Summer 2017 Transfer Speculation

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  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    To break the top 6 we will need better DM/CMs but the ones we currently have can get top 8 (providing other positions are adequately filled)
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited May 2017
    I would take a chance on Jack Wilshere. I think we need a player who can play CM and break up the field and make something happen. He's available and would improve us. Obviously the fitness is a concern but I think he had quite a consistent season with Bournemouth and they ended up 9th.

    Adrian/Randolph
    Zabaleta/Byram - Reid/Collins - Ogbonna/Fonte - Cresswell/Masuaku
    Noble/Obiang - Kouyate/Wilshere
    Antonio/Feghouli - Lanzini/Ayew - Gray/Tadic
    Iheanacho/Carroll
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Lukerz, yesterday you didn't see what all the fuss around Iheanacho was about and today he's your number one striker. ;hmm
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    No way are we signing Tadic / Gray / Inhenacho / Wilshere. No where near enough money for that.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited May 2017
    Herb - it's not my pick. It's linked players plus Wilshere. ;ok

    Andy Carroll, forgetting injuries, can be one of the most dangerous and threatening lone strikers in Europe. On his day he is unplayable. The only reason we are even in the market for a striker is because he is unreliable fitness wise.

    So to replace him with Iheanacho, a guy with barely any minutes to his name, a few goals when being supplied by Silva, de Bruyne, Sterling, Toure, Aguero etc, and to say that guy is going to be our consistent lone striker in the PL and we will rely on him as our main man to get the goals for us to push into the top half...

    Madness IMO and at £24m!
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Inhenacho / Tadic / Hernandez. Seal those 3 as our "3 Quality Signings" for the summer.

    Then if possible try to move on, Snodgrass / Valencia / Sakho to recoup some money. Could be a good 20m on those 3.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    If anyone thinks that S&G are going to sell Snodgrass for anything less than the £10.2m they paid for him four months ago then they've been living under a rock for the last seven years. They'll want at least what they paid for him but as he was grossly overpriced they won't get it.

    Ditto with Valencia who they value at £11m, having cut his price from the original £14m they wanted from Everton.

    With his injury history Sakho is currently about as marketable as Carroll, no one wants to risk spending money on either of them
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Well their are rumours of Snodgrass for 8m to Brighton
    and I reckon we can get 7m for Valencia and 5m for Sakho

    So I reckon 20m is fair for those three.
  • stevesteve
    I agree 20 m would be good but I do feel with sakho theres still hope if only we could get his head sorted out would like to give him another season injure free. of course if he does not want to be with us then try and get rid
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    We won't get more than we paid for Sakho imo.
  • AdamAdam
    I'd say more like £4m for Valencia
  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    Sakho is finished, has been for a long time now.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    We'll get good money for Valencia. He's a decent player possibly playing in the wrong league.
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    Herb ;ok

    He is too light for the prem...
  • AdamAdam
    IronHerb said:

    We'll get good money for Valencia. He's a decent player possibly playing in the wrong league.

    Hope so but I'll believe it when I see the money.

    SHOW ME THE MONEY!
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    SHOW ME THE MONEY ;lol
  • TwistandShoutTwistandShout
    Lukerz, good shout with Wilshere. I don't know if i am alone but i am a bit concerned at the lack of our English players (i know most clubs are in the same boat as well but it still grinds my gears)
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    "Hey guys I've got something for you. It's about one of the players. Mahrez. He has said he doesn't want to play for Leicester again"......
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited May 2017
    Begovic signs for Bournemouth for £10m. Absolute snip.

    Twist ;ok rumours suggesting Wilshere is available for £10m. I know many will question his fitness, but as long as he's our only 'injury risk' signing, I would take a gamble. He is the sort of calibre of player we would love to have, but obviously we can only dream of getting when there is ? over something. In this case his reliability, but no doubting his quality.

    Would still love us to secure Defoe. Still hasn't officially signed for Bournemouth. Maybe there is still hope. Him and another forward would be perfect.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    OK I confess myself thoroughly baffled.

    Carroll needs to go because he's injury prone, but we should get Wilshere? Really?

    Since the 9/10 season, Wilshere has missed 145 games and been injured for 945 days.

    Since the 8/9 season, Carrol has missed 137 games and been injured for 1056 days.

    Wilshere:

    wilshere

    Carrol

    carroll
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    baracks_a_hammer said:

    "Hey guys I've got something for you. It's about one of the players. Mahrez. He has said he doesn't want to play for Leicester again"......

    Because he's 'fiercely ambitious' and wants to play at a higher level....
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I don't want Wiltshire... to be honest I don't really want Carroll any more either.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited May 2017
    Equally grey, swap that round.

    Carroll should be retained because he is a quality forward on his day, despite his injury record, yet Wilshere should not be signed due to his injury record, despite his quality on his day.

    Works both ways.

    Carroll will remain at West Ham until his contract expires.

    Difference with Wilshere is he's just had a solid season. 27 league appearances for Bournemouth. Carroll hasn't. 18 league appearances.

    It would be a slight risk, but if you could get a 25 year old for around £10m from Arsenal, would it not be worth considering, even though he seems to miss every other season?
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    We will not sign two forwards who have shown they can score in this league (for example Defoe and iheancho) if Carroll stays IMO
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I like a Begovic, but I don't think he's in a different class to our current GKs.

    Leaving aside that Slav has said he's not interested n signing one, t would be too much of a like-for-like swap for me.

    I want signings that are going to improve the 1st choice XI and push someone from that group down the pecking order. I don't believe Begovic does, nor Demarai Gray (sp?).

    While I am ;hmm about AC, the one thing I know is - we didn't sign him knowing he would have so many injuries. With Wilshere, it would be precisely the opposite, and so it would be folly for a club in our situation to sign him, imo. We don't need to take that risk. Leave him for a newly-promoted club.
  • TwistandShoutTwistandShout
    If Wilshere is available for around 10m he'd be well worth a punt. 10m is nothing these days (in football)

    Begovic is a great signing by Bournemouth. Shocked Everton didn't come in for him, their keepers are terrible.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    The lack of fanfare and celebration surrounding Adrian's contract extension IMO indicates we are going to try and get another keeper in and move him on in the process
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    edited May 2017
    TwistAndShout said:



    Begovic is a great signing by Bournemouth. Shocked Everton didn't come in for him, their keepers are terrible.

    Or Palace.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Lukerz

    When we signed ;ac there was no history of repeated injuries.

    Wilshere has a history of injuries, and a long-standing issue with his ankle.

    We've got Andy on the books, and I doubt we could get shot of him for much, so yeah, I say keep him and sign another starting CF.

    I also say don't siign a known injury-prone player in a position where we are not desperate for players.

    I don't see that as a contradiction.
  • alderzalderz
    If we sign Wilshere people will be on here in two years saying how we didn't learn our lesson signing injury prone players, IMO.

    Twist I do agree about the lack of English / British playerS, though
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