Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.

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  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Yes, bring it on :lol:
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    If Liverpool have lengthy injuries to Mane, Salah and even Firmano there season will also be severely compromised.
    You can go down the league and take 3 key players away from all teams, bar City, and I think seasons will be compromised in all cases.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    So, roughly speaking, the monies from the sales of

    Arnie
    Pedro
    Edmilson
    Perez
    Obiang
    Browne
    Byram
    Oxford

    Has been pretty much used to buy Haller, with a bit left over

    I hope, as Jennifer Aniston would say, he’s worth it!
  • ianbishoplegendianbishoplegend
    Liked what I saw of Haller today. Would have thrown Chicharito into that group for a straight swap. Think we got a deal there!
  • ianbishoplegendianbishoplegend
    I love saying ‘Alleeeuurrr’ in a really French accent also
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited August 2019
    Here's what I make the current squad: (edited in light of OCS post)

    13 Roberto (G)
    1 Lukasz Fabianski (G)
    2 Winston Reid (D)
    4 Fabian Balbuena (D)
    5 Pablo Zabaleta (D)
    21 Angelo Ogbonna (D)
    23 Issa Diop (D)
    26 Arthur Masuaku (D)
    18 Pablo Fornals (M)
    8 Felipe Anderson (M)
    10 Manuel Lanzini (M)
    15 Carlos Sanchez (M)
    11 Robert Snodgrass (M)
    22 Sebastian Haller (F)
    9 Javier Hernandez (F)
    7 Andriy Yarmolenko (F)
    32 Xande Silva (F)

    = 16 17 players

    Home grown
    25 David Martin (G)
    3 Aaron Cresswell (D)
    24 Ryan Fredericks (D)
    16 Mark Noble (M)
    19 Jack Wilshere (M)
    30 Michail Antonio (M)
    33 Josh Cullen (M)

    = 8 7 players

    Academy age

    41 Declan Rice (M)
    45 Grady Diangana (M)
    53 Ben Johnson (D)

    So, if no one goes, we have one space left, which can be filled by a home grown player.

    To get a non-HG player , we would need either to move a player out, or to drop Silva from the squad.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    If you see the rumours, a centre back will likely be the only addition, most likely Long if we can sort out a permit
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Pretty sure Snodgrass doesn't count as home grown.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    He's a Brit, isn't he?
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I'm sure I looked it up once and he's not home grown
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    OCS

    Good point. He started in Scotland, and didn't got to Leeds until he was 21, and HG only counts for English and Welsh clubs.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    :whistle:
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Doesn't that mean that we don't have a spare place?
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    Well-spotted OCS. I’m surprised nobody else spotted that :whistle:
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Rice thinks not getting Europe would be a failure. Not sure we have a defence good enough for a top 6 / 7
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Well, he sort of said that.

    He meant finishing 7th, which is not always European football,
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    MrsG

    No, we have 24 senior players (including Cullen and Silva) so room for one more HG.

    I would imagine if we get the Yank, we would be looking to move out Oggy.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    :ok: yes, that's what I meant - it would have to be a home grown player, or stay unfilled.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    That would be harsh on Oggy.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Herb

    Probably, but would we really need 4 CDs at the expense of having Silva in the squad?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Maybe not but then Reid should be the man to go.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    I'd forgotten poor Reido! That would be 5 CDs, which would be too many for sure.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Reid is not another Carroll.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Reid worked really hard for us, did everything he could to stay fit (zero part lifestyle).

    He flew in from a NZ games to play 90minutes for us in the same international break where the likes of Kane didn’t play in a friendly for his county in his club home stadium.

    Reid has suffered as a result of a chronic back problem,

    He’s not even in the same building as Carroll.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    edited August 2019
    But the situation is still the same, in as much as we have a player that has been, and looks likely to continue to be, injured for large parts of the remainder of his contract.

    No-one will entertain buying him, so unless we pay him off, he's here for another three years on big money and is unlikely to play.

  • LukerzLukerz

    Big Oli :hmm:
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    A brief view from me would be that I feel we need another striker. The first team looks great but I would fear Haller getting injured or not taking immediately to the Premiership and Chico cannot play up alone.

    It's worth noting that a window shouldn't only be evaluated by just who we buy but retention also and we haven't done too bad. Arnie is a big loss but I feel we expected it and effectively had little say in it. I am sure we had enquiries for others however but have managed to retain Rice, Diop, Anderson and Lanzini.

    Whoever Leicester buy this window it will be hard to see it as a success as they have just failed retain their best defender.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    claretandbluesky said:


    Whoever Leicester buy this window it will be hard to see it as a success as they have just failed retain their best defender.

    I didn’t realise Wes Morgan had left Leicester? When did that happen?
  • yoyoyoyo
    BREAKING NEWS

    West Ham are close to agreeing deal to sign 18-year-old centre-back Goncalo Cardozo from Boavista for £2.75m, according to Sky sources
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Are we up to 100 yet... time's running out :wahoo:
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