Transfer Business Tier List. Starring: Cathal McKernan.
hello good afternoon good morning good evening good night whichever time of day is wherever you are in the world even places like hawaii do you like my shirt guys i got it from cornwall didn't get it from hawaii i was in perrin paul my daughter said that i needed to get it so anyway i've gone off on a tangent welcome welcome to fools from iron welcome to our transfer business tier list as usual please do make sure you drop a like on the stream as we as the little intro said at the beginning um it really does help the algorithms as far as the channel is concerned um make sure you subscribe to the channel and touch that bell icon to be notified of any new content as and when we upload it to the channel such as this so we did our premiere it was a as i recalled this half past one this afternoon saturday um west ham online joined me for our transfer business tier list so just to give you the viewer a synopsis of basically the premise of this um series is that the transfer window that closed on tuesday just gone um all year the club's in goings all the um outcome outgoings incomings um and star players that maybe clubs thought they might lose and didn't all of these things are factored in and we go on a tier list just to show you at home here is the tier list and it goes from top to bottom excellent very good bang average and poor all 20 teams will be ranked by the person that is in the hot seat which is mr carol mckernan how are you sir i'm good good yeah how are you i'm i'm good mate i'm surprisingly chipper um i went to the gym early this morning um very quickly discovered that um i'm not as young as i used to be i can't lift the weights that i used to i haven't got the endurance that i used to um it's the sounds of time my friend if it's like that your age i'm feeling as stiff as the board now today i was at the i was at the gym last night as well so don't get into your mid 40's mate don't do it don't do it honestly i'll see if i can the time will only tell okay mate right so are you up to the challenge i am indeed good to hear it good to hear it okay so we're going to do it alphabetically just to keep it real simple so arsenal is the first one on the list so out of those four tiers where do you put them and what's your reasoning behind it we'll start them where they are in the premier league right down at the bottom oh wow wow that's exactly where west ham online put them if i remember correctly so what's your room because they one of the sort of like in terms of the business that they've done i mean you know just looking here on the premier league website incomings were tavares laconger uh ben white was the big one 50 million quid ramsdale um fantastic goalkeeper he's um you know two relegations on his cv in two consecutive seasons yeah um takahiro tomi ashu from from bologna the japanese japanese international that we were tentatively linked with um alongside outgoings such as david luiz matteo guendouzi to be honest when you look on the oh willian on a free reese nelson on loan most of the names that are on this list to be honest with you probably not even most arsenal fans have really heard of them if i'm being brutally honest but um yeah so they they all they all suit arsenal they're just mediocre yeah i mean the people coming in really so so as far as you're concerned just the players that are coming in are just not it's they they spent 80 million on a duo of ben white and iron ramsdale that's you'd be like that's probably double what they're worth that's probably a 40 40 million duo if even ben weiss good defender yeah and will will only get better his value is only going to go up but he's not he shouldn't have been valued at 50 million it's his first season in the premier league fully uh i know prices have just gone to madness over the last few years but 50 million for one season worth of premier league football isn't good enough is is is is way too much really do you think his price has been exacerbated by the fact that he's english oh 100 percent hundred everything everything there's an inc there is an english text like that's going to happen with everyone if if if aaron ramsdale was was bloody spanish or something he wasn't no one was going to bite no one's gonna buy a spanish goalkeeper who's been relegated two years in a row and was performing like him the english roberto yeah like yeah i wouldn't i well like i can't really put i can't say that to him no he's not no no he's not at that level but uh he's certainly nothing special uh tommy yasu will probably turn out to be a decent sign and 20 millions like it isn't a lot of money in today's market but it's a decent amount but uh we were linked with him for a while but i seen something that said moyes just wasn't fully convinced by him and i trust moyes a lot more than i trust someone like arteta the whole the whole um just the club itself of arsenal is just in in tatters right now the the the team itself doesn't seem to have any leadership in it it's not performing great and there's not it doesn't have that amazing abundance of talent that they used to always have they used to always have some amazing players uh management is just a shambles then i do on transfers is i don't know what he's at the way he's running the club i don't know how they have the money to pay for everything to do and then the fan the fans will probably give out about their ownership but their ownership's put just put in 150 odd million there like he's not the one choosing the signings that's the manager and and and director of football and they're the ones who are making the balls of it fair enough okay so arsenal are in the poor category ladies and gentlemen okay so next on the list is aston villa now just looking on the premier league website before you give your opinion on where they should go just to give you a little bit of um do i said do i am i allowed to say meat on the bones i've been i've been picked up that i say that a lot so whatever that's just one of my little sayings um emiliano buendia ashley young leon baini bailey danny ings axel ii and zaby some of the names that have come in against a raft of players that have left the club just looking at some of the ones that were in around the first team you had um neil taylor tom heaton um some bloke called jack greely you might be familiar with him in ireland i'm sorry cow i do apologize tell me your your thoughts on the aston villa transfer window what do you think i think they've had uh i put it in sort of very good i think that i know grealish leaving is going to be huge for them and it's going to be like uh he was there he was a leader he was a i think their captain as well he was a leader he was there he was the main man but a hundred million for him is a lot of money yeah like i i i don't think he's worth a hundred million and that's not me saying anything with the bias against him i just don't think he's worth it his goal contributions themselves he's a lovely footballer to watch and he's elegant but in contributions to goals it's not been the most spectacular players he has blips of greatness but he's not fully consistent throughout a season again do you think he's the amazing yeah i'd say of course there's going to be an english tax