Summer rebuild

[Zatara]

We will sign Lindstrom mate - he's a Moyes style player and Moyes isn't knee jerk to think the lad can't score as he knows him from at Frankfurt.
Dixon won't be out backup right back next season, he'll either go on loan or be sold. Well also need another in attacking mid, no way Moyes has Alcaraz and a very young Armstrong as the only options. Yeah can move another there like Tim or a left winger to cover but that just leaves us thinking elsewhere so no gain.

Wesley, Rigg and Dibling won't be targets, for starters two of them simply aren't developed enough to improve us and Moyes won't be spending the best part of 30m on a player who'll take a few seasons to develop enough to start.

We aren't in a position to be dropping that kind of money of a 18yo prospect mate.

And Moyes whilst he will use younger players likes to slowly integrate them over a few seasons into the main side.

I like Lindstrom and maybe we could sign him. Not at circa £20mil though. Also, if he doesnt assist or score then I'd say it's probably going to be unlikely.

I cant see Thelwell signing it off based on performances in another league after failing to put up numbers with us.

Alcaraz we'll have to see how he does in the 8 or 10 roles. At the moment I'd say he's the preferred option to bring in. Armstrong as a rotation option makes sense as theres no point dropping cash on a backup player.

The rumour is that we'll be spending decent money and targeting top young British players. Rigg and Dibling or others like them are exactly that as well as Delap.

Wesley and Truffert have been linked and walk into our team if were looking for attacking full backs.

Not a huge fan of delap myself. He has a tendency to throw himself to the floor a lot. Something he must have learnt in the man city academy

9 goals & 2 assists in 1783 minutes.

Playing for a side down the bottom.

Looks like a purchase we used to make under Moyes back in the day. The diving is something that can be removed from his game.

 

[Makis]

But he’s not a right-back so why should we care about that? When your defensive numbers are miles better than your attacking you’re not a good winger. He’s playing in front of a central defender as well so doesn’t even need to defend as much now. He needs to do a lot more. I know you love him for some bizarre reason though.

In this case I would just say the numbers have no use. His role has been mostly very defensive, especially when he got a chance under Dyche. I'd like to see his numbers post-Dyche, I bet his attacking numbers have seen a stark uptick. Having said that, even then he needs to show more to justify buying him.

 

[hetion]

Terrible source and wouldn’t normally post it, but this is A: The quality of player we’ll hopefully be going for, and B: now we’re armed with a Summer kitty these kind of links will come thick and fast which is exciting. We can normally write 99.9% of links off because we all knew we never had any money, but now there’s hope there that these kind of links will have a grain of truth to them! Summer is going to be very interesting for a change.

Be shocked tbh, incredible playmaker but does less than nothing defensively and rumours of a bad attitude. Doesn't sound like a fit for us

 

[TheBlueBlitzer]

You need to let the Lindstrom thing go. He hasn’t justified being signed at all.

Pretty sure there was rumours moyes wants to keep him?

 

[Nymzee]

Squad is going to be THIN come summer but we have some decent pieces to build around.

 

[Makis]

One thing I keep forgetting and which a lot of people don't realise, even those well versed with PSR etc is that amortization only counts from signing day to end of financial year for that year.

Which means we shouldn't have issues signing players already in June if there is even a little bit of leeway in PSR. For instance, if club signs a player on June 15th for 30 million to a five-year contract amortization for this season would only be around 230k.

 

[Neiler]

One thing I keep forgetting and which a lot of people don't realise, even those well versed with PSR etc is that amortization only counts from signing day to end of financial year for that year.

Which means we shouldn't have issues signing players already in June if there is even a little bit of leeway in PSR. For instance, if club signs a player on June 15th for 30 million to a five-year contract amortization for this season would only be around 230k.

Works the other way to mate, paying a years ammortisation on someone like Maupay for example.

 

[Frenk]

We are going to have plenty to spend. We just have to do it right.

 

[Makis]

Works the other way to mate, paying a years ammortisation on someone like Maupay for example.

Not sure what point you are trying to make. Of course we pay amortization on those contracts.

 

[lieneverton]

We are going to have plenty to spend. We just have to do it right.

Yep. And, as much as it's nice to have some flexibility, sensibly too. Well aware of the scale of the rebuild required but even with more funds than recent years, we'll need to play the loan market shrewdly too.

 

[Neiler]

Not sure what point you are trying to make. Of course we pay amortization on those contracts.

Thanks for clearing that up mate!

 

[brieverton]

Are there are rough estimates or a ballpark figure of how much we could spend, assuming Branthwaite stays?

I'd imagine they'll be looking to get up to 8 players in.

Whatever the budget, and the market is a different universe to what it was in Moyes' first spell, they will still need to be very creative.

I'd be surprised if they could get to where they wanted at the end of August without utilizing the loan market again, or a couple of frees to add depth.

Hope Moyes' can work some magic.

 

[lieneverton]

I know it's obvious but a major upside to getting ourselves to near-safety already is, pending exact finishing position, there are no excuses not to start planning summer activity ASAP, if not already.

No uncertainty about what league we'll be playing our football in next year. No excuse not to be planning our business, or attempted business anyway.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Tell ya what signing Cherki wouldn't half set the tone.

But I for one will not hold my breath on that one.

 

[lieneverton]

I'd totally missed the fact he seems to have picked up some form of late.