Summer 2023...

[LCFCJohn]

May be in my own but wouldn’t mind Moura. We we thin in wide areas and I have always thought he hasn’t had enough chances at Spurs but has looked good when I have seen him.

 

Smalling as others have said.

 

Brereton-Diaz? If Vardy’s time is done another striker would be useful.

 

And Aouar who we’ve been in for before allegedly.

 

Can also see us being in for Kent.

 

I’ve only gone for ones I know about/are probably realistic/or we have seemingly been interested in before.

[lcfc-fan1126]

26 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

May be in my own but wouldn’t mind Moura. We we thin in wide areas and I have always thought he hasn’t had enough chances at Spurs but has looked good when I have seen him.

 

Smalling as others have said.

 

Brereton-Diaz? If Vardy’s time is done another striker would be useful.

 

And Aouar who we’ve been in for before allegedly.

 

Can also see us being in for Kent.

 

I’ve only gone for ones I know about/are probably realistic/or we have seemingly been interested in before.

Brereton Diaz is going to villareal I thought

[LCFCJohn]

8 minutes ago, lcfc-fan1126 said:

Brereton Diaz is going to villareal I thought

Ah maybe, not been following closely, I knew he’d be linked with a few PL clubs of our sort of level. Wasn’t aware if he has anything lined up.

[JimJams]

18 hours ago, AjcW said:

Not that we ever seem to get freebies anymore... but here's the all important list

 

Player	Age	Nat.	Current club	Market value	Rumours
Milan Skriniar Centre-Back	27		Inter  Serie A	€60.00m	-
Lionel Messi Right Winger	35		Paris SG  Ligue 1	€50.00m	-
Youri Tielemans Central Midfield	25		Leicester  Premier League	€40.00m	-
Karim Benzema Centre-Forward	35		Real Madrid  LaLiga	€35.00m	-
Evan Ndicka Centre-Back	23		E. Frankfurt  Bundesliga	€32.00m	2
Marcus Thuram Centre-Forward	25		Bor. M'gladbach  Bundesliga	€32.00m	3
Wilfried Zaha Left Winger	30		Crystal Palace  Premier League	€32.00m	3
Daichi Kamada Attacking Midfield	26		E. Frankfurt  Bundesliga	€30.00m	-
N'Golo Kanté   Defensive Midfield	31		Chelsea  Premier League	€30.00m	-
Thomas Lemar Attacking Midfield	27		Atlético Madrid  LaLiga	€30.00m	-
Konrad Laimer Central Midfield	25		RB Leipzig  Bundesliga	€28.00m	-
Roberto Firmino Centre-Forward	31		Liverpool  Premier League	€28.00m	2
Marco Asensio Right Winger	27		Real Madrid  LaLiga	€25.00m	-
Adrien Rabiot Central Midfield	27		Juventus  Serie A	€25.00m	-
Ilkay Gündogan Central Midfield	32		Man City  Premier League	€25.00m	1
Caglar Söyüncü Centre-Back	26		Leicester  Premier League	€22.00m	1
Houssem Aouar   Central Midfield	24		Olympique Lyon  Ligue 1	€20.00m	-
Naby Keïta Central Midfield	27		Liverpool  Premier League	€20.00m	1
Jonathan Bamba Left Winger	26		LOSC Lille  Ligue 1	€20.00m	-
Ramy Bensebaini Left-Back	27		Bor. M'gladbach  Bundesliga	€20.00m	-
Alejandro Grimaldo Left-Back	27		Benfica  Liga Portugal	€20.00m	-
Raphaël Guerreiro Left-Back	29		Bor. Dortmund  Bundesliga	€20.00m	-
Toni Kroos Central Midfield	33		Real Madrid  LaLiga	€20.00m	-
Yerry Mina Centre-Back	28		Everton  Premier League	€18.00m	-
Nélson Semedo Right-Back	29		Wolves  Premier League	€18.00m	-

 

 

