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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread
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That’s about 22 million more than what he’s actually worth
Depends on who you talk to.
Yeh, some mythical source convinced you C19 would break City's ability to spend.
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So only Spurs are affected? LOL
Absolutely ridiculous money.
And here was me thinking that COVID would change the transfer landscape and restore a sense of reality to football.
He isn't even that good in the first place
Jadon Sancho: Manchester United close to agreeing personal terms on five-year deal
Sancho registered 17 goals and 17 assists across 32 Bundesliga games last season
While we are tenuously linked with Deemey.
And it was not so long ago that we were spewing laughter at United.
The gap between us and them is soon to be a chasm.
20 goals and 20 assists last season (and he just turned 20), he is one of those rare players worth a very high fee, it gets problematic and laughable when you pay £80m for a player like Maguire.
What worries me what type of players Maureen has identified. They’ll probably be in keeping with his short termism view and be cloggers with no resale value. What state will our squad be left after his blown a gasgit or two? Our policy over the years has generally to buy young players with good resale value. Not sure if Levys view on players will match maureens. I just hope he doesn’t by turf and leave us bankrupt but seeing how views sissoko as his go to CM then it’s worrying. I want to see young technical players with some pace. Certainly not Troy. I wonder who will have the final say on that one if we are serious. I’d take Wilson all day long over Troy. We are already morphing into a Bolton/Wimbledon style team and he would cap it off!
Worry about it if we sign Deeney. At the moment we’ve only signed one player under Jose, a 23-year-old Bergwijn. At the moment, all the rest is a bunch of bullshit rumours.
Their commercial revenue is £140m more than Tottenham's at the moment. Manchester United and City/Chelsea (owners) were always the least likely to be affected. I am interested to see what Liverpool/Woolwich do because they don't have the revenue stream or owners to compete with the other three without matchday revenues.
That being said, even if you assume Spurs 2020/21 revenue is £400m (making Europa playoffs, half anticipated match day revenues), the club could likely afford a net spend in the region of £75m, and even that may be low. If outgoings are in the £50m range, the club could quite reasonably spend £120-130m without significant financial risk. That also assumes there is zero cash on hand, which is unlikely even with the pandemic since the stoppage was only for 3 months.
Levy's inherent pessimism of the clubs' future success will continue to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. You could at least understand it previously, given the significant investment required the past decade, but with the club's debt extraordinarily manageable, there's no reason why the club should not be competing more forcefully in the transfer market.
He did spend £160m over the last two windows, but that was making up for lost time. Likely there needs to be at least one more year of similar levels of spending, even if that is spread out over this window, next winter, and summer 2021, in order to get the club on solid Champions League footing.
£80m for Maguire makes £90m for Sancho seem reasonable. The issue is that Ferran Torres went for less than £40m.
Then again, given both the clubs history of signings, its not surprising which of the two went for Sancho and Torres, respectively.
Sancho is currently a much more commercially valuable player than Torres. He’s cool, he’ll sell shirts, sponsors will lap him up.
Brace yourselves...
What games are these then?
I see October friendlies:
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...But nothing before that besides:
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I would hope that someone has had a word in their ear to cancel them - just a distraction to a season already compromised by the need to end in May to accomodate the postponed (and newly enlarged) Euros 2020.
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I would hope that someone has had a word in their ear to cancel them - just a distraction to a season already compromised by the need to end in May to accommodate the postponed (and newly enlarged) Euros 2020.
Absolutely ridiculous!
Thought he was going to Woolwich.
I actually think he’ll end up at Palace. They’re preparing for Zaha’s exit and have already had a £12m bid rejected if you believe the reports.
Potentially a good fit, at least he’ll get game time, if he does well there and in prem in general his stock will rise quickly.