Summer 2024 Transfer Window

Will be interesting to see if anyone goes for Brereton Diaz. A lot of hype about him the last few years in the Champship. Went to Villarreal and didn't score but got a decent return (joint top scorer and only joined in January) at one of the worst ever PL teams.

He strikes me as an old-fashioned centre forward and could do a decent job for some mid-table/lower end PL team.

If Leeds go up I'd be all over him to replace Bamford.

Can I interest anyone, anyone at all, in Casemiro? anyone?

You need a DM do you, boy have I got a player for you. Mulitple Champions League, captain of his country…

huge wages alright, but on a free transfer it’s very hard not to sign him if he wants to go there.

Enrique has played him centre forward much more this season too - 26 goals from 25 games played at CF this year. So I think he can work with Vini. The question is where Endrick fits into all this. Could see Rodrygo moving on to make room, if not this summer then next summer.

City will definitely try for Paqueta and maybe a back up DM.

Talks that Morata is available this summer for €12m this summer.

I wonder will any top half club take a chance on him, or a big club for back up even.

He's not of the level you'd want for a top tier guy, but he's a solid 1 in 3, or 1 in 2 target man. A bit like Giroud actually. Could be useful in the right team, like playing between Saka and Martinelli at Arsenal for instance.

And I'd wager that they are signing Tosin primarily as a HG player, just so that they can sell their own HG academy players for FFP profit, allowing them to buy more young foreign players like the above mentioned lad from Brazil. Their HG quota will remain the same.

Tosin will be the 8th CB on Chelsea's books next season. There was strong rumours that he had agreed a deal to go to Newcaslte originally. I wonder what changed his mind?

Their captain Conor Gallagher out the door now to Spurs I would guess.

That feels like a lot for him.

Very highly rated and it sounds like a lot of PL clubs took a look at him over the last year too.

Played a lot of football at RB last year, but is a midfielder.

did he not just sign for brentford or who am i thinking about?

Ryan Sessongon training at Palace who are keen on him.

These PSR transfers really are going to skew transfers in England even more than they were with the TV money.

Regards,

P.

Di Marzio is usually reliable with all Italian transfers and he is reporting that Arsenal are very close to signing Calafiori.

I think he had a very good Euros and was hoping that Liverpool would sign him as he is the type of player that is needed in defence this year - someone comfortable at both LB & CB.

They might be just doing it to annoy me! 😆

But on a more serious note, they probably have realized that Zinchenko is not good enough and want to replace him. Slowly building to the model of 4 CBs at the back.

I thought it was White and Tomi for RB and Timber and Kiwor for LB. Then they can all cover CB for Gabriel and Saliba.

For me the biggest need Arsenal have is a CF, a second CM to replace Partey of he leaves and then cover for RW.

I reckon Arsenal go for Osimhen later in the window if no one else is moving for him, and try to get him 'cheap', at way below the 100m (£) Napoli are apparently looking for now. The market simply hasn't been there for him. I reckon Napoli expected PSG and Chelsea to be falling over each other.

I think that they should look more for a wider goal scoring forward rather than a CF .

IMO, Arsenal should concentrate on having Havertz as that false 9 role where he excelled in the second half of last season. Moving him around loses a lot of his positive play. Martinelli & Saka only scored 6 and 10 goals from open play last season and this is where the improvement is needed I reckon. I'm not sure if Nico Williams is the answer though seeing as his career high is 9 goals all comps, but at 21 there is certainly room for him to kick on and improve this.

he hasn’t impressed me enough any time I’ve watched him, to see him going into a team that wants to challenge for the league.
Granted, I haven’t seen him much lately, has he improved?