Moussa Dembélé Centre-Forward	26		Olympique Lyon  Ligue 1	€18.00m	2
Mahmoud Dahoud Central Midfield	27		Bor. Dortmund  Bundesliga	€18.00m	-
Iñigo Martínez   Centre-Back	31		Athletic  LaLiga	€18.00m	-
Ben Brereton Díaz Centre-Forward	23		Blackburn  Championship	€16.00m	3
Albert Sambi Lokonga Central Midfield	23		Crystal Palace  Premier League	€15.00m	-
Matvey Safonov Goalkeeper	23		Krasnodar  Premier Liga	€15.00m	-
Mauro Arambarri   Central Midfield	27		Getafe  LaLiga	€15.00m	-
Jefferson Lerma Defensive Midfield	28		Bournemouth  Premier League	€15.00m	-
Daniel Amartey Centre-Back	28		Leicester  Premier League	€15.00m	-
Adama Traoré Right Winger	27		Wolves  Premier League	€15.00m	-
Héctor Bellerín Right-Back	27		Sporting CP  Liga Portugal	€15.00m	-
Andrea Belotti Centre-Forward	29		AS Roma  Serie A	€15.00m	-
Stefan de Vrij Centre-Back	30		Inter  Serie A	€15.00m	-
David de Gea Goalkeeper	32		Man Utd  Premier League	€15.00m	-
Ryan Kent Left Winger	26		Rangers  Premiership	€14.00m	-
Jesse Lingard Attacking Midfield	30		Nottm Forest  Premier League	€14.00m	-
Altay Bayindir Goalkeeper	24		Fenerbahce  Süper Lig	€13.00m	-
Ellyes Skhiri Defensive Midfield	27		1. FC Köln  Bundesliga	€13.00m	-
Tom Davies Central Midfield	24		Everton  Premier League	€12.00m	-
Mateus Uribe Defensive Midfield	31		FC Porto  Liga Portugal	€12.00m	-
Mohamed Elyounoussi Left Winger	28		Southampton  Premier League	€12.00m	-
Matt Doherty Right-Back	31		Atlético Madrid  LaLiga	€12.00m	-
Abdoulaye Doucouré Central Midfield	30		Everton  Premier League	€12.00m	1
Luis Muriel Centre-Forward	31		Atalanta BC  Serie A	€12.00m	-
Lucas Moura Right Winger	30		Spurs  Premier League	€12.00m	1

 

 

Nathan Redmond Left Winger	28		Besiktas  Süper Lig	€11.00m	-
Alfredo Morelos Centre-Forward	26		Rangers  Premiership	€10.00m	-
Hamari Traoré   Right-Back	31		Rennes  Ligue 1	€10.00m	-
Daler Kuzyaev Central Midfield	30		Zenit S-Pb  Premier Liga	€10.00m	-
David Soria Goalkeeper	29		Getafe  LaLiga	€10.00m	-
Florian Grillitsch   Defensive Midfield	27		Ajax  Eredivisie	€10.00m	-
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Central Midfield	29		Liverpool  Premier League	€10.00m	1
Manuel Lanzini Attacking Midfield	29		West Ham  Premier League	€10.00m	-
Ross Barkley Central Midfield	29		OGC Nice  Ligue 1	€10.00m	-
Joël Veltman Right-Back	31		Brighton  Premier League	€10.00m	-
Ángel Di María Right Winger	34		Juventus  Serie A	€10.00m	-
Luka Modric Central Midfield	37		Real Madrid  LaLiga	€10.00m	-
Dani Ceballos Central Midfield	26		Real Madrid  LaLiga	€9.00m	-
Michael Olunga Centre-Forward	28		Al-Duhail SC  Stars League	€9.00m	-
Dennis Geiger   Central Midfield	24		TSG Hoffenheim  Bundesliga	€9.00m	-
Mohamed Elneny   Defensive Midfield	30		Arsenal  Premier League	€9.00m	-
Vladimir Coufal Right-Back	30		West Ham  Premier League	€9.00m	-
James Rodríguez Attacking Midfield	31		Olympiacos  Super League 1	€9.00m	-
Marco Reus Attacking Midfield	33		Bor. Dortmund  Bundesliga	€9.00m	1
Alejandro Catena Centre-Back	28		Rayo Vallecano  LaLiga	€8.00m	-
Jason Denayer Centre-Back	27		Shabab Al-Ahli  UAE Pro League	€8.00m	-
Alexander Djiku Centre-Back	28		R. Strasbourg  Ligue 1	€8.00m	1
Jeffrey Schlupp Left Midfield	30		Crystal Palace  Premier League	€8.00m	-
Rani Khedira Defensive Midfield	29		Union Berlin  Bundesliga	€8.00m	-
Chris Smalling Centre-Back	33		AS Roma  Serie A	€8.00m	1

 

The free 'getable' 11?

