Put it this way, we’ll either keep Gil or replace him.
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Put it this way, we’ll either keep Gil or replace him.
The later half of the summer window has just been nuts when it comes to valuation of players. It’s mainly been Utd and Chelsea, both are taking “paying a premium” to the next level.
Probably replaced with the Ukrainian/russian fella can't remember where he is from.
Those two don't need replacing, Conte already cut them from the first team and signed their replacements months ago.
It's Tanganga and Gil (who already have transfers lined up) that will need replacing.
My guess and my hope earlier on in the window was a new AM and CB.
I think Spence may well be also used as a sort of AM so we should be sorted with attacking players.
Okay but we need 2 however you look at it and I think any failure to do so (poor word but you get my drift) will cost us.
Did somebody ask for a summary and a new table?
Still 17 non-HG if we want to buy abroad. We are supposed to have received a few bids for Moura.
| First | Team | |
| In | Out? | |
| Perisic | GOLLINI | |
| Forster | CCV | |
| Bissouma | BERGWIJN | |
| Richarlison | CLARKE | |
| Lenglet (L) | RODON | |
| Spence | LO CELSO | |
| Udogie | NDOMBELE | |
| GIL | ||
| WINKS | ||
| REGUILLON |
Still 17 non-HG if we want to buy abroad. We are supposed to have received a few bids for Moura.
| EPL | UEFA | ||
| NON-HG (14) | NON-HG (17) | ||
| 1 | LLORIS | LLORIS | 1 |
| 2 | ROYAL | ROYAL | 2 |
| 3 | ROMERO | ROMERO | 3 |
| 4 | DIER | DIER | 4 |
| 5 | LENGLET | LENGLET | 5 |
| 6 | SANCHEZ | SANCHEZ | 6 |
| 7 | PERISIC | PERISIC | 7 |
| 8 | HOJBJERG | HOJBJERG | 8 |
| 9 | BENTANCUR | BENTANCUR | 9 |
| 10 | BISSOUMA | BISSOUMA | 10 |
| 11 | KULUSEVSKI | KULUSEVSKI | 11 |
| 12 | MOURA | MOURA | 12 |
| 13 | RICHARLISON | RICHARLISON | 13 |
| 14 | SON | SON | 14 |
| SARR | 15 | ||
| DOHERTY | 16 | ||
| DAVIES | 17 | ||
| HG (9) | ASSOCIATION (3) | ||
| 1 | DOHERTY | ||
| 2 | DAVIES | ||
| 3 | FORSTER | FORSTER | 1 |
| 4 | SESSEGNON | SESSEGNON | 2 |
| 5 | SPENCE | SPENCE | 3 |
| CLUB TRAINED (4) | |||
| 6 | AUSTIN | AUSTIN | 1 |
| 7 | TANGANGA | TANGANGA | 2 |
| 8 | SKIPP | SKIPP | 3 |
| 9 | KANE | KANE | 4 |
| SQUAD TOTAL: 23 | SQUAD TOTAL: 24 | ||
| UNDER 21 | UNDER 21 | ||
| SARR | |||
| WHITE | WHITE | ||
| TOTAL: 25 | TOTAL: 25 |
No he was only played in that advanced role because Bentancur was forced off and we had no Gil or Lucas on the bench.
Yes. And I just alluded to the fact that we are loaning Gil and we have had enquiries for Lucas.
Just looking at our bench from yesterday - pretty damn impressive:
Doherty
Richarlison
Sessengon
Forster
Spence
Tanganga
Sarr
Lenglet
Bissouma
Without injuries we are probably looking at:
Lucas
Richarlison
Sessengon
Forster
Spence
Sanchez
Skipp
Lenglet
Bissouma
That leaves these 4 out of the matchday squad:
Tanganga
Doherty
Sarr
Gil
If we do sign Tanganga and Gil replacements, I wonder who makes way on the bench.
Doherty
Richarlison
Sessengon
Forster
Spence
Tanganga
Sarr
Lenglet
Bissouma
Without injuries we are probably looking at:
Lucas
Richarlison
Sessengon
Forster
Spence
Sanchez
Skipp
Lenglet
Bissouma
That leaves these 4 out of the matchday squad:
Tanganga
Doherty
Sarr
Gil
If we do sign Tanganga and Gil replacements, I wonder who makes way on the bench.
NO NO NO
Hey, Stevie has already scored 4 goals in 4 games.
