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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Gmspurs said:
After this week's shenanigans, if we really wanted Savinho to happen then we'd have made it happen by now.


City's target Rodrygo has been benched and looks like being benched for the foreseeable future so Man City must know whether he's gettable or not and exactly what it will cost them.

They will know the cost to change and if they wanted to sell Savinho then they'd have let us know what price he's available at.

If we wanted him then we'd have got him by now.
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I thought we were being all polite and letting the game between us happen first, so that there's no conflict of interest...

Y'know, how we were gonna allow Eze to play for Palace last night and be all patient!!!!

Fuck 'em... Sign Savinho NOW, register him before midday and play him tomorrow... Hope he scores a fucking hat trick!

THAT'S how you negotiate a deal with the selling club Daniel!

NO MERCY!!
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Yep. Look at the players we've bought from prem clubs over the last few years.

Richarlison, Johnson, Kudus all from clubs who had to sell urgently due to PSR. Maddison one year left on his contract and relegated, Hojbjerg one year left on his contract. Even back to Sissoko, relegated and club cash strapped and Wanyama one year left on his contract. This is the area Levy wants to operate, both financially and for the buzz/ tough negotiator persona.

Then think of others where its been tougher, Mane, Wijnaldum, Zaha, Neto, Gallagher, Guehi, Gibbs White, Eze. I can only think of Solanke over 10 or so years where there have been no club or contract issues.
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LOL, this narrative is hilarious.

The running narrative is that we overpaid for those players (Richy, Johnson, Solanke) and that levy is seen as a terrible negotiator for those deals - 'overpaying for players', even though we clearly paid the asking prices and got the deals done relatively quickly.

Now, everyone is pissed off about Eze, the narrative quickly changes because it fits in with what happened in this transfer.
 
glacierSpurs said:
Nah, we shouldn't even let him have the chance to make that decision. We have all summer. All of last week. All of yesterday. Honestly it's all on us to let this slip. So us.
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Yes a serious club would wrap up big money signings before season starts preferably before pre season tour.
We on the other wrap up the bargain basement / average players early doors then leave it last minute for the big money signings. Look at Solanke, Johnson, oddebert etc all done just before first game of season or before transfer deadline. wtf are we doing splashing out big money so late into transfer window. We should be making these types of signings early doors if they are the players you really want. Last few weeks of the window should for opportunistic signings like a VdV or a promising youngster. Totally mad and those that support the bollocks of ‘of oh we still have a few weeks left’ are deluded. Just look what happens in last few week of transfer windows. All the best players have gone, prices go up as clubs know they can hold out for bigger fees and selling club also have to find replacement.
 
dudu said:
Except for.....

Richarlison, Solanke, Johnson, Kudus and Bissouma obviously.

Other than the ones where that isn't the priority, which is plenty, you're 100% right
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Everton were desperate to sell Richi because of horrendous overspending and needed cash. Ditto Forest with Johnson and West Ham with Kudus. Bissouma had a legal case hanging over him and nobody else was interested. Solanke is the only one where there were no extenuating circumstances for Levy to prey on.

Also taken in the round, Levy spent almost £300m on those 5 players. Do you think the other big clubs would have got more quality for that money? Are his ways of working really delivering value for money?
 
IMHO Levy is a devious little snake , but he’s really shit at it so it keeps going tits up for him . I have been thinking for a long time who he reminds me of , then it dawned on me .

finish line explosion GIF


He is Dick Dastardly
 
Man City paid a reported £30.8 million (€35.7/$41.5m) for Savinho when they signed him from Troyes in July 2024.

He signed a five-year contract worth a basic £40,000 (€46,400/$53,850) per week, according to Capology.

And now watch us pay over 75 million for their reject.

His decision making process in the final third is shockingly poor. Saw him at least 15 times last season, and he is a selfish prick wannabe Neymar without half the skill or charisma.

On top of that, his finishing is no way near consistent enough. Here, take a look:


View: https://youtu.be/CNt_bR596Nc?si=dHC2k_j6U4h9_QOL

Move on from this clown. Pep saw it early, gave him every opportunity when Debruyne was injured and he still did fuck all.

He is frail too. One proper "reducer" tackle and he is done out here....
 
