Summer Transfer Window 2017

[Raino85]

Just going to put this here, once these 2 do not happen a single dot can we then put to bed anyone being ITK please and just face the facts people just guess?

 

[BlueToff]

The mentions of Keane, VVD, & Koulibulululululuy reminds me a lot of last summer.

There is no chance on earth we are going to get any of these players if another club are interested.

The teams we are competing against can match us on fee & wages but have the added incentive of things like trophies in the past 20 years, reputation and champions league football.

I said back in January we needed to get in there early with Keane as once he got an england cap all the bigger boys started sniffing around.

Virge is going to go for a record fee for a centre back and i would imagine he would want to make a significant step to an elite team.

Our transfer strategy is far to slow, look at Koeman blowing his top over Schneiderlin in January, we identify a player, target a player, wait for other teams to notice we have targeted a player, then lose out on that player

We bid for Keane in January. It got turned down.

And no, we don't.

The transfers should be done much quicker this summer, but stop fretting, it's April. Nothing can be completed until July 1st, regardless of any deals already being lined up.

 

[BlueToff]

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Just going to put this here, once these 2 do not happen a single dot can we then put to bed anyone being ITK please and just face the facts people just guess?

WRD has got more right than wrong.

And some of the stuff they have got right can't possibly have been guesswork.

I'm not as confident as they seem to be that we have those two deals wrapped up, but you do realise that things can change in football...

We bid for Keane in Jan. Burnley wouldn't sell. Hopefully we get him this summer. We have as much chance as any of the other sides likely to go for him.

 

[BlueToff]

Keane should of been done and dusted in January, and announced some time around the time it was announced that Keane would be leaving in the summer.
There is no law against signing players on contracts before the window opens (Dahoud to Dortmund, Sule to Bayern). We should of got it all done before then, paid the 5mil or whatever extra to get it sorted and bish, bash bosh we have are primary target sorted before a window is even open.

Right.

It was not 'announced' that he would be leaving. Get this in your head.

No official announcement from Burnley - or a rep of the player - has claimed he would be leaving at any time.

It is reported that he will most likely be leaving. There is a very, very big difference.

Burnley didn't want to sell in Jan and will probably be reluctant to sell this window. But why would they take any offer in January when they know they could well have teams bidding against each other come summer?

 

[Stuartisitc1878]

the thing that might go in our favour is that with a WC around the corner players like Keane moving on to bigger better things will want to be playing and not on the bench. If we can offer first team football we have a chance

 

[Tel001]

Remember all the stick Fergie got for spending £17m on de Gealol the media were desperate for him to be a failure. A snip now.

Mate... you throw enough darts and eventually you will hit bulls eye... bonsich, bartez, Howard, Carroll, that's weird Russian with the mullet ... and I don't even remember half of the others ...

 

[ijjysmith]

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Just going to put this here, once these 2 do not happen a single dot can we then put to bed anyone being ITK please and just face the facts people just guess?

That was super early for an ITK to dive in wasn't it?

Think he's a sound guy though from what i'm told.

 

[Pseudonym]

That was super early for an ITK to dive in wasn't it?

Think he's a sound guy though from what i'm told.

Has Lukaku signed his new deal yet?

 

[ijjysmith]

Has Lukaku signed his new deal yet?

In a minute mate.

 

[Niapper]

Tielemans please join us

 

[coollino]

2 deals = done.

On to the next.

 

[ijjysmith]

Right.

It was not 'announced' that he would be leaving. Get this in your head.

No official announcement from Burnley - or a rep of the player - has claimed he would be leaving at any time.

It is reported that he will most likely be leaving. There is a very, very big difference.

Burnley didn't want to sell in Jan and will probably be reluctant to sell this window. But why would they take any offer in January when they know they could well have teams bidding against each other come summer?

BUT SKY SOURCES SAID SO

 

[Bungle]

@Stephenlloyd

 

[brieverton]

Competition for players is not going to be anything new, or a huge shock in the corridors of power.

It is a worry though, decent players are relatively hard to find, but we have to be optimistic.

I recall Lucien Favre, going into the UCL with Moenchengladbach, saying they had turned over every stone for better players, but came up with little. He even suggested some players laughed at the suggestion they would even consider signing for Moenchengladbach. I could understand that frustration, but I don't think it was wise to go public with it and certainly bad for morale.

Things shouldn't be that bad, but its going to be tough. Sometimes the right signing isn't always the most obvious one, the most high-profile, or the most expensive option.

This is going to be Walsh's time to make an impact. Everyone knows the obvious targets, its finding the gems that will make the difference for us, not spending £35m on a single player.

I was stunned but very impressed to learn last night that Pochettino has only spent £11m net since taking over Spurs and look what he has done. That surely is the model for us.

 

[BlueToff]

Competition for players is not going to be anything new, or a huge shock in the corridors of power.

It is a worry though, decent players are relatively hard to find, but we have to be optimistic.

I recall Lucien Favre, going into the UCL with Moenchengladbach, saying they had turned over every stone for better players, but came up with little. He even suggested some players laughed at the suggestion they would even consider signing for Moenchengladbach. I could understand that frustration, but I don't think it was wise to go public with it and certainly bad for morale.

Things shouldn't be that bad, but its going to be tough. Sometimes the right signing isn't always the most obvious one, the most high-profile, or the most expensive option.

This is going to be Walsh's time to make an impact. Everyone knows the obvious targets, its finding the gems that will make the difference for us, not spending £35m on a single player.

I was stunned but very impressed to learn last night that Pochettino has only spent £11m net since taking over Spurs and look what he has done. That surely is the model for us.

Just shows that net spend is irrelevant, really. It's about what you spend the money on.

If you're selling players for big money but bringing in replacements who improve on the squad, then that's the way to operate.