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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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I completely agree with you but you and I both know Daniel Levy was never shelling out £8m for a 6 month loan without that loan fee essentially being accounted as part of the total transfer fee for the player. You and I both know that £8m was effectively a down payment in his mind.
Nah, I think Daniel Levy is a man who knows his way around the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

"Well, I guess I have to spend 30M more..." does that sound like our boy?
 
People don't hate Tel at all IMO, just what the transfer represents,

Theoretically plausible.... But in a lot of cases; no we have a spiteful element to our fanbase who can't regulate themselves.

its clear he was brought in as a desperate last chance saloon signing in Jan

This isn't true though.... We were chipping away at signing him for weeks..... The deal went cold and then came 'alive' again towards the end of the window.

Tel was the only fairly unknown quantity

Even someone like me that doesn't watch a great deal of European football knew who he was.

we got finessed on the loan fee which virtually tied our hands on getting a deal signed for him this summer

Sorry; but spending 40m for some minor PR win is not "cheap, bald cunt" behaviour.



Bottom line; if people are mad we sign the permanent deal on him then fair enough; but ffs can we not weaponise all this baggage against the player....... We've already seen how toxic our fans can get with Johnson last season. He's 20 and there's no reason to write him off so vehemently.
 
What about a good one though?

We're going to get a few injuries at some point and slide down the table, whilst that lot will be competing for the PL.

:pochunimpressed:
Tel, Odobert, BJ. Meanwhile at 10 we have...
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Not bullshit. It’s not an option it’s an obligation. They are still buying him from us, just deferring payment for a year. They are getting to use Bissouma this season and onwards and obviously they’ll need to pay. He is moving immediately not next summer. You seem a bit confused how these deals work
Not confused at all. Just listen to how silly you sound.... an obligation to buy a player who is essentially out of contract when that obligation kicks in... let me help you out. They will be paying a 12 month loan fee which may or may not be deferred in it entirety for 12 months and will undoubtedly be linked to performance metrics. If he stinks up the place, which is highly likely then there is not a cat in hells chance they will keep him. He will just be an out of contract player who someone else can kick the tires on. They are not buying him from us and redoing his contract. I can guarantee that. It's a loan. Plain and simple.
 
If Levy properly understood sunk cost fallacy we might have gotten transfer fees for Reguillon and N'Dombele and more than €5m for Lo Celso.
True enough, but that's different, that's about demanding money in the door rather than spending money outside of it.

Lange loves Tel's talent long term and Ange did too, and when Bayern was willing to heavily reduce the purchase option we took it.

That was a shortsighted decision at that moment in time.
 
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