Is that true? Sounds like witchcraft
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Fair enough on those stats! Perhaps you could get a job within the scouting department but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't wanna report to Levy
For what's it worth I do think Johnson would be a good signing. Maybe £50m would be slightly overpriced but when you see Chelsea has just bought Palmer from City for £45m or so I don't think it's bad value in this ridiculous day and age.
capable of signing him providing a manager wanted him.
same argument as Conte not wanting Maddison last season
Not really thought of it much, but who has had good seasons in Spain then come to the PL and continued?
Torres and Aguerro spring to mind. Soldado was shite. Morientes was shite. Xavi Alonso was great.
Hit and miss. I think their league is so vastly different that it's impossible to assume a player or a coach can come from there and succeed here.
dragon1 said:
Re Gallagher there were two players ange wanted when he joined one was maddison the other was Gallagher , it says a lot about our board and our ambition that we are waiting on the sale of holberg to get one of the managers main targets in
the other signings ange was happy to leave it up to the new data team we have assembled which is why you are seeing us linked with so many players that Brighton and brentford are because that’s how they work too and why I believe Johnson will happen as well
Trix said:
They've got a real hard on for getting home grown options in during the death throes of this window right now. "Future proofing now due to rising prices" is the key phrase I keep hearing, and very much expect that's the way we are gravitating. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see 2 HG options come through the door in what ever guise that takes.
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Re Gallagher there were two players ange wanted when he joined one was maddison the other was Gallagher , it says a lot about our board and our ambition that we are waiting on the sale of holberg to get one of the managers main targets in
the other signings ange was happy to leave it up to the new data team we have assembled which is why you are seeing us linked with so many players that Brighton and brentford are because that’s how they work too and why I believe Johnson will happen as well
Trix said:
They've got a real hard on for getting home grown options in during the death throes of this window right now. "Future proofing now due to rising prices" is the key phrase I keep hearing, and very much expect that's the way we are gravitating. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see 2 HG options come through the door in what ever guise that takes.
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Are you saying our net spend is higher than Chelsea who have spunked one billion in a year?
What about wages too.
You're arguing something that I'm not arguing. I'm not even saying we SHOULD have signed Maddison nor blaming the club for not doing so.
The whole argument is "did we have the pull to ATTRACT Maddison pre stadium" and my answer to that is yes, yes we did.
I have no clue if Poch liked or didn't like him, nor do I really care.
But he wasnt the James Maddison he is today.
Lets look at it like this
back in 2016 who were the best MF in the prem?
Hazard? David Silva? Willian? Mata? Fabregas?
Pretty sure we categorically could not sign some of those players
Just Fati yes, Fati no, Fatty still here
i love how they talk like gallagher is ambition lol
give me strength
give me strength
I don't blame people for using perfectly normal timeframes to compare net spend, but it's extremely deceptive in our case given how ruinous we'd let the squad situation become through enormous underinvestment at exactly that starting point.
We were miles off our Big Six competition in long-term squad value terms four years ago, our spending since has only partially filled that gap.
I actually quite like Gallagher and he would be a massive upgrade on PEH, but that's so far down the list of priorities from CB, what the hell are we doing?
Have a day off
maybe but not exactly an eze in terms of ability
i would rather go for eze personally as i think more teams will come in for him next year
fills our hg quota too and is exciting to watch
You're arguing something I'm not arguing as well.
Maddison has NEVER had the profile of a Hazard or a Silva, until maybe now .. and even then, no he still hasn't.
Even if Maddison back then was the player he is today, we could have signed him. He'd just been relegated and only one other side were in for him. His underlying numbers were fantastic but for various reasons his profile didn't match that - he was barely getting international caps.
I'd be quite happy with them both (runs for cover). Both young and busy, can chip in with goals which we will clearly need. Think they'd suit what we're trying to do under Ange. Sorts out the homegrown issue we've been struggling with for years as well. Yes overpriced but thats the game now. Just been fed up the last 4 years of watching tired players labouring around the pitch and if Hojbjerg leaves its a win win.