THE DEFINITIVE TRANSFER IN/OUT THREAD!!!

Sky Sports say the bid is worth up to £2m, which essentially means we’ve probably offered half of that, with performance based add-ons (x based on appearances, x based on goals scored, x based on promotion).

Bit clickbaity if you ask me.
 
Bexleybill said:
Can somebody tell me what the recritment team do all year? There is always speculation about who we will bid for each season, but the same old names keep cropping up. Surely there must better targets than Dikes (a has been, who has never been prolific) and Rab C (who is injury prone and has turned us down once). They probably sit in the office 51 weeks a year playing candy crush or watching porn.
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You are assumming we're after him. We've been actively looking abroad, some of the players sought are under contract, it's not easy with agents touting and feeding the press lies and hints.

The names i see mentioned last season was daft. Loads of names, to many and ones we were probably never in for. The transfer window is only a week old and players are all over the place on holiday so i reckon it i'll be a while before we announce a player that doesn;t come to us on a free.
 
Life with the Lions said:
Centre back - will be 28 this September!

Sorry, but for me he’s too old. Need someone younger who we might be able to sell on in a few years time for a good profit!
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We need a mix of youthful and experienced. He's played for Eindhoven so will be capable of playing at a decent level. We're not giving out four year contracts anymore, 28 for a centre half isn't old in the modern game. At least four years of football left.
 
2 million for Dykes, 28 years old, last year of his contract, never been prolific, I'm not convinced. Seems we should be able to get a better deal for him. Hoping this is just click bait news to land who we really want.
 
Peckham Lion said:
We need a mix of youthful and experienced. He's played for Eindhoven so will be capable of playing at a decent level. We're not giving out four year contracts anymore, 28 for a centre half isn't old in the modern game. At least four years of football left.
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Some interesting statwankery (if accurate), but the summary of him at the bottom doesn’t read well.

We have two aging CH‘s, who don’t have the skill or composure to play the ball out from the back comfortably, and don’t have a decent passing range (especially on the deck!)

Why not do what we never seem to do, and build for the future? Hutch hasn’t been the player he was since he came back from injury last season, but we still have Cooper! He’s a bit younger than Hutch and last season acquitted himself well (as he usually does!)

Him and Cresswell (20) formed a good partnership, so you’re right, a mixture of youth and experience is important, but if Hutch is on his way out (so to speak), then we have that experience left in Cooper. Get a much younger centre half in (a Cresswell type with some experience already), to replace Hutch, and let him get even more experience playing alongside Cooper!

Then when it’s time to move Cooper on, the younger CH becomes the senior CH. Another younger CH comes in, and you end up with two players (the younger one being say, 20-22, and the more experienced one, say, 23-25!) Both will be more mobile and able to play out from the back with confidence (which will help the midfield get further up the pitch), and we’d have the added bonus of selling one, or possibly both, at different points in the future (making sure we had adequate replacements when each player is sold), for a tidy profit on each!

Can this Dario bloke play out from the back, and has he got a better passing range than our current two CH’s? If so, then great - sign him up! Personally, I feel we’re just be replacing one aging CH with another aging CH, and if we were to get promotion next season, how would he or Cooper fare against fast, skilful forwards of the Prem League? Not well, IMHO!
 
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