It's never too early...Summer Transfer Thread

Marcelo would be awesome, although I don't think he'd leave Madrid unless his wages went through the roof. I don't think he's a realistic target for us.

That being said, getting Marcelo and Lovren to have a backline of:

Johnson-----Skrtel-----Sakho----Marcelo
Flanagan----Lovren---Agger-----Enrique

would be good enough to challenge in all 4 competitions. Marcelo may be unrealistic, but an LB improvement over Enrique is the idea here.

 

Marcelo is just agent talk to get more money, I don't even give it a second's thought

 

That's what I thought, too. He'd be awesome, though.

 

Bit of a nutter though. Not that it's a bad thing, but not sure he's really what I would want.

I like consistent out of my fullbacks more than I like crazy.

Striker's a different situation.

 

Lovern and Schurrle would be a great pair to watch.

 

Also, I dont think his physical stature will last. He's always carried a bit of size up top, I think that as he gets older he'll have more injuries from this and he'll start to slow down.

 

This has to be a late April Fools

 

er, Why?



If we were prepared to gamble double that amount on Salah, then a similar aged player with the same skill set is worth a gamble. 10 years ago people would laugh at buying Koreans and Japanese footballers.

 

At this point I feel as if we're going to get one of Konoplyanka, Shaqiri, or Rakitic.

 

hmm who do we play next week?

 

Beat me to it.

 

Could certainly do worse than that...

 

Still would like to see the Bender kid from Leverkusen.

 

Then he should score a hat trick next week to make them want him even more

 

Micah Richards apparently available and we're allegedly sniffing around.

 

Good for 3-4, I would take him in a heartbeat. He's a better player than he's shown, and his value would go up shortly.

 

Absolutely taking a chance on him if given the opportunity.

 

What a difference a year makes. Its going to take a special player to improve the first 11 at this point, (fullbacks aside). U21s are top of the league and loaned players generally doing well.

I don't really know any of the players we are currently linked with, but are any of them an upgrade on what we currently have? (not that there's anything wrong with that and there is plenty of room for improvement on the bench.)

Will make for an interesting summer for sure, but I sense the desperation to "get some quality in" has dissipated to a degree. I know it has for me.

 

He has the exact same problems as Martin Kelly, I'm not sure why we would kick him out and sign Micah on a considerably higher wage.

 

I think Richards has played at a higher level than Kelly has. Kelly has one or two matches to look back on in his highlight film. There are two or three seasons where Richards was arguably their best player.