The deals at the end of the window make more financial sense for clubs because they tend to be cheaper.
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The deals at the end of the window make more financial sense for clubs because they tend to be cheaper.
It’s boring and terrible for the sport, but yes, the City machine is outclassing everybody in terms of scouting and squad construction entirely separate from their resource advantage.
Full credit to Liverpool chasing them down with a magnificent team, but now the PL is really just waiting for Pep to leave, it sucks.
I mean our transfer strategy is terrible, but we can't copy Man City's strategy which is basically "be owned by an oil rich government".
They can afford to spend 41m on Nathan Ake then only have him play 18 times in 18 months. They can afford to spend 100m on Grealish and let him have a year to settle. We can't.
Plus loans always seem to get agreed quite late on (often on deadline day) which is our most likely path to getting rid of the deadwood.
This Traore deal seems to be taking excruciatingly long though. I get the haggling but what might the actual cost of dragging it out be if he would have been, at the very least, a useful impact sub in these January fixtures? Might the difference between 4th and 5th be decided here?
We will one get adama won’t we?
we don't need any table, two chairs and a wooden tablet will do the job
Don levy knows bestAnd you'll be grateful.
Calvin Ramsay (Aberdeen) is again linked to Spurs...
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Man United join host of clubs in scouting Aberdeen's Calvin Ramsay
Aberdeen full-back Calvin Ramsay is attracting interest from the Premier League. Man United led a posse of sides scouting him vs Rangers, along with Spurs, Leicester, Southampton and Leeds.
Is a cheap one acceptable?
Plus loans always seem to get agreed quite late on (often on deadline day) which is our most likely path to getting rid of the deadwood.
This Traore deal seems to be taking excruciatingly long though. I get the haggling but what might the actual cost of dragging it out be if he would have been, at the very least, a useful impact sub in these January fixtures? Might the difference between 4th and 5th be decided here?
It's taken long becuase Wolves were waiting on getting a replacement player in which they have now and I assume that if Traore wasn't cup tied in the Carabao and FA maybe things would have been pushed along a bit quicker.
Every club in the world bar the oil clubs are looking for deals because every club tries to run a sustainable, profitble business, everyone waits until the last minute because that's when clubs, agents and players are desperate and more money is going around, it's a waiting game.
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Ake’s a fair shout, though despite the price he was only ever there to make up the HGP numbers, a la Fabian Delph.
You look at their list of highest transfer fees and the only disaster is Benjamin Mendy. Everybody delivers and provides them with a high quality option that fits what they do, even at their incredibly high level.
Chelsea and United and Woolwich and god help us Spurs have also made a number of big money signings, but the success rate is totally different.
City have never once made a Davinson Sanchez or Lo Celso type move for a player who just doesn’t have the quality to be a difference maker (Mendy’s problems are not that). Nor have they gotten into Pogba or Di Maria or Alexis Sanchez or or or type situations where they just can’t extract what a player has. City flipped Leroy Sane for a profit before that situation arose.
They don’t miss.
I agree with most of what you wrote .... but Pape Sarr has started 13 (+ 5 games as a sub) out of18 games for Metz so far this season; so not what I would call a bench player.
Are Hojbjerg and Højbjerg 2 different players...?
City’s ten most expensive transfers: Grealish, Rodri, Dias, Mahrez, Cancelo, Laporte, De Bruyne, Mendy, Walker, Stones
Total Price: 602.1M
Chelsea’s ten most expensive transfers: Lukaku, Kepa, Havertz, Morata, Pulisic, Jorginho, Torres, Chilwell, Werner, Bakayoko, Kovacic
Total Price: 640.7M
United’s ten most expensive transfers: Pogba, Maguire, Lukaku, Sancho, Di Maria, Wan-Bissaka, Fred, Fernandes, Matic, Mata
Total Price: 598.1M
Right there is the story of the Premier League the past 5 years.
Total Price: 602.1M
Chelsea’s ten most expensive transfers: Lukaku, Kepa, Havertz, Morata, Pulisic, Jorginho, Torres, Chilwell, Werner, Bakayoko, Kovacic
Total Price: 640.7M
United’s ten most expensive transfers: Pogba, Maguire, Lukaku, Sancho, Di Maria, Wan-Bissaka, Fred, Fernandes, Matic, Mata
Total Price: 598.1M
Right there is the story of the Premier League the past 5 years.
Hahahaha
Only real problem is that having been trained by club affiliated to the Scottish FA he'll be classed as an 'Overseas trained' player under uefa rules as he became 18 on 31 July 2003 and will never qualify as HG - and whilst its no problem to fill overseas trained player slots, we have a shortage of top class HG players.Calvin Ramsay (Aberdeen) is again linked to Spurs...
Man United join host of clubs in scouting Aberdeen's Calvin Ramsay
Aberdeen full-back Calvin Ramsay is attracting interest from the Premier League. Man United led a posse of sides scouting him vs Rangers, along with Spurs, Leicester, Southampton and Leeds.
Why havent superstar footballers Djed Spence and Adama Traore not joined us yet?