It's too bloody hot...
Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction
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By the sounds of it, maybe hold off getting Palhinha on your shirts for next season
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Interesting. You might be right.
Might be the club being cheap.
Might be that the player himself doesn't want to stay.
Might be something to do with the fact that Leon Goretzka will be unemployed in a week.
I can see him taking that. He'll get much more playing time in Italy, and the sad truth is despite Juve plummeting from their historic perch, they are still a much bigger draw than we are.
In terms of wages, we can blow Juve out of the water, so this better not be yet another 'oh what a pity at least we tried' moment.
I don't think so. His legs are definitely going, no question.
I'd always thought he'd be backup here and useful for cup games etc.
But having his experience and mentality around the place is pretty much priceless, which is why I would have no qualms in making him one of our highest paid players.
Rumours that he is wanted by Sporting and I suppose if he wants to finish his career in Portugal it makes sense.
But a real shame if true. He's my type of footballer
Surely he’s first choice if he goes to Spurs. Even past his best he’s still much better than Udogie and Souza.
Savinho rumours heating up again.
They'd better be miles wide of the mark.
Brazilian version of Ruel Fox.
They'd better be miles wide of the mark.
Brazilian version of Ruel Fox.
I've seen it suggested he's spending him with his family
Given he ditched his wife when she was expecting their second kid a couple of years ago...
We seem to be fixated on certain players...try for them over and over irrespective of recent performance. Gallagher definitely in that category.
Signing players who are being let go by the teams we need to overtake can't possibly be the right strategy
It can be, after all Arsenal's squad is cobbled together from players Los Ladrones and the Mansourites didn't want
The problem with Savinho is last summer made him a white whale, and our track record with those is...well let's call it "Patchy", as on the one hand it did get us Maddison - but on the other it got us Ndombele
‘Football success has not been driving our decisions’...... well this is exactly what some of us have been telling you all for many years, we were shot down, ridiculed and told we were wrong. It turns out we were right all along. It remains to be seen if this letter from Charrington has real substance, or just more hollow words and empty promises.... I know where my money will be. ENIC out.
You fell for that? Really? Anyone who actually understands football knows that success is driven by money and nothing else.
So the owners idea of a new start etc are to go for old targets?
What I’m looking for this summer. Is really a sense of an actual plan.
Do we see moves in the market that show RDZ and the team around him have actually identified what profiles they want in different positions and which players currently in the squad fit that? I get nervous when there are concrete links to different players for the same position but they’re all different profiles. Bowen and Kudus for example are both good players who have (and would) raise the level of the squad but they’re completely different profiles of player and right now we need consistency.
Are we signing players who raise the technical floor of the squad? The absolute priority needs to be this - there are too many players who have problems controlling the ball too often (Richy is a prime culprit) and it means any game plan just goes out the window.
Is there a sensible plan for the young players? We can’t go in overstocking players in their late teens/early 20s who all need to play regularly to develop, but all want to be in the same position. It’s bad for them and bad for us. Similarly, and linked to the above, what’s the plan for Mikey Moore, Will Lankshear, and some of the other more promising youngsters? It’s a well documented long term issue that needs fixing - our development planning has been awful.
Get some of this right and we can start looking forward to a brighter future.
Next season is going to be really interesting. We’re due a big turnover in the squad with some big characters and players (Biss, Romero, Vicario, Richy) potentially, or even definitely, on their way out. RDZ will have preseason with the squad so we should see an evolution in how they’re playing, and we have no European football to contend with. And a lot of other clubs are in flux.
I see this as a unique opportunity to nail the core of what we want the squad to look like for the next 3-5 years, have a run up the table due to a lower fixture load, and start augmenting the squad next summer hopefully with some sort of European football in pocket. RDZ has come in towards the end of a season, in the middle of a crisis with a horrible injury list, and I think his ppg from this admittedly small sample size would have us on 60 points, which is top 6 form this season. The underlying numbers have also markedly improved from the Frank/Tudor reigns.
So I have reasonable confidence we have a decent coach. What remains to be seen is whether everything else lines up to enable him.
Do we see moves in the market that show RDZ and the team around him have actually identified what profiles they want in different positions and which players currently in the squad fit that? I get nervous when there are concrete links to different players for the same position but they’re all different profiles. Bowen and Kudus for example are both good players who have (and would) raise the level of the squad but they’re completely different profiles of player and right now we need consistency.
Are we signing players who raise the technical floor of the squad? The absolute priority needs to be this - there are too many players who have problems controlling the ball too often (Richy is a prime culprit) and it means any game plan just goes out the window.
Is there a sensible plan for the young players? We can’t go in overstocking players in their late teens/early 20s who all need to play regularly to develop, but all want to be in the same position. It’s bad for them and bad for us. Similarly, and linked to the above, what’s the plan for Mikey Moore, Will Lankshear, and some of the other more promising youngsters? It’s a well documented long term issue that needs fixing - our development planning has been awful.
Get some of this right and we can start looking forward to a brighter future.
Next season is going to be really interesting. We’re due a big turnover in the squad with some big characters and players (Biss, Romero, Vicario, Richy) potentially, or even definitely, on their way out. RDZ will have preseason with the squad so we should see an evolution in how they’re playing, and we have no European football to contend with. And a lot of other clubs are in flux.
I see this as a unique opportunity to nail the core of what we want the squad to look like for the next 3-5 years, have a run up the table due to a lower fixture load, and start augmenting the squad next summer hopefully with some sort of European football in pocket. RDZ has come in towards the end of a season, in the middle of a crisis with a horrible injury list, and I think his ppg from this admittedly small sample size would have us on 60 points, which is top 6 form this season. The underlying numbers have also markedly improved from the Frank/Tudor reigns.
So I have reasonable confidence we have a decent coach. What remains to be seen is whether everything else lines up to enable him.
I don't have much confidence there is a plan. Joe Lewis left decisions to Levy who had a plausible strategy even if it never quite worked due to others cheating with impunity. The new regime seems to think that it was football decisions that went wrong but even if we can all agree that recruitment has been poor recently I don't see how to fix that without spending money we don't have.
The best approach would be to spend the whole budget on one or two of the very best new strikers we can attract and then let de Zerbi work out how best to deal with all the younger players.
The best approach would be to spend the whole budget on one or two of the very best new strikers we can attract and then let de Zerbi work out how best to deal with all the younger players.