Popular Post Nigel Posted March 29, 2017 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2017 Bacuna is decent enough at this lv! Throw in his ability to cover a range of positions makes him pretty important for next season IMO! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 15 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Ahead of Bacuna? I'd keep Gabby, Gardner, Hutton, Elphick, McCormack, Cissokho and Gil. Out of those I'd really only like to keep Elphick, and even then just as cover, and probably Gil if he wanted to play here. But ahead of Bacuna is a different question. I'd take Hutton, Elphick and Gil ahead of Bacuna - the rest are absolutely woeful (McCormack in terms of attitude, I guess) and also on high wages. Bacuna can cover a variety of positions too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 It should be a fairly quiet summer for once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted March 29, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2017 Good, be great to have a settled side come next seaso for once. in saying that those 2 or 3 need to be quality replacements. i also wonder if they count Johnstone as one of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 4 minutes ago, Farlz said: It should be a fairly quiet summer for once Ought to mean some of our out on loan players will be back. Otherwise we will be light in midfield and GK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 34 minutes ago, BOF said: I need to be careful posting in here. Last time out I wanted Jedinak and Hourihane, and they happened. So it's clear the upper echelons are hanging on my every word. I'll go away and have a think and I'll come back in due course with who will definitely be signing for us in the summer. *(Whispers in @BOF's ear .... Benteke... Milner... Gerrard) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Like the tweet above says I'd expect 2-3 first team players at most to supplement this seasons acquisitions. Along with potential return loan players in Vertout or Gil. Then I'd hope 2-3 young prospects for the future similar to Bedeau to supplement, like the lad Watkins at Exeter we've been linked with and the lad from Chester Hughes ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 I'm sure it won't be many, but there may also be an element of playing down our wishes so we don't get our trousers pulled down in negotiations. If more targets come available at the right price / decent offers come in for players down the pecking order, I could see us buying a couple more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 4 hours ago, sne said: That would leave us with about £120k/w worth of RB's sitting on the bench and in the stands. Shocking waste of money, more than most clubs in the world. At least 2 have to go. Bree can play at centre-back, and De Laet can play across the back four. Richards of course is complete toss, but nobody is going to solve this problem for us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 2 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Bree can play at centre-back, and De Laet can play across the back four. Richards of course is complete toss, but nobody is going to solve this problem for us. Exactly. We will undoubtedly try to move a couple of them on if we can. But it's not going to be Hutton, Steve clearly loves him. Richards is on stupid money for his ability and won't have played football all season, De Laet will have missed an entire year too. Who is going to buy them? I've no idea. It's also very hard to portion blame, we might just have to suck it up and hopefully it will sort itself out in time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 7 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Ahead of Bacuna? I'd keep Gabby, Gardner, Hutton, Elphick, McCormack, Cissokho and Gil. Out of those I'd really only like to keep Elphick, and even then just as cover, and probably Gil if he wanted to play here. But ahead of Bacuna is a different question. Gabby would be bottom of my list, the guys a waste of oxygen and his wages are killing us. McCormack has the same attitude as gabby so as far as I am concerned he can do one. Gardner I don't rate at all. Elphick is one I don't know what's happened. Started well and looked like a real passionate lion. But that mistake I think it was Newcastle or wolves since then he has been dreadful most games. Cissokho is a terrible a leftback nothing much more to say about him. Hutton perhaps improved a lot recently, but is it a coincidence that his contract is up in summer? And I may be mistaken isn't he 32? I rate gil but he don't wanna be here so rather he left on that basis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 We need to invest in a first choice keeper and centre half to play with Chester. I'd also like to see another central midfielder to provide genuine competition for Hourihane/ Lansbury. If we start with two up front next season then we will also need cover up front, perhaps a loan signing in that area would be a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 29, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 29, 2017 25 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Gabby would be bottom of my list, the guys a waste of oxygen and his wages are killing us. McCormack has the same attitude as gabby so as far as I am concerned he can do one. Gardner I don't rate at all. Elphick is one I don't know what's happened. Started well and looked like a real passionate lion. But that mistake I think it was Newcastle or wolves since then he has been dreadful most games. Cissokho is a terrible a leftback nothing much more to say about him. Hutton perhaps improved a lot recently, but is it a coincidence that his contract is up in summer? And I may be mistaken isn't he 32? I rate gil but he don't wanna be here so rather he left on that basis Well like I said, I'd probably not keep any of them. But if the choice was them or Bacuna, I'd choose to keep most of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 8 hours ago, BOF said: I need to be careful posting in here. Last time out I wanted Jedinak and Hourihane, and they happened. So it's clear the upper echelons are hanging on my every word. I'll go away and have a think and I'll come back in due course with who will definitely be signing for us in the summer. It was a late January evening. I stood in an unlit bathroom, staring into the mirror. I spoke Henri Lansbury's name. Three times. I then went off to bed. That morning, I found out we signed Johnstone. Bugger. Tried again later, this time with Messi's name. We signed Lansbury. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 10 hours ago, Farlz said: It should be a fairly quiet summer for once Quality over quantity approach hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Yep I'm hoping it's a fairly quiet transfer period to be honest because we need players to settle and get used to each other. A few key acquisitions and maybe a few back up players should see us well for next season promotion push. We have some of the best players from recent seasons of the Championship and hopefully over the next five months they gel in time for the start of the new season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 What happens if a 30m bid comes from one of the relegated clubs for kodj or a premier league club though? Probably won't happen but if it does could completely change things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 What happens if we win all of our games in the run in and get promoted? Ha! Gotcha Keith! Then you'll have to eat your words lad and go out and get us Messi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted March 30, 2017 Moderator Share Posted March 30, 2017 18 hours ago, Farlz said: It should be a fairly quiet summer for once We will see. They said the same about January. I'm still expect it to be more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjvilla Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 I think someone else touched upon it that wyness is probably trying to play down our spending this summer so we don't get overpriced rubbish. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw 4/5 come in with lots of departures. Either way, I don't see us signing anyone without it being a big improvement on what we already have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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