I’ll translate this.It pretty much says that he only wants Spurs and discussions with other clubs are off.
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I’ll translate this.It pretty much says that he only wants Spurs and discussions with other clubs are off.
Yeah Norgaard especially. He would've got tons of minutes for us last season but chose to be a benchwarmer at Woolwich instead. OK he's got a trophy for his troubles, but 101 league minutes is a joke.
He was Frank's former captain, chief lieutenant on the pitch, supposedly very close. If you can't get that guy to join you, then no-one from Brentford was gonna come.
Mbeumo was allegedly a massive united fan growing up so I think that played into it with him, plus bigger wages no doubt, but maybe a really charismatic manager could've persuaded him to join us given we were in the Champions League.
Yeah - I actually don't think we've got anything lined up for Romero at all and seems like the club are actually putting football first for once. The way things are going I can see us taking a bit of a loss on him, or doing some line of loan-with-an-obligation deal with one of the Italian clubs or Atletico.
We did spend fairly big early/mid summer when we sold big players previously (Bale, Kane) but I think Levy was willing to do that when he knew for sure he had a big club coming in and it was a matter of when rather than if he'd get his payday. Don't get the impression that's the case with Romero. AFAIK there have been zero concrete links from other clubs yet.
And trying to get business done early too, so they can actually have a pre-season... Which is refreshing too.
Maybe some of us have worked on multimillion pound deals too.
You find a middle ground and get the deal done when there is a 20% valuation gap.
Yeah but those few million sometimes take 2-3 months to be hashed out and you risk losing the player.
Obviously if there's a huge gap in valuation and we're looking to pay 45 while Brighton want 65, we're gonna need to dig our heels in and grind it out for a few months as we can't get our pants pulled down.
But equally, haggling for a few million over our manager's number one target after he saved us from relegation is exactly the type of shit Levy would do and it meant we lost out on countless key players, pissed off managers and undermined entire projects. If we'd signed Moutinho and Grealish rather than trying to be cute, AVB and Poch might've lasted another season or two.
I don't think we should overpay for every signing, but I think symbolically it's very important that we back De Zerbi and don't lose out on Van Hecke if that's his number 1 guy. If that costs us a few extra million to secure the deal, so be it.
Nope. Not giving them any credit yet either.
Two weeks ago we were staring anxiously at the abyss of relegation.
No amount of shiny new toys is going to make me forget that so soon.
The Jan window was a colossal fuck-up - they never ever should've gambled when the stakes were that high - but the reason they claimed they didn't spend was because they wanted to focus funds on summer signings when the market was more amenable.
I don't think they deserve credit, but while it nearly cost the club 250m and irrevocably fucked us, we are now in a better position to spend this summer than we would've been had we overpaid on short-term signings in Jan.
Before relegation became a genuine threat, I was saying this summer was always going to be the one to judge how serious the Lewis
They can obviously achieve credit through actions.
But not in two weeks.
And not based on Twitter rumours.
I'm making a point not to easily forget how awful these past few months were. I'm making these fuckers really earn any credit from me.
Completely different scenarios.
Bastoni had just had a child with his partner and wasn’t going to leave Italy under any circumstances.
In fact he’s still at Inter. Rumours of Barcelona this year and I bet come the end of the window that he’s still at Inter.
Van Hecke has one year left on his contract and is off.
Both of those players had 4 years left on their contracts when Brighton made those demands.
Fair, my point was more that Brighton tend to have a valuation of their player and you either take it or leave it. Even with 4 years left clubs would've sold Caicedo for a fair bit less but Bloom stuck to his valuation and got a record fee.
With a year left on his contract I'd imagine they'll value Van Hecke somewhere around 50m and won't go much under that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Bloom's the type to drop his price by 10m if we make it a 3 month saga and play silly buggers Levy-style. We obviously have to try to negotiate but I don't think we'll get them down very much.
All of this is nice but WE NEED A NEW FORWARD LINE.
LW: Savinho (50m)
RW: Akilouche (60m), Wilson (Free)
ST: Ramos (60m)
4 incomings required given the doubts around Kudus and Kulu.
How about Kangin Lee from PSG. He is attacking MF / RW with creativity we need. Seems to be available for 40M Euro.
Levy policy of signing a player literally the day before the season starts was probably driven by saving wages and haggeling so the player playing catch up from day one ..
Van Hecke is a good signing. So is Senesi. Happy for Robertson to be here. Massive upgrade on Ben Davies.
But its the MGW's/Thiago's that will make the difference. Do I believe that ENIC will pay what it takes to get that type of player? Not sure.
But its the MGW's/Thiago's that will make the difference. Do I believe that ENIC will pay what it takes to get that type of player? Not sure.