Summer 2018 Transfer Window

[Tel001]

Remember when the Brazilians had cool names, they don't even try now. Malcom, Alisson - fully expect a player called Peter to be in their national side soon.

Fred, benard, Wallace names have deffo gone backwards

 

[coollino]

I'd have Welbeck for sure over the trendy foreigners who will go elsewhere anyways. He's a solid PL performer and we currently do not have many of them, we are not a destination club for top talent, I would rather we go for realistic targets than pie in the sky nonsense. We need to make steady progress, better league position, EL qualification (then CL), decent cup runs, progressive football style, promote youth etc. We cannot get there straight away so will not always attract "top" talent so as a fanbase we need to be patient, accept so called "lesser" players are needed to move forward. We seem fixated with our league position, I would be happy to see better football even if we don't improve our league position, last years PL standard (outside top 5/6) was awful so maybe our final league position was a bit misleading.
Looking forward to this season and have accepted that we will probably still have most of the deadwood here and no "star" signings.

Huh?

 

[COYBL25]

Things that aren’t true:
The earth being flat
Malcom signing for Everton

And anything @TheFinnFan says

 

[Nyhus]

Niasse. Genuinely.

Think I agree. He’s not the best footballer, but he makes things happen a lot more than Welbeck.

 

[COYBL25]

Fred, benard, Wallace names have deffo gone backwards

Sounds like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Would rather sign nobody and continue trimming the squad than sign Welbeck.

 

[RobC]

did anyone even report Funes Mori leaving? I don't recall journo saying it.

No, but lets face it he has been out injured for yonks and was not a hot prospect (Stones) so why would anyone be pursuing information about him ?

 

[Slippin Jimmy]

Who uses the words 'gang on a street corner'? Were are we? 1940s brooklyn?

Where are you from like, some baron wasteland or something

 

[blue to the bone]

I can see legs in the welbeck rumours.
Year left on his contract. Can play up front or out wide. Age profile might not suit our project though

 

[BlueToff]

Do they stil? Even Joyce has said Tierney was our top target. And since has changed to another left back, Digne.

Because things change...

At the time the Tierney stuff came out, Hunter, Joyce, King, Bascombe - they all reported it. They were all fed that information by the club.

The club clearly didn't get the deal done then for the price they thought they could. They've since moved on to alternatives. Doesn't mean Tierney isn't / wasn't the number 1 target.

Honestly, there's nothing to doubt about their legitimacy. When they write something that isn't an opinion piece/match report/feature, it's fed from the club or people connected with the club. It's not that they're 'ITK' as such, they're simply the mouthpieces the club use in the national media.

 

[RobC]

Huh?

We love a foreign sounding player rather than a staid British name, its all exotic like. The point I was trying to make, poorly it seems, is we wont be shooting up the table beating all comers in cups anytime soon, steady progress is the way forward and proven PL players will be crucial.

 

[BlueToff]

Not a Walcott fan then?

White text, my friend.

White text.

 

[BlueToff]

Liverpool have agreed a fee of £66m for Allison.

Someone gonna try tell me we shouldn't be asking for anything less than £60m if Chelsea try for Pickford?

 

[sageyefc]

Liverpool have agreed a fee of £66m for Allison.

Someone gonna try tell me we shouldn't be asking for anything less than £60m if Chelsea try for Pickford?

they won't though

 

[ToePeg]

10m profit my guess paid over 6 years , or, he flops and we have to loan him out for 4 yers to the Turkish league and pay 80% of his wages . You know it’s gonna happen

There's definitely a trend.