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The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread.

Of course he wanted to go. Saying the right things in the press and having a good attitude about it is purely for the fans.

It's more telling that we had an agreement with him to let him go for a suitable bid. That didn't come out of thin air. He'd been at the club for what he considered long enough and asked for that so he could take another step up, the same as Neves, Jota, Nunes, etc already have.
 
The Bear said:
Of course he wanted to go. Saying the right things in the press and having a good attitude about it is purely for the fans.

It's more telling that we had an agreement with him to let him go for a suitable bid. That didn't come out of thin air. He'd been at the club for what he considered long enough and asked for that so he could take another step up, the same as Neves, Jota, Nunes, etc already have.
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I'm pretty sure his agent was very keen for him to go as well.
 
Looks like Meupiyou is happening. I hope he's not the centre back we've been after. He's going to need the ability of Baresi to go straight into the first team at this level.
 
Keen says in his article that if the deal goes through he will join the first team. Can't be our only signing at CB surely, but it would leave us with 5 - unless Santi Bueno is going out and another senior one comes in? Can't see us running with 6 CB's
 
Deano said:
Keen says in his article that if the deal goes through he will join the first team. Can't be our only signing at CB surely, but it would leave us with 5 - unless Santi Bueno is going out and another senior one comes in? Can't see us running with 6 CB's
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This is exactly it.

We were 1 CB short last season, Meupiyou becomes 5th choice, Mosquera 'replaces' Kilman.

If Santi goes (obviously depends on there being any interest in him which hasn't been reported and doesn't seem likely) then we'll replace his spot in the squad with a more experienced CB.
 
I've got high hopes for Mosquera (maybe not as much as Alan) but thinking he'll seamlessly replace Kilman immediately seems like it's incredibly risky. Especially with who to best partner with isn't established. An 18yo in the first team as CB isn't going to be a starter for a long time.
 
Lycan said:
This is exactly it.

We were 1 CB short last season, Meupiyou becomes 5th choice, Mosquera 'replaces' Kilman.

If Santi goes (obviously depends on there being any interest in him which hasn't been reported and doesn't seem likely) then we'll replace his spot in the squad with a more experienced CB.
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Unless Dawson is struggling and GoN thinks he can't play the high line. In which case we might see another.

I think this young lad might be the signing though. Got to hope he's more Saliba rather than Collins.

Arsenal have apparently put Kiwior up for sale, he would be a fine addition, would cover LB too.
 
Kiwior is an excellent player, but I would have thought his wages would be a little rich for us. Sadly it looks like Tsimikas is going to have a bigger role to play at Anfield under Slot, otherwise I would definitely be interested in trying to get him in.
 
Palace want 40mill for Anderson following a 30mill bid.

I'd be in for him at 35mill all day.
 
He'd choose Fulham (and likely stay at Palace) over us anyway.
 
Nando said:
We aren't signing a replacement LB going by Hobbs' comments on the OS. So we're an injury away from either our current first choice LCB having to shift across, or we have to play Doherty. Brilliant squad management.
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'Some people might think we’re leaving ourselves short, but we’ve got a number of players who can cover in that area of the pitch and it’s really important for us and Hugo that he goes and plays.'

So basically we're taking huge risks with the current squad to boost Bueno's value with Eredivisie/Champions League games and make him more attractive to potential buyers in future windows.

According to Feyenoord fans they've signed Bueno due to a bit of an injury crisis at LWB. He will be competing with a guy called Smal initially (although he is also injured for the first few weeks) but their first choice LWB Hartman is due back in January and will go straight back into the team after that. So he might not even get much game time after January anyway, not even accounting for the fact that managers love to drop players that they know don't have a long term future at the club.

This seems incredibly stupid to me.
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
I know.

But we should, and given we've got 90 mill in for Neto and Kilman plus the profit from last season, we should be.
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Not if we want to strengthen other areas as well.

The stupid position we've put ourselves in means we have to be smarter and find players before they develop into players like Andersen. We aren't going to be signing our direct rivals best players any time soon.
 
Palace another example of how it works for teams like us, if you have good players they’ll get taken away for big money. Olise gone, Guehi going and now maybe Anderson too. Teams sniffing around Eze and Mateta won’t last long if he continues his form from the end of last season.
 
Templeton Peck said:
Looks like Meupiyou is happening. I hope he's not the centre back we've been after. He's going to need the ability of Baresi to go straight into the first team at this level.
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No issue with signing players for the future, as long as it doesn’t damage us signing players for the present.

9mins of senior football doesn’t strike me as he will be in our first team any time soon
 
GF said we'd not pay a new signings anywhere near a 100k a week. I suspect that Anderson would be closer to that at Fulham than he would here. Not saying I am in favour of splashing mad amounts around for the sake of it, but it does seem we have decided to not actively compete with the wage spending, and that historically means you are putting a cap on your finishing spot.
 
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