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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Their ball retention isn't very good either.
Kudus and MGW115m and apparently there's more to come!
Am I dreaming?, Can I start to believe again?
Say who?
It's not that simple. It is totally different planning a Bale-on-loan spending maybe £300k p/w on wages when it is just one season. If you sign a £300k player, you're probably going to want to protect that with a 6 year contract or something, so it goes from a £15.6m outlay to a £94m outlay, and then existing players will be clamouring for parity (an argument that can't be made on a loan like Timo). So in theory, adding one £300k/wk player can actually cost near £1m/wk if you have a Son/Romero/Maddison already as pretty much top earners, then your Richarlison on £90k is expected to come into the club nearer £150k. Only have to look at Man Utd to see how it is a slippery slop where, all of a sudden, you have some pretty dull academy players getting among the highest wages in the league.
It has always seemed to me like De Jong's career has been built on hype, and every year there's a story that Barca want rid of him but he doesn't want to give up his super salary - so it sounds more like a Man Utd signing that one we would want to make anyway. This coming season, the FFP 'Cost Control' (ref Financial sustainability) will cap Salary to Revenue at 70%, so I expect it might be possible we start to see a crawl-back on silly wages across europe
Rovella's main asset is he looks like Modric's illegitimate son
Nah he's a good player, definitely. I like watching him, he can pretty much do it all. But his injury record worries me, he's missed a lot of football...though last year saw a big improvement.
Think he's off to Inter anyway.
To be nitpicky, a player absolutely can make an argument based on that.
You go into work every day, play most matches, contribute to the team with goals, assists, clean sheets, whatever, and look over the other side of the dressing room and see Timo Werner pocketing £180k+ per week for sitting in the stands, and occasionally failing to hit a cows arse with a banjo, you're well entitled to ask questions, whether he's going to be around next season or not.
A player is going to look at what he's getting paid in relation to what his peer is getting paid, they don't care about the long term accounts of the club. Even with Werner now gone, a player could quite easily go into contract negotiations now and say "well you were happy to pay Timo x amount, and I'm more valuable to the club so I should be paid this much" and to me that would be perfectly reasonable.
Doesn't mean the club have any obligation to do so, or that any players will do that, but the whole Werner thing is utterly baffling and the club potentially made a rod for our own back with it.
Why do forest want to drag this on really. Why don't they sell him get the money and move on instead of dragging this out for longer than it needs to be.
Rovella's main asset is he looks like Modric's illegitimate son
Nah he's a good player, definitely. I like watching him, he can pretty much do it all. But his injury record worries me, he's missed a lot of football...though last year saw a big improvement.
Think he's off to Inter anyway.
Ah if Inter want him, forget it.
You also get "eu sperm", which is somewhat less encouraging.
Cool,
Close the thread, ignore the conversation until it runs its course and he signs.
They will get fuck all out of Levy from delaying it. Maybe let them say they got more for PR but that’s about it.
Maddison should be fit to start the season, MGW is a long term investment, we can wait for him.
Seems like a total waste of time from Forest's perspective.
The deal will happen anyway, but he'd rather waste his and the clubs time on this when it could be used to get more players in that they desperately need having sold two big players already.
well it just goes to show that being a prick gets you want you want...
MGW shoulda come down for his medical on Friday, with Forest's wishes or not... He'd be ours by now!
So that Spurs don't get nice things WHEN they want them!
Pretty much every player the Arse are signing have declared their desire to ONLY join Woolwich...
To te fair, Kudus did say something to that effect in his arrival... but that was probably as much to rile up the hammers fans, and guarantee the first meeting between the clubs will 100% be televised!
But Isn't that what we want ALL our targets to feel about joining us...?
Rather than having to drag them kicking and screaming to us, with numerous complaints and accusations ringing in our ears....
Just a couple of no fuss, under the radar straightforward signings please....
That's all I want!
That would assume we paid his full wage. But even so, it would be a weak argument because the club only have a short term obligation for that wage. No different to when Bale joined the club.
Big Fat Greek springs to mind......
I like Ed but I have him on ignore. Every post.
Good poster but his ability to turn every post in a tirade against Levy is fucking mental, I'm not even sure how obsessed he comes across.