Costock_Fox Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 2 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: We need to be spend £150m this year on 5 £30m players! With a net spend of £80m from player sales Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heymister2015 Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 14 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said: Why? Because the starting 11 is fine! The bench is poor!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honeybradger Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 2 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: Because the starting 11 is fine! The bench is poor!! The majority of our starting 11 werent bought for 30 mil im not sure why we would spend that on bench options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: We need to be spend £150m this year on 5 £30m players! With a net spend of £80m from player sales I actually think this is a reasonable assumption if we want to sustain out current status as a top 6 club. Edouard £30 mil Tagliafico £25 mil Brookes £30 mil quality centre half £30 mil Diallo £20 mil That's £135mil. You could add Tauvan to that list and surpass £150 mil. However, you could raise £100m from the sale of Slimani, Chilwell, Gray or Albrighton, Armartey, Silva, Ghazzel, Diabate, Knight as well as Mendy off the payroll. Edited 23 August 2020 by MGLCFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costock_Fox Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 14 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: Because the starting 11 is fine! The bench is poor!! But why the need to spend £30m specifically on players? The price doesn’t dictate the quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costock_Fox Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 1 minute ago, MGLCFC said: I actually think this is a reasonable assumption if we want to sustain out current status as a top 6 club. Edouard £30 mil Tagliafico £25 mil Brookes £30 mil quality centre half £30 mil Diallo £20 mil That's £135mil. You could add Tauvan to that list and surpass £150 mil. However, you could raise £100m from the sale of Slimai, Chilwell, Gray or Albrighton, Armartey, Silva, Ghazzel, Diabate, Knight as well as Mendy off the payroll. I hate to disappoint you but I can’t see that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 1 minute ago, MGLCFC said: I actually think this is a reasonable assumption if we want to sustain out current status as a top 6 club. Edouard £30 mil Tagliafico £25 mil Brookes £30 mil quality centre half £30 mil Diallo £20 mil That's £135mil. You could add Tauvan to that list and surpass £150 mil. However, you could raise £100m from the sale of Slimai, Chilwell, Gray or Albrighton, Armartey, Silva, Ghazzel, Diabate, Knight as well as Mendy off the payroll. That's all well and good saying that but actually shifting all of those players with the wages they are on is easier said than done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 Just now, Costock_Fox said: I hate to disappoint you but I can’t see that happening. I never suggested it would. I am agreeing with the poster that if we want to sustain our position as a top 6 club, this is the sort of in vestment required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Foxy_Bear said: That's all well and good saying that but actually shifting all of those players with the wages they are on is easier said than done. That's what Rudkin on his enormous salary is paid to do. It's not just the ability to get players in, but also to ensure you can shift players out. Edited 23 August 2020 by MGLCFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancas Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 41 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: We need to be spend £150m this year on 5 £30m players! With a net spend of £80m from player sales How much Charlie are you taking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heymister2015 Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 7 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said: But why the need to spend £30m specifically on players? The price doesn’t dictate the quality. Around that price gets you decent quality and more depth to the quality we do have. But to push on we need depth and that doesn’t mean there subs! That can mean there in the starting 11 and the quality already there can become an option from the bench and vice versa. We’ll have enough games to keep everyone happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costock_Fox Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 26 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: Around that price gets you decent quality and more depth to the quality we do have. But to push on we need depth and that doesn’t mean there subs! That can mean there in the starting 11 and the quality already there can become an option from the bench and vice versa. We’ll have enough games to keep everyone happy Yeah defo worked with Slimani and Iheanacho. Either way it’s irrelevant, we won’t spent that amount in this window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heymister2015 Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 We want a cub/ bid £45m for trincao and Rodgers wants to sell Kelechi to sign edouard! So I can see that kind of money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 5 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said: We want a cub/ bid £45m for trincao and Rodgers wants to sell Kelechi to sign edouard! So I can see that kind of money We want Trincao on loan for 2 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majaco Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 We need to sign a cb this week. If not our first match pairing is Soyuncu and Benkovic/Morgan/Knight. Actually, I would take Benkovic, I wish I knew more about