolves paid for Helder Costa in January.
“I’m very excited to play at this club,” he told the club’s official site. “It is a very big club and I hope to help the team to win their goals.
“I have always wanted to play in England and we have a good team. I think we can do good things this season.”
Nuno played Neves 16 times at Porto last season, including in their 5-0 Champions League win over Leicester, while the midfielder also made three appearances for Portugal’s Under-21 side at Euro 2017.
“Ruben is a very good player who can bring new things to our squad,” said Nuno. “I know him well, I worked with him last year – he’s a good player.
“When a player is captain of a big team like Porto in a Champions League game at such a young age, it means a lot.
“He was very pleased to come here, it’s a good challenge for him.”
Boly made five appearances for Porto last season after joining from Braga last August.
Former England international Ruddy is also set to sign after they made a late move to beat Sunderland to the goalkeeper.
Birmingham and Aston Villa were also interested in Ruddy, who earned one England cap against Italy in 2012.
Ruddy left Norwich this summer after seven years at Carrow Road and will join Wolves’ pre-season trip to Austria with the club still dealing with Ikeme’s diagnosis.
The 31-year-old goalkeeper is a popular member of the dressing room and will start treatment immediately.
http://www.teamtalk.com/news/wolves-smash-transfer-record-to-sign-liverpool-chelsea-target
Defensive midfielder Neves has signed a five-year deal to link up with former manager Nuno Espirito Santo.
Boly follows Neves from Porto and has penned a season-long loan deal as the Sky Bet Championship side continue to revamp their squad.
The club are also close to signing former Norwich goalkeeper John Ruddy on a free transfer after Carl Ikeme’s shock leukaemia diagnosis.
Portugal international Neves made 76 appearances for Porto and the fee tops the £12million Wolves paid for Helder Costa in January.
“I’m very excited to play at this club,” he told the club’s official site. “It is a very big club and I hope to help the team to win their goals.
“I have always wanted to play in England and we have a good team. I think we can do good things this season.”
Nuno played Neves 16 times at Porto last season, including in their 5-0 Champions League win over Leicester, while the midfielder also made three appearances for Portugal’s Under-21 side at Euro 2017.
“Ruben is a very good player who can bring new things to our squad,” said Nuno. “I know him well, I worked with him last year – he’s a good player.
“When a player is captain of a big team like Porto in a Champions League game at such a young age, it means a lot.
“He was very pleased to come here, it’s a good challenge for him.”
Boly made five appearances for Porto last season after joining from Braga last August.
Former England international Ruddy is also set to sign after they made a late move to beat Sunderland to the goalkeeper.
Birmingham and Aston Villa were also interested in Ruddy, who earned one England cap against Italy in 2012.
Ruddy left Norwich this summer after seven years at Carrow Road and will join Wolves’ pre-season trip to Austria with the club still dealing with Ikeme’s diagnosis.
The 31-year-old goalkeeper is a popular member of the dressing room and will start treatment immediately.
http://www.teamtalk.com/news/wolves-smash-transfer-record-to-sign-liverpool-chelsea-target
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
We already have CCV, Onomah and Edwards that are very highly rated by most accounts. As well as Walker-Peters and others. Very few saw Winks coming through last season.
I don't think we're in particular need for more young players. The right deal for the right player I'm sure we'll try to make it happen, but nothing happening is also perfectly fine.
Not necessarily. If we start with a 3-4-3/5-2-3 formation Son would be on the bench anyway. We could also start Winks in a 4-3-3 or give game time to Nkoudou in a 4-2-3-1.
I see absolutely no reason that the Son injury should influence our transfer dealings.
afsoc4life
Vedran Corluka
Assumptions!! Our first eleven is below the quality of the top European sides. If we are signing new players, I hope they are coming to improve the first eleven. A new signing joining early also means involvement in pre season. An important part of Pochettino's strategy for the team.
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DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
Has anyone considered Mahrez as an option? He seems to sit on the border of that divide between 'so good they'd want a guaranteed starting 11 spot which we can't offer' and 'not good enough to demand a starting eleven spot' (because of his bad 2016/2017 form), while still being of the general profile that we could do with in that AM band - magnificently skillful dribbler, not too old (26 - not even ostensibly 'in his prime'), pretty quick, solid size in terms of physical stature, Prem-proven, has experience winning things (well, the Premier League title, anyway - at our expense ).
