The Next Transfer Window
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Read that Leicester have joined the hunting pack
Let's offer them Anderson instead for more money
West Ham will join the battle for Said Benrahma should Brentford fail in their Premier League promotion bid, according to the Daily Mirror.
West Ham are also reportedly keen on QPR winger Eberechi Eze, and may sell the likes of Andriy Yarmolenko, Felipe Anderson and Albian Ajeti to raise more funds.
But I also wouldn't be surprised if he takes a little while to settle into PL football.
"I think we're a little unsure what the transfer window is going to be. I think everybody has had a little bit of a fright about football during the shutdown, but getting the season finished has helped and got us a bit closer to normal.
I think the good thing about the transfer window is that it will go on to October so it gives the teams time. But we're not sure what the normal is at the moment."
So absolutely no clues there
If the rumours that we have to sell to buy are true, then we'll have to get rid of our baggage before we can get any of our targets in, by which time the Leicesters and Evertons of this league could have snapped them up.
We may well miss out on the £20m players. We simply cannot start signing players for massive fees with Anderson, Lanzini, Wilshere, Yarmolenko, Snodgrass, Bowen, Diangana, Fornals (all of whom occupy those three positions behind Antonio, not to mention Antonio is normally a winger too) all in the squad & being paid accordingly.
First focus needs to be Moyes identifying who of those he is happy to lose & how much of the transfer budget can that attract.
For example, & it won’t be popular, we know that Diangana is going to be wanted by WBA, they know they will need £20m odd for him, they won’t want to lose him as he was integral to their side last season & we can say ‘well we went a season without him playing’. That would be an idea & would immediately fund a bid for the likes of Eze.
Diangana - £15m+
Anderson - £20m+
Lanzini - £20m+
Yarmolenko - £10m+
Haller - £25m+
Rice - £50m+
Diop - £25m+
There’s your most valuable assets.
We can air our frustrations that we may miss out on targets (I will if these players go to other Prem clubs), but the club spent £40mil (as Soucek is now permanent) for the January signings that kept us up, plus the £100mil net spent over the last 2 summer windows
We spent £60m odd last summer & now £40m in the January window.
Our squad is full of 4/5 players who have offered very little the last 18 months (Balbuena, Masuaku, Wilshere, Lanzini, Anderson).
Like the sounds that we are done with these underperforming players, even if it means we take a hit on the transfer fee
For years we've had player who have moments but often lack any desire and give in way too easily
I'd rather sell Lanzini for £12mil and get Eze for £12mil, then sell Diangana for £20mil and still get Eze and keep Lanzini
Potential Outs:-
Anderson,
Lanzini,
Wilshere,
Yarmolenko,
Balbuena,
Masuaku,
Ajeti
Roberto.
Potential Ins/Targets:-
Moussa Wague,
Max Aarons,
Jayden Bogle,
Diogo Dalot (loan),
Matty Cash,
Antonee Robinson,
Rico Henry,
Ryan Manning,
Kipre,
Lockyer,
Zimmerman,
Ebere Eze,
Ollie Watkins,
Karlan Grant,
Aleksander Mitrovic,
Habib Diallo,
Denis Bouanga,
Kasper Dolberg,
Never forget Inkoom
My issue isn't about not having lots of money to spend; I understand things will be tight for various reasons. It's about having what money is available to be able to act quickly.
If Moyes has identied, for arguments sake, Robinson, Kipre and Eze as his priority targets, it may only cost us £30m for all three, but we won't have that £30m until someone takes an out-of-form Anderson or Lanzini off our hands. That could take months, by which time Moyes' targets have potentially gone to a club that has cash to hand.
S&G spent the whole of the summer of 2011 trying to offload Scott Parker, there were various offers that failed to work and he didn't leave until deadline day.
We also wanted to get Robert Green and Carlton Cole off our books but they were there for the rest of the season (Carlton was our top scorer).
We can't just wish players away
I know it may appear simple but if we can't replace the ones who we believe DM doesn't rate or want with as good an option or better hopefully then we may have to resign ourselves that most of the current squad will still be with us when the new season starts. Swap deal for Lozano with Anderson, then we could sell Diangana & get Jovic on loan.
I guess what I'd want in this situation is for the board to somehow front up the money (do billionaires get bank loans?) to give Moyes a chance of getting who he wants, and then taking the money back with whoever we sell.
I'm just worried that we'll have to settle for some make-do signings in the last couple of days of the window.
Must be too much time spent on champ/football manager over the years
I mean, the LB at Wigan has a £1.5m release clause. If Moyes was desperate for him, I highly doubt the Dave’s are going to say ‘you need to sell first’.
Rebalance before rehauling. Get others performing. He's shown they have competition.
There might be better value in selling players in January anyway, when whatever's happening with the pandemic should be a bit clearer.
Think its unreasonable, and very very risky, for the owners to front up the cash in the hope we get some money in but no guarantees
What happens if we cant sell anyone? Talking in hypothetical, but say we buy a LB, CB, RB, LW and back-up striker for about £50mil (again hypothetical) and we find out we cant sell anyone for acceptable offers. We now have a £50mil debt that we may not be able to afford. Also we have added 5 players to our current 24 roster, so now 4 cant be registered.
So then we have 3 options,
1. clubs realise the situation we are in and give us awful offers for expendable players that we almost have to accept (say £15/20mil for anderson) or
2. We sell off a player we dont want to (like Rice, Diop etc) or
3. Loan the players who arent registered to get them off the wage bill (again, no gaurantee)
I feel I've been coming off quite negative, but I just feel its unrealistic to be expecting too much from this window
As Lukerz said, when it comes to dropping the odd couple million here and there we can manage
For the record, I think we will find some buyers for players we dont really need (Anderson, Masuaku, Ajeti will attract interest across Europe) and we will make some signings for our primary targets. I'm also pretty confident that we will miss out on some targets, maybe because of money or maybe they just choose another club over us
Lukerz, in the case of Robinson, I agree the board would probably find £1.5m. But if Moyes wants Eze, available for £20m if you believe the reports, then I can see us losing out to someone like Leicester or Everton who may have the funds right now.