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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Cool! Haven’t seen much of him but hope he’s in the Dele/Wharton/eze bracket that can step up.

Glad we’re up and running! A lot more still to do!

Do we think he’ll play mostly FB for us or as a DM?

We still need a dribbly winger - Doue
Attacking mid to compete with mad - Eze (can also play wide)
A striker (fuck knows…)

Then a left sided defender that can play LCB & LB

Also a 6 prob…

Plus a lot of ours

Hojbjerg, Regulion, Lo celso, Spence etc etc

Crikey.
Not sure we need the six now.

Biss, Bentancur, Bergvall, Gray, Sarr - 5 players that can play the two 8/6 roles potentially.

I think priority now needs to be attacking players. RW and CF and cover for Maddison.
 
He's the right profile for us. Young, eager, huge potential.

We have been on the end of a few poor championship moves though i.e. Sess & Spence. Both looked much bigger prospects at the time of signing.

I'd rather we gambled on these players than big money on average squad fillers. Covers two positions that will allow us to let on someone like Emerson Royal move on.
To be fair, it's pretty big money. £40m for an 18 year old.

But, he looks good and I'm fairly confident it's money well spent. As someone else pointed out: we've got a versatile RB and CDM as well as an HG spot covered for £25 plus Rodon. That's a deal.


TIL: Archie is Andy Gray's son!

STOP PRESS: It's not the *that* Andy.

:mourbye:
 
I'd imagine it's something like 20m + add ons + Rodon.

We've leveraged the fact that Leeds want Rodon and Rodon wants Leeds to get the Championship YPOTY.

We've seen the likes of Bowen, Eze, Olise, Wharton come from the Championship and tear up the PL.

Can't complain that we missed out on those and also complain when we sign the next one.


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It's alot.
 
Its a lot of money but sometimes you have to take a chance. I'm old enough to remember a lot of fans incredulous that we spent £10m on a 17 yr old skinny fullback from Southampton.

What we really need now though is players that instantly upgrade the first team. Unless we improve that front 3 and add more creativity then we're stuffed.
 


It's what Leeds have valued him at from the start.

Most of the guys like Yorkshire_Spurs Yorkshire_Spurs and I think it was Football Chap Football Chap were saying Leeds would never sell for less than 50m.

Market sets the price but if they think he's worth 30m plus Rodon, that kills 2 birds with 1 stone for me because we have so much to get done and he's a serious talent. We want conviction from the transfer guys... well this is what conviction looks like.


Obviously now the cheap bald one can spend 80m on a striker because he's signed 1 player for 2 positions.
 
I know that sounds great for us to have that depth. But do you really think that Eze really wants to share game time and play out of position when he could play a full game at number 10 at any other club.

If Eze believes in himself then he will think he can send Maddison to the bench. That’s how it should be. There has to be pressure from within the squad to perform for your place. We don’t want players who will be happy sitting on the bench. We want players who will fight to play every minute.
 
Don't really get the Gray hype and I think spending anything upward of 30m on a teenager who hasn't played a lick of top flight football is mental.

But if the club thinks he ticks the boxes needed and got it done, fair play. He's going to get lots of minutes next season so hopefully he can live up to it.

You obviously haven’t been watching the right YouTube videos …
 
Posted this is the Sess thread

People on here were trying to say that no club in the Prem would even entertain the option of having him
I hope that Palace works out for Ryan.

If I were in charge at Palace I'd give him a one year contract with a option for a second year. To see if he stays fit. Because when fit he did show promise so it was never a matter of lack of skill or drive with Ryan.
 
It's what Leeds have valued him at from the start.

Most of the guys like Yorkshire_Spurs Yorkshire_Spurs and I think it was Football Chap Football Chap were saying Leeds would never sell for less than 50m.

Market sets the price but if they think he's worth 30m plus Rodon, that kills 2 birds with 1 stone for me because we have so much to get done and he's a serious talent. We want conviction from the transfer guys... well this is what conviction looks like.


Obviously now the cheap bald one can spend 80m on a striker because he's signed 1 player for 2 positions.
I didn't think they were going to sell this summer so was slightly projecting what I thought the fee would be in a year or two but I said £40-£50m and that if we did go for him we could work Rodon in to the deal to bring the fee down which is pretty much what happened. Also said I would be fine with loaning him back, I don't think he's the final product yet so hopefully despite the big fee people will give him a bit of time to develop, still only 18. Said before, he's hard-working, great at tackling, has good passing, decent against a press and can ball-carry too and I think Ange will really like him. Played a lot of games at RB this season but I think his best position is in midfield so where he plays will probably depend on who else we bring in this summer. I think he's comfortable at DM but I think Ange would love his as a rotation 8 but all depends on where everyone else fits in. Really happy with this signing personally!
 
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