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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread

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Time to demote ValenciaYid ValenciaYid too Tier 100. Sorry dude, you have had an absolute mare this window. If you going to come at us with concrete info, at least get it correct and accurate, otherwise we are just going to put you in the same bracket as those fraud wankstains up at Spurs community
 
Sparkplugs said:
Anyone feeling a ‘Van dear Vaart’ tonight then !!
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So our season relies heavily on two players that want out (Kane and Ndombele) with our ECL and Cup games resting on a 17 year old leading our line.

What a fucking amazing transfer window.

The Don has certainly been cooking in his short time here.
 
Igula said:
No I see what people are trying to do with the Wigan example. What I am pointing out to you is that with every other club that we claim are around us Wigan doesn't get brought up because they have actual success.

Saying "well Wigan won a Cup would you like to be like them" is a shit argument. Used by clubs that have no success.

People might think that it is a good argument to determine whether a Cup win determines if you are a better or worse off as a club but all it does is show how weak we have been under ENIC.
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Do you frequent lots of other fan forums? Can't get a lot of sleep if you do as you're on here a fair bit.

If, as I suspect, you don't frequent them, you're hardly qualified to state that they don't mention Wigan, or any other club for that matter.

I wonder if Soton fans use Portsmouth as an example when talking relative success against pots won?

I don't know you see, I don't frequent their forum...
 
DoNunoPlayUno? said:
Just enjoy the now! We're top of the league. Have started to build a much younger, more talented squad. Enjoy it for a bit!

It's like me waking up next to Kate Mason every morning but spending the day miserable cos I know she'll eventually dump me for someone thinner, younger and funnier.

I will tell you now...I'm still enjoying the bejesus out of the days she's there!
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That’s not really a good comparison. The comparison would be if you spent all the time in bed with her, typing on a forum telling others to be happy like you whilst writing angry hate filled messages to them all.
 
FightingIllini said:
That’s where situating the level of analysis at the overall net spend is helpful and instructive.

All things considered, Levy’s broad transfer strategy is fairly sensible, and is a major contributor to why we’re in so much better shape than Woolwich. Levy saw things in “squad capital” terms before the analytics types drove the rest of the sport there.

Levy’s transfer tactics are constantly self-destructive, and the whole operation is unforgivably under-funded. Three separate things.
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Its not Levy's money (the hypothetical money not being pumped into the company, that is), and there's no indication anywhere in the books that profits are being siphoned out of the club (despite what so many wish to pretend). Every indication is we spend, today or tomorrow, every pound the club produces. Whether its on transfer fees, wages, or capital improvements is Levy's only indicated choice.

Tomato, tomahto on the "constantly self-descructive" claim. As I've pointed out, they're often self-protective as well. Being a stickler on assessed value has allowed us to profit greatly from some players and protected us from some very costly mistakes. Pushing the limit has, likewise, led to costly mistakes.

Our net spend has been roughly equal to Liverpool's since FSG bought them. They went from EL perennial disappointments to CL and PL champions in that time, we bottled a league title (or 2) and the CL final we met them in. Our squad building failures are 10X more about scouting failures than budget failures.

The fact that its taken Levy this long to rectify that is his damning failure, not his fiscal restraint.
 
Great with Emerson in. I guess this is it. But I still hope for one more.

On a side note, I think I just laid my first and last egg on SC. In my first post. Doh.
 
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