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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Says that Utd and Newcastle had "worse injuries" then posts a chart saying they got the "most injuries" brilliant :sonpoint:
I'm pretty sure I said they had "worse injury problems" which would make the charts showing they had injuries that cost them the more minutes and games than us pretty relevant but you seem to be hellbent on defying any criticism, almost like you want the club to stay where it is instead of actually challenging.
 
I'm neither pro nor anti Levy... But I genuinely don't get what we're supposed to do...

Unless people expect us to shell out £200m for M'bappe?


I know it's seen as inevitable and progress, but EVERY transfer nowadays has gone to ridiculous proportions...

What was it Fulham paid for Emile Smith Rowe... £25m

TWENTY FIVE MILLION POUNDS, for an Arse Reject!

Jeez, if that was us, there'd be a riot! (OK, poor time to reference a riot, but you know what I mean!)

Either we pay the inflated prices like everyone else, or we refuse...

Gazza for £2m was EARTH SHATTERING at the time!

What would he be worth now?
A riot! Bit over the top. Our fans are more than happy with a league cup every 25 years mate. We are one of the softest fans with such a low bar considering the size of us. We already are cool with top 4 at best next season & finishing behind our bitter rivals. Leaving them to fight for things like titles whilst we say how lucky we are not to be doing a leeds.
Be honest mate? Scrape 4th, no silverware & let Woolwich battle it out with city for the title whilst we just pray city save us. Pretty much a normal season for us now. No riots the last 2 seasons. In fact you’re a melt if you aren’t happy with that outcome!

Don’t t forget we signed no one & the few fans who moaned about it got abuse from the majority of fans. We accepted & In fact justified signing no one & then acted shocked when it all went wrong. Then blamed the manager who wasn’t backed.

& 50m isn’t spending big these days. We never sign top players who you know will take us to the next level. Then we act shocked when we win nothing again & scratch our heads before then telling ourselves it could be worse.

Levy could not give himself bonuses when we have a shit season & go through 3 managers. He can not be so bad at manager selections. He could have a better plan in place for continuity when we change managers so we don’t have such a big rebuild. He could not let the team & squad go so stale so we need years of rebuilding. He could have a better scouting & youth development operation,
He could be more ambitious & try to really win things & support & back world class players like kane rather than settle for the odd top 4 & then wonder why they want to leave.
Our fans then back our chairman over our world class too goalscorer. If that was United ur Liverpool there would be a riot! We just turn on our player & back the chairman over legends on the pitch.
He could not want us to being playing European super league football in east London. He could not treat staff like shit during pandemics, he could not treat fans like shit with pricing & just rip them off left, right & centre . Not send us to Australia at the end of a long season before the euros just for more profit!
He could prioritise winning on the pitch over real estate & making more profit. He could not interfere with the football side so much & get in the way & then fall out with pretty much every manager. He could step down for a chairman who is more competent & can do better than a league cup every 25 years.

If you don’t know what more levy can do then I hope I was a help:ange-arms:
 
Beyond the spending power of every club.

My issue as it stands is knowing what kind of club we are and the players we are striving to buy. Seems at odds with eacj other.

And you can all but guarantee we will look at one or two of the lesser lights and think why didn't we go for that player, and yet we plunder double on worse.

Hmmmmmmm
It is all still very random & no continuity type plan. I have a feeling the next manager will be very different to ange & not want wingers etc. so then it will be another rebuild for a few years.
 
Joking Just Kidding GIF
I wonder what they thought the fishing & reeling gif was in relation to?!
 
A riot! Bit over the top. Our fans are more than happy with a league cup every 25 years mate. We are one of the softest fans with such a low bar considering the size of us. We already are cool with top 4 at best next season & finishing behind our bitter rivals. Leaving them to fight for things like titles whilst we say how lucky we are not to be doing a leeds.
Be honest mate? Scrape 4th, no silverware & let Woolwich battle it out with city for the title whilst we just pray city save us. Pretty much a normal season for us now. No riots the last 2 seasons. In fact you’re a melt if you aren’t happy with that outcome!

Don’t t forget we signed no one & the few fans who moaned about it got abuse from the majority of fans. We accepted & In fact justified signing no one & then acted shocked when it all went wrong. Then blamed the manager who wasn’t backed.