With this tempo he will equal Anthony's best goal tally by end of fucking september.
And I will gurarantee you - at least for Ajax, Stevie will be an upgrade on Anthony.
With this upgrade they will also bank in 50+ mil EUR.
What a joke.
I know the winger --> wingback transition gets made fun of a lot with Conte, but I do actually wonder if that is the thinking here.
I still don't think it would be a good move, and transitioning him to wingback would make a lot more sense if we were moving someone like Doherty on instead of Gil, and if we hadn't already got Spence.
I'd be very surprised if this is what we end up doing.
If it's a Conte suggestion, then bring him in. Support the manager.
Are you guys really still hoping for 2 additions?
I mean I also hope this but considering that -
- only what... 80 hours of window left
- all links becoming quiet
- Conte talking about strenghtening the squad in past tense in the interview
I am starting to think (or more so becoming afraid) we have completed our incoming business.
I hope I am wrong of course.
I would not want to see us going into the season with only 5 really usable CBs (with 3 starting in every game) and 5 usable FW's (with 3 starting every game)...
At the same time in midfield we have Bissouma, PEH, Hjojberg, Skippy, Sarr (5 for 2)
and on wingback area Perisic, Sessegnon, Royal, Doherty, Spence (5 for 2).
As I've said previously - there is some flexibility involved - Perisic could play in LW position, possibly Royal in RCB position... but still.
Would not mind an attacking player (also capable of playing AM) + another CB that would be upgrade on Tanganga.
If we actually would get two decent players in, the squad would be frightening tbh!
I think everyone would like another one or two incoming players - if its two, one needs to be taking up an empty HG place (under uefa regs) with another probably replacing Sarr as the 17th 'overseas trained player' in the squad.
No real rumours on the HG player, and with Leicester about to get a kings ransom from selling Fofana its unlikely to be one of their players. Gordon to Chelsea seems to have died - but not sure if Everton would sell at a more realistic £35m
Not that many rumours on the overseas trained player either - Malinovskyi seemed to be a possibility but any rumours seemed to stop a few days ago.
On the other hand club football comes to an end in early November for the world cup and resumes on Boxing Day with the January transfer window about to open then. So in reality we only need to could use the current squad for just over 2 months before an other transfer window opens.
We've made 6 decent signings already this window and not sure any other PL side has got better players in so having finished 4th last season and not having lost any key players (biggest loss being Bergwijn massively upgraded by Richarlison) we are actually in a good position.
But perhaps the biggest trick up our sleeve is having Kulusevkski and Bentancur for a full season rather than half a season from January - and our results improved a lot after they arrived. Just to illustrate that with some stats - Kulusevski got 5 goals and 8 assists for Spurs in that half season and he's already added 2 more assists this season, and his 10 assists in 2022 is already more than any other PL player this year. So every chance he gives us another 10 - 15 more goal involvements than last season, not to mention Bentancur who chipped in 4 assists in 6 months, so the pair could easily be adding some 20 extra goal involvements between them ...... !
No real rumours on the HG player, and with Leicester about to get a kings ransom from selling Fofana its unlikely to be one of their players. Gordon to Chelsea seems to have died - but not sure if Everton would sell at a more realistic £35m
Not that many rumours on the overseas trained player either - Malinovskyi seemed to be a possibility but any rumours seemed to stop a few days ago.
On the other hand club football comes to an end in early November for the world cup and resumes on Boxing Day with the January transfer window about to open then. So in reality we only need to could use the current squad for just over 2 months before an other transfer window opens.
We've made 6 decent signings already this window and not sure any other PL side has got better players in so having finished 4th last season and not having lost any key players (biggest loss being Bergwijn massively upgraded by Richarlison) we are actually in a good position.
But perhaps the biggest trick up our sleeve is having Kulusevkski and Bentancur for a full season rather than half a season from January - and our results improved a lot after they arrived. Just to illustrate that with some stats - Kulusevski got 5 goals and 8 assists for Spurs in that half season and he's already added 2 more assists this season, and his 10 assists in 2022 is already more than any other PL player this year. So every chance he gives us another 10 - 15 more goal involvements than last season, not to mention Bentancur who chipped in 4 assists in 6 months, so the pair could easily be adding some 20 extra goal involvements between them ...... !
He wouldn’t be a wingback because we’re replacing Gil who is our 6th attacker.
He’s not infallible.