if like if we're to eventually sell declan rice there'll be an english tax for everything it's just it's just the way it is yeah yeah they've they've signed some sign some good players leon bailey's a good sign and now i know they spent a good bit of money on him and he's not premier league proven but he's young and he'll he'll get a chance especially with someone like relish going he's going to get a lot of time uh buen dia i thought was a great signing as well but it's it's near enough 40 million for him i'm pretty sure 35 to 40 for him i think it was 40 yeah remember a lot of money for a championship player coming up i know he had one season in the premier league but he wasn't set in the world of light there he was he was consistent and good but uh it's it's it's a lot of money but uh they had the money to spend and i suppose if that's who they wanted and if that's who they're eyeing up to replace them they're going to spend it danny ings is as we all know he's a he's a proven premier league goal scorer was he was he worth getting like was he the signing that villain needed they already had a good forward line but maybe they're thinking of giving watkins a go out on the out on the wide and he is a he's just a good footballer in general he's not just knocking out striker so they can give him a go but uh with the loss of relish it will be huge but i think they have put in some solid replacements and uh i'd say it's a very good window overall i know that they haven't let go too many players they've kind of gone away but uh got gotten rid of a bit of dead wood and sent some young lads out alone so we'll have to see by the by the end of the season but i think it was decent enough yeah fair enough so aston villa have gone into the very good category on the tier list so the next one on the list premier league new boys from west london brentford football club talk to me um who was it was ire that they signed ire from i think he's he's he's going to end up being a class signer for them he's one we've been yeah a few times there's a lot of names that i'm looking at here carol where uh i to be to be and i don't mean to be disrespectful to brentford football club and i'm sure they're they're scouting as is exemplary um have i ever heard of people like daniel or gokay from arsenal no have i heard of val adadokan from dundalk no have i heard of matthew cox from afc wimbledon no have i heard of frank onyeka from meechland no um and i'm not saying it with any disrespect to brentford i'm sure that somewhere amongst that there's there's a diamond in the rough somewhere but i i couldn't say that there's any names other than aya that's jumping off the page if i'm being brutally honest and then when i look at the players that have gone um names that are familiar to me are players like henrik dalsgaard uh for them as well yeah that's a big loss i thought other than that an awful lot of the players i'm looking at to be brutally honest again are players that are unfamiliar to me um as a non-brentford um supporter and someone that you know you know is not a massive um brentford sort of that has a has an awful lot of brentford knowledge if you will so yeah it's probably probably a difficult one to gauge in some respects if you're not a brentford fan but i'm going to ask you to do that yeah first for safety i'll put them in bang average i can't say it was poor because i know even the signing of ire alone is going to transform their backline and he's going to be a great sign and i know they're i think they're playing them alongside uh ethan pinnock who i thought was always a solid championship center back and give him a bit of time and he could be a very good premier league centre-back uh but uh with brentford you kind of it's one of those trust the process kind of teams they they have really good recruitment and they don't seem to have a lot of bad signings they seem to know what they're asked for the last good few years they make great profit when they do sell as well so uh it's kind of you just have to trust the process and they say if their fans are happy enough with it you could say it's a decent enough window for them hopefully get them some a good run out in the premier league fair enough no problem so they're in the bang average category we then come to brighton and hove alv hove albion football club um some of their incomings uh the only one that i be honest with you that i look at and go oh yeah him i've heard of um abdullah sima from slavia prague the rest of them uh enoch muepou from salzburg kyo sherpen from iax mark cucarella from getsafe i mean they're names that are vaguely familiar to me but i've never seen them play to any great degree against their outgoings players that again i've recognized jose escuierdo davey proper bernardo matt ryan um ali raza johan batch ben white's the the big one though but there's there's an absolute raft of players that have moved on again most of them are probably squad players and youth team players but again over to you on where you think they rank and yeah well they've definitely got it gotten rid of a lot of people they might that the fans and the club might count them as a bit of deadwood gone they've done amazing to get 50 million for ben white i don't know if it was negotiations or bloody arsenal came in with a straight up bid of 50 million for him it wouldn't have shocked me if they did that either just to make sure they get him but uh they've they've made a few decent signings uh i know uh seema i know there's been rumors that he has bad attitude and all that sort of stuff but uh for seven million you can't really go that wrong with them i know they've loaned him out but uh he he seemed to have a bit of pedigree to him when he was playing as has has definitely a lot of talent i know he's he he looks a bit rough at times he's uh certainly not too elegant but uh if if he can get a good run out of the championship and that for seven million it's not it's not the worst risk to take uh cucaraya is a is a very good sign and i think 15 million they've really been looking at him a while so he's someone that uh graham potter must have been iron up and uh they've they've just had a decent enough window but they still need a striker they've they've they've been crying out for a striker for years they thought they had uh they had solved it when they went for a mopey and he's ended up with but i don't know he's just a bit of a disaster himself no he's certainly he's like he's more like a comedy actor you're not a fan i sense oh he's an absolute joke on out there at times madness how he he was scoring 25 goals a season in the championship i don't know but uh that's that's that's brentford's uh selling selling for you they they they can sell them well and uh they got rid of him and now they're in the premier league but uh yeah i'd say it's bang average if they were to go out and and use that 50 and white and spend 25 30 of it on a striker get the lights the likes i know daca might not want wanted to go to them but go for them like your premier league team there's a lot of money there go for the likes of daca and go for someone who will improve your team overall and not just sort of bulk out your midfield they're they're a lovely team to watch and they play some nice football