And relative to Jonathan David and Toney he was the premium option. What now.
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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Short term thinking. When Neto's out for two months you wouldn't prefer him to anyone. Odobert can be developed into the player we want, Neto will never be him, due to his fitness issues.
Fair point- let's wait and see. My argument would be that we have a winger prospect in Moore already so it would make more sense to buy established wingers- even if Neto is injury prone.
Toney - it's obvious why nobody has gone for him and he wants 200k plus per week...
David - fair point
So we've gone for the second cheapest option
Gyokeres, Eze, Neto would have had a combined total of ~£200m.
Solanke, Odebert, Werner have cost a combined £85m.
So we have saved a lot of money- let's see how our season plays out now.
Solanke, Odebert, Werner have cost a combined £85m.
So we have saved a lot of money- let's see how our season plays out now.
Solanke cost us 25m more than Toney would've, I doubt the difference in wages between the two would cost that.
Oh dear god...Seriously, they're like a better version of a Fox's Classic.
I'm gonna need a new belt!
He'll be injury free long enough to score against us.
Can't see it myself
He's 18 with about one appearance in Italian League - so negligible experience .
It would make sense to buy a new no 2 GK to replace Forster, but that would be someone with a season or more experience, and importantly to be 'happy' to sit on the bench waiting for Vicario to not be available or alternatively there's a deal for Vicario to play in most matches but the new no 2 plays in say EL matches or other identifiable set of matches. Might be any age, even aged 30 looking for a last opportunity to play for a top club.
FYI we've 2 GK's coming out of youth area atm who have potential - Keeley who had a great season at Barnet but is not HG, and 19 year old Gunter who is HG and played a bit in preseason, looking quite promising. So buying an 18 year old who needs experience might be long term planning but doesn't work as an upgrade on Forster who would need to be moved on due to limits on squad numbers
He'll be injury free long enough to score against us.
So will other players, injury affected or not !
Or we could just have pulled out all the financial stops and got a top draw winger in. It’s a fudge yet again, which will more than likely end up costing the manager his job.
Well yes of course, we will have to hope Odobert is the at the very least a perfect set of skills we don’t have to balance the attack but it’s a lot to put on him as a player.
He’s played a year of prem football though. He’s not a rookie anymore.
Yeah but they are currently starters so that's the problem
Net spend of 60m for a team with CL/Title winning ambitions apparently...
We are banking on a 19 year old Frenchman with 1 season at a relegated Burnley side.
He may turn out to be great but it's hardly the gamechanging signing or backing of Ange that we all expected. Same old Levy.
Also played in the french league the year before, probably has played more top flight games than Palmer did before signing for Chelsea.
Lennon played straight away as a 18 year old I think from Leeds.
Have to wait and see how he fits into the team hopefully next weekend
This is my view too. Nothing done so far is groundbreaking.
Therefore, expect similar outcomes to what we've seen in recent years.
If people are fine with challenging for 4th-6th, great. That's OK and all entitled to own view of where the club should be.
If people want more and are suggesting that everything is satisfactory, then they should not moan when we get results like last night because its just plain naivety. We had one new first 11 player last night off the back of poor form end of last season.
We could have used an Eze rather than a Werner or Johnson.