Transfer Rumours Transfer Rumours - Summer 2018

Targett has an excellent delivery with his left foot and can see when a pass is on.
I have never been over concerned with his defending simply because he was usually just filling in for a few games, so not always up to speed, yet didn’t, iirc, have too many bad games.

 

Targett was unlucky here....he broke through and then got side-lined by injury and then found it hard to break back in on a regular basis. He missed the opportunity to be the incumbent in his role....and therefore was always competing to be better than who was doing that job already. I'd have loved him to succeed and would be pleased to see him back (possibly for a sentimental desire to see 'our own' do well), but suspect that he won't get the opportunity....unless our money is going elsewhere and we need a back up (in that case if I was him I'd rather go where I was wanted). Wouldn't we have kept in close touch with him if we saw his loan as a development phase?

 

Can’t believe you didn’t notice we have had one since May 9th!

Merging...

 

The problem with Targett in the PL is his pace, you really need to be quick nowadays to be a full back as it is all about getting forward and back. There is no point in having someone who has a brilliant delivery at full back if he can't get back if teams counter. You would have to play a very specific style where your CM is covering for him regularly and that would probably make your LB your main attacking outlet. I don't know if Fulham play this way, but when I have seen them it seems they keep possession for long spells and are a good footballing side. This enables the full backs to get forward as the team has comfortable possession, that won't be the case anywhere near as often in the PL I'd guess.

 

http://hammyend.com/index.php/2018/05/fulham-eager-to-sign-targett/

Fulham keen to sign Matty....though that is hardly a surprise. They will want to keep continuity in a winning side...and spend any time and money on a bit more quality and depth. Good sense to try a sign a player that will probably want to come and whose home team appear not to need him.

 

I haven't seen anything from Boufal to suggest he is a playmaker. Game changer, maybe, but playmaker? The first thing a playmaker thinks of when he receives the ball is, how to bring others into play. Do you believe Boufal does that?

I'm not sure Tadic really fits that description either, much as I rate him. Because of the positions he takes up on the pitch, I'm not sure he's a playmaker - not in the sense of dictating the play, anyway. Easily our most creative player though.

 

No point having a LB who bombs forward, if he isn't fast enough to bomb back.




Unless you have Chris Marsden dropping in to cover you, maybe.

 

Ok, for playmaker, I read Creative. Both are that.

One could argue then that a playmaker could be a defensive midfielder in the Schneiderlin mould.

 

Well Joe Bryan is definitely off according to my mate who has apparently spoken to him, knows nothing about McQueen though. My ITK career was gash

 

Targett was also a victim of the boo boys early on.

 

Absolutely one could. A presence in midfield who can boss things a bit, turn defence quickly into atrack. Someone who can read the game and pick the pass that changes everything.

If there is one player among the many we have lost, who we haven't come close to replacing, it's Morgan.

...and Mane, but Mane is irreplaceable. Beats me how Liverpool fans don't recognise the enormity of his contribution to their (almost but not quite) success.

 

I did search by the Transfer Rumours blue tab thing but nothing came up for a Summer thread.

 

In fact, I still can't see this thread in the forum listings.

 

Upon reflection, if we do have someone in our squad who is capable of developing into a playmaker, it's probably Hojbjerg.

 

Can’t help you, except it’s called Transfer Rumours - Summer 2018 rather than Summer 2018 Transfer Rumours. The blue tab is fairly prominent on the page!

 

That's because they've been merged. That's why your thread is over 30 pages long now!

 

I'd say Lemina far more than Hojbjerg, he has a decent range of passing already and can control games

 

Lemina and Pierre have the potential to be very good, Lemina particularly needs more consistancy.

 

Nope. Not seeing it. I can only view it when I get a notification - I'm definitely not going insane am I?

 

Pierre is still only 22 though remember....