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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Yeah im down with this. It's the odd religiosity of the way they talk up their choices. They revel in it.
There's really only one time where we were the biggest spenders in the league, and that was the 60's. At that time, Bill Nick assembled the most expensive team in English Football when he bought the likes of Mackay, Greaves, Gilzean et al.
We've made the odd big name signing, if I remember correctly, Archibald was the big signing we made under Burkinshaw. Ardiles and Villa were big names because of the World Cup, but I don't think they were particularly big outlays. They were big news because they were the first "foreign" signings of note brought over to England.
It's actually a fallacy to suggest that we used to do this regularly before Enic.
This is BS right. Why would Inter want him on loan...zero sense. Unless we were I'm negotiations with them over another player. Any way he need a champo loan. Norwich works a treat.
Sorry AC.... It's a set menu:
Tanganga
Reg
Winks
Ndombele
Lo Celso
....Now chow down.
He's already had a couple of years in Ligue Un..... The champo isn't a step up.
As similar to the intensity of games and physical side of games which exist in PL (but not Spanish league) as can be had without playing in PL.
We broke the transfer record with Gascoigne in 1988. Signed Lineker from Barcelona, then Klinsmann 5 years later. The rot set in after that as Sugar had a hissy fit because Klinsmann left so quickly and he went full austerity.
The AC Milan link shows Sarr is clearly highly rated.
But if we can make space in the squad, I think Sarr would really benefit from 6 months of intensive coaching from Conte about how to play CM in our system.
Sarr will probably be going to the World Cup with Senegal, and then we can review at Xmas, depending on his development.
But if we can make space in the squad, I think Sarr would really benefit from 6 months of intensive coaching from Conte about how to play CM in our system.
Sarr will probably be going to the World Cup with Senegal, and then we can review at Xmas, depending on his development.
Being a trailblazer doesn’t equal top of the table.
For decades we aspirational trailblazers, signing great players and not winning the league but they stopped under sugar and went away for 30 years. Could argue the ambition hasn’t returned, ENIC have taken 20 years back t we are doing it their way which is fine really…. Steady, careful, low risk
Gazza '88: 2.2m (Scholar)
Lineker '89: 1.1m (Scholar)
Sheringham '92: 2.1m (Sugar)
Klinsman '94: 2m (Sugar)
We were pretty fucked when Sugar took over only for his bad business decisions and lack of vision to make it even worse.
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Yeah Scholar messed up and then Sugar compounded the issue by basically wanting to turn us into a slightly more glamorous Wimbledon. But we did make big name signings throughout the 80's. Not always successful but Ray Clemence, Clive Allen, Chris Waddle, Paul Allen, Richard Gough, Paul Stewart came with either big reputations and/or decent fees for the time.
Agreed but these were 'one off ' top transfers, not several top players in one window - arguably only the Ardiles/Villa purchases were more than one top player in the same window, and Villa (who was a decent player himself was said to have been bought 'for company' to make Ardiles feel a little more more at home, although he proved to be a shrewd purchase in his own right
Yeh, the appeal (from the glory glory days) was still there in the 80's to attract these players.
Couldn't honestly say about trf fees though.... Just wasn't as much noise made about such things back then (I had to look all the previously mentioned ones up!).
Crazy when you look back and think we didn't win anything inbetween 84 & 91....... Arguably as big of a travesty as the Redknapp & Poch eras.... Maybe more so given it was the pre-petro and pre-Fergie era.
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