Transfer window is over and was wondering who everythone thought did well and who did badly. Will split this into which team did the best in the League and who did the worst and individual good and buy transfers (can be judged on cost, attributes or general dislike) full list of transfers in and outs can be found on the link here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...288/Premier-League-summer-transfers-2014.html I shall start it off Best Club in this transfer window Chelsea - Fabregas, Costa are already showing their worth and the loose change spent on Drogba and Remy will certainly give them plenty of backup options for cup games. (Wonder if Torres will refind his form on load) Worst Club Burnely. - Did not bring in enough players and will struggle by December when the injuries start to hit. Best transfer - Lukaku- Very impressed with Everton for getting him. Expensive at 28 million but a proven goalscorer and surprised he did not go to a champs league club. Worst signing - Has to be Taider. Clearly did not fit in and was off with only a friendly and an u18 game to remember us by. Special word for Guly do Prado who I think was wrongly released by us. (When the going gets tough, pass the ball to Guly and let him rework the ball) Over to you.
Chelsea definitely did the best business overall. Mugged PSG off with David Luiz fee. Got rid of Cole and Lampard (too old), Torres (no confidence), Eto'o (past it at CL level) and Lukaku (huge offer from Everton). Brought in some genuine world class players in Fabregas and Diego Costa. Their squad looks superb, probably the strongest it's been since 2007-09 era.
I'm going to board the controversy bus and say that Luke Shaw is the worst transfer in the window. Near £30m for a teenager with just two years experience at a club he grew up in, known to be injury prone, lacking in fitness with no proven international pedigree. Seems like a bad deal to me right now.
Not convinced Lukaku is the best buy. If Alderweireld has what we hope he has in his locker, then 6.3 will be an absolute steal should we convert that. Tadic might prove a tasty acquisition too.
You could well be right. Players of Shaw's age are not the finished article. By all accounts, he's still growing, which is something to do with his fitness and injury troubles. He could go bad or get even better. At this moment, £27M is ridiculous money for him, but I don't care. Let us get the shirts off their backs if they are silly enough. Also, at this precise moment in time, £16M for Chambers seems somewhat of a bargain for Arsenal, in comparison.
Right now the signing of Costa looks best. Yeah it was a big transfer fee but from what i've seen so far, he is worth every penny.
I would agree whole-heartedly with this. At the price they paid, Man Utd were mugged. £30,000,000 for an attacking full-back with a record of 0 goals & 1 assist over two seasons is laughable. I really liked Shaw as a player and thought our team was better for having him in it, but the deal represented outstanding value to us.
having said that above, I don't think there will be too many supporters looking at the Shane Long deal and thinking "wow, Southampton did well there!" But who knows, maybe it is the moneyball philosophy and our management and scouting team have highlighted a specific area where we are lacking and the addition of Long will make us greater than the sum of our parts...
The Chambers fee was by all accounts (and DTLW and Beefy will I hope confirm it) down to his having a release clause written into his contract. Whoever wrote that in at the time, and I'm not blaming anyone, didn't foresee his playing so many PL games last season, which is what made the £16m a bargain. If he hadn't had that clause, I am sure we either wouldn't have let him go, or demanded a much higher fee. I absolutely agree that Arsenal will be seen to have got the best deal of all over the next few seasons.
Best; Shane Long. A snip at 12mill for an international striker, who has proven his worth at two PL clubs. Worst; Chambers. 16mill? Hah! Wasn't even our first choice right back. Apparently "he can play at cb". Not as well as Maya Yoshida though!
Worse individual transfer I'm going for Lambert to Liverpool, from starter to bench warmer, I know it's his boyhood club, but at 32 surely all professionals want to be playing?
Best club = hurts me to say it, but it could be Liverpool. Lallana will fit their style perfectly, Lovren, the tosspot, was exactly the sort of player they needed at the back, they got a bargain with Lambert, and they've taken a massive punt on Balotelli, but I can see him coming good the same way Suarez did last season. They've done okay with the money they got from the Uruguayan vampire boy. Worst club = Man Utd. They're short on holding midfielders and dodgy at the back, so they get in possibly world's highest payed striker on loan. They then let the less than world class but still half decent Danny Welbeck go to Arsenal. Would purple face have done that?
WBA, Villa and Burnley have done crap business. Chelsea, Hull and even ourselves have come out well at the end of this window. For us our best signing will probably be one of Tadic, Alderweireld or Pelle. There's not really a clear worst signing for us - the 12 mill we paid for Long probably too steep but doesn't make him a bad player and overall I think we've brought in quality this window. Worst bit of outgoing business was Lallana, the key to our team, but I understand that he had to go. I suppose that doesn't really make it bad business, just bad that we lost him, still I'm aware that's not (entirely) the board's fault and I think we're all over it now. Also Liverpool mugged us off with 4 million for Lambert, but probably more than made up for it with what they paid for Lovren!
I like your style. But you could easily reverse your choice of best and worst. Naturally I hope you're right about Shane Long. Pretty sure you're wrong about Chambers.
Forget all the fees, because you have to pay what you have to pay for a player. The best individual signing for me is Fabregas to Chelsea. Such a quality, creative player that can hold a midfield too.
last I heard, Villa had found a crack in the window pane and the Cleverley deal may go ahead after all.
