Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[BITTER TWISTED & BLUE]

Mates with Aznou for obvious reasons so not entirely weird

Youse talkin about me?

 

[Marius57]

Yeah i want them all on the bench. Like noah's ark. Two by two.
Nah just decent squad options. Like most clubs. Like most clubs wouldnt have been playing a player who's never played left back in his career on the opening game.

Most clubs don’t have 4 defenders missing to injury. An amount which would cause virtually every team in the league a problem.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Moyes is much more progressive than you are willing to give him credit for. Lumping in with Dyche is simply laughable.

Sorry mate don't rate him and never have, we also literally played Dycheball against Leeds, For a guy who has managed nearly 1200 games his record is very, very meh. I'm not lumping them together other than they are both safety first managers (which they are) He is a step up from Dyche (I don't disagree with that) but the gap isn't anywhere near as big as people make out, take away the modern day Inter Totto Cup they won (Fair play to them even though they spent a fortune) and they have similar philosophies.
In all the years Moyes has been a manager he has never evolved his system whatsoever, sorry but that's not the sign of someone who is progressive, he has an obvious ceiling level to his ability, did the last time he was here, we saw it at West Ham and we will see it here. He can't take that next step because he isn't good enough and the sooner the rest of the happy clappers who think he is untouchable and can do no wrong get over it, we might actually move forward finally.

 

[BlueBarrow]

So you want us to go into matches with 2 left backs and 2 right backs on the bench? One that’s ready as a back up and one to get a few mins to bed them in? So taking up 4 sub places?

Without an unfortunately timed injury to Myko, Aznou would have had those few mins off the bench. You can’t legislate for both getting injured for the first game unless you sign 3 players for each position which isn’t tenable.

But at the same time, Aznou was signed as the backup for £8m, suggesting he is deemed ready to be back up by professionals within the sport, Apart from a load of baseless rumour on here/twotter suggesting Moyes didn’t select him because he wasn’t ready (rather than the truth of him being injured), you’ve only seen him play an hour vs Roma to make the assumption he isn’t ready.

Hasn't Aznou also got full international caps ?

 

[Simon Buttle]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing mate.
There have been literally hundreds of posts on here slagging off unambitious targets as being Moyes choices. The fella seemingly can't do right for doing wrong.
What is wrong in trying to sell the club to better players to see how it goes ?
We have tried , may not have suceeded , but we had to try.
If you would have been told 2 weeks ago that we would have got Grealish , KDH and Dibling , you would have snapped their hand off.
Your views on Moyes are surprisingly negative , and surprise me.

Why should we all be forced to like him or something?

 

[catcherintherye]

Sorry mate don't rate him and never have, we also literally played Dycheball against Leeds, For a guy who has managed nearly 1200 games his record is very, very meh. I'm not lumping them together other than they are both safety first managers (which they are) He is a step up from Dyche (I don't disagree with that) but the gap isn't anywhere near as big as people make out, take away the modern day Inter Totto Cup they won (Fair play to them even though they spent a fortune) and they have similar philosophies.
In all the years Moyes has been a manager he has never evolved his system whatsoever, sorry but that's not the sign of someone who is progressive, he has an obvious ceiling level to his ability, did the last time he was here, we saw it at West Ham and we will see it here. He can't take that next step because he isn't good enough and the sooner the rest of the happy clappers who think he is untouchable and can do no wrong get over it, we might actually move forward finally.

What do you think the next step is?

 

[mikel_88]

What do you think the next step is?

Hopefully the club is doing that now maybe a Iraola or something depends what condition the club is in.

 

[Gilbert..]

Most clubs don’t have 4 defenders missing to injury. An amount which would cause virtually every team in the league a problem.

Most clubs have two fullbacks who are epuipped to play. You think we've two left backs. Ive think we've one. And one kid. Most clubs in the prem dont have a kid with barely a dozen games as their automatic squad replacement.
Going round in circles now.
We couldnt fill the bench in a pre season tour. Its not like we never knew.

 

[BlueBarrow]

Sorry mate don't rate him and never have, we also literally played Dycheball against Leeds, For a guy who has managed nearly 1200 games his record is very, very meh. I'm not lumping them together other than they are both safety first managers (which they are) He is a step up from Dyche (I don't disagree with that) but the gap isn't anywhere near as big as people make out, take away the modern day Inter Totto Cup they won (Fair play to them even though they spent a fortune) and they have similar philosophies.
In all the years Moyes has been a manager he has never evolved his system whatsoever, sorry but that's not the sign of someone who is progressive, he has an obvious ceiling level to his ability, did the last time he was here, we saw it at West Ham and we will see it here. He can't take that next step because he isn't good enough and the sooner the rest of the happy clappers who think he is untouchable and can do no wrong get over it, we might actually move forward finally.

You have your own opinion mate. Disagree totally with it , but that's fine , we agree to disagree..
To say he has never evolved his system is totally unfair.
If you reckon that the gap between him and Dyche "isn't anywhere near as big as people make out" , then please explain to me last season , where using the same players , Moyes transformed us from relegation fodder , to a top 8 team.
Look forward to your explanation.

 

[Simon Buttle]

What do you think the next step is?

Hard to say tbh, I'm really not convinced by TFG, think they should have shown their faces by now, I don't think going back to Moyes was the answer either, the way he likes too work is just not befitting to modern day clubs hence the rumours of disagreements with others over various matters. Guess we need to see how it plays out.

 

[Marius57]

Hasn't Aznou also got full international caps ?

Yeah but they won’t count because it’s not one of the best national teams

 

[ArtetaMoney]

samantha?

Belter set of Betos on her

 

[Rita_Poon]

We couldn't fill the bench in a pre season tour. Its not like we never knew.

Silva at Fulham briefed the media re his transfer frustrations.

Fulham transfers out 5
Nelson loan ended
William ooc/retired
Harris* loaned out for season
Benda loaned out for season
Vinicius free transfer

Fulham transfers in 2
Harris* last seasons loan ended
Lecomte GK £400k to replace Benda

Importantly, Tete was a free agent and almost ended up here. Fulham moved quick to keep him because they have struggled with new players.

net are 3 down.

This is doable for other teams, but this is enough for me.

There'll be a ton of transfers on deadline day.

 

[PeregrineT]

Most clubs don’t have 4 defenders missing to injury. An amount which would cause virtually every team in the league a problem.

Yeah, people seem to have not noticed that of the back 6, only 2 were the starters(Tarkowski and Gana).

 

[RichCee123]

Sorry mate don't rate him and never have, we also literally played Dycheball against Leeds, For a guy who has managed nearly 1200 games his record is very, very meh. I'm not lumping them together other than they are both safety first managers (which they are) He is a step up from Dyche (I don't disagree with that) but the gap isn't anywhere near as big as people make out, take away the modern day Inter Totto Cup they won (Fair play to them even though they spent a fortune) and they have similar philosophies.
In all the years Moyes has been a manager he has never evolved his system whatsoever, sorry but that's not the sign of someone who is progressive, he has an obvious ceiling level to his ability, did the last time he was here, we saw it at West Ham and we will see it here. He can't take that next step because he isn't good enough and the sooner the rest of the happy clappers who think he is untouchable and can do no wrong get over it, we might actually move forward finally.

Personally I’d love to watch the kind of football we used to play with Pienaar, Baines, Ossie, Arteta, Yak but that’s just me. I didn’t enjoy watching Martinez team but others did.
Everyone has a view but I’m in the Moyes camp.
His record of getting EFC/WHU regularly into Europe and his manager of the month awards show that he’s been a success, esp in a world where 2-4 teams have always dominated at any given time