Transfer Rumours | Tactics | Who to buy/sell etc

Well guess what. Mayoral is likely going to Sevilla. Each day the media has two different versions. Marca and El Confidecial. Two days ago, it was one saying Mayoral staying and a possibility of Mariano deal, while the other saying Mariano coming, Mayoral out. Then yesterday, Mariano being signed, with one saying mayoral being 3rd striker and the other saying he may seek exit. Meanwhile yesterday in another story, one saying Hermoso is of interest and available at a decent price and Vallejo to go out on loan, while Marca saying Vallejo is staying.

yeah jese hit a road block after that horrible tackle in the ucl game against schalke....he was never the same after that. and he was actually making a name for himself prior to. injuries are different across the board, sometimes its mental, also the fact he got little to no game time the following season also messed him up. you could tell his mind was all over the place that game where carlo wanted to sub him in with like some seconds left

question for the panel;
with the transfer window now closed, how do you guys rate our activities over the summer? btw ratings doesn't equate to how successful the season will be. my verdict, i'm going with a D/C-

First to put things in perspective, we have lost only one starter and he is being replaced with player(s) that were already on team. So it’s basically same team as last year with the changes being the backups. The only exception is Courtois.

All of the players were purchased at low prices in the market, mainly due to smart loan / sale deals plus the Courtois was effective timing.

And with the backups, they are almost all now promising kids with the obvious aim to have some of them develop into starters. Issue is for sure too many and likely some of them won’t get playing time they will need to develop. For years, posters like Sports have said, we can’t develop kids on first team, like Barca used to do, and yet here we are doing exactly what was said we couldn’t. These kids are Perez’s way, for the most part to deal with the aging players.

So I have to say it’s ok from a negotiating point of view and it is a new philosophy to try to avoid the escalated market place. I’m not going to say the change philosophy won’t work, as most of you have, but I will say there are a lot of risks with this approach. Only time will say, if this approach has merit.

I don’t fault Perez on not getting a replacement, nor do I fault the sale of Ronaldo. After seeing his behaviour yesterday, I say good riddance. As to the replacement, what was available was not worth the price. I believe Flo thinks we are only one player away from having that effective lineup and for that reason, he seems to be prepared to wait for that opportunity.

But that belief is based upon faith in Bale and Benzema and for that, I do believe he is at fault for not dealing with these cronic poor or under performing players. Our entire season now depends upon these two, and their history suggest that we will have problems.

You take the risk of depending upon Bale and Benzema together with the risks of too many kids, adds up to a very doubtful season.

So all in, I rate the market activity as 4 out of 10.