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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Airfixx said:
50+ pages since I logged on earlier........ Fuck that.

Reg > Man U (Loan) ?
Gallagher ?
Johnson ?
Dier playing silly buggers......
Shady direct to bin with no yellow?

Anything else?
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You forgot Lloyd Kelly

How Dare You Greta GIF
 
StripiestPilot said:
Cheaper players are less risky, not more risky. It's our gambling on expensive frauds like Richarlison, Ndombele, Lo Celso etc that has brought us to this point whereas the cheaper players like Bentancur, Bissouma, Udogie etc are the ones doing well.

It's much easier to recover when a cheap player flops than when all your record signings do.
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Like so many other aspects of the transfer market that were more suited to Levy's methods, the world in which we can flog Kevin Wimmer to Stoke for more than we paid is long, long gone.
 
Tomo said:
True, hojbjerg is probably the least suited to 6 of all our midfielders given he struggles the most in tight spaces and under a press. The 6 role in a possession team is wildly different to the 6 in a counter attack system. If Hojbjerg stays he should play more like a Kante breaking up play further forward.

Bissouma or Sarr are the obvious 6’s in the squad in our system but they will be off for ACON so maybe Bentancur will need to fill in who knows.
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This is where Skipp bulking has let him down as well, you need that strong but slender core that he presently doesn’t have, making him more tank like turns and twists, relative.

Bentancur may well thrive as he is slender/twisty, but will his body recover, will he trust it enough, this season might be a sub role, but January for me, as CB and 2 Forwards first (maybe one forward and a 8).

Think Sarr should be Bissouma cover, but 8 otherwise. Skipp going 8 if Bissouma—> Sarr
 
FightingIllini said:
Like so many other aspects of the transfer market that were more suited to Levy's methods, the world in which we can flog Kevin Wimmer to Stoke for more than we paid is long, long gone.
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Absolutely true, Levy has completely failed to change with the times. He still considers £50m to be a huge fee. That's nothing in this market. Liverpool, Chelsea and Woolwich are buying players for £100m while Levy continues to operate in the same price range that teams like Brentford are now shopping in.
 
Zest said:
This is where Skipp bulking has let him down as well, you need that strong but slender core that he presently doesn’t have, making him more tank like turns and twists, relative.

Bentancur may well thrive as he is slender/twisty, but will his body recover, will he trust it enough, this season might be a sub role, but January for me, as CB and 2 Forwards first (maybe one forward and a 8).

Think Sarr should be Bissouma cover, but 8 otherwise. Skipp going 8 if Bissouma—> Sarr
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Bentancur we don’t know. Some players like Ibrahimovic do an ACL and eat it for lunch coming back as strong immediately, others like VVD look half the player afterwards.
 
StripiestPilot said:
Then why haven't they signed? Trying to take important players at this stage in the window never works for us, it's Dybala all over again. Just Levy trying to pretend he tried.

If it's City or Liverpool, then the money and prestige can get the deals done late. With Levy's dicking around and our diminished status I don't see us pulling anything off. If we wanted a player like Gallagher he should have been signed weeks ago. He is starting every game for Chelsea now.
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Our needs and the availability of those players have evolved over the course of the window.

Especially with Johnson, that's a guy we've had long term interest in. I don't agree, but I'm not employed as a football scout.

The thing the club is doing that is making this all a shitshow is trying to throw a donkey into every deal as part-exchange up until the bitter end.
 
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