January transfer window 2019/20 season
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#4.5
My fear, and until it’s proven otherwise, my assumption, is that the board are pinning their hopes on injured players coming back (and staying fit) to fill the obvious holes in our squad.
It’s clear, to me at least, that we need a ‘keeper, a right back, a midfielder and a striker to strengthen our chances of avoiding relegation. I have a sneaking suspicion that the plan is to have these holes filled by Randolph, Johnson, Wilshere and Antonio.
There have been a few murmurs about Wilshere being close to a return and that the club are ‘hopeful’ that Antonio will be back for the Everton game, but to rely on these two to stay fit and see us through the next incredibly tough eleven games is, at best, optimistic and at worst, reckless. It is also rumoured that the club are trying to ‘work around’ Randolph’s failed medical to sign him. We’ve already rushed Fabianski back because the club don’t seem to trust either of our back-ups, but the alternative to playing them seems to be to bring in a ‘keeper that is currently injured with the same problem that caused Fab to miss three months of football.
We’re in this position because of our perennial injury problems and poor recruitment in the summer, but instead of addressing these problems directly, the board seem to be putting their faith in players that struggle to stay fit for any length of time to stay fit for the next four months.
Hopefully I’m proven wrong and the second half of the month will see a number of players coming in in key position to give us a good chance of staying up, but given that the lack of depth in the squad was evident in August and we’re already 13 days into January with no reinforcements brought in, I do wonder whether we’ll see any significant business before 31st.
Not sure what's going on here, but surely if there's an existing injury we simply can't afford to take the risk, particularly given it's an injury that we know is likely to re-occur if it's not 100% healed.
Not for any club, with deep pockets or otherwise.
Why? Well, because no club is going to sell their good players in January. So what's on offer is out-of-of favour players, troublemakers, or the perennial bench warmers.
Occasionally a club might sell a good player to recoup some money if they could otherwise go on a free in the summer.
I think your expectations are unrealistic, and setting the club up to fail.
They signed two back up 'keepers that aren't PL quality and are now courting an injured 'keeper to replace our already injured 'keeper.
They sold Obiang and didn't replace him, reducing our options at CM, knowing how big an injury risk Wilshere already was.
They allowed four strikers to leave the club and replaced only two of them.
They're not failing because of my 'expectations'; they're failing because their financial situation and general competence is way, way short of their supposed ambition.
All IMO, of course.
Payet would have been worth at least £50m ordinarily. Arnie kicked off and right at that time we could have got £40m. Rather we let him to amble through the rest of the season, kick off again and that figure is halved.
We are not very good at selling players. I don’t think we even were under our last owners.
We keep on throwing money (often poorly) and are not recouping enough. That’s why the pot seems to be dry. We spent £17m plus over £100k a week on Yarmo when he was approaching 30. Yet a few months earlier we only went to £12m for Maddison - what on Earth were we thinking?
We need to start selling whilst we can get a decent price for one or two players. Sell Diop (if we can get close to £50m) and invest in decent players at a decent age - eg Sander berg and Bowen. Steer clear of players like Joe Allen - short term sticky plaster with no resale.
Tomkins+cheikh+obiang+Chica > balbuena+wilshere+sanchez+ajeti
https://www.footballwhispers.com/blog/kouyate-obiang-the-hammers-dynamic-double-pivot
I know Obiang wanted to leave but wasn't that just about playing opportunities.
So that should provide them cover for selling Bowen (to us)?
So something like £12m plus Samuelson for Bowen. Could be a good deal for us, that.
Which makes me think it won't happen.
But he’s just done his ACL (12 months)
He would probably struggle to pass even a WH medical
Even though I love Adrian, he was second choice and Martin as back up hasn't done badly. Adrian, understandably, was never going to sign another contract and play second fiddle to Fab.
Tomkins is no better than what we have and again wasn't cool with not being a regular starter.
I liked Kouyate but he apparently needed a fresh challenge too. Obiang was definitely not pulling up those trees when we let him go and Hernandez never fitted into the managers system (nor was a system altered for him).
None of those players were begged to stay and whilst I have nothing against any of them, there are reasons why they aren't here now