Realistic Transfer Targets (2024/25)

[Gaztoon]

As lampty been struggling with injury or is he just going through a bad spell.. he looked top notch season or two ago.

[Manxst]

1 minute ago, Gaztoon said:

As lampty been struggling with injury or is he just going through a bad spell.. he looked top notch season or two ago.

Had consistent lengthy hamstring and knee injuries 

[Disco]

Knee knack since March according to the internet

[KaKa]

3 hours ago, bowlingcrofty said:

Spurs apparently may not be taking up their option on Kulusevski. Seems an odd one but for €35m he’d be a decent option.

 

Wow. This is really interesting.

 

Think in a more attacking and dynamic side like ours he'd look superb.

 

He'd be a great fit teaming up alongside his fellow Swede Isak.

 

 

 

[toon25]

He's never been a regular first choice, Lamptey, has he?

 

Aside from a worldie performance against us under that fat sack of kebab-eating shit, he's not been especially noticeable 

[KaKa]

1 minute ago, toon25 said:

He's never been a regular first choice, Lamptey, has he?

 

Aside from a worldie performance against us under that fat sack of kebab-eating shit, he's not been especially noticeable 

 

He was pretty much first choice around that time with Brighton I think and was doing well regularly but then the injuries started piling up.

[clintdempsey]

Kulusevski for the price mentioned (30-35 million?) would be a great buy. PL proven, good attitude, friend of Isak’s, will run all day with great energy levels and potential to hit double figures in both goals and assists. Think he’d fit in a Eddie Howe team perfectly. 

[KaKa]

5 minutes ago, clintdempsey said:

Kulusevski for the price mentioned (30-35 million?) would be a great buy. PL proven, good attitude, friend of Isak’s, will run all day with great energy levels and potential to hit double figures in both goals and assists. Think he’d fit in a Eddie Howe team perfectly. 

 

I'm actually desperate for this to happen now 

 

His profile is so well suited to Howe's style. Think Spurs haven't got anywhere near the best of him due to the way they setup.

[Viana]

Diaby and Isak on the counter…

[Whitley mag]

Of the players recently linked and considering positions we need filled this would be my 6 purple targets for the summer with CL football.

 

CB Tobido/Lacroix

DM Thuram/Ugarte

LB Augusto

AM Szoboslai/Wirtz

F Roque

WF Diaby/Lee Kang-in

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2023 by Whitley mag

[r0cafella]

6 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Of the players recently linked and considering positions we need filled this would be my 6 purple targets for the summer with CL football.

 

CB Tobido/Lacroix

DM Thuram/Ugarte

LB Augusto

AM Szoboslai/Wirtz

F Roque

WF Diaby/Lee Kang-in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not brexity enough. 

[Yorkie]

 

BHH?

[andyc35i]

35 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

BHH?

I’m still upset that we never held onto to him

[LionOfGosforth]

5 minutes ago, andyc35i said:

I’m still upset that we never held onto to him

 

Clearly an excellent player, even then. Unfortunately, he played in that 17-19 era that just totally passed me by, I had completely stopped giving a fuck and that whole period from about 2014ish to 2021, I barely recall any of it, except the Rafa period and promotion. I see highlights from that era now and it's like seeing it for the first time.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Same, sometimes I see people in the same shirt that I assume played like 10 years earlier or something. My brain is fucked up by the whole thing

[Matt1892]

I would sign both Lavia and Alcaraz from Southampton now they are relegated. 

[Sempiternal]

Merino is brilliant like, was a huge fan of him 

[joeyt]

Ferland Mendy available to leave Real MAdrid for £17.5mil

 

Spurs and Arsenal linked

[Yorkie]

Just catching up on goals... Eze looks fucking class. Would love for him to be a target were we to get Champions League. That second goal against Bournemouth was superb. 

[Rich]

5 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Just catching up on goals... Eze looks fucking class. Would love for him to be a target were we to get Champions League. That second goal against Bournemouth was superb. 

 

Same agents as Trippier, Wood, Maddison, etc. and contract up in a couple of years.

 

Quotes from a few years back:

 

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"I don't really have a plan," he said. "I have goals and targets that I want to hit.
 

"I think It's more about me applying myself every day and the belief I have in myself, the backing I have in myself I believe that I can reach the heights of football.

 

"I want to get to the Champions League, World Cup, I want to be playing all of this. Not just competing, but really winning the Champions League as that's my aim.

 

"I would say I'm an attacking midfielder. Anywhere across that front four I enjoy playing," revealed the ex-Wycombe Wanderers loanee.

 

"I see myself as an entertainer, so someone you could look at and you enjoy the way he controls the ball, the way he touches the ball. That's what I pride myself on.

 

"I'll say as a No.10 directly behind the striker is where I feel most comfortable and free.

 

"I've had good games playing in all of those positions. I'm still easy playing in any of those."

 

Could easily see us being interested.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I’d rather have Eze than Maddison, I think. 

[Conjo]

On 13/05/2023 at 18:22, Sempiternal said:

Merino is brilliant like, was a huge fan of him 

 

Same, and was painfully obvious he was the better player out of him, Shelvey and Diame. Should have been given more playing time to get back in shape after his injury despite the form the other two were in. Will never agree with the people saying he was weak for moving to get more playing time instead of fighting for his spot. 

 

On an unrelated note, why do all of our recent-ish class managers do some weird stuff that is just infuriatingly annoying?  SBR playing Viana wide left instead of phasing out Speed, Benitez not playing Merino, Howe persisting with Burn (let's hope we don't see Isak starting wide left regularly too to now to accommodate both him and Wilson). 

[KDT]

Before the Arsenal game it seemed everyone wanted to see Isak & Wilson starting, now that it's not gone amazingly well for 2 games it seems like it's the worst thing. Wilson coming off the bench and scoring as he has been doing is probably totally unsustainable. I can't think of any other forward in recent years who has had the recent record that he has when coming off the bench & nobody wants to see Isak benched.

[Slim]

14 minutes ago, KDT said:

Before the Arsenal game it seemed everyone wanted to see Isak & Wilson starting, now that it's not gone amazingly well for 2 games it seems like it's the worst thing. Wilson coming off the bench and scoring as he has been doing is probably totally unsustainable. I can't think of any other forward in recent years who has had the recent record that he has when coming off the bench & nobody wants to see Isak benched.

Isak did win the pen and don't think when playing together would made any difference to the goals against.

[Rich]

https://theathletic.com/4512981/2023/05/15/leif-davis-assists-ipswich-bielsa-mckenna/

 

Bring him home?

 

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He will almost certainly hear more of the same if he gets the chance, as planned, to head back to Newcastle before the end of the Premier League season and take in a match at the stadium where, as a boy, he has fond memories of watching Alan Pardew’s team in the Europa League.

 

Davis was brought up in Whitley Bay, a hotbed of Newcastle support, and counted Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse and Yohan Cabaye among his first football heroes. His season ticket was on Level 7 of the Leazes Stand, next to the away fans, and if you know St James’ Park it is tempting to think this is where he built up his stamina reserves (“My God, so many flights of stairs …”)