Southampton have also lost their captain to Spurs and they had Walker Peters in their team last year, so they are possibly weaker than they were.
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Judging by all the whining you do on here, you’d probably be better off doing the same.
Aye ...Ferran Torres 20 yr old prospect.
Oh & Ake for £40 mil !!!!!
Point being hardly any signings so far.
TippEverton
Player Valuation: £35m
I haven't been paying all that much attention to our transfer dealings/rumours, or lack of, but how do we know Hojbjerg was our first choice ?
Pat Butcher
Player Valuation: £8m
Reports leading up to the summer saying we want to sign him, reports of Brands being annoyed our top targets available & the way Carlo talked about him in a pre match conference, who would of just flat out denied it, just my opinion
Pat Butcher
Player Valuation: £8m
This is going to be very football manger-ish, but I watch a decent amount of Ligue 1 & Serie A, the following players are people we should and look to bring in, not including Gabriel & Allan as they are expensive, most of the following would be pretty cheap, Nothing from the Prem either if we are on a budget
Goalkeeper;
Sirigu - Easy, said this many times, brilliant Keeper, wouls start ahead of Pickford and teach him afew things if he stays, worked with Carlo, is 33 so afew years ahead of him & club want rid due to politics - €10 absolute maximum, we would get him for less
Jesse Joronen - plays for a club who just went down, only watched him 3 times in Serie A but he was brilliant each time & consistently being praised by team mates, come from Fulham academy so would be HG - their is competion in Italy to sign him for a rumoured €6mil
RightBack;
Malcuit - Read above basically, he was signed at Napoli when Ancelotti was in charge, is 29 now but available on loan, very fast, very good at tackling and picking his team mates out with passes - Loan whilst we see what to do with Kenny
Midfield;
Santamaria - not sure if we have been linked, but his positioning is amazing, pretty good engine, in general his defensive positioning is brilliant, usually organises their defensive shape if opposition have a set piece which is something he don't really have, an organiser - not sure about the price but French teams have been hit hard by Covid we could get him cheap enough
Fulgini - plays with Santamaria, very underrated and a future star, he's a very good dribbler and moves play to the pitch fast, powerful guy that is solid defensively - as above not sure, for me he is a must sign, wouldn't be suprised if he joins a team like Sevilla and is quoted at £50mil next summer - is out of contract next year, we could get him for €10mil
Sangare - a player everyone raves about but no one has watched, he has been pretty bad this year, for a defensive midfielder he plays some pretty outrageous passes, most of which this season hasn't worked out for the team, he's clumsy with the ball sometimes but he's a big physical lad and still young - talks of him being available for €12mil but their is a reason no one has gone in for him
Rightwing;
Raphinha - He's a superstar, excels at everything attacking and tracks back well, very good at picking players out that are in free space would need time to adapt but would be amazing - he's a club record signing and the most expensive on the list but would be worth every penny
Their are other players we could go for like Matty Cash or Maouassa but the above are realistic, cheap enough for our 'lack' of budget, would start for us & would do well in the Prem
Goalkeeper;
Sirigu - Easy, said this many times, brilliant Keeper, wouls start ahead of Pickford and teach him afew things if he stays, worked with Carlo, is 33 so afew years ahead of him & club want rid due to politics - €10 absolute maximum, we would get him for less
Jesse Joronen - plays for a club who just went down, only watched him 3 times in Serie A but he was brilliant each time & consistently being praised by team mates, come from Fulham academy so would be HG - their is competion in Italy to sign him for a rumoured €6mil
RightBack;
Malcuit - Read above basically, he was signed at Napoli when Ancelotti was in charge, is 29 now but available on loan, very fast, very good at tackling and picking his team mates out with passes - Loan whilst we see what to do with Kenny
Midfield;
Santamaria - not sure if we have been linked, but his positioning is amazing, pretty good engine, in general his defensive positioning is brilliant, usually organises their defensive shape if opposition have a set piece which is something he don't really have, an organiser - not sure about the price but French teams have been hit hard by Covid we could get him cheap enough
Fulgini - plays with Santamaria, very underrated and a future star, he's a very good dribbler and moves play to the pitch fast, powerful guy that is solid defensively - as above not sure, for me he is a must sign, wouldn't be suprised if he joins a team like Sevilla and is quoted at £50mil next summer - is out of contract next year, we could get him for €10mil
Sangare - a player everyone raves about but no one has watched, he has been pretty bad this year, for a defensive midfielder he plays some pretty outrageous passes, most of which this season hasn't worked out for the team, he's clumsy with the ball sometimes but he's a big physical lad and still young - talks of him being available for €12mil but their is a reason no one has gone in for him
Rightwing;
Raphinha - He's a superstar, excels at everything attacking and tracks back well, very good at picking players out that are in free space would need time to adapt but would be amazing - he's a club record signing and the most expensive on the list but would be worth every penny
Their are other players we could go for like Matty Cash or Maouassa but the above are realistic, cheap enough for our 'lack' of budget, would start for us & would do well in the Prem
royvernon39
Player Valuation: £10m
That bloke at Vallodolid was highly rated and a smart purchase. You would have thought that with
Kean playing well, Holgate improving, Mina a strong player plus Briathwaite a big prospect
an inexpensive purchase at centre-half would have been just what the doctor ordered.
