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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Mostly wrong said:
Genuinely is bordering on suspicious now, I honestly cannot fathom why they got rid of Pochettino. Regardless of his Spurs ties he delivered a very significant improvement on both league position and points won, as well as much of Chelsea's best form coming in the second half of the season, which, if they had been judged on form from Jan 1st had them firmly in the top four if I recall correctly. Prior to his sacking I was genuinely worried they were going to give Poch resources and he would start filling the shortcomings in his squad as he did in his 2nd season with us, slowly building Chelsea back to being a consistent champions league side. I didn't see Poch staying more than 3 or 4 years, but I thought they'd back him to be a steadying hand for a few years before picking an ambitious appointment in the mould of Klopp to Pool or Guardiola to City. There's no semblance of a plan there whatsoever, just hoover up as much young talent across the globe as you can fucking find and hope a few of them turn into £100m+ players so you can balance your dodgy books a few years down the line.
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You mean back him by spending a club record fee to bring in Ndombele?

So much revisionist history around Poch. He was sacked because he got off to a terrible start to the season mere months after basically announcing to the press before the CL final that he wanted to quit the club. It was clear to all that he was tired and wanted out.
 
Mostly wrong said:
Genuinely is bordering on suspicious now, I honestly cannot fathom why they got rid of Pochettino. Regardless of his Spurs ties he delivered a very significant improvement on both league position and points won, as well as much of Chelsea's best form coming in the second half of the season, which, if they had been judged on form from Jan 1st had them firmly in the top four if I recall correctly. Prior to his sacking I was genuinely worried they were going to give Poch resources and he would start filling the shortcomings in his squad as he did in his 2nd season with us, slowly building Chelsea back to being a consistent champions league side. I didn't see Poch staying more than 3 or 4 years, but I thought they'd back him to be a steadying hand for a few years before picking an ambitious appointment in the mould of Klopp to Pool or Guardiola to City. There's no semblance of a plan there whatsoever, just hoover up as much young talent across the globe as you can fucking find and hope a few of them turn into £100m+ players so you can balance your dodgy books a few years down the line.
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Due to the trophies that the Russian sportswashed through the club they have attracted plastics by the truck load. Plastics have no time for projects or they'll find a team that does win.
 
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Was this meant for arsemania ?
 
bus-conductor said:
But we don't need food chain signings. That’s the point. For the first summer ever we are effectively at/close to the top of that food chain. There’s a bunch of top target type players who aren’t moving because all the big boys have their hands tied with FFP and whatnot.

This is what Levy’s methodology has all been about. Or should be.
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I agree with you that we don't need a 'food chain' signing, that wasn't my point, it was just that the market is slow/dead.

FFP is a major factor but in a different way, if you can't buy players due to the new constraints then you can't afford to sell your best assets and now you can only make real profit on players you sign for nothing or youth players who've come good, so if your club is in the balance because of the rules rather than transfer budget wouldn't you be a bit more picky about selling a player when you are not necessarily going to have the same budget to replace them?

I know you're saying we should lead the way because we've got a strong PSR position, but we can only buy what other clubs are prepared to sell.
 
Never easy to buy players and I won't ever expect mad spending for the sake of appeasing fans with an excess of expectation but fcuk me.

We lnow the need and yet.....

Makes it hard to defend. Other clubs seem more able.
 
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