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Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25
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I love posts like this... here's your five... now stop thinking Ange was anything other than an after thought.
Slot didn't fancy it after speaking to Levy
Fonseca decided to stay at Lille
Naglesmann decided the German gig was better
Alonso turned us down to continue his Leverkusen project (good choice)
Amorin decided to stay in Portugal with Sporting who took 4 points off us in CL.
A plumber?
Have you gone mad?
Who the fuck can afford to hire a plumber on a permanent basis. What do you think this is, a Premier league football club?
Bet he never went there again !
There was talk about Tuchel as well soon after Conte left but Bayern jumped in quicker
Joe Gauci (Villa #2 GK) maybe? 24yo, 6 caps for Australia.
We are well stocked at LWF, and have been incredibly unlucky with injuries. And Son is subsequently overplayed and bang out of form. When he was playing 60 minutes once a week (as he started the season doing) he was fine. Werner is crap - I'll give you that. Odobert has incredible potential and is far better on the left - a proper 'dribbly' winger who can go past multiple defenders off either foot. A real shame he got injured before he really got a chance. Moore is also best on the left. I'd say we are weaker at RW as Kulusevski is showing he is better in the CAM/CM, Johnson is one dimensional (and needs good crosses from the left - which have totally dried up with Son never trying to go past his man on the outside).
I'd actually like to see Ange experiment a bit more and try playing Maddison on the RW, or even putting Son out on that side and telling him to beat his man and whip crosses in. Worth noting that so far, Richy has probably been our most effective LWF under Ange, and he returns next week form injury. Whilst I do not think Richy is a top class WF, he played 'Ange ball' the best, and understood the movement, passing angles, and pressing requirements. He also linked up very well with Udogie.
LW:
- Odobert (injured)
- Son (over played / out of form)
- Moore (ill)
- Richy (injured)
- Werner (crap / lack of confidence)
RW;
- Kulusevski (better in CM)
- Johnson (one dimensional)
- Yang (unknown quantity)
Nagelsmann wasn't in the frame for the Germany job at that time .
He was my number one pick but it was all quite odd. he was approached by Chelsea, looked close at their project and rightfully decided it was a terrible idea as he'd have no control over player incomings and outgoings.
Clear path for us, reports in Germany seemed like it was gonna happen . Then we randomly came out with a statement saying we admire him but we aren't interested
Nothing from Nagelsmann's camp, just our lot saying we have not intention to meet
Very odd, either the club for some bizarre reason weren't interested, maybe got wind of his Chelsea demands or we just had no plans to be too ambitious again and work at a much slower and cheaper pace with a guy who won't rock the boat
You also forgot Dezerbi from your list, supposedly turned us down too
Im not sure that's what happened PSG is a weird star chamber. RKM isn't that guy. I think he's not a fit for a club like that. The loan might be the way to kick his tires. For me Spurs have to be in for one of Mbeumo or Marmoush, Liverpool can't buy both and we need to go big for the other
Slot did fancy it, we just wouldn’t pay the release clause.
Hmm we need to fact check some of these.
Go ahead
Levy & Lewis didn't want to pay the release fee Feyenoord (rightly) demanded. Liverpool, however, paid the release fee...
I am sure Slot right now is happy that L & L were so skint.
Not convinced we are interested at all tbh.
Lens want to sell so use our name. Think we are happy to work on our targets with everyone talking about this guy
View: https://x.com/blue_footy/status/1874464357578592442?s=46&t=Gc6HrWVZT0mtSXU7r8ZBIQ
Surely this must be one guy we can get. Solid, quick, strong and not bad on the ball.
show us all the proof that those 5 turned us down. You’ve just made that up to make a false point.
Same person who thinks that Gheorghe Popescu was 'one of the best defensive mids of his generation' btw...
I think it's far too early to say Odobert or Moore are going to make an impact. We just don’t know.
Son is no more than an impact sub IMO. He has less of an impact on games outside of the odd goal contribution than either Werner or Johnson.
To clarify this, I mean he's often so anonymous that he's not affecting the way the game is being played at all.
The other 2 at least stay busy running at the opposition and give them something to think about.
Kinda reminds me of Ronaldo at United. Outside of his goals there were arguments the team was worse with him in it.
Except that one game where he beat us 3-2 on his own