Now That's What I Call Transfer Rumours! 7

[Smal]

I would still really like Maddison despite his recent drop off. Howe will rejuvenate him and he'll be good for > 1 g/a per game for us. If he gets those numbers in a diabolical Leicester team then he can surely do even better for us. 

[James]

It’s going to be interesting to see who we might sell.

 

for instance we are probably in a position to sell Murphy to Burnley for £15m if we wanted to but we may never have an opportunity to do that again.

[KingArthur]

1 minute ago, James said:

It’s going to be interesting to see who we might sell.

 

for instance we are probably in a position to sell Murphy to Burnley for £15m if we wanted to but we may never have an opportunity to do that again.

Agree. This might be the right moment to cash in on some players that have overperformed. Murphy and Miggy come to mind, but I would guess Miggy is untouchable.

[The College Dropout]

Leon Bailey had better G/A in the Bundesliga. I trust that league less than Ligue 1.  

[The College Dropout]

One good thing about having a small squad this season - is we will only sell 1, maybe 2 players that have had decent minutes. Like a Winger. Everyone else who got us here will stay and have opportunities to play. Love that for them.

[SUPERTOON]

We aren’t getting 15 million for Murphy 

[KaKa]

16 minutes ago, toon25 said:

Gallagher has looked like a headless chicken every time I've seen him this season.

 

I'm sure Eddie could work his magic but he'll cost, what, 35-40 million?

 

Great time to go for Gallagher as the past year has seen him become quite underrated.

 

His year at Palace he was driving forward with the ball, and scoring and creating goal opportunities. He was only 21 years old at the time too.

 

Still think he'd be a really good pickup. In a settled and consistent role in the team he would look more like the Palace version.

 

 

 

 

[SteV]

1 minute ago, SUPERTOON said:

We aren’t getting 15 million for Murphy 

Let’s wait and see if Forest stay up…

[Smal]

we probably don't have to sell many who've actually featured for us tbh. I wouldn't want us selling Murphy at all yet, he's class. 

 

Dubravka, Lewis, Fraser and at least one of Krafth/Manquillo as certs to leave. That's 4, maybe 5 spaces freed up already. 

 

I think Targett will probably be off as well. Especially if we sign another left back. 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if we kept hold of Dummett but didn't register him for the league and had him as a club homegrown option in Europe. Ritchie but he will probably want to go and play somewhere. 

 

But that's 7 registration slots freed up. We aren't going to be singing more than that I don't think.

[James]

Because of FFP we are going to have to sell some good players on this journey, not just about clearing the deadwood.

 

selling a good player or two ahead of their depreciation this summer might mean that Bruno stays beyond 2024 as we wouldn't need to sell him.

[The College Dropout]

We have a small squad though.  And I don’t expect an overhaul of a team that will have finished 3rd.  
 

We’ll sell as many wingers as we sign.  Probably 1. 
 

We could sign 2 midfielders and let Anderson go out on loan.  
 

We could sign a CB and LB. And not lose anyone with significant game time (sorry Targett).  And a proper backup GK. 

[MrRaspberryJam]

Lets just enjoy the ride

[Smal]

3 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

We have a small squad though

of first team quality players aye, but we are still using all 25 league registration slots and I'm not sure Krafth is even registered as one of those. There are still a lot of players in the squad to move on if we want to sign additions. 

[andyc35i]

Yesterday’s game highlighted the lack of squad depth and the need for 4-6 top quality signings. I felt we needed to make changes to freshen things up in the second half, but there was just nobody on the bench you could trust to come on and do the job we needed 

[SUPERTOON]

Howe was asked last night about squad depth for Europe next season. He said something like needing tow equally strong starting 11s.

[Gazzaschicken]

Move 5 on and make 5/6 good signings and bring the average age of the squad down. Ritchie out of contract, move 2 of our gks on, get rid of Lewis and Fraser. 

 

There's still a good chunk of deadwood that will not effect the quality if they go.

 

 Sign a young GK, CB, LB, CDM, RW and ST.

 

Then start looking at younger talent to take us to the next level in a couple of years.

 

[The College Dropout]

26 minutes ago, Smal said:

of first team quality players aye, but we are still using all 25 league registration slots and I'm not sure Krafth is even registered as one of those. There are still a lot of players in the squad to move on if we want to sign additions. 

Aye but the rest don’t play. Getting rid of them is inevitable aye but we won’t generate much in revenue. 
 

Only 1 or 2 playing squad members Will be sold imo. 

[The College Dropout]

We need two CMs minimum.  

[54]

Just now, The College Dropout said:

We need two CMs minimum.  

Getting Gallagher who could fill in that Longstaff role who is also young, has a seemingly good mentality, and will improve would be a good starting point tbh, alternatively if you could get someone like Ward-Prowse for £20m, that would be a decent gamble, and be good depth in place of Bruno, i'd also want and out and out DM, no idea who that would be mind.

[The College Dropout]

Gallagher and Lavia. I wouldn’t be mad at that. 

[kocunar]

Give me pharaoh Khephren

[Geordie Ahmed]

25 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

We need two CMs minimum.  

Yesterday demonstrated that perfectly, just 1 won't be enough

 

In the front 3 we currently have 6 established players (Wilson, Isak, ASM, Miggy, Murphy, Gordon) plus Joelinton/Willock that can play there

 

In the midfield 3 we have 4 (Bruno, Joelinton, Longstaff, Willock) of which 1/2 also will play in the front 3 at times, Anderson is far from established and not convinced he's a CM, so it's obvious we need 2 more in the middle 

[Unbelievable]

1 hour ago, TheInfiniteOdyssey said:

The Athletic reporting current targets are including, but not restricted to:

 

Maddison

Tierney

Gallagher

McTominay

Szoboszlai

Kheperen Thuram

Don’t want any of the first four, bar maybe Maddison depending on the fee. We have enough English grit and PL experience in the squad. Let’s go for better value abroad, like we have done with Bruno, Botman and Isak.

[Unbelievable]

40 minutes ago, andyc35i said:

Yesterday’s game highlighted the lack of squad depth and the need for 4-6 top quality signings. I felt we needed to make changes to freshen things up in the second half, but there was just nobody on the bench you could trust to come on and do the job we needed 

Don’t see that at all. We always had everything under control yesterday, so there was just no need to change things. We slowed the game down, not through tiredness but to frustrate Brighton.

[Hanshithispantz]

Yeah, at 2-1 up it felt like there was no need risking a change. Then both Almoron and Wilson, who would have come off, secured the game anyway.

 

If Brighton equalised we would have brought Maxi and Gordon on sooner.