Transfer Rumours The 2015 Summer Transfer Window Thread

Great stuff FLT. Perspective and reason.

 

Absolutely no problem with any of your comments...
Please feel free to express you opinions to me and others(they can be valid on occasions) lol

 

Which "3/4 1st team starters" have we lost this season? Remember that Toby wasn't ours.

Vin

 

Morgan, Clyne. Koeman and Reed thought Toby was to be ours, and of course the possibility of losing VW.

 

You could have written the same paragraph last year. And we moved forward.

It's easy to look back with 100% hindsight and know that Koeman, Pelle, Tadic and Mané would come good but this time last year were you optimistic?

Vin

 

laughing at myself - misread Post!

 

You can't include Toby (bitterly disappointing as it was) and definitely can't include Victor (on the basis it hasn't happened).

 

I don't consider someone we never owned to be someone who left.

Ref Wanyama, remember Julius Caesar "Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant taste of death but once". Suffer the pain if he leaves, not before.

Vin

 

We loose our best players for one very simple reason....money
We are one of the lowest payers proportional to the remainder of the prem clubs...simples.
We can attract half decent foreign players from good foreign teams but if they prove to be up to the task they can move onto most other clubs and double their money.
Why would a player want to join Spurs?
Are they a champions league team...No
Do they win trophies....No
Do they pay considerably more than us....Yes
End of discussion

 

Perhaps we should tight them then?

(Sorry, 'loose' is my big bugbear!)

 

I like the way this discussion is happening in the same thread where we're highlighting how we are one for the lowest payers in the league. He's a Spurs or Newcastle man.

 

Is he on big money there?

 

We have needed that No10 player since we got to the Prem.

 

The same reason Liverpool lost Sterling then. And Suarez. Same reason Villa lost Benteke and Delph. Same reason, not so long ago Arsenal lost Van Persie, Fabregas, Nasri etc.

Also, same reason half our squad came to us in the first place.

 

Apparently Sunderland are trying to seal a move for Adrian Ramos from Dortmund for about €10m. Quality player and i mentioned we should be in for him last summer. Exactly what we need by way of extra firepower. Big, fast, strong, excellent header and can run at defenders.

 

My final one for tonight, trying to show our Board aren't bad and we aren't the only club.

Man Utd - about to lose one of best keepers in the world and not even been playing him.

Spurs - can't win a game

Liverpool - loan out millions of pounds worth of players they signed a year ago, which was the year they lost their best player. They also lose their long standing captain and club idol. They also sell their best up and coming talent

Arsenal - only scored three goals and two of them own goals

Chelsea - conceded 9 goals in 4 games and they haven't even lost any first choice defenders!

Of the teams that finished above us last season, only City have started well. It may just point to the season being young and several team haven't settled down yet.

Night.

 

Noticed that signings have to be by 18-00 hrs on deadline day. It's usually much later, isn't it?

 

No it's always been something like that but allowances are made for the big clubs

 

Fran, from my (limited) knowledge/memory of these things, the deadline day is usually the end of a calendar month. The last day of August this year (ie tomorrow) is a Bank Holiday. This probably means that financial transactions can't happen, so rather than close the window at midnight on 31st August, but with no 'last minute' transfers, this window closes on a normal working day.
It could still close at midnight, just to raise the tension, but maybe the people that decide these things want to watch a TV programme after 18:00, and can't Sky Plus it.

 

I guess this time last year I was optimistic......The opening few games last year you could see the talent if not the quality........So yes there was optimism. This year though, sorry, for me at least, I have been disappointed in what I have seen. Of course I hope they improve and start to blend...after the recent start the only way is up so they haven't very much choice......!!!
Although none of the above explains why other clubs are not having similar problems with players leaving/wanting to leave. Other perhaps those that are being relegated and wish to stay in the premier. I need to be convinced that the changing room is as happy as everyone makes out?