AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Berahino anyone? He’s another when he was playing well would have been a good fit for Rafa. There is still a good player in there and we would probably get him cheap. A million times no. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Berahino anyone? He’s another when he was playing well would have been a good fit for Rafa. There is still a good player in there and we would probably get him cheap. You might be right that there's still a player with ability there, but we shouldn't be at the point now where the only way we can afford players of that quality (15+ goals a season) is by 'gambling' on a player with some kind of baggage. Whilst most transfers are a risk to some extent, we should now be able to afford someone, like a Slimani, where there's more expectation than hope. We'll see.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 for literal pennies if rafa thought he could get something out of the lad i'd say why not but the fee would have to be virtually non-existent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 for literal pennies if rafa thought he could get something out of the lad i'd say why not but the fee would have to be virtually non-existent He doesn't even strike me as a 'Rafa' type player anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 for literal pennies if rafa thought he could get something out of the lad i'd say why not but the fee would have to be virtually non-existent He doesn't even strike me as a 'Rafa' type player anyway. no but what rafa wants rafa should get...don't see him having the attitude or workrate myself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 for literal pennies if rafa thought he could get something out of the lad i'd say why not but the fee would have to be virtually non-existent He doesn't even strike me as a 'Rafa' type player anyway. no but what rafa wants rafa should get...don't see him having the attitude or workrate myself Agreed. Silly idea - get back to shark wanking HTT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I wouldn't mind 2 from these 3 Denis Suarez Danny Cebellos Fabian I still want Paco Alcacer as our no:9 next season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Would love us to sign some reasonably young players of good quality now and with great potential. Rafa will make them great Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odear Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 It’s a strange one. I wanted half the team replaced around January but now, different questions. Can Diame keep this form into next season? He’s been outstanding. We’d have to spend 30m on a player who’s doing the same job.. (I’m not saying Diame is worth 30m but he’s playing like a player who should cost that) Shelvey, again.. poor for quite a long time. His success now seems to be linked to Diame doing the donkey work for him. Would keep and extend his contract. Dummett has shown he can perform. New contract. He needs decent back up in case he gets injured again. Yedlin could probably be upgraded for someone else but again, would anyone else put the same sort of shift in? Perez finally seems to have found his best position, Ritchie could be upgraded but same as Yedlin, hard to find someone who would make the same sort of effort. Plus Jacob Murphy should hopefully improve. Assuming we can keep Lascelles and Lejeune, all that Rafa has to do this summer is get some better backup for LB & RB and sort out the attack. If he’s looking at a different central midfielder, I think Merino could be sold 😔 I suspect he’s not settled here and wants away. Gayle should be sold on. As will Mitro and he might sell Joselu as well, similar to how he got rid of Daryl Murphy. Rafa can be cold like that.. So that’s 3 forwards and a left winger we need to sign along with any other squad players that could come in. Chelsea might let Kenedy go for 20m, Slimani could cost the same (seems worth it though) and god knows what we’d have to pay for a pacey forward who can score.. Keeping Lascelles is more important than any other signing we might make. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I'd want more from Merino, Hayden and Murphy next season, hopefully Rafa is working on them. We've been quite lucky not to have to use them much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackyboy Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Don't know why we have this thread. When have we ever done 'Realistic' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 I'd want more from Merino, Hayden and Murphy next season, hopefully Rafa is working on them. We've been quite lucky not to have to use them much. Think Hayden might go tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty__mag Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 Whatever happens we should fight to sign kenedy. Hes a great player and he has taken to the place and many a fan wants him to stay on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astroblack Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Of the current bottom three I'd take any of the following Southampton Davis Dušan Tadić James Ward-Prowse Mario Lemina Sofiane Boufal Ryan Bertrand Nathan Redmond Cédric Soares Jack Stephens Stoke Choupo-Moting Jese Diouf Shaqiri West Brom Jonny Evans Chadli Jay Rodriguez Rondon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 33 year old Steven Davis? Wonder if any Prem teams will gamble on Grealish if Villa don't come up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Parka Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 What happened to Chadli like? Injury? Pards? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Pretty relaxed about who we sign tbh. Other than the odd exception like Sels & maybe Lazaar, players that Rafa has signed that you'd expect to go straight into the team have done well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Refused to do pre season under pulis because he hated running Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odear Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 33 year old Steven Davis? Wonder if any Prem teams will gamble on Grealish if Villa don't come up Grealish.. poor sap. He turned down playing for Ireland after representing them at U21’s thinking he was gonna be some sort of superstar for England. Funny how things work out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 He always has Ireland to fall back on when he hits 27-28 man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Of the current bottom three I'd take any of the following Southampton Davis Dušan Tadić James Ward-Prowse Mario Lemina Sofiane Boufal Ryan Bertrand Nathan Redmond Cédric Soares Jack Stephens Stoke Choupo-Moting Jese Diouf Shaqiri West Brom Jonny Evans Chadli Jay Rodriguez Rondon how many of them actually improve our first team significantly? bertrand probably, evans maybe, lemina maybe, cedric probably...the rest would be squad players imo you could argue the likes of rodriguez/rondon etc. would improve on gayle but we should simply be aiming for better than their level anyway so it'd be backup again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Diouf? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 He always has Ireland to fall back on when he hits 27-28 man. No he doesn't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 the thing we have to consider now, and i'm sure rafa will be, is that he's managed to get a bunch of championship players to top half and pushing for more there is no point in signing more of the same type of player for next season just because we can snap them up cheap, we should be looking to make a next step a la kenedy/slimani types wherever we can Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Of the current bottom three I'd take any of the following Southampton Davis Dušan Tadić James Ward-Prowse Mario Lemina Sofiane Boufal Ryan Bertrand Nathan Redmond Cédric Soares Jack Stephens Stoke Choupo-Moting Jese Diouf Shaqiri West Brom Jonny Evans Chadli Jay Rodriguez Rondon how many of them actually improve our first team significantly? bertrand probably, evans maybe, lemina maybe, cedric probably...the rest would be squad players imo you could argue the likes of rodriguez/rondon etc. would improve on gayle but we should simply be aiming for better than their level anyway so it'd be backup again Shaqiri easily Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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