but uh they're too midfield heavy they've no they don't have that sort of final product to just finish the goals they're xg merchants really that's that's all they are they get them into the places they just can't finish them and you won't finish them with neil morpay up top so brighton and hove albion bang average next on the list burnley so looking at their incomings and outgoings um wayne hennessey aaron lennon maxwell cornay connor roberts are probably the main ones of their incomings as far as the releases you're looking at robbie brady um ben gibson bailey peacock farrell and the rest i'll be brutally honest of names that are unfamiliar to me um again your thoughts on their incoming outgoings and general business in the transfer window um with the context that it's burnley we're talking about i'd say it's a very good window okay i'd say for for with for out of that i think they've they've kept some of their best players they've kept the likes of uh mcneil pope uh tarkowski uh ben me i know he's getting old but he's still very good for them and they've they've finally freshened things up and they've signed uh maxwell corner who's i can't say i know too much about him i've seen bits watching bits of uh leon now and then and for for burnley it's exciting to get someone like that i know he he's he's floating between defense and attack a lot of the time he'd be good if they were going for a five at the back system anyway and it's just exci because i've always liked bernie i think you have to admire burnley the way they can still survive the premier league with barely any money and finally they've got a bit of money put into them so uh i'd say it's very good for them and uh they haven't really let go of anyone too important which is huge for them because they like if they're to lose their best players would they have the pull to replace them because they need them players there to buy more the only person they really lost that's big for their they wouldn't even say big for the team that robbie brady who was a consistent player for them is gone but uh there's no one else it's very good for them fair enough they're in a very good category along with aston villa so next on the list chelsea now you know i was thinking about this after i did the recording with west ham online which went out this lunch time and you think about the last three different clubs to have been premier league champions um and obviously we'll come on to it as we go along um we're obviously manchester city who've won three out of the last four premier leagues if my math is correct um liverpool and chelsea and as you'll see in a minute as we go along between those three clubs they've signed six players i found that quite astonishing um anyway we'll get we'll we'll cover that off shortly um their incomings were only three players and they were marcus bettinelli goalkeeper um he actually had a loan spell um at my local non-league football club dartford um he's coming on a free from fulham uh sao niguez who went on deadline day loan deal from atletico madrid and obviously the big one was what was it 95 or 100 million or whatever it was in that sort of vicinity for their former striker romelu lukaku um against their outgoings willie caballero picayo tomori billy gilmore victor moses um connor gallagher tammy abraham amazon palmieri bubba rachman kurt zuma timoi bakayoko danny drinkwalter ethan ampadu there's there's a lot of them and there's there's players there that i could mention that you probably have never heard of like levi cole will nathan baxter charlie wiggit yeah i know i know real superstar names i mean they're probably kids chelsea probably still found a way to get five million for them and you never even yeah crazy crazy crazy but you know that to be fair i gotta tip me hat to chelsea as a business they're absolutely brilliant but um what do you think about them in this window i think it was a i'd say it's i don't know if it's very good or bang average it's one like lukaku is huge for them i'll have to put it to very good because they managed to win the champions league without an amazing striker and now they've got a world-class striker in there which is going to be huge for them so uh they've got uh looking at it here myself they've got 25 million for tomorrow that's good money like i i always thought he he deserved a chance there and he was a good player but chelsea don't wait too long and they'll get ready for good money if they don't think you're up to the task tammy abraham for 35 millions class uh i think it was 20 odd million for mark wahey who's never played premier league football and they sell it they sell them yeah they get that much money for him so uh in in the terms of them getting a world-class striker up there and selling a lot of players that obviously aren't going to be good enough for them right now which they might have been saying that about someone like lukaku a few years ago but they might go back and buy these lads back for 100 million in a few years time but uh they've got good money for them now and uh i'd say it was a good window they already have a good squad good manager and uh they'll be pushing for the title now fair enough so they're in a very good category i just on that i i said on the stream of west ham online i actually think chelsea are my tips for winning the premier league this season i don't i'm not saying i want it to happen you know i want west ham to win the premier league of course i do but um should that not come to pass who do i think we'll win it beyond that i think it's probably chelsea to be honest but we'll see certainly good enough yeah yeah next on the hit list is crystal palace who are obviously now no longer under the stewardship of former england manager roy i mean roy hodgson i do apologize um yeah uh now patrick vieira is at the helm now they did a bit of business to be fair i mean michael alisa from reading who was a player that was um championed by russ of formerly my hammers 11 now of west ham network um mark gwehe jockey anderson connor gallagher nathaniel klein will hughes and odson eduard from celtic um against the outgoings players like wayne hennessey andros townsend mamadou sacko patrick van aarnholt gary cahill james mccarthy scott dan and then a few other players sprinkled around the periphery of that um again your thoughts on was it a good bad or indifferent transfer window and the reasons i think for for palace i think it was very good they got they got rid of about half their squad though they got rid of an awful lot of people some of them some of them were old and weren't going to play and they just got a lot of the wages off the books but uh they've got a few good signings there uh is it the right manager to take them to sort of be proven in premier league level to build a squad with them they might not fit together very well and start because there's so many new signings coming in that are a starting level for them new new centre-back pairing both never played with each other starting uh they have a new striker up there like it's it's it's it's going to be one to see but i think they've signed a bit of youth and a bit a bit of talent they've a bit of flair to them arts and edwards i think it's a great sign and i know he wasn't always prolific