Summer Transfer Window 2017/18 - Rumours & Signings

Genuinely sick and tired of the press linking us to every single player under the sun and opposing fans believing it. Ive not known a summer like it and the window hasn't even opened yet.
 
opethdisciple said:
So then.... do we really have faith that Wenger and co are going to take us a step forward for the coming season?

Realistically we are going to lose Sanchez. Should we take the 40-50 million from City and let him go, or hold him for another year against he's will and let him go for free next summer?

Do we really have confidence Wenger is going to sign what we need this summer?

Kolasinac is a good start. But we need more and I cant seem to see Wenger not dilly dallying as per usual and us missing out on top targets.

Supposedly Aubameyang is available this summer. Surly he's a better option than Lacazette?
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Doubt Aubameyang would take a step down though.
 
adam cool dude said:
It will be even harder for them as they have Europe this year.
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This argument always makes me laugh. Why is it that the vast majority of the time, it's the teams that are in Europe that finish in the top few positions in the League? Have you ever considered that the extra money that being in the CL brings and the more and better players you can sign because of it, is a bigger advantage than those extra games? Or should we be expecting West Brom to challenge for the league next season as they will play far fewer games than last seasons top 6?

If Liverpool went into next season with the exact same squad as they did the season just gone then you'd have a point but we won't.
 
BaZ87 said:
This argument always makes me laugh. Why is it that the vast majority of the time, it's the teams that are in Europe that finish in the top few positions in the League? Have you ever considered that the extra money that being in the CL brings and the more and better players you can sign because of it, is a bigger advantage than those extra games? Or should we be expecting West Brom to challenge for the league next season as they will play far fewer games than last seasons top 6?

If Liverpool went into next season with the exact same squad as they did the season just gone then you'd have a point but we won't.
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The top/big teams have a larger squad to allow them to play all the extra games without too many issues. Yes playing the EL or CL is a hinderance in the league but usually all the top teams in a league are all in the CL and EL so it evens out. They are also considerably better than the next tier of teams so the fact they are not in europe won't make enough difference to allow them to break into the top 4-5 teams. You can't say that chelsea having little else to do this year apart from PL hasn't helped them.
 
fez said:
The top/big teams have a larger squad to allow them to play all the extra games without too many issues. Yes playing the EL or CL is a hinderance in the league but usually all the top teams in a league are all in the CL and EL so it evens out. They are also considerably better than the next tier of teams so the fact they are not in europe won't make enough difference to allow them to break into the top 4-5 teams. You can't say that chelsea having little else to do this year apart from PL hasn't helped them.
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I think you missed the point of my post. Why is there such a big gap to the next tier of sides? Why do the top sides have greater depth squads? Because qualifying for the CL brings extra revenue, the extra revenue that you need to buy better players and carry larger squads.

Of course Chelsea had an advantage but they're an exception to the rule. They had a squad built on Champions League money - they had a CL quality/depth squad without the extra fixtures.
 
BaZ87 said:
That won't be for another 2 seasons and I wouldn't bet against us signing another option for our front 3 this summer.

There's a lot of talk that we want Keita but if we can't get him I can see Coutinho moving back into a midfield role far more often and us possibly buying another forward instead of a midfielder.

No, ours was better. The first half of the season when we had our forward line intact we were tearing teams apart for fun.
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Well you scored less and finished below Chelsea, Spurs and MC for a reason. Not sure how many of your fwd line would get in those teams
 
_Jimlad_ said:
Well you scored less and finished below Chelsea, Spurs and MC for a reason. Not sure how many of your fwd line would get in those teams
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Yes because for large parts of the season our forward line was either injured or playing in the AFCON as has been mentioned a shed load of times already.
 
Harry Kane was injured for 3 months or so of the season, still ended top scorer with more than double anyone from Liverpool. Dele Alli and Son had more than any Liverpool player too. I understand you mean at it's strongest but I feel those statistics speak for themselves.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
Well you scored less and finished below Chelsea, Spurs and MC for a reason. Not sure how many of your fwd line would get in those teams
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Am I speaking a different language? My comment you quoted was specifically talking about how good our front line was when we had our first choice players available - we barely had them all available from the end of November until the end of the season though which explains why our form and amount of goals we scored tailed off as the season went on.

The attacking football we were playing until then was better than anything any other side produced all season and we were scoring at a rate that would have far exceeded the totals that Spurs, Chelsea or City got. Obviously it counts for nothing - I was only pointing out our need to improve the depth of our attacking options so that it doesn't happen again.
 
Yeah yeah and if Leicester had like they did the season before they would have won the league.

Don't be deluded.

You had a fairly good attacking line up when fit no need to go OT and claim it was the best
 
_Jimlad_ said:
Yeah yeah and if Leicester had like they did the season before they would have won the league.

Don't be deluded.

You had a fairly good attacking line up when fit no need to go OT and claim it was the best
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I must be talking a different language - did I not say that it counted for nothing and I was only making the point to explain why we needed to improve our depth of attacking options?

Imo our attacking football when we had our first choice players fit was the best in the League last season, you might not agree with me but you can't even understand basic points so I'm not going to worry too much about what you think :)
 
BaZ87 said:
This argument always makes me laugh. Why is it that the vast majority of the time, it's the teams that are in Europe that finish in the top few positions in the League? Have you ever considered that the extra money that being in the CL brings and the more and better players you can sign because of it, is a bigger advantage than those extra games? Or should we be expecting West Brom to challenge for the league next season as they will play far fewer games than last seasons top 6?

If Liverpool went into next season with the exact same squad as they did the season just gone then you'd have a point but we won't.
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The difference is those teams have the depth. Liverpool do not as you pointed out yourself.
 
adam cool dude said:
The difference is those teams have the depth. Liverpool do not as you pointed out yourself.
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Did not last season but will have far greater depth next season as a result of being in the CL.

Depending on which reports you believe we're going to either equal or break or transfer record on Salah and could very well break it a further 2 times this summer. Yes, we'll have more games but that will be mitigated by having greater depth to our squad too.
 
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