The story teller has no axe to grind with us, other than us selling them Vestergard and giving them Bertrand....!
Cucurella to Chelsea and Colwill to Brighton on loan confirmed. Good work from Brighton that. Gives them a shedload of cash to get a striker in.
Interesting to hear Ralph say in the season preview interview on OS that he "doesn't just want young players, we have in our mind to get maybe get experienced players too." Hopefully that is a good indication of what is to come in the remaining weeks.
Depends on the position I would think. If we want another CB which I kinda hope we do then we'd need to shift one. Might be the same for the 10 position. We still need another striker though and a full back. Whether we can continue to bring players in without raising funds first or at least clearing the wage deck a little remains to be seen.
You could also say that about creative 10 too, I would assume we would have to move on Theo plus one other of Ely/Redder or Djenepo.
You could indeed say that, and I did so far we have loaned out Smallbone and bought Aribo and although he was cheap, you'd assume his wages would be higher than Smallbones. In an ideal world we'd shift Walcott and one of Tella, Ely, Redmond or Djenepo. Unless Walcott goes to the US you'd think he will live out the final year of his contract here and take the money as nobody else will come close to offering what he is on. Djenepo is our emergency LB option at the moment unfortunately so has become less likely to shift. Tella could probably do with going on loan and playing regular football. And then you'd think our best chance of actually selling one would be Redmond or Ely who in theory should be worth £5-10m for someone.
One thing is for certain - if we get a striker in who is a) in our price range and b) experienced, then he is going to have been pretty average at one of his recent clubs, and therefore hated by a section of our fan base. Experienced, good and cheap doesn’t exist I think.
What is our price range? In recent years our budget has been £0 + player sales. So far this summer we have spent £50m+ and not sold anyone. It remains to be seen how much SR would be willing to sanction on the right player. £20m can still get you talented players from Europe.
Agree 20m gets some talent but i don’t think it’s someone who has been knocking in 10+ goals a season for the last 2-3 years in a decent league. Which is what many set as a minimum requirement. I think if they are 20m, and 25 yrs old, then chances are they will be someone who we think will either work better in our system, or who we can improve, but who will have been short of goals at their last club. Or they’ve been successful in a weaker league…
Have to say this doesn’t surprise me about KWP. Several times last season he looked pretty peeved and tbf in his shoes I’d be mightily hacked off.
Really? Coached and used to such effect he got an England call up. His versatility hasn't gone unnoticed, unfortunately.
I know it’s speculation but with it being said that Adams and KWP not linking Ralph. Isn’t this his last season before he said he would be retiring?
Love the reaction to DL's post as if it's absolute blasphemy lol. I'm sure if somebody had posted "I know somebody close to KWP and apparently there's no chance of him leaving as he's got a great relationship with Ralph and wants to repay his faith in him" then it'd have been treated as gospel by people on here and repeated ad nauseum in the Ralph debate forever. I'm almost certain it wouldn't have been down to somebody with a pro Ralph agenda Not to say it's true of course, who knows? It's certainly not completely unbelievable though and I always enjoy these little snippets. It is a football forum after all and specifically on a thread which is almost solely speculation.
