Are You Happy With Our Transfer Business This Window?

[dww]

Good sales in general. I think Meireles was a step too far though.

Pleased with most of our purchases. Not sure this will be our season with them but we have given ourselves a much better basis to build from.

Given the money bought in and wages saved I think we are weaker than we should have been. I hope it means that we have faith in young players in the squad reserves and they live up to it. Otherwise I think we might have to hope for Arsenal and Spurs to continue imploding to get 4th.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Now when you put it like that. It's great piece of buisness for us
miereles will have a fall out with john terry for being a pussy.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

I think coady will be up there with kelly. Once he makes the breakthrough into the first team we will all be raving aboot him.

[Mostar]

MrMichael can you check if this is accurate

Players IN

Jordan Henderson (Sunderland) £16,000,000
Charlie Adam (Blackpool) £6,500,000
Alexander Doni (AS Roma) £FREE
Stewart Downing (Aston Villa) £18,000,000
Jose Enrique (Newcastle Utd) £5,500,000
Sebastian Coates (Nacional) £7,000,000
Craig Bellamy (Man City) Free

Players OUT

Paul Konchesky (Leicester City) £1,500,000
Gerardo Bruna (Blackpool) Undisclosed
Chris Mavinga (Rennes) £1,000,000
Milan Jovanovic (Anderlecht) Free
Thomas Ince (Blackpool) Undisclosed
Sotirios Kyrgiakos (Wolfsburg) Free
Daniel Ayala (Norwich) £800,000
Nabil El Zhar - Released
Emiliano Insua (Sporting Lisbon) Free
Christian Poulsen (Evian) Undisclosed
David Ngog (Bolton) £4M
Raul Meireles (Chelsea) £13M
Philipp Degen - Released

Loans In

Loans Out

Stephen Darby (Rochdale Town till end of 2011/12)
Peter Gulacsi (Hull City till 30/6/2012)
Martin Hansen (Bradford City as 28-day emergency move)
Alberto Aquilani (AC Milan till end of June 2012)
Joe Cole (Lille OSC till end of June 2012)

Youth Players released

Jason Banton
Deale Chamberlain
Douglas Cooper
Sean Highdale
Steven Irwin
Nikola Saric -> new deal with HNK Hadjuk Split

Spent: £53,000,000
Received: £20,300,000

Net: £32.7 Million

[MrMichael]

-------------Reina-------------
Johnson Carra Agger Enrique
---------Lucas Adam---------
---Suarez Gerrard Downing
------------Carroll------------

Bench - Doni, Kelly, Coates, Henderson, Maxi, Kuyt, Bellamy

That's really rather strong imo, with the likes of Skrtel, Spearing, Shelvey and Aurelio not even making that 18.

[The_weatherman]

Bench - Doni, Kelly, Coates, Henderson, Maxi, Kuyt, Bellamy

That's really rather strong imo, with the likes of Skrtel, Spearing, Shelvey and Aurelio not even making that 18.

Then you have the likes of Flanagan, Wilson and Robinson. Reckon Shelvey will get a bit of time now, next summer will be very interesting.

[MrMichael]

MrMichael can you check if this is accurate

Players IN

Jordan Henderson (Sunderland) £16,000,000
Charlie Adam (Blackpool) £6,500,000
Alexander Doni (AS Roma) £FREE
Stewart Downing (Aston Villa) £18,000,000
Jose Enrique (Newcastle Utd) £5,500,000
Sebastian Coates (Nacional) £7,000,000
Craig Bellamy (Man City) Free

Players OUT

Paul Konchesky (Leicester City) £1,500,000
Gerardo Bruna (Blackpool) Undisclosed
Chris Mavinga (Rennes) £1,000,000
Milan Jovanovic (Anderlecht) Free
Thomas Ince (Blackpool) Undisclosed
Sotirios Kyrgiakos (Wolfsburg) Free
Daniel Ayala (Norwich) £800,000
Nabil El Zhar - Released
Emiliano Insua (Sporting Lisbon) Free
Christian Poulsen (Evian) Undisclosed
David Ngog (Bolton) £4M
Raul Meireles (Chelsea) £13M
Philipp Degen - Released

Loans In

Loans Out

Stephen Darby (Rochdale Town till end of 2011/12)
Peter Gulacsi (Hull City till 30/6/2012)
Martin Hansen (Bradford City as 28-day emergency move)
Alberto Aquilani (AC Milan till end of June 2012)
Joe Cole (Lille OSC till end of June 2012)

Youth Players released

Jason Banton
Deale Chamberlain
Douglas Cooper
Sean Highdale
Steven Irwin
Nikola Saric -> new deal with HNK Hadjuk Split

Spent: £53,000,000
Received: £20,300,000

Net: £32.7 Million

Missing Pacheco, Kohlert and Bijev (in and out). Oh, and Nacho if he counts, though I'm not sure the club ever confirmed him, have to look out for the u18 squad and see if he pops up.

