I think Zlatan left Ajax because Mido was ahead of him in the pecking order. Then he discovered donuts and it all changed.
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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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That's not a reason to sign Toney tho is it?
Let's spend 50m and 250k pw on a player with no resale value because we aren't imaginative enough to find anyone better...
If i was guessing Gyokeres is Swedish and has great pressing data to go with his goal scoring numbers over the last 2 seasons. Lange seems to love targeting Scandi players and we also own a sell on fee for Edwards who Sporting want to sell. Maybe there is a deal to be done there.
I don't have an opinion on Gyokeres as a player but plenty of people are excited by him. Looks a better profile fit than pretty much anyone else on the market other than Isak.
Spot on.
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I’m with you on Gyokeres but there’s hardly any links to him…
You’d think deki and Lucas could put a word in they could be our new Belgians/Croatians
I’m with you on Gyokeres but there’s hardly any links to him…
You’d think deki and Lucas could put a word in they could be our new Belgians/Croatians
If he wants 250k a week, he’s going to have to run his contract down.
The real question is over how many years has the budget been large enough to make a credible challenge for the title.
I suspect not long enough because our squad remains full of weaknesses
If the club did want him you'd have to think that might help. 2 players he'd know that came from the same club in Sweden. Both of them will be his teammates for Sweden now.
A;also reckon he's had a journey of it in his career and Ange has said plenty of times he loves players that make it without coming up through the traditional route. I can see that maybe being an appeal for him a bit like VDV was.
No links doesn't mean much with Lange tbh. He loves a sneak attack. The issue is the financials involved with an 86m release clause. If they could get that down to 70m with the Marcus Edwards sell-on fee, maybe there is a chance Levy would sign off on it. In fairness Lange is doing a pretty incredible job bringing money in for players so there has to be some credit in the bank with Levy there.
He's leaving because he wants parity with their higher earners.
Here’s hoping..
Here’s hoping..
Are you a fan?
I honestly don't have an opinion other than watching HLs and he looks like a beast.
Between 2016 and 2020 we spent a lot of money - Sanchez was a record signing at the time and one of the most expensive defenders in UK, Moura also expensive. And we won't mention Nodombele. Lo Celso and Sessegnon,
The fact is we had NO good purchases in that time period, Sanchez and Moura were the best of a very bad collection of players. None of the players over that 4 year period became automatic starters.
And over 4 years, the first team players we had got old - Eriksen being a prime example sold for £18m when we could have got £100m a year or so earlier and reinvested the money,
So given that situation Paraciti (initially) has done a good job in bring in a number of players to form a decent first team, a total change in recruiting success.
ManCity spent best part of a decade and well over a billion to put together a squad, so no surprise Spurs rebuild is in a good position, but not complete. The one thing we now have going for us is a stream of decent youngsters coming through the academy, a number currently with the first team who seem technically to be as good as most first teamers and every possibility of joining the first team squad over the next 1 - 3 years. Ange will make a decision after seeing them in preseason on their timescales to join first team squad and/or loans.
And in addition Archie Gray looks to be ready to join the first team squad now and Luca Bergvall probably not far behind if at all - again Ange is assessing them right now.
Sure we'd all like instant gratification, but neither life nor football (see ManCity above) is like that.
As a point of fact, we are LESS than half way through the transfer window which opened on 1 July and runs until end August - so just as last season we will probably sign a couple of others (remember Van de Venn joined days before season started).
There are plenty of players who will ONLY move on at the end of this window as their clubs will not sell them until then - those with a business background will understand the reasons.
So its far to early for all the angst flying around - usually from people on keyboards who are bored !
You dirty dirty bastard!!
Brilliantly obvious ?
Brilliantly underwhelming?
Brilliantly over-priced?
Brilliantly ok to decent-PL-forward-for-the next two-seasons?
They arent better than us. They say the table dont lie but it did a bit last season. Thrashed villa 4 nil but we let ourselves down losing to fulham, then the rot set in.
Dont know if the gallagher rumour to us was made up. We should never do business with chelsea. Unless they go bust and we cherry pick their best players for peanuts.