Summer Transfer Window 2019

[buskwhi2]

Give them besic.

Any bid we make for any player now should come with the offer of a player going the other way - see Henry to Monaco as an example.

 

[riddick]

So Watford are having issues raising funds for Soumare(sp) but we're going to give them the funds for him and take their best player left.

And they still think us tossing £90m for two players is a sideways step?

 

[Aries]

It would only be 3 really, seeing as Gomes was already here. And if Schneiderlin went it would be 2 out 3 in, which isn't particularly outlandish.

It’ll still be 4 big money central midfield signings in one window. Nothing is adding up here.

If we wanted Docoure, why wait til the last week of the window to start making bids? Why sign first Delph and chuck him a rumoured 120k a week, and sign a defensive midfielder for 25 big ones as well as signing Gomes on a permanent deal also for decent wedge.

Are Delph and Gbamin seen as squad fillers/bench warmers? If they have then we’ve clearly got far more money than any of us ever imagined.

IF this is true and we’re now offering 30-40 million on yet another central midfielder then that smacks of a scattergun approach with little plan to me.

Let’s see what happens but I’m saying complete bull on these rumours.

 

[Arteta10]

No thanks.

Really? You wouldn't have Neymar whilst we've still got Tosun and Niasse leading the line?

 

[bullybeef]

If this is true and it’s a bloody big IF, then EFC are not mucking around this summer.

It doesn’t really fit with how Brands operates though... he seems to like throwing low ball offers in and sitting tight until the selling club caves in. Doesn’t seem to be the type to keep throwing bids around willy nilly.

 

[riddick]

Really? You wouldn't have Neymar whilst we've still got Tosun and Niasse leading the line?

I'd rather have Mbappe

 

[BlueStevie35]

If we got Zaha, Doucoure and a back-up CB and RB, I’d fully expect to be challenging for 4th.

4th? With a front line of Zaha, Kean and Richarlison we should be heading a title challenge

 

[dublinbluenose]

If this is true and it’s a bloody big IF, then EFC are not mucking around this summer.

It doesn’t really fit with how Brands operates though... he seems to like throwing low ball offers in and sitting tight until the selling club caves in. Doesn’t seem to be the type to keep throwing bids around willy nilly.

Strikes me that it's Silva pushing for this move. He wanted a replacement for Gana, I doubt Gbamin was the replacement.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

There was a popular TV show called the mentalist which, if I recall, was not about mental health.

Yep. Mentioned it a few pages back. Never heard the term prior.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Give them besic.

Any bid we make for any player now should come with the offer of a player going the other way - see Henry to Monaco as an example.

I wouldn't wish Watford on Besic, give them Schneiderlin instead, him and Watford are made for each other, both absolute vermin.

 

[JimmyK]

It’ll still be 4 big money central midfield signings in one window. Nothing is adding up here.

If we wanted Docoure, why wait til the last week of the window to start making bids? Why sign first Delph and chuck him a rumoured 120k a week, and sign a defensive midfielder for 25 big ones as well as signing Gomes on a permanent deal also for decent wedge.

Are Delph and Gbamin seen as squad fillers/bench warmers? If they have then we’ve clearly got far more money than any of us ever imagined.

IF this is true and we’re now offering 30-40 million on yet another central midfielder then that smacks of a scattergun approach with little plan to me.

Let’s see what happens but I’m saying complete bull on these rumours.

Why bid for anyone in the last week? If we want a winger and a centre half and a right back (we do, Silva has said so) why haven't we got them yet? It's the same thing. It certainly surprised me and I've given my feelings on Doucoure before, but I just don't think the idea of signing another midfielder is as mad as you do, particularly as Silva basically said he was thinking about it the other day.

 

[royalblue66]

Very ungrateful after we let them have Cleverley

 

[rochdaleblue]

Strikes me that it's Silva pushing for this move. He wanted a replacement for Gana, I doubt Gbamin was the replacement.

I wonder if Gbamin is seen more as a centre half?

 

[CRIMHEAD]

Strikes me that it's Silva pushing for this move. He wanted a replacement for Gana, I doubt Gbamin was the replacement.

Doucoure isn't a replacement for Gana. Its Gbamin for sure. Doucoure is an 8 primarily. He's not really a defensive mid even if he can play it. It allows us to move Schneiderlin though.

 

[toffeejack]

It’ll still be 4 big money central midfield signings in one window. Nothing is adding up here.

If we wanted Docoure, why wait til the last week of the window to start making bids? Why sign first Delph and chuck him a rumoured 120k a week, and sign a defensive midfielder for 25 big ones as well as signing Gomes on a permanent deal also for decent wedge.

Are Delph and Gbamin seen as squad fillers/bench warmers? If they have then we’ve clearly got far more money than any of us ever imagined.

IF this is true and we’re now offering 30-40 million on yet another central midfielder then that smacks of a scattergun approach with little plan to me.

Let’s see what happens but I’m saying complete bull on these rumours.

i'd imagine they'll fell gbamin will need a year to properly bed into the league, but that's what i presumed delph would have helped with. I've said it before, if we're going to get rid of schneiderlin, as well as mccarthy and besic, we could maybe do with a holding defensive mid alongside our current options, but another powerful box to box midfielder? Seems a bit weird. The more the merrier though, doucoure is an absolute unit. I have no doubt we could find a similar player in the french league for example for a quarter the price, but there we go.