None. Save the budget for our promotion campaign.
How Many Signings Before Sept 1
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Nought....we want to experience a relegation battle!
I reckon 4.
CM and a CF/RW.
Then a cheap/free backup GK, and some random unknown teenager in a position we're already stocked in.
CM and a CF/RW.
Then a cheap/free backup GK, and some random unknown teenager in a position we're already stocked in.
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One, two at best if somehow the stars align.
None. Theres no money and ETH has been instructed to work with what he has. Endless speculation all summer but with no substance.
Its the Fred Grant Dalot summer 2.0.
Its the Fred Grant Dalot summer 2.0.
We need 5 very good ones, I want to believe we can get them or most of them but this club's track record tells me we'll be lucky to get one. Prove me wrong Murtough!
We will most likely Panic Buy. But to challenge for top 4 we need:-
RB, DM, RW, CF. All top players. Then we need backup/new goalkeeper and possibly box to box midfielder.
Do I really think we will get these players before deadline, NO.
RB, DM, RW, CF. All top players. Then we need backup/new goalkeeper and possibly box to box midfielder.
Do I really think we will get these players before deadline, NO.
Mods please merge with:
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/transfer-signings-up-until-the-end-of-the-window.472296/
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/transfer-signings-up-until-the-end-of-the-window.472296/
Anything now, is a panic buy, because it clearly hasn't been planned or thought out properly.
I hear this morning that we are after Begovic as reserve GK.
How long ago did Henderson go out on loan?
Why wasn't a reserve GK already in place or at least sorted a week or so later, why are we scrabbling around now, at this late stage?
I think we will go for loads but close one...... Hopefully we can get 3 (Pulisic, Casemiro and De Jong).
If we got those three it would make a big difference to us!
If we got those three it would make a big difference to us!
Certainly would make a difference, but wake up now. Time for the real world.
What are you smoking I need some of it!
This is basicly the summer when we bought Fred,Dalot and Grant.
With these owners im sure we done for the window.
With these owners im sure we done for the window.
I vote zero despite being linked with one mand and his dog doesn't seem like any players seem enthusiastic about the project.... can you blame them
Despite that experience, there will still be fans sat there all the way through to 11pm on deadline day in the belief we are about to announce 6 players
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3. A goalkeeper, forward/winger and a midfielder. None of them will be players you'd expect to start though. Reckon no more than 30mil spent on all 3 combined.
No doubt it will be a back up keeper and some kids who will never get close to the first team - if anything at all.
5 and McFred still starts.
We keep chasing the wrong players. We needed a DM for the last few years and many have gone for free or for small fees. Our scouting is at fault for this.
Kamara went to Villa on a free. Gary Neville and the like saying no one wants to take our money but he would have joined us over villa. Was a risk free transfer as well. Sigh
United showing some sense by not paying Rabiot ridiculous wages but it is far too little too late. We are now making more fools of ourselves by trawling the market for everything from the dregs to the unobtainable. Whatever plan we may have had has gone out the window and I doubt the winter window will be any better. A real relegation scrap on our hands.
Well to be fair my inner muppet always gives me hope even if there is no real chance.
There are many of us sadly
Top midfielders, we could have went for:-
Guimares to Newcastle.
Nunes to Wolves
Sangare signed new deal when only 35 million.
All the good ones snapped up in first weeks of transfer window.
An optimistic 3.
Theres also the likes of Caqueret at Lyon, a selling club too. I just dont think we are in the market.
Personally think theres no money and the club have built this ‘player or nothing’ narrative around FDJ, a player we arent going to get anyway, as if for it to be an explanation why we sign nobody.
Said it before, its the Fred Dalot Grant window again. The fees are even comparable.
Manager and fans threw under the bus again. How much more can we take.
30 according to these multiple media outlets. Every day, we are linked to a new player.
We will make one signing to make it look like the board cares.
At least 2 starters is what I hope for. A CM and a FW, although I believe we need much more.
What would it take to actually fix us for this year?
Casmerio
Sommer
De Jong
Dest
Antony
Vardy
Casmerio
Sommer
De Jong
Dest
Antony
Vardy
3. One transfer and a couple of mad last minute loans on deadline day.
3 but with 1 of them being a shite back up keeper.
We need 4-5
I predict 1-2 and unlikely anyone outstanding
I predict 1-2 and unlikely anyone outstanding
Something like this is what we SHOULD be doing, no doubt. But after managing to sign three players over two and a half months, I don't really expect the club to suddenly explode with transfers. It would be highly out of character.
Wake up? My initial post said I think we will only sign one player. I think that will be a last minute panic buy or loan.
Again. I said I think we will only close one and I think it will be a last minute panic buy or loan.
A bit extreme to be fair. We will finish 8th or so this season.