Yes, just realized that. Was going to change but you were to fast. Thanks, so the window is now closed. Great.
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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread
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A spring doesn’t haven’t have potential energy until it’s compressed. We’ve started squeezing.
- More than 20 goals last season were replaced by no one
- Lowered the wage bill by a lot but then preceed to spend less than the likes of Norwich
- Could've got Traore on the last day but his price was viewed as a gamble too much. Not surprised but then where are the other targets you get as a plan B or C.
- No attacking depth in the squad at all
Very poor window for me . 4/10
- Lowered the wage bill by a lot but then preceed to spend less than the likes of Norwich
- Could've got Traore on the last day but his price was viewed as a gamble too much. Not surprised but then where are the other targets you get as a plan B or C.
- No attacking depth in the squad at all
Very poor window for me . 4/10
I would have been overall ok with it given Romero, Gil and Royal but not singing a striker like Ings or Daka or even Edouard is very disappointing as we are now reliant on Kane being fit every game unless Scarlett is the second coming of fat Ronaldo.
No, the PL and EFL windows have now closed.
Last year the EFL one closed later (I think?), meaning clubs in the EFL could take players from the PL but not the other way round.
Better than trying to mould Sissoko into a 5/10 footballer
We needed a CB and a RB and we delivered in that space, time will tell if those guys are good enough, but Romero oozed class in the couple of games I've seen him.
Know nothing about Royal so will reserve judgement there. A long term backup to Hugo was also ticked off.
I think we have DM covered off with Skipp and PEH.
My worry going into this season is how we get the ball to our speedsters and Kane. We are relying on Lo Celso to have a standout season. I think we have plenty of goals in our front players It's just getting the ball to them that's going to be the issue, our squad lacks a bit of balance.
We are also going to have to hope that we can get Ndombele fit and firing which I'm just not convinced about.
Wasn't a disaster of a window just a little disappointing.
Know nothing about Royal so will reserve judgement there. A long term backup to Hugo was also ticked off.
I think we have DM covered off with Skipp and PEH.
My worry going into this season is how we get the ball to our speedsters and Kane. We are relying on Lo Celso to have a standout season. I think we have plenty of goals in our front players It's just getting the ball to them that's going to be the issue, our squad lacks a bit of balance.
We are also going to have to hope that we can get Ndombele fit and firing which I'm just not convinced about.
Wasn't a disaster of a window just a little disappointing.
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Rules are different pretty much every single window.
Look up a Sissoko highlight reel. It's better viewing than a Winks highlight reel, which consists almost exclusively of 5 yard passes to Toby.
Says the 'mam' dishing out lol emjoies to posters calling other members "pedophile"....
My favourite on twitter is that we haven't replaced Vinicius...my gran could replace him...and she's been dead 20 years...
She might have been able to replace him, but I don't think Lucas, Bergwjin or Scarlett will. They'd struggle to match his goal tally if you added theirs together.
He sounds great.
A right side of Emerson/Tanganga and Romero is scarily solid on paper, especially with the hardworking Lucas/Bergjwin ahead.
If the club defaults on repaying the loans for the stadium and wider NDP then the loan underwriters will take posession of those assets and sell to the highest bidder to re-coup their losses. It's actually a pretty low risk loan to the lender. Obviously they wouldn't want that to happen because it would be a massive ball ache.
Now consider the same situation with money loaned to buy players.
Club borrows £1bn to buy and pay salaries of the players that can win them the IMU (Interplanetary Mega Ultimaship)(I might copywrite that). However half the team catch covid-22 and die and the other half sustain career ending injuries. How does anyone get their money back? In order to "borrow" money for players you pretty much have to have a benefactor willing to risk burning huge piles of cash. There aren't many of those about. In fact I'd say there are 3 left in the world. If that's what you want unfortunately I think you're going to have to go and support one of them.
The stadium and NDP are one prong of the plan to get us towards competing at the level of the organic mega clubs. (e.g. Utd, Liverpool, Bayern, Juve etc). Unless we are (un)lucky enough for a despot to buy us out in the hope of using us to come across as a good guy then that's as much as we can realistically hope for. We will never have Neymar, MBappe and Messi until that happens.
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I do agree our current pattern of play is somewhat similar to last season, and even gotten us top around Dec period. There is certainly a chance we might collapse like we did then.
I am also seeing similarity during Poch early era where we just pick up someone that just played for Southampton, started an unknown from Mk Dons, recalling loans such as Rose, Kane, calling on Mason as for a bit of leadership. We also have Walker that blows hot and cold.
My inclination to believe we might embark a Poch era success than Jose collapse is due to the fact that Nuno is more Poch than Jose in terms of player management. I am hoping, and probably seeing early signs, that the wonderful team spirit that allowed Poch average names to punch above expectations is showing up in Nuno's current team.
My other reason for optimism is the appointment of Paratici. The amount of players linked to us this summer shows his effectiveness. If we continue to adopt similar policy to bring top kids in, in the next six windows three seasons later we will be a force again, like the Poch progression.
Maybe I am just too optimistic haha
How nice is it to recognise that never again will we have to watch Sissoko coming on with 25 mins to go and the whole team's performance turning to shit as we try to 'see out the game'.
Or Aurier switching off like clockwork every 85th min and doing something stupid.
Lovely stuff.
Or Aurier switching off like clockwork every 85th min and doing something stupid.
Lovely stuff.
The summary of this is that the stadium is an ultra safe investment to increase revenue. Investing in players to win thing thus driving up revenue is much more of a gamble.
Player trading is operated in much the same way as the stock exchange. Buy lots of low priced assets with potential, dump the shit use/sell what turns into true value. Recycle funds. Repeat.
We will still have to watch Winks hide and we have absolutely no idea if Royal will be better or worse than Aurier. Who on his day could be unplayable.
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