Here's something fun*. As far as I can make out, we've only ever sold 10 players for £10m or more. Our record sales are:
1. Payet - £25m (who should have been worth double that) 2. Arnautovic - £22.4m (£2.4m profit) 3. Rio Ferdinand - £18m (who was sold for £30m about 18mths later) = Diangana - £18m = Ayew - £18m (which looks like a good amount, but we did take a £2.5m loss on him) 6. Bellamy - £15.5m 7. Lampard £11m 8. Kouyate - £10.7m 9. Tomkins - £10m 10. Anton Ferdinand - £10m
It's insane to me that the British transfer record since 2000 has grown by 367%, and our record sale has grown by 39%. When you consider how the market has absolutely exploded in the 21st century, our outgoing transfers have been utterly abysmal.
If Anderson goes, I am going to try and defer my concerns until the end of the mini-window. I can only assume that we're letting him, Wilshere, Cullen, Grady go because we have some very promising irons in the fire.
Apparently Bournemouth are desperate to shift josh king off their books and would even consider a deal involving instalments- surely worth us considering? Assuming he would be happy coming to us?
Should have gone for the Swansea lad like the look of him, he will probably sit on the spuds bench and ruin him, Rio rates him and that’s good enough for me
I saw a rumour that Josh King was available for £10m a week or so ago. To me, he is the midpoint between Haller and Antonio. If Haller is a skillful link up striker who is capable of dropping deep, and Antonio is a willing runner with explosive pace, King is capable of both things, but probably not quite as well as our existing two.
Should have gone for the Swansea lad like the look of him, he will probably sit on the spuds bench and ruin him, Rio rates him and that’s good enough for me
Granted I've never seen this lad play, but doing a quick Google hes seems to be a bit injury prone
Given there are 46 games in the championship, the most hes played in a season is 24
I saw a rumour that Josh King was available for £10m a week or so ago. To me, he is the midpoint between Haller and Antonio. If Haller is a skillful link up striker who is capable of dropping deep, and Antonio is a willing runner with explosive pace, King is capable of both things, but probably not quite as well as our existing two.
Yeah, we should be all over this. But would he come, knowing that Antonio is a nailed on starter? Even if we went two up front, you'd expect it to be Antonio and Haller.
Should have gone for the Swansea lad like the look of him, he will probably sit on the spuds bench and ruin him, Rio rates him and that’s good enough for me
Granted I've never seen this lad play, but doing a quick Google hes seems to be a bit injury prone
Given there are 46 games in the championship, the most hes played in a season is 24
Absolutely rate Josh King, think he was underused by Bournemouth. I also think he would fit our style well. Good back up replacement for Fornals on the left and can play up top and do the hard man work.
I think Samuel would be a really good value for money deal if Anderson leaves
Natural wideman on either flank, was almost as important as Eze, only 22, full of confidence and hes into the last year of his contract so is available for around £5mil
Also saying that Moyes claims he's an expert in finding talent in the Championship. Yes, he signed Bowen, but also signed Hugill and turned down Maddison, so expert may be pushing it.
Either way, £30m isn't getting us all that we need.
Also saying that Moyes claims he's an expert in finding talent in the Championship. Yes, he signed Bowen, but also signed Hugill and turned down Maddison, so expert may be pushing it.
Either way, £30m isn't getting us all that we need.
If reports are to be beleived
Manning £5mil King £10mil
Thats half the reported budget and already we look massively stronger
The strategy appears to centre around staying in the Prem. Where it is at risk, it seems the net might be cast further afield. Like in jan just gone. In the grant season a whole battery of players arrived (to no avail) on that occasion.
To be fair they did try a bit different once during Pelle’s 7 or 8 purchases in one summer. But that as a whole was a disaster we are still suffering from (is that fair to say?). But they put a good amount of trust in D of F (who they hired) who was rubbish and had failed in his previous role - so one has to look at what diligence they do on people who source our players.
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1. Payet - £25m (who should have been worth double that)
2. Arnautovic - £22.4m (£2.4m profit)
3. Rio Ferdinand - £18m (who was sold for £30m about 18mths later)
= Diangana - £18m
= Ayew - £18m (which looks like a good amount, but we did take a £2.5m loss on him)
6. Bellamy - £15.5m
7. Lampard £11m
8. Kouyate - £10.7m
9. Tomkins - £10m
10. Anton Ferdinand - £10m
It's insane to me that the British transfer record since 2000 has grown by 367%, and our record sale has grown by 39%. When you consider how the market has absolutely exploded in the 21st century, our outgoing transfers have been utterly abysmal.
*Not fun at all. Quite depressing, actually.
(It's actually a really busy day, but I don't want to do the things I'm meant to be doing)
" Lacking ambition and support for the manager"
"West Ham raised £26m in outbound sales over the transfer window but only spent £5m of that signing the Slavia Prague right back."
So £21m left to get 3-5 quality players.
Josh King
Lewis Cook
Benrahma (the dream)
Rico Henry
Todd Cantwell
Bright Samuel
Those are the players we can be looking at now
Don't know many CB from the Championship
I saw a rumour that Josh King was available for £10m a week or so ago. To me, he is the midpoint between Haller and Antonio. If Haller is a skillful link up striker who is capable of dropping deep, and Antonio is a willing runner with explosive pace, King is capable of both things, but probably not quite as well as our existing two.
Given there are 46 games in the championship, the most hes played in a season is 24
Natural wideman on either flank, was almost as important as Eze, only 22, full of confidence and hes into the last year of his contract so is available for around £5mil
Also saying that Moyes claims he's an expert in finding talent in the Championship. Yes, he signed Bowen, but also signed Hugill and turned down Maddison, so expert may be pushing it.
Either way, £30m isn't getting us all that we need.
Manning £5mil
King £10mil
Thats half the reported budget and already we look massively stronger
To be fair they did try a bit different once during Pelle’s 7 or 8 purchases in one summer. But that as a whole was a disaster we are still suffering from (is that fair to say?). But they put a good amount of trust in D of F (who they hired) who was rubbish and had failed in his previous role - so one has to look at what diligence they do on people who source our players.