Transfer Rumours Summer '22 Transfer Thread

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originallambrettaman said:
Young midfielder Vaughn Covil has joined Hull City Academy on a one-year deal, with the club holding the option of an extra year.

The 18-year-old will link up with Richard Naylor’s Under-23 side as he continues his development with the Tigers in the Professional Development League.

Born in San Diego, California, Covil played youth football at Amesbury Town, before signing for Premier League side Southampton in 2014. Spending five years with the Saints, Covil joined Forest Green Rovers in June 2019.


Four months later, the attacking midfielder made his debut for Rovers in a goalless EFL Trophy draw against Coventry City, scoring his spot-kick in a 8-7 penalty shootout win.

Also netting in the third round of the FA Youth Cup against Middlesbrough, Covil made seven appearances for Forest Green over two years, with two of them coming in League Two.

Spending time out on loan at Salisbury and Melksham Town in his career, the 18-year-old has been called up internationally by England at Under-15s level, and United States at Under-16s level.

Covil spent time on trial with the Tigers at the back end of the 2021/22 season, scoring the second goal in a 3-0 victory over Cardiff City Under-23s at the MKM Stadium back in April.

The attacking midfielder has also been training regularly at Cottingham with Shota Arveladze and the first team since joining the Tigers.
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Training with the first team. Does that indicate that they think highly of him and are expecting him to progress quickly?
 
Connor Mahoney – an attack-minded midfielder who can play through the centre of the pitch or in both wide positions – joins Huddersfield Town as a free agent after departing fellow Championship club Millwall.
 
chillo said:
its the needless short misplaced passes which seem odd since he will come up with a hollywood type pass every now and then.
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That’s probably why he’s playing in the championship then. I can live with it too considering how limited our midfield has been for a while now
 
NewcastleTiger said:
He started 26 games for them, made a further 7 sub apps. Fulham also had Cairney, Reed, Chalobah and Onomah fighting for that spot which is probably why they won the league so convincingly.

For context he started the 2nd most out of them
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for even more context he started the first 20 games ish and then once cairney was fit, reed and/or cairney were favoured over him. he was sub in basically the last 8 games. apart from once the title was won and they let him start a game in which they lost 4-0. he was brought off at half time in two games against blood and thunder clubs and wasnt injured. like some of their fans say he isnt the man you want in the trenches but can play some superb football. when he wants to. i watched him play in the africa cup of nations and he didnt do much. but then again not many did. i am sure if he has an enforcer type beside him he will be good for us. i mean they were aiming to to win the title scoring a record number of goakls etc. i dont think our aspirations are that high.
not yet....
 
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chillo said:
a lot of the fulham fans rated him, but silva didnt share that view. he did give the ball away a lot despite being able to play some fantastic passes. and he was often easily dispossessed due to his size. if he can be bothered he will be a great buy for city. but i remember games like peterborough away for fulham he often went missing. back end of the season he was mostly sub for them. but the players seemed to like him. hopefully at city he will be appreciated more and i think the odd cuddle gets the best out of some players.
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Often went missing, give the ball away a lot and is easily dispossessed due to his size other than those three little things he sounds goodhmm, hopefully though he will be good for us.
 
It sounds like Silva was maybe not playing Seri in his best role and used him more as cover until his preferred player came back from injury.. I personally think we'll see Seri & Tufan play in front of a proper defensive midfielder.. part of a 3 man midfield. Hopefully then he can really shine for us.
 
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hullborn said:
It sounds like Silva was maybe not playing Seri in his best role and used him more as cover until his preferred player came back from injury.. I personally think we'll see Seri & Tufan play in front of a proper defensive midfielder.. part of a 3 man midfield. Hopefully then he can really shine for us.
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I think that’s how I see it best, or Tufan in front of a ball winner alongside Seri
 
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hullborn said:
It sounds like Silva was maybe not playing Seri in his best role and used him more as cover until his preferred player came back from injury.. I personally think we'll see Seri & Tufan play in front of a proper defensive midfielder.. part of a 3 man midfield. Hopefully then he can really shine for us.
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Seri will be playing in the deep midfield role so he'll either be playing the holding role alone or alongside someone (Tufan) with a more advanced midfielder
 
NewcastleTiger said:
I think that’s how I see it best, or Tufan in front of a ball winner alongside Seri
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Given Shota asked George to play further right towards the end of last season it's probably unlikely we'll play with a single central attacking midfielder as Honeyman likes to play.

Probably will be 2 more adventurous ones either side of a DM, be it a Huddlestone style one or enforcer type.

I can't see it being 3 centre backs, 2 wingbacks and 2 holding midfielders like we finished the season (mostly).
 
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NewcastleTiger said:
That’s not a very balanced midfield IMO
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Maybe not, but I just can't see Seri playing as a box to box or more advanced. Acun said he wants him to orchestrate the team, so he'll be playing deep. Tufan has stats scarily similar to Doch in many respects so I think it'll work a bit like our L1 season and then we'll bring somebody in to replace Honeyman.

I'm expecting a ball winning midfielder too mind.
 
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Mckechnie Orange said:
Given Shota asked George to play further right towards the end of last season it's probably unlikely we'll play with a single central attacking midfielder as Honeyman likes to play.

Probably will be 2 more adventurous ones either side of a DM, be it a Huddlestone style one or enforcer type.

I can't see it being 3 centre backs, 2 wingbacks and 2 holding midfielders like we finished the season (mostly).
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Agreed, a bit like Liverpool or Man City's midfield. No out and out attacking midfielder or a classic "10", but 2 central mids with a bit of freedom to go and play, knowing there's protection behind by the defensive midfielder, whoever that may be for us.
 
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