 

Safonov

Bellerin Smalling Ndicka Grimaldo

Grillitsch

Keita    Aouar

Traore            Lemar

Thuram

 

 

[BKLFox]

Could get onboard with Smalling but only up until he gets a long injury and then I’d join the gang of what the fec was the club thinking giving this old guy a 3yr contract on (make up a high wage) when we should have been signing youth now we stuck with a lump we can’t shift and no resale value in him 

[Sambiasso]

Club scout at FC Koln vs RB Leipzig today monitoring Martel(Koln) Raum(RB) and Szoboszlai(RB) 

[Shane]

27 minutes ago, Sambiasso said:

Club scout at FC Koln vs RB Leipzig today monitoring Martel(Koln) Raum(RB) and Szoboszlai(RB) 

Hopefully they’re watching Skhiri !

[stu]

30 minutes ago, Sambiasso said:

Szoboszlai

Would be a perfect Madders replacement…

[Sankey93]

Just sign 10 Brazilians and we’re sound!

[lcfc sheff]

1 hour ago, Sambiasso said:

Club scout at FC Koln vs RB Leipzig today monitoring Martel(Koln) Raum(RB) and Szoboszlai(RB) 

We’d never be able to afford Szoboszlai surely??

[Shane]

Another DM option:

 

Vinicius Souza (Brazilian ). Was top of the charts in the Belgian league last season for tackles & interceptions. 
 

This season he’s on loan at Espanyol and is doing very well. 99th percentile for tackles, 97th percentile for interceptions and 94th percentile for aerial duels won according to Fbref .

[Lcfc-1992]

1 hour ago, Shane said:

Another DM option:

 

Vinicius Souza (Brazilian ). Was top of the charts in the Belgian league last season for tackles & interceptions. 
 

This season he’s on loan at Espanyol and is doing very well. 99th percentile for tackles, 97th percentile for interceptions and 94th percentile for aerial duels won according to Fbref .

How is he on the ball? I want a Ndidi/Soumare hybrid 

[CloudFox]

3 hours ago, Sambiasso said:

Club scout at FC Koln vs RB Leipzig today monitoring Martel(Koln) Raum(RB) and Szoboszlai(RB) 

Love this kind of info, cheers @Sambiasso

 

I imagine most of us are aware of Szoboszlai (Hungarian, creative MC/AMC), but I'm not that familiar with the other two...

 

So naturally let's read some scout reports on both 😉

 

Raum: https://footballtalentscout.net/2022/02/01/david-raum-the-latest-talent-catching-the-eye-in-german-football-by-adam-khan/

 

Martel: 

 

 

TL;DR: Raum is a Left Back/Left Midfielder and Martel is a DM, from what I can glean.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

That Eric Martel is James Acaster in a Koln kit

 

[Claudio Fannieri]

Went to watch PNE vs Bristol City and Alex Scott is an absolute talent, we have to sign him in the summer this lad is gong to the very top, wonderfully talent footballer 

[Shane]

1 hour ago, Lcfc-1992 said:

How is he on the ball? I want a Ndidi/Soumare hybrid 

His passing stats are very poor this season but that could be due to Diego Martinez’s defensive set up.

[Danny280995]

Definitely need a new Rb, I don't like Castagne and Ricardo is quality but unfortunately made out of glass 

 

 

 

 

 

New Gk, wingers as back up to Tete or barnes and provide competition, new cm's to replace tielemans and praet in summer, or more if maddison goes to, back up cb's to our main two, and new a new striker to get replace shit Daka and Vardy who's just passed it...very busy summer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 4 February 2023 by Danny280995

[Tommy Fresh]

4 hours ago, Shane said:

Another DM option:

 

Vinicius Souza (Brazilian ). Was top of the charts in the Belgian league last season for tackles & interceptions. 
 

This season he’s on loan at Espanyol and is doing very well. 99th percentile for tackles, 97th percentile for interceptions and 94th percentile for aerial duels won according to Fbref .

At Lommel though, so chances are he ends up at Man City at some point.

