Transfer rumours and speculation to take us through to summer.

ASLEFshrugged

The Standard reckons that we're looking to sell Perez, Obiang, Oxford, Byram and Hugill plus Hernandez could want out due to lack of game time.

New strikers definitely needed.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/westham/west-ham-to-sell-fringe-players-to-fund-summer-squad-revamp-a4139376.html

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Players with fringes
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alderz

I like Tammy Abraham and Jack Grealish a lot. They are both good footballers. I'd like us to sign them (though I think Grealish will be too pricey)

MrsGrey

Blimey, that play-off escalated quickly!

Fortuneseeker

Grealish is heading to Spurs isn't he?

ASLEFshrugged

Fortuneseeker said:

Grealish is heading to Spurs isn't he?

Nothing definite yet, Spurs have allegedly bid £35m but his buyout clause is £60m. I suspect Villa are waiting to see how the playoffs go, if they get promoted they might try to hang onto him.

Cuz1

Grealish for me fits spurs and deli Ali both cocky and arrogant

Yeoldhammer

This is what one of the itk on KUMB said to start off the transfer speculation.

The players leaving

Carroll... obviously
Chicha .. if we can sell him
Obiang - wants to go back to Italy
Oxford - big head
Cresswell - past it
Perez - not a certainty but available for the right price
Adrian - out of contract

In

Real Madrid midfielder
2 Portugeezers
Medel as back up to Rice
French defender
a couple of frees

baracks_a_hammer

deep down I fear that the Daves will sign Wellbeck. They just won’t be able to help themselves. He ticks all the boxes

Very good player when fit
Always injured
Free

Pearces_Left_Foot

I have a bit more faith in Husillos and Pellegrini doing some decent business after some shrewd business last year most the signings last year were good

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Yeold, I'm happy with the players you mentioned leaving and we can recoup more than you'd think at first glance

Carroll - 0 +£90k
Adrian - 0 + £50k
Chicha - +£10m & £140k
Obiang - +£8m & £50k
Oxford - +£8m & £20k
Cresswell - £6m & £50k
Perez - £6m & £60k

Quick maths that works out to around £40m for the kitty and about £350k a week in wages

I'd be surprised if Nasri extends his contract with us, and I'd also be surprised if we retain both of Reid and Ogbonna

I think we will spend net about £30m (so around £70m + overall) this season which isn't a huge amount but should be enough to add bits of quality throughout the team without over extending ourselves without what we can realistically spend

grey_til_I_dye

I really wish people would stop the character assassination of Reece Oxford. It's all 'I've heard/they say' about his poor attitude etc.

Why isn't it enough to judge him on his footballing merits?

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

I agree Grey

But I do think that he hasn't pushed on and it would suit all parties to move him on

Pearces_Left_Foot

I am not sure Hernandez fits in with Pellegrini's plan so would n't mind if he went especially with his high wages . Personally I would like to see two cf, a box to box midfielder , a left back and a replacement for Adrian and maybe a CB. I think the core of the team looks good as we have shown the last three games when players are fit add on Yarmalenlko and we have plenty of attacking options , Diop and Balbulena looks solid at CB , Fredricks is starting to look the part he has certainly improved a lot recently , left back needs looking at and Fabianski needs a back up .
CF is the one area we seem to struggle with abit Perez is not a starter , Hernandez is a luxury super sub, Carroll is going so we rely heavily on Arnie and our midfield to score. Anyway a decent enough season considering we had 8 points after 10 games we got 44 points in 28 games after that which is pretty impressive . Roll on next season COYI

Adam

We definitely need another striker similar to Arnautovic, i.e. strong and mobile.

Our 4 strikers have all been too different.

Carroll - strong, good in the air but slow
Hernandez - small, slow but a poacher
Perez - more of a second striker than a main striker

This meant if Arnautovic wasn’t playing, we had to change our style since there was no-one like him.

The two we’re being linked with are Maxi Gomez and Mitrovic but neither will be cheap.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

I know there is a risk buying from the championship, but I'd like I see us take a chance on Tammy abraham

Think hes a very good player and at 21 can improve

MrsGrey

Be interesting to see how Chelsea approach their transfer ban. Higuain's loan coming to and end, and Giroud likely to be off unless he's guaranteed more playing time. Might they want Abraham back?

