Summer 2017 Transfer Speculation (continued)
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Now I am thinking how much playing time will Silva get a City now they've signed a younger Silva ;hmm Surely we couldnt go back to City and ummm, forget it ;wink
Our options now are:
Hernandez
Carroll
Sakho
Ayew
Martinez
Antonio
Two are made of glass, one is entirely untested and two aren't out-and-out strikers.
We need someone to support Hernandez and I think the club will get someone in to do just that. Pretty sure it'll be Gray.
Makeweight for Dembele to West Ham would be some good business
£7mil for a player with one goal last season and only league 1 experience isn't bad with a 'reported' sell on fee of 20% this could be a decent deal
Also does anyone know if the parent club will get money from a sell on fee if they are the ones buying the player
For instance if we bid £15mil for Fletcher next year would we still get £3mil from the deal......
Also I would disagree that Zaza 'looked totally disinterested', he is not the run everywhere hit the channels striker, and we knew that before we brought him in. He is a middle-sitting, hustler, skill and shoot striker in the Berbatov mould. Unfortunately he simply wasn't as skilled as Berb so couldn't get away with it in our league. In Italy (and now in Spain it seems) where the game is played at a slower pace he is a useful player.
Nordtveit, Valencia and Randolph were all squad players who netted us a nice £15mil
Fletcher just elft for another £7m, pretty sure Adrian, Feghouli and Snodgrass may be off bringing in about £15m again so £37mil total (although I feel we should try get at least £8m for Adrian and Feghouli not the figures that have been mentioned)
If they do get sold separately does leave us a little light in the wing positions but enough in the kitty to reinvest
But also it's a sign of our progress that we can sell these players without an impact on the first 11...
When BFS got us up they would all have been first 11 probably...
With Antonio and Kouyate injured we can get by. But another injury to any midfielder and we will be looking light. You could say that, that is the way it just happens sometimes. But there should be two players for every position and we are 'Potentially' selling some wingers leaving us no backups. We pretty much are running with Arnie / Ayew / Lanzini (if he even makes it !) otherwise I have no idea what formation we will playing since we only have one fit striker currently ! and probably only one fit striker come the first game of the season.
imagine if we were still relying on Sakho and Carroll becoming fit again ;whistle
I was meaning they are players that are not part of our first 11 assuming all are fit...
RB: Zabaleta byram
CB: Reid, Ogbonna, Fonte, Collins (Burke)
LB: Masuaka, Cresswell
CM: Noble, Kouyate, Obiang, Fernandes (Cullen)
AM: Lanzini, Ayew
WG: Arnautovic, Antonio, Snodgrass, Feghouli (Holland)
ST: Hernandez, Carroll, Sakho (Martinez)
Only we could have a strength in depth like that but also feel uneasy because so many of them pick up injuries
Think we are a centre midfielder, winger (or 2 if Snodgrass and Feghouli leave) and a attacker short
We still need some depth to our squad. Really need another CM, another forward and potentially another person who can play behind the striker in one of those three positions, especially with Fegs and Snodgrass looking unlikely to both be here. You only have to take out one or two players (like Kouyate and Lanzini) and we're struggling again to field a competitive side. I think it's very naive to think we can rely on Fernandes and Cullen as back-up. Currently we have injuries hanging over 2/3 of our first team midfielders. Defence is ok, but depends how badly Collins and Oggy's knocks are and if Reid is gonna be ready for Man Utd.
If we don't get those additional 2/3 players I don't think this window has been a success, just a window of signings that we should be making.
Really hope G&S have stopped patting themselves on the back now and realise that a good start to the window needs to be backed up in the next couple of weeks with a couple more. They've done well but if we resting on our laurels we're gonna be short for the season IMO.
So CM and striker fills it.
If Snodgrass and/or Fegs leave we need a replacement for him/them who is an improvement.
If we need depth for emergencies let's use our youngsters