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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Raya / Vicario to a degree as well. Another one we were 'chasing'.
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Sure, though Vicario did come significantly cheaper and is a good and useful player.

Then you look at that summer and those savings lead us to be able to be aggressive and get Micky Van De Ven over the line.

There's nothing wrong with finding a cheaper option to maximize your resources for other pursuits, so long as the cheaper option can play and you actually do maximize elsewhere.

But Kudus is barely any cheaper! It makes ZERO sense
 
Richard Arlison said:

View: https://x.com/holden_culotta/status/1940114131111055379?s=46&t=fbqxNuG9CT4qTaiJx8mBjg

Not transfer related but what’s more likely to be true?

This?

Levy winning the PL and CL?
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More likely Elvis’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley used to work out of a mobile fish and chip van in England on Friday nights











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I discovered this when having Sunday Lunch in Rotherfield a couple of weeks ago
 
FightingIllini said:
Sure, though Vicario did come significantly cheaper and is a good and useful player.

Then you look at that summer and those savings lead us to be able to be aggressive and get Micky Van De Ven over the line.

There's nothing wrong with finding a cheaper option to maximize your resources for other pursuits, so long as the cheaper option can play and you actually do maximize elsewhere.

But Kudus is barely any cheaper! It makes ZERO sense
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He's not much cheaper in terms of fee but much cheaper in terms of the wages we'd have to offer to have a chance.
 
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FightingIllini said:
Sure, though Vicario did come significantly cheaper and is a good and useful player.

Then you look at that summer and those savings lead us to be able to be aggressive and get Micky Van De Ven over the line.

There's nothing wrong with finding a cheaper option to maximize your resources for other pursuits, so long as the cheaper option can play and you actually do maximize elsewhere.

But Kudus is barely any cheaper! It makes ZERO sense
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Vicario £10m cheaper. Think he's a bit flakey but then i dont rate Raya that highly either but he's more consistant.

As for Eze/Kudus its the wages i'd imagine as well as the need for someone off the right. I think we need both or similar.
 
Deuterz said:
He's not much cheaper in terms of fee but much cheaper in terms of the wages we'd have to offer to have a chance.
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I mean I guess we'll see! Why do we think Kudus would come so cheap? He's on 90kpw already at West Ham.

Obviously the Levy regime spends a disgracefully low amount of the club's resources on the squad in the aggregate, on wages especially. The totals need to add up, and they do not, every single year.

But we also need to allocate that money intelligently, and there is no dumber thing to do than to spend like 90% of a tip-top price for someone who is not a tip-top player when one is sitting RIGHT THERE for 100%. That is a money losing proposition in the end, every single time.
 
Didn't they tell us that it's about signing the right "character" and they do character background checks blah blah blah.

Kudus main issue at Spammers is his character and temperament ffs. Did they forget to do these oh so important checks on this occasion?

Sooooooo much shit talking...anything to not spend the right money/right wage on the right player. Settle for the third choice temperamental player.
 
FightingIllini said:
Sure, though Vicario did come significantly cheaper and is a good and useful player.

Then you look at that summer and those savings lead us to be able to be aggressive and get Micky Van De Ven over the line.

There's nothing wrong with finding a cheaper option to maximize your resources for other pursuits, so long as the cheaper option can play and you actually do maximize elsewhere.

But Kudus is barely any cheaper! It makes ZERO sense
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Vicario was 10m cheaper. Raya was the safer bet! Apparently the club were happy to wait on Brentford to lower the fee (Woolwich might have hijacked us anyway) but Ange wasn't convinced by Raya's attitude after a phone call with him. So he gave the go ahead for Vicario then who Paratici had put forward as a potential alternative had we missed out on Raya.
 
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