Transfer Rumours Summer '22 Transfer Thread

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kingstontiger said:
Our transfer business is quite astonishing compared with previous years and amazing testimony to the work Acun, Tan and Lee Darnborough been doing. But the shortage of defenders still seems very odd to me. Be fascinating to know if we've got what Shota thinks he needs or what Acun and Tan think he should want. I keep thinking about Acun saying he'd rather lose 4-3 than draw 0-0 and then Shota coming in and keeping us up by playing 3 CBs.
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Think we'll be playing a back 4 most of the time, with a million midfielders we have to really! We've got 2 players for each position atm, 3 at rb if Emmanuel ever comes back.
 
Ernie Shackleton said:
On paper that all looks good business but let's see how it all pans out.


Are the foreign imports robust enough and committed enough for 2 games a week in Autumn and Winter?

The 3 teenage loanees have about 8 cup games of experience between them. How many will be able to step up to proper football?

A plethora of riches on some positions, have we left ourselves critically short in others?
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Word of the day.... I'm going to use it at some point...
 
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Urika Peece. said:
Cheap ? Cheap would have been not signing him at all, that's cheap. Any player coming up here from Chelsea will not be cheap. We need bums on seats now, the retail outlets booming and the corporate lot wading in. It would also help if we scored more goals then we concede, starting on Sunday.
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Relative to other signings he will be cheap, that isn’t debatable. It’s not a criticism, not every player can be on 20k per week. He nearly went to Wimbledon so wages can’t be much
 
HullCityInEurope said:
Relative to other signings he will be cheap, that isn’t debatable. It’s not a criticism, not every player can be on 20k per week. He nearly went to Wimbledon so wages can’t be much
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He might be on plenty a week, Chelsea might be paying half of it during the loan period.
 
Idi Amin said:
You need to learn football...Woods is a proper footballer, looks for the ball. Slater is a grafter, but goes missing.
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Problem you have when talking football with people, is alot of people only watch where the ball is, rather than watch what's going on off it.

I like Slater, but he goes missing due to his concentration, he watches the game rather than be involved in patchs, and often ends up stood next to opposition players, unlike Woods who is constantly scanning for space and moving into it to recieve the ball or pull markers out of position to create space for teammates.

The above is huuuugly under appreciated and alot don't even see it
 
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Hutch-tiger69 said:
Problem you have when talking football with people, is alot of people only watch where the ball is, rather than watch what's going on off it.

I like Slater, but he goes missing due to his concentration, he watches the game rather than be involved in patchs, and often ends up stood next to opposition players, unlike Woods who is constantly scanning for space and moving into it to recieve the ball or pull markers out of position to create space for teammates.

The above is huuuugly under appreciated and alot don't even see it
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I do see it. I also see that Woods is a deep-lying playmaker like Seri, whereas Slater is more box-to-box. The two aren’t comparable so dropping one for the other makes zero sense.
 
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Kalman said:
I do see it. I also see that Woods is a deep-lying playmaker like Seri, whereas Slater is more box-to-box. The two aren’t comparable so dropping one for the other makes zero sense.
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I don't think Slaters involved enough in games, I don't see him making enough defensive contributions to be classed as box to box, I see him flit in and out of games, he will produce a good moment of play then you barely notice he's playing. Very overrated in my opinion. It's almost as if people dwell on the 1 good thing he does but ignore the 89 minutes of anonymity.

If we pretty much playing 5 at the back, I'd take a deep lying playmaker like woods, with Tufan and Seri in the more advanced roles, woods recieveing the ball off the defense and finding Tufan and Seri in good attacking positions will be the plan I think.

Slater will be decent backup
 
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Hutch-tiger69 said:
I don't think Slaters involved enough in games, I don't see him making enough defensive contributions to be classed as box to box, I see him flit in and out of games, he will produce a good moment of play then you barely notice he's playing. Very overrated in my opinion. It's almost as if people dwell on the 1 good thing he does but ignore the 89 minutes of anonymity.

If we pretty much playing 5 at the back, I'd take a deep lying playmaker like woods, with Tufan and Seri in the more advanced roles, woods recieveing the ball off the defense and finding Tufan and Seri in good attacking positions will be the plan I think.

Slater will be decent backup
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He's a defensive mid, the definition of which is to not be noticed in games. What do you want him to do, score 30 yard screamers?
 
Hutch-tiger69 said:
I don't think Slaters involved enough in games, I don't see him making enough defensive contributions to be classed as box to box, I see him flit in and out of games, he will produce a good moment of play then you barely notice he's playing. Very overrated in my opinion. It's almost as if people dwell on the 1 good thing he does but ignore the 89 minutes of anonymity.

If we pretty much playing 5 at the back, I'd take a deep lying playmaker like woods, with Tufan and Seri in the more advanced roles, woods recieveing the ball off the defense and finding Tufan and Seri in good attacking positions will be the plan I think.

Slater will be decent backup
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Agree to disagree then. I see Woods as decent backup to Seri. Nothing special.
 
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