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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread

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TottsAmazeballs said:
if a player wants to leave, he’s the bad guy. For all your moaning about enic /levy, you haven’t put forward a coherent argument about what can be done differently. This is how football works now, it’s a investment first, glory machine second. No magic money trees without murderers at the wheel.

im not a fan boy of levy, but I don’t want oligarch money and I don’t want players to leave.
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Leicester? Liverpools owners have done alright. Both those owners put the football side first.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
I honestly don't think that's coping. I fully believe that 150m or so for Kane spent wisely can make us a more balanced team than we currently are. It was great watching him top the PL goals and assists last season but that isn't sustainable - we need creativity all over the pitch and goals from various sources.

In the PL for 20/21 we had Kane scoring 23 goals and Sonny scoring 17 - but look at how fucking awful we were overall. Who was Chelsea's top goalscorer?..

Jorginho. On sodding penalty duty. With 7.
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This 100% the way to look at it. You can't replace Kane but we don't actually need to. Son,Vlahovic,Martinez, with Scarlett coming through . Romero Lacroix would...(here's the heresy) be better than Kane as the cherry on top of a winks Sissoko Dier Sanchez shit pyramid.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Leicester? Liverpools owners have done alright. Both those owners put the football side first.
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Leicester are basically Spurs with arguably better management (and who got really, really, lucky one season). There's almost negligible difference in our approaches. But, importantly I think, they got bought out later than we did. I think of it like NZ vs UK, they took over virgin territory with lessons learned from history, less bullshit to deal with and smarter choices.

[On that note, I will agree that Levy continues to make the same stupid mistake: not buying when we need that extra push.]

Leicester have also been luckier (more shrewd?) with their purchases. Tielemans was a great buy and one we were interested in. We got sneezy and dopey instead (kidding, still got hope for those guys!).

Liverpool were a bigger club than us and so they bought talent we couldn't afford. Also attracted a great manager (Klopp).

I'm not trying to argue that your point is wrong, btw, it's not. But it's not clear that ENIC and Levy have done something fundamentally stupid or wrong (except the need for a push now and again when it's seemingly going well - that's man-management and not Levy's forté). At least, it hasn't been proven to me one way or another. I'm upset at our situation too (the conte shit was a piss-taking fucking insult and I don't even live in London any more, so am not even getting an ST).

However, as a business-owner, what Levy did there was the right thing. ensuring investment to survive and afford a better season this season. If the football is good and we don't get shafted then no harm, no foul. Hard to see it that way right now, of course.

I honestly think that without Covid, we'd have been gaining further ground on our rivals with these 'portfolio investments' and that would give us the clout to invest in players at a level we see ourselves. Sadly, this is a couple of years behind now.
 
Sean said:
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Ings contract demands keeping us from signing him...

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GOAT GOAT

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Cristian Romero’s suitcase is too full to fit a copy of an English dictionary. He has called Levy to upgrade his flight to Economy plus so he’s allowed to bring hand luggage.

His transfer is now a mere half a step away from finalisation.
 
Matt1882 said:
He will always want to avoid being accused of being a seller and only in it for the money.
Which he so very obviously is.
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Dude, it's not like he's pocketing the transfer fees! They go back into the club in the form of buying players, paying more competitive salaries, improving infrastructure. So yeah, he should try to make as much money out of transfers as possible!
 
Get in! said:
Who is Gabriel Zamagna? Who is Ahmedhodzic? What is a Malmö?
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Are you asking some deeper existential questions here or...?
I am asking because apart from what you found out about them on google what I know about them as well :cool:
In this context, Malmö is the city where Malmö FF is based. Make perfect sense, doesn't it. Of you want to know more about Malmö, then pay the city a visit.
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
TottsAmazeballs TottsAmazeballs "I think of it like NZ vs UK, they took over virgin territory with lessons learned from history, less bullshit to deal with and smarter choices."

EH? :avbcringe:
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Sorry, it was a colonisation allegory from my time with a bunch of kiwis in London. We were agreed that NZ was well-run because they started from scratch (kinda) when they went over there, instead of having to deal with legions of entrenched 'families' and positions of power that were inherited and meritless.

All things being equal, it's easier to make smart decisions when you have the examples of other's failures.
 
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