ASLEFshrugged

Plus Hazard on his way, Chelsea are looking decidedly short of options up front.

Can't see them selling Abrahams.

Lukerz

They could actually have a pretty decent young side next season: Hudson-Odoi, Barkley, Loftus-Cheek, Abraham

Not sure that's good enough to win anything, but unlike Chelsea to have young talent in the side.

grey_til_I_dye

Manu discussion now has its own thread:

http://www.whu606.com/discussion/10893/the-lanzini-conundrum

Expat_Hammer

ASLEFshrugged said:

Plus Hazard on his way, Chelsea are looking decidedly short of options up front.

Can't see them selling Abrahams.

Don't they still have Batman to return from palace on loan ?

alderz

I think they can keep Higuain because of the loan deal, so can only see one of them staying, personally

Yeoldhammer

Łukasz Fabiański
Winston Reid
Aaron Cresswell
Fabián Balbuena
Pablo Zabaleta
Marko Arnautović
Felipe Anderson
Andy Carroll
Manuel Lanzini
Robert Snodgrass
Adrián
Pedro Obiang
Carlos Sánchez
Mark Noble (captain)
Javier Hernández
Samir Nasri
Jack Wilshere
Andriy Yarmolenko
Angelo Ogbonna
Issa Diop
Ryan Fredericks
Arthur Masuaku
Lucas Pérez
Michail Antonio
Xande Silva
Nathan Holland
Declan Rice
Grady Diangana
Ben Johnson
Conor Coventry
Jordan Hugill
Sam Byram
Toni Martínez
Edimilson Fernandes
Josh Cullen
Reece Oxford
Oladapo Afolayan
Marcus Browne
Martin Samuelsen
Moses Makasi
Joe Powell
Sead Hakšabanović


Who stays. Who goes ?

OutcastLondoner

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

I agree Grey

But I do think that he hasn't pushed on and it would suit all parties to move him on

Yeah that's exactly right. It's so irritating that no one can just say that though. It has to be his attitude that he hasn't pushed on. Why isn't it Cullen's attitude? Why wasn't it Elliot Lee's attitude? No one has ever brought up a single, solid piece of evidence that Oxford's a problem. He clearly wanted to get into the first team for a bit but there's not much difference between that and Rice wanted bigger wages, before he'd really proven himself. Oxford's biggest problem is probably that he's come up at a similar time to Rice.

McHammer

When do released players typically get announced?

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Yeold I'll bite

Keep
Łukasz Fabiański

Fabián Balbuena 
Pablo Zabaleta 
Issa Diop 
Ryan Fredericks 
Arthur Masuaku 
Ben Johnson 
Winston Reid or Ogbonna (only 1)

Declan Rice 
Manuel Lanzini 
Robert Snodgrass 
Mark Noble (captain) 
Jack Wilshere 
Carlos Sánchez 

Marko Arnautović 
Felipe Anderson
Andriy Yarmolenko 
Michail Antonio 
Xande Silva 
Nathan Holland 
Grady Diangana 

Loan
Conor Coventry 
Oladapo Afolayan 
Marcus Browne
Joe Powell
Sead Hakšabanović

Sell
Aaron Cresswell 
Andy Carroll 
Adrián 
Pedro Obiang 
Javier Hernández 
Samir Nasri 
Lucas Pérez 
Jordan Hugill 
Sam Byram 
Toni Martínez 
Edimilson Fernandes
Josh Cullen 
Reece Oxford
Martin Samuelsen
Moses Makasi

I'd be surprised if we managed to shift all of the players in the sell section but I wouldn't mind if they did

alderz

As far as I am aware, the following development squad players are out of contract:

Vashon Neufville, Josh Cullen, Moses Makasi, Joe Powell, Toni Martinez, Josh Pask, Tunji Akinola, Ajibola Alese, Mason Barrett, Conor Coventry, Noha Sylvestre, Bernardo Rosa, Anthony Scully, Jahmal Hector-Ingram

Lukerz

Masuaku being linked with Spurs, Dortmund & Fiorentina according to the Sun.

Hamstew

Lukerz said:

Masuaku being linked with Spurs, Dortmund & Fiorentina according to the Sun.

Weird

steve

Spurs can have him for 35 m :whistle: