Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.

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  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    The way I see it right now, if we have any lengthy injury to Fab, Rice or Haller our season would likely be significantly compromised.

    And I’d be very concerned if either first choice centre back was unavailable too.

    And that doesn’t even take into account loss of form.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    baracks

    So, you're looking forward to the season, then... :wink:
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Yes, bring it on :lol:
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    If Liverpool have lengthy injuries to Mane, Salah and even Firmano there season will also be severely compromised.
    You can go down the league and take 3 key players away from all teams, bar City, and I think seasons will be compromised in all cases.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    So, roughly speaking, the monies from the sales of

    Arnie
    Pedro
    Edmilson
    Perez
    Obiang
    Browne
    Byram
    Oxford

    Has been pretty much used to buy Haller, with a bit left over

    I hope, as Jennifer Aniston would say, he’s worth it!
  • ianbishoplegendianbishoplegend
    Liked what I saw of Haller today. Would have thrown Chicharito into that group for a straight swap. Think we got a deal there!
  • ianbishoplegendianbishoplegend
    I love saying ‘Alleeeuurrr’ in a really French accent also
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited August 2019
    Here's what I make the current squad: (edited in light of OCS post)

    13 Roberto (G)
    1 Lukasz Fabianski (G)
    2 Winston Reid (D)
    4 Fabian Balbuena (D)
    5 Pablo Zabaleta (D)
    21 Angelo Ogbonna (D)
    23 Issa Diop (D)
    26 Arthur Masuaku (D)
    18 Pablo Fornals (M)
    8 Felipe Anderson (M)
    10 Manuel Lanzini (M)
    15 Carlos Sanchez (M)
    11 Robert Snodgrass (M)
    22 Sebastian Haller (F)
    9 Javier Hernandez (F)
    7 Andriy Yarmolenko (F)
    32 Xande Silva (F)

    = 16 17 players

    Home grown
    25 David Martin (G)
    3 Aaron Cresswell (D)
    24 Ryan Fredericks (D)
    16 Mark Noble (M)
    19 Jack Wilshere (M)
    30 Michail Antonio (M)
    33 Josh Cullen (M)

    = 8 7 players

    Academy age

    41 Declan Rice (M)
    45 Grady Diangana (M)
    53 Ben Johnson (D)

    So, if no one goes, we have one space left, which can be filled by a home grown player.

    To get a non-HG player , we would need either to move a player out, or to drop Silva from the squad.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    If you see the rumours, a centre back will likely be the only addition, most likely Long if we can sort out a permit
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Pretty sure Snodgrass doesn't count as home grown.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    He's a Brit, isn't he?
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I'm sure I looked it up once and he's not home grown
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    OCS

    Good point. He started in Scotland, and didn't got to Leeds until he was 21, and HG only counts for English and Welsh clubs.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    :whistle:
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Doesn't that mean that we don't have a spare place?
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    Well-spotted OCS. I’m surprised nobody else spotted that :whistle:
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Rice thinks not getting Europe would be a failure. Not sure we have a defence good enough for a top 6 / 7
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Well, he sort of said that.

    He meant finishing 7th, which is not always European football,
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    MrsG

    No, we have 24 senior players (including Cullen and Silva) so room for one more HG.

    I would imagine if we get the Yank, we would be looking to move out Oggy.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    :ok: yes, that's what I meant - it would have to be a home grown player, or stay unfilled.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    That would be harsh on Oggy.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    Herb

    Probably, but would we really need 4 CDs at the expense of having Silva in the squad?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Maybe not but then Reid should be the man to go.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    I'd forgotten poor Reido! That would be 5 CDs, which would be too many for sure.
  • AdamAdam
    It’s a shame we have another Carroll situation with Reid. High wages, long contract, injured all the time. His contract ends in 2023! I don’t think anyone will buy him and he probably won’t go since, no-one would match his wages.

    Unless he gets over his injury problems...
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Reid is not another Carroll.
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Reid worked really hard for us, did everything he could to stay fit (zero part lifestyle).

    He flew in from a NZ games to play 90minutes for us in the same international break where the likes of Kane didn’t play in a friendly for his county in his club home stadium.

    Reid has suffered as a result of a chronic back problem,

    He’s not even in the same building as Carroll.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    edited August 2019
    But the situation is still the same, in as much as we have a player that has been, and looks likely to continue to be, injured for large parts of the remainder of his contract.

    No-one will entertain buying him, so unless we pay him off, he's here for another three years on big money and is unlikely to play.

  • LukerzLukerz

    Big Oli :hmm:
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    A brief view from me would be that I feel we need another striker. The first team looks great but I would fear Haller getting injured or not taking immediately to the Premiership and Chico cannot play up alone.

    It's worth noting that a window shouldn't only be evaluated by just who we buy but retention also and we haven't done too bad. Arnie is a big loss but I feel we expected it and effectively had little say in it. I am sure we had enquiries for others however but have managed to retain Rice, Diop, Anderson and Lanzini.

    Whoever Leicester buy this window it will be hard to see it as a success as they have just failed retain their best defender.
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