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07 Mar 2025 12:56:33
Apparently looking to sign DeWinter in the summer from Genoa for about 21m
16 Jan 2025 12:57:46
Lemina bid has come in with Saudi club wanting him for free. Interesting to see what wolves do, but 5m is not much money for Saudi so just pay and we can move on and get rid of him. I am so disappointed with him, with all that we did when his father passed and bringing his brother here. Worse than Nunes.
1.) 16 Jan 2025 14:51:26
The truth of how they were operating is coming out.
Lemina was a strange choice as captain but his work rate and stamina was valuable the last two years.
There's definitely a divide between the brazilian players and some of the older guard for some strange reason. Maybe it was just GON team selection funny how Lemina, Toti and Johnstone were playing most weeks.
2.) 16 Jan 2025 15:25:51
Toti hasn't played for VP as he's injured.
09 Jan 2025 19:53:06
Rated, you have any names of the CM or CF we are looking at? Are they the Brazilians that have been mentioned previously?
1.) 09 Jan 2025 22:14:43
No names yet mate.
2.) 10 Jan 2025 10:32:59
Was Almiron mentioned on here recently? Always a fighter I recall. Not as young as he was but same work rate and passion as Moutinho.
3.) 10 Jan 2025 14:24:05
Clement Atpa of Auxere has been mentioned as has Adam Webster Brighton. Viega was but Chelsea have said no. Tanganga of Millwall has also had a mention. As to the truth who knows!
4.) 10 Jan 2025 21:51:46
It has gone quiet. Believe there's a few deals holding us back at the moment.
Pereira going to Palmeiros from Fulham could mean Rios coming to Wolves.
The Reis deal to City may improve the money they have to make the Pereira deal happen. So that midfield deal may move the coming week.
As it was Al Shabab I guess they are waiting in the wings for the other deals to conclude before Lemina moves.
I'm more worried about CB to be honest as it's disappointing being linked with the two cbs City have signed not that I expect to sign them but do think these young players should consider the actual culture and development pathway. No point being at City but being trained by some randomer rather than Pep.
We should pay the money for Veiga as it is rumoured £20m is the asking price which is a £7m profit for Chelsea since summer 2024.i would pay more for him he looks a great young player pace, build and he scorers which is handy.
The defenders need more competition so the standard will improve with another addition. Veiga can also play as a full back so that improves the culture at the club with added pressure on Semedo and RAN.
The squad could look like this:
GK:Saand Bentley
RB:Semedo, Doc, Lima
Cb:Dawson, Bueno, Toti, Agbagdou, Veiga
LB:RAN, R.Gomes
CM:Joao Gomes, Andre, Doyle, Rios or Gerson
Wide Forwards:Cunha, Hwang, Forbs, Guedes, Sarabia and Bellagarde.
Striker: Larsen
It's interesting how everyone wants different players will more calls for another striker. We don't need another striker we need a creative midfielder like Gerson or Rios or a winger like Vargas that has moved to Sevilla this week for £4m.who had a great euros cutting in a shooting.
Also Larsen was very unlucky against Forest he was wrestling one of the best cb partnerships in the prem this season and was unlucky. Support the lads as I expect Vitor to have some plans up his sleeve. ODCL
5.) 11 Jan 2025 14:36:51
Tks Madman for such an interesting and detailed post especially on the South American transfer dealings.
A couple of dull and tedious qs
I note, (hopefully correctly?), that the only senior players missing from the current squad in your putative squad are Yerson and the young French CB, (omissions or do you really want them gone?), Johnstone, Lemina and Traore. The transfer of the latter 3 will raise modest sums in the transfer market and with the exception of Lemina will probably be negative from a regulatory standpoint.
Consequently will the club be able to afford the addition of Emmanuel, Veiga, ( who my Chelsea supporting friends say is v good and whose versatility would seemingly make him an excellent addition), Rios/Gerson and the players currently on loan Forbes ( not yet convinced by) and Larsen (looks an obvious move!) both in cash terms and regulatory terms without another major disposal this year?
6.) 11 Jan 2025 20:37:24
Cheers Futuresisoldgold.
