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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Maureen said:
This begs the question who has let this happen?
Could we have not tried develop some of our club trained players. Is abbot not club trained. I’d rather have him than pay silly wages for KWP who will know is not gonna hack it if we are serious title winning / CL winning club which levy says we want to be.
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That is a good point. Note that Abbott, if the club think good enough for PL / CL football (19, 1 season in League 2), would be on the B-List and not affect senior squad places though (still a bonus if good enough). I suspect this season KWP (148 PL games) would be a better backup FB.

In terms of who let it happen, our squad was mismanaged for years, and especially so (from a youth perspective) under 4 years of Mourinho and Conte, the 'win now' managers. The last two years though there has been a clear thought process. Players like Bergvall, Gray, and Vuskovic will all count as, not just home grown, but club trained. We also have the likes of Devine, Donley, Moore, Keeley, Dorrington, Hall, Ajayi etc. coming through as club trained, and I'd hope that at least one of them will make it with us. This is why Levy is always on about wanting a manager who will promote youth.
 
Bloodbath said:
It's not so much about wanting a change but the rumours are that Richarliason will be sold this window and he will need replacing if he goes. Darwin is a viable alternative if we could get at the right price. He was wasteful last season but gets into the right places so often he could go quite well.
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We won't sell Richarlison to bring in Darwin. We wouldn't even turn over a profit on that transfer and Darwin's wages will be higher. It's no secret that we are trying to cash in on Richarlison and Son this summer. My guess is atleast 1 will be sold but it'll be to bring in someone younger and cheaper.

I'm not justifying this BTW. Darwin would be a big gamble but a fun gamble! I just know how the club operate and Darwin would just be seeing as way too high risk and low reward.

Funnily enough I could see Woolwich moving for Darwin if they fail to get in other targets.
 
Richard Splash said:
Well I love his name for so would take him based on that if nothing else
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Unfortunately, the "-ito" part of his name is a diminutive suffix.

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Can I just dispel the myth that “payment up front” means a deal can’t be done.

Regardless of your cashflow position, there are major global banks who have specific football financing teams.

What this effectively means is that you take a loan to pay up front (as you would with a house - we call it a mortgage). So the effect is (and this varies on club, size of transfer and length) that you’d add say 5% to the cost of it.

I would therefore estimate that the Eze £68m up front (if true) in reality is around £71m cost. That’s the way to look at it. If we’re happy at £68m there’s no reason that £71m should be a dealbreaker
 
I know he would be seen as underwhelming but I keep seeing Omari Hutchinson pop up on a lot of datasets for U23 wingers in the top five leagues.

Can’t say I watched Ipswich a lot last season apart from when they played us, but if we are gonna play a more vertical game this campaign, I thought he gave us lots of problems on transition, particularly when they beat us at home.

End product is probably not quite there, but he’s still only 21 and can play both wings, although he’s said he prefers the right. I’m sure a smart club in the PL will pick him up.
 
TommyD123 said:
Can I just dispel the myth that “payment up front” means a deal can’t be done.

Regardless of your cashflow position, there are major global banks who have specific football financing teams.

What this effectively means is that you take a loan to pay up front (as you would with a house - we call it a mortgage). So the effect is (and this varies on club, size of transfer and length) that you’d add say 5% to the cost of it.

I would therefore estimate that the Eze £68m up front (if true) in reality is around £71m cost. That’s the way to look at it. If we’re happy at £68m there’s no reason that £71m should be a dealbreaker
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Do you know how ass backwards taking a loan out to sign a player is?

Then you have to add the signing on fee, agent fees and wages over 5 years, you're talking about £120m-£130m committed up front.

Then eventually you gotta pay all that back to the bank plus interest ffs 😆
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
I know he would be seen as underwhelming but I keep seeing Omari Hutchinson pop up on a lot of datasets for U23 wingers in the top five leagues.

Can’t say I watched Ipswich a lot last season apart from when they played us, but if we are gonna play a more vertical game this campaign, I thought he gave us lots of problems on transition, particularly when they beat us at home.

End product is probably not quite there, but he’s still only 21 and can play both wings, although he’s said he prefers the right. I’m sure a smart club in the PL will pick him up.
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I rate him but we already have Tel, Odobert and Moore as the young potentially good left sided players. Do we really need another one?
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
He’s left footed, and prefers RW and AM, so he does give us balance. I agree we should get a more experience winger in, but he is very versatile.
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oh yeh my bad you're right.

Think we need a more experienced wide sided option though. Moore will probably be loaned out and Son sold so i guess we are working with:

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Johnson
Tel
Odobert


hmmmm i don't think that's enough actually. Might need 1 more? anyway i like Hutchinson.
 
kcspurs said:
We’ve had a string of managers who were managing for themselves and their jobs and not for the long term, in my opinion

When we sacked Poch and went into this mode of “get someone else in who will win something this year with this 11” it seems player development fell by the wayside in this frantic quest to win one of anything.

Those managers and that philosophy might be right if the squad is there but ours never has been
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Erm... seems to be very generous to Poch, who absolutely obliterated our academy. More likely that Jose and Conte suffered from this, as Jose - at the very least - brought in Tanganga. The main reason he didn't stay with us is because he couldn't stay fit. He also gave Scarlett his PL debut, and I think he also Nile John, Lavinier, Harvey White, and Devine.
Nuno/Conte brought in Skipp, and the latter gave a EL appearance to J'Neil Bennett, and possibly Markanday.

I don't have the stats, but I'd feel reasonably confident in saying that Jose did more for academy players in 18 months than poch did in over 5 years. People seemed to have this impression he was the academy whisperer, and I have no idea where that came from
 
The eze deal should have been done this time last year as we were linked. I'm shocked he's still at palace. As previously said all we seem to do is buy players around 40 million mark and most clubs do that now
 
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