Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[Pidge]

I think doucoure's excellent on the defensive side of things, but not sure how he'd deal with the opponent's press when we have a lot of the ball, teams would be looking to trap him.

 

Would like to bring him in but he's very much one of the "we'd need one more" options.

[El Dangerous]

17 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

That Sam Kerr for Australia looks decent 

We’d all be dropping our trousers if she had a fancy foreign name like Juan Kerr.

[3 Stacks]

56 minutes ago, Mil-ing Around said:

 

This guy?!

 

Jesus. Be careful what you wish for. If i'd never seen him play before i'd say he is shit and will never make it in the premier league. He isnt a Liverpool standard player, not in a million years.

 

At this point we are better off trying to buy another type of midfielder and trying to turn him into a DM. Honestly. Buy Kone or Gravenberch (or another type who has clear talent) and try and mould them into the role. Atleast they have ability. We can't be signing shite like this just because we are desperate, we would go backwards by having him in the squad and first 11. 

 

You can't just get bodies in the door for the sake of it

He is Palace s best player.

[Colt Seavers]

53 minutes ago, Supremolad said:

That 5 year limit was brought in by UEFA. And Chelsea are not in any of their competitions this season. The Premier League hasn't brought in the 5 year limit yet, they've just started considering it.

 

Edit - Babbs already issued a retraction of his earlier post. Sorry Babbs.

Do you know what happens with this if they qualify for europe for next season with this? Do they look at current contracts or just from the point you qualify for europe?

[Scott_M]

2 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

He is Palace s best player.

Best window since we signed Middlesbrough’s best player in Bolo Zenden and Chile’s best player in Mark Gonzalez.

[clockspeed]

1 minute ago, Scott_M said:

Best window since we signed Middlesbrough’s best player in Bolo Zenden and Chile’s best player in Mark Gonzalez.

Maybe before your time but we have form West Hams best player Julian Dicks drafted in to save Souness's managerial career

[joe_fishfish]

8 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

He is Palace s best player.

His press resistance doesn’t look wonderful, Palace don’t keep the ball for long enough for that to matter to them though. Would be a very different story for us.

[Scott_M]

3 minutes ago, clockspeed said:

Maybe before your time but we have form West Hams best player Julian Dicks drafted in to save Souness's managerial career

First signing I remember was being at Jimmy Carters debut. 

They were Benitez’s actual words that summer “We’ve signed the best player from Middlesbrough and Chile”.

 

[Lee909]

 

 

Definitely not the answer to our DM issues. 

[Chris]

Seeing a lot of "we've been screwed over by agents" in the last few pages. 

BE FUCKING SAVVIER. 

 

Don't remember us being continually embarrassed by their games before the behind the scenes infrastructure fell apart and we swapped our key blokes for fucking Gru from Despicable Me.

 

Fucking amateur hour.

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, Lee909 said:

Definitely not the answer to our DM issues. 

 

Depends on how true the preference for both a destroyer and a controller is, more likely to be an alternative to Andre than a more obvious #6.

[Megadrive Man]

1 hour ago, Strontium said:

I'd be happy with Doucoure or Kone, and even happier with both.

Prepare to be unhappy.

[3 Stacks]

11 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

His press resistance doesn’t look wonderful, Palace don’t keep the ball for long enough for that to matter to them though. Would be a very different story for us.

He was progressive and good on the ball when he was at Lens. There are loads of resources which confirms this.

 

He then played under two managers in Vieira and Hodgson who are as pragmatic as it gets. I dont think people know this in England because he was seen as having done a good job at Palace, but Vieira in France is seen as one of the most boring, defensive coaches out there. There is a decent possibility, that as good as he has been at Palace, and he has been very good, he was their player of the year and the fans love him, he would be even better at a big club that tries to play football. 

 

 

[TD_LFC]

2 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

He was progressive and good on the ball when he was at Lens. There are loads of resources which confirms this.

 

He then played under two managers in Vieira and Hodgson who are as pragmatic as it gets. I dont think people know this in England because he was seen as having done a good job at Palace, but Vieira in France is seen as one of the most boring, defensive coaches out there. There is a decent possibility, that as good as he has been at Palace, and he has been very good, he was their player of the year and the fans love him, he would be even better at a big club that tries to play football. 

 

 

 

On 21/07/2023 at 15:03, TD_LFC said:

Context is everything, and the job a player is asked to do at one team isn't necessarily representative of what he can and can't do.

 

No doubt people have looked at his numbers at Palace and made the assumption that he's good defensively and not much of a passer of the ball which would tend to be backed up by this

 

 

But by comparison, when given more freedom to be more involved in the passing game at Lens the season before his numbers were significantly better and he was in the top 10 for chance creation in Ligue 1.

 

 

Level of competition obviously matters but so does what you're tasked with doing and at Palace his job was to recycle the ball for the likes of Oliseh and Eze.

 

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

 

 

Yes, that was a good post.

[Chris]

5 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

He was progressive and good on the ball when he was at Lens. There are loads of resources which confirms this.

 

 

 

Blows my mind there are people who watch enough football to know stuff like this when it's not their full time job.

[Jose Jones]

13 minutes ago, Chris said:

Seeing a lot of "we've been screwed over by agents" in the last few pages. 

BE FUCKING SAVVIER. 

 

Don't remember us being continually embarrassed by their games before the behind the scenes infrastructure fell apart and we swapped our key blokes for fucking Gru from Despicable Me.

 

Fucking amateur hour.

Agreed.

[3 Stacks]

3 minutes ago, Chris said:

 

Blows my mind there are people who watch enough football to know stuff like this when it's not their full time job.

I mostly watch Ligue 1 and the Premier League these days in terms of leagues, that's it.

 

But I was mostly referring to the fact that Doucoure being better than he looks is a point that a lot of people have made already.

[LFC 6 Times]

We should have just fucking kept Fab. The market is fucking wank.

[El Dangerous]

15 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

I mostly watch Ligue 1 and the Premier League these days in terms of leagues, that's it.

 

But I was mostly referring to the fact that Doucoure being better than he looks is a point that a lot of people have made already.

Where did he feature on the Young Studs list? The definitive resource when it comes to scouting from the donkey eating surrender monkeys.

[TD_LFC]

Anyway, not even entertaining the possibility of him signing (or that he's signed) until he's leant, been at the club for more than 7 days and played at least two games.

[JagSquared]

I’m going on holiday this week for 2 weeks. We best have signed some players by the time I’m back.

[Carra_is_legend]

Just now, TD_LFC said:

Anyway, not even entertaining the possibility of him signing (or that he's signed) until he's leant, been at the club for more than 7 days and played at least two games.

 

Before going to Chelsea on loan?

[JagSquared]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

Anyway, not even entertaining the possibility of him signing (or that he's signed) until he's leant, been at the club for more than 7 days and played at least two games.

Exactly, also anyone who starts a “welcome to” before the contracts are signed should be negged to oblivion.

[Pidge]

1 minute ago, JagSquared said:

I’m going on holiday this week for 2 weeks. We best have signed some players by the time I’m back.

 

Like fuck you're not going to be checking your phone 80 times a day...