Knight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 1 minute ago, majaco said: We need to sign a cb this week. If not our first match pairing is Soyuncu and Benkovic/Morgan/Knight. Actually, I would take Benkovic, I wish I knew more about Knight. This week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majaco Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 3 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: This week? The new season is closing in. If we are to integrate a new signing, it needs to be soon. If Evans was available, we would be okay.He What are your thoughts on Knight , Ric Flair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta2014 Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 Don’t know where else to put, we are getting to the point where signing players means they won’t be available for start of season due to quarantine rules depending are where they come from! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majaco Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 Is Fuchs fit? Is Maddison fit? Schmeichel Justin, Benkovic, Soyuncu, Fuchs/Thomas N'didi Tielemans, Praet/ Choudhury Perez, Vardy, Barnes Not terrible. But would benefit from a couple of extras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffschlupp Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 1 minute ago, majaco said: Is Fuchs fit? Is Maddison fit? Schmeichel Justin, Benkovic, Soyuncu, Fuchs/Thomas N'didi Tielemans, Praet/ Choudhury Perez, Vardy, Barnes Not terrible. But would benefit from a couple of extras. Maddison should be fit according to what Rodgers said at the end of the season, Fuchs is out until October. I think the priority will be to get a CB and LB done in the next 3 weeks and they will start ahead of Benkovic and Thomas at West Brom. They then have a further 3 weeks to get the winger in. I think they'd have liked a striker but probably scaled back on that one given Iheanacho probably won't go. Possibly they will move late for Maddison cover at no.10 or a DM if Mendy doesn't sign - any of those three areas could easily be a loan. All of this does go slightly out of the window if we go 3 at the back against Birmingham on Wednesday, of course. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeg67 Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 Some of these expectations, LOL. If we could sign Tags and Brooks for roughly whatever we get for Chilwell, then add a workable 3rd CB as insurance for Benkovic, that would be a pretty solid window. And much more realistic. Not thrilling, but effective. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 Let's face it. The club is skint. If we get anyone in, they'll probably be relatively cheap lower league prospects that we hope can develop, much like JJ last season. Time for BR to earn his corn as a coach. It's still a decent squad at its best, even minus Chilwell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post honeybradger Posted 23 August 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 23 August 2020 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Deeg67 said: Some of these expectations, LOL. If we could sign Tags and Brooks for roughly whatever we get for Chilwell, then add a workable 3rd CB as insurance for Benkovic, that would be a pretty solid window. And much more realistic. Not thrilling, but effective. Is it just me who thinks that would be an excellent window? Dont understand all this fervour for a new midfielder and new striker, we're not chelsea we cant buy a whole new team. Brooks/other left footed rw and tagliafico goes a long way to fixing our weaknesses. Also i personally have faith in benkovic that he will step up, he's the croatian ben white. Edited 23 August 2020 by honeybradger 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffschlupp Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 12 minutes ago, honeybradger said: Is it just me who thinks that would be an excellent window? Dont understand all this fervour for a new midfielder and new striker, we're not chelsea we cant buy a whole new team. Brooks/other left footed rw and tagliafico goes a long way to fixing our weaknesses. Also i personally have faith in benkovic that he will step up, he's the croatian ben white. I agree with this mostly, leaves you with an ideal XI of: Schmeichel Ricardo Evans Söyüncü Tagliafico Ndidi Tielemans Maddison Brooks Vardy Barnes Then a second string of: Ward Justin CB Morgan/Benkovic Fuchs Mendy/KDH Praet ? Perez Iheanacho Albrighton Plus Jakupovic, Hamza and Gray as super sub. There's enough CBs and wing-back capable players in there to switch comfortably to a 3atb too. I think it leaves us a bit light at no.8, without Maddison we were forced to change from a 4-3-3 into a two up top with one in behind or a flat 3-5-2 and that was less than ideal. CB £20m LB £30m RW £30m AM Loan with option/obligation or a free Puts us at £80m gross, with sales probably £10-20m net. A striker can probably wait another year or maybe that's one for January. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeg67 Posted 23 August 2020 Share Posted 23 August 2020 (edited) At some point you are going to need another striker for sure. I like Kelechi and he's improved a lot, but he seems like more of a 2nd striker/change of pace guy than the anchor of your attack who's going to get you 20 goals. Since it looks as if Vardy has one more season before he gracefully slips into a supersub role, if resources are really tight you have to prioritize a starting-caliber winger and the right Chilwell replacement over the heir apparent. The downside is that this is a window where there are a number of young strikers who may be good fits (like Edouard and Watkins) and that might be the case when the need is urgent. Edited 23 August 2020 by Deeg67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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