honeybradger Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 7 hours ago, dbtcity said: If true I’d take Zouma plus say 50m for Chilwell 👌🏻 Id rather tomori, him and soyuncu would be the fastest/strongest centreback pairing in the league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty98 Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 Diego Rico if Chilwell goes? Decent LB, has good tackling and interception stats. Decent crosser, think he'd work well with Barnes Infront of him. If we could get him for less than £10 million it would be a very good signing and leave a lot of funds to invest elsewhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 (edited) Today’s link with Trincão and the leaked prices for Zaha & Eze have got me proper excited! Here’s a 26 man squad, admittedly without me bothering to look up the rules around home grown players (which might mean egs Choudhury & Thomas don’t count?) - I could be persuaded to leave Wes in charge of sounds & patience? It looks seriously good to me, and improves us in all the areas needed... GK Schmeichel Ward Jakupovic FB Ricardo Justin Chilwell Fuchs CB Evans Soyuncu Demiral Benkovic Morgan CM Ndidi Mendy Choudhury AM Maddison Tielemans Praet Eze WF Barnes Zaha Trincão Albrighton ST Vardy Edouard Perez Spend: Demiral £30m Eze £16m Zaha £30m Trincão £7.5m (first year loan) Edouard £30m Total £113.5m Sales: Nacho £22.5m Gray £17.5m Slimami £10m Ghezzal £5m Amartey £3m Diabate £0.5m Silva £0 James £0 King £0 Total £58.5m Net spend £55m. Which isn’t much if you say it quickly! And amounts to our average annual spend topped up with some of the Maguire money. Simple. Edited 5 August 2020 by Steve Earle omission 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffschlupp Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Steve Earle said: Today’s link with Trincão and the leaked prices for Zaha & Eze have got me proper excited! Here’s a 26 man squad, admittedly without me bothering to look up the rules around home grown players (which might mean egs Choudhury & Thomas don’t count?) - I could be persuaded to leave Wes in charge of sounds & patience? It looks seriously good to me, and improves us in all the areas needed... GK Schmeichel Ward Jakupovic FB Ricardo Justin Chilwell Fuchs CB Evans Soyuncu Demiral Benkovic Morgan CM Ndidi Mendy Choudhury AM Maddison Tielemans Praet Eze WF Barnes Zaha Trincão Albrighton ST Vardy Edouard Perez Spend: Demiral £30m Eze £16m Zaha £30m Trincão £7.5m (first year loan) Edouard £30m Total £113.5m Sales: Nacho £22.5m Gray £17.5m Slimami £10m Ghezzal £5m Amartey £3m Diabate £0.5m Silva £0 James £0 Total £58.5m Net spend £55m. Which isn’t much if you say it quickly! And amounts to our average annual spend topped up with some of the Maguire money. Simple. For the PL that 26 man squad is fine because Trincao is U21. However for EL we can only name 24 if Chilwell stays (we only have three club trained players), so two would have to miss out. I don't think there is a requirement to have three keepers so Jakupovic could miss out and they could have Bosworth on the B list if required, but they'd still be unable to register one of the other 25. I would be very surprised if they kept 5 CBs - Benkovic would be much better off if he has another 12 months somewhere on loan. We rarely use the third choice CB never mind the fourth choice as long as Cags/Evans stay fit, CBs are not a position you can freely rotate without the risk of disruption. Alternatively, CB no.5 could be Josh Knight - he is obviously club trained so would fill that 25th EL spot and can cover at CB, RB and DM. Again, I imagine he would probably be best to go out on loan still. Overall I think it's not far off the sort of squad we'll end up with, except I don't think we'll get two wingers and instead will keep one of Gray or Iheanacho. Edited 4 August 2020 by jeffschlupp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 Agree @jeffschlupp, would be delighted & amazed if we sign two wingers, let alone the two I’ve named. If we don’t, Gray stays one more year. Thanks for clearing up the rules, very helpful. Think Bosworth & Knight (or Johnson) could well feature in the EL squads. I went for five CBs based on our (lamentable) run in. If we’re going to play three at the back we’ll need 5 CBs. But I suspect Rodgers saw enough in those 9 games and will revert to 433/4141(in which case either Benko or Wes miss out). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarehamFox Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 20 minutes ago, Steve Earle said: Today’s link with Trincão and the leaked prices for Zaha & Eze have got me proper excited! Here’s a 26 man squad, admittedly without me bothering to look up the rules around home grown players (which might mean egs Choudhury & Thomas don’t count?) - I could be persuaded to leave Wes in charge of sounds & patience? It looks seriously good to me, and improves us in all the areas needed... GK Schmeichel Ward Jakupovic FB Ricardo Justin Chilwell Fuchs CB Evans Soyuncu Demiral Benkovic Morgan CM Ndidi Mendy Choudhury AM Maddison Tielemans Praet Eze WF Barnes Zaha Trincão Albrighton ST Vardy Edouard Perez Spend: Demiral £30m Eze £16m Zaha £30m Trincão £7.5m (first year loan) Edouard £30m Total £113.5m Sales: Nacho £22.5m Gray £17.5m Slimami £10m Ghezzal £5m Amartey £3m Diabate £0.5m Silva £0 James £0 Total £58.5m Net spend £55m. Which isn’t much if you say it quickly! And amounts to our average annual spend topped up with some of the Maguire money. Simple. That would be an amazing window, not sure we would get the money for the dead wood though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 Just now, WarehamFox said: That would be an amazing window, not sure we would get the money for the dead wood though. I thought I was being conservative? Could easily get more for all/any of the first three, if there’s competition for their services from the usual lower/mid-table clubs? God it feels good writing that and knowing we’re not one of them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdb Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 30 minutes ago, Steve Earle said: Today’s link with Trincão and the leaked prices for Zaha & Eze have got me proper excited! Here’s a 26 man squad, admittedly without me bothering to look up the rules around home grown players (which might mean egs Choudhury & Thomas don’t count?) - I could be persuaded to leave Wes in charge of sounds & patience? It looks seriously good to me, and improves us in all the areas needed... GK Schmeichel Ward Jakupovic FB Ricardo Justin Chilwell Fuchs CB Evans Soyuncu Demiral Benkovic Morgan CM Ndidi Mendy Choudhury AM Maddison Tielemans Praet Eze WF Barnes Zaha Trincão Albrighton ST Vardy Edouard Perez Spend: Demiral £30m Eze £16m Zaha £30m Trincão £7.5m (first year loan) Edouard £30m Total £113.5m Sales: Nacho £22.5m Gray £17.5m Slimami £10m Ghezzal £5m Amartey £3m Diabate £0.5m Silva £0 James £0 Total £58.5m Net spend £55m. Which isn’t much if you say it quickly! And amounts to our average annual spend topped up with some of the Maguire money. Simple. Dreamy. Literally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluearmyfox28 Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 Could you imagine if we signed CB - Demiral CAM/Inside left winger - Cantwell/Eze Right winger - Trincao Striker - Edouard I would add a holding midfielder but can’t see that happening with Mendy signing a new contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Smuts Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 I'd rather Christensen from Chelsea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Squirrel Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 3 hours ago, Steve Earle said: Today’s link with Trincão and the leaked prices for Zaha & Eze have got me proper excited! Here’s a 26 man squad, admittedly without me bothering to look up the rules around home grown players (which might mean egs Choudhury & Thomas don’t count?) - I could be persuaded to leave Wes in charge of sounds & patience? It looks seriously good to me, and improves us in all the areas needed... GK Schmeichel Ward Jakupovic FB Ricardo Justin Chilwell Fuchs CB Evans Soyuncu Demiral Benkovic Morgan CM Ndidi Mendy Choudhury AM Maddison Tielemans Praet Eze WF Barnes Zaha Trincão Albrighton ST Vardy Edouard Perez Spend: Demiral £30m Eze £16m Zaha £30m Trincão £7.5m (first year loan) Edouard £30m Total £113.5m Sales: Nacho £22.5m Gray £17.5m Slimami £10m Ghezzal £5m Amartey £3m Diabate £0.5m Silva £0 James £0 Total £58.5m Net spend £55m. Which isn’t much if you say it quickly! And amounts to our average annual spend topped up with some of the Maguire money. Simple. I don't think that's too far off in terms of transfer value out If anything I think we'd get nearer £30M for Nacho. Proven goal scorers in the Prem go for premium money. He's capable of getting 15 goals per season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesta2014 Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 Watkins has a reasonable release clause now they haven’t gone up doesn’t he? I’d be tempted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doe Posted 4 August 2020 Share