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The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

An odd season for Santi. Didn't seem to be even close to being considered for a while when he first came in even though we couldn't keep a clean sheet to save our lives. Looked decent from Christmas to Feb/Mar when called upon...and then rubbish for the final couple of months. I'm far from sold on him but I'd like to see him playing when he doesn't have Captain Wow next to him doing a sponsored silence and leaving everyone in two yards of space.

From Gaz: Toti and Yerson I’m sure will be excellent. We know Dawson can play in the Premier League and Santi has done unbelievably well in Spain and had a good introduction last year.

I don't think selling him is on the agenda. Not keen on Carmo from the bits I saw for Olympiacos in the European games.
 
MARKakaJIM said:
Santi looked fine playing in the centre of the back three but then a disaster playing on the right hand side of it, awful in the channels.
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You'd think with Toti and Yerson having experience of playing at LB/RB respectively, they should be able to deal with that kind of ball down the sides. But if you don't pair them together (and it would be a risk if you did) and you play one of the other two instead, there's a definite weakness there. The memories of the Batth/Doherty Channel of Doom in late 2014 will never go away.

I think there will still be some games where we play three CHs. I mean you might consider it on the opening day given who we're playing. It just won't be the default.
 
Santi Bueno has a bad combination being very skinny for a centre half but also slow. He struggled like hell with Ellis Simms in that Coventry game. I don't mind him getting another chance this season espeically with him only joining at the end of last Summer (as with Bellegarde,) but their performances need to improve significantly from their showings last season for them to be good longer term solutions for us.
 
Although he was poor and I still think he should have done better when he did play at least there is some mitigation for Bellegarde and we now have a position which should suit him beit coming off the bench to replace Cunha. I have no hope for Bueno for all the reasons you mentioned - being weak and slow, particularly if we play a higher line, aren't going to be issues he can correct. Personally I think we still need 2 centre halves, one to start the other to be a functional squad option. I'd bin Bueno completely, although I appreciate that's easier said than done.
 
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Linked with Isaak Toure at Lorient, who's price is supposedly down to £15m from £25m after relegation.

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The Bear said:
Linked with Isaak Toure at Lorient, who's price is supposedly down to £15m from £25m after relegation.

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Willie McKay! Fuck, that's a blast from the past. I'm surprised that crooked fuck is still going.
 
Sheff Utd close to signing Hoever apparently, don't know if it's another loan (pointless) or permanent (hopefully, grab whatever money we can)
 
sycophantia said:
Ugh, we're gunna be stuck with certain players who'll never play for us again but cost big money forever aren't we.
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That’s definitely how it looks and feels but doesn’t actually paint the whole picture.

At the time (and hindsight aside) £45m was a very good deal for us for Jota, bearing in mind he hadn’t been pulling up trees at that particular time.

The dud we were given in return was just a sweetener, really.

Same (to a lesser extent) with Silva - we had to take a pup from Mendes in return for all the Neves, Patricio, Moutinho business that came our way.

Annoying as it is, there’s some reality in there.
 
sycophantia said:
Ugh, we're gunna be stuck with certain players who'll never play for us again but cost big money forever aren't we.
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The thought behind this one will be that if he has a good season in a more attacking team then his value will skyrocket. If Sheffield United get promoted and he plays the majority of games then we're going to be looking at getting close to our money back for him.
 
Lycan said:
The thought behind this one will be that if he has a good season in a more attacking team then his value will skyrocket. If Sheffield United get promoted and he plays the majority of games then we're going to be looking at getting close to our money back for him.
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We won't get anywhere near what we reportedly paid he will have 1 year left next summer
 
Lycan said:
The thought behind this one will be that if he has a good season in a more attacking team then his value will skyrocket. If Sheffield United get promoted and he plays the majority of games then we're going to be looking at getting close to our money back for him.
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That would be great, but I have my doubts, we'll see how it pans out.
 
Deano said:
We won't get anywhere near what we reportedly paid he will have 1 year left next summer
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Yep, we paid £9m for him.

We got £5m for Ryan Giles who has actually looked good at Championship level, unlike Hoever who looks a complete defensive liability with far less attacking output.
 
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