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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Carl Johnson said:
Gallagher and Johnson are proper 2010 midtable club signings, both will be very underwhelming.

Technical players elevate the quality of the team, we have already seen that with Bissouma and Madders, I don't understand why Ange wants the club to spend almost 100m on those 2 donkeys.
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Gallagher and Johnson aren't donkeys and would both do well for us in Anges system and both are home grown premier league level players. Saves us clogging the squad with others who are not good enough but are just HG.

Gallagher as an 8 is better than Skipp and possibly Sarr although I think Sarr might have a higher ceiling. I really hope we don't see him as a 6 though.

Johnson really isn't as bad as some are making out. If we was signing him after the back of his championship season we would be saying go get him. He is rapid and aggressive with it can use both feet well and gives us a completely different option.

Both players work hard off the ball too and considering there age have a good amount of experience.
 
kingdawson said:
There's a surprise.

Imagine we gave him a 3 year extension as was rumoured? he would sit it out collecting 80k a week whilst we could do absolutely diddly squat.
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I was at least as angry at the idea that fraud was getting a new contract as I was in a terrible road rage incident once upon a time. At that time, plenty on here still thought he was good.
The Dealer has the ratings ya know
 
Raumdeuterz said:
We didn't sign a player exactly like Maddison so therefore it proves we could never have signed Maddison. Sparkling logic, you're really good at this.

We had Dele and Eriksen under Pochettino, so no we weren't going bid for a creative mid, nor do under the radar players like Maddison pop up all the time. That and we were on our austerity drive to pay for the stadium.

The profile of the club was absolutely at a point where we had the pull to sign him. Its genuinely fucking baffling to pretend otherwise unless you're on some sort of mega propaganda drive to pretend we were nothing pre stadium complex ... oh wait, my bad.

Maddison's profile pre being signed by Spurs was more akin to Clint Dempsey than it was David Silva. Certainly somebody like Van De Vaart was a higher profile of signing, probably even Eriksen given he'd done very well in Europe and was courted across Europe.
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Yes, VDV was an uber signing but an exception not the rule.

The profile of players we would sign at the old WHL, especially attacking ones, was more often than not., young players from outside the prem with big potential.

Modric, Eriksen, Bale, Lamela, Alli, Holtby, N'jie, Nkoudu,

We also bought Moura, at a time when we had a bigger profile
 
vibes_guy said:
What use is this new data-led system if it just leads us to whatever Brighton & Brentford are doing?

s reactions mr GIF
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They are waiting for Bill Gates to come and show them how to plug it in.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Who even mentioned what stadium we were at?

I honestly can't be bothered. You're genuinely making some of the most nonsensical arguments I've ever encountered on here.

If you *are* being paid for this propaganda drive, its too much, whatever it is.
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The discussion you came into the middle of was specifically discussing buying players at the old WHL.

Sometimes its best to just put the keyboard down.
 
dudu said:
Yes, VDV was an uber signing but an exception not the rule.

The profile of players we would sign at the old WHL, especially attacking ones, was more often than not., young players from outside the prem with big potential.

Modric, Eriksen, Bale, Lamela, Alli, Holtby, N'jie, Nkoudu,

We also bought Moura, at a time when we had a bigger profile
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That was strategic and not by necessity. Maddison would've sacrificed his first-born to join peak Poch Spurs, and we absolutely had the 40m to sign him back then too .. Davinson Sanchez, anyone?

If you actually think the only reason Maddison joined us was because of the new stadium, then I don't know what to say. We were, in every respect, a less attractive side when he joined.
 
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