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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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skywalker68 said:
I liked his comments surrounding, not having to spend fortunes, which is music to someone's ears.
But he also said, that sometimes you do have to buy top talent, which is also correct.
The club hopefully will eventually, get it right between, when to buy those players that add stardust to the team.
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Always thought this is why he got the job.
Probably also said he'd give some of the deadwood a chance to redeem themselves. Or at least push their value up.
 
NotThatTedHughes said:
So you didn’t answer the first part.

Klinsmann was 30 years old and coming off a poor, injury-ridden (and controversial? ) season (with Monaco? as I recall). He rehabilitated his image and fucked off to Bayern after a year. That’s the truth of it.

Yup, he was world-class but no one really thought we were getting prime KlinsmannJ
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Jurgen was 29 when he signed and coming off 5 goals in the World Cup. He was very much one of the finest strikers in the world and pretty much the only good thing Sugar did whilst chairman.
 
rusty said:
ndombele will not play for us again, he is not willing to do the hard work required to play 60/70 mins per match
no club will pay his wages and a transfer fee, so Levy has to swallow and let him go on a free transfer providing the "buying club" pick up his contract
if not we will continue to pay him £200K pw till his contract ends
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Extremely unlikely that happens, I know people will cite Aurier and Doc but they were entirely different situations.
 
rusty said:
I don't like having to say it, But we have spent on talent, but most have turned out to be duffers
Sanchez, Ndombele, GLC, something like £130M down the toilet, then add the cheap players we got in that just disappeared since 2016
someone has wasted a lot of the clubs money, Levy or transfer committee no one seems to take the blame
then we have the probelm of not getting these duffers out,
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Not saying we haven't, but could we claim they are top talents.
 
skywalker68 said:
I liked his comments surrounding, not having to spend fortunes, which is music to someone's ears.
But he also said, that sometimes you do have to buy top talent, which is also correct.
The club hopefully will eventually, get it right between, when to buy those players that add stardust to the team.
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I'd trust him and Gabbanini to get that right more than the club.

We just have to hope they are given the license to make football decisions and probably just make Gabbanini the de facto DOF
 
Matt1882 said:
Always thought this is why he got the job.
Probably also said he'd give some of the deadwood a chance to redeem themselves. Or at least push their value up.
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I mean it makes sense to hire a manager who doesn't need to spend fortunes as that is not what we do...That's why the Mourinho and Conte appointments were so strange. Buying good young players and bringing others through the academy is a much better fit for how we are run.

Also, any manager will give the 'deadwood' a go when they come to a new club, that doesn't mean they cannot quickly identify if they are wanted or not. GLC and Perisic seem to have a future here and maybe even Davidson. Dier, Tanguy and Spence on the other hand have been deemed surplus to requirements.
 
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