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Transfers Summer 2017 transfer window or, waiting for Godot
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It's good, but I have some suggestions:
- We have button that says "I'm a lurking cunt who is only here to read transfer news". I'll even write the code for it:
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<input type="button" class="button primary" value="I'm a lurking cunt who is only here to read transfer news" onclick="location.href='http://www.skysports.co.uk';" >- People who come out of the sin bin have reduced privileges until they've behaved for long enough (i.e. reduced ability to rate posts, not allowed to 'quote', limited post count).
Even better, there should be a 'spam' button where when posts receive a certain amount of 'spam' ratings, they are hidden from view. (similar to your idea)
So what is your definition of big?
Last season Real did not buy a single player, rather they sold players for a rough 21 million.
They went on to win the league and defend their CL title.
Season before that they spent a whopping 27 million euro, finished second. And that was for 5 players total.
Season before that they spent big money, purchasing players for a total of 104 million euro. But they also sold players for a total of 80 and a half million which brings their total sales to 23 million at the end of the window.
I guess it depends on what you class as "big figures". The last season they spent stupid amounts of money on a single player was back in 2013 when they bought Bale from us.
Real seems much more willing to make small, much more in line with the type of figures we throw around ourselves.
It's not often that Real pull a Man U and spend 75 million on a single player.
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Not really, this is what they started with...
It was built for a failed Olympics bid for 2012 and again for 2016, it never got beyond this stage. It was used for a couple of athletics meets and that was that. They've pulled down the top tier and maybe the bottom too, the top one wasn't in fantastic condition as I remember and couldn't be incorporated into the new plans.
I heard West Ham were interested at the time...
It's called the toilet thread.
Yes of course. If we didn't have to pay for a stadium, no one on the forum wouldn't want us to spend big. Believe what you like as per.
I am not one that says we need to sign few players to compete with the others in the league. But i gotta say it is a little bit concerning now, considering :
1. Poch has once said he wants to add players near end of season if i remember correctly.
2. Poch concerns about the depth of the squad. He is quite angry after the match vs Wycombe, never seen him slate the players like that before.
3. Still same point, he clearly did not fancy some of the squad members. Although some we hope can still step up like Janssen and Onomah.
4. Time is running close, and is it ever be a thoughtful planned for a transfer that came so late. I want them to at least have a couple of weeks of preseason. I dont like having a players after the season start, and i dont think any manager would.
I trust Poch, what im concern is he doesnt get what he wants. If he is ready with this squad, he would have said so out in public.
Would be fine by me if he still wants to work with the likes of Sissoko, Nkoudou, and Wimmer. But i really doubt that.
On the other side, if Everton wont budge on Barkley, id say lets leave it and see how that develops. He would be welcome, but we can all agree that he does not worth the 50milmon current circumstances.
Btw, just watch the video of Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, i think he would have been a great addition to the squad. Really think these type of players can improves us.
1. Poch has once said he wants to add players near end of season if i remember correctly.
2. Poch concerns about the depth of the squad. He is quite angry after the match vs Wycombe, never seen him slate the players like that before.
3. Still same point, he clearly did not fancy some of the squad members. Although some we hope can still step up like Janssen and Onomah.
4. Time is running close, and is it ever be a thoughtful planned for a transfer that came so late. I want them to at least have a couple of weeks of preseason. I dont like having a players after the season start, and i dont think any manager would.
I trust Poch, what im concern is he doesnt get what he wants. If he is ready with this squad, he would have said so out in public.
Would be fine by me if he still wants to work with the likes of Sissoko, Nkoudou, and Wimmer. But i really doubt that.
On the other side, if Everton wont budge on Barkley, id say lets leave it and see how that develops. He would be welcome, but we can all agree that he does not worth the 50milmon current circumstances.
Btw, just watch the video of Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, i think he would have been a great addition to the squad. Really think these type of players can improves us.
Last season in the summer Madrid brought Morata back from Juve. Maybe it doesn't feature as a transfer as they were activating a buy back clause but it still cost them €30 million. They were under a FIFA embargo during the January window and couldn't sign anyone.
Four of the Top Ten most expensive signings of all time were Madrid buys (Bale, Ronaldo, James, Zidane), more than any other club (Utd 2, FCB 2, Juve 1 and Chelsea 1 if the Morata deal goes through as expected).
All the talk here is of them signing Mpappe this summer, which will obviously be for a huge sum.
Very weird to paint them as shrinking violets in the transfer game...
There wage bill be very big.
They are on another level to us.
& overall I bet they are in the 2 top of spenders in their league.
So if you are in the top 2 spenders in your league then I'd say you spend big.
If you look at the gap between what they spend & nearly every other team in there league, its a massive difference.
Id disagree that real madrid don't spend big.
I never once painted them as shrinking violets. I just tried to point out that they don't regularly go and spend money up in the Bale territory for one player, which seems to be a myth going around.
Real tends to spend a total of 20-25 million euro per year in purchases when all is said and done, which is not that far off of our own transfer figures. And still do well in their league and internationally year after year.
Transfer fees and player wages are different things. Different dockets in the budget if we are going to be picky.
Also. I'm fairly sure I asked this before. What is your definition of "big"?
Slap an @ down and then type the name you want to tag.
Also there is a forum toilet thread in off topic. It's where posts that get flushed end up.
Agreed. Its now chelsea, fergies man utd & real madrid who don't spend big.
3 teams who are generally talked about as some of the biggest spenders.
They do tho, hence them occupying 2 out of the top 3 places, 4 out of the top 10, more than any other team.
I think you have to include both to get a clearer picture of how much a team is spending. Or else it gets silly as sanchez could leave for nothing next summer & be on 350k per wk but you would say that club has spent nothing on him.
Hope you don't become our accountant!
Lots of free signings on massive wages ha.
So if someone's wage bill was 500m per year but they didn't buy anyone, you would say they haven't spent big?
Id say if you are 1 of the biggest spenders in your league then that is spending big.
So not real madrid.
Be interested in which teams spend more than real madrid overall wages/fee's in la liga?
Maybe barca? So you would say they are the 2nd highest spenders in there league but don't spend big?
What is your definition of regularly?
They had a spell of heavy spending on one single player for a couple of years in 2012-2014. But they haven't been anywhere near these BIG figures since James Rodriquez (I have to correct myself from a previous statement where I claimed Bale was their last stupid money signing) in 2014. Then you have Ronaldo in 2009.
Granted the business have changed but it is far from the norm for Real to go and chunk out 70+ millions on a single player in a transfer window. They seem to prefer to run a tight ship if possible and put out about 20-30 million total after calculating in sales.
i'm just saying that salaries and transfer fees are completely different things. I will give you that on on the discussion of salaries we are on a completely separate level to Real (more comparable to Atletico, with our players earning more than most players there). But when it comes to the actual fees we are not that far off bar the few massive signings Real does from time to time.
I also would not want to be Tottenham's accountant. I leave that to Levy and his crew.
And you still have not given a clear definition of "big". Is it a 25 million signing? 30? 40? Or would you be happy with us bringing in 3 players for 10 million each and class that as a big window?
Well said Kunt. A very good point and very well made.
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SchmoodSpur
, it is possible to trust Poch while still having a few doubts about our lack of signings. It's not the impossible standpoint you seem to think unique to John Thomas- Status