Transfer Rumours Summer Transfer window

Bournemouth signing him would be a weird one considering they just signed a left back. Sounds to me like he wants the Saudi move but I guess we'll find out today

 

Suspect we'll break that £100m barrier, particularly given Watson and Jobe leaving gives us a lot of leeway. However, I'd be frankly astonished - and tbh a little concerned - if we went mad and absolutely max ourselves out. We'll need to be judicious in the players and positions we target, though.

 

We defiantly will

we mean business

 

Hope so. Don't want to be spending £15m+ on an older left back. It's not a position that is priority for big money

 

Yeah we won't max ourselves out that would be daft

 

Deals will be structured in a way that will allow exits upon relegation that will not negatively affect our PSR requirements. This is also achieved by and becomes more likely by targeting the players we are, it's highlight unlikely if you pay 20m+ for Skipp someone is going to come along and take him off you to leave you in a net short position. This is the difference between our recruitment, based purely on reported conjecture mind, and the signings made by the promoted sides last year. We are looking in totally different markets and arguably calibres.

 

The targeting of Angelino again suggests to me that we may be switching to a back 5. A lot of the reported targets suit that system.

 

Not a chance we'd risk signing someone we believe we couldn't make a profit on, thats whether we stay up or go down.

 

I’ve been thinking this a while. A lot of focus on wingbacks and CBs that have played that system.

woukd make sense as the links to Lauriente and bischoff then

 

If Angelino wants the Saudi move, he’ll get the Saudi move.

No chance ourselves and Bournemouth will match the Saudi wages, and rightly so.

 

What type as i'm assuming we will want to keep wingers in too?

 

5 or 6 as a guess with more to follow.

 

See i'm looking at the lack of winger reports (I know that means very little) and thinking it would be a 5-3-2. Keeps the front 2 from the 4-4-2 and a similar midfield structure to the 4-3-3.

At Lorient RLB played a 3-4-3 with a box midfield, so that could be in play also. Lauriente seems to be more of an inside forward so would fit that.

 

Lauriente is a proper left winger though isn't he?

 

RLB is clever enough to set up a squad to play multiple systems, he will probably want the option to play 5 at times but would be surprised if he totally abandons the 433 and 442 that was our core last year

 

Just looking at his heat maps he spends a lot of time in the left half space

 

343 with wingers sitting inside slightly

 

Nail on head! RLB is looking to have a squad that will be adaptable to different formations,even within matches,in accordance with his assessment of the opposition.

 

At that sort of fee for Angelino, surely we’d be better off spending the money elsewhere.

I’m quite comfortable going into the season with Cirkin/Alese as left back options. I think they’ll both transition well to the PL.

 

I wouldn’t mind him but it’s obviously fee/wage dependant. A lot of experience at a decent level but I wouldn’t go beyond £12/13m. If Saudis are in then we won’t be able to match them.