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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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On Collins - he’s excellent in the air, durable, hard nosed, proper PL CB. Fine player. But imo not really an upgrade on Danso at all (possibly Radu, I’m not sure how he’ll recover from that injury). He’d be decent I suppose, but imo less concerned about the player and more what it tells us about Frank’s assessment of our squad.

What it would signify to me is Frank wanting to play more of a Back 3. Micky was born to play that LCB role and Romero the RCB imo. Could be a telling link about our tactics.

Not just about ability. Think mentality as well.

We need more presence/dominance at the back.
 
Mbuemo a big fat yes.
Collins is okish from what I have seen, was very clumsy when playing for Ireland, though has improved under new manager. Can see why Frank likes him having not missed a game, availability is one super ability. Swap him for Dragusin, but not Romero.
Eze a big fat yes too.
Grealish only on a loan with an option, see has Pep ruined him for good.
Tel only if there is money over from filling other gaps and for the right money, guy has talent but we have a squad full of kids and right now we need experience.
Where is our number 6, most important hole to be filled this summer.
Interesting times ahead, expect Levy to do his usual and plug half the gaps and expect miracles from another manager.
 
He scored enough outrageous shots last season that, instead of being lucky, it makes me think he has real skills and would benefit from playing around higher quality players. He might even improve his tally with us.
I dont deal in stats. He caught my eye 2 or 3 seasons ago when we played them at the Vitality stadium. Was a constant threat with his running and power. Over the next 2 seasons he added goals.

Hes not the best player in the world. But hes proven at prem level and gets goals. Which is more than alot of our squad.
 
Agree with both.

Mbuemo is further ahead but Semenyo’s 2 footedness and dribbling probably means he can overtake him. Incredible press player as well.

But we’d still need Eze or Simmons

Yes and no. Teams and forward lines are all about combinations. I think buying eze, whilst having johnson, solanke and maddison would be a fantastic attack and getting mbueno instead of johnson even more so.

------------------Maddison------------------
--Mbeuno--------Solanke-----------Eze--

That's a fantastic all round attack right there with abitnof everything. In matchplay it would look somewhat like this

-------------Maddison------------------
-----------------------------Eze---------
---------Mbeuno----Solanke----------

Fullbacks pushing on providing the width with these 4 in and around the box.

This is what we need to aim for, and what is required to challenge for anything meaningful.

Il keep banging that drum and pray 🙏
 
Semenyo vs Mbeumo is interesting.

Semenyo offers great ball rentention and ball carrying and gives you in general a physical edge. This isn’t to be discounted, look at Leao, a physical profile gives us something very different compared to Johnson or Son.

Mbeumo offers goals out of nothing and also pretty decent all round skillset.

Happy with either, both would improve us.
 
Yes and no. Teams and forward lines are all about combinations. I think buying eze, whilst having johnson, solanke and maddison would be a fantastic attack and getting mbueno instead of johnson even more so.

------------------Maddison------------------
--Mbeuno--------Solanke-----------Eze--

That's a fantastic all round attack right there with abitnof everything. In matchplay it would look somewhat like this

-------------Maddison------------------
-----------------------------Eze---------
---------Mbeuno----Solanke----------

Fullbacks pushing on providing the width with these 4 in and around the box.

This is what we need to aim for, and what is required to challenge for anything meaningful.

Il keep banging that drum and pray 🙏

Id sign Mbuemo and Eze for sure
 
Semenyo vs Mbeumo is interesting.

Semenyo offers great ball rentention and ball carrying and gives you in general a physical edge. This isn’t to be discounted, look at Leao, a physical profile gives us something very different compared to Johnson or Son.

Mbeumo offers goals out of nothing and also pretty decent all round skillset.

Happy with either, both would improve us.
I prefer Mbuemo but hes off to United. So we can forget it.
 
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