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Paul Scharner
Chris Brunt
Lacina Traore (Loan)
Andriy Yarmalenko
Shane Duffy
Saido Berahino
Moussa Sissoko
TheCount
Player Valuation: £10m
You don't know anything.
Really can’t see us signing 7 players unless, by some Brands miracle, he has buyers for the majority of our dead-wood players.
Or if a fair number of the 7 will be heading to the U23’s.
It could be that he has identified 7 players, with some of them being ‘alternative signings’ if his first choices are not available.
Or, more likely situation is that the Echo have pulled that figure from their arse to fill column inches
We may well bring in seven, but they will not be immediate starters in the team.
I think we will see young players brought in and slowly given first team experience over the season as they are ready , maybe even longer than one season in some cases.
I think we need to accept that we are now in a long term project.
Of course, our transfer budget is also contingent on how many players we can move out of the club and how much we can get for them or at what cost to us to move them on.
I think we will see young players brought in and slowly given first team experience over the season as they are ready , maybe even longer than one season in some cases.
I think we need to accept that we are now in a long term project.
Of course, our transfer budget is also contingent on how many players we can move out of the club and how much we can get for them or at what cost to us to move them on.
All of them would probably get in our first 11 except for Berahino
That's why we're in for them lad
brieverton
Player Valuation: £40m
I think that may be the case also. We need to spend relatively big on a striker I think, but apart from that I don't see big money being spent and the amount we can get from incomings will be limited anyway.
Austerity has been flagged up in advance and there is (supposedly) the stadium to consider at a time when the club will need to convince potential funding partners that we have our house in order. There is likely a huge degree of circumspection from Moshiri about another spending spree, even if that was viable, after the mess made of the previous largesse.
This is the summer where we are going to have to see the beginnings of Brands true worth as DOF. We need to buy young and cheap, and sell on for multiples of what we pay. There is no other way forward as I see it. Two or three players this summer, who can make double or more, much more what we paid for them by the time we are ready to move ground.
So the summer may bring names that are obscure and unknown to most of us, but so be it.
In a way, this is what cements my concerns about Silva. He simply isn't going to be handed the resources given to Koeman, however unfair it is. That obviously makes his task much harder, if we are looking for his 2nd season to be one of progression and dealing with the known ills of the squad. I'm sure sure he has the ability to get a significant extra % from a group of players under such constraints. It is a tall ask for anyone.
sharkey1001
Player Valuation: £10m
Totally agree with this. Koeman/Walsh strategy of buying 28 year olds was so flawed it was scary, they had no interest in the long-term. This might have worked had they got Mata and Witsel and the likes, but we ended up with our 5th or 6th choice targets at massively inflated prices.
Young, hungry talent with massive potential is the way forward, however... we need to spend big on 1 top quality striker. It's the most important position on the pitch, the difference between 7th and 12th, or 6th and 4th. Lukaku's goals in this team would make a massive difference, we would be on the cusp of 6th.
havrey0123
Player Valuation: £25m
It's been that way since Moyes left.
The future was meant to be stones, Barkley Lukaku who have all left.
You have richarlison and digne already tipped to move and they haven't even finished their first season yet and no European football for a second season running
Lelouch
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We have a proper DoF now who has experience of doing this sort thing paired up with new stadium, It's hard to do a long term project since every new manager since Moyes has a good first season then nearly gets us relegated the next.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
It's hardy as "gash" as the Turkish league, come on.
It is of a lower standard right now certainly.
It doesn't matter where a player comes from anyway, if they are good they are good, just don't look at the players based purely on stats and it will be fine.
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