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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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Raumdeuterz said:
Yeah if that's the money Sociedad would actually want, they can do one. Interesting talent but not close to worth it, and not having a particularly great season either. I would assume as La Liga isn't exactly swimming in money that they would accept less, though?
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Oyarzabal is very interesting. Everytime I see a Sociedad match, he's the best player on the pitch.

Plays on the left but can play on the right and occasionally centrally. Expensive though.

 
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TheSpurEst said:
Calm.
The.
Fuck.
Down.

It has not been issue with us being coy or cheap. How hard it is to remember that?!?

We have put money into player purchases of late.
But the decisions have been utter shit.

How hard it is to remember that we have splashed shitload of money-
2019/20 - Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon, Bergwijn, Clarke, Gedson Fernandes - combined eventual cost (with Lo Celso money paid as loan fee + transfer fee) of 180 million. Add up the wages and we are at 220 million euros for 0 starters.
2020/21 - Regulion, Doherty, Hjojberg, Rodon, Vinicus, Bale - that is 80 million + 10 million that Bale season cost us. That puts us at 90 million for 2 starters in Reggie and Hjojberg
2021/22 - Gil, Royal, Sarr, Romero, Gollini - 67 million spent, but jury is out there what we will get and what we make permanent.

Obviously the 19/20 window stands out. But if we also consider 20/21 then it will represent at very minimum 270 million euros spent. And only 47 million of it was on target - money we spent for Reggie and Hjojberg. We have flushed 223 million euros down the toilet.

What good would it make to sign 5 Ndombeles for 300 mil? It would add 52 mil EUR per year costs to the club. That would mean "deleting the club".
So it is wrong to call for MORE spending. We have to call and demand lot wiser spending. And smartness is so much more important, cause once more - just look at 19/20 window to see what stupid money wasting can do.
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Smart spending is a given - look at Conte’s signings at Inter. Spent a lot, spent smartly won the league and all players increased in market value.

If he wants Vlahovic for £65M, pay it. If he wants an unknown Bosnian U21 striker for £0.3M, pay it

I’m assuming that now we have two established professionals in charge, the days of Hitchen and Levy bungling their way through a transfer window and wasting millions are long gone
 
Two of our three highest paid signings have just been an absolute disaster. Ndombele doesn’t seem to want to play, and GLC seems to use us as a recovery retreat. I know a lot of people laugh at Sanchez but at least he turns up to play.
 
CerealMaterial said:
Two of our three highest paid signings have just been an absolute disaster. Ndombele doesn’t seem to want to play, and GLC seems to use us as a recovery retreat. I know a lot of people laugh at Sanchez but at least he turns up to play.
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Agree. Let’s give Sanchez a statue (perhaps it could be of him scrambling around on his knees after falling over again, looking as though he’s about to start a nosh manoeuvre)
 
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