Summer Transfer Thread 2019

MissChief · 13 May 2019 at 12:45

planty said:
From a Leicester point of view, hoping we manage to sign Tielemans permanently although wouldn't be surprised if any of the top 6 (apart from Man City) tried to sign him. Other than that, hoping we hold on to all our players and add a new CB and striker.

Monaco apparently like Silva (I think that’s who they took in the loan deal?) and would like to keep him so I’m sure a deal could be worked out. Unless, as you said, another team with bigger pockets comes in for him.

MissChief · 13 May 2019 at 12:45

planty said:
Sorry to put it bluntly, but no one outside of Glasgow cares - it's like asking you who has the record for most consecutive titles in Northern Ireland...

Glentoran I think? Not that I follow NI football much!

Admiral Huddy · 13 May 2019 at 13:12

Snax said:
I'm not sure where Spurs go next.

What should our aims be - challenge for the league? Focus on CL? Win a domestic trophy?

We don't have the money to compete at the top level. To improve our first team would take a massive capital injection and money being spent on wages to retain Eriksen and Tobey. Squad improvement is a little easier to fund but harder to find candidates - we need to recruit homegrown players because our squad doesn't have the capacity for anymore "foreigners" under CL rules.

If Poch could only win the CL, I could retire from supporting football!

Despite the stadium we do have the money but failure of investment in the last 2 windows means they have some catching up to do, so effectively it could be a rebuild. Many be that's be on Levy's mind. Maybe he knows Poch is going and any incming manager will have his own money to invest. I'm only speculating but this is the only logical explanation I can come up with.

Players I see leaving:

Jensen
Trippier
Erikson
Lamella
Toby
and even Dier.

The club can't expect to keep keeping it's fingers crossed and hope others slip up. The last 8 weeks have been a joke. If we continue next terms where we left off, we are in serious trouble.

IMO - Poch is going.

planty · 13 May 2019 at 13:39

MissChief said:
Monaco apparently like Silva (I think that’s who they took in the loan deal?) and would like to keep him so I’m sure a deal could be worked out. Unless, as you said, another team with bigger pockets comes in for him.

Yea, I heard the same about Silva at Monaco so fingers crossed!

robfosters · 13 May 2019 at 14:12

Admiral Huddy said:
Despite the stadium we do have the money but failure of investment in the last 2 windows means they have some catching up to do, so effectively it could be a rebuild. Many be that's be on Levy's mind. Maybe he knows Poch is going and any incming manager will have his own money to invest. I'm only speculating but this is the only logical explanation I can come up with.

Players I see leaving:

Jensen
Trippier
Erikson
Lamella
Toby
and even Dier.

The club can't expect to keep keeping it's fingers crossed and hope others slip up. The last 8 weeks have been a joke. If we continue next terms where we left off, we are in serious trouble.

IMO - Poch is going.

What a fall from grace for Trippier since last July. Poor bloke will probably end up back at Burnley or something!

Admiral Huddy · 13 May 2019 at 14:42

robfosters said:
What a fall from grace for Trippier since last July. Poor bloke will probably end up back at Burnley or something!

yes indeed.. Same for Dier and Dele really. Dier was a absolute first team selection at one point, even rumored for ManU at one point iirc.. Maybe just tiredness from WC etc.

robfosters · 15 May 2019 at 11:22

So Barca look like they’re getting Greaseman for £108m. Hopefully this kills the Laca interest stone dead.

FrankJH · 15 May 2019 at 12:00

robfosters said:
So Barca look like they’re getting Greaseman for £108m. Hopefully this kills the Laca interest stone dead.

Atletico will need a replacement

robfosters · 15 May 2019 at 12:04

FrankJH said:
Atletico will need a replacement

Apparently, Dybala is the replacement.

manic111 · 15 May 2019 at 12:26

Admiral Huddy said:
yes indeed.. Same for Dier and Dele really. Dier was a absolute first team selection at one point, even rumored for ManU at one point iirc.. Maybe just tiredness from WC etc.

I never thought much of Dier. He can break stuff up but is not a good enough footballer to be in a top 6 side regularly .

FrankJH · 15 May 2019 at 14:59

robfosters said:
Apparently, Dybala is the replacement.

So that's BM, Man Utd and Atletico....Im sure there will be more before the summer is over

Yas786 · 15 May 2019 at 19:36

FrankJH said:
So that's BM, Man Utd and Atletico....Im sure there will be more before the summer is over

So he will choose any other team over Utd by the looks of it, if he does decide to leave.

FrankJH · 16 May 2019 at 12:34

Yas786 said:
So he will choose any other team over Utd by the looks of it, if he does decide to leave.

To be fair Im not sure spending that much on one attacker would be the right way to go right now - If we have to spend that amount on the right centre half then so be it

Tombstone · 16 May 2019 at 17:58

Lol....here we go...brace yourselves for a summer of ridiculous transfer headlines

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...test-Liverpools-resolve-bidding-Mo-Salah.html

omnomnom · 16 May 2019 at 20:11

Madrid can't afford him. Absolute nonsense from the Mail.

Tombstone · 16 May 2019 at 20:22

omnomnom said:
Madrid can't afford him. Absolute nonsense from the Mail.

Even if they could, its not like him and Ramos are on each others xmas card lists.

FrankJH · 16 May 2019 at 20:29

Tombstone said:
Even if they could, its not like him and Ramos are on each others xmas card lists.

surely Ramos cant continue for too much longer (34 next season) - its not exactly as though their defence is great either....

omnomnom · 16 May 2019 at 20:57

Exactly... If they need to improve its cb and fullbacks. Salah would cost them the best part of 200 mil I imagine if not more.

robfosters · 17 May 2019 at 09:29

omnomnom said:
Exactly... If they need to improve its cb and fullbacks. Salah would cost them the best part of 200 mil I imagine if not more.

Salah’s worth £150m tops.

omnomnom · 17 May 2019 at 10:59

robfosters said:
Salah’s worth £150m tops.

He has just signed a contract and i imagine his marketing value is supreme. That and we hold the trump cards and he hasn't expressed any desire to leave. What he is worth and what a club would have to pay are two different things imo.