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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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ArcspacE said:
They also paid top dollar cause they needed a CB. You want quality you pay up. Instead we keep getting half price Njies and Foyths
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You pay what you think the player is worth unless you are desperate.

Problem we have now is no DoF and no Analytics department because previous managers didn't want experts to help buy players. So we are at a big disadvantage to the likes of Liverpool when buying and selling players - we cant properly evaluate them.
 
theromanianjackass said:
Did you even understand what I meant? It’s not about how frequent or how much they negociated, it’s about the fact that in today’s market you pay or go home. Do you think - if we were in for van Dijk and had the money - we would have paid a record 70m for him?
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I’ve always seen the wages as the real issue. How much did we pay for Sanchez? North of £50m?

The problem with wages is that if you offer a great player £250k, other players will expect parity or at least a sizeable improvement.

Several factors in our downturn in performances, but it’s no coincidence that it coincided with the club breaking the wage cap. Kane’s salary increase became the barometer against which every player would measure their own worth.
 
Spursidol said:
You pay what you think the player is worth unless you are desperate.

Problem we have now is no DoF and no Analytics department because previous managers didn't want experts to help buy players. So we are at a big disadvantage to the likes of Liverpool when buying and selling players - we cant properly evaluate them.
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Liverpool were desperate - and paid up. That’s my point really
 
Don Corleone said:
Wow. We also went a whole season without spending a single penny and are now paying for that in terms of league position. That amateur decision by the club has now cost us, pathetic.
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And still they pretend that disgraceful show of negligence has no bearing on our alarming fall in fortune since.
I keep saying it, but Stockholm Syndrome personified.
 
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Jerry said:
I’ve always seen the wages as the real issue. How much did we pay for Sanchez? North of £50m?

The problem with wages is that if you offer a great player £250k, other players will expect parity or at least a sizeable improvement.

Several factors in our downturn in performances, but it’s no coincidence that it coincided with the club breaking the wage cap. Kane’s salary increase became the barometer against which every player would measure their own worth.
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Ever since we coughed up the £200k a week for Kane plus bonuses, wages have been less of an issue. We’re paying Ndombele nearly that in wages, allegedly. Only a handful of players make that much in the Premier League.

Wages were a real issue 3-4 years ago, though.
 
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