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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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FightingIllini said:
Spurs of course carry on long after Levy or any of us have left this world.

But the book was closed on the Pochettino Era the day Kane was sold, and now we're onto something new, centered in what's to come rather than what's come before.


And that's the thing with this.

Under Mourinho and Conte, every transfer window was the last ditch moment to resolve all the contradictions of Summer 2018 and the failures to make the most of what Poch did. It had to complete the mission, it had to solve the whole puzzle, if we left either of those managers short of what was required to raise the next trophy WHAT WAS THE POINT? We banged our head against that wall for the last four years.

That's not where we're at anymore. Love it or hate it, but it's important to understand it.
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TL;DR but I do understand it (according to my own logic)

The last ditch moments weren't to resolve past failures. 90% of CEO's are sociopaths and consequently are never wrong. There is no past failure.

The last minute window is where Levy believes he has an advantage in the market and where he thinks he improves shareholder value. It's as annoying to me as it is to you but that is his one and only job
 
Leggo5 said:
50% of his goals are scored with his left foot. 50% with his right foot. And, 50% with his head.
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And 50% with his third leg!




aroused the colbert report GIF
 
OldBoy68 said:
TL;DR but I do understand it (according to my own logic)

The last ditch moments weren't to resolve past failures. 90% of CEO's are sociopaths and consequently are never wrong. There is no past failure.

The last minute window is where Levy believes he has an advantage in the market and where he thinks he improves shareholder value. It's as annoying to me as it is to you but that is his one and only job
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Forget what Levy believes internally, the public face of the consumer brand he runs was that the project that Poch began was finally coming good under elite trophy-guaranteed management. That was the very direct public messaging in the Amazon doc, on social media, etc.

Which created inherent, very public tension in the inability to provide those managers resources in the same way/level where they had had success earlier.

The club invited Jose vs Levy and Conte vs Levy to be the central public storylines of the club.

Selling Kane was the admission that that's over. We all want Ange to get the resources he wants and needs, but whether or not the manager is "backed" is no longer the central narrative thread.

I may be speaking only for myself, but what the fans want is for Ange to be given the time and authority to stamp his ideas on the club, as opposed to the immediate quality to compete for major honors this season. Like no one wants us to go bring in some 30-something superstar loanee to fill a hole, there would be no purpose served by that. It was a different story under Jose and Conte, everything had to be fixed and final RIGHT NOW.
 
Will say I absolutely love visiting Malaga earlier this year when the wife and I went around Spain for the first time.

They need a soon to be 56 year old winger who was once quite fast? Still power in the right, no left to speak of. Can’t dribble for shit.

But I’d try really hard until I quickly tired or pulled a hammy.
 
FightingIllini said:
Funny and all, but I knew they had no interest. The whole thing is a public relations project, they're never going to be interested in a supernova of bad publicity like that. They produce enough bad publicity on their own.

A club is going to sign Greenwood because his goals would be competitively meaningful to them and because their leadership can't be made to feel sufficient pressure by anger on the English language internet.

Napoli, Atalanta, Sevilla, something like that. Southern Europe has the requisite combination of high competitive stakes, retrograde local attitudes toward women, and in most cases limited commercial connection to the global corporate/financial/culture industry that's vulnerable to a Twitter shitstorm.

If the big Istanbul clubs can afford him that might be an option too.
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My gut feeling is that the backlash will be too big with any club that has an associated women's team, even in southern Europe. Which is nearly every club at this point.
 
FightingIllini said:
And for me these next couple of weeks that's more about making sure Ange isn't left to make do with the likes of PEH, Dier, or Lloris who can't play this kind of football and have no interest in hanging around as bench players.

Those aren't helpful players and they aren't good influences on our young talent.
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Agree but there has to be authority in the dressing room. Senior players in line with the manger. Now Harry has gone, there is a vacuum.

Will be interesting to see who fills the gap considering the massive ego of professional footballers.

If it was a cock fight (see what I did there) it's Biss or Roddy. I know Dier wants it but c'mon.
 
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