Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

[Barrington Womble]

51 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

It's not my fault you thought I meant "Barrington Womble" when I said "England".

Of course, how silly of me, it's completely unrelated. 

[Scott_M]

2 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I find it interesting what position is more important. For me, a centre back or #6 are top two priorities. 

 

I’d be very surprised if any players we want aren’t currently playing in tournaments in Germany or America. 
 

Given Yoro currently on international duty, probably why we’re most linked with him. 

[Scott_M]

This DOF / Coach talk is pointless. We don’t really know how it’ll work, it’s worrying for worrying sake. 
 

Personally, I doubt it’ll be any different to what Klopp & Edwards used to be.

[El Rojo]

Slot undoubtedly will have less clout than Klopp.

 

This could be a positive thing - nobody knows yet. 

[Scott_M]

7 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Slot undoubtedly will have less clout than Klopp.

 

This could be a positive thing - nobody knows yet. 

Apart from Guardiola and Ancelotti, everybody would have less clout than Klopp. 
 

Of the coaches we were linked with, I only think Alonso would have anything like approaching the clout of Klopp.

 

As you said, nobody knows how it’ll go. We’ve got the vast majority of things right over the past 9 years. Obviously we have new faces in the structure, let’s hope we’re as successful. 

[TheHowieLama]

10 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

 we want another centre back as well. 

 

 

Doesn't the tweet you posted say the opposite?

 

We need a top midfielder badly. It could be in any of the positions for me tbh - the preference being a deep lying specialist - but as long as he is absolute quality - first 11 week in/out, it would improve us the most.

 

The "re-build" in midfield has been a flop. Mac Allister or Szob may come good and both are better options than we had but both are far too inconsistent.

[Scott_M]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Doesn't the tweet you posted say the opposite?

 

We need a top midfielder badly. It could be in any of the positions for me tbh - the preference being a deep lying specialist - but as long as he is absolute quality - first 11 week in/out, it would improve us the most.

 

The "re-build" in midfield has been a flop. Mac Allister or Szob may come good and both are better options than we had but both are far too inconsistent.

My interpretation of it was Yoro is deemed too good to miss out on / not try our best to convince him and if we were to sign him, it wouldn’t alter other plans. 
 

Mac Allister may come good, he was one of our best players last season! 
 

I do take the point on Szobozslai & Gravenberch though. I’m not writing either off, they have both showed signs of their quality, both young lads and have loads of time on their side. 
 

I think we’re all in agreement on the #6, finding somebody significantly better than  what we have is the issue. 

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Mac Allister may come good, he was one of our best players last season! 

 

At times he was. Alot of the time we were not very good and neither was he.

We need a guy we can count on to be really good when the team is not. A true difference maker. Obviously those are hard to find and do not come cheap.

[El Dangerous]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

He’s bald therefore he’s got a small fuse. And probably a small dick 

Completely independent of my own follicle situation I can ell you it’s widely known that baldy men have massive willies and fuck like German machines.

[Scott_M]

2 minutes ago, El Dangerous said:

Completely independent of my own follicle situation I can ell you it’s widely known that baldy men have massive willies and fuck like German machines.

Men are bald because of all the additional testosterone they (including me) carry. 
 

All our extra lively swimmers push our hair out. 

[Razoray]

13 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

So boring real Madrid. Obviously you see why players want to go to Madrid but christ they bore me, players who join them bore me. The Original state backed wankers.

To be fair they are buying excellent younger players these days. How many of their first eleven were bought in their teens or early 20s?

 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

He’s bald therefore he’s got a small fuse. And probably a small dick 

 

Negged - I haven't got a short fuse.

[Megadrive Man]

Guehi looks like one of the few England players to come out of the first two games with credit. 

 

If he's available for around £60 million I'd take him. He's young quick and Premier League proven.

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, Scott_M said:

 

I’d be very surprised if any players we want aren’t currently playing in tournaments in Germany or America. 
 

Given Yoro currently on international duty, probably why we’re most linked with him. 

Yes, of course it's pretty unlikely we'd want someone below the level of those national sides. I just took that tweet in terms of "priority" is we're looking to solve issues in other positions before we get to centre back. 