No I don't want either cb sold left Yerson out as I think it would be extremely unlikely he will return to make a difference this season and the young cb is still developing.I know there are high hopes for him but I think it would be a step too far expecting him to be Fofana for us for the rest of the season. ?
I think there is planning involved but would expect the club to bank on the fact Cunha would leave in the summer I know there are some crazy valuations around but relegation clause at £45m and if we stay up £80m+.Cunha wouldn't owe us another year as this year just fell apart for different reasons one sticking with a back 4 and playing a press which was tactically naive.
So on that basis I imagine he will have a club lined up out of Man Utd, Arsenal, or City were linked.
So the signing of Veiga and one of the midfielders isn't out of this world plus we still didn't spend all the money of Neto and Kilman sales last summer from £100m sales we spent on Larsen £22m, R Gomes £13m, Johnstone £11m and Forbs £18m this summer coming.
So still believe we would have £30m-£50m to play with this window if Lemina and Johnstone move on.
If the club is planning to move to a back 4 it may be worth selling RAN for £40m this window to Liverpool and then signing Veiga and go in with a decent offer for Danso.
I have no confidence in a back 4 but with better defenders it could work.
I think Vitors focus on defence and a creative midfielder is what we have been needing for for a while to be honest. When the opposition drop 10 men behind the ball we struggle and we need different players to unlock them like Sarabia and Guedes can do. Someone like Trincao would be ideal not really scoring loads but loads of assists for assists that lead to goals.
7.) 11 Jan 2025 22:54:51
Another excellent post Madman.
I was assuming that this was a squad to take us forward i.e. for next season not just the next few months although I accept we need to stay up for anything to make sense
I def agree though about selling RAN to Liverpool either this January if we have to or in the summer.
Would hope for slightly more than £40m but would take Kelleher - the gk (plus perhaps optimistically Tsimikas (sp)- gather he can play both FB roles) and a few million rather than all in cash. {I'd value RAN at £50m+, Kelleher and Tsimikas at £15 to £20m each so would hope to get £10m + in cash on top}
For me RAN is so good going forwards he could really flourish in a team that has more possession, better players around him and that requires him to do less defensively. If TAA really leaves Liverpool he would be a great replacement albeit on the left not the right where TAA plays so he is worth more to them than he is to us - i.e. my £50m+
I would push the Veiga deal - perhaps financing by getting out of Forbs if possible - he has done nothing to justify that sort of fee or the spare cash from selling Sa, Johnstone, Hwang, RAN, Sarabia, Traore, Lemina, Bellegarde, Dawson, Doherty etc.
But if we sell Cunha your new South American - Rios/Gerson had better be a world beater because without him I think we look v weak going forwards.
I would desperately want to hang on to him for another year to have a serious go at returning to the top half and thus keeping him medium term.
Taking on board your ideas
Squad
GK: Kelleher, back up tba
RWB Semedo, back up Lima and Tsimikas
CBs Yerson Emmanuel, Veiga back up S Bueno, Toti and Meupiyou
LWB Veiga (if not CB) back ups R Gomes, Toti, H Beuno and Tsimikas
DM's : Andre, J Gomes back ups Veiga and Doyle
10s : Cunha, New SA (Gerson/Rios): back ups Guedes, R Gomes
Forwards : Larsen back up Sasa
Think that there are only 19 players in the squad as some cover more than 1 position.
8.) 12 Jan 2025 10:33:58
Apologies stupidly forgot that we have to pay £10m to RAN's former club upon transfer. Thus have to exclude £10m from the "surplus" money to buy Veiga and the SA etc
05 Jan 2025 23:53:01
I see that Lop wants Hwang at Westham and may make an offer shortly.
1.) 06 Jan 2025 00:31:14
Can't see this developing as Hwang is the best presser in the squad but also nifty in front of goal. So big risk if Cunha or Larson got injured.
I reckon another cb one of 10 we are linked with. As well as the lad already sorted.
Lemina to be replaced by gerson or rios.
2.) 06 Jan 2025 08:19:10
Come on Madman, learn his name.Not too dissimilar to a certain song which is bound to be used on the South Bank!
3.) 06 Jan 2025 10:12:45
I wouldn't let him go, we need squad players as well as starters, minimum of 4 strikers needed in the 25 IMO.
4.) 06 Jan 2025 11:28:44
Plus he is an avenue into interest and marketing in Korea. He is more than a player to Fosun.
5.) 06 Jan 2025 16:57:52
John Townley of Birmingham Live reports Lop has been sacked - reliable?
6.) 06 Jan 2025 22:22:47
Lop may not be at West Ham, they've had talks with Potter.
7.) 07 Jan 2025 00:17:24
Id sell hwang yesterday.useless
8.) 07 Jan 2025 00:18:19
Unless obviously we play a 1man press!
30 Dec 2024 14:53:09
So we might be putting in a loan to buy deal for Austrian defender Danso
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09 Apr 2025 16:42:49
Man U tipped for Cunha. If I was him though why would I move there even if the money is great? Unless they win the Europa to get champs league.
1.) 09 Apr 2025 19:15:51
One paper says United, another says Forest. It's all clickbait bullsh*t
08 Mar 2025 22:24:33
Disappointing tonight. First half we were decent. Poor goal to give away but I terms with possession and bossing things we did well and then created a lovely goal. Glad that Munetsi finally got his goal. Shame he went off at HT and hope that was pre planned. Second half we had loads of the ball but just didn’t do enough with it. Both teams happy with a point but I wanted us to be more urgent and not so slow. Why do we always slow up and not play with any tempo? We could have easily won tonight if we showed more desire in the final third.
1.) 08 Mar 2025 22:52:23
I get what your saying and agree that we should have kicked on. But someone said it on here yesterday (think it was Long) that wasn't a must win match but it was a must not lose match so in that regard a good point. As for Munetsi VP said after the match that it was a precaution after a knock. Which is sensible after VP moaned about Agbadou carrying on after a knock and then being injured. Onwards and upwards ??
02 Mar 2025 15:51:22
We definitely have a come reliance on one player for far too many seasons in my opinion. Obviously. Cunha but then to a certain extent Neves in previous seasons, which meant that the Ball had to often go through said players in the hope that something magical would happen to win us again. Over the next more favorable fixtures in my humble opinion if we can’t get something out of these games without utilizing our best player then we definitely deserve to go down. Everton definitely have not lost since moyes has come back and that will definitely be a hard game, but there’s no reason why we can’t get something from it and then to my previous point if we’re going to make excuses for not being able to beat Southampton without Cunha then we have bigger problems for sure. So I at least expect our shape and game plan to change and I am hoping that other players will step up and we can at least inject some pace into these performances because we need to get at least three more wins in my opinion to drag us over the finishing line. Four games to make sure but I still think 31 to 32 points. Will do it this season.
1.) 02 Mar 2025 16:10:05
Jimenez was sorely missed when he was injured!
01 Mar 2025 17:58:05
Such a shame. Can’t blame Doc. Blame Cunha for being an idiot. He would have taken a pen before Doc.
1.) 01 Mar 2025 18:02:15
Yep. Cuhna's cost us this match and more importantly he's made himself unavailable for the next three. Great way of repaying us.
2.) 01 Mar 2025 18:03:29
And also a 3 game ban.
3.) 01 Mar 2025 18:06:39
Mite cost us a place in the premier league.sod the fa cup
4.) 01 Mar 2025 18:06:47
Idiot!
5.) 01 Mar 2025 18:10:33
Personally. I do blame doc.
He's experienced and couldn't even hit the target,
As for cunha. He can do one in summer for as much as we can get for him
As I'm sure it will be at least 4 game ban
Which could seal our fate gid forbid
6.) 01 Mar 2025 18:16:18
What a hard lost game! Saw the day I'm the life of cunhna this morning, saw what a great guy he is, he scores a wonder goal and then spoils everything by losing it. He's cost us in the cup, he'll no doubt now be missed in the prem and undo all the advantage we had. A long long afternoon ending in that. Cheers mateaus!
7.) 01 Mar 2025 18:23:31
He may get a bigger ban as this is his second time. He is an absolute disgrace and the sooner he takes his ego to a club where he will be just another star the better. I wonder how little Jay is feeling about him.
