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The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

Alan said:
Have you been reading just posts about Kilman and none about Fosun/Shi/Hobbs?

The faith in the club getting something right (or even okay-ish) is at an extreme ebb.

Tony has been telling me for over a year that my optimism about this window specifically was misplaced. Guess who looks the fool?
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I think you've forgotten me telling you how daft you were back in January when you were OK with us not signing a striker too.

Or earlier in the summer that actually, as fans we'd be far better off trying to keep Neto, Kilman, RAN, Gomes as we won't go anywhere near replacing them.
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
I think you've forgotten me telling you how daft you were back in January when you were OK with us not signing a striker too.

Or earlier in the summer that actually, as fans we'd be far better off trying to keep Neto, Kilman, RAN, Gomes as we won't go anywhere near replacing them.
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Christ, who’d admit a wrong to you?

Have fun, ain’t me on the daft side of things today.
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
Fuck me, it was the ridiculous, misguided forum point scoring that made those conversations so OTT in the first place, you've clearly forgotten how tedious they were.

If it WAS so easy to replace Kilman for 20mill, even Fosun would manage it.

As has been the case with so many opinions of players down the years, the players who are regular fixtures in the side are never "easy" to replace, whether it's Raul, Coady, Saiss or even bloody Ryan Bennett.
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2 completely different discussions. It was time to move every one of those players on. Anyone who said so was correct. Most also said they had zero confidence in Fosun doing so, particularly post Covid. Not sure what victory you are looking for here?
 
Also, I still don’t mind the decision to not bring in a forward last January. It played out poorly but we survived. But I also don’t think we would have been in a position to compete for Europe unless we’d bought one, he immediately hit, and we stayed healthy.

Of course, given hindsight, the reasons for the club’s decision to buy no one were not what I would have hoped them to be.

There, I’m back to being daft and balance is restored.
 
Alan said:
Also, I still don’t mind the decision to not bring in a forward last January. It played out poorly but we survived. But I also don’t think we would have been in a position to compete for Europe unless we’d bought one, he immediately hit, and we stayed healthy.

Of course, given hindsight, the reasons for the club’s decision to buy no one were not what I would have hoped them to be.

There, I’m back to being daft and balance is restored.
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In all likelihood I'd have had a trip to Wembley though, which would have meant a lot
 
Cunha wasn't great after arriving in January, but he was better for it when the next season started, and last January was a tad different with the other issues around striker and injury and what that lead too meaning even a struggling to adjust senior striker would probably have been a step up.
 
Alan said:
Also, I still don’t mind the decision to not bring in a forward last January. It played out poorly but we survived. But I also don’t think we would have been in a position to compete for Europe unless we’d bought one, he immediately hit, and we stayed healthy.

Of course, given hindsight, the reasons for the club’s decision to buy no one were not what I would have hoped them to be.

There, I’m back to being daft and balance is restored.
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"But we survived"

To suggest anyone was even of the mindset we could go down at that point is wrong?

We should have signed one to bolster our FA Cup squad and to give us a shot at Europe, needing one to stay up was never, ever a question?
 
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Tony Towner said:
In all likelihood I'd have had a trip to Wembley though, which would have meant a lot
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Yeah… there is that.

We played so poorly in that match (outside of the 10ish minute stretch we scored during) that I don’t know we win it regardless, but yeah. Fair call out.
 
Kilman caused more problems than he solved, most people will not miss him.

Us then refusing to use that money sensibly is a separate (indefensible) issue, there's no sense in conflating two different points.
 
If we don't sign a centre half, we'll still comfortably stay up.

But their inability or unwillingness to spend £20m on a Premier League centre back doesn't mean that they don't exist.

We could easily have replaced Max Kilman. We're not going to because one or both of Shi and Hobbs are fucking useless.
 
Del Woppio said:
If we don't sign a centre half, we'll still comfortably stay up.

But their inability or unwillingness to spend £20m on a Premier League centre back doesn't mean that they don't exist.

We could easily have replaced Max Kilman. We're not going to because one or both of Shi and Hobbs are fucking useless.
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Still willing to keep Hobbs as a separate concern, personally. We've identified some good players with him; (I think) Mosquera, Gomes, (hopefully) Gomes 2, Lemina, Neto... Whiffs, too, but IMV those are inevitable to an extent.

Dunno if it does us any good either way; if Fosun sell, Hobbs will probably move on or be forced to by a new regime.
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
It's serious business mate.
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It's not a serious business here, it's a forum full of individual opinions and discussion, formed from news gleaned from the press, twitter, and the ITK boys.
If i knew all the opinions on here were based on fact i'd probobally be in a permanent depression,
but they're not, so getting up on my roof and fixing the holes caused by a massive forest fire in temps of 44c is so much more to worry about.
 
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