Downsides are that he'd be pretty expensive - Leicester want 50m, and Arse, as the only major reported suitors so far, have been reported as being unwilling to go beyond 35m. Mahrez is publicly unhappy about the price-tag, which might help reduce it to 37.5-40m if it drags out long enough, but that's still a steep price tag for a player who didn't really light up the world last season. I suspect it's at the edge of affordability for us, and then there's his wages to consider - he would likely demand a significant upgrade on his current 100k a week contract, which would put him amongst our top earners. He likely wouldn't ask for as much as he could have last season, though, because of his downturn in form - it would still be expensive, but it's what keeps the prospect of signing him just about at the edges of possibility instead of firmly unreachable.
There are of course concerns about his commitment and his workrate - the former is a genuine question mark given his lacklustre displays in the Prem last season (although the entire Leicester team were similarly feckless), but the latter is a bit overblown given that he does track back from what I've seen of him. Not anywhere near as much as Eriksen, but he does more than, say, Ozil on the defensive side - he's not a passenger by any means.
For me, Mahrez represents a better option in terms of the type of AM we need in that attacking midfield band, and he would also sit at the junction of a lot of things people would like to see in any signing we make - he's *potentially* good enough to be a first-team starter right away, he would be a higher-profile addition than someone like Barkley, he offers something very different to any of our existing options (except maybe Lamela, but who knows what sort of player Erik will be after a year out with his hip problem), he's adjusted to the Prem, he has title-winning experience and he's juuuuust about affordable at the top end of signings we could possibly make - I'd suggest he would be more attainable than Lemar, for example, who won't go for anything under 60m, if at all. Plus, he's just about old enough at 26 that we can sell his signing as one which won't impact on the long-term future of Edwards or Shashoua, two players who I'm sure are keeping a close eye on any AM signings we do make.
I'll put it another way - although I'm not as convinced of Barkley's ineptitude as some people here are, he'd be a better option than Barkley given those characteristics. There are quite a few wage cap/attitude/suitability questions around him, of course, but he might be what we need.
).Downsides are that he'd be pretty expensive - Leicester want 50m, and Arse, as the only major reported suitors so far, have been reported as being unwilling to go beyond 35m. Mahrez is publicly unhappy about the price-tag, which might help reduce it to 37.5-40m if it drags out long enough, but that's still a steep price tag for a player who didn't really light up the world last season. I suspect it's at the edge of affordability for us, and then there's his wages to consider - he would likely demand a significant upgrade on his current 100k a week contract, which would put him amongst our top earners. He likely wouldn't ask for as much as he could have last season, though, because of his downturn in form - it would still be expensive, but it's what keeps the prospect of signing him just about at the edges of possibility instead of firmly unreachable.
There are of course concerns about his commitment and his workrate - the former is a genuine question mark given his lacklustre displays in the Prem last season (although the entire Leicester team were similarly feckless), but the latter is a bit overblown given that he does track back from what I've seen of him. Not anywhere near as much as Eriksen, but he does more than, say, Ozil on the defensive side - he's not a passenger by any means.
For me, Mahrez represents a better option in terms of the type of AM we need in that attacking midfield band, and he would also sit at the junction of a lot of things people would like to see in any signing we make - he's *potentially* good enough to be a first-team starter right away, he would be a higher-profile addition than someone like Barkley, he offers something very different to any of our existing options (except maybe Lamela, but who knows what sort of player Erik will be after a year out with his hip problem), he's adjusted to the Prem, he has title-winning experience and he's juuuuust about affordable at the top end of signings we could possibly make - I'd suggest he would be more attainable than Lemar, for example, who won't go for anything under 60m, if at all. Plus, he's just about old enough at 26 that we can sell his signing as one which won't impact on the long-term future of Edwards or Shashoua, two players who I'm sure are keeping a close eye on any AM signings we do make.
I'll put it another way - although I'm not as convinced of Barkley's ineptitude as some people here are, he'd be a better option than Barkley given those characteristics. There are quite a few wage cap/attitude/suitability questions around him, of course, but he might be what we need.
Wolves spending £15m on players show how inflated the market is
DeleHarry
Jose Dominguez
It's not that difficult to upgrade on Sissoko tbf
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
It seems Everton might be signing Siggy for about £30m and a salary of approx £135K a week, possible more than we can afford these days, especially the salary.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Yes we're below the level of the European elite. I just don't see us buying our way up to their level by trying to sign players to come in and improve us immediately. There just aren't a lot of those players around and those that are around go for massive fees with massive wages. Again, if the right player for the right cost is available I expect us to make that move. I see no reason to think we wouldn't.
Pochettino's strategy matches well with Levy's strategy and seems clearly centered around player development. This is very much a long term approach and has served us very well so far. I don't think rushing to get players in early is a big part of that.
Legohamster
Ian Walker
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
Well I meant the fee and the wages combined so in essence I agree with you.
The issue is not whether he come back but rather the fact that any proven player of his ability is going to be asking for £100K plus, which is a no go at the moment.