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I'd say we will make an offer but it'll be under 60m and Palace will reject it. The question is does Wharton push for it from his side? I'm not sure he will. But if he did like we've recently seen with kudus/gyokores, then Palace would need to come to the table and maybe we could get him for under 70m. Doubt spurs would be willing to pay anything more.
Does any reliable source say we want Wharton, or is it all ITKs?
He doesn5 know that’s why he said ‘might’
Was a speculative purchase - we signed him because we could… probably agent led direct to Levy, rather than a THFC football / data led target
Why do people care so much about ENIC’s bank account . I can’t imagine the fans of other big clubs saying look for better value , or he’s not worth it. It’s because we are brainwashed into believing we have budget constraints, we do usually but they are ENIC imposed. As a fan personally my view is if we really want him go and get him, if we don’t it’s Levy’s choice , definitely not mine or many other fans.
Showed more than enough last season for me to see why we bought him, he obviously has several facets of his game that are not up to scratch at PL level but he has played for one season under a coach who only really saw players regress in ability during his tenure, and not only that but been used by that coach as emergency cover across the entire backline, he has not had his minutes managed in a manner that is conducive for such a young player. Luckily we have a very long time remaining on his deal and a manager coming in who wanted him at his previous club so I'm very expectant that by the time he is 20/21 we will start to be seeing that £35m fee as the bargain it was.
Thats because you have a third of a brain.
We spend plenty on transfers, what I hope we see this summer is the heralding of a new era where we don't try to "win" the transfer market by picking up players who we assess as "undervalued" in terms of the whole package deal (fee + wages) and target players who quantifiably improve the squad with their skillset. Really depends what timeframe and end goal we are working with, the best case outcome with our crop of very promising 18-21 year olds is that we start to see them flourish in 2-3 years time and if we support that properly by building a team capable of challenging for top 4 in the meantime we might take the next leap with some of the guys who theoretically have an unlimited ceiling atm like Vuskovic, Bergvall, Udogie (think he will be fucking class under Frank with no more inverted bullshit), Moore, Tel, Odobert and to a lesser extent Dorrington, Phillips, Donley. Will be pointless having good youngsters coming through if we turn into the Everton of the south in the meantime.
I still believe we never spend significantly when in a position of strength , we hunker down and say this will do . For me that is what needs to change
