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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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I highly doubt we'd end up paying £65m for Solanke. Hell, any deal dragging on would indicate the price is being negotiated down from the release clause.

Hardly a 'sexy' signing, but has the bonus of being home grown and is probably one of our biggest punts from the apparent new focus on analytics in our scouting department. Have seen a decent rundown on how he's very effective at pressing from the front and would probably improve our intensity immediately.

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Richard Splash said:
£70m for Gyokeres and £65m for Solanke is sane????

Risk is fine when you can purchase without full knowledge your chances of not getting shafted are maybe 35%. If Solanke bombs we will maybe get £25m back, Toney and Gyokeres could be less.

I’ve said it jokingly in the past, but with each passing day £25m on DCL looks less bat shit. Yes he is relatively shit, yes if he sneezes too hard he will be out for half a season, yes he dresses like a cunt, but at £25m we can probably flog him to Palace in a couple of years for around £15m and not take too much of a bath on it
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Havertz who was often a total donkey went for £65m, Nunez for £100m, Hojlund for a giant wedge.

£60m gets you proven mid to decent range striker in todays market, you accept that or don’t compete.
 
Tomo said:
Havertz who was often a total donkey went for £65m, Nunez for £100m, Hojlund for a giant wedge.

£60m gets you proven mid to decent range striker in todays market, you accept that or don’t compete.
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I don’t know why people care so much about the price.

That’s the going rate, and we have the money anyway.
 
Richard Splash said:
I’ve said it jokingly in the past, but with each passing day £25m on DCL looks less bat shit. Yes he is relatively shit, yes if he sneezes too hard he will be out for half a season, yes he dresses like a cunt, but at £25m we can probably flog him to Palace in a couple of years for around £15m and not take too much of a bath on it
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fuck that! would rather pay 3x the money and get toney or solanke than DCL. at least toney or solanke could be a hit. DCL you know how that ones gonna play out. that really is accepting mid table.
 
Shadydan said:
You literally said those 2 players walk into our starting 11, presumably those players would get in over Son so what's the difference?
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What is so hard for you to understand? They walk in because they are 100% compatible for the style of play the manager clearly is desperate for. Umming and ahing over Son at LW/ST all season long as well as moving Kulu around like a chess piece (suddenly he's now being touted as a false number 9 wtf) shows these players aren't ideal for the system. It's not working and Ange has emphasized this point a million times. If you've seen anything of Summerville and Fullkrug you'd know they are far better suited. You confuse compatibility with general talent.

Big clubs are prepared to bench big players. There would be nothing stopping Son from proving he can adapt to LW from the bench - it's not a black and white situation where he couldn't reclaim his place if others ahead of him fail. All I know is that there is enough proof from last season he did not own either of those positions nor did Kulu or Johnson in theirs. Ange is clearly uncomfortable of starting the season with the same front-line, just read any of his recent statements about the need to improve it.
 
Richard Splash said:
1) £65m on a guy who had 9 Prem goals in 3 season up until last year is a huge risk
2) good player, but by a few accounts is an absolute weapon - big risk with dressing room harmony
3) they can, but we’re talking about a fee north of £70m for a bloke who we have no idea will do in the Prem and has one season of higher level football under his belt and that was the Portuguese league

Combine all that and your original assertion was bollox, this is the worst striker market I can remember
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ok so what shall we do in your opinion?
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
I don’t agree with this. Of course Levy wants trophies, of course he wants the feeling of the CL final in Madrid again. But it’s like that scene in The Untouchables where Costner’s Ness tells Connery he wants to get Capone and he asks him, “What are you prepared to do to get him?” It’s the same with Levy. He wants to pretend at being big club but he’s not prepared to throw it all on the line to get there on the pitch.
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If you're not prepared to do what it takes, then you don't want it enough.
 
Tomo said:
Hojlund
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All three at least 3 years or more younger at time of purchase.

Havertz, donkey, but German international, everyone said was shit and crazy money.

Hojlund, didn't know much about prior to United so can't really comment. Seemed crazy for a 19 year old though but United throwing fees and wages all over hoping something stuck. They repeat each window so doesn't seem to matter if a player works out.

Nunez, was £73mil, 4 years younger than Solanke and coming off 26 goals in 28 games in the league. Pricey but seemed a good purchase for them at the time.
 
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