[LCFCJohn]

Just watching MOTD and Tarkowski scoring for Everton. I haven’t seen much of him this season but I always thought he’d be good in a team that isn’t ultra defensive (Burnley) or a shambles (Everton). With the free transfer markets for this summer being discussed here, it just got me thinking how our season may have been different had we been in for Tawkowski and especially Pope on frees last summer.

 

Newcastle weren’t particularly more attractive back in the summer and I do think Pope over Ward could have been massive for us.

 

Point being that it is a market that is there to be exploited and with those names above, hopefully we’ll return to that method to pick up the odd bargain. Feels like until this Jan window, we have fallen into the trap of the big money clubs where we turn our noses up if they came for less than £20mill!

[Ric Flair]

39 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

Just watching MOTD and Tarkowski scoring for Everton. I haven’t seen much of him this season but I always thought he’d be good in a team that isn’t ultra defensive (Burnley) or a shambles (Everton). With the free transfer markets for this summer being discussed here, it just got me thinking how our season may have been different had we been in for Tawkowski and especially Pope on frees last summer.

 

Newcastle weren’t particularly more attractive back in the summer and I do think Pope over Ward could have been massive for us.

 

Point being that it is a market that is there to be exploited and with those names above, hopefully we’ll return to that method to pick up the odd bargain. Feels like until this Jan window, we have fallen into the trap of the big money clubs where we turn our noses up if they came for less than £20mill!

The free transfer market or market for players with a year or so left on their contract is what Pearson used to reap the rewards from massively.

 

I don't know why we've opted not to try and sign players on free transfers, it's not as if we don't pay players more wages than they'd get from our direct rivals either, we are notorious for chuffing up. You only have to read the reports on Harrison, who was supposedly set for £100k a week with us and Leeds cannot match that.

[LCFCJohn]

15 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

The free transfer market or market for players with a year or so left on their contract is what Pearson used to reap the rewards from massively.

 

I don't know why we've opted not to try and sign players on free transfers, it's not as if we don't pay players more wages than they'd get from our direct rivals either, we are notorious for chuffing up. You only have to read the reports on Harrison, who was supposedly set for £100k a week with us and Leeds cannot match that.

Yeah the last time we did it unless I’m missing anyone, was the likes of Cambiasso, Albrighton and Fuchs.

 

Even Ben Mee for Brentford doing well.

[JimmyC74]

33 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

The free transfer market or market for players with a year or so left on their contract is what Pearson used to reap the rewards from massively.

 

I don't know why we've opted not to try and sign players on free transfers, it's not as if we don't pay players more wages than they'd get from our direct rivals either, we are notorious for chuffing up. You only have to read the reports on Harrison, who was supposedly set for £100k a week with us and Leeds cannot match that.

Who are your prime targets from that market @Ric Flair?

[les-tah]

12 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Went to watch PNE vs Bristol City and Alex Scott is an absolute talent, we have to sign him in the summer this lad is gong to the very top, wonderfully talent footballer 

This would be a great signing, Keep seeing his clips pop up and could be our next asset to sell on.

 

With Maddison and Tielemens both likely leaving we deffo need some top quality experience back in the team for a player like Scott to thrive on. 

Edited 5 February 2023 by les-tah

[LCCFox96]

3 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Just watching MOTD and Tarkowski scoring for Everton. I haven’t seen much of him this season but I always thought he’d be good in a team that isn’t ultra defensive (Burnley) or a shambles (Everton). With the free transfer markets for this summer being discussed here, it just got me thinking how our season may have been different had we been in for Tawkowski and especially Pope on frees last summer.

I agree with your point about using the free transfer market more than we have done, but Pope went for £10m not on a free. He was a top target for Newcastle and they went all in for him early.

 

Buttons for a player of his quality but given we seemingly didn’t have a pot to piss in in the summer, Schmeichel didn’t actually move on until a month after Pope transferred, and we’d have struggled to match Newcastle’s offer at the time it wasn’t ever happening.

[StanSP]

On 04/02/2023 at 10:33, JimJams said:

 

The free 'getable' 11?

 

Safonov

Bellerin Smalling Ndicka Grimaldo

Grillitsch

Keita    Aouar

Traore            Lemar

Thuram

 

 

Bellerin has gone to Sporting Lisbon.

 

I don't think Thuram is gettable; reckon he goes to a bigger club.

 

Which Keita is that in your line-up? Hopefully not Naby. Injury-prone and crap.