Selling even half of our deadwood could fund a new CB.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Broadly I’m with you in pushing Sonny up top, but I think you’re making it look a little too cut and dry. There are a couple of concerns…..
1) Son looked atrocious last season. Let’s hope that’s just the injury but it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that he’s just not as good anymore.
2) Whilst we were excellent against West Ham, we do need to remember is was a very weak West Ham side and a friendly. I’m sure we all agree that we won’t have that level of dominance in all / most of our games next season. When we’re playing against an aggressive team with a high press, having Son up there who has poor hold up play and doesn’t like playing with his back to goal is far from ideal. We’re nowhere near a complete footballing side that can avoid requiring a long ball outlet yet.
It’s definitely something I think we should explore, but I don’t think it’s a certainty that it pans out perfectly by any means.
Personally, I’d love Toney regardless of the ban. He seems to have a pretty good all round game to me and allows you to play in a multitude of ways.
We signed Ashley Phillips for £3m, a highly rated CB prospect from Blackburn.
HK won't renew, but we knew that.
It's fair to say they are on the up.
Sell richarlison and with cash get adeyemi from Dortmund. Hes quality.
Probably means Tabsoba is off.
He's not ready, scored 6 goals in the Bundesliga last season.
Seen him a few times on Bundesliga. Always looks dangerous when he gets the ball. Like fast players as well. Do miss Lennon bombing down the wing sometimes causing mayhem. That last gasp equaliser at the gooners will always be special. Gooners were gutted at the end.
What happened to Phillips medical/joining up with the squad today?
More bollocks?
More bollocks?
Not two though.
Not really, if the player wants to leave and we offer them enough they'll sell like all German clubs do apart from Bayern
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We've really put together quite some collection of transfer duds.
I think the attacking players haven't played anywhere near their potential in the past 3-4 years. So you may be underestimating what they can actually produce in a Postecoglou system.
I think we already have money put aside for one.
Everyone looked atrocious though. So that's no barometer.
It's not about the dominance. It's about Anges set up at every club he's been at. He doesn't have lumbering forwards dropping deep.
He has strikers who tend to play on the last line of defence, making runs in behind using supreme movement.
Weak West Ham team or not, to have 70% possession and 30 shots is a good sign that we'll be creating chances this season.
We simply need someone who can get on the end of them but be mobile enough to actually run and score them.
If we sell Kane the it's the only option we should explore for the next 12 months. There's simply no realistically affordable striker out there who guarantees us anything.
There's a few promising ones, however they've either been around for one year or just had one good season and the sample size is too small to warrant a gamble when there are bigger glaring issues in the team.
I don't mind Toney.
Until they're not. Could be a false dawn, like Everton's a few years back. Remains to be seen if they will have any staying power.
Yup. Ambitious owners with the minerals to get it done in the transfer market
Whereas:
our owners will use their aggression as an excuse why they can’t get their top targets:
Yeah, but a football team is also based on people and confidence and ours will be fragile at best, especially if Kane goes now.