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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024

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Naaa, he might be touting him if he wants more minutes, but they’ve sold huge £££ the last few seasons.

Suspect given their revenues (and the upsurge Treble Winners get) last season, they are well within bounds.

Know he is supposedly (Bobb) a top tier talent, but don’t suspect we’d have funds for that type of deal right now.

We might do in the summer.

i wonder who is better out of Nusa and Bobb...
 
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That set up and half of football is exactly why I would rather have an Eze in our squad than a Gallagher.

You could put Bentancur in the 6 and have Eze doing the Maddison things.

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Just to add. My point is if we buy Gallagher, that half doesn’t change much.

This. Just this.

We need an Eze not a Gallagher

If Ange is shopping for "a Gallagher" it's cos he wants "a Gallagher" (and presumably someone that fits better than PEH)......

Nobody likes a wiseacre.

There's no "wiseacre"-ing going on, Blakey...... Quite the opposite.

We were forced to play the players we did v Utd. due to all THREE (!!!) AMs being missing at the same time (as well as another 2 CMs that are higher up the pecking order than those that eventually played).

It's bogus of you to be repeatedly imply otherwise.

You playing the 'if we had Eze today' rhetoric completely ignores why we found ourselves playing Benta/PEH/Skipp as a trio in the first place. It's not the "gotcha" you want it to be.

Perhaps in a perfect world we can have infinite depth, but we obviously don't live in that world.

No, I’m not getting bogged down in numbers, I’ve just used them for shorthand, as well as describing the roles and remits I’m talking about.
Yes. I am disagreeing with either a) Ange’s assessment of need, b) his choice of player to address that need.

"Roles"...... Yeh.... As above.... If Ange is shopping for "a Gallagher"-type it's because he wants one (presumably to replace PEH like for like); not because he is lacking in footballing IQ compared to you and fails to see that an AM would play the 6/8 role better.

Citing MC (who play 4 CBs much of the time and boast best in class in every position 2 times over) or AFC (who's supposed best XI doesn't include 2x AMs anyway) is moot.


IMO we have busy cunt who can do a bit of 8 and a bit of 6 and be btb covered.

If we ship out 1 or 2 of those (i.e. PEH and possibly Skipp); we won't have it "covered" which is the whole damn point. Selling PEH and buying an AM instead of "a Gallagher" would result in a less balanced squad.

"A Gallagher"(*) ought to replace PEH
Eze ought to replace GLC

(* I myself don't want him specifically, but that's besides the point.... Nor have I for a moment been arging that playing 2 AMs is a literaly imposibility.)

We have Sarr. We have Skip. We can always buy another Gallagher for cheaper elsewhere. Or buy him as well.

Eureka!!!!! Despite yourself; you've finally - albeit indirectly - concurred to what I've been saying to you ALL along.

(The isolated idea of whether or not signing Eze is appealing isn't what's at play here.)
 
With Everton it’s straightforward- they’ve simply posted losses for 2019-22 which were about 200m in excess of the 105m limit for a three year period. They've done the same for 2020-23 but by much less I think.

Does seem harsh to find yourself punished twice over 2/3s of the same accounting period.... In theory, if the 2nd of the 3 years (i.e. 20/21 season) is where the key losses took place, then you're effectively being punished for it twice.
 
Eze is injury prone would rather Gibbs-White.

Gibbs-White is a 10, I suppose Eze is mostly as well at least they would be in our system so competition for Maddison and Kulusevski. Would take either as both are good players but by the sounds of things we are looking for a box to box hence the constant Gallagher and Wharton links.
 
Eze is injury prone would rather Gibbs-White.
As someone else suggested earlier, I'm not convinced MG-W would want to join a side where he's not one of the focal points; the main man. With a fully fit squad, he's more often on the bench.

While I think he'd take to Ange immediately (who wouldn't?!), I get a whiff of prima donna about him.
 
Lol I don't want him, but he competes well has a great shot and is very good in the penalty box.

I get it, he looks clunky and isn't exactly fleet footed. But he would score goals in this team.

Bit underated I think.

He is a shit Dele Alli.
can be a good budget FPL player because he has a knack for arriving and scoring. Does fuck all else though. That R8 player needs to be winning duels then also playing the assist before the assist at the other end.
 
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