Oh for sure, all our signings (and current players) are going to take some work to get up to the standard required for PL.
On the flip side, a Copenhagen fan had this to say about him:
"If you are able to land Zanka (that is what we call him; what everyone calls him; what you should call him)...
It's an interesting one. On the face of it then yeah, Stuart Webber was instrumental to our success last season, however, the majority of players that were brought in were from the German leagues. No one will ever know how much influence he had vs. Wagner, but the way we've cracked on this...
Last season we signed 14 players over summer and only one didn't make the grade (Ivan Paurevic). In fact 10 of the 14 players at Wembley were brought in last season...Wagner does know what he's doing, he ain't no Dale Winton.
Anyway, Mathias Jorgensen will be announced today :)
What are you on about? Our head of football operations joined us just over a month ago, the previous one judas'd to Norwich in the season run in (lol). No one could even dream that we could possibly have been in this situation. Christ there's some nonsense spouted on this thread hahaha.
Wagner...
Mathias Jorgensen (CB) and Scott Malone (LB) will be confirmed in the next day or so. With a right back and maybe another flair forward player on loan we should be done for the summer very soon.
There's probably more end-game potential with Palmer and we have been angling to set up a loan with a clause to buy at the end (though unfortunately that didn't happen in the end).
They're different players though. Izzy is more direct, whereas Kasey is a bit more of a link-up player. Both...
He's not a striker, plays more in the supporting strike role, the 3 behind the loan striker. We played him a lot at #10 (mainly 'cos we didn't have anyone else to play there after Kasey was injured in Feb), but he'd be decent on the right or left too.
Great player, drives forward with the ball...
I think y'all might need to just wind your expectations in a bit ...
Also, when have you actually seen him play? Izzy was excellent for us last season, one of the stand out players from Jan (when he came to us from Rotherham). He's also a really nice guy and will compliment any dressing room...
Lol wot. We got promoted to the Premier League with a budget of £11m with our "unscientific approach" (we'd signed 10 players by this time in the summer last season).
We get our team together early so that they can develop as a ... team. Deadline day is a mug's game.
Good to see Mounié finally over the line, he will be huge for us this season.
Very likely that Malone will be announced today as well (as competition with Lowé for left back), especially as its the first day of pre-season training.
An interesting rumour, that appears to have a lot of validity...