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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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Stopspot said:
Practically we could. But doing so is not exactly the norm. We'd still have to pay them their weekly guarantees (so around 75 grand a week to Eriksen for doing nothing for example). That would surely be the last resort for the club. Considering how bad the Poch-Janssen relationship seemed for a bit him losing his numbers could also have been a bit of punishment for all we know.

We probably have targets identified but want to/need to shift out Eriksen, Big Vic and such first.
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We're already paying Eriksen 75k a week to do nothing. I couldn't care less if we dumped guys like Foyth and Dier out of the squad to make way for a new face. I'm tired of the excuses.
 
TheSpurEst said:
We ARE currently paying for Wanyama, Vorm and KWP to "pay wages for people to just hang out at the training center" . We could just fire first 2 and pay the rest of the wages. Does not matter absolutely anything performance related. They don't play anyways and are even on the bench on very rare occasions.
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We can't get rid of Vorm because of the injury to Lloris. If we did and Gazzaniga got injured/sent off, then we'd be relying on Brandon Austin or Alfie Whiteman to come in and play PL minutes.
 
greenmanRD said:
We can't get rid of Vorm because of the injury to Lloris. If we did and Gazzaniga got injured/sent off, then we'd be relying on Brandon Austin or Alfie Whiteman to come in and play PL minutes.
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Vorm is useless. I was delighted to see the back of him. Gazzaniga has also become hot garbage. We'd be better off with some fucker plucked from the stand at the last moment.
 
TheSpurEst said:
I understand that you are trying to explain and don't mean it as arguing for arguing itself.
But there are some half-tones inbetween.

We ARE currently paying for Wanyama, Vorm and KWP to "pay wages for people to just hang out at the training center" . We could just fire first 2 and pay the rest of the wages. Does not matter absolutely anything performance related. They don't play anyways and are even on the bench on very rare occasions.

So we could register new faces when we take them off our squads in respective competitions.
So radical, I agree, but there are ways and options if needed.
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or we could just send them out on loan and pay a percentage of their wage>?
 
Five said:
Vorm is useless. I was delighted to see the back of him. Gazzaniga has also become hot garbage. We'd be better off with some fucker plucked from the stand at the last moment.
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I had virtually no opinion of Vorm because he hardly ever played. Gazzaniga has been fine, he's a backup keeper, so he'll make some mistakes but it could be way worse. I can't imagine playing a youth team player who has never even gone on loan anywhere.
 
greenmanRD said:
I had virtually no opinion of Vorm because he hardly ever played. Gazzaniga has been fine, he's a backup keeper, so he'll make some mistakes but it could be way worse. I can't imagine playing a youth team player who has never even gone on loan anywhere.
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Gazzaniga has become a clusterfuck in the last month. It seemed to begin with the soft one he conceded at Old Trafford. Vorm played too much, IMO. Utterly useless. Always worth a goal to the opposition.
 
Why people want Aarons so bad ? is young and not realy set the prem alight so for the future maybe ?
we have other priorities (DM and a DM )
and if some want to gamble with youth at RB why not foyth ? because he made a mistake as a 3 cb ?
 
Airfixx said:
Your post neglects to consider the notion of an interested buyer.

Declaring someone as for sale is the only "easy" part of the process.
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It was quite well documented at the start of the season as to how hard London clubs are finding it to shift players on. Especially when they have solid contracts in place.

Madrid, Barcelona, Milan all lovely. Rotterdam, Birmingham, Newcastle, Toulouse less so.
 
magi said:
Why people want Aarons so bad ? is young and not realy set the prem alight so for the future maybe ?
we have other priorities (DM and a DM )
and if some want to gamble with youth at RB why not foyth ? because he made a mistake as a 3 cb ?
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Because he has that go-forward mentality that gets the attention. He can defend and he's young with a lot of potential. Oh, and he won't cost close to 4 million a year in salary (Aurier!)
 
Airfixx said:
Your post neglects to consider the notion of an interested buyer.

Declaring someone as for sale is the only "easy" part of the process.
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Of course, and there is also the "Levy factor" of pricing to deal with.

But the likes of CCV surely would be desirable at the right price to a lot of clubs, same Wanyama, same KWP.

Players still in their prime faced with the threat of having no football if they stay will be more open to leaving than players hanging round the first team waiting for their chance.
 
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