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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Here we go nothing on Toney and Eze because of the wee badly one again. Yet we are linked with someone else’s garbage eg McTominay and cheapskate will no doubt buy him. Just over 60 yrs I have supported and adored this team and it’s the same as usually happens 4th, 5th or 6th will do whereas the Gurns are going for it!
Pitiful leadership from Levy no commitment but still earns millions in bonus.
Seems clear we’ve gone for solanke over Toney.. and will likely pay more (damn you levy you Cheapskate etc)

As for mctominay? Are you just believing one report you read in the newspaper? We’re not going for him
 
65M for Dom Solanke....





























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No need to panic, the lad first of all is english which is an almost guarantee that he'll be immense. He has some brilliant consistency in his goal to game ratio - scoring nearly 10 goals in 65 games over the span of the two seasons prior. That is elite level stats! We're absolutely golden until everything goes completely tits up! :nunothumb:
 
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Seems clear we’ve gone for solanke over Toney.. and will likely pay more (damn you levy you Cheapskate etc)

As for mctominay? Are you just believing one report you read in the newspaper? We’re not going for him
Ivan Toney was a non start neither Ange or large chunks of thd fan base want a man who can't see the immorality of betting against your employer. He's lucky he still has a career.
 
I agree it’s too much but the options are so limited.

What would you be happy paying, 40?
Yeah 40 tops

Even then it doesn't excite me , he's an 'OK'
player but we've got plenty of 'OK' players already and in his position

I guarantee you that the glory glory days are not coming to this club with an ageing son , Brennan Johnson , Timo Werner , Manor Solomon , Kulusevski , Richarlison etc.

It just ain't happening

That is at best the 7th best collection of forward players in the league , you could maybe make the case for lower

All we'd be doing here is collecting another expensive but unspectacular option

Apparently ambition is a bad thing on this site but I want to see my club challenging the likes of Woolwich within the next couple of years , not just cheering when they miss out on the league by a point while finishing 30 points above us

Singings like this won't get us anywhere near it

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Fans just discovering that the striker market is fucked, what do you think a £60m striker gets you these days? We literally paid that much for Richy who hasn't scored more than 13 in a season :D
 
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:

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Wow! Wow! Wow!!!!!
 
Yeah 40 tops

Even then it doesn't excite me , he's an 'OK'
player but we've got plenty of 'OK' players already and in his position

I guarantee you that the glory glory days are not coming to this club with an ageing son , Brennan Johnson , Timo Werner , Manor Solomon , Kulusevski , Richarlison etc.

It just ain't happening

That is at best the 7th best collection of forward players in the league , you could maybe make the case for lower

All we'd be doing here is collecting another expensive but unspectacular option

Apparently ambition is a bad thing on this site but I want to see my club challenging the likes of Woolwich within the next couple of years , not just cheering when they miss out on the league by a point while finishing 30 points above us



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I agree with you tbh. Depressing.

We desperately need Neto/Eze/Chiesa, and ideally two of those. Won't happen, but hopefully one.

I'd be tempted this season to go with all the youth we really think could make it. Moore, Gray and Bergvall yes. Just play them in the First XI and build towards next season. But FFS also get the chequebook out in the next few weeks.
 
Yeah 40 tops

Even then it doesn't excite me , he's an 'OK'
player but we've got plenty of 'OK' players already and in his position

I guarantee you that the glory glory days are not coming to this club with an ageing son , Brennan Johnson , Timo Werner , Manor Solomon , Kulusevski , Richarlison etc.

It just ain't happening

That is at best the 7th best collection of forward players in the league , you could maybe make the case for lower




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I rate Richarlison and Kulusevski

I think Ange rates Kulu and BJ - seems like he’s unsure on the rest. He’ll try offload Solomon and I’d say Werner is just here for the season.

Hopeful of Neto and eze too..

Perhaps very naively. For eze would displace Maddison by October but
 
Fans just discovering that the striker market is fucked, what do you think a £60m striker gets you these days? We literally paid that much for Richy who hasn't scored more than 13 in a season :D
The striker market isn't that bad, you have Solanke, Toney, Gyokeres all available. People here are just turning their noses up at all options that aren't from a foreign league.
 
I rate Richarlison and Kulusevski

I think Ange rates Kulu and BJ - seems like he’s unsure on the rest. He’ll try offload Solomon and I’d say Werner is just here for the season.

Hopeful of Neto and eze too..

Perhaps very naively. For eze would displace Maddison by October but
Would either Kulusevski or Richarlison get regular starts for City , Liverpool or Woolwich ?

Barring injuries

I can't see it and that's the level we have to try and reach
 
To be fair I think Solanke is the kind of player that can be effective even with a slight loss of pace. He's a unit and he has an engine.

Importantly he doesn’t have anywhere near the mileage on him that most forwards his age do.

With Kane it isn’t just his speed it’s his lack of explosiveness due to the back injury. I think people are seriously overreacting to Kane’s euros anyway, from August-April he was the best striker in the world.
Best striker in Germany. A title previously held by Timo Werner And various others who weren’t up to much..
 
The striker market isn't that bad, you have Solanke, Toney, Gyokeres all available. People here are just turning their noses up at all options that aren't from a foreign league.
So a guy with 28 goals in 113 Prem games
A guy who was banned for betting against his own team
Or a guy who was at fucking Coventry up until last season

What an embarrassment of riches that is

Christ some of the shite that comes out on here is unreal
 
Would either Kulusevski or Richarlison get regular starts for City , Liverpool or Woolwich ?

Barring injuries

I can't see it and that's the level we have to try and reach
I think Kulusevski would tbh… maybe I overrate him.

Richarlison, hard to say. Probably not if he was fully fit though he likely would got pretty close to 20 goals. He got one less than havertz..

Anyway I appreciate that’s not the point you’re making. I think there’s a place for both in a rotated squad with a lot of games incl Europa league
 
So a guy with 28 goals in 113 Prem games
A guy who was banned for betting against his own team
Or a guy who was at fucking Coventry up until last season

What an embarrassment of riches that is

Christ some of the shite that comes out on here is unreal
1) Who cares about seasons from 7 years ago
2) He's a piece of shit, this doesn't really affect his talent
3) So what? Good players can't come from Coventry now?
 
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