Transfer Rumours Ins, Outs, Rumours & Tosh. Summer 2019.

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DHCanary said:
Passlack has been loaned by Dortmund to Fortuna Sittard. No chance of him returning as RB backup then.
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I had wondered whether he might be lined up for a return, but he said after the season that he came here to be first choice and although happy about the teams success he didn't want to be second fiddle
 
JediCanary said:
I am not talking about spending ridiculous amounts of money on players like Chelsea & Man City do when I say I would like to see a significant amount of money spent on players but would like to see maybe a player or 2 brought into the first team for roughly £2m/3m each (no more than £4-5m at a push) I know we have a budget but it would be nice to see a couple of mill spent on a player but not to go stupid like we did with RVW. I want to see the first team given the best chance of staying up this season and beyond.
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Jedi, I took your reference to "a significant amount of money" in exactly the sense you meant it, i.e. relative to our resources. My point was that spending "a significant amount of money" (in our terms) does not necessarily lead to, and may in fact not be necessary for, "strengthening the first team". There is a perennial tendency for fans to think in terms of "good" players, or "better" players; you don't necessarily strengthen the team by bringing in a "better" player because, however good that player may be, he may actually make the team in which he plays weaker than the "poorer" player he replaces. Last summer we sold two of the "best" players in our first team in Maddison and Murphy. We replaced them without spending "a significant amount of money" while at the same time "strengthening the first team".
 
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robbieBB said:
Jedi, I took your reference to "a significant amount of money" in exactly the sense you meant it, i.e. relative to our resources. My point was that spending "a significant amount of money" (in our terms) does not necessarily lead to, and may in fact not be necessary for, "strengthening the first team". There is a perennial tendency for fans to think in terms of "good" players, or "better" players; you don't necessarily strengthen the team by bringing in a "better" player because, however good that player may be, he may actually make the team in which he plays weaker than the "poorer" player he replaces. Last summer we sold two of the "best" players in our first team in Maddison and Murphy. We replaced them without spending "a significant amount of money" while at the same time "strengthening the first team".
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I give you Pogba/Sanchez as an example!!!!
 
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RiverEndRick said:
Synergy is the key, where the output achieved is greater than the sum of the the individual players involved. We achieved this in 1992-3 when we finished 3rd in the top division and then had the run in Europe, including beating Bayern Munich. We had no star players, but we had a team which played for each other and blended into a cohesive whole. IMO, that's what we have now and why we stormed the league last season. We won't bring in a load of new players but we will augment what we now have to increase the synergy. I'll be surprised if we don't start the season with a line-up of players from those who won the Championship. Drmic and Roberts may be on the bench, but I doubt they will replace Pukki, Buendia or Hernandez from the off. The way our attacking players fitted together with fluid movement and instinctive touches to open and exploit gaps is our best chance of success. Their pace on the counterattack will also make it difficult for opposing defences to push up the pitch. All three also have the ability to win the ball back in the opposing third and then turn it to immediate attack. That understanding doesn't develop in a pre-season, it takes time and new players will need to work on it until it becomes instinctive. Farkeball depends on that.
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Exactly RER. And regarding your penultimate sentence about understanding and cohesion, those of us who can cast our minds back to the years of Liverpool domination under Shankly and his successors from "the Liverpool boot room", will recall that, when Liverpool beat First Division rivals to a player who would have gone straight into their rivals' team, he disappeared into the Reds' reserves for half a season or more, before being elevated first to the Liverpool bench, becoming a starter only when he had proved himself able to slot in seamlessly to 'Pool's equivalent of Farkeball.
 
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Seems a bit strange to let Middleton go on a free, and sign this lad for £350,000. When Middleton is a far better prospect....

but ok :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
Forgot_My_Lines said:
Seems a bit strange to let Middleton go on a free, and sign this lad for £350,000. When Middleton is a far better prospect....

but ok :emoticon-0148-yes:
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GM really wanted to leave and he would have been competing with Hernandez/Bendy in the first team. He seemed to start well, nut haven't heard much of him of late.
 
Schalke are expected to announce the signing of a highly rated young goalkeeper imminently. With Fahrmann already not first choice there, this could open the door for him to leave.
 
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Forgot_My_Lines said:
Seems a bit strange to let Middleton go on a free, and sign this lad for £350,000. When Middleton is a far better prospect....

but ok :emoticon-0148-yes:
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We did get a development fee for Middleton of a similar amount. As JMF says, Middleton is a winger and Fitzpatrick is a more a CM and we've been trying to sign him for the last two windows. He is obviously seen as a player who fits DF's tactics.
 
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Bushiri now confirmed officially our end too, joins the U23s.

Meanwhile, Fahrmann is apparently training away from the senior squad at Schalke.
 
bedfordcanary said:
Not that i am too bothered by missing out on the lad from Benfica or Thill, but how is it we are being beaten to signings by a Championship side and a team from Ligue 2?!?!

Seems mad!

I know his attitude might be in question, but I love the look of the Turkish lad, Emre Mor, that we were linked with! He looks class and with some Farke coaching could fulfill his true potential (which i believe is toward being world class).
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Location, location, location I'm guessing "isolated" Norwich vs places that aren't seen as so shall we say rural? Also possibly agents pushing players into going to other clubs as being "better" for their careers

I guess that might be part of it anyway.
 
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