Transfer Speculation
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MAGUIRE: Well, the pressure is huge, we’re expected to win trophies but aren’t good enough, and everyone hates us
RICE: Cool, I’ll stay put, ta
May be journalists have to write something to earn their living but I hope the rumour has no substance. Marko left West Ham in a huff and now wants to leave China in a huff. He is obviously not the player he was and it would be crazy to sign him again. He would be disruptive and will have little or no resale value.
So I read the 'article' and didn't see any pleading. A few blokes on twitter responding with a yes to a question from some other Twitter account asking if they'd take Arnie back.
I think you dignify them with the title of journalists.
Who would pay £40m for a Chelsea reject (Rice excepted of course
If he's not good enough for them then £40m is ridiculous.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/04/28/chelsea-ready-offload-tammy-abraham-40m-club-plot-overhaul-forward/
Teamtalk have a different angle (and can be read for free), saying that Abrahams might be stuck at Chelsea unless he is prepared to drop his wage demands
https://www.teamtalk.com/news/exclusive-tammy-abraham-faces-being-stuck-chelsea-one-big-reason
However, that's probably £15m more than we can afford.
With £20-25m of our budget already (presumably) reserved for Lingard, we may only have another £30m or so to bring in a striker, a midfielder and someone who is capable of playing LB and LWB equally well.
According to this ( not sure accurate it is) we owe 95 mio in transfers thats after what we are owed . The only silver lining is Spurs are in an even worse position than us
Barkley will be the main target
Abraham got 26 goals in 40 games at Villa (when he was 21)
Watkins got 26 goals in 49 games at Bretford (when he was 24)
Plus Abraham was Chelsea top scorer last year with 15 goals in the Prem, Watkins is currently at 12 despite already playing more than Abraham did last year
If Watkins cost £28mil +5mil add ons, think Tammy at £35/£40mil is about right imo
Still think that with COVID hanging over us it's unlikely we will drop that especially given Lingard will set us back at least £20mil
Someone like Chilwell, Castagne or Digne. Someone that can play as an orthodox left back but is equally capable as a wing-back. This would allow Moyes to have the flexibility within the game to change formations without wasting a sub. Chelsea have Alonso and Emerson kicking their heels on the bench; I do wonder whether we'll have a look at either of those.
Lundstram isn't a bad shout. We were linked in January and as a free may be decent enough back-up. But I think we could possibly do better than him.
Bottom line is, we'll have to be clever to get what we need with what we'll have available.
Every player has the occasional dip in form, we should try our utmost to sign him
The way I see Lingard is he’s the piece that takes our attack to an extra level. We were getting on fine without him but he made us a much bigger goal threat in a way that signings like Anderson and Yarmolenko were supposed to and did not. He’s going to be important if we want to keep up this level of performance next year, I think, even if he’s not a guaranteed starter in the way he is right now. That might not even be a bad thing - I don’t think he’s the solution in every situation.