Posted 4 August 2020 Pontus Jansson, swedish cb, schooled to be a baller. A cheap squad player who would provide some well needed competition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 Watkins has potential. Edouard does too, lots of it, but IMO he's ready for the PL now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luttfox Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 10 hours ago, General Smuts said: I'd rather Christensen from Chelsea Same here, think he'd be a good addition, surprised he is still only 24, can also play on the right what would Chelsea value him at? £25m? So £50m & Christensen for Chilwell, £30m towards Edouard, £20m towards another player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinkenzo Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 11 hours ago, Lesta2014 said: Watkins has a reasonable release clause now they haven’t gone up doesn’t he? I’d be tempted 18m according to the BBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StanSP Posted 5 August 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 5 August 2020 If we're not interested in him at all then I'd be shocked. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjcW Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 (edited) Watkins is an interesting one. Was only converted to a CF this season as they didn't replace Maupay. You wonder whether he'd rather be back on the wing and scoring... if so he's always been more of a left sided player (again, not a priority currently) A strange observation perhaps... but his goal stats this season are a little clouded by games where he/Brentford have completely dominated, IE he's scored doubles or a hat trick. He's never really been on a run of goals as such. Also in the 13 games Brentford lost in the normal season, he only scored in one of them. One thing I like in a striker is thinking I can rely on them to pop up with an equaliser or even a comeback winner (JV for example), you wonder if his head drops when his side are struggling? (even just a consolation because he's hungry to score...) Also only scored 4 after the restart, which is surprising given that run of 7 games Brentford went on where they destroyed everyone in sight. Only 3 assists all season too, so not like he's backing a run like that up with goal involvements. Worth a punt as a back up striker for next season with a view to training him up to replace JV, but definitely think he's got a lot more to learn as a striker. Edited 5 August 2020 by AjcW 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowlattsFox Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 Watkins is going to have his pick of clubs, from what I've seen I'd like us to be in for him. I think he's a similar player to Vardy but can also hold it up well too. Unless one of the "big 6" are interested we'd have to have a decent chance, London pull could bring West Ham into the equation, the usual suspects of Everton, Wolves and Southampton too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 Unless we have no chance of signing Edouard, I can’t see why we’d want Watkins? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerrrFox Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 RW - Francisco Trincão RW/LW/CAM - David Brooks ST/LW/RW - Ollie Watkins I’m rock hard right now, I’ve gone from 6 to midnight real quick. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UniFox21 Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 If we went in for him, you'd assume we'd have a decent chance. Our issue would be if he'd want to play rotational with Vardy/Nacho. Think Dean Smith might use his links from Brentford to sign him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzzy_Larsson Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 19 minutes ago, Steve Earle said: Unless we have no chance of signing Edouard, I can’t see why we’d want Watkins? If the rumours about Watkins' release clause are true then the reason may be that he'd cost half of what Edouard would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdb Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 That's a great deal for someone. If we're not in for OE then surely he's a great Vardy apprentice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 5 August 2020 Share Posted 5 August 2020 2 minutes ago, Muzzy_Larsson said: If the rumours about Watkins' release clause are true then the reason may be that he'd cost half of what Edouard would. But do we want someone half as good as Edouard? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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