Summer Transfer Shit and Everything Else

[selassie]

Plus there's the soft element too. If an established England player and West Ham captain wants to come to us and we are prepared to pay £100M then this is an important indicator of where we are and a signal to other potential signings of our ambition. I like the fact that it is looking like we will get this done with minimal fuss. Plus there's the leadership aspect - if Xhaka is going then by all accounts Rice fits a similar mould - which is important. I agree with you re Caceido, but I can see why Rice is the priority for us for the reasons above.

As for the price, I smile at the people who think that £100M (which is clearly an 'all possible add ons' figure that Arsenal always seem to be quotes as paying - unlike other teams) is too much while some of them lamented us not going to this figure for Mudryk...

Yeah I agree IBK. Rice will be a real statement signing and further proof that we are now seen as a desirable destination again. If we pull off Caicedo too that would be some coup and would set us for years in Central Midfield.

The price is high but not totally surprising, if he improves our team and helps us win trophies then it's money well spent regardless of the price.

[selassie]

Kai Havertz

This one scares me and seems to have a lot of legs, Ornstein is all over it.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Don’t want Donkey Boy here. That’s one Chelsea cast off too many

[selassie]

Don’t want Donkey Boy here. That’s one Chelsea cast off too many

Don't want him either. He will come on big wages and I don't see where he fits in, because he wouldn't be first choice and I would question how much value he would even add as a rotation player, would he even come here as that?

[GP]

I don't want him either. Was the next big thing in Germany but it's not worked out for him at Chelsea. Too high a risk.


Plus he looks like Theon Greyjoy from Aliexpress

[Marc Overmars]

Is probably the hottest property in the league right now?

Is he? Bayern have pulled out because they think he’s over priced, haven’t heard a dicky bird from United or Newcastle and Chelsea where he was originally meant to have gone, are looking at Caicedo the player we should be after

That’s because it’s probably become apparent that we’re his preferred move and West Ham aren’t going to stand in his way.

Caicedo will go to the highest bidder. Hopefully we’re part of that conversation too.

[Marc Overmars]

Havertz is a sloth and a poor finisher.

Absolutely no need for him here tbh.

[Mac76]

Havertz is a sloth and a poor finisher.

Competition for Eddie?

[fakeyank]

I don’t think it’s a case of not wanting Balogun to stay, it’s probably more about him preferring to leave to be the main man somewhere now, I can’t see him warming the bench after the season he’s had. Realistically he isn’t going to get more than a few run outs in the cups if he stayed with us. We’ve got a good spread of goals across the front line so I’m not sure what we’d be missing because he’s a similar type of striker to Eddie. I think we need to be looking at a more physical striker to give us the option of mixing it up.

The loan worked a treat for all parties. We can get good money for Balogun and put it towards other areas of the squad. Stick a sell-on fee on him too incase he really explodes. Unfortunately we don’t have an infinite money cheat code, so we need to be a little clever with how we operate and moving on surplus players for good money is part of it.

I dont think he is like Eddie tbf. I think he has a very good all round game and drifts in very well from the left. If we are to sell him, I would rather put a buy-back clause or the very least a sell-on fee like you said.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Competition for Eddie?

We don't need Eddie either tbf.