January Transfer Window, 25/26 Season

[Kenny]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2017978586460794967

 

[NicholasG1973]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2017978586460794967

I actually don’t mind this.

He’s definitely not £40m worse than Larsen.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He's basically Kenny Miller for the 2020s but not quite as good.

I do wonder what our strategy (stop laughing at the back) will be. Is it just buy a load of good Championship players as we'll have more money than anyone else, get rid of everyone we can from the existing squad (please do) and then have another rebuild if it all works out?

We won't build what we had in 2017 so that might be the best way forward. Essentially if you don't go up in year 1 or 2 following relegation then you get stuck, and honestly, fuck that noise.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2017978586460794967

 

[sycophantia]

He's basically Kenny Miller for the 2020s but not quite as good.

I do wonder what our strategy (stop laughing at the back) will be. Is it just buy a load of good Championship players as we'll have more money than anyone else, get rid of everyone we can from the existing squad (please do) and then have another rebuild if it all works out?

We won't build what we had in 2017 so that might be the best way forward. Essentially if you don't go up in year 1 or 2 following relegation then you get stuck, and honestly, fuck that noise.

Think thats what it looks like. No exciting signings but players that can do the job at that level. It feels like an actual plan, but that can't be right surely?

 

[NicholasG1973]

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He's basically Kenny Miller for the 2020s but not quite as good.

I do wonder what our strategy (stop laughing at the back) will be. Is it just buy a load of good Championship players as we'll have more money than anyone else, get rid of everyone we can from the existing squad (please do) and then have another rebuild if it all works out?

We won't build what we had in 2017 so that might be the best way forward. Essentially if you don't go up in year 1 or 2 following relegation then you get stuck, and honestly, fuck that noise.

Yeah, if this is the plan it’s probably as good as it’s going to get.

With a few of the current squad (Mane, Bueno, R Gomes, Toti, JRB, Tolu maybe) plus the money we’ll get from the rest, should mean we’re definitely one of the richest clubs in the Championship as well as having one of the best squads…..assuming we add these better Champ players.

I agree, fuck being there for more than a season (two at most) - it’s awful. All of it.

Whether Edwards can do the job next year remains a massive question mark for me, though.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Whether Edwards can do the job next year remains a massive question mark for me, though.

Oh yeah, that's an intangible that I can't answer. He's been good at that level and awful at that level.

I don't think there is an equivalent of 2006 Mick out there but if there were, I'd probably go down that road.

 

[AndyWolves]

Buying players for our team that are better than the players that other teams have is never a bad strategy.

The problem I see for next season is that the other two relegated teams are better than we are, and probably will be next season which ultimately means play-offs for us at best

 

[NicholasG1973]

Buying players for our team that are better than the players that other teams have is never a bad strategy.

The problem I see for next season is that the other two relegated teams are better than we are, and probably will be next season which ultimately means play-offs for us at best

If it’s, say, Leeds and Burnley though, we’ll have tonnes more money than them and I don’t think they’ll be any better than us at all by then.

If we sell Sa, Andre, Arias, Gomes, Hwang and Agba, there’s probably £100m there to spend.

Obviously, how we spend it is an entirely different conversation.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Buying players for our team that are better than the players that other teams have is never a bad strategy.

The problem I see for next season is that the other two relegated teams are better than we are, and probably will be next season which ultimately means play-offs for us at best

If West Ham go down the players jumping from our sinking ship will pail to the Titanic of The Hammers

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Buying players for our team that are better than the players that other teams have is never a bad strategy.

The problem I see for next season is that the other two relegated teams are better than we are, and probably will be next season which ultimately means play-offs for us at best

Not sure Burnley are that much better.

 

[Leyton Wolf]

I think that sort of has to be the strategy. Building a team of players who are way too good for that level like we had in 2017 is rare.

It's a weird (and awful) league and the squad and strategy for getting out of it doesn't really make for teams built to stay up the following year.

If you look at the top 6 or 7 now, if they want to stand any chance of staying up after promotion they all need major major investment. Get promoted and then spend £100m on a new squad and hope it works out is the blueprint now. Burnley have basically swapped out a chunk of their first 11 three years running.

 

[Tony Towner]

He's basically Kenny Miller for the 2020s but not quite as good.

I do wonder what our strategy (stop laughing at the back) will be. Is it just buy a load of good Championship players as we'll have more money than anyone else, get rid of everyone we can from the existing squad (please do) and then have another rebuild if it all works out?

We won't build what we had in 2017 so that might be the best way forward. Essentially if you don't go up in year 1 or 2 following relegation then you get stuck, and honestly, fuck that noise.

Essentially what Ipswich did last season but in the wrong league, or what we did in League 1 be it at a lower level

 

[basher]

I mean there's no doubt that we'll have a financial advantage over most of the teams in the Championship... unfortunately we're crippled by having the worst recruitment team in the division!

 

[Tony Towner]

I mean there's no doubt that we'll have a financial advantage over most of the teams in the Championship... unfortunately we're crippled by having the worst recruitment team in the division!

I don’t actually know what our recruitment team looks like. We know Shi did wtf he wanted and then Vitor and his mate went on their shopping spree of shite. How good are our scouts or network? I don't have a lot of confidence in Jackson as the head, but those lower down if listened to?

 

[big mean bunny]

I am not giving credit as we shouldn't be relegated before it was even February so there is no credit. But what I do like at least, is that is a signing now made for next season. Means they can deal with outgoings and it not being too impactful to the start of the season.

Always critical when we haven't built enough of the squad heading into the August/summer window closing so starting at least a tiny part of that now is at least smart.

 

[basher]

I don’t actually know what our recruitment team looks like. We know Shi did wtf he wanted and then Vitor and his mate went on their shopping spree of shite. How good are our scouts or network? I don't have a lot of confidence in Jackson as the head, but those lower down if listened to?

I couldn't tell you either...I should have said "strategy" rather than "team".

 

[prawnking]

We have to try and not filter everything through the darkest lense as it's been a bad enough season as it is, but it's unforgivable how far the club has been allowed to plummet, given the pretty strong position we got ourselves into after years and years of mediocrity.

Makes me so fucked off I try not to think about it too much

 

[sycophantia]

Lets not forget in our Championship winning season as well as the glamour signings such as Jota, Neves and Boly, we also had a load of journeymen such as Douglas, Bennet, Bonatini and Ruddy, also Doc and Coady who were universally hated on here. Obviously the issue will be can we keep enough class in the squad.

 

[Kenny]

I couldn't tell you either...I should have said "strategy" rather than "team".

Our strategy appears to depend on what day of the week it is