skell

1 hour ago, rayk said:

Couldn’t agree more.

But they will go into meltdown if they sell Rice as well.

Interesting how this will play out but I understand they are desperate for defenders. Money could be invested wisely

5 minutes ago, skarroki said:

I'd be heading there in the morning to rescue Snodgrass if I was Dean Smith. Even if he doesn't play he'd be a great squad option and a top lad 

Too old surely

Just now, Demitri_C said:

I think batshuayi is a decent player to tbh. Id take him if price was right

Hes on a huge wage I think. Out of out league

11 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

-------------------------Heaton---------------------------

---------------Konsa-Zouma-Mings----------------

Guilbert---------------Luiz------------------Targett

------------Barkley--------------McGinn------------

------------------------Grealish---------------------------

-----------------------Batshuayi--------------------------

Looks better already.

No reason to play 3 at the back and there are better players that Batshuayi. Smith will continue with 4 1 4 1 or 4 3 3 with 2 dynamic wingers

1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said:

This is actually a very valid point.
I don't think our defense is great, but it's nowhere near as bad as the stats suggest because I think we are being hit too often from positions we shouldn't be. Ask yourself this, how many times do we have the ball in a decent position around the box, only for all of a sudden to be defending on the edge of our own 18 yard box? A lot of these scenarios come about because our wide men or strikers seem to lose the ball when they shouldn't and we get countered. 
I think we're the only team in the league where I shit myself when our wingers have the ball!

And on top of that  we didnt have a quality central defensive midfielder to stop those attacks.

11 hours ago, maqroll said:

Is McGinn droppable though?

Everyone is droppable!   The key is having replacements on the bench. People breathing down the first 11s neck.

1 hour ago, Keyblade said:

I reckon we need:

1 top class striker - Dream signing: Abraham (40m)

1 LW - Dream signing: Benrahma (30m)

1 RW - Dream signing: Sarr (30m)

1 player to play where Hourihane has been playing in the midfield lately - Dream signing: Buendia or Eze (25m)

1 experienced CB - this one can be cheap/free.

That's at least another 125m spent again. We might be able to save money on the striker and get a backup fullback too. 

If we're in relegation trouble with this team next season we might as well pack it up and be a Championship club for the rest of time.

                       Abraham

  Benrahma                           Sarr

             Grealish        McGinn

                           Luiz

Targett   Mings   Konsa/New CB    Guilbert

                        Heaton

Subs: Steer, Elmo, Konsa/New CB, Buendia, Wesley, El Ghazi, Nakamba, Hourihane, Taylor/new FB

That is, in a nutshell, the perfect transfer window.

12 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

They both provided crucial goals and assists throughout the season, we paid £9m for El Ghazi and £8.75m for Trezeguet. That is nothing in today’s inflated market. 
 

We’d be incredibly lucky to sign someone better than Origi in my opinion 

I agree they didnt cost much, happy to have them as cover.

As for a striker, there must be better. Mitrovic Abraham would be preferable. 

1 minute ago, Dale said:

El Ghazi also scored goals, 4 in the league including winner against Everton, a goal in win against Newcastle and a goal in a draw against Burnley... 

Not a great contribution then. He has been very poor in terms of Performance . He actually has a lot of ability but it just didnt work last year

2 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

I think he is, he’d be a big improvement on what we currently have as our striking options but he’d cost a lot and would want big wages. 
 

We’ve got Trezeguet and El Ghazi, they both played a big role in us staying up last season in my opinion. In order to improve as a team, we will need a winger to challenge both of them in my opinion 

I'm not sure what you thought El Ghazi did to help us stay up, Trez obviously scored goals but his.overall quality is not good enough. I dont want them anywhere near the starting 11.  We need another striker. There must.be better than Origi

2 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

Origi. Im shocked so many would love him. Did anyone see his performance against us at anfield?

Our priority HAS to be wingers/wide forwards. I would put most of the budget on two pacey, creative players. In the mould of benrahma, buendia, rashica etc

Absolutely this. 2 wingers are priority as we havent got any!  Striker needs to be better than what we have. I'm not sure origi is

1 hour ago, Okonokos said:

All of those players I listed would easily go straight into our first 11, without any worries.

