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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread

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I'm ok with this. It made more sense in January, but even now it's a decent rotation option with Udogie, who is always injured.

And he has bags of experience and leadership.

We still need another 4 or 5 signings so it's a start.
 
We'd actually be buying a 32 year old left back not selling one.

But if you can't see the reason, then here you go.... because Spence will play right back and Robertson will play left back along with Udoggie.

I'd rather we signed Robertson AND kept Porro.
Buying sorry….but buying another left back and reducing our rightnacks to just one is just crazy. Instead of 2 right footed full backs amd 1 left footed fullback as we have now we’d have it the other way around. 1 right footed fullback and 2 left footed fullbacks ( 3 if you count Souza.)
 
That’s not really the issue. All of them are decent players on paper . It’s more about what it signifies about who is control behind the scenes — all of these are Lange targets pre dating De Zerbi.

Doubt they’d sign him if De Zerbi didn’t ok it, quite frankly.

And that’s a fact, not an opinion.
 
not the kind of winners im talking about -

we wont plenty of football matches but fell short, every single time at important moments.

fine, we arent at a stage right now where we should be thinking about winning more than simply games, but experience at winning can make a difference at that last stage - in a game of inches...

It’s absolutely no good if it’s not attached to quality. Robertson is way past his best.

And we fell short, not because we lacked “winners”, but because we lacked enough quality on the pitch, we lost out to the Chelsea’s and Liverpool’s because they had more of that quality throughout the whole team and bench.
 
Xhaka, Millner, Henderson etc all sort of signings that alot of fans would have turned their nose up at but have been crucial in the clubs they went to both on & off pitch.
Robertson is loved at pool and he known to be a great competitor and a great personality.
Hes not a player that will sell many shirts but players like that are crucial to squads and we have too few of them.
I'm happy with it. Very risk free and a huge potential upside for setting standards.
If he wasn't always injured and physically done, I'd have liked it. Milner and Xhaka aren't always inured. And given that he's going to be in competition with our LB who is also, very injured, I don't think this feels risk free at all. If Udogie wasn't out so often, I'd be fine with it. But this feels like sleepwalking into another disaster.
 
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