Who do we need next season

[LVFox]

Could see both JJ and Ricardo leaving. I'd look at Louis Patris from Anderlecht (Formerly Leuven).

 

Out on loan at St Truiden at the moment and playing well, never seemed to get a chance at Anderlecht.

[South Shire Fox]

Kwame Poku, no brainer for a free transfer from Peterborough. 26 games, 12 goals, 8 assists. Sort of signing that the club will over look because they’d rather pay a transfer fee for a worse player from abroad

Edited 25 April 2025 by South Shire Fox

[AKCJ]

48 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Kwame Poku, no brainer for a free transfer from Peterborough. 26 games, 12 goals, 8 assists. Sort of signing that the club will over look because they’d rather pay a transfer fee for a worse player from abroad

Birmingham are supposedly after him and are offering £30k a week.

[dooflip]

17 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

His contracts not up this summer?

I read it was, apologies.

[wardyfox86]

3 hours ago, AKCJ said:

Birmingham are supposedly after him and are offering £30k a week.

So £6.2m total outlay on a four-year deal, minus any s/o fee. We should really be looking at those.

 

Is he not more of a winger?

[Tommy Fresh]

20 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Contracts up in the summer:

 

GK:

Yvon Mvogo (30) - Lorient

 

RB:

Bright Osayi-Samuel (27) - Fenerbahce

Sergio Carreira (24) - Celta Vigo

 

LB:

Greg Taylor (27) - Celtic

Mats Köhlert (26) - Heerenveen

Caleb Wiley (20) - Chelsea

 

CB:

Nicolò Bertola (22) - Spezia

 

DM:

Dejan Ljubicic (27) - Koln

 

CM:

Josh Brownhill (29) - Burnley

 

AM:

Kanya Fujimoto (25) - Gil Vicente

 

Wingers:

Tyrhys Dolan (23) - Blackburn Rovers

Kwame Poku (23) - Peterborough

Josué Casimir (23) - Le Havre

Gabriel Vieira (23) - Santa Clara

Javi Puado (26) - Espanyol

 

ST:

Nelson Weiper (20) - Mainz

Lukas Nmecha (26) - Wolfsburg

Mentioned Fujimoto a few times, we should be all over him already

[AKCJ]

2 hours ago, wardyfox86 said:

So £6.2m total outlay on a four-year deal, minus any s/o fee. We should really be looking at those.

 

Is he not more of a winger?

I don't disagree, but it's also a necessity that we start paying footballers a reasonable wage.

 

£30k for a lad that's never even played in the Championship is a lot of money and would be well above market price. There are solid Premier League players on that sort of money. Yoanne Wissa has 16 league goals this season for Brentford and is on £25k a week for instance.

 

There's plenty to offer a player outside of wages with Leicester. We shouldn't be relying on paying through the nose to sign players because it's how you end up with a squad of mercenaries that don't give a ****.

Edited 25 April 2025 by AKCJ

[Vindaloo FOX]

Probably don't need him but still a classy midfielder.

[Jazzy_Jeff]

I wouldn’t both with Poku and would ensure Monga has a prominent role instead 

[Vindaloo FOX]

Being linked with a number of championship clubs.

[kingfox]

6 hours ago, Vindaloo FOX said:

Probably don't need him but still a classy midfielder.

Certainly wouldn’t rule someone like him out, especially if Winks buggers off. 

[teblin]

Charlie savage worth a look?

[Simonb]

5 hours ago, teblin said:

Charlie savage worth a look?

Haha was literally just thinking this myself. Due a step up to this level now.. looked decent when I've seen him. Not bad and probably a market we should be shopping in .  Doubt it would be the profile the club are looking at though

[cityfanlee23]

France are still a talent factory in the lower leagues, Bastia have a strong CDM in Jocelyn Janneh that could potentially replace wilf, very rough around the edges though but would be cheap as chips. 

[cityfanlee23]

If Bilal wants to leave, we could potentially get Oscar Gloukh from Salzburg for about 15m, not being able to offer Champions League football is obviously the only stumbling block but a clear path to the premier league and a decent wage boost (he's reportedly on 15k a week) could be a decent pull. Fantastic player and is the last remaining player of the trio I wanted us to sign from them of Pavlovic (sold to milan) and Dedic (sold to Marseille) 

[cityfanlee23]

Andre Garcia could be a top defender in future, 17 from Reading, not sure how much he would cost though. 

[Tielemans63]

I genuinely believe that some of our fans have a better knowledge of players, and better appreciation of what we need than the club does.

 

A few years ago, I'd have laughed at any poster saying this. Now, I think the club are so clueless, I think it might actually be true. Not too many of the knowledgeable fans in this thread were suggesting Oliver Skipp for £25m, or Jordan Ayew for £5m for example.

[Tommy Fresh]

Still think we'd have a chance at getting Fernandez even after going down again, he'd ruin the Championship as well

 

Also another one I've suggested a lot as a right back option

 

Neither of these are kids either, but both still young enough that one or two good seasons with us and we'd comfortably make decent cash on both

Edited 27 April 2025 by Tommy Fresh

[DerbyshireFox]

Still young, good potential, had a great loan at Sheff U a couple of seasons ago with McAtee. Worth a punt maybe, Wolves paid £4m for him, but with our financial management no doubt out of our price range!

 

[Ryy]

This guy 

 

[honeybradger]

2 minutes ago, Ryy said:

This guy 

 

Not sure you want all the kids in the stadium to be traumatised when he inevitably gets a serious head injury.

[Ryy]

2 hours ago, honeybradger said:

Not sure you want all the kids in the stadium to be traumatised when he inevitably gets a serious head injury.

Adds to the fun

[Simonb]

3 hours ago, Ryy said:

This guy 

 

Looks horrible as fk. Sign him up

[Daveb5569]

There is alot of young talent from bigger academy's playing first team football in the national lge. We should be sending our youngers players out getting them ready for potentially first team football. There is some real talent playing in that lge. Then again all depends on the scouting network within the clubs as the club has been poor on that front for many years 

[Claudio Fannieri]

Kaine Kesler -Hayden from Aston Villa can play both right and left side full back, just been voted player of the season on loan at Preston, would be a great addition to the squad if end up moving on a few of our current full backs, as highly likely we could shift Riccy P, JJ, VK and even Coulibaly 

 

I would be happy with this lad, Luke Thomas, Joseph and Aluko providing our full back options for next season.