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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Why is everyone so down on Solanke. Ange's system gave him zero service all season. Frank literally focuses his attack around the striker. With kudus, hopefully with savanho and eze the service in to Solanke will actually exist and he will bang in a bunch of goals this season. Same with richy
If Solanke stays fit this season, he's getting a minimum of 15 Premier League goals if we get Eze and Savinho.

Frank sets up teams so that the men up top score.
 
A few years after Bale transferred to Madrid, I happened to talk to one of the (many) professionals involved in the deal.

He told me the deal had been agreed in principle between both clubs and player (and his agent) a little over 3 weeks before it was actually announced - with the 3 weeks being spent by the parties (and their professional advisors) fine tuning everything for the effects of currency movements, tax differences between UK and Spain and a 1,001 other things,

But the 'headline' financials didn't change and nor did Bale's wages post tax in Spain change - although many details necessary to complete the contract did.

So 'deals' can be agreed in principle with handshakes all round but signing a contract takes a lot more time - and the time between agreeing a deal and contracts being signed filled in the social media space by lots of fabricated stories of multiple bids etc made up by people who have no clue as to what's really going on. And that includes journalists who are never going to be told 'the deal is done' by the clubs until shortly before its announced ....... and they have column inches to fill so are all part of the 'transfer window circus'
I reckon this post should substitute the word delay (in the same way admin has Woolwich pop up every time someone types Woolwich lol), whenever it is written in this thread.

It would be fun seeing the hate parade going into one every time one of their whinge posts got hijacked. 🤣
 

“I don't know. If Tottenham, or any other club, wants a player, you should call the club, right? It's the same like we do!”

Sure Pep….butter, mouth, melt, wouldn’t, his in

 
If this is accurate then Forest really had no leg to stand on in terms of reporting us to the premier league.

How could we have been informed about his release clause if we didn't even meet certain parts of it. Surely the person/people who apparently informed us about the release clause would have told us about the aspects we had to trigger.
Certainly sounds like we did little wrong here.

Also helps understand why MGW didn't agitate for a move ala Gyokeres or Isak.
Understandably had other things in life on his mind.
 
Those Pep quotes give me a lot of hope this deal will happen.

Basically saying the player wants to come to us so he won't stand in his way. Pep is just protecting his club by bigging the player up and saying how much e wants him to stay.

Basically a message to us to pay up.

He's hardly going to tell the media, "no I want to sell him and sign Rodrygo".
 
Never before in the field of transfer window history have so many undergarments been soiled by so many on the basis of so little reliable information.

World War 2 Vintage GIF by US National Archives
 
A few here have speculated that he wouldn't be sold to us until after we'd played them. This 'injury' claim makes me wonder whether there's some truth to it.
Nah.

As soon as the window is shut, where ever he is, he'll suddenly recover.
They totally don't want to sell to us before we play them because there's very little way they can prevent him playing against them.
Unless they knock a huge wedge off the fee in exchange for that favour from us.
 
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