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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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Bergwijn, Son, and Lucas are all very fast. Reguilon is generally pretty fast as well.

I still haven't seen us linked to anyone though that addresses the area that we truly and desperately need, and that is a competent CM.
Agree that we need a CM or 2, but we bypass our center midfield.

Son is the only one with elite-level pace but he's been run into the ground.

Lucas has elite-level acceleration.

Bergwijn is a tier-below pace-wise.
 
All those people saying "wait until the Jan window is closed before we get upset with Levy" are readying up the "It's the January transfer window, let's wait until after the summer window is closed before we get upset with Levy" narrative already. We have seen it every season for the last how many years now?

It never ends, always excuses, always moving the goalposts and never acknowledging the truth, which is that these owners and Daniel Levy couldn't care less about the results on the pitch or success in the form of honours.
Plus we just generally do our business like shit and waste the already limited resources we bring to bear.

That said, Fabio’s a wheeler-dealer. Twists still to come, I predict.
 
I have given up reading these ITKs.



He says after to replying to a link of an ITK...
Just ....sign ....somebody ..... Spurs

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All those people saying "wait until the Jan window is closed before we get upset with Levy" are readying up the "It's the January transfer window, let's wait until after the summer window is closed before we get upset with Levy" narrative already. We have seen it every season for the last how many years no

It never ends, always excuses, always moving the goalposts and never acknowledging the truth, which is that these owners and Daniel Levy couldn't care less about the results on the pitch or success in the form of honours.

So the January transfer window is a good time to piss away money on average wingers and overpriced kids ... is that what you're saying?

Yes we should be signing players, but how has spending 250m on any old crap worked in the last three years? quality over quantity and preferably both.
 
All those people saying "wait until the Jan window is closed before we get upset with Levy" are readying up the "It's the January transfer window, let's wait until after the summer window is closed before we get upset with Levy" narrative already. We have seen it every season for the last how many years now?

It never ends, always excuses, always moving the goalposts and never acknowledging the truth, which is that these owners and Daniel Levy couldn't care less about the results on the pitch or success in the form of honours.

"If Traore comes in at the end of January will you melters still complain?" "Traore wasn't good anyways so why would we want him."

These pathetic apologists will find reasons to shift the discussion and come up excuses no matter what happens.

It's always what if, maybe, wait with them because there is no way to defend Levy without hypotheticals and maybes. The actual facts of what has happened all show what a piece of shit he is and a disaster his time running the club has been.
 
But that's very clearly not what happened here.

What happened here for anyone paying attention is Wolves had an asset whose head had been turned and no longer wanted to play for them and was on a ticking clock contract situation.
They had to bench him when he's been a regular there, many Wolves fans referred to him as their best player.
We can get into debates about whether their best player is Neves or whatever, the point is Traore was a very important player for them.

So anyway, Levy aware that Traore wants out does what Levy always does, he tries to play brinksmanship until the very last second to slash a couple of million off.

He's done this so many times now and its cost us getting players like Tomiyasu.

Then before Levy gets a chance to see if Wolves will cave into this particular game of chicken Barca recognise there is a bit of talent they can try on a loan with no obligation to buy and they step in.

At which point obviously any lingering deal with us is toast for two reasons, they are a bigger draw and at this point Levy looks a cunt if he goes back in with a better offer.

The club then puts out a bit of spin through the likes of Gold that Traore never wanted to play RWB, when in the past two months he's been "very receptive to joining us"

It's obvious what's happened, whether you wanted Traore or not (he seems to be marmite on here) let's not let Levy off the hook for fucking up another deal.


It is not so clear what is happening behind the scene – unless you were there or have insider info.

Yes, I know that he was refusing to sign a new contract lead to him being benched.

I do know very well that Levy is a shrewd negotiator - and that his shrewdness backfires on certain deals (Grealish being one of the most infamous). But Levy is not the only shrewd and cunning man in football business. Mendes is another one. So not all failed bids are down to Levy.

And Levy did not cost Spurs getting Tomiyasu. Spurs decided to go for Emerson instead. Tomiyasu even said himself that he was expecting Spurs to bid for him on the last day but they never did.

Back in June 2021 Adama said, “Barcelona is my home.” So go figure where he would prefer to play… However, Barca was in the financial mess they were in and to “adjust” a few things before they could start doing transfers again - which Mendes knew of course. And he beats Levy when it comes to cunningness and manipulation. And being open to coming doesn’t mean Spurs was his 1st choice nor that he wasn’t waiting for better offers. Willian was also Spurs 1st apparently. Maybe Mendes was just bidding his time ...

The bottom line is: Levy is not always to blame and in this case, the facts pointing at Levy are not as clear as many want to believe.

Yes, I was happy to get Traore as a RWB but I was not fully convinced about him as RWB either.
 
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All the excuses will come out now for why we couldn't get Adama, but it's yet another failed transfer saga after we were bombarded with 'the club are very confident it will get done' for months on end. They are an utterly incompetent, penny pinching bunch who drag shit out to try and get the 'best deal' and inevitably 90% of the time this blows up in their greedy fucking faces.
It would have been another failed transfer saga even if we had gotten him. In this case I'm happy we didn't pull it off. It's all the other failed transfer sagas this window in more worried about.
 
Because I've got 20+ years of experience of this cunt of a chairman and know how his mind works, and frankly we've seen this same drawn out saga at least a dozen times now.

He tries to lowball everyone that's why nobody likes to do business with the man and its also why we keep losing out on targets.

If there were previous Barca links as you claim they certainly haven't been at the forefront of mainstream discussion.

A lot of people thought this one was inevitable but we found a way to fuck it up as per usual by taking too long.

Seems most people can see it apart from you

Levy reminds me of the owner of a company that spent months recruiting me to join his company only to tell me this at the end:

“I need to pay you less than what you earn now to feel like I am getting a good deal”

To which I said, “fuck off”.

His company went under less than two years later.
 
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