Bluearmyfox28

I think one problem we face and I came across this when putting together a list of targets on the who do you want thread, is the lack of good strikers available who aren’t worth a fortune or have been snapped up by big clubs to hoard. The best option currently is Fotis Ionnidis and your probably still talking over £20m.

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Realistically to have a competitive 22 man squad in the premier league we need around 5 more players in my opinion. Left back - We have Kristensen but I’m really not sold that he is the answer, we need a left back with real attacking quality based of the shape we have seen this pre-season. Dream signing - Quilindschy Hartman (Feyenoord) Other options: Alfie Doughty (Luton) Chilwell (loan) Harry Amass (Loan) Adrian Truffert (Rennes) Melvin Bard (Nice) Bradley Locko (Brest) Centre defensive mid - We only have Winks, Wilf and Hamza another body is needed in there. Preferably with a bit more creativity. Dream signing - Andre (Fluminense) Other options: Joris Chotard (Montpellier) Lucas Gourna-Douath (Salzburg) Samuele Ricci (Torino) Alan Varela (Porto) Gustavo Hamer (Sheff Utd) Mandela Keita (Antwerp) Centre attacking mid - We have no one who is comfortable playing this role and I would argue even if we had KDH still he wouldn’t of been the answer either. We need some real creativity in there, Sara would have been prefect but obviously no longer available. Dream signing - O’Riley (Celtic) Other options: Nanasi (Malmo) Bilal el Khannouss (Genk) Sergio Arribas (Almeria) Reo Hatate (Celtic) Angel Gomes (Lille) Sammie Szmodics (Blackburn) Right winger - one more body is needed here, preferably someone who is fluid across the line. Dream signing - Bobb (Man City) Other options: Nelson (Arsenal) Asprilla (Watford) Thiago Fernandez (Velez) Yunus Akgun (Galatasaray) Takefusa Kubo (Real Sociedad) Edon Zhegrova (Lille) Striker - It seems this year is going to be another year of depending on 37 year old Vardy. All striker options currently at the club have the exact same traits, a target man or deep lying forward who can link up play is needed. Dream Signing - Fotis Ioannidis (Panathinaikos) or Terem Moffi (OGC Nice) Other options: Maximilian Beier (Hoffenhaim) Faris Moumbagna (Marseille) The lack of available strikers across Europe is a bit concerning.

In terms of the overall quality of teams you face yes. But if you’re a standout player in the championship and performed against the top boys of the league that year, you’ll likely have a good career in the premier league if given the chance. The problem is the only ones that give them a chance are teams favourites for relegation so the player themselves jumps between leagues and isn’t able to truly show their worth in a good premier league team.

Honestly people need to relax on the expectation of the young lads. Cannon, Alves, Braybrooke, Nelson all need a season long loan of regular football, many that are expecting them to be second option to any position are going to very disappointed.

Significantly higher than £15m would indicate to me £25m+ as much as I like the lad I personally would pass at that price.

Pep’s stated he will be involved in their squad this season, fair play to the lad if true. edit - only just seen the other replies stating the same thing.

Championship is criminally underrated from the perspective of premier league clubs which I find crazy personally. The championship and bundersliga in my opinion are the two leagues most similar to the premier league from a tempo perspective.

As much as I really want this to happen I don’t believe he fixes the creativity problem, he seems more of a ball carrier than someone who slots the passes in for runners. Hopefully he’s not the only attacking addition.

Literally said to a few lads last night that the performance very much reminded me of the relegation season. Fed up of hearing people say pre-season is only for conditioning, yes that’s true for teams that already have an identity, for new managers pre-season is vital for implementing your blue print of how you want your team to play. Look at how many new managers comment on the effect not having a full Pre-season with a team can have. The performances haven’t been good enough and although I respect Cooper being honest about us not being premier league standard with those performances I do question whether that’ll be good for the players confidence prior to even playing a league game. Still bothers me that we didn’t get Carlos Corberan, genuinely felt he was perfect for the next few seasons.

We’ve just had our first decent link in a week or two, can we enjoy this first before it falls through?!

I would be very surprised if Alves’ future in the pro game isn’t as a left winger. He needs a loan of full season development in the championship prior to us thinking about him being in the squad imo.

Very interesting article about him on SkySports, intriguing to see that it states he see’s himself as a no.10 not a winger. https://www.skysports.com/football/story-telling/11686/13188812/next-up-yaser-asprilla-watford-s-rising-star-modelled-on-ronaldinho

You sure?

Do I allow myself to get excited?

It’s starting position. Having the ability to pull away from the defender out wide and dart in with space to run into, compared to starting more centrally with not much space to drive with the ball, instead working in half spaces.

Haven’t they just agreed a fee with the Villarreal goalkeeper?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the interest in Nelson on loan with an obligation for next season is for us to be able to fund a big signing like one of these two.

Yup, Cooper literally said “what was most important, was getting all the lads out there, maybe not in their natural positions but so they could get minutes”. meltdown after one Pre season game is mental I will say though when reviewing our manager options I posted on here that Cooper likes his wingers to play inverted and that doesn’t suit Fatawu therefore wouldn’t be shocked to see him become a wingback… My biggest concern was the lack of depth we had/have.

Sessengon would of been perfect in the formation we played against Shrewsbury.

If you’re going down that route though you can make the same argument the opposite way…. Martinez (Goalkeeper), Gnarby, Hutchinson I would be happy with any of them In our team. The point is just because you can’t make it in a top 6 club doesn’t make you an instant flop.

Even if anyone was crazy enough to give us £2.5m, realistically no one is giving him more than £25k a week unless he’s signing as a free agent to be 3rd choice homegrown keeper at a top club. Would you accept a move to half your salary? I know I wouldn’t. Only got ourselves to blame on this one.

With Man City supposedly not signing a Ederson replacement I can see them signing Hermansen for around £35-£40m next summer after he’s shown he can do the business in the premier league.

I stand by the fact if you have Coady and Vesty In the same defence in the premier league we will get relegated. Not based of quality but we would get out done in the speed department everytime. Also, people need to lower their expectations on Alves. He’s young and played barely any minutes of men’s football. Let him find his feet first, the most important aspect with him is to get him tied down to a new long term contract.

Is he a reject? He came through the academy there which at a top club is very hard to accomplish. For me I think he’s a great signing and adds more speed and directness to the already Fatawu and Mavididi. I would say I am slightly worried about his injury history however.