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Summer 2019 Transfer Rumours (ed. Pg 296 - Start of Deadline Day)

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  • CAFCDAZ said:
    I've heard we are very very busy today
    Might well be but that doesn't mean it's anything to do with a signing.

    WIOTOS
  • I have been. 
    Moved two banana trees to the other side of the garden.Cut some ivy down.Picked some courgettes. Water the the Thai aubergines.Cleaned the hedgehog box out,refilled all the feeding stations
  • Bonne was a national league striker last year - we need to give him time. Can’t be starting with him in the Championship yet.
    He will be up front with Taylor and will have Aneke following up and he knows how to score goals. Throw him in the deep end straight away.
  • wmcf123 said:
    I’d go for a team that might make it difficult for Blackburn :

    amos,

    Dijksteel, Lockyer, Pearce, Purtington

    JFC

    Lasplie, Pratley

    Williams Aneke,

    Taylor.

    No, I can’t see it winning either .









    Dillon deserves to start the season but given the lack of midfielders and our new centre backs with our current squad I'd expect we'd go 5-3-1-1 with lapslie dropping to the bench for Sarr
  • ... refilled all the feeding stations
    If you think that is enough to attract new signings you are out of your mind.
  • He will be up front with Taylor and will have Aneke following up and he knows how to score goals. Throw him in the deep end straight away.
    Exactly what Bowyer said he wouldn’t be doing.
  • What’s with the short post? 
    All that and he still forgot the partridge in a pear tree.
  • In that Taylor article it talks about a permanent transfer and they expect to get more than the 300k they paid. That rules us out, especially since he is 29 so no resale value.
    I hope so. I don’t want him! Perfect example of a player that people remember as good but then wake up and we find out he has not scored more than 2-6 goals in three seasons, will be 30 during the coming season, costs a fee, gets injured and is not even wanted by his own team in the very division we are now competing. Jesus, talk about desperate.
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  • As @jac52 pointed out, with no further departures and additions to the team (which won't happen, we will have players in before Blackburn away) to give us the best chance of getting a result, we need to be solid.

    Phillips
    Lockyer Pearce Sarr
    Dijksteel Pratley Forster-Caskey Purrington
    Aneke Williams
    Taylor

    Amos, Solly, Oshilaja, Lapslie, Morgan, Wiredu, Bonne

    How weak is that midfield and attack in that 18? It wouldn't even be competitive enough in League One. It shows we really need a lot of work yet before we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
  • I have been. 
    Moved two banana trees to the other side of the garden.Cut some ivy down.Picked some courgettes. Water the the Thai aubergines.Cleaned the hedgehog box out,refilled all the feeding stations
    What have you been doing the rest of the time? Sitting around drinking tea no doubt.

  • Sage said:
    As @jac52 pointed out, with no further departures and additions to the team (which won't happen, we will have players in before Blackburn away) to give us the best chance of getting a result, we need to be solid.

    Phillips
    Lockyer Pearce Sarr
    Dijksteel Pratley Forster-Caskey Purrington
    Aneke Williams
    Taylor

    Amos, Solly, Oshilaja, Lapslie, Morgan, Wiredu, Bonne

    How weak is that midfield and attack in that 18? It wouldn't even be competitive enough in League One. It shows we really need a lot of work yet before we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
    Only the midfield is weaker than last season all other positions are stronger, so can’t see how you can say it wouldn’t even be competitive in league one, we came 3rd with Parker up front.
  • But the midfield is MUCH weaker. Cullen, Bielik and Aribo were monstrous
  • Grapevine, much as I admire your posts, there is as much chance of Gallen being Financial Controller as Bowyer cleaning the toilets.
  • edited July 2019
    We have a full 18, but it's a very imbalanced squad at the moment as we have a full number of defensive options but very little in attack and midfield, unless you include kids or triallists like Harriott
  • CAFCDAZ said:
    I've heard we are very very busy today
    Doing what??
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  • The lack of time for Lyle to generate a strike partnership with another striker worries me too. Tomorrow would have been a great opportunity against a decent team, but instead they will have to learn in the league itself
    Couldn't agree more. Once the season starts, the amount of training that involves being able to build a relationship is next to nothing. Everything is about preparation, recovery, set-pieces, small sided games etc. And then you have games that come round very quickly.

    It's going to be difficult but I think that Taylor has the ability to bring out the best in those around him, so we have to just wait and see. But I do completely agree with you. 
  • bobcafc7 said:
    Only the midfield is weaker than last season all other positions are stronger, so can’t see how you can say it wouldn’t even be competitive in league one, we came 3rd with Parker up front.
    Defence isn’t stronger either . We’ve gone up a division and lost our one centre half who was genuinely definitely up to playing in this division 
  • edited July 2019

    HG - I think there is a difference of opinion over the terminology.

    Who do you think is structuring and agreeing the contracts within a defined budget?

    Who do you think will be referring financial proposals re players contracts to Duchatelet?

    I am not suggesting he is the CFO.

     


  • edited July 2019
    Only gossip I’ve got from this evenings work taking the MK Dons to Northampton is Ben Reeves was on the coach and Chuks Aneke should do well with us in Championship. Can’t be bad. 
  • Taxi_Lad said:
    Doing what??
    I'm itching to share but I can't, if I could I would.
  • For away at Blackburn? Aneke just off Taylor.... if we went into it with no additions then we will be playing for a draw. Get some better players in (ie a midfield) then we can look at other options 
    Good point, would like to see Aneke as far forward as possible in any formation
  • On twitter from West Ham employee that Cullen been given the option to say and fight for a place with West Ham 
  • edited July 2019
    On twitter from West Ham employee that Cullen been given the option to say and fight for a place with West Ham 
    All well and good but West Ham must announce a 25 man squad. No ifs no buts. Cullen individually doesn’t have that much option. He’s either in or out.
  • Unless they've told Cullen he's effectively number 25 in the squad, won't be starting, won't provide first choice backup and will only sit on the bench if there are injuries and suspensions to then try to force his way into the team.

    Could be that's the offer made, take it or leave again.
  • edited July 2019
    Grapevine, the answer to your question is HR, hopefully with some legal training, which worryingly SG does not have. Where is Katrein when you need her?

    Job of the FC is to administer RDs paltry budget, of say £10m, and as we sign players, advise SG/LB how much is left in the kitty. He will have to explain to RD why we are not meeting the budget because, as an under-resourced side flirting with relegation our revenue is diluted by no walk ins on match day, and stay away STH not buying add ons. Doubt SG knows a debit from a credit.
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