Another smart signing by Bmuff.
They are the new Brentford imo
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Another smart signing by Bmuff.
They are the new Brentford imo
Definitely assembling a decent squad with a young progressive coach. Promotion, done well.
Suspect they get a shock result at Anfield this weekend and people start taking notice
Better than Dier.
I'm really concerned that Ange has stated that Dier is "in his plans"
Let's not forget his many fucks up though, its just odd timing given he had a good pre-season and good game against Brentford.
So a week on from the Kane sale and nothing seems close. 2 weeks to go and so much to do.
Shambles really.
This sell to buy thing is such a cop out. Get the players in that are needed for your new manager to succeed.
If no one wants to buy our dross I'm sure we can loan them somewhere and save on wages.
Maybe there are a couple that refuse to go out on loan so banish them to train with the kids. (I don't think we have those types of characters anyway).
The opportunity cost of not giving Ange what he needs is way higher than swallowing the wages of a couple of the deadwood for a season.
Such short-term thinking to not act.
Shambles really.
This sell to buy thing is such a cop out. Get the players in that are needed for your new manager to succeed.
If no one wants to buy our dross I'm sure we can loan them somewhere and save on wages.
Maybe there are a couple that refuse to go out on loan so banish them to train with the kids. (I don't think we have those types of characters anyway).
The opportunity cost of not giving Ange what he needs is way higher than swallowing the wages of a couple of the deadwood for a season.
Such short-term thinking to not act.
It's always better than nothing, on the whole though I'd prefer just inserting reasonable buy backs, I suppose there's a fine line there though in that if it's too low the buying club would feel less incentive to develop the player knowing that it's just a glorified loan if the player kicks on.
In isolation (hypothetically) getting £4m from a £40m transfer just doesn't feel like much of a win to me, if you couple it with a reasonable base fee in the first place then it's more like it, but it feels like we resort to it in cases where we're struggling to offload a player and it's just a case of clawing back something in the absence of a half decent fee (eg Edwards). In that kind of case the sell on fee has to be really big to make it a decent payday down the line.
Anyway, in a nutshell, I can't see anyone giving us close to what we paid for Spence, so if we're going to go down the sell on clause route I should hope it's a whopping %.
Why are we looking at wingers again when a new CB must be the priority. Surely we know who we want by now.
If the club do not bring in a proven goal scorer to replace Kane before the window ends, I honestly think they will have failed Ange on the same if not bigger scale than they fucked Ramos over when we sold Berbatov and Keane.
Richarlison is not and will never be the answer.
Gift Orban is also not the answer. Sign him sure, but sign him as Sons back up (and potentially eventual replacement) as a wide forward, not as a replacement for our best ever striker.
Regardless of how anyone spins it, Orban is a punt and we simply cannot rely on a punt to replace even a fraction of Kanes goals.
Were talking about players that have all ranged from good to excellent in the not too distant past...... Assuming they can't adapt to the new managers vastly different system after one game is as I said; folly and at the very least rash.
Have you studied Ange enough to know the finer points of his system......? Are you seeing what he does in training...... The things that he presumably sees that makes him believes they CAN do what he asks?
Have you studied (eg) Orban enough to know that he would drop straight in and succeed - or at least score more than Rich or Son - after one game? .....If he doesn't; how many games do we give him before dropping him and going back to the well all over again.
Would I like to see at least one more attacking player brought in before the end of the window; yes...... But that's a seperate discussion to the questions above?
If they get Doku instead of Paq why would that in turn make them more likely to sign Eze?
Two weeks today the window shuts isn't it.
I think there will be chat that, we are still looking/waiting, but it will be the usual story, that we tried so sorry line.
The team needs three key players we know that, we also know he probably won't get what he wants or needs.
They are probably waiting for a bargain to suddenly appear.
EXACTLY. hiring these win-now scorched earth coaches affects this.
Bentaleb, Mason, Caulker, Townsend. Carroll, Livermore = £57mil
Wimmer turned from 4 mil to £18mil.
Doku transfer was independant of Paqueta apparently, the Mahrez replacement/Grealish rotation. Paqueta a Gundogan replacement /Kdb alternate. Eze is kind of between the two, could play Lw or offensive 8
The clue is on the word..... No-one's claimed that links/rumours are 'outcomes'.
Never-the-less; why moan about the absence of them then (despite the fact that there was some)?
Also: "Links mean nothing until they happen."
The same could be said for your fears of deliberate sabotage... Not that you'll ever be able to substantiate any such deliberate intent anyway.
We need wingers that can dribble, a striker that can score, a rotational
Cb that can run fast and probably another midfielder too. Think a goalscorer is probably the most pressing.
It's not though....... You started off your morning whinging about Deadline-day-ism..... That's a proven myth.
Someone crunched the figures here a year or so ago..... Less than 20% of our trf business took place in the final week... Let alone the last day.
Same behaviour from the board every season. Such short term thinking hence the bloated squad and the amount of deadwood we need to shift.
Not sure Eze is a Pep player though.
Definitely an Ange player but Pep likes them a bit more robotic, bit less flair.