with celtic but uh he's uh i i wouldn't have been too uh upset if we were to go and get someone like edward for 15 odd million and uh conor gallagher as we unfortunately seen yeah his loan his earn back his loan within one game yeah crazy honestly could only happen to us he'll probably probably won't score another goal until he plays against us unbelievable unbelievable so okay so they've gone in a very good category following on from that we have a now managed by former liverpool champions league winner um rafa benitez is now the manager of everton football club um looking at some of their business um incomings we've got andros townsend asmr berkovic damari gray salomon rondon as the main standouts their release list however theo walcott josh king yannick balasi mohammed bezich and then the rest of them oh moise 18 years the only other one really of of the list that you look at and go yeah i've heard of them um your thoughts on their transfer window where do you put them and why i'll put them beside arsenal oh yeah i just i just don't think there was really anything amazing to us they signed like demary gray is the only one you can look at there and say you might have got a bit of a bargain there because he's had a good start but he's been notorious for just being inconsistent and not being fully up up to the premier league standard and he's he has a bit of an attitude issue at times but uh they really haven't signed anything too too good to push on if they want to push on for european football they're not none of them signings are going to make them any better i don't think they've they've got rid of a good amount of players but then they still have uh the likes of uh james rodriguez on the books i'm pretty sure that he's still there yeah not knowing who they're playing at the weekend and oh he wasn't signing for the club he was signing franciati which is never a good thing you don't want to be there and things like that uh moist keen leaving them is a right out disaster of a transfer uh that he's israeli just didn't go well for them i don't know it's his fault for the clubs it could be a bit of both yeah he'll go on to do good things but uh yeah i just don't think there was any anything special about us fair enough well they're they're at the bottom of the pile alongside the north london super power that is arsenal football club so next on the hit list yorkshire's very own leeds united so just looking at their incomings and names that jump off the page jack harrison made his move to uh ellen road from manchester city permanent junior ferpo from barcelona and dan james from manchester united are probably the standout ones amongst them against their outgoings of names that you probably would have heard of uh erjan alioski um pablo hernandez uh ian pavada hilda costa and as i say there's a whole load of players that have been released moved on whatever most of whom i mean have you ever heard of alfie mccalmont who's been loaned out to malcolm i haven't sorry alfie i've never heard of you but uh yeah so your thoughts on no i think there's probably a lot of leads fans that have probably not heard of him quite honestly but your thoughts um i don't know if if it's poor or bang average it's i'll say poor for the amount they overspent on bloody ryan fredericks jr himself that's an awful lot of money for it's just just pace itself that's literally it a winger that's played back yeah he's he's he's fast i suppose that's it like he seems like a nice lad he runs a lot he works hard but uh i don't think he's proven he's premier league quality even at man united yeah uh he signed you from he hasn't proved it consistently that he's really up to the task well usain bolt's fast but i've you know he he had a trial as a footballer didn't he in some club in australia and they didn't they didn't pursue it yeah the thing is just because you're quick doesn't mean you're a good footballer that's that's the thing you might be able to run fast but can you trap a ball can you bend into the top corner from sort of like 18 yards out not necessarily i just like i don't think he's a dreadful footballer i think he might be able to make a premier league it's just is he worth 30 million or is that just how inflated the market is that he is because i don't think he's he's worth that at all probably the price tag is probably more from the fact he was coming from a club like barcelona i'm not being funny but if he was at a club like um ray laviedo for example um he wouldn't have gone for that money no chance simply because i think a lot of the reason why he went for 30 mils because he was coming from barcelona and you know they need to get as much money in so they've probably you know inflated the price as much as they justifiably could before they sort of said yeah we'll take 30 million for him there's a club there that mug enough to pay the money but he listen he might go on the sort of like to as you say he might go on to make it in the premier league personally i think he's a winger and he's being deployed as a fallback but like you say i as soon as you said ryan fredericks i was like ah yeah yeah i know what you're talking about with the with the rest of their business jack harrison i wouldn't really count count him as a signing i think it's it's good to get him officially in the door i think that's kind of like if you count to craig dawson as a signing yes summer sue check is one last like i think he was already there and uh he's been good for them uh and i think he'll continue to be good for them yeah uh and then junior ferpa going on at left back i know we've wanted him for a while and well we were linked with them i don't i just i couldn't have seen moyes really going in for someone like firpo i think he's too attacking based and i think leads already have so much attack and flair to them they need their defense to be a bit more solid than what ferpa will be i think he could bring some goals to them but the way leads it could be of they could win they could lose the match 4-3 or something with the likes of players like that on because they're just very possessiony attacking based yeah football and uh i don't know if he's exactly what they needed but we'll only see what time time will tell time will tell we then move on to leicester city now looking at their business uh i think it's probably more quality over quantity because they've only made five signings but let's look pats and dakar bubakari samaray ryan bertrand yannick vestergaard and ademola lookman have walked through the door and walking out of the door christian fuchs matty james wes morgan and the rest of them oh yeah dennis pratt but the rest of them to be honest with you you look and go who um callum right he's gone on loan to cheltenham town uh yeah i don't know who that is sorry but um yeah your thoughts on their overall transfer dealings there carol uh yeah i'd say it was very good i think they've improved their squad i think they haven't let go of anyone that's gonna um sort of be in their first team they haven't let go of anyone that's too amazing for them and they've got some good uh squad depth in they've got patzen dhaka who's a long could be a long-term replacement for the likes of vardy at his age he must be near enough 35 now yeah and he he's