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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread
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I thought Everton won the transfer window the summer before last though?
Spend money yes but don't spend it on mad signings like Iwobi (£35m!). Genuinely if that was on offer to me or no signing I would go another window of not getting anyone.
We were prepared to pay £25m for him, they wanted closer to £45m as that was the figure they required to pay off their FFP. Unreasonable money for a Championship player and once it started getting to the crunch moment when they were about to buckle a couple of American Billionaires purchased them, sold off Villa park, got a sponsorship deal etc in place and it gave them what they needed financially to not need to sell. I wish people would just accept that this kind of thing happens from time to time.
Man City, maybe. David Silva is leaving at the end of the season and they need home grown players.
Bolasi for 30m; there's another one.
They wanted £25m at the start of that summer and Levy tried to humiliate them while they were in financial difficulties. When they got the new owners and no longer had pressure to sell, Levy panicked and offered the £25m on deadline day but by then it was far too late.
One of his biggest ever gaffes but this is what happens when you behave the way he does. Sometimes you wear another chairman down and get a bargain, sometimes they pull up the drawbridge and tell you to fuck off. If Levy had opened with a serious offer instead of £3m plus Onomah, Grealish would be here.
Of course it would, it would be in an even bigger mess. Grealish isn’t what we are desperately short of, we’ve got some mercurial,erratic and inconsistent forward players already and he’s much lazier than all of the ones we’ve got.
He’s a 1990’s signing. A much shitter Ginola, who plays for himself.
Buendia is about three times the player, younger, about a third of the price and works has absolute nuts off.
But we need a 6 first.
Iwobi was a panic buy when they couldnt get zaha.
Their signings havent worked out but fair play to them, they're still going for it.
Ancelotti is huge for there profile.
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Rebic coming on instead of Piatek on the Milan game.
Piatek on the way?
Piatek on the way?
I wanted Grealish, I was gutted when we didn't get him but Levy knew their situation and did what most good chairman should do and used that to our advantage at the time. Grealishneven waved goodbye that's how close we were to getting our man but let's be honest how often does a team in their situation get taken over literally overnight like Villa did.
In hindsight yes it went sour and blew up in our faces but we played the game, we were smart knowing they were backed into a corner it just didn't drop our way. It's a shame but I don't begrudge Levy for not giving them the £45m they out around his neck, that would have been our record signing at the time, for a Championship player.
I’d take a punt on Berge. He’s physically strong but graceful on the ball and could either pass it out or bring out of defence. No one’s biting though, so maybe he’s too slow.
Hoping we have some sort of Summer 6 target lined up.
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They're still going for it yes but they've just announced losses the the last year stacking up to £110m and are being investigated for the USM deal they have brokered for their new stadium as Usmanov is a part share owner. Usmanov is also worth a rumoured £13bn, it's not as if they went for it purely because of ambition, they're in a situation where they have a frivolous spending owner these days with Kenwright taking a back seat.
Worked for chelsea and man city so why not.
It maybe against FFP but it is ambition and I'm sure their fans are happy about it even if right now the football people aren't getting it quite right.
Pioli picking a man that he himself declared "would never be a Serie A caliber player" over Piatek either means that Piatek is on the way out or Rebic has some seriously criminalizing footage of Pioli.Rebic coming on instead of Piatek on the Milan game.
Piatek on the way?
And he just went and scored lol.
Prior to the summer window it needed tuning and didn't get it whose fault was that if a couple of signings had been made then maybe we would not have been in this mess, I think the club tried to cut Corners and not spend thinking that while the team were in the top four it didn't need to.
We all know that was and is a terrible mistake in fact many of us said at the time this was wrong but as usual got told by the happy clappers that we were wrong because why should we buy a striker to play second fiddle, look how this has turned out yesterday was living proof of those decisions costing us winning games.
Unfortunately you are right everyone has to continue waiting for much of the same as we are getting but surely business savvy people like levy and Lewis must see that us milling around mid table is devaluing the club, and for owners like them who value the sound of the till above all else seems strange.
To be fair to Rebic he's been very good since he's come on. Also helped by the fact that Bonnaventura was dreadful. If Milan don't hold Rebic, maybe a cheeky loan bid to Frankfurt?
Usmanov is worth an estimated $13bn, Abramovic is worth $12.5bn, Sheikh Mansour is worth $15bn with a family value of $1trn. Joe Lewis is worth a rumoured $5.4bn, which is actually closer to Mike Ashley's worth at a rumoured $4.2bn.
To compare our owners to Chelsea, Everton and Man City really isn't fair IMO, two very different animals right there. Joe Lewis is actually worth less than the current owners of Wolves it ain't as easy on face value as it seems, especially when you go down the right path which is spending within your means.
I wasn't comparing them with anyone just saying fair play to them for going for it.
But it's not the clubs going for it, it's the owners. It's far easier to 'go for it' when you're worth 2-3 times more and decide to treat a football team like your own little toy.
Even Sheffield United's owner is worth far more than our owner:
Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, worth £18bn, becomes Sheffield United co-owner
Sheffield United owner Kevin McCabe has sold a 50 per cent stake in the club to a member of Saudi Arabia's royal family, Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who has become joint owner.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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