Summer Transfer Window 2019

[Saint Domingo]

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Looks like it was old man Walsh all along

Richarlison
Bernard
Digne
Mina
Gomes
Zouma


6 for 6 in his only window so far.

 

[DanB90]

Richarlison
Bernard
Digne
Mina
Gomes
Zouma


6 for 6 in his only window so far.

Yes mate. I was being deadly serious.

 

[Thomasc]

The only positive I can see, and I'm trying hard to find one, with Welbeck in on 100k is it's the equivalent of paying 15m for him and they paying him nothing for the three year deal.

That's less than Solanke. Not sure what the point is of my comparison but as I say, I'm really struggling.

We are all struggling to polish this particular rather stinky turd mate

 

[Neiler]

Curious about our use of the "free" market as a strategy under Brands and what it means and indicates, its obviously a market we are doing due diligence on Bernard, Lossel, possibly Welbeck.

 

[Nymzee]

PLEASE come back in for him, Vincent.

Following the appointment of Vincent Kompany as player-manager ahead of the new campaign, Bolasie told DH via Sport Witness:“We are still [in Belgium] because our children are finishing school.

“But you never know. I do not say no to Anderlecht.

“I would like to meet Vincent Kompany, I know him, and I think he can do a great job, and he has seen Manchester City’s journey to the top. Has experience to succeed.

Bolasie continued: “Anyway, it’s Everton who will decide. I had fun in Anderlecht, thank you for the time I was playing, and sorry for the sixth place, I did my best.

“I scored six goals, but I would have liked to qualify Anderlecht for Europe. I do not regret my decision, Lukaku was right to advise me to go to Anderlecht. The players were very respectful to me.”

 

[scratchnsurf]

What for?

Be useful as a guide for hospital visits and physio appointments.

 

[Zaschrona]

So he scores at a worse rate than toshun and similar to oumar despite playing in a great Utd side and an extremely creative Arsenal side

He also plays quite often as a winger tbh.

 

[Zaschrona]

Curious about our use of the "free" market as a strategy under Brands and what it means and indicates, its obviously a market we are doing due diligence on Bernard, Lossel, possibly Welbeck.

Anyone who ever played Football Manager knows that it is the market to try to do smart signings. Sign players for sign on fees as your backups - then sell some your own players for real fees = profit to spend on signings for your starting lineup. We should try to go this route, it is also how big clubs like Juventus operate with smart signings like Barzagli, Pirlo, Can, Khedira, etc.

 

[Hogwild]

Welbeck may easily receive a reported contract of around 120k, but in reality that may as well be something like 70k. 2 year 70k contract with an automatic option for an extra year if he plays an amount of games with 5 million sign on fee = 120k contract reported in media.

And it could still make great sense for us - I can imagine we pay around 70k to Tosun. And Welbeck is surely not worse striker and is more versatile than Tosun. If we can sell Tosun and Niasse for 20 million combined, and sign Welbeck for 5 million, we have replaced our backup striker with someone who is surely not a downgrade and we got 15 million extra to spend elsewhere, ideally on a young striker that would compete with Welbeck and DCL for the position.

It just makes great amount of sense to try to sign Welbeck. He is not a bad player - he has a PL goal every 265 minutes. That's 1 in 3 striker - Tosun has a goal every 255 minutes, Niasse every 276 minutes, DCL every 363 minutes. A player like Martial has a PL goal every 218 minutes, Rashford every 249 minutes, so Welbeck is surely not a bad player. If we can get him cheaply, he surely makes sense for us. He is also a HG player, and as we are about to lose players like McCarthy, Jagielka or Baines soon, we will need to find some new HG players as well.

Nearing 30 and almost always broken. We don’t need aging, moderately successful players on high wages who are perma-crocked

 

[Zaschrona]

Nearing 30 and almost always broken. We don’t need aging, moderately successful players on high wages who are perma-crocked

We don't need to resell every player we sign. If we sign him for just a small sign on fee, we can afford to have a player like him. 70k seems to be a standard for a squad player these days.

 

[COYBL25]

The only way on gods green earth that we should be going near Wellbeck is on a pay as you play deal and that’s stretching it.

 

[COYBL25]

Nearing 30 and almost always broken. We don’t need aging, moderately successful players on high wages who are perma-crocked

That’s what Steve Walsh was for and look how that worked out.

 

[Neiler]

Anyone who ever played Football Manager knows that it is the market to try to do smart signings. Sign players for sign on fees as your backups - then sell some your own players for real fees = profit to spend on signings for your starting lineup. We should try to go this route, it is also how big clubs like Juventus operate with smart signings like Barzagli, Pirlo, Can, Khedira, etc.

I just find it interesting and it seems like a deliberate strategy. If we look at how brands has approached transfer we have learned, he is doing due diligence on frees (Bernard, Lossel, possibly Wellbeck), loans (Zouma) and quasi signing/loan/buyback deals (Yerry) as well as permanent signings (Digne, Richarlison).

Given the lack of money in the business on reflection, it could suggest the advent of frees, loans, buy back deals as well as a couple of permanents, subjective i know, but just considering the evidence, it could give us a sense of the markets we are operating in and budgets available.

 

[Mashtray]

have had some time to mull it over,

and I'd have Mitrovic me

 

[Bob Elstone]

Welbeck is atrocious.

I’d rather have the yard dog mitrovic over this nhs professional who occasionally plays football.