Lineker's Left Foot Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 Where are these rumours of Thauvin coming from as I’ve seen Arsenal and Man City fans saying we’ve bid for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoareyaaa Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 4 minutes ago, Corky said: Yes, just read a post on Trav's thread about FFP which makes it clearer. I think we'll sell Maguire and probably recoup a bit from Silva and Slimani. Maguire will be worth the same next season we have no reason to sell yet. Silva and Slimani for sure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonthefox Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 6 minutes ago, Lineker's Left Foot said: Where are these rumours of Thauvin coming from as I’ve seen Arsenal and Man City fans saying we’ve bid for him Just rumours on Twitter earlier. Nothing in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMean Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 I don't wanna be done because its so exciting =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaspa Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 Our outlay has been £30m for Ayoze, £12m for JJ & £40m for Youri all adds up to £82m which is nearly what you think it would take for Man U/C to nab Maguire. Which overall isn't bad business it just means when we do likely lose Harry we have to either promote Soyuncu/Benkovic or buy a replacement for more big money, perhaps another £40m player. Then people are on about adding a winger - another £25m+ We still have to shift out Adrien Silva & Slimani at a minimum, think Kelechi will be given another season. No noises around King or James yet. We managed to release Okazaki & Simpson and have replaced them appropriately, but Tielemans has replaced Silva and that ones still with us. So I think there's still business to be done, mainly out. We've got off to a solid start and are about halfway there overall. We'll be spending more than we make either way and that's incredible if we've received over £100m come 8th of August. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hack Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 2 hours ago, Spicer said: We need to shift some players on if possible. We have a lot of fringe players and a large squad. King, James etc Ghazzel, Diabate Slimani etc probably need to go or at least go on loan. I have a feeling we could see 1 maybe 2 more new players in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeg67 Posted 8 July 2019 Share Posted 8 July 2019 No way we splash anywhere close to 40 on a CD if Harry goes. Whoever they sign will be for depth, not a "replacement" - the replacements are already in the squad. The whole question of whether to sign a surefire starting winger is a fascinating one. If you do, that either pushes Perez to the "super-utility" role or Barnes (or Maddison) to the bench. Not that those are necessarily bad things for a club with big ambition - all of those guys would still get plenty of opportunities. But resources are surly not infinite. I find it hard to believe we would splash 30M on Perez unless he was targeted to start, so if we do add a frontline winger I suspect that means the default eleven sees Perez pushed to the left and Barnes to the impact sub role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mehrez Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 48 minutes ago, Deeg67 said: No way we splash anywhere close to 40 on a CD if Harry goes. Whoever they sign will be for depth, not a "replacement" - the replacements are already in the squad. The whole question of whether to sign a surefire starting winger is a fascinating one. If you do, that either pushes Perez to the "super-utility" role or Barnes (or Maddison) to the bench. Not that those are necessarily bad things for a club with big ambition - all of those guys would still get plenty of opportunities. But resources are surly not infinite. I find it hard to believe we would splash 30M on Perez unless he was targeted to start, so if we do add a frontline winger I suspect that means the default eleven sees Perez pushed to the left and Barnes to the impact sub role. Can’t see Perez playing on the left, it’s either right wing or up top imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fightforever Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 I hope we aren't done now I dread to think what would happen if vardy, tielemans and maddison were all injured. Also as many have mentioned if we are going all out we may as well buy a quality winger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeg67 Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 Well, Thauvin and Perez have both played left wing in the past. If it's options you want, those would be on the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post volpeazzurro Posted 9 July 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 9 July 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, foxes_rule1978 said: We need a quality striker still, Perez isn’t a striker he is a player who helps your strikers and chips in with some goals basically like Shinji but with goals I personally, like many on here, don't think Nacho is up to it but Rodgers and the club may want to persist for another season, but, aren't we a little bit in a situation like Kane at Tottenham? What self respecting decent fully fledged Centre Forward can we name that would want to come here and merely sit on the bench for at least 12 months or possibly more? Anyone remember Slimani? Couldn't some of his problems and attitude, if rumours are true, be down to the fact he was bought, played in the wrong position and made to sit on the bench. He was scoring freely until he came to us and still managed to score and play better than Nacho in his odd cameo role with a decent playing minutes to goals strike rate. Spurs have Son who I personally rate and although he can and does play in and around Kane, if required, he can quite successfully play the main striker should Kane be injured as we have seen. As a real last ditch choice they had Lorente. We have just spent 30m on Perez who may well be considered our Son as he's played a number of positions at Newcastle including the main striker role, who knows how he'll be as a centre forward role when played in a Rodgers type of game compared with that of Benetez? He's 25 and whether he can be developed to ever take over from Vardy remains to be seen but he has been bought for his adaptability. Nacho is probably our Lorente for now. Personally I quite fancied Che Adams coming here but think for him, he's made absolutely the right move for his career to go to Southampton otherwise it would have stalled. What sort of player will Ali Regba be in a couple of seasons? You can't have everybody all at once and keep them all happy for