[3 Stacks]

4 hours ago, Scott_M said:

Think this is quite interesting. Sounds like Yoro is an opportunity we don’t think we could pass on, we want another centre back as well. 

We have 4 CB's with Gomez so it's not a pressing concern in that sense but it would not take much for it to become a need and I think everyone knows that.

 

And yeah, Yoro is someone where it should be compulsory to be interested if you have the chance.

[Carvalho Diablo]

His highlight reel is pretty shit like Stacksy.

[Scott_M]

Despite only watching him for the first time last night, I’m fully of the opinion we should be all over this…

 

[Lee909]

5 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Despite only watching him for the first time last night, I’m fully of the opinion we should be all over this…

 

 

He wants 300k a week 

People moaning they want rid of Diaz because he doesn't score enough. Mo scored more goals before Xmas than this lad has in 2 years. He might end up being a good finisher but his wage demands are far over what we'd offer him or what he deserves

[The wanderer]

14 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Despite only watching him for the first time last night, I’m fully of the opinion we should be all over this…

 

I mentioned him as a potential to replace Mo a while back but discovered he plays on the left so maybe he could be lined up for the left side. Only going on one game tho’.

[Scott_M]

1 hour ago, Lee909 said:

 

He wants 300k a week 

People moaning they want rid of Diaz because he doesn't score enough. Mo scored more goals before Xmas than this lad has in 2 years. He might end up being a good finisher but his wage demands are far over what we'd offer him or what he deserves

I’m sure there can be some sort of middle ground found on his wages.

 

These are Williams stats from the last 2 seasons…

 

 

…I agree his goal scoring isn’t  ground breaking but last seasons assists is very good. He has more goal contributions than Diaz has season (8+5). 
 

Williams is about to turn 22, so is 5/6 years younger from Diaz. I don’t know much about Bilabo, I doubt they are as good a side / have the same quality of players as us. I see Valverde is their coach, so the football wouldn’t be massively different to what we play (or going to play under Slot - measured possession, full throttle press).
 

His performance last night looked like he has a high ceiling and can go onto be a genuine world class player.

 

I’d be surprised if we saw big increases in Diaz’s numbers while he still plays for us. 

[AngryofTuebrook]

16 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

The "re-build" in midfield has been a flop. Mac Allister or Szob may come good and both are better options than we had but both are far too inconsistent.

Our midfield last season was a massive upgrade on the previous season, in every respect.  If that's your definition of "a flop" you need a new dictionary.

[TD_LFC]

17 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

I find it interesting what position is more important. For me, a centre back or #6 are top two priorities. 

 

I think it's a difference in specificity or type.

 

From a fans point of view it's we have 4 centrebacks, you can't rely on Konate we need a starting centre back yet within the club they seem to be looking more specifically at a left sided centreback who can back up and, in an ideal world, inherit VVD's position while in the short term doing a bit at another position to give more options for game time.

 

It's why the majority of links over the past two years seem to have been players with some ability on the ball and some form of positional flexibility while being predominantly left sided CB's (Colwill, Guehi, Pacho, Inacio, Calafiori, Hincapie etc).

 

With Konate, Quansah and Gomez all able to play the right sided role and Van Dijk being an almost ever present the view may be that while succession planning is needed it's not the single most important position to upgrade and with the spectre of Yoro hanging over them it's a position they're willing to let play out over the summer instead of jumping early.

 

Whether that risk works, or is worth taking, remains to be seen but given there hasn't been a run on CB's in the market so far they're probably fairly comfortable in doing the ground work and letting the market play out while they see what happens with the French kid.

 

If there's suddenly a run on their left sided centreback targets that priority might change.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

1 hour ago, Lee909 said:

 

He wants 300k a week 

People moaning they want rid of Diaz because he doesn't score enough. Mo scored more goals before Xmas than this lad has in 2 years. He might end up being a good finisher but his wage demands are far over what we'd offer him or what he deserves

A few probably watched him in Spain’s last two games for the first time. Struggles currently to hit a barn door with a guitar.

[manwiththestick]

The Spanish Doku.

[Doc Pheezin]

How do you pronounce Guehi as I’m afraid to say it out loud cos I would probably go with ‘Gay He’ or ‘Gwayyy’. Neither of which seem like good options