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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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To Dare Is To Do. said:
He was one of the worst finishers in the league if you consider goals vs xG. He also loses the ball a lot… really hope we can upgrade at RW.
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Sure, but that's unusual for him, in both 22/23 and 21/22 he slightly overperfomed his xG. We need to remember that he's a young winger, here on his first season, suddenly out of Forest and playing for a big club. Be patient. If he lives up to his potential he'll be one of the most productive wingers in the league, even if he has other limitations.
 
Matt1882 said:
Don't you think it's odd Giggs played over 800 games for one of the biggest clubs ever, wheras Bale was forced out of Madrid and rarely played?
In 8 seasons there he played 258 times in all competitions an scored 106 goals.
In 9 seasons there Ronaldo played 438 times and scored 450 goals. To put Bale in the same conversation as that is absurdly bias.
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Who has scored the most winning goals in Champions league finals out of Ronaldo, Bale and Giggs? You could always rely on Bale to deliver in the biggest games, Messi and Ronaldo were lightyears ahead of everyone in their primes, there's no shame in not being better than possibly the 1st and 2nd best ever football players. Bale certainly shared qualities with Ronaldo; incredibly impressive athleticism, the ability to impact results on an individual basis, particularly in important matches, he was actually a better free kick taker than Ronaldo too who has a hilariously bad conversion rate on them despite having insisted taking them for large parts of his Portugal and Madrid careers respectively. I fall down the middle on judging his Real Madrid career; it's hard to argue the wheels didn't completely fall off in the last few seasons, and he certainly did himself absolutely no favours with the fans over there in that regard, it was clear his head was gone long before he actually went, but it's hard to argue against the sweeping successes that team had with him as a regular feature of it. Particularly when he scored the goals that made the difference in 2 of the champions league finals he played more than a bit part role in. It's fair to say his time was mixed there but if you asked him whether he would go back and turn down Madrid he'd tell you you must be fucking joking, and would Madrid fans really go back and choose to reverse the signing in hindsight considering his goals got their name on the CL trophy twice? Some might say that's wortth the £87m by itself.
 
the more baffling thing is how Chelsea have yet again come up with a vast amount of money for a player in a position they have many, MANY options already
 
Mostly wrong said:
Who has scored the most winning goals in Champions league finals out of Ronaldo, Bale and Giggs? You could always rely on Bale to deliver in the biggest games, Messi and Ronaldo were lightyears ahead of everyone in their primes, there's no shame in not being better than possibly the 1st and 2nd best ever football players. Bale certainly shared qualities with Ronaldo; incredibly impressive athleticism, the ability to impact results on an individual basis, particularly in important matches, he was actually a better free kick taker than Ronaldo too who has a hilariously bad conversion rate on them despite having insisted taking them for large parts of his Portugal and Madrid careers respectively. I fall down the middle on judging his Real Madrid career; it's hard to argue the wheels didn't completely fall off in the last few seasons, and he certainly did himself absolutely no favours with the fans over there in that regard, it was clear his head was gone long before he actually went, but it's hard to argue against the sweeping successes that team had with him as a regular feature of it. Particularly when he scored the goals that made the difference in 2 of the champions league finals he played more than a bit part role in. It's fair to say his time was mixed there but if you asked him whether he would go back and turn down Madrid he'd tell you you must be fucking joking, and would Madrid fans really go back and choose to reverse the signing in hindsight considering his goals got their name on the CL trophy twice? Some might say that's wortth the £87m by itself.
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Some might say that, but to an accountant like Levy they would be wrong. £5M extra for winning vs runners up
 
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