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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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One week left to go of the TW, how will this play out?
I would not be surprised to see the savinho saga drag on until Thursday and then, it gets announced he stays at city.
Tottenham will then try to search for a last minute replacement possibly loan deal.
Paz deal, Tottenham will continue to pursue it even on deadline day only to ultimately fail and too late for anyone else to come in.
 
yes said:
Our issue is that we’ve made it painfully obvious that we want Savinho and have shown little to no interest in signing another LW.

City know we want him. They don’t need to sell him. If Lange wasn’t fucking useless we’d have entered this transfer window with a list of 5 Son replacements and got to work from Day 1. Make it public through leaks that we’ve got other targets and turn the screw.

As Flav said yesterday. The players have done their job. The manager has done his job. It’s time for Levy to do his fucking job.
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How do you know we didn't have five Son replacements in mind? No one knows our targets, and as far as Savinho is concerned no other club is stupid enough to bid seventy million plus for a player who can't get a start in the team he is at.

We won't be signing another left winger either, we aren't trying to corner the market with them.
 
FightingIllini said:
Well but that's exactly what I was and am saying.

Failure to make sufficient funds available to keep up the squad during that period wound up costing the club MUCH MUCH MORE over the longer term because of the way fees inflated.
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Well it's understandable that said hyper inflation wasn't part of the financial planning or risk assessment; nor the finance agreements we undertook as that team was blossoming in 15/16.

FightingIllini said:
Cheapness was the most expensive option. Penny wise, pound foolish.
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It's a matter of risk aversion (or degrees of).....

Lot easier when you're not the one expected to pluck 600m out of your arse.

If we're playing Monopoly then yeh I'm that "spend hard" guy too but ultimately......

If one considers, Redknapp, Poch & Frank to be 3 crossroads moments; i maintain that 17-19's is the most justifiable.

......And it needn't have been such a setback if we hadn't fucked up the subsequent period post-CL final.
 
Airfixx said:
Well it's understandable that said hyper inflation wasn't part of the financial planning or risk assessment; nor the finance agreements we undertook as that team was blossoming in 15/16.
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Well, it should have been. Fees inflate, they always have.

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It's a matter of risk aversion (or degrees of).....
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Pretty classic example of Frank's aphorism of "if you don't take risks you also take risks"
 
Tomo said:
He is at around Kudus level but with much more room to grow. I am sure we will buy a 10 even if it’s the guy from Leicester. Maybe it’s overpay but it’s not like we don’t get deals like Maddison for relatively cheap. The squad has depth, it lacks quality in key areas and that means paying a lot on just a few players rather than a lot on many players.

80m Euro (£70m) is better for Savinho than spending £35m on two average players who just clog up the bench.
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If he comes in and makes an impact like kudus I’m all in!
 
dudu said:
We were though.
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You was talking about about no such thing to me.

And I asked to compare what we have won compared to Woolwich over the same period Levy has been in charge,

No point comparing a club owner to a manger, who doesn't invest in the team, to cherry pick the data. That is the sort of stuff Climate Change deniers do.

So I will repeat my question again.

Since Levy has been in charge, what have we won and what has Woolwich won? Seeing as people are comparing the amount of money both clubs are spending, it would be only fair.
 
Jaynola said:
Pal, you're trying to talk some sense into someone who just doesn't have it in him. At all.

He's not only the most arrogant and obnoxious on here (a feat considering the company he's in, with two posters especially), thinking he knows better than everyone on planet earth, many of us suspect he's a club stooge on Levy's payroll.

And when you go at him with facts, he'll openly ignore it and twist & bend it to fit his narrative.

Or he'll call you a racist over several posts, like he did to me a while back...something our beloved Admin never banned him for by the way.

I admire your enterprise, devotion and patience, but save yourself the trouble my good man. He really, really ain't worth engaging with.
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I think he supply croissants & baguettes to the club bakery
 
Aphex said:
Rice has absolutely been a game changer for them, I mean that is widely recognised. Not only are his set pieces / corners an absolutely lethal weapon for them, he absolutely runs the game for them in midfield from both an attacking and defensive view point.

The other two haven't. Again though you are twisting things to fit your argument. It's not just transfer fees. Specifically the wages, that allow Woolwich to attract the players they can do, Levy doesn't do the same.

Additionally, they have built from a position of strength. This is the crucial bit of it all. Now that their footballing project is attractive, they have signed some really talented players, like Rice and Zubimendi, Caliofiori, Timber, Eze etc

Can you imagine Levy going out and signing a game changer for 100 million like Woolwich did for Arteta? Or like FSG did for Klopp?

Of course you know the answer.

We never did that under Levy when we had the chance. We were in the position of title challengers and Levy allowed the squad to stale, even going a whole window with no signings. It's preposterous.
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I said Rice was great. He is. Other two not. So do you see how their three signings above 60m have not been amazing taken as a while. Poor hit rate.

They have stuck with the same manager and it’s taken them 5 years to get to that point. I’m more optimistic about Frank than any manager post Poch and I think we have finally got the manager to
build off. We’re at the start of a cycle and I think we’ll be able to sustainably invest now.

Last time we reached a peak we were hampered by the new stadium. It was bad timing. And the big signings we did make were flops (Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sessegnon - none of them were successes).

We discussed wages at the start. Spending more on Reiss than VDV is not good. Spending three time more on Jesus than Richarlison is not good.

Also Woolwich's wages have risen considerably over the course of the cycle. They are at their peak now and should be winning. They havent. They’ve gone longer than anyone else in the big 6 without a trophy.
 
Aphex said:
Rice has absolutely been a game changer for them, I mean that is widely recognised. Not only are his set pieces / corners an absolutely lethal weapon for them, he absolutely runs the game for them in midfield from both an attacking and defensive view point.

The other two haven't. Again though you are twisting things to fit your argument. It's not just transfer fees. Specifically the wages, that allow Woolwich to attract the players they can do, Levy doesn't do the same.

Additionally, they have built from a position of strength. This is the crucial bit of it all. Now that their footballing project is attractive, they have signed some really talented players, like Rice and Zubimendi, Caliofiori, Timber, Eze etc

Can you imagine Levy going out and signing a game changer for 100 million like Woolwich did for Arteta? Or like FSG did for Klopp?

Of course you know the answer.

We never did that under Levy when we had the chance. We were in the position of title challengers and Levy allowed the squad to stale, even going a whole window with no signings. It's preposterous.
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I don't think this. His corners are brilliant, but bar that, I think his well overrated especially in an attacking sense. Xhaka and Partey were their best midfield partnership in recent years.
 
Don Pedro said:
They've invested 300m into a team that came 2nd 3 years in a row. Gyokores, Zubimendi and Eze all raise the standard of their team again. This is the strongest squad they've had now since they last won the title. Madueke brought in just to play when Saka is injured so they even covered that angle.

I hate them so much. I hope it all goes wrong for them. I hope they come second again. But they keep getting stronger and stronger every year. The outcome is inevitable. They will win the title again very soon. I hope I'm wrong. I hope they bottle it and we actually give Frank 300m to spend next summer and pass them out. But right now they are primed to win.
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You could be right but let them win something first before getting the lube out. Never cross a bridge before you come to it.
 
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