starter's. People also want a winger, how many of them do we have already? Whilst I agree it may be a case of quality over quantity (though I feel our goal of developing youngsters like Barnes is absolutely the right one) , surely we'd had to shed a few players before we buy any more both for financial reasons and keeping a squad of players happy and ambitious. Edited 9 July 2019 by volpeazzurro 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volpeazzurro Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 3 hours ago, Fightforever said: I hope we aren't done now I dread to think what would happen if vardy, tielemans and maddison were all injured. Also as many have mentioned if we are going all out we may as well buy a quality winger. We'd cope. So many what if's. What if we had a squad of 40? We can't keep buying without selling. It's fans that are saying we are going all out, the club uses terms more akin to gradually building a successful and self sustainable club. They will have a professional and considered business model that they will stick to regardless of the whims of armchair supporters sat with their cheesy wotsits scratching their bollocks whilst musing over next player video clip or media rumour. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxxed Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 We'll gain more from strengthening the wings than from keeping Maguire in our a already highly competitive centre half position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisp packet Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 No this Rodgers revolution has just begun! Keep are assets sell the dross We are still very light in attack /wide forward players . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 Need to shift out the deadwood first. Not going to be easy. Slim/Jacko/James/King/Silva/Diabate would be excellent. Rather than spending money on more additions, use it to pay-off some of the surplus? Take the hit now rather than kick the can down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monsell1976 Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 17 minutes ago, mozartfox said: Need to shift out the deadwood first. Not going to be easy. Slim/Jacko/James/King/Silva/Diabate would be excellent. Rather than spending money on more additions, use it to pay-off some of the surplus? Take the hit now rather than kick the can down the road. We can easily shift all but king and James on loan or sell, but James is injured yet again, and on silly money, king isn’t good enough for prem and is on silly money, I’m afraid we are stuck with them until their contracts run out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 We need a Top quality winger, if we do that I think we are done and dusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 49 minutes ago, Monsell1976 said: We can easily shift all but king and James on loan or sell, but James is injured yet again, and on silly money, king isn’t good enough for prem and is on silly money, I’m afraid we are stuck with them until their contracts run out I fear you are correct. Whoever extended James's Contract needs a reality check to avoid this happening EVER again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brookfox Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Fightforever said: I hope we aren't done now I dread to think what would happen if vardy, tielemans and maddison were all injured. You can say that about nearly any team though if you take out their three best attacking players. Where would Liverpool be if Mane, Salah and Firminho were all injured. Probably only Man City who could lose Aguero, Sterling and De Bruyne and still put out a very good attacking line up. Edited 9 July 2019 by brookfox 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfu Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 56 minutes ago, Monsell1976 said: We can easily shift all but king and James on loan or sell, but James is injured yet again, and on silly money, king isn’t good enough for prem and is on silly money, I’m afraid we are stuck with them until their contracts run out I'm still holding out hope (perhaps foolishly) that Kingy can be utilised as an AM supersub... for the last 4 years he's been shoehorned into playing as an 8 which he just isn't suitable for. James hasn't demonstrated that when fit he can be reliably called upon since 2014/15, baffling that Shakespeare chose to give him that contract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 11 hours ago, Babylon said: Last year of Vards being a 20 goal a season striker (probably), a few players wanting moves come the end of the season. It all screams... if you can do it, then now is the moment. This. Imagine being the only club outside the usual suspects to win the bloody thing TWICE! Don't think I'd be able to cope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 12 minutes ago, PaulW said: This. Imagine being the only club outside the usual suspects to win the bloody thing TWICE! Don't think I'd be able to cope. It’s not a risk ..... no one is finishing above Man City our max max aim is top 4 probably best if we try for 40 points to begin with .......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretPro Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 CALLING ALL ITKs. TELL US THERE IS MORE TO COME? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joachim1965 Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 13 minutes ago, st albans fox said: It’s not a risk ..... no one is finishing above Man City our max max aim is top 4 probably best if we try for 40 points to begin with .......... Absolutely no way we are winning it again, top 6 should be the goal, top 4 would be amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glebe_sydneyfox Posted 9 July 2019 Share Posted 9 July 2019 (edited) As many have previously mentioned, a lot hinges on shipping out the likes of Silva, Slimani (highest earners of those not actively in match day squads) and then James, King however I can see both of these players on loan somewhere next year. Kelechi deserves one more chance and we are thin on numbers for out and out strikers. I'm thrilled with this transfer window thus far, the X Factor that could prove a domino effect is Maguire and whether Yanited cough up the cash. If that happens, I'd expect another winger in (and wouldn't be surprised if we went hard and splashed £35-50mil), however we've got a gem of a player in Barnes and many games last season he did not look out of his depth. Goals will come with confidence and experience for the young lad and we've got fairly decent backups in Gray (who I still believe can flourish) and the ever consistent Albrighton. Edited 9 July 2019 by glebe_sydneyfox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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