[Football] Transfer Deadline Day

[Peter Grummit]

By far the most important issue for us today is keeping hold of Bissouma.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

The sad thing is he isn't, but that people are really starting to put the knife into one of our own (and yes, I do think Connolly should have been one of the ones we are sending out on loan, should have been loaned out a year ago, or two years ago. He's still one of our own academy graduates though).

Jurgen - 6 in 34 appearances in all competitions (3 in prem)

Connolly - 6 in 47 appearances in all competitions (5 in prem)

How depressing even more so when you look at who's in front of them (glass made Welbeck excluded)

Maupay - 20 in 73 appearances


It really is amazing that this is what we have after 5 seasons in the prem!

 

[Comrade Sam]

I think a lot of this year's transfer policy is shedding the masses of deadwood and pointless expenses. Apart from White, everyone we disposed of will not be missed and the loanies will all improve with game time and hopefully subsidising of their salaries. With Covid and a decade of buying and not selling, the club must have been p*ssing money like a tsunami. With Potter, a top manager/coach we will continue to improve. A new £40 million 20 goal a season striker would be nice, but do they really exist. Look how many Premier players actually scored 10 or more. Just enjoy the fact we signed a left wing back, Spanish international in his prime and Bissouma's going nowhere.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I think a lot of this year's transfer policy is shedding the masses of deadwood and pointless expenses. Apart from White, everyone we disposed of will not be missed and the loanies will all improve with game time and hopefully subsidising of their salaries. With Covid and a decade of buying and not selling, the club must have been p*ssing money like a tsunami. With Potter, a top manager/coach we will continue to improve. A new £40 million 20 goal a season striker would be nice, but do they really exist. Look how many Premier players actually scored 10 or more. Just enjoy the fact we signed a left wing back, Spanish international in his prime and Bissouma's going nowhere.

Yep.


But I still think the squad is incredibly light.

I suspect our U21s will be getting a lot more minutes than in previous seasons.

 

[BBassic]

I think we'll be fine whatever happens.

Unless we lose Biss.

 

[El Turi]

There’s no doubt about how well run our club is but pretty much every team in the league now has rich foreign owners so we just can’t compete in the transfer market. We just have to hope that having an excellent manager means our cheaper signings develop into Premier League quality players who can keep us in the league. It’s just about worked so far but I can’t see anyway we’ll ever finish higher than the bottom 5.

 

[golddene]

Yeah I totally agree with this, and I trust Potter to change our attacking play to increase the quality of our goal opportunities.
I strongly suspect that the need for a new striker is actually lower than many people think.
Lamptey and Cucurella may well be the answer, rather than Nunez or Edouard.

Potter will be focusing on what he can improve within our attacking play.
However I still feel he's been let down in the number of players being released in this window.
Although I wouldn't put it past him to coach Richards into this season's revelation.

Absolutely agree with your remark concerning Taylor Richards, I think him being there in our first team squad will not only inspire him but also encourage much improvement in our young Irish striker. I may have Blue and White lenses in my glasses but can see both having great seasons. Hopefully come the winter window our usual suspects will be content with what we have and any desires for further striking options will be sated by our existing squad, after all we are only one win from being ‘Top of the league’

 

[Barnham Seagull]

Yep.


But I still think the squad is incredibly light.

I suspect our U21s will be getting a lot more minutes than in previous seasons.

£20m 10 goal striker would be nice

 

[Uh_huh_him]

£20m 10 goal striker would be nice

But the problem is he also needs to accept <£70k pw

 

[GT49er]

Jurgen - 6 in 34 appearances in all competitions (3 in prem)

Connolly - 6 in 47 appearances in all competitions (5 in prem)

If you're trying to 'prove' Locadia is better than Connolly - give up! He isn't.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

If you're trying to 'prove' Locadia is better than Connolly - give up! He isn't.

I'm not, just highlighting how poor we are with the forwards we have.

 

[Reddleman]

Number 2 makes you sound entitled.

Why should any owner/CEO come out and explain their thinking behind a transfer window?

Transfer and catering are completely different aspects of the club.

Catering is providing a service for the fans on a match day whilst they moan they don't have a striker.

I don’t care if it makes me sounds entitled. As I fan I do feel entitled to some transparency from the club about certain issues. The question I would ask is why wouldn’t they communicate directly with the fans.

All the best businesses are open and transparent in their communications.

 

[HantsSeagull]

so how long before Naylor gives us 'the lights are off and everyone has left the building' tweet?

 

[GT49er]

I'm not, just highlighting how poor we are with the forwards we have.

OK. Some idiot was suggesting it earlier.

 

[Motogull]

Everton linked with Rondon. The swines. I like him.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

But the problem is he also needs to accept <£70k pw

Sorry all excuses to me, all reason we cant never what we can do.

Not all players are on that money, what's Lallana being paid and Welbeck? Wont be peanuts.

 

[Wellesley]

Surely, out of decency, the club would let us know if that's it for the evening. I've been a customer for over forty years

 

[Baldseagull]

I think what we can do is affected by the Profitability and Sustainability rules, it looks to me like we have been trying hard to free up enough wages to cover the players we wanted incoming, and have maybe fallen short.
The Dullard may be able to help out here as to what headroom we may actually have, I believe though that the Premier League makes a calculation based on the last 2 years actual profit and loss and the predicted profit or loss for the coming season, and if you step over the line of losses above £105M, the PL can impose a budget on the club and a transfer and new contract embargo.
Things like Youth development are excluded from the figures, but I don't know if "youth development" could include signing a 20 year old player and sending him out on loan.

 

[southstandandy]

I'm available if required. Just got my boots back out of the loft.

 

[Machiavelli]

Yep.


But I still think the squad is incredibly light.

I suspect our U21s will be getting a lot more minutes than in previous seasons.

Agree with last sentence, although you surely mean u23s (Richards has already played, who else do you expect to see?). I'm not entirely convinced about the predecessor. I think our squad was incredibly bloated last season, and had too many players that just weren't up to it. We have adaptable players and formations, so we're pretty well covered. Lose Welbeck and Maupay simultaneously and for a long period, then things might start to get a bit dicey.
I think Bloom/Barber/Ashworth might need to clarify their thoughts on Top Ten Ambition. If Potter achieves that this season, he's even better than I thought he was.