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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Gimenez was born in Argentina.

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Nah you're not, the rule means a circumstance which happens more often than not, all you've done is given me an example of a transfer which happened nearly 10 years ago, that's called an exception.

If you don't have any more examples, let's draw a line under this debate, thank you.
There would be plenty of deals that don’t go through even if fee agreed if we could be bothered to investigate.

You’re also ignoring failed medicals, teams agreeing a fee and then the player doesn’t fancy the move etc. Frenkie De Jong for instance refusing to move even though United and Barcelona had agreed a fee,

Another one that springs to mind was when we agreed a fee for the sale of Berbatov to Man City yet he ended up at United.

Discussed on this weeks Overlap - fee agreed for Keane to join Blackburn, yet he backed out of verbal agreement when United came in for him, even though all agreed between the three parties but contract not signed.

Ionman34 is bang on in this instance - no deal is done until the signatures are on the contract otherwise why bother having one?!
 
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There would be plenty of deals that don’t go through even if fee agreed if we could be bothered to investigate.

You’re also ignoring failed medicals, teams agreeing a fee and then the player doesn’t fancy the move etc. Frenkie De Jong for instance refusing to move even though United and Barcelona had agreed a fee,

Another one that springs to mind was when we agreed a fee for the sale of Berbatov to Man City yet he ended up at United.

Discussed on this weeks Overlap - fee agreed for Keane to join Blackburn, yet he backed out of verbal agreement when United came in for him, even though all agreed between the three parties but contract not signed.

Ionman34 is bang on in this instance - no deal is done until the signatures are on the contract otherwise why bother having one?!

 
We’ve named four without even having to think about it. I’m sure with a bit of digging a substantial number could be found which kind of blows your anomalous argument out of the water.

If your theory is correct, and it’s purely an anomaly, why do the clubs wait to announce the deal until after signing of contracts?!

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We’ve named four without even having to think about it. I’m sure with a bit of digging a substantial number could be found which kind of blows your anomalous argument out of the water.

If your theory is correct, and it’s purely an anomaly, why do the clubs wait to announce the deal until after signing of contracts?!

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Go on name some more, whilst you're doing that I'll bring up every other transfer which has been announced as completed when the deal has been agreed, you won't win

Anyway boring, I moved on from this ages ago :D
 
Go on name some more, whilst you're doing that I'll bring up every other transfer which has been announced as completed when the deal has been agreed, you won't win

Anyway boring, I moved on from this ages ago :D
The thing is, and this is the thing, even if there were no examples of a deal collapsing after a fee is agreed you'd still be wrong. Legally, semantically and biblically. So surely it's not worth dying on that hill
 
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