The 2015/2016 Summer Improvement Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

Yeah, you couldn't play their current system and play those two. No chance.

 

[Johnny75]

Jackett and Thelwell have performed poorly in the transfer market this last season with only Afobe and RvlP having a regular impact on the first team. That's shocking. I hope they perform better this summer and they look to have started well. I hope the Mason rumours aren't true as he's very average and I can't see him moving Dicko or Afobe. And it would not be good business at the silly prices quoted.

 

[Lycan]

It'll end up being a 3-4-3 with Sako as the left sided forward IMO. Good luck to him.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Jackett and Thelwell have performed poorly in the transfer market this last season with only Afobe and RvlP having a regular impact on the first team. That's shocking. I hope they perform better this summer and they look to have started well. I hope the Mason rumours aren't true as he's very average and I can't see him moving Dicko or Afobe. And it would not be good business at the silly prices quoted.

You're quite right that business was poor, it is skewed a little though by us already having a team that was good enough even though we were straight out of L1 (as we should never have been there in the first place). We didn't need an overhaul.

 

[Johnny75]

That's fair and I guess a little frustrating as both Thelwell and Jackett had built a very good squad for a championship club at L1 level.

 

[exton101]

Kike...

http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/wolves-to-make-surprise-move-for-middlesbrough-striker/

 

[darlowolf64]

Kike...

http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/wolves-to-make-surprise-move-for-middlesbrough-striker/

What a load of absolute tosh. We look set to lose Dicko...

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't think he'll go, and would imagine on the first day of training we'll hear about a new contract being signed, but I did say to my lad during Sako's lap of honour that "I hope Dicko is just keeping him company rather than also saying goodbye". Only a year left now.

As for Kike, a yes over Mason.

 

[Alan]

What a load of absolute tosh. We look set to lose Dicko...

Makes sense to report it that way, I think, given what else has been reported.

Either way Kike's a good player IIRC, I'd have him.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Kike is too slow for what we need. Nice enough footballer but I don't see it working.

Football League World has no legitimacy at all, mind.

 

[Alan]

Kike is too slow for what we need. Nice enough footballer but I don't see it working.

Football League World has no legitimacy at all, mind.

So I guess the question becomes, are we looking for a "Plan B" type or a "Dicko +1" type"?

 

[Norman Deeley]

Surely to God there are better strikers available to us than Kike and Joe Mason. Would either of them play for a team that won the Championship?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I don't think signing a big lug of a targetman would work for us. I think whoever we sign should fit what we have, obviously we have the issue that it will be very hard to get better than that.

I haven't given up on McAlinden yet.

 

[Johnny75]

We have a very good set of strikers who can play in a 2 or alone with a 10 behind them. Slow target man types don't work in this system as Sagbo and Graham prove. A strong, quick striker with a good touch is needed.

 

[Alan]

We have a very good set of strikers who can play in a 2 or alone with a 10 behind them. Slow target man types don't work in this system as Sagbo and Graham prove. A strong, quick striker with a good touch is needed.

Point made but I don't think we're playing the same system now that we were before we bought Afobe.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Dicko isn't Premier League standard imo.

 

[Quirkafleeg]

Dicko isn't Premier League standard imo.

Everton will definitely be looking at a higher profile set of players, no offence to Dicko.

 

[Alan]

Everton will definitely be looking at a higher profile set of players, no offence to Dicko.

Martinez does have a proven record buying former players.

 

[Alan]

Dicko isn't Premier League standard imo.

I dunno, I'd have Dicko ahead have the likes of

A Kone
S Long
L Ulloa
L Kozak
C Wickham
E Riviere
F Campbell
D Graham
L Jutkiewicz
Y Sagbo
S Ameobi
Y Sanogo
M Emnes

So I don't think he'd be particularly out of place.

 

[Tony Towner]

I think a lot depends on what teams are looking for. I think Dicko would be a decent bench option for a middling to lower end PL club at a comparatively (with only a year left on his contract) cheap price. The comparison being some of those Alan has mentioned above along with Weimann, Nugent, Ideye, Hooper, Pitman, Grabban etc. I don't see him improving many first 11's though and don't think we'd sell unless the offer was £4m+ (I doubt it would be) or he went all "heads gone".

If the club Sako goes to were interested then that could be a tempter for him, but remember none of these rumours have come from a credible source, so for me this is all hypothetical discussion rather than a real situation we are faced with currently and as a said above I expect an announcement on a new contract once pre season training starts (feeling, not ITK)