& 50m isn’t spending big these days. We never sign top players who you know will take us to the next level. Then we act shocked when we win nothing again & scratch our heads before then telling ourselves it could be worse.

Levy could not give himself bonuses when we have a shit season & go through 3 managers. He can not be so bad at manager selections. He could have a better plan in place for continuity when we change managers so we don’t have such a big rebuild. He could not let the team & squad go so stale so we need years of rebuilding. He could have a better scouting & youth development operation,
He could be more ambitious & try to really win things & support & back world class players like kane rather than settle for the odd top 4 & then wonder why they want to leave.
Our fans then back our chairman over our world class too goalscorer. If that was United ur Liverpool there would be a riot! We just turn on our player & back the chairman over legends on the pitch.
He could not want us to being playing European super league football in east London. He could not treat staff like shit during pandemics, he could not treat fans like shit with pricing & just rip them off left, right & centre . Not send us to Australia at the end of a long season before the euros just for more profit!
He could prioritise winning on the pitch over real estate & making more profit. He could not interfere with the football side so much & get in the way & then fall out with pretty much every manager. He could step down for a chairman who is more competent & can do better than a league cup every 25 years.

If you don’t know what more levy can do then I hope I was a help:ange-arms:

Tottenham Massive Tottenham Massive gonna have this speech as wallpaper throughout his entire house.

Joking aside, brilliantly said. No melting, just the goddamn truth.
 
Brentford always insisted they wanted around 60M for Toney. Also they are losing Igor till next year. I'd be surprised if the Bees let Toney go this summer
Yep! It looks like they were expecting a lot more for him so are probably now thinking we may as well keep him as 40m is not much these days. & they would then need to spend most of it on a replacement.
 
I'm pretty sure I said they had "worse injury problems" which would make the charts showing they had injuries that cost them the more minutes and games than us pretty relevant but you seem to be hellbent on defying any criticism, almost like you want the club to stay where it is instead of actually challenging.

Meh whatever despite all that it's a stupid argument anyway, all 3 clubs had a significant injury crisis and would have most probably fared better if they didn't so what? Still doesn't take away the fact that we finished above both.

And no offence this coming from you who seems to be mr glass half empty and does whatever it takes to have a pop at your own club you supposedly support, I'm not even sure if I can take what you say seriously, sorry.
 
Summerville has mostly played RW.
Fullkrug is a CF.
Son is a LW.

So why are you using Son as the comparison?

No he hasn't, research is free:


And you're saying that Fulkrus is a better ST than Son, really? Good Lord.

Son scored 17 as a CF last season mate. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
 

How about you stop lying mate?
I think these stats lack a little bit of context. Yeah numbers can give you an idea but it’s more important to know how many of these injuries are to actual first team players.

For example, people were were counting Perisic, Solomon and Sessegnon as injuries, when let’s be honest, they’d have little to no impact on our overall performance.

And during our “injury crisis”, we had 3 or 4 first team players out. Maddison, VDV and Bentancur with long-term injuries, on top of my head. Far from ideal, but not a disaster.
 
No he hasn't, research is free:


And you're saying that Fulkrus is a better ST than Son, really? Good Lord.

Son scored 17 as a CF last season mate. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
On that very same website you'll see he's played 100 of 191 total games as RW vs 51 at LW. But great job on the filters.

Son is not a CF he's a LW and that's where he'll play for us this season - again why are you making that comparison?

The question is whether you'd prefer Fullkrug or Richarlison/Kulu at CF.
 
Yep cos we're at the same level as them quality wise right? Rivals being the top 3 as the manager and his devotees told us it was a title challenge in the 2nd season.
That’s what (also) annoys me about enic & levy. Our bitter rivals twice going so close to winning the league.
During a few years when the standard has dropped so there is a genuine chance someone like us could win the title or at least go close. City weaker & pep probably going soon. Liverpool & Chelsea in transition. United still a bit of a mess. It really is open.

If they were proper spurs fans & cared, they would be doing eveything it takes to try & stop Woolwich winning it & more importantly winning it for us for once. Instead they seem more than happy with maybe scraping 4th & then just hoping city stop Woolwich again. We have had 2 wake up calls & still they just not fussed. Happy to finish miles behind Woolwich & our fans seem to lap it up. To be honest they don’t seem fussed with arsenals rise & I am starting to think they wouldn’t care if Woolwich win the title at all.
 
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