Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

[Radical Rei]

Just seen Poch down the job center lads

 

[Berserker]

Just seen Poch down the job center lads

Well you ain't seen him on the Juventus training pitch

 

[Totti]

 

[John Thomas]

Yet:
Utd
Real
Bayern
PSG
Juve

Wasn't he excluded from taking another job this season as part of his severence package?

Whatever, you're gonna look one serious twat when he lands his next position.

 

[Cranston]

Wasn't he excluded from taking another job this season as part of his severence package?

He wasn't excluded.

He would have simply had to hand the money back. So it would have needed his new club to offset the loss or for Poch to swallow it.

 

[SouthCoastSpur]

Shaqiri was a bench player for Liverpool. not exactly a ringing endorsement as a comparable for a player coming in to help solve issues we have in the midfield.

Also, when the biggest "defense" of Hojbjerg is that not every player coming in has to be great that is a pretty discouraging compliment for what is likely to be our biggest signing of the window. If we were adding 3 more guys that were better then perhaps that is an easier pill to swallow but when this is likely our key addition to a team that struggled to reach 6th I think people have every reason to question why we are bringing in a guy to play out of position that's biggest asset is "not every one has to be great."

I think he is good enough to play for us and would be a good addition. I stressed 'not every player has to be world class' to appease the naysayers who are not happy with him. It is about bringing in a player who the management believe would release those around him to play better or their more natural game.
So assuming it works and playing Hojbjerg releases Ndombele to play as we know he is capable then it is a very worthwhile signing.
He also would be bought to play as a DM which I understand is his best position and something we don't have at the moment. We could do with some proper protection in front of our defence.

 

[Rebrov_Likes]

Given that they’ve sold Osimhen for 80m I think they’ll finish with a positive net spend this window!

 

[John Thomas]

He wasn't excluded.

He would have simply had to hand the money back. So it would have needed his new club to offset the loss or for Poch to swallow it.

Fair enough . I knew there was some clause in it.

Good on Poch.

 

[bus-conductor]

If liverpool want him. they'll get him.

I agree it's likely, but they Didn't get Werner?

 

[Swoos]

Have we been linked to Sarr?

Would be so dumb if we didn’t try to get him.

 

[bus-conductor]

MVP giveth

Report: Tottenham will consider £18m offers for Moussa Sissoko

Tottenhwm will reportedly listen to offers this summer in the region of £18million for their midfielder Moussa Sissoko.

tbrfootball.com

MVP taketh away

Guys it's one thing to say we are going to consider offers, it's quite a different thing to get offers, any offer at all. Poch tried to get rid of him and would have got rid of him but no bids came in. No one is going to pay 18 million for Sissoko especially in this climate.

 

[ThePreacher]

The GOAT over on the fantasy forum:

Who: The Goat
When: 7th August
Where: SC

We've heard from a couple of sources now that PEH's medical is scheduled for Monday



I guess after he's been shopping at Harrods........

 

[Shotgunofmichalebrow]

If we get Emerson, and, Skriniar, Keep N'dombele and sell Sissoko im buying that bloke on here offering to blow Levy knee pads....

 

[deadleyledley]

Fuck me. Has the thread title changed to Poch instead of Summer transfers?

I'm going to get the best of both worlds.

We should sign Poch to play RB. We already pay him as it his. Might as well get some service out of him.

 

[bus-conductor]

If only Napoli knew this before they outbid no one by about 50m on Osimhen

 

[Shotgunofmichalebrow]

I’d prefer Aarons to Celik from what I’ve seen of him in clip reels. He just looks like a a bit of a steady Eddie type. His numbers are decent for Ligue 1 but that’s about it.

Emerson is way better than both and young.

 

[bus-conductor]

There are so many RB'S we've been linked with , I'll try and compile them all in a list

1. Aarons
2. Celik
3. Castagne
4. Hysaj
5. Atal
6. Dalot
7. Mukiele
8. Dumfries
9. Emerson
10. Semedo

Now maybe there's more than that , but that's 10 names and I'd say 8/10 of those names are better than Aurier (Really don't rate Hysaj and very unsure on Dalot).

In reality we need 2 New RB'S , I'm sure we get 2 of those 10 and be able to give good gametime to both RB'S.

8/10 of them are upgrades

Here would be my order of favourites

1. Mukiele
2. Atal
3. Dumfries
4. Emerson
5. Aarons
6. Celik
7. Semedo
8. Castagne
9. Dalot
10. Hysaj

Feel free to disagree btw

This is what I've been saying for a while now. There's a real scarcity of quality, proven RB options out there isn't there.

I'm not even sure Dumfries that great, whenever I've seen him I've not been blown away, but I haven't watched him loads. He played against us last season twice ?

Atal, Castagne definitely play mostly as WB's, so we have to take on trust how they'd be in back 4's, personally I think it would test Castagne more, as although he's got a good up and down engine he's very one paced (I disagree a bit with RESPECT THE COCK though, I think he's reasonably composed in forward areas - I'm just not sure he'd be getting up there as much in a back 4).

On pure ability terms I'd put Samedo top of that lot. the rest all have some pretty big question marks over them for various reasons. I like my FB to be able to attack, so I'd probably take a punt on Atal, but it's not a rock solid opinion.

 

[Larry David]

Have seen Celik in a few live games, he looks like his crossing is decent and he motors forward a lot, if we can get him for a decent price I’d be well happy

 

[RESPECT THE COCK]

This is what I've been saying for a while now. There's a real scarcity of quality, proven RB options out there isn't there.

I'm not even sure Dumfries that great, whenever I've seen him I've not been blown away, but I haven't watched him loads. He played against us last season twice ?

Atal, Castagne definitely play mostly as WB's, so we have to take on trust how they'd be in back 4's, personally I think it would test Castagne more, as although he's got a good up and down engine he's very one paced (I disagree a bit with RESPECT THE COCK though, I think he's reasonably composed in forward areas - I'm just not sure he'd be getting up there as much in a back 4).

On pure ability terms I'd put Samedo top of that lot. the rest all have some pretty big question marks over them for various reasons. I like my FB to be able to attack, so I'd probably take a punt on Atal, but it's not a rock solid opinion.

When you say Castagne is one-paced, do you mean he doesn't have a change of pace?

My impression of Atal is that he cannot defend for toffee.

 

[Rebrov_Likes]

This is what I've been saying for a while now. There's a real scarcity of quality, proven RB options out there isn't there.

I'm not even sure Dumfries that great, whenever I've seen him I've not been blown away, but I haven't watched him loads. He played against us last season twice ?

Atal, Castagne definitely play mostly as WB's, so we have to take on trust how they'd be in back 4's, personally I think it would test Castagne more, as although he's got a good up and down engine he's very one paced (I disagree a bit with RESPECT THE COCK though, I think he's reasonably composed in forward areas - I'm just not sure he'd be getting up there as much in a back 4).

On pure ability terms I'd put Samedo top of that lot. the rest all have some pretty big question marks over them for various reasons. I like my FB to be able to attack, so I'd probably take a punt on Atal, but it's not a rock solid opinion.

I think we have to accept we’re unlikely to get an experienced RB who’s good defending and attacking in our price range. So you have to decide do you want a more experienced player who’s maybe good at one facet and maybe weaker at the other, or a rawer player who could be developed to be good at both?