OCK Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Tentacles have been expressed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 It's all Greek to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 We're really desperate for a DM it seems. We've needed one for about 15 years Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 It's all Greek to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Be odd if we break our transfer record on a 28 year old who, according to transfermarkt, seemed very in and out of the Benfica team and only completed 90 minutes 9 times in the league Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Who was ahead of him? Maybe there's a £40-50m player in his position that's meant he doesn't play as much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Pizzi and Fejsa seem to be starting ahead of him at the end of the season. Can't say I've heard of either. Wonder what happened to the Gabriel Pires rumour Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Pizzi and Fejsa seem to be starting ahead of him at the end of the season. Can't say I've heard of either. Wonder what happened to the Gabriel Pires rumour Pizzi used to post on here, didn't he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odear Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Fernando would be far less of a risk imho, but good to see us being linked with players in the positions that have been a problem historically Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohmelads Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 For anyone panicking, don't forget the end of this month is also the end of the financial year! This is when we made signings last summer; Keep in mind we started slowly, losing our first two games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Half were still in before the first pre-season game mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Half were still in before the first pre-season game mind. And we hardly looked slick at the start of the season. As pointed out, we lost our first two games (to decent teams tbf). Definitely could have done with more time to bed in the newbies though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shintonsghost Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Thfs 1st of July thing is interesting, what benefit does the club get from that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Half were still in before the first pre-season game mind. And we hardly looked slick at the start of the season. As pointed out, we lost our first two games (to decent teams tbf). Definitely could have done with more time to bed in the newbies though. Hanley was the only player in the starting XI at Fulham who'd been at the club under 3 weeks wasn't he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Thfs 1st of July thing is interesting, what benefit does the club get from that? TBF its the right way to do it, its the day contracts expire. It's basically end of financial year player wise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Thfs 1st of July thing is interesting, what benefit does the club get from that? TBF its the right way to do it, its the day contracts expire. It's basically end of financial year player wise. Yep. And if you're buying several players and add up the wages they get these days it's the kind of chunk of change we like saving. You don't want players in any later than July though ideally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 We lost the first two games because Anita was suddenly used at right wing because he was seen as needed on the pitch. Meant we had no threat on that wing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toon No9 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 We're really desperate for a DM it seems. We've needed one for about 15 years Last time we had a really great DM was David Batty imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
afar Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 We lost the first two games because Anita was suddenly used at right wing because he was seen as needed on the pitch. Meant we had no threat on that wing. Not sure that was the sole reason, as we had no threat on the left wing for the majority of the season with Gouf there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_F Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Usually pissed off with our undervaluing of targets but with them on this. A price of £17.5m is fucking nuts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mofo Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 We're really desperate for a DM it seems. We've needed one for about 15 years Last time we had a really great DM was David Batty imo. Tiote was great for the first 2 seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 I'm finding a lot of these targets a bit underwhelming if I'm honest, I wouldn't mind but do think we need to splash out on at least one proven quality player to build the squad around. What we seem to be doing seems a recipe for struggling next season with trying to fit new players into the squad. Spash out on Sigurdson and while it will cost a lot he guarantees goals and creativity. Then surround him with promising £10m sure. Hope I'm proven wrong, and I do trust Rafa but fear he's been told no paying more than £15m for any one player or something. Hope I'm wrong and we end up with a Cabaye like bargain but hmmmm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 When was the last time we had a functional central midfield duo/trio? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Cabaye Tiote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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