8.) 01 Mar 2025 18:28:28
Following Cunha's dismissal I lost interest in the game. The incident could well cost us our place in the Premiership.
9.) 01 Mar 2025 18:37:47
At the moment it's Everton, Southampton and West Ham that he'll miss, if it's 4 it's Ipswich and 5 Spurs, I think it maybe time to start planning for a promotion campaign.
10.) 01 Mar 2025 18:51:14
Any opposing manager's pre-match talk need only consist of three words - Wind up Cunha.
11.) 01 Mar 2025 18:55:12
Clubs will think twice about bidding for Cunha, it stands to reason after two serious 'red mist' events. He obviously can be wound up. Assuming we stay up, we might find Cunha stays until January by default unless any club is prepared to take a chance on him this summer.
12.) 01 Mar 2025 18:55:34
Financially and status wise that Cunha action could potentially cost us infinitely more than his buy out clause!
13.) 01 Mar 2025 19:07:08
Time now for a few of the lightweights to step up now Cunha has opted out of 3 and probably more key matches.
On the story so far, not confident.
Prove me wrong Semedo, Sa, AN, Larson, Hwang. Try hard EVERY game, not every now and again.
14.) 01 Mar 2025 19:27:39
Cunha is either very clever or very stupid!?
15.) 01 Mar 2025 20:04:10
Manè and Angel to start next match over Strand and Heang right now!
25 Feb 2025 21:36:49
Very frustrating. Terrible goal to concede. Semedo in no mans land. Then we play well and get our goal and we’re dominating. Then what the heck are you doing Sa to gift them a goal. Stay on your line. Then we literally have 5 minute spells of 96% possession and still we are slow and not forcing the issue. No one moving and making space. We should have atleast drawn that but Fulham were poor tonight. On to the next.
01 Feb 2025 20:22:59
Medical set for tomorrow! What a weekend. Let’s get a forward and midfielder. COYW
01 Feb 2025 22:29:21
Yeah shows his true character. We don’t want that type of player at our club.
08 Jan 2025 16:45:18
Curious as to where you get all of your info from?
07 Jan 2025 19:43:12
That clause seems way to low.
07 Jan 2025 16:25:15
Thanks. Any updates on other potential recruits.
08 Apr 2025 11:36:45
To be fair to him the team he is in is awful. I think Cody would have been brought back for his leadership around the ground, in training, in the dressing room etc. he would not be playing every week.
08 Apr 2025 11:23:56
Without Cunha we play more to Larsens strengths and cross it more. Munetsi works his socks off and gives something else for defenders to think about to help free up Larsen. With Cunha, we rarely cross the ball and Larsen is isolated more often than not. We played more as a team these past 4 games. J Gomes has had more confidence and beliefs to start running the ball more. Spurs have been poor this season for sure. He should bench Cunha. If he has a strop then that’s on him and he should realise it’s a team game and not the Cunha show.
06 Apr 2025 22:09:06
Bench. We play better without him because we play as a team. With him, maybe Neto and some extent Neves we always had to give them the ball so they could try to make things happen. It often slows down our play in my opinion.
He will go in the summer so I would prefer to give others a chance that we will be playing with next season.
03 Apr 2025 19:21:04
We have 8 games left. Basically a 4 game cushion due to our superior goal difference. Take those games away and realistically I think winning another 3 games out of those 8 will be more than enough. I don’t see the weekend as a must win for us, it’s a must win for them as all their 8 games are. We have a big cushion and yes we are not safe at all, but I would rather have a 9 point cushion right now. We are playing well, and are conceding a lot less goals. We can win on the weekend.
16 Mar 2025 21:30:08
The summer will be a big test to see how Fosun do and the recruiting team. We will be after speed and will probably look for a couple of wingers. R Gomes will be a better player after having a first season to learn in the prem. We have Lima who I think will be great and H Bueno. Also will have Mosquera to come back and he was looking class. Probably need another solid CB. Def need two forwards as Cunha will be gone, Guedes and I expect Hwang also if the price is right. J Gomes will probably go, but it would be nice to have a team where we could keep the core, but when we have struggled over the past seasons we should have a shake up. See what Vit can do and hopefully we can have a much better season.