He and Vanaken are both quality for Brugges I must say.
We don't have any forwards for next season, who do we sign ?
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He and Vanaken are both quality for Brugges I must say.
Alexander Isak or Darwin Nunez look good to me. I just hope we have a plan rather than some desperate last minute signing that we haven't thought out.
Wouldn't mind us taking a punt on Bowen for one of the wide positions seeing as we're fecked front to back. Seems quite an adaptable player who is getting better week after week. But given he would take Maguire money to bring in, that's not going to happen and would probably lead to another Maguire type result.
Given where we are, I also wouldn't be dead against a Schick/Haller type signing. We're not getting the cream of the crop the way things are, but depending on who the new manager will be, we really need to bring in suitable players.
Given where we are, I also wouldn't be dead against a Schick/Haller type signing. We're not getting the cream of the crop the way things are, but depending on who the new manager will be, we really need to bring in suitable players.
Maybe we could try the buy one get one free with Rice as well.
Can only imagine Karren Brady's face should such an offer arrive!
We could negotiate. Buy one get one half price.
Victor Osimhen looks a fantastic prospect, we arent getting Haaland.
How much would he be after Napoli paid 70m for him?
Ronaldo and martial will likely be here. Greenwood never played striker really. Cavani will need replacing. It will be interesting to see
...in Fifa 22 maybe.
at least £100M but I imagine he would want to come unlike Haaland who obviously doesnt like us.
Now that ronaldo has thrown in the towel (as predicted by many) do we regret not seriously pursuing alvarez, haaland, nunez, nkunku and letting cavani go ?
Would you now say the loaded assumptions were right ?
Yes? We have options, albeit ones we may not like. It's the line that finished 2nd with sancho in place of greenwood. We absolutely still have forwards. Plus the midfield is looking like might be reinforced so that much was wrongly assumed to stay the same. Life won't end at ronaldo leaving. We should ideally still target an attacker signing.Would you now say the loaded assumptions were right ?
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We'll stay true to form and make our typical deadline day panic striker signing
A short term cheap option that has worked already for ten hag at ajax, tadic as a false 9, his wages wouldn't be silly either.
You got free agents like dembele and dybala that could suit ten hag but their attitude is highly questionable and would likely demand big wages
You got free agents like dembele and dybala that could suit ten hag but their attitude is highly questionable and would likely demand big wages
One thing that has been very much exposed is the complete disconnect between the existing scouting system and ETH's ideas. He seems to be mainly interested in players he knows about personally which can't be a long term policy for a club of our size.
belotti is a free agent. hasn't had a great few years but he is hard working, good in the air, very experienced.
It’s basically LVG tenure on repeat so far. Manager comes in to implement a very different possession heavy style of play, gets linked with some big names, he then raids former network. The big difference this time is his network is current and not based on outdated knowledge of club football.
Tbf he's been in a job 5 mins mate. If you were expecting perfect harmony straight away then you were a bit naive perhaps.
Him targeting players he knows well can only be a good thing too.
isn't this what a lot of fans and the club wanted, long term vision over supposed short term gain, we ignored conte because despite his track record and reputation he wasn't long term enough for a club obsessed with every next manager we hire is going to recreate a fergie like dynasty, now they want to panic because basically our only striker in ronaldo feels he wants to see out his remaining years competing for trophies and playing in champions league.
If we had hired conte we would not be in this dreadful state, just look at how quick conte has spurs operating in the market this summer.
If we had hired conte we would not be in this dreadful state, just look at how quick conte has spurs operating in the market this summer.
I get that but wtf have the club been doing for the last 6 months? They knew they were going to have a high press rebuild and they have been tracking....nobody? Or maybe just nobody ETH fancied?
Anyway I'm not worried. Let's see how it pans out.
If we don't sign sesko or any other striker we'll crash and burn with having to rely only on martial.
And even if ten hag manages to resurrect his career he still can't be expected to play every game and perform throughout the season.
We "monitored" alaverz, haaland and nunez whilst they were signed up by our rivals, the odds of it happening with sesko aren't too far away. Watch him get signed up by chelsea next season.
And even if ten hag manages to resurrect his career he still can't be expected to play every game and perform throughout the season.
We "monitored" alaverz, haaland and nunez whilst they were signed up by our rivals, the odds of it happening with sesko aren't too far away. Watch him get signed up by chelsea next season.
I'm amazed we didn't put signing a forward on the top of our priority list. Even if we expected Ronaldo to stay, it was obvious we needed to add another attacker after losing Greenwood and Cavani. Relying on both Martial and Rashford to come good is a huge gamble.
We have several players who can play up front and score goals.
Do we need an out and out striker?
Are they becoming unfashionable?
Do we need an out and out striker?
Are they becoming unfashionable?
Where has Martial gone?
This obsession with strikers is weird to me, especially in modern football. You need to add attacking players, not specifically strikers(who happen to be extinct for the most part). As long as we can bring in another forward/attacking player then we're good to go. We'll need depth on that front given I don't expect Martial, Sancho and Rashford to play every game nor stay fit throughout the entirety of the season.
Get Schick, Sesko and Antony or Doku
The modern strikers also press and contribute to the overall play. Ronaldo is unfashionable, we went through a phase where the traditional strikers who would loiter around up top have or are being phased out.
I think perhaps it's taking it a little too far to argue we don't need players who are primarily specialised as strikers, but we certainly do need the depth. Right now, assuming Ronaldo leaves and none of the youngsters are ready to step into a regular role, we have a decent first XI attacking quartet, and beyond that....Anthony Elanga (and DvdB for the no 10 role). Which obviously will not do. We have got to add at least two forwards, and positional versatility would be a great boon.
Check the date on the post you quoted.
Check the title of the thread…
Prior to pre-season had any club wanted him he'd have been gone. He forced his way out of the club in January so it was entirely reasonable to discount him going forward at the time.
That’s probably the most unrealistic option. You’d need to nearly double that fee.
We literally have no forwards and the season starts in a couple of days!
Watch us sign Braithwaite on 250k a week on the last day of the transfer window
Get a good manager and handicap him.
The Glazers strategy.
The Glazers strategy.
You were not far off.
He is now being hailed as our saviour for the coming season.
It is shocking that a player who has been with us for so long and achieved very little can be held in such high regard. We can't even sell the guy - no other club rates him.