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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Starks said:
I assume you'd have rathered Caicedo for 115m over Bissouma, Maddison, Sarr and Bentancur for £95m?
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It’s more the attitude to the market than the actual players we are signing. I think we have signed good midfielders for that £95m.

It’s just that Levy would never spend £100m on one player. Even if that player would be perfect for the team, was proven quality and someone the manager personally asked for, he would never do it. Never. Even if we could afford it. He would never do what Bayern did with Kane or Woolwich did with Rice.
 
The dippers have exposed the risk of making huge bids only to learn the player would rather be a chav. Amusingly, every selling club in the world now knows they have north of £100 million in their coffers, so up go the prices to yanited ripoff levels.

Whislt I share the frustration at not getting players in post-Kane, since Paratici rocked up we have been fairly good at closing deals without getting gazumped or turned down.

Signing Bissuoma for £25 million was outstanding work.

Signing players from friendly agencies - notably BASE - helps too.

It may well be that we're exploring moves for the likes of Vlahovic & Eze (if we sell GLC to Barca & PEH to AtMad). But other clubs will be interested too, andwe need to be reasonably certain we can do the deal before showing our hand.

That's the positive view of what's going on.

The more negative view is we don't know what we're doing & won't splash much cash.

The one thing I'm fairly confident about is that Ange now has a good sense of what he has in the squad, who he wants to keep & develop, and the types of player he wants to sign.
 
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