The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

[sycophantia]

Yep, same old shit.

When was the last time we had genuine competition for that role?

About 1981?

 

[Johnny75]

Hwang is a poacher, he almost can't do anything else and he can't play in this daft 10 role he's played in pre-season.

He should be the competition for JSL, but is a very different type of striker the same way Alvarez is different to Haaland.

 

[Kenny]

 

[prawnking]

Guedes intends to commit hari-kiri?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Blimey there are a lot of umlauts in Turkish

 

[YoungWolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824417512093618540

Yeah I can see where this is going

 

[EnglishBob]

Blimey there are a lot of umlauts in Turkish

They have "dotted vowels" which don't exist in English. The ü, for example, sounds like the u in uber.

But they're currently killing millions of streets animals in Turkey, so f**k 'em.

 

[Johnny75]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824417512093618540

Yeah I can see where this is going

It's just bollocks isn't it?

We get constantly told how prepared our scouting department is and how many targets they already have on their depth charts. And then they still peddle that twaddle in press conferences.

You either are or aren't prepared. It's not Schroedinger's transfer market.

 

[Alan]

They have "dotted vowels" which don't exist in English. The ü, for example, sounds like the u in uber.

But they're currently killing millions of streets animals in Turkey, so f**k 'em.

1) This feels like a misrepresentation of that policy
2) Regardless of (1), that’s on the Turkish government, not the Turkish people

 

[Templeton Peck]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824417512093618540

Yeah I can see where this is going

Braced for full on Moxey mode for the next 2 weeks.

Very hard to get deals done this late in the window.

Got our most important business done early which took the pressure off.

Gary has been really impressed with the attitudes of Guedes/Podence/Chiquinho and sees them as being able to make important contributions.

Only worth signing players that can improve the team.

Already replaced Neto with Rodrigo Gomes.

Mosquera is like a new signing.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Yep, followed by Alan saying it's all fine

 

[EnglishBob]

1) This feels like a misrepresentation of that policy
2) Regardless of (1), that’s on the Turkish government, not the Turkish people

The policy is to cull millions of animals. Awful stories coming out of the cruel methods being employed. But sure, a "misrepresentation".

But it's a football forum not an animal rights forum. New season upon us! Are we happy with the business done to prepare us for it?

 

[Tony Towner]

Solanke sold and replaced in the same week
Douglas Luiz sold and replaced in the same week
Olise sold and replaced in three weeks and for pre season
Kilman sold on the 6th of July, still not replaced.

The problem with leading your managers down the garden path is it leaves them on the record saying replacements are needed, so when they aren't or are a last minute budget buy, the 'we're happy with what we've done' line comes across as the bullshit it is. GON said something as recently as Saturday like he expects this to be a busy week, 6 days later tumbleweed.

Kilman looked like he was going from about mid June, just about West Ham inching their way to the price. To have not brought a player in in a position that's both pivotal and also full of options - every side in the world plays at least 2, it's hardly a niche requirement, over that period of time says that our scouting is either shite or the parameters, if they exist at all, are unrealistic.

Same old, same old.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

One left back in the entire squad
Absolutely zero competition for the #1 keeper
Doherty about to start at RB in a back four in the Premier League in 2024, when I wouldn't have wanted him there in 2013 in League One
Planning to play a centre half pairing but 2 of the 4 CHs in the squad seem ill-equipped for that task
Lost Neto and everything he offered
One striker in the entire squad, which is better than 0 strikers, but still, it's not great
That awful prick Guedes somehow worming his way back in to contention
Running a huge transfer surplus (again) and doing nothing with it to date
Continuing to charge fans more and more for ever diminishing returns

So no, we're a way off where we need to be.

 

[White Wolf]

How many times have we properly done succession planning under Fosun? Off the top of my head can only think of us having midfielders ready for when we lost Neves and Moutinho, and we signed Sa quite quickly after selling Patricio.

Selling players and not replacing in adequate time is the norm under Fosun. We've always been a striker light, probaby for the last seven seasons.

 

[Tredman]

lol at the optimism at the start of this thread. Fosun don’t give a fuck - we are gaslit to be happy at selling our best players.

 

[Johnny75]

One left back in the entire squad
Absolutely zero competition for the #1 keeper
Doherty about to start at RB in a back four in the Premier League in 2024, when I wouldn't have wanted him there in 2013 in League One
Planning to play a centre half pairing but 2 of the 4 CHs in the squad seem ill-equipped for that task
Lost Neto and everything he offered
One striker in the entire squad, which is better than 0 strikers, but still, it's not great
That awful prick Guedes somehow worming his way back in to contention
Running a huge transfer surplus (again) and doing nothing with it to date
Continuing to charge fans more and more for ever diminishing returns

So no, we're a way off where we need to be.

This is the bit that's bothering me the most.

It's the constant lies spouted that is just insulting and shows how shitty the owners really are.

These cunts need to go.

 

[Tredman]

FWIW I think we’ll sign a couple of bellegarde types right at then end of the window after our expectations have been managed down and down. And plenty of cunts will come out and say how great the club have been.

 

[The Bear]

The CB situation is the most worrying tbh. We've needed one for weeks and surely the club has identified more than one target. I can't believe we're going to fanny around waiting for the number one guy then have to move on to a back up like Elvedi right in the last days (again) if it falls through.

 

[Johnny75]

Preferably a Van Der Ven type and not a Ben Davies clogger.