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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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More a case of "foolish, foolish boy" I'd say...

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Don't let Porro see those photos
 
how much have we spent?

kulusevski 25 ÷ 5years = 5m
vicario 17m ÷ 5 years = 3.4m
maddison 40m ÷ 5years = 8m
porro 45m ÷ 5years = 9m

so we've spent 25.4m so far x 5years = 127m

although these figures are plucked out of someones arse nal

You forgot to go back 5 years and work out costs we 'inherit' from previous years - including Ndombele £65m, Lo Celso £45m and Reguilon etc
 
That's true, and you have to go into this kind of approach in the knowledge that not all will work out, however, if you're taking the punt before they make it big then the fees involved are generally small enough that those that don't work out can be flipped for similar fees to what they signed for, and if you do strike gold with even just one of them, then that can more than pay the cost of the failures in the long run.

The likes of Clarke and N'Kouddou that we've had here aren't really a huge problem, it's the Sessegnon and Janssen type transfers that are, they were "punts" to an extent but that wasn't reflected in the fees paid for them.

Provided you don't overpay them and are prepares to cut bait on them. A decade ago we'd have flipped Rodon after a season.
 
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