Transfer Centre - Brewster's Millions Edition

Wasn't Doak their player of the year until he got injured?

I agree he should be moved on though.

I think it's more worthwhile to look at squad minutes rather than positions. Compared to last season, we're now missing 8.388 minutes of last seasons attackers to share between Wirtz, Ekitiké an Isak. That's roughly 2.800 per player, roughly the amount of minutes Gakpo had, and less than the likes of Diaz or Szoboszlai. Arguably all three should and will play more minutes than that next season. For example at Leverkusen Wirtz played around the same minutes as Diaz did for us last season (~3.400), despite Wirtz being out injured for a couple of games.

Sure, Wirtz will take some minutes from midfielders like Szoboszlai and Macca, who both played around 3.500 minutes. But surely nobody would expect the number of minutes of either of those players to be cut in half or something? If we add their combined total of 7.000 minutes to the 8.388 of the attackers we get an average of 3.000 minutes for Wirtz, Ekitiké, Isak, Szoboszlai and Macca. That's really not a lot. Real Madrid had half their squad, an entire first 11 of players, who played more than that last season.

All the while we also have Frimpong who Slot has twice expicitly mentioned as having earmarked him as a potential Salah replacement during AFCON even stating that this was one of the reasons he was signed (there were many others, of course). Sure, Frimpong will have to contribute to the combined ~4.400 minutes of Bradley and Trent last season, so Bradley and Frimpong would have to contribute 2.200 minutes each there. But that's actually less minutes than Jones had last season, so nowhere near the minutes of a clear starter.

And if we were to get in both of Guehi and Leoni that also ignores the fact that those will probably get some minutes at RB in some way or another. Because they surely would get more minutes than Quansah and Gomez did last season (~2.000 so 1.000 each) - and Gomez may still be here, too. So that would free up Frimpong minutes or cover for Bradley if his injuries woes continue.

Chiesa will be babysitting Leoni

We undoubtedly need at least one more forward. That's non debatable.

Where's the article about Arteta who has also spent huge and won **** all?

Absolute nonsense from BBC

Here it comes

I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone on this board who doesn't think getting another forward in isn't vital to achieve our goals. Even Slot, who's usually just repeating that he's happy with the squad, said we need to add in attack. As for anything beyond that, see my post in the changing tactics thread.

I read that too

I rated him a couple of years ago, his Arsenal side played superb football and improved 2 seasons in a row. They looked ready to take the next leap.

He bought Rice, more importantly didn’t invest up front god knows why he bought Sterling and then last season was the weirdest season ever; injuries aside they just sacked off most of their footballing principals that got them so far.

Seen the other article about Slot being under pressure; make no bones about it Arteta is the man under the most pressure this term; 5 years with nothing, hundreds of millions spent he has to deliver big or his tenure is classed as a fail for me and that’s not a tribal comment; he’s in his 5th year of this “project”

...and will give him english lessons

As for time? Five minutes. This is all I’ve ever needed to learn. Ok good luck Gio.

Is it, really? Have you read the entire article? The headline is sensationalist, but the article itself seems rather balanced and all the points seem valid. And the questions raised are answered quite positively: 

"I don't see Slot being the kind of manager who gets too preoccupied with pressure. He looks very calm. He seems to be very articulate and knows how to handle different situations."

"Slot's temperament throughout last season was pretty exquisite. There were not too many times where he seemed rattled. I know you could say it is easier to be calm and articulate when you are winning games, but even when they lost to Paris St-Germain in the Champions League, or when they lost to Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup final, he still remained really calm and controlled. He was good with his words, said the right things. There was still a real clear focus from him, so I don't see him being too affected by the outside noise. He has shown he can cope with that."

"Liverpool fans probably didn't expect what happened last season. They are aware there has been a turnaround of quite a few players, so if the season doesn't start brilliantly smoothly, with them winning every game, they will still stay right behind Slot because they know what he is capable of. He has credit in the bank. He hardly put a foot wrong in his first season."

The whole Brentford Bournemouth, Newcastle domino was real, but they still need someone else aswell

Look who wrote it. The biggest blueshite around.