Summer Shopping List (Players)

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

GK - Freddie Woodman
RB - Darnell Furlong
CB - Chris Mepham
CB - Callum Doyle
CM - Joe Rothwell
W - Kwame Poku
ST - Adam Armstrong

This is bare minimum and doesn't include any sales out. Mix of experience, proven and young.

 

[FTPE]

Then all weve got to then is hope that Chris goes with the pace and power and less of the back passing and negative tactics

The last goal.we scored was ALL pace, power and finesse.
The passing at the back invites a press, we beat the press and break. Arblaster will make that break even better.

 

[FTPE]

Young, British, overpriced, gets the ‘culture’.

We all know these are the criteria.

What's up with young and British??
And as for culture, we've signed a few for you that didn't match it, they didn't go great.
As for overpriced, COH? Cooper? Burrows??

 

[Nick Jansky]

What's up with young and British??

Mentality, mainly.

 

[FTPE]

Mentality, mainly.

With football?
What's wrong with Peck, Arblaster and Burrows mentality?

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

I'm not that sure Hamer, Souza and Anel will look to leave. I think that was more likely after last year's relegation than this year. So it then comes down to what price is offered/time left on contract.
Of the three, I'd be least concerned about Souza going simply because Blaster is a more than ample replacement.

Who would you rather have alongside Arblaster, Souza or Peck?

In terms of the four main central midfielders that we have (not including Hamer and O'Hare), then Peck would finish 4th in my list in terms of who is the best etc. He's the one I would be miss if we lost him this summer. The other three are all ahead of him in the ** cough ahem ** pecking order. Souza would be top of my list for who to retain.



(I know, I'm sorry!)

 

[ben1987]

What's up with young and British??
And as for culture, we've signed a few for you that didn't match it, they didn't go great.
As for overpriced, COH? Cooper? Burrows??

70% of the players starting games in the top flight are not British.

By only buying British we are limiting ourselves to a fraction of the talent available.

Often at better prices.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

70% of the players starting games in the top flight are not British.

By only buying British we are limiting ourselves to a fraction of the talent available.

Often at better prices.

There's also the over inflated prices on British players, though this tends to happen in the Premier League more than the Championship. I call it the Stewart Downing/Andy Carroll effect. We were victims of this when we bought Rhian Brewster.

He's young, under 21, he's English, he once played for England under 21s. He's worth £10mil. No, make that £20mil+ because of all of this. Someone will pay this.

 

[FTPE]

70% of the players starting games in the top flight are not British.

By only buying British we are limiting ourselves to a fraction of the talent available.

Often at better prices.

I don't ONLY want to buy British, neither does Wilder, but saying there's a mentality issue with young British players and not with the Moose's of the world is crazy. While I think thats shrinking due to scouting, there are some bargains abroad still, but for the 500 foreign players Chelsea buy for instance.. Palmer is still by far their best. I don't bring him up as a random Brit btw, I think we were close to getting him on loan.

 

[elgoog44]

I know we lost the final but some stuff on this forum is horrendous, we have just finished third in a tough division, on the highest points to not get automatic.

In the summer we had a big rebuild and did it using the principles of the best talent from either the league's below or the same league, and borrow talent from the league above, we got 92 points from a team that in the summer did not really know each other, with a few exceptions, if we go back to the pre seasons games last year, what a difference a few weeks into the season made.

It's very disappointing falling at the final hurdle but to get there in the first place was a big undertaking, losing Souttar and then Arblaster, Vinni out for a month it all adds up and when we look at it objectionably, we were not as good as leeds or Burnley this time around, we never looked like we could match them in any of the games against them home or away.

We will have to take stock and lose who we will lose, and replace hopefully using the same principles that landed us Cooper, Burrows JRS for a year and so on, plus the boys from the academy chomping at the bit to be able to make an impact next season like peck did this year.

I personally don't think one game at the end of the season defined sheff U, i think we have the ingredients to go again and this time avoid the playoffs, and go up via the autos, it's not going to be an easy task by any stretch, but we have had it much worse and i for one back Wilder to do the job, not his biggest fan but did a good job under the circumstances especially when the take over was up in the air.

