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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread

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My opinion is that it's not black and white. Depends on the league position (and by what magnitude).

Personally, 3rd and 4th are damn near interchangeable and I think making it to a CL final in addition to finishing 4th is preferable to 3rd (definitely makes more money and boosts your UEFA coefficient).

As for this season, I absolutely hope they get bashed with it if we got to the final and they fall just short of the league title. The caveat to that, however, is just how much ground they've put between us and them in 2nd. Then again, our injuries etc give us some mitigating factors this season.

Funnily enough, a deep CL push is exactly what our club needed right now as it'll do wonders for our profile and will no doubt add value to the naming rights deal being sorted.


It's not, in all fairness (even regarding those twats if we're honest.... Shhhhh.).

Happy to conceed it's a subjective thing, but when I think targets, the first thing I think is "as high as possible in the league" (which, as a personal standpoint, pre-dates CL /top4 considerations).
 
It's like we have had a plan all along.

And SchmoodSpur SchmoodSpur
Pretty sure the plan wasn't to be stuck with players we can't even register for our CL squad because we have a squad bloated full of non HG players, we've paid millions for, and are paying millions in wages that we can't sell?

Because that's the reason we didn't buy anyone last summer, not because we planned not to.
 
Pretty sure the plan wasn't to be stuck with players we can't even register for our CL squad because we have a squad bloated full of non HG player, we've paid millions for, and are paying millions in wages that we can't sell?

Because that's the reason we didn't buy anyone last summer, not because we planned not to.
Then someone needs firing for allowing the squad to become bloated with non-HG players. And then needs firing again for not using a crow-bar to get rid of those that were of no use to us.

I can't see how difficult monitoring a number is!
 
Then someone needs firing for allowing the squad to become bloated with non-HG players. And then needs firing again for not using a crow-bar to get rid of those that were of no use to us.

I can't see how difficult monitoring a number is!
This club has needed a head of recruitment for a while now. As it stands it is Poch and Levy in a form of joint operation because both are control freaks and they already work closely together.

Bringing in someone to handle player recruitment would open up so much time that they could use to focus on other stuff instead.
 
Is the rule generally 3 seasons with the same club or exact 36 months at the same club?
Ah, okay, having a look at this link...


To summarise:

  • 25 man Champions league squad.
  • Of that, 8 slots are reserved for 'locally trained'
  • Of 'locally trained', a maximum of 4 can be 'association trained', i.e. by another English club.
  • The other 'locally trained' must be 'club trained' - i.e. Winks, Kane, KWP.
So Sessegnon would be 'association trained', which is good, but you're right that we miss out on him being club trained as you'd need to snap up a player up at 17 or younger.

This also reminds us of how annoying Dier and Davies' situations are - with neither counting as locally trained due to their time in Portugal and being under the Welsh FA with Swansea respectively.
 
Your opinion.
He's not crap, he has great potential, he's just not experianced and strong enough, but he'll improve.

Harry Kane was crap at 18, understand that. Fucking logic. Like he's completed as player at 18. Clueless
And that’s your opinion not a fact.

You think it’s logical to say that because Harry Kane made it, Sessengon will.
Beyond pathetic reasoning.

My logic is that I think he’s crap and I don’t care if he’s 18 and crap or 25 and crap.
I want better than what we have.....I don’t want signings that might be ok in 4 years.
 
And that’s your opinion not a fact.

You think it’s logical to say that because Harry Kane made it, Sessengon will.
Beyond pathetic reasoning.

My logic is that I think he’s crap and I don’t care if he’s 18 and crap or 25 and crap.
I want better than what we have.....I don’t want signings that might be ok in 4 years.
Kane is just an example. 90% of players are not completed at 18 years old. You're clueless, we won't buy left-back for 40M, that's why Sessegnon is the best solution. Poch improved almost every player,he'll do the same with him.
 
Ah, okay, having a look at this link...


To summarise:

  • 25 man Champions league squad.
  • Of that, 8 slots are reserved for 'locally trained'
  • Of 'locally trained', a maximum of 4 can be 'association trained', i.e. by another English club.
  • The other 'locally trained' must be 'club trained' - i.e. Winks, Kane, KWP.
So Sessegnon would be 'association trained', which is good, but you're right that we miss out on him being club trained as you'd need to snap up a player up at 17 or younger.

This also reminds us of how annoying Dier and Davies' situations are - with neither counting as locally trained due to their time in Portugal and being under the Welsh FA with Swansea respectively.
Ok but next season's CL squad will be shorn of Vorm, Alderweireld (probably), Eriksen (possibly), Llorente, Creates space.
 
This club has needed a head of recruitment for a while now. As it stands it is Poch and Levy in a form of joint operation because both are control freaks and they already work closely together.

Bringing in someone to handle player recruitment would open up so much time that they could use to focus on other stuff instead.
We had something similar before with baldini look how that turned out the club can employ as many individuals as it wants but bottom line is that if levy doesn't want to spend then deals break down.
 
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