The clearest thing is whoever is in charge of it all, there’s absolutely zero plan.

I have no doubt in my mind that there’s no process at the start of the summer where we have identified a key list of targets who are first choice and who we will pursue, and then some secondary options in case those first options aren’t available.

You can almost hear the conversations between our transfer team being more akin to “oh, that didn’t work, who else could we look at?” And then we stumble about hoping to luck ourselves into an opportunity.

Zero plan, all left till the last minute, and we only look to shop when the proper quality is gone. We need to clear out the entire team relating to transfers including Levy. We are legitimately the worst team in the league for it.
 
The speed in which Woolwich made the move for Eze, shows he was on their radar for a while, and sort of knew he would welcome the move.

Having seen us beaten to his signature our response needs to demonstrate we did not have all our eggs in one basket.

If we don't see 'bid accepted' fot a target of objective quality today, then it's really poor.

I say that because fans will feel a bit deflated at present, and need something to give them belief and a voice before tomorrow's game.

It's also why there won't be any bid that City will respond to for Savinho before tomorrow, presuming that is our intention.

It's certainly a roller coaster.
 
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Skeletor said:
Man City paid a reported £30.8 million (€35.7/$41.5m) for Savinho when they signed him from Troyes in July 2024.

He signed a five-year contract worth a basic £40,000 (€46,400/$53,850) per week, according to Capology.
And now watch us pay over 75 million for their reject.

His decision making process in the final third is shockingly poor. Saw him at least 15 times last season, and he is a selfish prick wannabe Neymar without half the skill or charisma.

On top of that, his finishing is no way near consistent enough. Here, take a look:


View: https://youtu.be/CNt_bR596Nc?si=dHC2k_j6U4h9_QOL

Move on from this clown. Pep saw it early, gave him every opportunity when Debruyne was injured and he still did fuck all.

He is frail too. One proper "reducer" tackle and he is done out here....
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Glad I’m not the only one
 
Notabadsquad said:
The speed in which Woolwich made the move for Eze, shows he was on their radar fir a while, and sort of knew he would welcome the move.

Having seen us beaten to his signature our response needs to demonstrate we did not have all our eggs in one basket.

If we don't see 'bid accepted' fot a target of objective quality today, then it's really poor.

I say that because fans will feel a bit deflated at present, and need something to give them belief and a voice before tomorrow's game.

It's also why there won't be any bid that City will respond to for Savinho before tomorrow, presuming that is our intention.

It's certainly a roller coaster.
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It won’t happen, the lack of news after Eze breaking down isn’t because we’re working on deals, it’s because we have absolutely zero idea of what to do now. We’re likely to pick up the phone to Southampton early next week and then work on Dibling till deadline day with lots of back and forth, all for a player that in honesty, we don’t really need, and doesn’t add anything for us right now.
 
Skeletor said:
Man City paid a reported £30.8 million (€35.7/$41.5m) for Savinho when they signed him from Troyes in July 2024.

He signed a five-year contract worth a basic £40,000 (€46,400/$53,850) per week, according to Capology.

And now watch us pay over 75 million for their reject.

His decision making process in the final third is shockingly poor. Saw him at least 15 times last season, and he is a selfish prick wannabe Neymar without half the skill or charisma.

On top of that, his finishing is no way near consistent enough. Here, take a look:


View: https://youtu.be/CNt_bR596Nc?si=dHC2k_j6U4h9_QOL

Move on from this clown. Pep saw it early, gave him every opportunity when Debruyne was injured and he still did fuck all.

He is frail too. One proper "reducer" tackle and he is done out here....
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And yet if we had bought Savinho at that time. Levy would be called cheapskate, going for youngsters with potential.

It's a can't win situation.
 
yes said:
How fucking hard is it to say “£65m yes or no?”.

If it’s “yes”. Great. If it’s “no”. MOVE ONTO THE FUCKING NEXT ONE.

So fucking sick of the mystery surrounding behind the scenes management of a club. Full to the brim of numpties who have fallen upwards and would get eaten alive in the real world, in a real job.
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I agree, either pay it or fuck off to another target.
We spend too much time haggling over price, trying to add extras in like 6 months subscription of a wank mag.
 
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