That 150 million may not go entirely on players. Even if it does it may include wages, bonuses etc.
I highly doubt we'll be blowing 200 odd million in transfers. Would be delighted to be proven wrong, but it doesn't seem likely at all.
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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That 150 million may not go entirely on players. Even if it does it may include wages, bonuses etc.
I highly doubt we'll be blowing 200 odd million in transfers. Would be delighted to be proven wrong, but it doesn't seem likely at all.
Leao? Average??? Shame on you goat! :contescrewface:
Money isn’t the issue here. He’s probably brought in to be the primary LCB and not a squad player. Takes up another foreign squad slot. It’s one of the positions where we’re all agreed that we need to improve to challenge for silverware and he’s arguably no better than Davies AND unproven in a far more physical league.
This will disappoint me if it happens.
I'd jump off even if he didn't himself if that is what he told me to do. Does that count?
Perhaps the best Portuguese player at the moment.
Our wages though have been reduced a lot with Bale, Dele, Toby etc off the books so that should be a net positive not negative and that’s before we talk about the 8-10 players probably leaving this summer as well.
Seems optimistic, tbh.
Agree with the second part, sadly.
As for Conté’s signings or, at least, signings made on his watch, some of them have been monumentally bad. I wouldn’t leave it up to any single person even Conté. Players changing leagues is even more of a crap-shoot.
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Fair point about wages and bonuses, but if we only get 100m of the 150m on top of the existing player sales which is likely to fetch 80-100m, that should be enough to sort out our biggest issues. Just a case of convincing the players.
I was being pretty conservative in my hypothetical. Even if Perisic gets a 10m signing bonus, he's still be pretty cheap. We can get Bissouma for 30m, and lets say agents fees etc add another 10m. That's 50m for two players. We'd still have enough to get ourselves a Gvardiol or Perisic type mega expesive player, with just enoug left over for a RWB.
Of course we'd also free up a lot of wages with the sales too.
If Conte wants Lenglet, then get him. As Olaf pointed out, for Lenglet it's mostly that the atmosphere around Barcelona ruined his confidence, so just like Bentancur, Kulusevski, Coutinho, Gnabry etc. he might just need a change of club to have that confidence again. We could do much worse than Lenglet, however if he's the Bastoni replacement, then I would think Conte wants to go all in for someone like Hakimi and SMS with the funds available...
Gvardiol is better than Lenglet.
Yeah but his name ryhmes with barbie doll
I can't speak to anything about Lenglet's confidence, mindset etc. However, if it is as reported....I'm torn. Is he mentally tough enough to handle it here? He's going to make mistakes. So what happens when he does? Is he going to spiral here as well?
Has to help him a bit though if he knows Conte believes in him.
Has to help him a bit though if he knows Conte believes in him.
And exponentially more expensive.
Nah. Bin vote. :contetellmemore:I was just tickling his gibs ffs
Gollini, Emerson, Regulion, Winks, Carter-Vickers, one of Rodon or Tanganga, one or Lucas or Bergwijn, Lo Celso, Ndombele. Most of them are sold or loaned, I would be surprised if at least 7 ain’t gone. I don’t see wages as an issue unless we start getting players for crazy wages.
I'd love to see it, but have my doubts. People have really lofty expectations and I wonder if it's gonna quite match up to those.
If we're going to go really big on a player though, I'd want it to be a midfielder or RWB. Those are the positions I'd view as worth splurging for. I think we've seen with Davies that a competent player will be enough at LCB.
(As I said earlier, Bastoni the exception there because he's a very unique talent.)
If you're gonna provide quotes... Perhaps note who it is that's saying it or better still provide a link.
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