sne Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, PieFacE said: What happened to that lad who was amazing at the Euros? Damsgaard? Was tipped to sign for loads of clubs. Surprised he's not playing in England tbh. Been injured pretty much the entire season. Thigh injury in October and only played maybe 60 minutes since then Edited June 15, 2022 by sne typo 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Sporting willing to sell Joao Pahlinha for only £21m on Wolves & Fulham fighting for his signature. Be very, very interesting in getting him in for that price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 I think Pahlinha to Wolves is seen as pretty much inevitable, he's going to be the replacment for Neves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, useless said: I think Pahlinha to Wolves is seen as pretty much inevitable, he's going to be the replacment for Neves. That's the likely outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsky_11 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 11 hours ago, Adam2003 said: Only very loosely true… of course we can always score more goals and I have no problem with upgrading any position, but we outscored everyone in the bottom half and up to 8th, whereas we conceded more than Burnley. Attack was only rarely the issue. Since Gerrard arrived, 8th in the Prem for both goals scored and goals conceded. We can improve at both ends but we don't look that far off in either IMO. Biggest issue this summer was always going to be sorting the '6' role and getting that right would probably improve us as a team, both in attack and defence, more than any other player. It seems like we've done that quite emphatically with what I've seen referred multiple times in the press as potentially the "signing of the summer". Everything after that is a bonus, but improving at centre forward (if we want a genuine goalscoring centre forward) is probably the hardest thing to do right now because the impression I get looking at the top scorers across Europe is that more goals are coming from elsewhere, from wide forwards or midfielders. The pool of out-and-out strikers we could realistically sign and almost guarantee a 15+ goal return minimum seems pretty limited, so us having a couple of strikers already on the books that are more than capable of hitting the 10-15 goal mark (and the potential to surpass that) I think will be ok this season. Otherwise we are probably looking at spending a lot of money on potential which we then probably need to weigh against where Archer is at and what he might be capable of this season. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grobs Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Gallagher would be the signing I would be most excited about if we could get him. However I think Chelsea will look to keep him around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2:45 in it shows the drop off between where a player comes from and after a move to the PL..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 34 minutes ago, useless said: Don't know him apart from seeing his name mentioned on here but Borna Sosa is reportedly on our wish list . Really good left back with really good stats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 38 minutes ago, useless said: Don't know him apart from seeing his name mentioned on here but Borna Sosa is reportedly on our wish list . Only just broke into the Croatia squad, not sure why he would risk his place as a back up at Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, Zatman said: Only just broke into the Croatia squad, not sure why he would risk his place as a back up at Villa The doubling of his salary would be one good reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, Zatman said: Only just broke into the Croatia squad, not sure why he would risk his place as a back up at Villa The lad is really good, he was my top pick last summer but we have since got Digne. I would love to sign him but I agree I don't know why he moves to us unless he is supremely confident in himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 I think Sosa would be too expensive for an understudy role with us. Seems like a potentially odd allocation of transfer funds to me. Can totally see him starting for a Premier League site this season though (perhaps to Brighton replacing City bound Cucurella?) I think we'll be looking to spend around £8-12m range. Names like Quentin Merlin, Sergio Gomez, Miguel Gutierrez, Adrien Truffert. Someone from the continent whose salary we could easily double, which makes it an easier sell to convince them to play the understudy, and still not really dent our salary budget. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Just now, Vive_La_Villa said: The doubling of his salary would be one good reason. I think he could get a move to someone else for the same dosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Just now, Wes said: I think Sosa would be too expensive for an understudy role with us. Seems like a potentially odd allocation of transfer funds to me. Can totally see him starting for a Premier League site this season though (perhaps to Brighton replacing City bound Cucurella?) I think we'll be looking to spend around £8-12m range. Names like Quentin Merlin, Sergio Gomez, Miguel Gutierrez, Adrien Truffert. Someone from the continent whose salary we could easily double, which makes it an easier sell to convince them to play the understudy, and still not really dent our salary budget. Gomez excited me when I saw his stats, but I have never seen him play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 £20m + decent wage on Sosa would be lopsided squad building I think. Good player though. Surprised Chrisene isn't ready for a more frequent senior role actually. Thought he looked the part, and looks ready physically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Tomaszk said: £20m + decent wage on Sosa would be lopsided squad building I think. Good player though. Surprised Chrisene isn't ready for a more frequent senior role actually. Thought he looked the part, and looks ready physically. probably why are still talking to Young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Tomaszk said: £20m + decent wage on Sosa would be lopsided squad building I think. Good player though. Surprised Chrisene isn't ready for a more frequent senior role actually. Thought he looked the part, and looks ready physically. You could argue you need to act like where you want to be..... as in you need to act like a CL club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, paul514 said: You could argue you need to act like where you want to be..... as in you need to act like a CL club but the problem is we dont have European football so end up with a bloated squad and not enough games. Left back is also a specialist position 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, Zatman said: but the problem is we dont have European football so end up with a bloated squad and not enough games. Left back is also a specialist position Yep, but again you could argue that with that 'bloated squad' you are more likely to climb the table to compete with those CL teams 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 It’s a tough balance. You don’t want too many good players not getting games but at the same time you don’t want a player to have to come in that will weaken you too much. Ashley Young did ok but imagine Digne got a serious injury. We couldn’t afford to use him for too many games in that position. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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