The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

[Deano]

Is Elvedi actually any good though and does pairing him with one of our other options allow us to play a 4?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Is Elvedi actually any good though and does pairing him with one of our other options allow us to play a 4?

Has played in a 4 for Gladbach plenty.

He's decent, especially for that money.

We've only been locked into 3 CHs because of Kilman and Coady before him, because they absolutely 100% cannot do it.

 

[YoungWolf]

If we only signed Elvedi we’d be putting a lot of faith in him being the man we need to allow us to play a back four. I also don’t see him throwing Yerson straight in.

 

[HanDoJin]

If it's a straight choice between losing one of Kilman, RAN or Neto then the answer is pretty obvious. Sadly, I think one of the other two will also be on the move

 

[Alan]

Is Elvedi actually any good though and does pairing him with one of our other options allow us to play a 4?

Weird transition from Germany to England but we know what Kilman is, Elvedi at least might be better and we won’t move forward by standing still.

 

[Johnny75]

Has played in a 4 for Gladbach plenty.

He's decent, especially for that money.

We've only been locked into 3 CHs because of Kilman and Coady before him, because they absolutely 100% cannot do it.

He's worth that money but I don't think he's what we need. We have a similar player in Bueno, we need that leader/ organiser.

 

[Johnny75]

If it's a straight choice between losing one of Kilman, RAN or Neto then the answer is pretty obvious. Sadly, I think one of the other two will also be on the move

I wouldn't be surprised if it was all 3.

 

[HanDoJin]

2 CBs brand new to the league would be a gamble. Would honestly prefer Beelen, just because he's won things recently and Arne Slot might come calling to take him of our hands for a fat profit!

 

[Sniffer]

If Elvedi is the answer then he'd have been the answer in August last year at a smaller fee.

 

[Dire Wolf]

I have definitely seen social media stuff saying Liverpool have a deal for RAN agreed. I've taken the view that like most social media stuff it's bollocks.

 

[Del Woppio]

£40m is great money for him. Lovely lad, phenomenal bit of scouting and his development path was excellent. I think that means we don't *have* to sell Neto/RAN/Cunha now. Get rid of some guff, spend £20m on a first team centre half and then £10m on a young striker who looks the part physically compared to the young lads we've tried, and that's job done for me.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

If Elvedi is the answer then he'd have been the answer in August last year at a smaller fee.

We had self-imposed a budget of 2p though until Matheus the Rat left. That was the issue.

 

[Lycan]

It's a really good deal for us. If you told me before the Qatar World Cup when we were sat bottom of the League that we'd sell what I thought then was the worst CB partnership in the League for £60M+ I would've been delighted. Kilman has improved since then but his form still doesn't warrant this kind of fee, he doesn't suit the style of football O'Neil seems to want us to play and it should free us up to correct the mistake of making him our captain as well.

I'm not worried about replacing him. With the exception of the panic deals at the end of last summers window Hobbs and his recruitment team have shown that they can identify quality players and act fast to secure them when they've got the funds to work with.

 

[Lycan]

If we only signed Elvedi we’d be putting a lot of faith in him being the man we need to allow us to play a back four. I also don’t see him throwing Yerson straight in.

I think we'll end up replacing Santi as well but it'll depend on someone paying for him first.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I think we'll end up replacing Santi as well but it'll depend on someone paying for him first.

I'd hope we could get most or all of our money back from a mid-table La Liga team, he had a reasonable enough reputation there.

I'd also 100% take most or all of our money back for Bellegarde who doesn't fit anywhere and doesn't look very good.

 

[Sniffer]

We had self-imposed a budget of 2p though until Matheus the Rat left. That was the issue.

There was still time though wasn't there or did they think that Santi was the better option?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There was still time though wasn't there or did they think that Santi was the better option?

Think Santi was wheels within wheels, coming from Girona and with Nunes/Doyle going on at the same time

Gladbach always wanted to keep Elvedi if they could

 

[Tony Towner]

Bueno was about being seen to get a bargain when hindsight suggests we didn't

 

[The Bear]

Dawson/Toti/Mosquera/Bueno is a perfectly fine choice of CBs if we switch to a 4. Plus Elvedi if we have our eye on him still.

Do we need 5 though? Mosquera could get sold to Villareal for £20m+ to generate more funds I guess.

Dawson will inevitably miss games and Toti has a question mark over playing in a 4 so I'd like Mosquera to stay personally, not least because he has proven himself in a back four in a top league already.

 

[Tony Towner]

Dawson/Toti/Mosquera/Bueno is a perfectly fine choice of CBs if we switch to a 4.

It really isn't. One should be backup now, one isn't good enough and the other 2 projections, one of which I'm confident is another backup at best