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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025
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Joe wouldn’t get defrosted from his cryogenic chamber for 15 million
Time for the melties
Anyway another signing
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Nothing to brag about !
Joe wouldn’t get defrosted from his cryogenic chamber for 15 million
Oh I knew that would get your juices flowing you
Not much different than how people lost their minds last summer over Levy being a tight git a screwing us over by not paying Eze's buyout....but conveniently neither did any other club.
Then he went out and had a less impressive campaign this past season and got a year older.
And, again, there seems to be more smoke about "where Eze wants to go" than "who wants Eze".
Have to manage my tone here, I would be happy to sign him. But some here act like he's the next Bale and we're going to lose him in 18 hours if we don't just pay the fee already.
Especially when we find out where Levy placed the decimal point
My gooner mate thought they were winning the Champions League
They were the best team in the champions League
We spent €260m in those two seasons tbf. I assume you mean 18/19.
(Nbombele, Sess, Lo Celso, Clarke, Bergwijn, Reguillon, Doherty, Hojbjerg, Rodon)
I do find it amazing though how we can recognise we've had amazing players like Berbatov, Keane, Defoe, Modric, Van der Vaart, Bale etc but simultaneously for some the rhetoric that we don't even sign decent players
My juices are flowing unlike Joe’s that are currently frozen solid
Time for the melties
Anyway another signing
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Really hope this kid makes it for the puns alone
Until we flog some of our senior players Levy will not sign anyone important. He won’t add any significant salaries to our books until spots in our CL squad are freed up. He simply won’t risk a Reguilon situation where he has to pay a player who isn’t eligible to play.
We’ll just have to hope some decent players are left in late August. He will never change.
We’ll just have to hope some decent players are left in late August. He will never change.
Between 2004 and 2015 we signed some superb players and our hit rate was pretty good. Since 2016 we've been abysmal in the market and there isnt any sign of it getting better. How long do we live off those past successes?
We don’t want to do a Bury
Maddison is a sore thumb too, where we spent a big fee to get an established, top class PL star who everybody knows.
You can't do this kind of history and not draw the distinction between Hitchen and what has happened since.
We've bought a lot of high-floor, low-ceiling, good-but-not-great players post-Hitchen in a way that gets a bit frustrating and feels like running in place, but we absolutely flushed money down the toilet with Hitchen and it has taken years to clean away the totally useless garbage he filled the squad with.
Our deadwood is nowhere near as dead as it was in 2021.
(I should add that while Hitchen was a disgrace as a scout, I'm also using him as a byword for an entire recruitment process that had totally broken down and in which Levy was a crucial and ultimately the responsible party)
I think this is a Steve Parish moved the goalposts story
Last season had a bizarre effect on people. Hard to blame them though, levy has brought the fans to their knees despite some efforts
Don't worry about the Brown nosed Toad, he's just "toadying up" to the cadre.
A while back he was giving up the biggun about how he'd 'love' to meet me face to face to tell me what he thought of me, so I sent him a PM, telling him where I live so he could do just that. Unsurprisingly, I got no reply.
I left it at that and haven't responded to a single post he's made but, in true keyboard warrior style, he still has to get his sly little digs in, craving approval from his imaginary friends.
The irony here is that he's the most obnoxious poster on here with anyone who disagrees with him, all to get a few ticks from them.
A true Brown nosed Toad.
That's when we had the bright idea of going "this head coach of ours seems to be doing a good job. Maybe we should cave and let him have full control of transfers"
FWIW I think recruitment has been decent under Paratici for senior players, and has been better under Lange. The main issues have been the association between performances under Ange and the players, which skew the fact that Begvall, Sarr, Vicario, and Udogie are players that have been very good value for money.
Come back to it next May mate.