I do agree with many on here that in the winter window for me did poorly, but hopefully learnt from that and can move forward.

 

[Houston_Blade]

What's up with young and British??
And as for culture, we've signed a few for you that didn't match it, they didn't go great.
As for overpriced, COH? Cooper? Burrows??

Nothing wrong if they’re the best players available, it’s a bit of a limiting factor when that’s all a manager wants though.

Some of our best players last season were Anel, Hamer and Souza and I’m not sure Wilder would have signed any of them if he had his way.

Cooper and O’Hare were not overpriced at all, I’d say we paid market rate for Burrows and he’s been a good signing.

Let’s hope the new board encourage the use of other markets so we can pick up players that will strengthen us in the future, the 3 promoted teams don’t limit themselves from what I can see and have a good blend of nationalities.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

I know we lost the final but some stuff on this forum is horrendous, we have just finished third in a tough division, on the highest points to not get automatic.

In the summer we had a big rebuild and did it using the principles of the best talent from either the league's below or the same league, and borrow talent from the league above, we got 92 points from a team that in the summer did not really know each other, with a few exceptions, if we go back to the pre seasons games last year, what a difference a few weeks into the season made.

It's very disappointing falling at the final hurdle but to get there in the first place was a big undertaking, losing Souttar and then Arblaster, Vinni out for a month it all adds up and when we look at it objectionably, we were not as good as leeds or Burnley this time around, we never looked like we could match them in any of the games against them home or away.

We will have to take stock and lose who we will lose, and replace hopefully using the same principles that landed us Cooper, Burrows JRS for a year and so on, plus the boys from the academy chomping at the bit to be able to make an impact next season like peck did this year.

I personally don't think one game at the end of the season defined sheff U, i think we have the ingredients to go again and this time avoid the playoffs, and go up via the autos, it's not going to be an easy task by any stretch, but we have had it much worse and i for one back Wilder to do the job, not his biggest fan but did a good job under the circumstances especially when the take over was up in the air.

I do agree with many on here that in the winter window for me did poorly, but hopefully learnt from that and can move forward.

I'd argue that the final did define us. We lost because of poor substitutions and reverting to negative tactics when we were ahead. That pretty much defines our whole season and reason we threw away automatic promotion and lost in the play off final.

We didn't need to match or beat Leeds and Burnley. All we needed was one win against either Plymouth, Oxford or Milwall and our records against Leeds and Burnley would've been irrelevant. One win and we got three losses instead and a manager in meltdown turning on his own fans and starting fights with opposing players at the final whistle as he won't accept responsibility when the going gets tough and he gets it wrong.


We played well over 90 minutes in about 6 games all season before the play offs. Results aside we were disjointed and looked like a bunch of players who had only just met for the first time 40 games into the season. We were woeful to watch and relied on Hamer or O'Hare to do something magical or for luck to gift us a hard fought ground out, often undeserved result.

In our previous promotion campaigns under Wilder you knew what formation we would play and every single United fan knew what our best eleven was. This time round it was anyone's guess what formation we would play every game, let alone who started. You could ask 10 different United fans and would get 10 different answers and that summed up part of the problem for me. No consistency.

 

[ben1987]

I don't ONLY want to buy British, neither does Wilder, but saying there's a mentality issue with young British players and not with the Moose's of the world is crazy. While I think thats shrinking due to scouting, there are some bargains abroad still, but for the 500 foreign players Chelsea buy for instance.. Palmer is still by far their best. I don't bring him up as a random Brit btw, I think we were close to getting him on loan.

Not disagreeing on the mentality side.

Wilder was quoted saying that he didn’t see Sheffield United as a squad full of foreigners with a dressing room full of different languages and cultures.

Which means he’s discounting the likes isidor and Mayenda who combined cost less than a Tom Cannon. We’ll never do a Brighton or a Brentford because we won’t cast our nets wide enough.

A spine of good British players is fine but we absolutely have to be trying to add some foreign talent or we’ll just never go anywhere.