a like for like replacement over the like he can just knock a ball in front of him and he'll run towards it and put it in the back of the net that's exactly what vardy's been doing and he's been one of the best in the premier league sumare's good good signing 17 million odds uh he's just he's just gonna bulk out the squad he he'll he'll probably be getting game time for them uh ryan bertrand on a free i think wasn't wasn't bad business at all um it's it's he'll he'll probably be there to play ahead of the likes of james justin while he's still out injured for however long he's going to be out for and i don't know how long the contract they gave him was but on a free deal he's premier league proven player it's not too bad uh ademola lookman as well is i don't know if he's up to their standard of football yet and it's only a loan so it's one of those if it was a cheap enough signing you could give him some time and he'll develop into it but i'm alone will he will he be up to it we'll have to see i think i think i would i would like west ham to go for him for a permanent deal if he was cheap enough and then vestergaard's just kind of a 15 million is cheap as a cheap sign and the way the window's gone now uh so a cheap enough primarily proven quality center back to replace furfana while he's out with the injury he's he's unfortunately got so uh yeah i think it was a good window they just need to keep keep the way that they've been doing things the last few years going and uh keep pushing for europe really fair enough so they're in the very good category we then move to liverpool football club now as i said earlier um the last three different teams that have been etched on the premier league trophy between the three of them they've signed six players um liverpool signed one of those six and that was ibrahimo kanate from rb leipzig against their outgoings um most of these names you're not gonna know uh however i will read out some of the ones you might georginio wineldon for instance um harry wilson yeah jordan shaqiri and that's pretty much it really rest of them um have you ever heard of a player called jacob or zhinsky who has gone to canal from town on loan i i can't say i've heard of him anyway no no i mean for the future maybe maybe but you know he's he's gone on loan to a to a welsh team you know not too sure about that um if he'd gone the card if i might say fair enough but there you go um but your thoughts you know tell me what you think of their transfer business business what them four categories are they going into in your opinion it's one of those i don't know if it's it is bang average but is it poor because they could like they're they're really trying to rely on on that team that sort of a three-year-old team now they're really relying on the spine yeah they're putting a lot of pressure on lads who need to play probably 50 games a year for them they don't have a lot of squad to swap out so i'll put it in poor just for the sake that yeah they're not they haven't bulked up their squad since caps really come there he made his base signings got his that team that won the champions league got to the champions league final won the champions league the next year and then won the league was one of the best scariest teams i've i've seen yeah they were terrifying to play against but they got tired because he didn't have the bulk to to swap it around and the the the um people to put on so he's relying on the same players to play for three or four years in a row yeah 90 of the games so i'll put it as poor because they really need to bulk it out or that same lads are going to continue to get injured and fall down fall down the league yeah okay so they're in the poor category and then we come to manchester city now again like i say the last three different names etched on the premier league trophy between the three of them they signed six players liverpool with one of them uh we've covered chelsea they signed three so if your maths is any good manchester city signed two um one of them you'll probably know because it was jack greelish the other one you might remember this name scott carson former england goalkeeper also was on the books at aston villa and liverpool at various points in his career um he's gone there on a free from derby yes yes um they're outgoing sergio aguero and eric garcia from have gone to barcelona jack harrison's obviously gone to leeds but as you said did that really happen in this transfer window properly or did that happen previously um um the rest of them to be honest with you um you know probably the only one of the rest that i've gavin never heard of him no i know saved the penalty against ronaldo there the other night for ireland's national team he's our starting goalkeeper ahead of uh okay he's from he's a man city lad okay fair enough fair enough he's only 19 years of age i think he'll be a very good goalkeeper in the future and that's not just a bias i think he is very solid uh i've a friend who used to play for shamrock rovers with him and he said he was he was class and uh he he looks like he's going to be one for the future 19 is very young for a goalkeeper yeah definitely national level as well definitely um one of the other names that i'd sort of recognize just briefly lucas the metro who's gone to wolfsburg so but the rest of them pretty much of a muchness of of players that are probably you're not familiar with um you know i'm not so but there you go your thoughts um i think it's bang average i think grealish is a decent signing as a quality of player but 100 million from is i think it's overpaid and why would you spend 100 million on jack relish when all you needed was a striker that's really what what they really needed was a striker and harry kane was out there you could have spent a bit more money and got harry kane but they gone and threw it all at greelish how much do you think lee just sort of getting on to that whilst we're here how much do you think levy would have cracked at with 20 to 130 million maybe okay the likes of that and i think you're better off spending 130 on harry kane and then you are spending 100 and jack reelish i would be inclined to agree with that statement yeah that's pretty much it i just i just i think it's just bang average in general scott carson legend take him on in training ground keeper but uh yeah that's that's so they're they're in the in the bang average category they go now we go to their cross city neighbors manchester united now their business well i think it's fair to say it was quality over quantity they only signed four players but when you consider you've got jaden sancho rafael varan and cristiano ronaldo as 75 percent of those signings with the other one being tom eaton um that's not bad i think it's fair to say then you look at their outgoings the names that you'd probably recognize were players like sergio romero um obviously dan james and andreas pereira brandon williams axel ii and zaby the rest again people probably outside of manchester united support the base we've probably never heard of players like johann guadango who's gone to copenhagen for instance i haven't got a clue don't know um but yeah your thoughts on their transfer business they're it's as i'm i'm definitely not a man united fan but it's