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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

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Beijing Guoan pulled Kim Min-jae out of a pre-match press conference on Tuesday with the South Korean international defender strongly linked with a move to England or Italy. Jose Mourinho's Tottenham Hotspur and Lazio are prime among those said to be chasing the 23-year-old centre back, who is nicknamed "Monster" because of his 1.90m (6ft 2ins) frame. Kim, linked with Watford before moving to the Chinese Super League from Jeonbuk Motors in 2019 for 5.25 million euros, was supposed to talk to the media alongside Beijing coach Bruno Genesio.

"I'm going to be very honest with you," said the former Lyon boss.

"We scheduled Kim to be here at this press conference but I was told that there are lots of rumours and news about him.

"He's a young player and I decided to protect him," added the 53-year-old Frenchman.

"I think it's best for him to concentrate on Thursday's match and not be exposed to more criticism and questions that will put him in a difficult position."

Kim, who has won 30 caps for South Korea, missed two of Beijing's opening three matches of the coronavirus-delayed Chinese season.

However, he has played every minute of the last three games, including a 2-1 defeat to title rivals Shanghai SIPG in which former Chelsea star Oscar scored the winner.

In May, with the CSL indefinitely postponed because of the pandemic, Kim apologised after giving an interview in South Korea saying he was often "exhausted" by having to make up for the defensive deficiencies of his Beijing team-mates.

Kim also said that he did not know the name of Beijing's coach, Genesio.

The remarks, which went viral on Chinese social media, were taken as a general criticism of the quality of Chinese football and were roundly condemned.
 
StripiestPilot said:
That would be amazing. But a player like Thiago is not going to want to come here.

We have to target players who are hungry to make a step up, players who see us as a step down are not worth chasing.
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Partially tongue in cheek on my part, but yes we could easily improve with 2 x 30m players..... Or even cheaper.....

Sangare 15-20m
Eze 15-20m
20-30m still left to go towards a RB or ST.
 
ArcspacE said:
You've got it bit wrong here, mate

I think Chelsea are simply being used as an example for making signings that improve their first 11 - something we desperate need based on the shit show served last season - yet to date we have made no real attempt to do that in the transfer market.

I don't expect us to sign 300m worth of players but I certainly expect the 8th richest club in the world to be able to sign at least one quality player this window that improves our team and doesn't plunge us into bankruptcy. Unless of course you want to believe the shameless ENIC lies about Covid, the stadium, etc. If that makes me a cunt in the book of some cultist Levy apologists on here - I'm quite ok with it.
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Come on, they aren’t lies, anyone with a brain can see that having no income coming in from a stadium, that we rely on more than any other team to pay the players, is going to have an effect if it is empty. But at some point as an owner you have to take a risk. In a depressed market, it is the perfect time. That is my problem. Pluss we took out a £170m loan just so we could carry on like last summer and spend money.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Come on, they aren’t lies, anyone with a brain can see that having no income coming in from a stadium, that we rely on more than any other team to pay the players, is going to have an effect if it is empty. But at some point as an owner you have to take a risk. In a depressed market, it is the perfect time. That is my problem. Pluss we took out a £170m loan just so we could carry on like last summer and spend money.
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Agree with this. No doubt we're hamstrung like most clubs who arent owned by an oligarch or nation state but equally this is the time to buy. We are probably about a 3rd of the way into a rebuild we have required for 3 years, you cant get the 5 or so players we need from players with one year left on their contracts and other bargain basement sources and expect any progress. It also doesnt mean £50m a player. As you say a depressed market should be the time to finish the rebuild but as per we dont seem to be seeing a lot of urgency.
 
sammyspurs said:
Can we all stop pretending we’ve ever heard of Havertz before yesterday

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Seen at least 50 games my man. No pretending necessary. Some of us (save you and the fellating ENIC-bots) actually like the football and not just getting our jollies from defending net spend and the corporate side of things Sammy. Hope you win some silverware in the net spend league this year because on the football side things look bleak.
 
StripiestPilot said:
Well yeah, that's what we did. The manager who insisted we get Ndombele no matter the price, got the sack.

I'm sure if we could get that £60m back we could make two £30m signings that would give much more to the team. We are not at the point yet where spending big makes sense for us, we are back to playing on Thursdays and players who are genuinely worth £60m+ and 200k a week in salary do not want to play on Thursdays.

With Chelsea taking our CL spot we no longer have anything to offer elite players, if you want to play CL in London with a big wage you go to Chelsea. We will have to find another way to get back in there that doesn't involve massive spending.
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As have already been discussed here and in other threads. Our transfer strategy needs to and hopefully is already changing. As you've said. We cannot afford to have 60 mil players flop. Better to recruit smarter. Buy players that cost less but have growth potential. Combined with a few astute more expensive signings.

Buy smarter, not expensive for the sake of expensive. Copy a bit of what Dortmund does.

It would require or scouting and recruiting departments to be overhauled but that has to be our next big backstage renovation now that the stadium is done either way.
 
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