The fees are obviously a little up for debate too, the ones above for our purchases are definitely on the more conservative side; seen different figures reported for Enrique and Downing, plus Adam's supposedly has some addone.... but then I suppose we may have got a few £ here and there for some of the undisclosed's who left.


There was a rumour about Ecclestone leaving a few hours ago, I take it nothing came of that?

[Fosterbloke]

-------------Reina-------------
Johnson Carra Agger Enrique
---------Lucas Adam---------
---Suarez Gerrard Downing
------------Carroll------------

------------- Reina ------------
Johnson Coates Agger Enrique
------------- Lucas -------------
Kuyt Henderson Adam Downing
------------ Suarez ------------

[spud_gun]

------------- Reina ------------
Johnson Coates Agger Enrique
------------- Lucas -------------
Kuyt Henderson Adam Downing
------------ Suarez ------------

If all of our players are fit Coates won't start many games this season.

He's one for the future.

[cream]

It's been a really smart year of business from FSG. They've greatly improved the squad and got rid of the deadwood. Everything has been done through re-cycling rather new money going in, says a lot about the owners. That said, I ain't bothered about finances, I just want quality players coming in.

[CincyRed]

Bench - Doni, Kelly, Coates, Henderson, Maxi, Kuyt, Bellamy

That's really rather strong imo, with the likes of Skrtel, Spearing, Shelvey and Aurelio not even making that 18.

Tough call between Spearing and Maxi. Tactically Maxi would be preferred, but might have a problem if Lucas went out.

I agree, a pretty strong 18. Not as glamourous as Citeh, as a forward line of Dzeko, Tevez, Kun, Silva, Nasri is intimidating, however I wonder if KD hasn't built a better "team" rather than a collection of aces?

[CincyRed]

------------- Reina ------------
Johnson Coates Agger Enrique
------------- Lucas -------------
Kuyt Henderson Adam Downing
------------ Suarez ------------

No Gerrard?

[doogle]

Our Squad as I see it: I have included only those youngsters that have played substantial 1st team football already. This is taken from the off. We do seem a bit light in central midfield now. Maybe KD will look to play Gerrard in a deeper role this year. It also looked like we had significant surplus in the role behind the striker, but Aquilani, Meireles, and Cole have all left leaving only Suarez, Gerrard, and Hendo. But what was a bloated squad is now looking pretty trim.


39. Bellamy
9. Carroll
7. Suarez
18. Kuyt

19. Downing
14. Henderson
11. Maxi
8. Gerrard
33. Shelvey

20. Spearing
21. Lucas
26. Adam

38. Flanagan
34. Kelly
2. Johnson
3. Enrique
6. Aurelio

16. Coates
22. D Wilson
37. Skrtel
23. Carragher
5. Agger

32. Doni
25. Reina

Compared with our squad last year http://www.thisisanfield.com/blog/20...-list-201011/?

Homegrown Players: (8.)

Carragher
Cole
Darby
Gerrard
Johnson
Jones
Konchesky
Spearing

Non-Homegrown Players: (14)

Agger
Aurelio
Babel
Itandje
Jovanovic
Kyrgiakos
Kuyt
Lucas
Maxi
Meireles
Poulsen
Reina
Skrtel
Torres

Youngsters:
Players born after 1/1/89 and thus are unlimited in the squad and not required to be named in the 25 man list.

Amoo
Ayala
Bouzanis
Bruna
Eccleston
Gulacsi
Hansen
Ince
Irwin
Kelly
Mavinga
Ngog
Pacheco
Palsson
Robinson
Shelvey
Wilson

[RedSince1964]

Yes. We've moved on a lot of very average players and have bought well, if for the most part unspectacularly.

Enrique and Coates fit the bill perfectly at the back. Enrique is the best l;eft back we've had in a long, long time. Henderson has a lot of potential and a great attitude, while Adam has a touch of class about him. And solves the StevieG corner problem. Bellamy I've always rated and as for Downing, I think he's an excellent player who's very consistent and will win over the fans big time. We've bought very well imo, some fees a bit big, some bargains, but overall very pleasing.

As for outs, for the most part they were all no brainers. As for Meireles, well if he hadn't had that little bout of scoring in Feb/March, very few would be at all bothered at him leaving. Decent technical footballer but really was not going to fit into our midfield with the signings we made and the system Kenny likes to play. Plus, well, if he wanted to go then we did the right thing letting him.

[gentingfrmhell]

happy with all the transfers except for the sale of Meireles.