The Transfer Window 2: Electric Boogaloo

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  • ianbishoplegendianbishoplegend
    Perez looks lovely in his 15/16 YouTube highlights. I didn’t know who he was until today, but he’s close to being my favorite player.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Perez is a shrewd bit of business & the sort of signing we've missed out on in the past. Hungry to play, still determined to prove himself in the PL, plays as a wide forward to a striker. Would be happy with that signing for the rumoured £4m-£10m range. He'll give us another wide option (assuming one of Antonio or Snodgrass will depart before Thursday, hopefully the latter) & also provide cover for Arnie & Hernandez, or possibly partner one of them in a two. He did flop at Arsenal (was only giving 11 appearances to prove himself & most of those were sub cameos) but his record everywhere else is good, including last season where he started to find his scoring boots again.
  • Tomw85Tomw85
    I would personally prefer us to sign another out of favour forward from Arsenal in Welbeck, think he could do a good job for us.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Tom ;ok I was thinking that & have always liked Welbeck, I just think having signed Wilshere (plus having Antonio), we don't really want another player who can be very unreliable, fitness wise.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Perez makes sense for the price quoted.

    I still hope the Daves go big on a DM / CDM, I don't think we need another CB if we are playing 4 at the back.

    Hugill / Byram / Oxford to depart and a few loans out for some younger players and we will shape up nicely for the season.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Think Snodgrass will depart too on deadline day. He's gonna struggle to play with Anderson, Antonio, Yarmolenko & Perez all ahead of him.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Carlos Sanchez close to signing according to Jacob Steinberg (a DM). Was utter rubbish for Villa a few years ago. ;hmm

    Plays for Fiorentina.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Joe Hart to Burnley for £3.5m, according to Sky.

    How the mighty have fallen.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Wilshere to West Ham on a free. Could say the same.
  • LukerzLukerz
    True, but I think it's a slightly bigger drop. I don't mean Burnley as such as they are a good club, but more in terms of him playing every game for England & City, winning trophies, now moving for £3.5m & out the England squad. All in about 2-3 years.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    I thought you meant for Burnley. They've going from having Heaton and Pope shot-stopping to a bunch of goals going in the bottom left-hand corner.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    Feel sndograss will leave only if Grealish goes which is a bit up in the air

    I'll still be disappointed if Antonio leaves, feel he has looked very good in preseason and is quality depth for across the front 3

    Need another CM, although its feeling unlikely
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Don't understand the Carols Sanchez move at all. Better off trying to loan a decent DM than sign someone past it imo.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    From what Ex is suggesting, he's a stop-gap back-up to Rice at DM, with either Herrera or Danilo or Porto to be signed next summer.

    Perhaps not an ideal signing, but I can just about see the logic in the decision.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    ExWhuEmployee saying Perez and Sanchez to come in and that concludes our business.

  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    So Sanchez’s latest contributions are to get sent off for Columbia to then come back and give away a penalty v England.

    Is there seriously no-one better for what is such a pivotal position??..
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Yeoldhammer said:

    ExWhuEmployee saying Perez and Sanchez to come in and that concludes our business.

    GK: Adrian/Fab

    RB: Fredericks/Zaba

    LB: Masuaku/Cresswell

    CB: Balbuena/Diop/Ogbonna/Rice

    DM: Rice/Sanchez

    CM: Wilshere/Noble/Obiang/Cullen

    AM: Antonio/Yarmolenko/Anderson/Snodgrass/Perez/Lanzini

    ST: Arnautovic/Hernandez/Perez


    Looks pretty good. Maybe a CB light, particularly if Rice is going to play DM. An injury to Oggy and we're looking very inexperienced at the back (I'm not including Reid because I think he'll be out for most, if not all, of the season.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    edited August 2018
    Problem is that DM isnt a stop gap type of position, going into the window behind a new GK it was arguably the single most important position we needed to strength

    Sanchez is just not good enough for the premier league......

    Cant be too critical though after spending net £85mil

    Any news on Joao Felix
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

    Any news on Joao Felix

    Yes, but most of it fake, I think.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited August 2018
    Problem with sharing Rice between two positions is that if he is used as a DM, & excels, we won't want to lose him from that role.

    Meaning an injury to a CB will leave us with Oxford as the next in line behind the starting pair. Rice can move back, but then we are light in CM. Again meaning that Cullen will come into play should one of Noble, Wilshere, Obiang pick up a suspension or knock or lose form.

    I know you can't have several options in each position but I hope Pelle doesn't regret seemingly relegating DM to the bottom of our priority list.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Perhaps he doesn't see it as such a problem. A new DM on his own will not be a cure all.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Oxford is a strange one. Could be a back-up in both positions, but I don't think anyone knows where he stands at the moment ;hmm

    Kinda wish we'd got Mawson, because I think £15m represents something of a snip for Fulham.
  • McHammerMcHammer
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  • LukerzLukerz
    Surely not?
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    The only way that's even remotely true is if we've agreed to sell Arnautovic, IMO
  • LukerzLukerz
    Would be completely stupid to sell Arnie to anybody. Would basically ruin our season.
  • alderzalderz
    I'm not hugely opposed to the Sanchez deal, if it means that Rice becomes first choice DM. If we spent big on 2 CBs and a DM then it might stop Rice's development in its tracks. However, it is a bit worrying when your backup was useless for Aston Villa...
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    And I suppose that's the counter-argument; how easy is it to find a good, affordable, back-up DM that's prepared to play second fiddle.

    Pellegrini is here for three years, possibly longer if both he and we want it. Perhaps the long-term plan is to make do with Rice and Sanchez for this season and then spend an Anderson-sized wedge on a world class DM next summer to compete with, rather than back up, Rice.
  • imagelostimagelost
    McHammer said:

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    ;cheers
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    MAXIM GOMEZ this is unbelievable ! Back on? Barcelona pushing Andre GOmez to us with all kinds of bells and whistles attached. Gary Cahill on a free, it's all going Bonkers. IRONMIKE.

    lifted from KUMB regarding a so called ITK.
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