frustrating to see them not be able to make it into the excellent tier it's very good because they've they've done some some great business they've signed uh varane who's going to transform their backline they've really needed something else in their backline yeah uh obviously ronaldo it's just even at 30 years so wow yeah some people are expecting them to tear things up he probably won't be as good as people are expecting but he's going to be he's still going to be class he's still going to score 15 to 20 goals probably uh maybe half there might be penalties but he's still going to score your goals and he's just he's going to bring the atmosphere up he's going to bring in more money for them he's he's going to do a lot for the club in general that's just a great time that way just just apropos absolutely nothing and it's completely hypothetical pie in the sky will never happen um but let's just suppose in a parallel universe cristiano ronaldo left juventus and rocked up at london stadium who does he replace from the current starting eleven yeah my mice doesn't work like that yesterday he has to work his way into the team no i know but let's let's just i think he if it was going to happen it would probably be it would probably be the like of uh antonio going out to jared bowen's position on the right and uh ronaldo going up top and then bow and dropping out yeah i think i think just that's just the way things go at west ham right now i think bowen's kind of just the the the person that drops out when you need him to really that taking one for the team there you go so manchester united yeah manchester united in the very good category borderline excellent you say it's it's it's like sancho for 73 million is good but i can't say i've ever seen much i don't watch an awful lot of bundesliga football now i've seen them playing in europe and all but i've never seen jaden sancho be too amazing and he's never really toured up for england and he hasn't got a lot of chance to do it but he's never been amazing but from what you hear about him 73 he's good it's just will only get the player out of him will he play him enough and is there not too much attacking options there then getting 25 million for dan james is that's probably the move that move with the bloody window that's that's just amazing business from them it's just they haven't if they had assigned one solid center mid that's excellent because they really don't have have it's the midfield they've a really good attack a solid defense good good choice of goalkeepers and they have a mid table to like low premier league quality midfield it just doesn't work like that there's too much pressure put on them and i and i feel bad for them lads playing in midfield because there's so much fans of man united who throw it all on them and there's too much pressure on them because they're not good enough for it yeah that's that's pretty much what west ham online said that you know that i think if i remember correctly he said that the problem with manchester united is that their midfield is championship standard they're nothing to be scared of in the midfield it's just it's it they could have been excellent if they if they were to go out and sign a top top class midfielder that they'll be up for winning the league like yeah yeah no that's a fair assessment i believe okay so we move on next on the list oh wow what are you going to say about this lot newcastle united well looking at the premier league website their incomings ladies and gentlemen santiago munoz joe willock charlie wiggy remy savage and cameron ferguson outgoings outgoings um of the names that i recognize there's a lot of names that they've got out of the door um and i'm trying to look for one that i'm gonna say i recognize but other than florin lejeune and matty longstaff the rest i am struggling with your thoughts um i'm just going to say i i don't have much to say about newcastle i think overall it was poor but uh i'm just going to say put them in excellent for the signing of santiago munoz oh go on talk talk to me no no no that that's that's all i have to say that's awesome you can't leave you can't leave it on an eastenders duff duff cliff hanger manchester united couldn't get in there with sancho ronaldo and varane i'm going to be watching this fella closely and i'll tell you what if he's a pub player i'm going to remind you of this norwich city is next on the hit list mate right so incomings the names that i recognize yeah honestly it's it's it's quite a lot i mean you look at it angus gunn who was actually a norwich player before um and he's gone back there he's the son of their former guild goalkeeper and scotland goalkeeper brian gunn ben gibson uh billy gilmore uh brandon williams aussan quebec amongst a lot of players um demetrius jenna giannolos yeah don't ask me um but west ham online said that's the player to keep an eye out for um outgoings you've got alex tetty mario yes yes jordan who girls moved on yes how will they walk out with all the bubbles how will norwich cope without the legend that is jordan bluegill i'll tell you what if charlie charlie from hammer's chat was here he'd he'd be crying at this point he would indeed he loves the who meister he does okay so where do you put them i in all honesty from the signings they've made i don't know an awful lot about them i've heard of angus go like i know i know who he is i know he hasn't got an awful lot of game time at the clubs he's been at uh rashika from murder bremen uh i've heard of him i know he seems like a decent signing for cheap enough uh billy gilmore is a great signing on loan brandon williams could work out to be a good loan signing cabac i didn't think was too good uh last year but it's alone so it's not too dangerous josh sargent uh i think he's american is he and he has he's been i think he's one one that's meant to be a good player but i i can't say i've seen too much of them so i'll just really say it's probably bang average and norwich will do an arch and probably end up getting relegated it's just what they do impossible quite possible okay so yeah as well as huge yeah massively um southampton football club um so looking at their incomings uh theo walcott but you know he was there on loan from everton so whether you count him is up to you uh tino liveramento west ham online was was quite complimentary about him the other day when we did this adam armstrong and yeah the rest of him i'm not terribly familiar with i'm not gonna lie um i'm not familiar with lianco who's coming from torino you know whatever um outgoings ryan bertrand wesley hoot angus gun uh mario lamina the big two though obviously being danny and yannick festergaard and michael of oberfemi so quite a few outgoings not as many incomings your thoughts i think it was poor really okay southampton have been fallen for a good while and they had a decent and like a few decent players always keeping them together the likes of ings as goals fester guard i know he's never been amazing but he's a solid centre-back and he's he's been playing a lot for them and now they've lost that and i can't say i know too much about the replacements uh wall cut he was there so i wouldn't really count him as much they signed looks like three young lads from chelsea that