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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Nah, us fans don't need to recalibrate anything. Levy does. If you want to deliver Brighton-level signings, then charge Brighton-level ticket prices.

We play in a £1bn stadium and pay £1600 for our season tickets. We have every right to demand a squad with more established players. If Levy wants us to sit in the stands and watch youngsters learn the game, then he should be charging us 75% less.
If we made Brighton level signings and held onto the players (unlike Brighton), we’d be in the top 4.

The difference between us and Brighton is that we hit at a lot lower rate than they do and probably can’t develop the players as well.

More Brighton level signings please.
 
Nah, us fans don't need to recalibrate anything. Levy does. If you want to deliver Brighton-level signings, then charge Brighton-level ticket prices.

We play in a £1bn stadium and pay £1600 for our season tickets. We have every right to demand a squad with more established players. If Levy wants us to sit in the stands and watch youngsters learn the game, then he should be charging us 75% less.

Never thought of it like this, but your damn right.
 
Me lol.

I gave an answer about what I thought our transfer strategy was, and your response had nothing to do with what I said.

Your first point was this

Answer me this, what's the point in a strategy, when the guy involved has such an ego, that he needs to win every battle, that strategy becomes irrelevant? Twice this window Levy has embarrassed the club with has transfer negotiations.

Do not gaslight me, i am not an idiot - you did not enter this discussion with any desire to have a conversation - just to push your own anti-levy, agenda with 'facts' that you have concocted in your head so you can make sense of the feelings of disappointment and possibly to comfort yourself from the banter you feel from other football fans, as to why we don't get the players you want us to.

And your comparison to climate change is frankly ridiculous.
Not gas lighting you and you never mentioned anything about strategy on your reply to me.

Just a waffle on about how I haven't sold any assets etc.

And your tone is a bit disturbing to say the least. It's insanely defensive and aggressive and being a public forum you should expect other people to read and voice their opinions.

Your response says more about you and your opinions than anything else. It comes across as someone living in denial desperately clinging on to the fact that he is right and everyone else is wrong.

Not saying you are, just that it comes across that way.

Yes, I don't like Levy, but he does do some good and when he gets things right, I say so. When he gets things wrong, I will say so.

It's clear that you don't want an honest debate so I'll leave it there.
 
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In my heart, agree with you. But I'm increasingly wondering - especially when it comes to the highlighted part - whether we need to recalibrate our perception of what our real level is.

Our level is because of our ownership.

We are a London club with all the building blocks to be hugely attractive. I genuinely believe this. People call me a gooner etc but the reality is that I can see a club which has potential to be so much more than it it is actually trying to be and that is why I get frustrated, especially when people big up some of the average we have as elite.

Ambitious ownership would absolutely cook here. The room with PSR, the attraction of London, the stadium already in place for the future .. the one thing I will credit the ownership with is they have built a good platform for OTHER owners to take over and deliver actual on the pitch success. The foundations are all there - they just won't pass the mantle on.
 
I really dont know what the club are going to conjure up signing wise but the situation so bad it is inexcusable, gross incompetence.

I mean we've only had all summer to make signings. They clearly knew early doors son was going. Like how the actual fuck has it come to this?

Even one 10 is not enough, unless they are playing every minute of every game?

We were so fortunate to get cl through the back door but we've absolutely wasted the opportunity. We're so far short on attacking quality its a joke.
 
We need to get SavinhoI
It would be an important signing, but it assumes the same people who couldn't and wouldn't close a deal with Crystal Palace are going to get Manchester City to let go of an important player just days before the transfer window closes. Even if Man City would make the deal, and it doesn't appear they want to, I don't think Mr. Levy would pay the asking price. We'll end up with a couple of young guys with potential as long as Woolwich, Chelsea, or Liverpool have no interest in them.
 
Why?

What is wrong with people?

I was asked a question about what I thought a strategy was - and because I gave an answer that wasn't driven by emotion or my hatred for another human being, I am that human being?

Honestly, supporting this team does weird things to people.
I was obviously being facetious mate.

I just can’t understand how anyone who genuinely supports the club could honestly give that rose tinted assessment of our transfer/recruitment strategy.

Your narrative paints a picture of a club that knows what they’re doing.
 
According to Fichajes, Tottenham Hotspur are now eyeing a move for Alexander Sorloth from Atletico Madrid.

The 29-year-old Norwegian is looking for a change. After the arrival of Julian Alvarez, he is not the first-choice striker for Diego Simeone.

Even after scoring 24 goals in 53 matches, Sorloth feels inferior to Alvarez. That is why he wants to return to the Premier League.
I call bollox
 
Nah, us fans don't need to recalibrate anything. Levy does. If you want to deliver Brighton-level signings, then charge Brighton-level ticket prices.

We play in a £1bn stadium and pay £1600 for our season tickets. We have every right to demand a squad with more established players. If Levy wants us to sit in the stands and watch youngsters learn the game, then he should be charging us 75% less.
I don't disagree with the fact it's a piss-take, mate, but it's still the reality. Brighton finished 8th last season. They've finished above us two out of the last three seasons. Season ticket prices notwithstanding, that is broadly the level we're forced to compete for players, because that's where we're perceived to be.
 
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