Plus that young Spurs fullback who played so well against EFC recently for Soton was another clever
low-cost purchase.
But then again I never signed Walcott or Tosun so what do I know?
Kean playing well, Holgate improving, Mina a strong player plus Briathwaite a big prospect
an inexpensive purchase at centre-half would have been just what the doctor ordered.
Plus that young Spurs fullback who played so well against EFC recently for Soton was another clever
low-cost purchase.
But then again I never signed Walcott or Tosun so what do I know?
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
Some good suggestions in there. Not sure about Santamaria only because I don't see much room for him to get better and he's kind of a squad player as is. I'd shoot higher with someone like Sangare myself. Raphinha I'm not sure. There are things to like but I just don't know if he's really going to come in and light up the PL. You've probably seen more than me though.
Pat Butcher
Player Valuation: £8m
Sangare is a talent but him shielding our defence would be a nightmare in my opinion he takes way to many risks, we need a vocal player, someone that can organise a defence and has great tackling & amazing defensive positioning, that's why I'd pick Santamaria over Sangare, to be fair we need more than one midfielder, cheap enough why not get both, Raphinha is a tough one but he would be a star here imo, he's used to players roughing him up
All the suggestions are the types of players I thought we'd see more of with Brands
I'll be honest and say I haven't heard of any of those players, but since Ancelotti has coached in both Italy and France, I would imagine he is aware of all of them and would probably try and sign any he thought could improve our team
Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
I think this may be why Moshiri said we will pay higher fees but lower wages going forward. Kean is on £50k a week and of course Branthwaite and Gordon wont be on huge numbers...
£100mil seems decent and with europe one or two additions.
Raphinha at Rennes?
If you think about wastage, thats players we could sell or give away and we wouldn't miss :
Pennington, Connolly, Baingime, Bolaise, Bowler, Besic, Tosun, Ramirez, reckons there's about 12m.
With the sales already made, around about 18m that means 30m saved, I mean clearly some of those names above are unsellable.
Then there's the high earners Bernie, Walcott, Iceland reckon there's another 19m there, but the problem is those 3 would need replacing, clearly we could replace them with players on cheaper wages, but other than Bernie I doubt you get enough to buy the replacements.
So its doable, the problem is that if you offer "small" wages every club in the league can out bid you.
Sadly the only thing we currently have going for us is that we pay good wages and even then we are struggling to convince people to join cos the "bigger clubs" can dwarf anything we offer, if we start cutting wages then the "smaller clubs" will then start doing it as well.
But to go back to wastage, it doesn't really matter if we pay players 100k+, as long as they don't perform like a 5k a week player.
Pennington, Connolly, Baingime, Bolaise, Bowler, Besic, Tosun, Ramirez, reckons there's about 12m.
With the sales already made, around about 18m that means 30m saved, I mean clearly some of those names above are unsellable.
Then there's the high earners Bernie, Walcott, Iceland reckon there's another 19m there, but the problem is those 3 would need replacing, clearly we could replace them with players on cheaper wages, but other than Bernie I doubt you get enough to buy the replacements.
So its doable, the problem is that if you offer "small" wages every club in the league can out bid you.
Sadly the only thing we currently have going for us is that we pay good wages and even then we are struggling to convince people to join cos the "bigger clubs" can dwarf anything we offer, if we start cutting wages then the "smaller clubs" will then start doing it as well.
But to go back to wastage, it doesn't really matter if we pay players 100k+, as long as they don't perform like a 5k a week player.
What are you going to do, burn your bra?
Pull your head in mate and change your sheets, it’s still early days in the window
Pat Butcher
Player Valuation: £8m
TBF he's quite versatile. When stood upright he's a boss lampshade and tipped upside down a competent mop.
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