Transfer Rumours 2016/17

Some gimp on Bluemoon said we're after Jason Denayer now some cunt from the Sun has wrote a story up

This is a geezer who got Cruyff turned by Hal Robson Kanu for fucks sake

Well we play with 3 AMC so it makes sense to buy in that position

You've already got 3 AMC's better than Wijnaldum in Coutinho, Firminio and Lallana and are spending 25m to acquire another one.

Doesn't make sense to me.

Fuck this. Goetze going back to Borussia while we're fucking signing Wijnaldum. Who the fuck signed off on these transfers?

Pretty sure Klopp could have convinced him. My point is more the players were signing.

I don't think Klopp has anywhere near the pull Liverpool fans hoped/expected he would.

If you look at his transfers at Dortmund though thats not really surprising, it was always a case of getting more out of players than was expected rather than attracting players that Dortmund should not have been able to and the signs have been reasonably encouraging with your lot on that front already. If he can get Mane to perform consistently he'll be one of the best players in the league, I reckon. Similarly, whilst I don't think Wijhnaldum is a particularly inspiring signing, I don't think anyone questions his ability, more his attitude.

The big problem is that Dortmund continued to sign those sort of players after Klopp left, whereas your transfers so far strike suspiciously of the rubbish ones you made under Brendan. I guess we'll find out this season how much of it was down to Klopp at Dortmund and how much was down to the team of people tasked with signing players. Were they simply very good at spotting hidden talent that would have come good anywhere or was it down to Klopp working miracles with them? We'll see.

The big problem is that Dortmund continued to sign those sort of players after Klopp left

Speaking of underwhelming transfer windows, it angers me how fucking shit the clubs who should challenge Juventus in Italy are doing, Inter adding Banega was nice but they haven't done a single thing since, Milan have done fuck all and Roma and Napoli are busy making themselves worse. Lazio hiring Bielsa was a sign of hope, but of course they had to fuck that up. The only news coming out of Italy is bad news, like the rumours of Higuain, Bacca and Icardi being sold.

Newcastle's squad size is ridiculous, surely you'd need to sell a few before you can even think of signing anyone else.

Sell Ameobi, Gouffran and Riviere too - both not good enough unless they're willing to be 3rd/4th choice backup. Gouffran and Riviere might find their level at Championship standard but if we're looking to bounce back first time then they'd need sold next summer anyway, Ameobi only managed 8 starts for a below average Cardiff side last year so might need to drop even further.

We need a left back - Dummett is hopeless and Haidara is even worse - and is injured constantly.

Presuming the 3 are sold that I'd like we'd need 6 signings.

LB
DM
CM
W/F
CB
ST

We're far from the finished article but the way we've handled our business this summer has been way better than in the past and hasn't seemed as scatter gun - although I can't see us making another 6 signings, I think we'll make do without any more centre midfielders/left back which is a worry.