Transfer Speculation (1st June onwards)
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Also still interested in Hibs Left back Josh Doig (also 19)
Given we've already confirmed Oxo-Flex, seems like Moyes & his team are using his knowledge of Scottish football to try unearth a potential gem
If this is true, given Johnstone is a Salthouse client, I can see us going back in.
Ngl I don't know who's better, both seemed to do well last year
From the eye test, Areola seems the better option but don't watch a lot of neutral football other that MOTD
No way we bring in 2 goalkeepers with Fab still here
But if Areola impresses, he may actually cost more in the long term, i.e. we'll buy him next summer for £15m and continue with the high wages over four or five years.
They're both 28, both of a similar ability from what I've seen of them, so probably not a lot in it. Johnstone will probably be cheaper in the long-run (assuming we'd want to sign Areola at the end of the loan), so I think he's probably more likely. And, you know, Salthouse.
I can understand his concerns as he isn't the first player wanting the club to show they are able to sign the upgrades we need.
Hes outgrown the club and we just have to accept that, we can't compete financially even if we did get into the champions league
Doesn't say he's pushing for a move and with 3 years left it's a bit of a non starter
He also said on twitter He doesn't want to get into a Zaha situation and that makes sense
I have said it before, the main thing this club has done wrong is buy badly. It's not sustainable. We have a poor history of signing players, for reasonable fees, who turn out into quality players, who we can then sell for vast sums & start the cycle again. It's why Leicester have been so successful over the last few years. Mahrez, Maguire, Drinkwater, Chillwell, Kante. These are all key players who they signed for peanuts & sold for millions. They are no worse off. The money goes into the club, the relevant percentage to the transfer budget & they then buy well again...Tielemens, Ndidi, Forfana, Maddison etc. In that time they have qualified for Europe, won the Premier League (ok, a one off), won an FA Cup, reached 1/4 finals of Champions League & a bad season for them was finishing 10th.
Fans can't expect to keep key players (Rice, Bowen) but also expect £100m to be spent. It doesn't work like that for a club like us who don't compete at the top end year on year. If fans want £100m spent, players will be sacrificed. We need to get better at selling key players, at the right time, but recruiting better bargains & overall scouting. By the same token, Rice can't expect us to spend £100m either. What he can expect is for shrewd loans/signings to be made by Moyes which improves the team. That will happen by the deadline but hasn't happened yet.
We get the purchases right, the rest takes care of itself. Sign good players, not for vast sums, improve them, sell them for huge profits & repeat. Then you get the £100m spend on several players. The most we will spend this window on any one player will be around £20m. Anybody who is worth more than that is not going to be signed by us permanently unless we sell. I can't see Rice going this window. I think the money required will not be spent this year but he will certainly go before he reaches the last couple of years of his contract because if he doesn't sign one, we need to maximise our sale.
"apparently David Sullivan’s getting frustrated with not signing anyone and he wants us to sign people, but he doesn’t want to interfere with Moyes"
So either Ex is lying which seems unlikely or Sullivan is just as anxious as some people on here.
Not me
Moyes confidimus
Also identified something in Dawson (& Lingard) that no one in the entire country (and pretty much all of our fanbase) could see
I guarantee that if the club added another year or two onto his current deal, made him our top earner, permanent team captain and also included a fair and reasonable release clause, active as of summer 2022, that Dec would sign that contract.
(All allegedly, you understand)
You guarantee!
With out him kicking a ball 2022