You say you can’t do it , Well we shall see after the 115 charges hearing as I agree that you are not meant to do it , however clubs continue to flout the rules and get away with it .
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25
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I fucking LOVED Berbatov...
That image of his silhouette walking through the Old Trafford offices and shaking hands with SAF still haunts my nightmares!
I think I might have done a little cry that night!
He’s the worst person on the internet.
The absolute perfected zenith of permanently online Twitter tactico. 100% helmet. And he exemplifies everything I hate about our recently attached ‘fans’. Doesn’t like Spurs. Has likely never been within 500 miles of the Lane. But has decided that Ange is the latest hipster liquor; an aged Port that can only be appreciated by the most discerning of football fans.
In short, a cunt.
Right, but the City thing is a matter of retrospective punishment.
Newcastle cannot today do what City did and write "lol a zillion trillion pounds" on a cocktail napkin and have it counted as a legitimate sponsorship deal that they can purchase players against.
It was pretty common knowledge Ferguson used to buy from the PL better players to improve man U and also weaken other teams. It's not unreasonable to think other teams had the same tactic.
I've been busy today.
Has Shite Said Fred spent any money yet??
Has Shite Said Fred spent any money yet??
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It’s fact
It’s also fact that Solanke was West Ham’s target and was in talks with them in May.
Ange claiming they wanted Solanke above all others flys in the face of the reality.
Club is full of lies.
Probably fair to say it was a surprise to all clubs to se Brentford so quickly off the mark - and unexpected as Brentford usually bought unknown players cheaply and the players showed why Brentford's id process was so good.
Problem is they found Gray wasn't quite sure of Brentford, was expecting a bigger club .... so Spurs quickly stepped in to highjack ,,,,,,, but I think he had been id'ed before but we hadn't expected him to go son early in that window as bigger clubs had more important tarhets to go for.
But Leeds needed to sell hence Gray went early in window.
Good purchase, even if the purchase process was a little unplanned and opportunistic
1. Can you point to where, in any of my posts, I said that Liverpool at the time were good at buying? They had a bunch of clangers that window, same window they brought in Riera and Dossena IIRC. They did get Mascherano though, fucking quality he was.
2. Yes, they should have, he was the better player.
3. £32m wasn't "high" for Berbatov, it was about right. You can go back and look at transfer fees for similarly talented players at the time if you're too young to know what a high fee actually was in 2008, you don't need to break your back bending over to convince us all how much you loved him.
I have at no point said Berbatov wasn't an excellent player, merely stating a fact that we got very good value for money at the time for what at the time was a very good striker. You're either very young and haven't got the frame of reference to understand 2008 transfer fees or you've simply not got the wherewithal to understand that your favourite player wasn't worth £100m irrespective of what era they played in.
Difference this time is Tel is the one we’ve been chasing for 2 years, whereas last time that was Liverpool with Diaz
Meh, we'll absolutely get Diaz-ed here if Tel wants to go elsewhere. We'll see.
The point is, we're willing to meet the valuation here without unduly fucking about to save a penny.
It's reflective of Levy and his bullshit having taken on a more supervisory and less day-to-day role.
It's only our global budgeting and strategic positioning that sucks now, the day-to-day business is in the hands of football people.
Yes I think we are being used by agents to drum up interest.
Really don't think we will see him in a Tottenham shirt.
The bolded is why what you're saying isn't necessarily relevant to what the chap I'm replying to is saying, because he's positing that Liverpool bought Keane with the sole purpose of weakening Spurs, and not for the purpose of strengthening Liverpool FC. Which is fucking bollocks.
That's only the first part of the process though, to identify a skillset. Then you scout them. I fully expect that "scouting" is more than just sitting in the stands and watching them play. They'll also look into his character etc.
The stupid process was going out and buying players without doing that due diligence. The first player than springs to mind there is NDombele.
I don't know how the full process works, but that's my limited understanding of it. The key here is data "led." It's not the sum total of the process.
I wonder who we have lined up if the Tel deal falls through?
Tel started out as a Centre back , then attacking midfield then striker... Levy's eyes must have lit up
3 FOR THE PRICE OF 1
3 FOR THE PRICE OF 1
Martin chivers?
The cynic in me think this is just typical levy , he knows Tel will end up going to a different club so he is just going through the motions , it’s the same every window so he can say “we tried our best”
Probably Noah Okafor or Breel Embolo. The other two names that made the rounds yesterday.