January Transfer Window 2024

[Guest Sideshow Faes]

1 hour ago, MGLCFC said:

I just wonder how much someone would cost who has Vestergaard's skill set as a centre half and also pace. Probably out of our price bracket?

We worry about that when we're a prem team again. Becomes more realistic then. 

[LVFox]

3 hours ago, MGLCFC said:

I just wonder how much someone would cost who has Vestergaard's skill set as a centre half and also pace. Probably out of our price bracket?

I was going to suggest Perr Schuurs at Torino, but he's just done his ACL.

 

Although...maybe that means he's perfect!

[Stuntman_Mike]

There will be some proper meltdowns if we strengthen won't there 

[Ric Flair]

Sebastian Nanasi at Malmo the standout attainable ACM this season IMO, he'd cost £5-6m max.

[ARM1968]

37 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Sebastian Nanasi at Malmo the standout attainable ACM this season IMO, he'd cost £5-6m max.

Ric’s been on the new Football Manager again. Good shout. 

[LVFox]

1 hour ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

There will be some proper meltdowns if we strengthen won't there 

A real possibility we decide not to do anything in January and just wait until the summer when the pool of players willing to move to us is far greater.

 

38 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Sebastian Nanasi at Malmo the standout attainable ACM this season IMO, he'd cost £5-6m max.

This however, is one I'd love to see done in Jan. 

[majaco]

We should be looking at a couple of Sunderland players.    Maybe more so in the summer if they don't win the play-offs

[Beachyboy]

On 22/10/2023 at 17:29, Sly said:

The big question remains, what do you do with the players that are expiring come June 2024?  
 

Marc Albrighton

Jannik Vestergaard

Dennis Praet

Jamie Vardy

Wilfred Ndidi

Kelechi Iheanacho

Luke Thomas

Wanya Marçal

Callum Doyle

Ceser Casadei

Yunus Akgun

Issahaku Fatawu

Alex Smithies

 

We could do with addressing some of those before January ideally. 
 

We’ll need to shift Iversen, Souttar, Daka and Ward I would imagine. 

 

Sell or get Ndidi/Nacho to sign new contracts, some are loans,  of the 6 that are our players sell what you can, we can probably get rid of Vestegaard in January, sure he's playing well enough now but isn't the answer in the premiership. If he wants to sign a new contract on half the terms why not.

[FOXSE]

19 hours ago, majaco said:

We should be looking at a couple of Sunderland players.    Maybe more so in the summer if they don't win the play-offs

We should buy players from whoever is second.... that will P1ss the league off! 😄 

[Ric Flair]

Not the most exciting of signings but I really like Tommy Conway at Bristol City, not sure we'd get value for money though. There's similar or better abroad we'd get for half the price but that's the difficulty in buying young British players.

[Gamble92]

On 23/10/2023 at 14:21, ARM1968 said:

Ric’s been on the new Football Manager again. Good shout. 

Careful. He called me a fanny when I suggested that's where his scouting is done 

[Happy Fox]

4 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Not the most exciting of signings but I really like Tommy Conway at Bristol City, not sure we'd get value for money though. There's similar or better abroad we'd get for half the price but that's the difficulty in buying young British players.

Kwame Poku from Peterborough ?

[Ric Flair]

6 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

Kwame Poku from Peterborough ?

I like him a lot, I do think he needs a year in the Championship at a thriving club. I think Yunus would keep him out the team currently (and he doesn't start all our games)

[Gazza M]

Mustn't rest on our laurels. You should always strengthen where possible. A new striker would be ideal for me if Nacho isn't staying and Daka surplus. 

[LVFox]

27 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

Kwame Poku from Peterborough ?

Good player but the time for us to get him in was the summer just gone.

Will take a better quality of player to build on Yunus/Fatawu/McAteer as right wing options.

[Scanchez]

Cherno Samba

[LVFox]

Other than a keeper or two, the only players I can see moving on are Souttar, Praet and Daka.

 

Sebastian Nanasi has been mentioned on here and would be a great Praet replacement. 

 

Ronnie Edwards has really improved defensively at Peterborough this year and could be a good centre back option as either a Faes backup or long term central ball player. 

 

And I don't think we bother replacing Daka at all as Cannon should do the job.

[Foxmeister]

On 03/10/2023 at 22:40, CheeseHead said:

I've done the maths. Ric Flair comes up with a new name every 6.85 days!

What's his xT rating?

[LCFCJohn]

After last night, the key area to address in January is the central midfield (number 8’s).

 

We are looking stretched with Ndidi out. Casadei is not the answer and if KDH is having an off day, we struggle. 

 

The lack of rotation option for Ricardo and Justin with Doyle out long term is also a problem. This is the only real issue with the summer transfer window that we allowed this to happen. If anything the surprise is that is was Doyle out but we wouldn’t have been surprised had it been Ricardo or Justin so still short sighted with the recruitment.

The strikers haven’t been great but with 4

on the books already, I can’t see any incoming business in that area. Hopefully Cannon can be that man when fit.

 

[Daveb5569]

Need a striker as we will be losing a few during AFCON someone short term Danny Ings might do a job

[CloudFox]

10 hours ago, Daveb5569 said:

Need a striker as we will be losing a few during AFCON someone short term Danny Ings might do a job

That's hopefully what Cannon is for.

 

Still, a lot to pin on a player that's been out injured since we signed him.

 

I don't think we sign a striker until the summer, when Iheanacho is out of contract, Daka may well leave, and Vardy likely renews for another year.

Edited 4 November 2023 by CloudFox

[Lambert09]

would be disappointed if we signed anyone over the age of 23 in january. 

 

Perfect time to add in someone a little rough around the edges with a high ceiling 

[Lesta2014]

I hope we are active in January, but believe we’d need to sell/loan out in order to get people in, getting rid of two keepers would be a good start. I can see Daka going now cannon is fit too. That would leave us 3 spaces in the 25 man squad I think unless we go for youngsters who don’t need registering. 

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Chair and a starter in the number 8 position 

[Tuna]

Goalscoring winger.