Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread

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Danboy Totter said:
Our midfield will make many a centre back look shit

Not saying Dier & Sanchez arent useless because ofcourse they are

But we are going nowhere until we sort out the unbalanced mess that our midfield has become
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I agree with the state of our midfield.

I just think having some smarts in there will help us a lot - whether they are big wardrobes or not.

Get the two dumbos out and we immediately look better. Not being worried that every clearance can be sliced in any direction and having 0 passing ability (Sanchez) or that there is 0 awareness of attackers and overconfidence in one's own ability (Dier) and I think we are in a better place.
 
Matt1882 said:
Set up a women's thread/forum

The vast majority of fans on here regard women's football as another sport and couldn't give a fuck about it.
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Most people don't give a shit about all the melty bollocks that gets spewed every day but that doesn't get confined to one thread either.
 
NDomBadBoy said:
I don't know if you follow American football but the latest (comparable) case study in professional sports is Tom Brady / Tampa Bay Bucs.

Tom Brady, a 43 year old QB left his team of ~20 years (New England Patriots), went to a below average team (Tampa Bay Bucs), and won a Super Bowl in his first year with them.

Tampa Bay basically gave him the role of general manager and allowed him to recruit whichever players we wanted to play with. They gave him the keys to the kingdom and he delivered. They are now the team to beat for the foreseeable future.

Ronaldo could be our Tom Brady. We just haven't considered that as an option yet and have not made an effort to grab him while he's out there! I would think that there isn't as much competition for his signature as we'd think. PSG? Man Utd? But even they wouldn't push that hard for a deal.

Our pitch to Ronaldo should be a 4 year deal and 150-200 million to bring in whatever players he wants to play with. If we could pull this off, we would literally go from being a club facing a painful rebuild process to THE club to watch on a global basis. Ronaldo, Kane, Son AND SISSIKO on one team? Game changing stuff.

If he brought a couple of major trophies to WHL, it would go down as one of his greatest accomplishments and cement his status as the greatest of all time.

BTW i'm half kidding about all this but at the same time, kind of serious.

P.S. Ronaldo and Nuno have the same agent...
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The comparison isn't even close to valid.

A) being a 43 year old NFL QB is in no way comparable to being a 37 year old PL forward. Tom Brady doesn't run, he doesn't jump, he doesn't move laterally - he stands in place with 5 guys blocking for him and throws a ball.

B) The team Brady left was already an average team with Brady on it. The fall below the year he left is as much to do with the majority of their starting defensive players opting out due to COVID as it is the loss of Brady. The rise of Tampa Bay, similarly, is as much about defensive improvement as anything - the Bucs had the #3 offense the year before Brady and with Brady...the defence jumped from 29th in 2019 to 8th in 2020. Brady's contribution was mild, basically being confident/competent enough to throw the ball away regularly rather than force passes and throw interceptions.

C) Tampa Bay's signing of Brady didn't result in this massive influx of stars to Tampa Bay. Everyone of the prominent free agents they signed were cast offs that were written off by basically every other team. No one was willing to sign Antonio Brown, who didn't make a meaningful impact anyway. No one wanted Fournette after he bombed in Jacksonville, and he didn't make a meaningful impact until late in the playoffs. Gronkowski was retired, had lost most his NFL muscle mass, and contributed slightly above average production for the season.

D) Signing Brady didn't turn Tampa into "the team to beat for the foreseeable future". They spent half the season looking like the whole thing was a bust, then got hot and won a SB. They won't win it this year, or next. Brady got his final ring.

We're not signing Ronaldo. If we did it wouldn't make us title contenders. The comparison is bad to begin with.
 
Tomo said:
Depends what his jump is like, some small defenders of elite level have insane jumps. Puyol, Carvalho did well and if he was playing next to Rodon who is huge that would balance it out.
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Announce Zebedee!
 
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