Rate the summer window

[Modo]

9, maybe a bit more.

None of us could've expected Isak & Wirtz to be here.

Guehi will be a very good player for us. Ekitike looks a player. We needed full backs & got a couple of young & hungry ones.

The position were in now is pinch yourself stuff really.

Thought about this picture earlier. It wasn't that long ago. Makes you realise we have little to really complain about nowadays with regards the club & squad.

Arne would be the perfect manager for that team. For obvious reasons 😀 😀 😀

 

[LeTallecWiz]

It could be one of the best transfer windows in premier league history.

I'll give it 10/10 based on expectation when the summer started ...
Would give it a 10/10 in the next few years if a few more trophies are added to the cabinet, to ensure we've properly knocked those fuckers off "their" perch

 

[singlerider]

To be honest, it's a struggle to think how (assuming Isak and Guehi get done) this window could've realistically gone any better.

If you'd have told me at the beginning all the moves we'd make, I'd have said it was totally unrealistic that we'd do that much even.

I can't think of a better transfer window in living memory

EDIT: fucking image won't work.

Insert the Partridge "A wank, I think" gif in your own heads

 

[binomial]

So who's the marquee signing between Isak and Wirtz then?

 

[Athens]

I bet Jürgen is fucking raging.

 

[tommyboy]

So who's the marquee signing between Isak and Wirtz then?

Wirtz for me, Isak is great, even world class, but I think Wirtz has the potential to be a generational talent. (Also wasn't a fan of Isak's conduct to get the move)

 

[Al_Gatto]

This window makes up for the decades of depressing windows we've had to endure, so FSG are in credit now. No idea what they're smoking over there.

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

9/10

 

[mom]

So our CBs now are down to VVD and two injury prone others along with a very promising but unproven young lad from another league.

Very risky.
Seems weird blowing so much but then leaving one vital area potentially so exposed.

An injury or two and all the rest of that investment is wasted.

Overall window? now that Guehi isn’t done, I think 7.5

 

[The Nomad]

9/10

Needed Guehi to make it a 9.5 and a young winger to make it a 10.

 

[Fabio]

8 for me

 

[Squiggles]

Without Guehi it's still an 9 for me, but we do need to go back in for him. It sounds it was mostly out of our control, so I don't want to be critical.

We've convinced him to come and only want us. That still matters. It's just a case of keeping him engaged so he doesn't get lured by mad offers from elsewhere, which will arrive in Jan.

 

[BishBashBosh]

On paper it’s an 8/10…. Time will tell whether they all become successes.

Following Jota’s sad passing, I felt it was Important to retain Diaz as he can play across all 3 positions in the front line (with AFCON he’d have done a great job on the right) I also felt continuity upfront would have been helpful - that would have made it a 9/10 for me.

Guehi would have made it a 10/10.

 

[FreshRed]

Still 10/10 and best window in EPL history. And, you should not need to be best window in history or fill every possible gap in your second eleven to score a 10.

Guehi would have been icing on the cake. CB depth to be addressed in Jan and nice to hear Joe played well yesterday. I think the Diaz deal was necessary, as we got very good value, was not worth the wages he was seeking (conjecture), and wanted to leave.

And, net spend still leaves us room to keep building going forward.

 

[localny]

9.8/10 - as Athens said, Jurgen must be raging - who are these new owners.

Hard to see it going any better considering the attacking talent we have sold and then signed. And we updated the wing backs too. Brillo

Will miss Tsimi and Harvey though.

 

[peterhague]

I'd say it's still probably a 10 even having missed out on Guehi. Yeah we're probably a bit short at CB but to get so much business done including two absolutely massive signings is still an amazing effort. Very few of us would've thought even one of those deals was possible.

 

[Whaddapie]

Carra and GlenJo's faces on that photo tell a million stories.

Pepe and Merelies were ballers, too...

 

[Frogfish]

You can't really rate a window accurately without factoring in the outgoings. If we don't get Guehi nor Isak, the incomings are still of high quality but the overall window would be a 5/10.

You're insane. Hughes has tied you down over a table and taken you at will.

 

[binomial]

You're insane. Hughes has tied you down over a table and taken you at will.

Hughes has just been fingered up the bum by Glasner, it’s amateur hour.

We have to pray once again nothing happens to either Virg or Grav, not really a position I want to find this club in.

 

[Frogfish]

Hughes has just been fingered up the bum by Glasner, it’s amateur hour.

We have to pray once again nothing happens to either Virg or Grav, not really a position I want to find this club in.

For a back up CB who in all like likelihood we'll still get but now having saved up to £35m.

Meanwhile in the real world I doubt any club has ever had a window as good as this making your ratings side splittingly hilarious! And Highes is lubing you up again - get ready, here he comes!

 

[Kvarme Chameleon]

Hughes has just been fingered up the bum by Glasner, it’s amateur hour.
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What do you feel Hughes could have done better?

 

[Brizzle]

Yeah its still a 10 from me.

Two new full backs, including the best LB in the PL last season.
Germany's 'next' wonderkid in at AM, poached under the nose of Bayern.
Ekitike who looks a brilliant prospect and has fitted straight in.
Isak who was one of the top 3 strikers in the PL last season.
Leoni showing at least some investment and acknowledgment of CB gap.
Marmamashdevilli on paper one of the highest rated young keepers in Europe.

All of this with a reasonable net spend and I imagine a master plan next summer to get cash for at least one of Mo & Virgil.

That's a minimum of 4 players who will start almost every week and 5 who will be in our core rotation of 13/14 outfield players.

 

[keniget]

In terms of ambition and the amount of work they've gotten through (certainly relative to previous windows), you can't fault them. It has to be 10/10.

