Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.
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I doubt if Chelsea will sell Loftus-Cheek although I'm surprised they didn't put Danny Drinkwater on the transfer list in January.
The level of player we need now is not a Chelsea bargin buy, the players we need I think they will too..
Our forward options our fine; clearly we need a striker if we don't hang onto Arnie. The ball is in our court with Hernandez & Arnie. They are both under contract & will both score goals if given the right service. Perez & Carroll may be off so we'll need a filler forward player to replace those.
I agree with most; CM is the main role. If we are to play a 4-4-2/4-4-1-1/4-2-3-1 variation then we need a good player alongside Rice so that we have the option to rotate Nobes instead of inevitably rely on him every week. Even if we start a season with Nobes not as the preferred option, he tends to get into the side a few weeks later & then remain most of the season.
Fredericks & Cresswell are ok for the foreseeable. Zabaleta will need replacing if he doesn't renew. Adrian may need replacing too.
So we're possibly looking at: GK, RB, CM, ST x 2 (with more luxury purchases being a RB & LB, as I feel we could, if pushed, upgrade those areas). That's only 4/5 players. I think if the players are of a certain standard, that would do us for next season.
So a 25 man squad of...
Fabianski/GK
Fredericks/RB - Balbuena/Reid - Diop/Ogbonna - Cresswell/Masuaku
Rice/Sanchez - CM/Noble
Yarmolenko/Antonio - Lanzini/Nasri - Anderson/Snodgrass
Arnautovic/Hernandez
Wilshere, Diangana, ST
(I think Obiang will move on this summer; we won't be able to shift Wilshere or Sanchez given their season-ending injuries)
I think under a different manager we may need double that set of players, but Pellers is the key for this IMO. He has the know-how of getting 'sleeping giants' achieving beyond their potential & I would be pretty confident we won't be far away from the top six next season, albeit I struggle to see us breaching it.
The trouble is that I can't think of any quality left backs who would be available to us. If Mourinho hadn't left United I would have wanted us to go after Luke Shaw but he's doing pretty alright for himself nowadays.
We need about 6 other players on top of that as back ups.
Jonjo it is then, eh Suze ;ok
Or is it they cannot register players
I'm pretty sure that they'll appeal and be able to have a normal summer.
Yeold
I don't think we need another 6 beyond that, but I think we could improve in most positions. It's unlikely we're going to have 2 top quality players for every position any time soon.
I think we only really need 1 striker, but if either Arnie or Hernandez leave then we'll need to replace them.
You can't call him Jonjo in Suze's company. He must be called "He Who Must Not Be Named"
There's a lot of noise on Twitter. Mostly, it is caused by hot air.
Would mark a huge step back if true, but I guess we'll find out in the summer.
On a similar note, I do wonder where these kind of rumours start from. For example, I've already seen us linked with Zapata and Joao Felix (both £40m players) which, realistically, we have no chance of getting. Some have accused Sully of leaking names to get fans excited and season ticket sold, but we also live in a world of clickbait so I would imagine it's more than likely that.
We get the 'just doing it to sell season tickets' thing every year.
I seriously doubt anyone would ever buy/renew a season ticket based on rumours of signings, on account of if you were that gullible, you probably wouldn't be in charge of your own finances.
As you say, the Internet sports sites have a desperate need for new 'content', regardless of how unrelated it may be to anything that might approach being factual.
Did any of these same Twitter ITK's confidently tells us that the club would be spending £100m last year? (I think we know the answer.)
I mean we rarely spend over net £25/30mil a year do we
We only posted profits for the last 2 year's, and last financial report 17/18 showed was down from the previous year 16/17 season
That proift allowed us to spend £80mil net this summer, which I'm sure will show up in the financial performance this year
Unfortunately as far as money goes, we are well short of the top 6 for sponsorship, merchandise and don't benefit from European football (thin Liverpool got £70mil for getting to the final)
Still feel we can bolster our kitty through player sales
I think we will struggle to improve on that front 4.
So for the first 11 maybe we need a Left Back or a Dynamic MF...
Think it was the newspapers first that suggested Pelle would have a £75m budget
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-transfer-budget-at-least-75m-as-manuel-pellegrini-plots-summer-spree-a3848286.html
There seems to be an effort on here sometimes to discredit ITKs. I know the majority are as ITK as I am, but Ex does genuinely appear to have contacts within and around the club.
Genuine question; have you ever listened to one of his podcasts? Or follow him on Twitter?
No.
I don't seek to discredit ITKs per se, I simply look at what they say, and judge on that.
Looking back, C&H said it was what Pelle had been reported as saying in Chile, and his article was 3 weeks after the Standard's.
What I find dispiriting, especially re: transfers, is when people take what an ITK/Twitter type or gossip rumour has said as gospel, and berate the club as a result, when time out of number it then turns out the original comment.
Yeold
£25m gets you 7 Balbuena's