uh i don't know too much about and i they're from a team that they had they always seem to just sell their best talents but usually they replace them with a good talent and they they could have done that it's just i i can't really say much about because i don't know too much about the players they have replaced them with so i i would say it's poor from the the loss of danny ings and uh westergard and even ryan bertrand and all them and even like michael obafemi hasn't been great but he's young and given a bit of time they don't really have too much striking options yeah he's a young irish lad isn't he he is yeah yeah yeah i thought the name sounded familiar okay so they are in the poor category we move to our close friends and neighbors along the north circular road with their billion pound stadium tottenham hotspur ladies and gentlemen so just looking at their incomings you've got pierre luigi gellini brian heal christian romero pape matassar emerson royale and then we move on to their outgoings danny rose paolo gazzaniga uh juan foyth eric lamela toby alda virald joe hart remember him people um unfortunately i say i said pape matassa according to this he's gone straight out on loan to mets quite incredible um moussa sissoko serge aurier cameron carter vickers of the out amongst the outgoings your thoughts on the business of our friends in norfolk 17 um uh but probably bang average it was uh they won't like that no but that's what they're used to isn't it i didn't say that people and my my wife's in the kitchen and she's probably got a very sharp knife she has she just told me so i've got to be careful what i say about spurs she's a long house swim to get over with that knife to me mate she could do it i think she i'd put money on her doing it in some way somehow she'll find a way ryanair flights are cheap enough anyway yeah you're not you think bang average what what's your what's your reasoning i think it's decent i think they're just i suppose keeping keeping them harry kane was the biggest thing for them but is there any point keeping up if he doesn't want to be there which i think they were better off to i know i know uh no official bids came in but to get sort of a hundred odd million for him then have an unhappy player who's only going to go for less money because he'll be a year older and a year less in his contract yeah so uh i think uh romero and galini from atlanta is a decent enough duo to get in yeah atlanta have been really good the last few years and so take two players to them uh is a decent sign and you can show them uh what the conference league's like so they can get out the break from the tiring champs league football they've been going through the last few years uh i don't know too much about brian gill i know he's he's young enough and uh 20 20 odd million i think they gave lamela as well uh i think i think it could uh end up being a very good window for them it's just uh it's one of those you'll have to see have to see uh they they got emerson royale from barcelona i think he's a right back um but they had they they have they have half a team of right backs right now i think they've got five of them and they had to let one of them go by mutual consent or something yeah probably had to chuck him a few bobbers well i'm guessing yeah exactly don't see either left of the goodness of his heart i don't think i don't i don't think he's done a um maurizio to rico i don't know if you know the story about that um because you're obviously a little bit younger than i um but there was an argentinian fallback i think trying to if he was a right back or a left back but his name was maurizio torico he made his name in this country at ipswich before he moved on to spurs and he had a loan i think it was a loan spell or it might have been a permanent signing i can't remember my my memory says that he played his debut at the den against mill wall but someone in the live chat will probably or not live chat because we're recording this but someone will probably put it in the comment section below um he got injured and was going to be out for a period of time and he actually said just tear my contract up quite incredible i don't i don't think that many players would do that um you know we was in the championship at that point if i remember right now not on the money there are now anyway no no it was it was one of those things that you know it was like he didn't have to do that he could have just said no i've signed a contract in good faith i didn't know i was going to get injured i didn't ask to get injured i expect you to on your side of the bargain but he didn't he just turned around said just tear me contract up guys and it was like wow quite incredible so maurizio to rico west ham hero but there you go okay so we move on from soon yeah we move on watford football club um so their incomings of the names that i recognize instantly we've got danny rose we've got joshua king we've got moosa sisoko and we've got um a certain ashley fletcher who you might remember yes did it bring the shiver down your spine as i said the night could have been worse i could have turned around and said jonathan cleary or at least he at least he got a goal well there is no didn't ashley fletcher score i'm sure he scored a goal at one point didn't he he i'm sure he got a goal he wasn't he wasn't he didn't have the most memorable spell it wasn't no days they were they were but um but the rest of them i'll be brutally honest to me i'm not familiar with players like um dapo mabuday who's coming from rangers um from players like juraj kukka from palmer sorry i've never heard of never heard of them they might be good players but i'm not i'm not familiar with them we look at their outgoings and again i'm trying to look for names that jump off the page at me in fact that player that i've just mentioned again dapo mabuday has gone out on loan to wimbledon so there's there's a few players that will come in and go straight out on loan i don't really see the point of it but there you go um isaac success there you go there's a name that's jumped off the page of me i remember his his name i don't remember so much about his performances so it wasn't probably a success hence why he's moved on um will hughes yeah troy deeney nathaniel chaliba andre gray domingo kina formerly of our parish um are the names that i recognize um of the outgoings there's an awful lot of them an awful lot so your thoughts on the outgoings and incoming's overall business at watford football club i i don't know how they will ever survive without carlos sanchez who has also left the club oh yes yes yes yeah there you go will we ever see his like again hopefully nice uh it couldn't be two that will walk the place face of the earth and play premier league football because there listen i really hope not my god um they've they've made a good they've made a decent amount of signings i i think it was more uh quantity over quality yeah uh now like there's not a lot of them that are jumping out of me that i know obviously danny rose has had a lot of football in the last few years i think it's good that he gets a chance because he was very badly treated at tottenham i think yeah uh ashley fletcher i really don't think he's up to premier league standards unless