Transfer Window Speculation

[YugoB]

Kvara has a year left on his contract, and isn't keen on signing a new one, ergo his availability. 

 

Edit - fake news re above, 2 years left 

Edited 48 minutes ago by YugoB

[Eiler99]

Gakpo, Diaz, Nunez, Jota and Kvadraskhelia for the left wing position is the kind of squad depth I can get behind.

[muleskinner]

7 minutes ago, WillG said:

Apparently we're considering selling Doak - I do hope not as this kid has bags of potential.

https://x.com/The_Young_Team/status/1875913949608317098

Been 2 lowball bids turned down already

[Hassony]

4 minutes ago, YugoB said:

Kvara has a year left on his contract, and isn't keen on signing a new one, ergo his availability. 

 

Edit - fake news re above, 2 years left 

I like this new twitter like community note feature 

[Conrad]

I wonder if a club like West Ham or palace might bid for elliott

 he’s from London isn’t he 

[YugoB]

Just now, Conrad said:

I wonder if a club like West Ham or palace might bid for elliott

 he’s from London isn’t he 

Brighton and Dortmund are interested in him. 

[Conrad]

2 minutes ago, YugoB said:

Brighton and Dortmund are interested in him. 

Ah ok interesting 

[Barnesy_10]

'could consider a move' 

Not even considering..... 

We ain't signing anyone 

 

[muleskinner]

We should just keep him, he's a very good footballer. 

[Hassony]

Kvadraskhelia, Thchoumani,  Kimmich plus a CB would be a decent Window tbf 

[Gethin]

9 minutes ago, Eiler99 said:

Gakpo, Diaz, Nunez, Jota and Kvadraskhelia for the left wing position is the kind of squad depth I can get behind.

Nunez and Jota aren't very good from the left. Nunez isn't that good through the middle either mind you 

[PaulMcC186]

If we weren't in the middle of a title race I'd sell any of our forwards except Salah to get Kvara. I like them all but I think he could be amazing. 

[Hus]

35 minutes ago, Hassony said:

Swap for Cheisa 

Chiesa plus €85mil should do it 

[Swipe]

Ornstein’s first reveal of us wanting Dom read pretty similar to that Kvar piece iirc.

Maybe Nunez is off. 

[YugoB]

7 minutes ago, Swipe said:

Ornstein’s first reveal of us wanting Dom read pretty similar to that Kvar piece iirc.

Maybe Nunez is off. 

Supposedly chiesa's wife is back in Italy, and Napoli are interested 

[Stanley Leisure]

40 minutes ago, YugoB said:

Why would that matter with salah? He's a left winger. Unless we're planning on playing him on the right. 

Who knows, just seems somewhat speculative to me.

If we’re shipping Chiesa and Nunez for him, then Hughes may truly end up being the hero in all this. 

[YugoB]

Just now, Stanley Leisure said:

Who knows, just seems somewhat speculative to me.

If we’re shipping Chiesa and Nunez for him, then Hughes may truly end up being the hero in all this. 

I don't see Ornstein publishing it without it being remotely true. 

[Gethin]

Wouldn't we need another player through the middle if Nunez left?

[honourablegeorge]

5 minutes ago, YugoB said:

Supposedly chiesa's wife is back in Italy, and Napoli are interested 

no surprise, she's hot

[Swipe]

2 minutes ago, Gethin said:

Wouldn't we need another player through the middle if Nunez left?

Diaz goes full number 9 and rotates with Jota? 

This might all explain why clubs are suddenly bidding for doak too. 

[Gethin]

1 minute ago, Swipe said:

Diaz goes full number 9 and rotates with Jota? 

This might all explain why clubs are suddenly bidding for doak too. 

Yeah maybe on Diaz. Although I think the Doak thing is more about raising cash to pay for other moves 

[Hus]

3 minutes ago, YugoB said:

I don't see Ornstein publishing it without it being remotely true. 

He's clearly good mates with Hughes, maybe he's looking for some positive PR? 

I'll stop being cynical now. 

[Conor M]

I was thinking it was unusually short for an athletic article and then I realised I missed half of it - enjoy:

Kvaratskhelia broke into the wider consciousness during a spellbinding 2022-23 campaign at Napoli, where 12 goals and 13 assists in the league led Luciano Spalletti’s side to their first Serie A title in 33 years. The city bequeathed him a new nickname, borrowed from their greatest footballing son — ‘Kvaradona’.

The 2023-24 season was less spectacular, with Napoli slumping to 10th in the league after Spalleti’s departure. However, Kvaratskhelia tallied only one fewer goal, despite suffering from a lack of continuity behind him at left-back. This season, he has five goals from 17 Serie A appearances as Napoli have re-emerged as title contenders – they currently top the table.

What’s his secret? Watching Kvaratskhelia is different from watching most left-wingers — he is physically larger and stockier, with his dribbling style idiosyncratically upright. But these traits, allied with superb technical ability, force defenders into making late and hasty decisions, and he is then quick, strong and ambidextrous enough to go the other way.

He has generally ranked highly for carries into the penalty area and progressive carries. His attacking game also has variety. In the 2023-24 season, just 52 per cent of his shot-creating actions — denoting the two attacking actions that lead to a shot — came from open-play passes, the third-lowest rate among forwards in Serie A that season.

In this sense, Kvaratskhelia is essentially system-independent. He only needs the ball to feet and then creates his own chances.

[Cobs]

5 minutes ago, Gethin said:

Wouldn't we need another player through the middle if Nunez left?

We could just get a Labrador to replace him?

[Swipe]

2 minutes ago, Gethin said:

Yeah maybe on Diaz. Although I think the Doak thing is more about raising cash to pay for other moves 

Yeah that’s what I meant about doak. Him, Nunez and chiesa shipped out got this lad. 

Probably won’t happen but it’s at least interesting cause Ornstein really doesn’t print nonsense to any degree. He’s like a football Grace Dent.