It's all about opinions but normally players take 6 months to adapt to the premier league as we saw with Luiz and many others. I personally would  not take a risk on too many players outside UK. Maybe 1 if they are top drawer.

12 minutes ago, Okonokos said:

I was just giving examples of players based abroad who score goals and would cause a meltdown if we signed them. I believe all of those would cause meltdown level excitement on here. All signings have an element of risk. Even Messi could break his leg in his first game.

Yes. Fair enough but I'm not interested in fan meltdowns. I just want players who can fit straight into the first 11 and do a job. So not signings like wesley and luis and nakamba

3 hours ago, maqroll said:

Benrahma

Albrighton

Lolley

Buendia

Smalling

Abraham

I think that is a realistic list of what we will get, I would be very happy with that but I'd change smalling for a box to box midfielder

7 hours ago, Okonokos said:

Ben Yedder, Dembele, Eduaord, Poulsen, Weghorst, Volland, Belotti, Berardi, Schick, Willian Jose...

All of which will probably need 6 months to acclimatise . One of these and a proven premier league player could.work but not these alone

50 minutes ago, Okonokos said:

There's lots of proven goalscorers overseas that would be a meltdown level signing.

Names please

2 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Been said many times.  Last year we need quantity of players, this year needs less so we can buy quality which obviously costs more.  I think we’ll spend probably the same amount but for half the number of players.

I agree completely. Someone said recently,  maybe Purslow, it's the wages that cripple the clubs. I hope we go 100k plus. I cant see it!

15 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

For this season FFP has been relaxed.

We will be passing Go! ..Whilst spending £200m.     

 

 

I love the optimism. Let's see!

9 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Why? We have the money and within the rules....so why not?

Good point.  We didnt last year. Why would we this year

2 minutes ago, nick76 said:

We have one of the lowest wage bills in the premier league, we have spare space

As a club who has just come up that's obvious. But to suddenly sign a 100k player. No chance

Just now, Mat Kendrick's Dentist said:

I think this is an extremely narrow-minded way of recruiting players. Just because we've recruited poorly from overseas doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to buying locally. Wesley, Trezeguet, Nakamba, etc are poor footballers; it's nothing to do with adapting to the league. Drinkwater, McCormack, Baston, etc had experience of the leagues they were bought to play in. It doesn't mean they should be signed. 

 

We are unlikely to be in the market for the best overseas talent. So if we did go down that route we would be buying players who might need 6 months to settle. Not a good strategy.   We need premier league ready players!

28 minutes ago, nick76 said:

If we want to move to mid table we are going to have to get better quality and that means more money on wages.  Wilson is on 110k per week at Bmouth.  If we still at top of sixty grand then we will be fighting relegation every week.  I’d rather pay an extra 40k a week for Tammy than Wilson for example.

Yes. But it's not monopoly. I'm also sure that with FFP we cant just go out and spend money. I read it takes 4 or 5 years of being in the premier before you can do that.you can.  Honestly, I would be surprised if we sign anyone  at plus 70,000 a week. I expect  3 or 4 signings around that mark.

2 minutes ago, Mat Kendrick's Dentist said:

No more than Dimitri Payet, Ngolo Kante, Riyad Mahrez, Bruno Fernandes, Ricardo Pereira and a million others were

We cant afford to take the risk of.buying potential who aren't aware of how the premier league works

All this transfer talk is interesting but let's not forget wages.   Doesnt Tammy want around 150,000 a week at Chelsea. Isnt Grealish on around 60000 a week. We have to be realistic and I dont think we will pay more than 60,000 a week. 

Forget the defence we are fine. Give me Benrahma, another striker, a winger and a central midfielder.

4 hours ago, Villa94 said:

this is bulls@hit if you ask me for a team that struggled so much last season we need to get ahead of the game we should have signed one or 2 of our targets in the next fortnight not sit around and talk about it 

Pretty sure they are on it right now!