Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread

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Howdentiger2 said:
Announcement re stepping back and concentrating more on feners....Tan to be the man moving forward

Edit...that's just my opinion not what I've heard
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I'm pretty sure that is already the case though. It might mean he does not come to every game but day to day he has not had that much imput for a long time.
 
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PLT said:
I think to a certain extent it's understandable to be struggling to sign players. We're not the only ones, and there are some mitigating factors which are making things difficult.

But it's not just the lack of signings, it's the combination of that and the sheer number of players we've found ourselves needing, which in various ways could've been avoided.

A lot was made of the number of loanees last season. I didn't have a big problem with that specifically, but I think you need to have some succession planning, and we clearly haven't. Too many of our signings end up out of favour or out of the club. The fact that every signing we made last summer has now left the club is shambolic. Obviously in the immediate term we need players in to get us ready for the season that's about to start, but in the medium term we really need to improve the longevity of our recruitment. We can't be signing players and replacing them within a year on a routine basis. I look at Mehlem now and I worry that in a few months Walter might be gone and then will he still be wanted? We can't go on with this level of short-term planning. So much is made of the Brentford and Brighton model, but a big part of that is that your recruitment is very deliberate and considered and you don't just churn through players all the time and then give up on them a year after signing them.
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Absolutely this. Made FAR worse by the constant, short-termist, turnover in head coaches. It's just no way to run a football club and smacks of an owner with a short attention span. We've already seen, at Shelbourne etc, how Acun swings from massive enthusiasm to casual disregard and doesn't augur well for City IMO.
 
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An article on the HDM website re the questions and answers.
Baz has come up trumps again. I am reassured now.
 
originallambrettaman said:
He's probably half decent, but a central midfielder is hardly a priority at the moment, particularly if Zambrano is already on his way here.
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its certainly a priority, Seri is shot to bits and maybe leaving, Crespo is a clear step above what we have already.

Can’t be going into a championship season with potentially only Slater, Simons and a youngster from South America that would be complete suicide.
 
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Anyone got any info on any of the others progressing in the right direction? Hughes, Millar, Leicester winger?
 
Talk Sport was excellent this morning... the voice of reason Darren McAnthony talking about all things transfers, ownership all of which resonates with this current situation. Tomorrow POSH announce a loan from Man City that was agreed 6 weeks ago but they weren't allowed to say anything and still aren't. Who's to say we are not in the same boat.
 
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