In terms of the end result, time will tell... we've made a couple gambles and if they pay off, you can't argue with it, it's a 10/10 all the way.

We know CB position carries risk given injury prone nature of Gomez who is the primary back up. Leoni sounds promising but he has something like 17 senior games to his name so I doubt he was bought to play regularly. We wanted Guehi and couldn't get it over the line.

It looks like we've decided to defer doing some work in the midfield, which I think carries a fair bit of risk too. I can see the argument for trying to get by with Endo for another year but I don't think I'm alone in thinking we'd do some rebalancing of the midfield after seeing how knackered they all were at the end of last season. We went in another direction with Wirtz, which I'm still somewhat surprised by, so we will need to find internal solutions to resting Gravenberch, MacAllister and Szobo without compromising the team too much.

Out wide, it also looks like we've decided to defer doing some work as well and make do with Chiesa and a sprinkling of Rio. Perhaps it makes sense as in a year we'll make a decision re: Salah and see what's what with Rio but we do look weak particularly with the sale of Diaz.

 

[Frogfish]

In terms of ambition and the amount of work they've gotten through (certainly relative to previous windows), you can't fault them. It has to be 10/10.

In terms of the end result, time will tell... we've made a couple gambles and if they pay off, you can't argue with it, it's a 10/10 all the way.

We know CB position carries risk given injury prone nature of Gomez who is the primary back up. Leoni sounds promising but he has something like 17 senior games to his name so I doubt he was bought to play regularly. We wanted Guehi and couldn't get it over the line.

It looks like we've decided to defer doing some work in the midfield, which I think carries a fair bit of risk too. I can see the argument for trying to get by with Endo for another year but I don't think I'm alone in thinking we'd do some rebalancing of the midfield after seeing how knackered they all were at the end of last season. We went in another direction with Wirtz, which I'm still somewhat surprised by, so we will need to find internal solutions to resting Gravenberch, MacAllister and Szobo without compromising the team too much.

Out wide, it also looks like we've decided to defer doing some work as well and make do with Chiesa and a sprinkling of Rio. Perhaps it makes sense as in a year we'll make a decision re: Salah and see what's what with Rio but we do look weak particularly with the sale of Diaz.

You're asking too much (like Binomial but better phrased). No club has ever addressed every single position in one transfer window.

Robbo unexpectedly fell off a cliff, Trent refused to sign a new contract, there were issues with Szobo in the 10 which many here acknowledged, we were a player short at CB, the sudden tragedy of the Jota brothers, Nunez's unsuitability and Diaz wanting out (for those on the forum that say 'make him stay' isn't that hypocritical) and the price for a 28 year old impossible to refuse.

Isak, Ekitike and Gakpo (and Rio) solved the LW and CF issues. Wirtz the 10. Leoni CB depth, Kerkez for Tsimi and Frimpong for Trent. With Kelleher leaving Marmamashdevilli improved the reserve keeper slot.

We still have Endo and Macca as back up DMs and Jones for CM. We have depth.

My main concern is Salah. I hope he isn't falling off the Mane cliff.

 

[StevieM]

I think Salah’s form is also partly to do with how we’re currently setting up.

 

[Woland]

Well I think that's why we've gone balls out and got two great new attackers. Salah will finally start playing less, but the transfers have made that transition possible, not nearly as daunting as it would have been.

Hindsight is everything but you have to give 10/10 right now because they got what pretty much everyone in world football world agree to be the best available player in every position they went hunting. That's incredible...
I mean apart from CB but that's not on them.

 

[StevieM]

Anyway. It’s probably a 9 for me - I just don’t like rating things 10 out of 10 - but I’m not going to argue against rating it as a 10 - I can fully understand why.

I’d be greedy and want Guehi, a replacement for Endo and maybe another forward who could play in a couple of positions - but that’s also really greedy and really, really unrealistic.

Basically… we actually need to be winning the League or Champions League this season and then doing something similar next season, particularly after our start.

Pressure to succeed is now on.

 

[keniget]

You're asking too much (like Binomial but better phrased). No club has ever addressed every single position in one transfer window.

Robbo unexpectedly fell off a cliff, Trent refused to sign a new contract, there were issues with Szobo in the 10 which many here acknowledged, we were a player short at CB, the sudden tragedy of the Jota brothers, Nunez's unsuitability and Diaz wanting out (for those on the forum that say 'make him stay' isn't that hypocritical) and the price for a 28 year old impossible to refuse.

Isak, Ekitike and Gakpo (and Rio) solved the LW and CF issues. Wirtz the 10. Leoni CB depth, Kerkez for Tsimi and Frimpong for Trent. With Kelleher leaving Marmamashdevilli improved the reserve keeper slot.

We still have Endo and Macca as back up DMs and Jones for CM. We have depth.

My main concern is Salah. I hope he isn't falling off the Mane cliff.

I'm not suggesting we should've addressed every single position.

I mentioned we'd taken some risks / gambles and then just kinda highlighted what I thought they were.

I thought we were going to prioritize slightly differently - for example, I think we'd be more balanced with a striker and a wide forward rather than two similar'ish strikers.

Ultimately, we saw a couple market opportunities this summer and pulled the trigger. As I said, I get it... up to Slot to make it all work.

 

[Richey]

It's obviously not a 10 because we went for a player and didn't get him signed, but assuming that was our only misstep, it still looks like a great summer of business so would rate it as a 9.

 

[Frogfish]

It's obviously not a 10 because we went for a player and didn't get him signed, but assuming that was our only misstep, it still looks like a great summer of business so would rate it as a 9.

That would have made it an 11 😜