Transfer Rumours Summer 2024 transfer thread
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It’s been near night and day in the opening 3 league games with 2 natural wingers on the pitch v 1. I really hope we get 2 today, would be very underwhelming with just 1
Ah ok, the suspension was only couple of games, and I was sure him playing left back was the previous season? Must be my fading memory.
As we have left backs now, that ain’t gonna happen again, so he won’t get anywhere near twenty odd games in this season.
Owners not immune to criticism but they’ve had a go every window they’ve been here. They seem to be learning and clearly don’t want to get done over in the market having just got big fees for two of our best players. Tough crowd at times
Don’t know about anyone else but I really don’t think Stansfield is worth £9m. At that price I’m happy we aren’t going in for him.
I don't think there's much doubt but this summer we've done our best to avoid spending money.
I'd rather pay that for Stansfield than close to that for Cannon. Leicester apparently holding out for about 10m for Cannon.
I don’t think Cannon is worth anywhere near that either. But I do see your point…
We sign players because we can, not because we should. In nearly every transfer window under Acun we end up signing more technical attacking mids than we need and few proper wingers so the manager feels compelled to play attacking mids as wingers. We’ve had it with Tufan, Traoré, Pelkas, Twine, Carvalho and now Ömür all being shunted onto the wing at various times for various reasons.
Playing [HASHTAG]#10s[/HASHTAG] out wide can sometimes work, depending on the style of play, but even Guardiola has seemingly ****ed this concept off and has gone back to having two quick, direct wingers in Doku and Savinho on the wings.
From what I saw of Hamburg under Walter, once the build-up from the back had been successful, the emphasis was to play forward passes to explosive wingers like Dompé, Jatta and Königsdörffer who would run at the the opposition defence and attack quickly.
Yeh there will definitely be far better value than both players outside the UK
Shankland is *right* there, Acun. Just go get him.
I'm pretty sure your memory is right. Can't see how McLoughlin got 23 starts last season. Is that right?