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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Richard Arlison said:
Of course it is. Wages being the biggest predictor of league success but every transfer has a total cost with transfer fee, agent fees, and wage commitment on the contract.

That’s how clubs would look at it surely?
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ummm, perhaps - but again it just does not tell the story at all because if it did, Man U and Chelsea would have finished the top 2 the last few years surely??

Liverpools total transfer costs are, if we were to look into it, completely dwarfed by theirs and yet here we are.
 
Kudus is unique can play lw for sure but also as a 10 so versatile and he's quick as a 10 option it intrigues me because he's different to maddison and can offer something different there i would get him and semenyo but that's just me we need both so kudus or eze and semenyo would go in the right way. We won't get both though but we should
 
Some enterprising nerd really needs to do the work to estimate wages + amortized transfer fees for each PL club.

It would be a total blind guess at the amortization schedules, but that is the only real way to get a thoroughgoing, apples-to-apples look at how much teams are spending on their squads.
 
FightingIllini said:
When I say Eze's deal, I mean Eze's deal. 68M.

Levy might never have agreed to that, but the point is that in having a release clause that's remotely feasible in a deal of a conservative length, Eze has maintained some degree of control of his destiny, I disagree that it's some foolish and naive agreement for him to have signed, he's done quite well.
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I think we should pony up and get eze. He immediately improves our starting 11.
 
Tomo said:
If we are going to throw money at West Ham make it Bowen, less flashy but better player.
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Something Bowen, Kudus and Mbeumo (and Tyler Dibling) have in common is that they're left-pegged inverted wingers.

And Semenyo is a natural righty but very two-footed.

At the moment the injured Kulusevski is our only lefty attacker. Seems like getting someone who can cut in from the right flank is our biggest target.

That's not Eze, unfortunately.
 
THFCxDUFC said:
Looking at the options linked for the number 6, position Hjulmand (despite the Woolwich tattoo) seems like the standout option if we’re going for someone that brings physicality. He looks like a tough tackler and a leader in the middle of the park but does give me Hojbjerg vibes a little bit on the ball.

If we were going the other way, Juventus want to sell Douglas Luiz for about £30m, and given the likely return of Paratici and his links there, I’d imagine he’d be pretty easily gettable, perhaps even on a loan with an option/obligation. Luiz is definitely far superior on the ball and would allow us to progress the ball forward better from deep, but he lacks the physicality of a Hjulmand and might leave us exposed.

What profile do we need more if we’re only buying one DM?
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I would prefer a passing 6, and a tempo setter as we have a lot of busy fuckers who like to make contact with opposition and are more 8s in their play style.

But I think Thomas Frank would prefer a defensive beast who has a great diagonal pass....Norgaard is actually very good at this but probably not good enough at the highest level. But he is experienced and supposed to be a natural leader.

Alfie Devine is probably the best diagonal passer in the squad but too far off the defensive level required.
 
FightingIllini said:
Some enterprising nerd really needs to do the work to estimate wages + amortized transfer fees for each PL club.

It would be a total blind guess at the amortization schedules, but that is the only real way to get a thoroughgoing, apples-to-apples look at how much teams are spending on their squads.
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IMHO it’s either going to be the maximum allowed by UEFA which I think is 5 years or the contract length if its less than 5 years.

#beancounter
 
Fucking hell really is mad season when every 5 mins we're being linked with a different player. Miss the days of Teletext announcing a signing out of nowhere
 
FightingIllini said:
Something Bowen, Kudus and Mbeumo (and Tyler Dibling) have in common is that they're left-pegged inverted wingers.

And Semenyo is a natural righty but very two-footed.

At the moment the injured Kulusevski is our only lefty attacker. Seems like getting someone who can cut in from the right flank is our biggest target.

That's not Eze, unfortunately.
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Eze is a great 10 so different profile. Good player but different as you say.
 
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