Geovany Quenda - Summer 2025

[AneRu]

As of right now it’s Dorgu and Shaw. Dorgu can also play on the right as well along with Amad and Dalot. Also Incredibly risky banking on a 17 year old at sporting. The club needs PL proven talent to immediately turn our fortunes around. Kerkez and Cunha would be a great start.

Who will cost us north of £100m and we will still be several profiles short on defense, midfield and attack. We just need too many players to be committing such funds on a few, Cunha yes, Gyockeres definitely but other than those two we should find more players in the Dorgu fee range.

 

[aeh1991]

No, because Quenda can also play on the wing, so if the manager did ever change, and the formation changed again, he wouldn't immediately become surplus to requirements.

Frimpong is very good in one position, as part of one system. We shouldn't waste any money on him. It would just be a continuation of our poor recruitment policy from previous years.

Not true. He's proven himself to be useful not only as an attacking RB, but also as a RM in a 4-4-2 or even RW. He can basically play everything on the right flank. IF anything, he's shown much more than Quenda who almost played his first ever pro season.

 

[FlawlessVictory88]

Who will cost us north of £100m and we will still be several profiles short on defense, midfield and attack. We just need too many players to be committing such funds on a few, Cunha yes, Gyockeres definitely but other than those two we should find more players in the Dorgu fee range.

I agree.

We could sign Adama Traore on a free contract this summer for right wing back. He's 29 and played in that role for Fulham a lot.

With limited funds we need to prioritise and anything like to numbers spoken about for Quenda are a disqualifier.

Cunha/Gyokeres/Hiujsen all for around 60m would be my summer window and then budget deals like Anguisa/Traore who are clear upgrades on what we have currently.

We can address other areas the next summer.

 

[AneRu]

I agree.

We could sign Adama Traore on a free contract this summer for right wing back. He's 29 and played in that role for Fulham a lot.

With limited funds we need to prioritise and anything like to numbers spoken about for Quenda are a disqualifier.

Cunha/Gyokeres/Hiujsen all for around 60m would be my summer window and then budget deals like Anguisa/Traore who are clear upgrades on what we have currently.

We can address other areas the next summer.

True, next summer should be about addressing the balance of the team to suit what the manager needs whilst also addressing serious flaws within the team that are dragging us backwards. Get some pace and technical ability in the back line, build up ability in the midfield and some goals upfront.

If we get those signings right it could lead to a 20 or 30 point upward swing which is a good base to build from in 2026. We shouldn't rush to run before we can walk and avoid doing stupid deals like spending £50m on Yoro when the squad is so short in a number of key areas.

 

[Roboc7]

I think he’d be a really good signing as could play on both sides and has huge potential. Big issues is the fee, I’d imagine Sporting will want a lot more than the 33-35m fee which is quoted a lot.

We were linked with Wesley Franca and maybe that’s a more realistic signing in terms of price range.

 

[jymufc20]

I agree.

We could sign Adama Traore on a free contract this summer for right wing back. He's 29 and played in that role for Fulham a lot.

With limited funds we need to prioritise and anything like to numbers spoken about for Quenda are a disqualifier.

Cunha/Gyokeres/Hiujsen all for around 60m would be my summer window and then budget deals like Anguisa/Traore who are clear upgrades on what we have currently.

We can address other areas the next summer.

seriously Traore ? I know we have a terrible team but come on, on what planet does he improve us ? he is the single most overrated player I have ever seen, if he spent as much time training to be a footballer than he does shagging dumbbells he might be alright.

 

[Remember the geese]

I think he’d be a really good signing as could play on both sides and has huge potential. Big issues is the fee, I’d imagine Sporting will want a lot more than the 33-35m fee which is quoted a lot.

We were linked with Wesley Franca and maybe that’s a more realistic signing in terms of price range.

We'll pay £40-50m for Quenda.

 

[golden_blunder]

seriously Traore ? I know we have a terrible team but come on, on what planet does he improve us ? he is the single most overrated player I have ever seen, if he spent as much time training to be a footballer than he does shagging dumbbells he might be alright.

He’s always gassed after 30 minutes. He’s got no stamina. I guess that’s why he’s sub more often these days

 

[FlawlessVictory88]

seriously Traore ? I know we have a terrible team but come on, on what planet does he improve us ? he is the single most overrated player I have ever seen, if he spent as much time training to be a footballer than he does shagging dumbbells he might be alright.

93rd percentile for progressive carries vs Dalot who is 31st percentile.
3x as many successful take ons as Dalot.
More shot creating actions/assists I could go on and on.

That's how he improves us.

Over and over I see the profile of what we need as a wing back being cited which Traore meets and as I said, he's available on a free.

In a perfect world we could just go and sign the best right wing back in the world but as I said in my post we have limited funds so have to prioritise. In my opinion the priorities for this summer are Striker/Left10/CB/RWB-CM. If we buy Cunha/Gyokeres and Hiujsen all of whom are around 60m that would be our entire budget and we'd even need a sale or two. So we'd need to look for cheap options in other positions and if the next two priorities are RWB and CM then Adama and Anguissa are both available on free transfers and both are better than the options we have thus would improve us.