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The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

If we don’t get a couple of first team starters in, most notably a CH, it will confirm that it’s only a matter of time before we fall through the trap door.
 
I mean, I get that we haven’t checked every box on the TWF wishlist, but Lima, Rodrigo, and Larsen aren’t nobodies.
 
Alan said:
I mean, I get that we haven’t checked every box on the TWF wishlist, but Lima, Rodrigo, and Larsen aren’t nobodies.
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On paper they look good and it was good to get deals done early but since then incomings have dried up plus we've lost first team starters Kilman and Neto. Last season we suffered from having a limited and threadbare squad, have we really addressed that issue?

All 3 are unproven in the Premier League too so we have no idea as to their suitability yet
 
Yet we have people who swallow it year in year out. Even for those who don't there's little visible penalty for continually doing so, so why bother stopping?

As long as we have LL and Judah to platform the bullshit and the likes of Ryan Leister and Dazzling Dave to shake their pom poms, with the majority staying silent it'll continue to be the same year after year.

Fwiw I still don't wholly believe The Accountants post. All the running at a budget, lost interest, stuff absolutely, I still don't think there's any consideration about going down though and if we were to look like we were we'd operate in a similar way to Jan 23 again unless it was an obvious lost cause
 
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Yep getting relegated completely screws their model of stay in the league and milk it, with no ambition of finishing higher than about 15th place.

You could probably afford one season in the Championship, but as you can't guarantee getting straight back up again it's not remotely worth the risk of getting relegated.
 
I honestly don't think they care too much. They'll just run the club in a way that doesn't cost anything from a fosun perspective, regardless of what that means for the footballing aspect.

If we do get relegated I think we'll start to see fosun actively taking money out the club (rather than Tory style favours to mates like they have done)
 
Alan said:
I mean, I get that we haven’t checked every box on the TWF wishlist, but Lima, Rodrigo, and Larsen aren’t nobodies.
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Larsen derinitely improves our options up front. And until he is moved on, Guedes is also another option there as we saw in pre-season.

Rodrigo I guess replaces Neto in terms of numbers, but he generally plays on the opposite side. We still need a natural right winger. I don't think Sarabia is that as he's too slow. Wissa would be good but we probably won't pay what Brentford want unless it gets very late in the window. It's a shame Enzo got injured as he would have been at least an option off the bench.

Lima gives us another option at RB but in terms of squad numbers he's just an extra, as we already had two players in that position (no matter what you think of Doherty), and I don't think he'll be thrown in this early. It would have been better if Lima was a LB honestly with Hugo Bueno going out.

We have 4 CBs but we still need another as we'll likely play 3 atb at times, and one CB on the bench isn't enough for those situations. Plus we need to plan for Dawson finishing. It's worrying how long it's taking to sort a suitable player. The young French guy will be one for the future if that gets over the line eventually.

I don't think we'll buy another GK now unless we get a silly offer for Sa from the Saudis.

Definitely need for first team - CB, RW
Could do with for succession planning - GK, LB, FW, maybe another tricky AM in the No.10 role to backup Cunha. It'd be nice if Bellegarde could step up to the role in that regard as he's kind of a nothing player at the minute.

We're a bit top heavy in left-sided and central attackers tbh, which is one area we need to trim the squad. Silva will obviously leave asap.
 
AndyWolves said:
I honestly don't think they care too much. They'll just run the club in a way that doesn't cost anything from a fosun perspective, regardless of what that means for the footballing aspect.

If we do get relegated I think we'll start to see fosun actively taking money out the club (rather than Tory style favours to mates like they have done)
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But if that’s their thinking surely selling as a going concern as a PL club, even at a bargain price, makes more sense? Biggest problem they’ve got is that in the time since they bought us the competition to get in top half, let alone top six, has increased significantly so the list of potential buyers has shrunk as they’ll need even deeper pockets to compete.
 
Just seems like folks think we’ve done nothing… we categorically haven’t.

This isn’t an argument against the wider feelings against Shi/Fosun, to be absolutely clear.
 
Wilf Wolf said:
But if that’s their thinking surely selling as a going concern as a PL club, even at a bargain price, makes more sense? Biggest problem they’ve got is that in the time since they bought us the competition to get in top half, let alone top six, has increased significantly so the list of potential buyers has shrunk as they’ll need even deeper pockets to compete.
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I think you've answered your own question, who wants to buy us?
 
They lied 12 months ago, and on here we all did the maths to show it was bullshit. And now they are repeating the lie with another £90m in the bank in transfers.

They can fuck off.
 
Absolutely. Would no doubt only be a loan for us, but a player that would massively improve the squad
 
Let us have gomez and they can have first dibs on RAN in the summer in return
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Absolutely. Would no doubt only be a loan for us, but a player that would massively improve the squad
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Surely he could be had permanently? Unless you mean we won’t want to pay for that, in which case… fair?
 
Liverpool aren't going to want to loan him out it makes no sense.
 
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