 

[HeySethUTB]

Carlton Morris and Campbell upfront would bully defences in this division, both athletic and powerful. Pace and aerial threat. With the little terrier O’Hare biting at ankles behind them. Do WANT

 

[Wizard]

I suspect Anel and Hamer will go, possibly Souza as well. Firstly we need a new coherent system, the chaotic start to the year to the takeover hasn’t helped us.

Notwithstanding that, I’d be looking for the following positions to be bolstered:-

Two CBs
DMC
Two wide midfielders
Number 10

If we can get quality like Burrows and Cooper in I think we have a decent chance. Pace and power is what we need. Second half, notwithstanding the changes, we looked like athletically we couldn’t keep up with Sunderland.

Just a pet peeve but you don't need to put C after DM. Same goes for people saying CAM/AMC

DM, CM, AM are fine and even then you'd probably get away with just saying CM & AM to distinguish between those playing deeper vs more advanced

 

[FTPE]

Not disagreeing on the mentality side.

Wilder was quoted saying that he didn’t see Sheffield United as a squad full of foreigners with a dressing room full of different languages and cultures.

Which means he’s discounting the likes isidor and Mayenda who combined cost less than a Tom Cannon. We’ll never do a Brighton or a Brentford because we won’t cast our nets wide enough.

A spine of good British players is fine but we absolutely have to be trying to add some foreign talent or we’ll just never go anywhere.

I think what we're all saying then is, there's a balance.
For the record though, and this will obviously get me some stick as a little Brexiter but the day we have a team of 11 foreign players and a manager from over season is the time I call it a day.

 

[TJ blade]

Would it be too much to ask to sign players who can see out 90 minutes.
Imagine going for a job and telling them you only work till 3pm because you get tired !
Can anyone imagine some of ours chasing the ball around in the PL next season for a whole match ?
Realise subs are part of the game more so than ever but we're too often forced into changes due to players being out on thier feet .
For too long we've lacked pace and athleticism, really needs to be looked at .

And we're does the blame lie for that ?

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Josh Koroma (26)

Left winger/forward out of contract at Huddersfield this summer.

5'8 tall scored 11 goals and got 2 assists in League One last season. Could offer good balance to Poku/Dolan.

 

[Rodley]

Just a pet peeve but you don't need to put C after DM. Same goes for people saying CAM/AMC

DM, CM, AM are fine and even then you'd probably get away with just saying CM & AM to distinguish between those playing deeper vs more advanced

Wrong.

 

[Wizard]

Wrong.

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Would be a cracking signing tbf

 

[Rodley]

Would be a cracking signing tbf

Absolutely. I take your point on DM above, but CM97/98 is ingrained in posters of a certain age!

 

[Bladesince59]

We desperately need a captain.

 

[Gimli]

Tanganga please.

Sure there’s reasons why it wouldn’t happen but huge upgrade on Robinson.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Charlie Savage has had a really good season for Reading. Central midfielder, 22 years old, 5'9 tall. 5 goals, 9 assists and 6 yellow cards in 45 games last season. He's under contract until 2027, however, being in League One restricts Reading's asking fee and I could see him going for a similar fee to Harrison Burrows. He's ready for the step up to the Championship.

 

[ancientblade]

Carlton Morris and Campbell upfront would bully defences in this division, both athletic and powerful. Pace and aerial threat. With the little terrier O’Hare biting at ankles behind them. Do WANT

carlton morris would be a great signing and an upgrade on kiefer moore

 

[Gin&Juice]

Michael Brown for some midfield steel next to our young uns?

 

[Upton_Blade]

We didn't need to match or beat Leeds and Burnley. All we needed was one win against either Plymouth, Oxford or Milwall and our records against Leeds and Burnley would've been irrelevant. One win and we got three losses instead and a manager in meltdown turning on his own fans and starting fights with opposing players at the final whistle as he won't accept responsibility when the going gets tough and he gets it wrong.

Honestly can't understand this statement. Even if we'd have won all 3 it may not have been enough as we'd have still finished on 99 points.

Now we can debate if we hadn't collapsed in all 3 would Leeds and Burnley have won all theirs or felt the pressure more and dropped points but we'll never know.

 

[Danetheblade]

IT'S (KONE) TIME!