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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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He came a year before Kane. His game is nothing like Harry Kane's. No way can he be realistically be considered any kind of replacement.

FWIW, I like Richy. I praised the signing at the time and I really believe he could and should be a massive asset moving forward so long as he's managed and utilised in the right way. You don't feature regularly for the Brazilian national team for nothing.

Great attitude, too.
 
GDG said:
No, Johnson isn’t an outright first choice as evidenced by the fact the club were looking at Neto.

Look Brennan had an OK season and he gets too much shit on this site, but anyone that thinks a trio of Son, Solanke and Johnson gets us into the realms of even competing at the top end of the league is deluded.

Stop using stats as an argument, it’s incredibly reductive. Both Son and Johnson had statistically good seasons last year, but anyone that understands football who actually watched the game as opposed to just looking at the stats could see our wide players were a huge huge issue in our build up play and an area we needed to improve upon.

There’s a reason everyone has been talking about a “profile of a wide player” like Neto who can beat a man.

There’s some cunts on here who are unfair to our players at times, and I get we want to argue with that. But if you’re happy with Son, Solanke and Johnson as a starting trio because all 3 had decent stats last season you’re misguided as to what’s going to make us a better team this year.
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I'm not using "stats" I'm using goals. They're the entire point of the game, if you hadn't heard.

You'll never convince me we were interested in Neto, it was made up by the journos. What Spurs club have you followed for the past 25 years if you think we were going to spend £50M+ on a RW 12 months after spending £50M on a RW? All clickbait.
 
TomHotspur said:
How can you honestly post that. (Unless you’re being facetious)

Liverpool have won every trophy there is to win under FSG. I would take them every day of the week ahead of the muppets of owners we have.

They may not have bought anyone yet, but they’re coming at the window from a totally different position to us, and I guarantee they will have a better squad/team than us at the end of the window.
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Because FSG were exceedingly fortunate. They've been every bit as tight as Levy, their net spend over their tenure is less than Spurs.

They had an unprecedented run of success where they hit on basically every transfer, something no one does, and danced from Suarez, to Coutinho, to Salah. They paired that with what turned out to be an excellent managerial appointment in Klopp.

But the praise of FSG was always misplaced - Liverpool was succeeding mostly in spite of them, and now that their recruitment success rate is regressing to the mean Liverpool will fall back into the annual 4th-7th skirmish.
 
Starks said:
West Ham yesterday. Chelsea this afternoon.

Who we sucking off tomorrow?

restaurant come GIF
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Excited Season 3 GIF by The Simpsons
 
To Dare Is To Do. said:
RW is by far the weakest position… but to be frank no one on the RW market excites me.

Bakayoko’s Eredivisie record is worse than Bergwijn’s before we bought him; while he didn’t impress at the Euros.
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He got a couple of cameos at the Euros so how can you judge anything about that. He’s only 21, so Bergwijn had a couple more years development when we signed him. More than anything he just fits our system, whereas Bergwijn never really fit in under Jose.
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
He got a couple of cameos at the Euros so how can you judge anything about that. He’s only 21, so Bergwijn had a couple more years development when we signed him. More than anything he just fits our system, whereas Bergwijn never really fit in under Jose.
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Fair points, I'm no expert on the guy so just going off limited information. But I note that other big clubs haven't pursued him like they have Doue.
 
John Thomas said:
He came a year before Kane. His game is nothing like Harry Kane's. No way can he be realistically be considered any kind of replacement.

FWIW, I like Richy. I praised the signing at the time and I really believe he could and should be a massive asset moving forward so long as he's managed and utilised in the right way. You don't feature regularly for the Brazilian national team for nothing.

Great attitude, too.
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Richarlison was definitely brought in to replace Kane since we knew he was leaving, but what I'm saying is that Solanke was brought in to replace Richarlison as our starting striker.
 
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