he's changed a lot since i've last seen him uh kuka i think you'd like to think that if he was any good he'd you know probably wouldn't have gone from middlesbrough to watford with all due respect you've probably got a man united yeah that's that's that's the thing um and a free transfer at that as well yeah yeah um kuka i know he was uh i think he might be like serbian or something like that he's from syria he's been at a few clubs in syria he's one of those small little stocky lads who likes to crunch crunch people in his tackles uh josh king didn't set the world light at everton that's for sure and they've they've let go of a lot of players an awful lot and troy deeney leaving them is huge even just for the dressing room uh he's he's their captain he was their leader i know he wasn't playing a lot recently but uh he's just a huge loss for them and will hughes was uh was always a decent player for them i think he's he he'll get a chance to show if he's fully up to premier league standard so uh i put them just back average really i don't know if it's poorer bang average okay well they're there alongside tottenham yeah tottenham tottenham and watford side by side there's not that three there that's the the three in the bank average that might be the relegation candidates there one can only hope not nourish one can only hope what are the chances okay so we move on we've got two left and one of them as a team that might be familiar to you um it's our very own our beloved west ham united now just looking on the premier league website so the incomings just to go through it in its entirety because it's our team so why not thierry nevers pierre ekwa olimbi armstrong ocho flex alphonse areola kurt zuma nicola vlasic and alex crowl walked through the door walking out the door i'll give it in its entirety because it's our team so i'm gonna i'm gonna go through it olodapo affilian fabian balbuena shawna darkwa olatunji akinola samuel cager alfie lewis joshua okocha joseph anang felipe anderson nathan trott frederick alves meekpo odobeko and connor coventry all either sold released or sent out on loan there you go so as far as you are concerned in your opinion and i should also factor in i'm going to throw this one in we kept declan rice after a pandemic um so that all being taken into account where do we sit on that particular list it's like i was thinking about it with with the keeping of declan rice and all of our our important squad i think it's up to very i think it will be very good i think i can put it there i think if if you weren't to take that into account and it was just the signings i think the signings themselves were very good but i think just positionally it would probably have been bang average because we did need a striker and a left back okay and if if we had got all that and thinking of the thing keeping declan rice and all this it would have been excellent but uh yeah i think i think we've we've made some good moves i really do trust what moyes is uh what moyes has in his plans i think alex crowl on loan is is is going to be a good one i think is what 13 million after to get them on on the permanent which i think it was nearly 25 about 30 million when we wanted them earlier in the summer was yeah yeah and i think it's just take your time i think it's smart yeah yeah because obviously if if god forbid we drop out of europe at the first hurdle and if if there's a clause that says he's got to play x amount of games so that you're you're then obligated to sign him i suppose if you look at him and you think yeah this is a player we want to keep then you play him and you invoke that clause if he's a player that actually you think he's stinking the place out he's actually not what we need then you just say okay well you're sitting on the bench this week mate or you're not in the squad and you haven't really lost too much yeah i think it's it's just a good move in general i think areola on loan is a class deal i think yeah sort of sorting out the the goalkeeper position for years to come he's class quality he's played for some great teams and he's he's really good great signing uh vlasic is one we're going to have to just wait and see really he didn't he wasn't amazing and his first spell in the premier league i think everton fans did like him and it was a coleman that brought him in and left yes he didn't get much opportunities after that so it's one of those replays it was it was big sam michael silva oh was it i i thought it was big sam after um i could be wrong it could have been i i it could have been one of those yeah um if it was big sound it's not he's not sounds like the player is he no he's nuts yeah but it might have been i don't know i've only seen clips of him but he looks real he looks like he's going to be a really good footballer he's he's low center of gravity he seems strong he's a he's he's he's a pace he's a lot of skill to him i think he'd be a great sign but kurt zuma is probably the biggest one for us yeah having someone like that at centre-back yeah we have a really good attacking side it's just we needed to sort out the defense yeah and usually it's the opposite way with moyes but uh it's it's the defense so far this season that we've need to sort out and someone like him and then with areola behind them it's going to give a lot of confidence for everyone so uh yeah i think it's just been a it's been very good window when you think of everything fair enough so we are in a very good category so we come to the 20th and final team on this tier list wolverhampton wanderers football club so premier league website again the names that jump off the page well ryan ate nori i mean he was there i believe on loan last season huanki chan harvey griffith the rest of the players i'll be brutally honest i'm not too sure um who they are if i'm being brutally honest then you look at the outgoings um of the names that i recognize ruben venagre ruby's patricio um to sowie the rest of them to be honest i i don't even know who they are um yeah i'm not being disrespectful to wolves there's probably not their fans don't even know who they are um your thoughts on their overall business um yeah i'd say it's sort of bang average they've they've uh is it great signing on loan cheap enough option to buy if if he does end up being a good uh player for them uh i know yeah nori i'm pretty sure was on loan with them and yeah they wouldn't have they wouldn't have taken them if he obviously wasn't good enough for them uh trinikow from barcelona on loan i suppose could be a good deal for them uh i think letting patricio go to roma was a bit of a loss because i think he's i think he's a very good goalkeeper but uh with the rest the rest of the people they've lost uh there's not much i can say about most of them i think it's just overall i just have to give it a bang average yeah i mean looking at their incomings i don't know have they have they bought is there a goalkeeper amongst their incomings i mean who's who the hell's replacing i was thinking well who do they have uh your money they had john ruddy yeah john ruddy yeah yeah i mean he was their first choice goalkeeper when they got promoted from the championship but then he's been there number tw
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