Summer Transfers 2024
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https://www.whufc.com/news/west-ham-united-sign-exciting-brazilian-winger-luis-guilherme
Nice nod to Steidten's work. This soft side of transfers is often overlooked so it's good to see we've looking after him as a person as well as a commodity.
I think £45-50m for Zouma and Aguerd is extremely optimistic. Aguerd isn't particularly suited to playing in a Moyes team in the PL; he just seemed too weak, especially in the air, and that doesn't really cut it in a team that invites pressure. Obviously he may well do better under J-Lo with a different style, but apparently he is very open to a move away. I suspect we'll only get about £25m for him, £30m absolute tops but I can't see it.
We'll be lucky to get £5m for Zouma imo; his knees are shot and I doubt he'd pass any serious medical. I wouldn't be surprised to see him released if he gets an offer from Saudi just to get his wages off the books.
I think we'll do well to get £30m for the pair tbh.
Signed a 5-year £325k pw contract in 2022, highly unlikely we could afford to offer him anything close to that
If that's our competition, we should be fairly confident of getting him, if he wants to come to the PL, that is.
Have we signed anyone yet?We have signed someone already
La Gazzetta dello Sport say that Roma want Soule but need to sell Tammy Abraham first
TuttoMercato links Leicester, Caught Offside website adds Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Brighton and says Juventus might offer Soule plus cash for Atalanta’s CM Teun Koopmeiners although unsure whether Atalanta are interested
He's a popular boy...
Does Lopetegui tell Tim what kind of player he wants and which positions he wants filling and then Tim identifies the players available within Sully's budget?
When does Sully enter the process other than setting the budget?
#askingforafriend
One assumes as Steidten was heavily involved in recruiting Lopetegui, he's confident that they share a similar vision of how things need to work for them to have a successful relationship and trust one anothers judgement on players; something that I think was probably lacking in the relationship between Steidten and Moyes.
With the more traditional set up, a manager would want to bring in his own players, but with the turnover nowadays it's just not feasible to keep overhauling your squad every couple of years. Under the more modern model, a DoF, or Technical Director, whatever you want to call them, sets the overall strategy based on a longer-term plan and hires a head-coach to do the on-field stuff.
It's no coincidence that Lopetegui has come in under the title of Head Coach; his interview touches on what I've said above and he will try to get through best out of the players that Steidten brings in.
Of course, in an ideal world you'd see Head Coach and TD on the same page in terms of strategy and the players involved anyway, and I've got no doubt that if Lopetegui has a specific idea of who he might want, this will have been discussed between the two of them. Mutual trust and respect is key in this relationship, as it is between the football people and the board; hopefully we have that and will see a successful window.