Just out of interest and off topic why at the psg ground does it have ' ici c'est paris (here it's paris)? Do they not like using st germain and why?
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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According to some people on here, no.
Classic Enic transfer window action....
Brentford can have him....
The other teams did worse despite strengthening through the transfer market?
So it’s possible to strengthen using the transfer market and do worse and it’s possible to not strengthen and do better?
Sounds like the transfer market must be a small part of the equation.
By the way - I haven’t told you how intelligent I think I am. When I do, you’ll know.
All I’ve done is ask questions to probe reality. It is more complex and nuanced than most people here make out. But it’s a football forum so…
It's not much of a point. It's just sophistry. Causation and corelation writ large.
The transfer market is a huge part of the equation, otherwise Van Djik, Alisson, Salah etc wouldn’t have won them the title. And they wouldn’t be spending hundreds of millions in this window if they as a club didn’t recognise the importance of signing well.
It won’t always directly impact the upcoming season as loads of factors come in to a single season but the most successful, elite clubs do elite club stuff in the transfer market.
You can pretend otherwise but it just makes you sound thick as fuck.
Just smash the ignore button on the ones you find boring and enjoy 6 replies of 'you are ignoring content from this member' every page on here. Makes scanning these threads a lot easier to read.
Unfortunately you do miss out on their insightful on the fence takes though.
I don’t enjoy Levybots.
No idea if he's any good, highly doubt anyone here is watching Rennes each week to know anything about him
The only point is that explaining on field success is hard. Lots of people claiming simple solutions which don’t survive even slight pressure.
Yeah looking at Liverpool more broadly, now that TAA is off (and Elliott and perhaps Quansah look to be following him) they have a high-priced outside transfer acquisition purchased as a senior player to be an immediate contributor in their current role occupying basically every role in their squad, they are 15-16 deep with those guys, with Andy Robertson and maaaaybe Curtis Jones and Joe Gomez representing exceptions.
The Liverpool story is MORE predicated on just straight up "we are going into the transfer market and paying top dollar for the best solution at every position" than the typical great team.
Ok so what other factors go into a successful season?
You’ve said it won’t always be the transfer window. A lot of people are saying the transfer window is the key to having a good season this year.
