Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

[Ionman34]

I agree he’s a mad bastard.

He does need to calm down.

Just want it to happen naturally so we don’t kill his edge like we got baited into with Dele.

Yup. Kill the aggression you get half the player. The key is getting him to use it positively more consistently.

He's still very young for a CB, he still has some rough edges that time, experience and good coaching will rub off him.

He might not be elite right now, but he has everything he needs to be so.

 

[Richard Arlison]

Oh the London argument........like Milan and its surrounding areas is a shit hole. Conte loved living in his London hotel didnt he. If you get the chance ask Conte why he lived alone in a hotel his whole time here and why his wife and kid remained in Italy

Better than fucking Newcastle.

 

[CarrieFi]

 

[theyearoftheone]

You are quick!

 

[Richard Arlison]

Yup. Kill the aggression you get half the player. The key is getting him to use it positively more consistently.

He's still very young for a CB, he still has some rough edges that time, experience and good coaching will rub off him.

He might not be elite right now, but he has everything he needs to be so.

Absolutely.

It's part of what makes him great and also part of what makes him shit.

The volatility in the swings from one to the other should naturally get calmer as he matures and also plays in a settled system with a good coach.

Conte isn't a good coach, even if he is a winner.

 

[CarrieFi]

You are quick!

 

[ElTel]

We definitely didn't give Inter enough of a reason to force him out...

Unlike Newcastle, we actually had Conte waiting for him. And London to live in.

Also this is the the very same Conte who dramatically walked out on Inter and Bastoni after winning the league. The same Conte who never committed to a long term contract at Spurs. I'd say Bastoni made a fucking smart decision not following Conte to Tottenham, fair play to the lad he is a smart cookie.

 

[Richard Arlison]

You are quick!

How has nobody replied "that's what she said?"

 

[Richard Arlison]

Also this is the the very same Conte who dramatically walked out on Inter and Bastoni after winning the league. The same Conte who never committed to a long term contract at Spurs. I'd say Bastoni made a fucking smart decision not following Conte to Tottenham, fair play to the lad he is a smart cookie.

Not the point I was making.

Ifs and buts.

If we had signed him, maybe Conte signs the contract and actually coaches instead of sulking like a bitch...

 

[Airfixx]

This idea, unfortunately, isn't compatible with the idea that we had no way to get Conte's most important signing at CB.

- Fat payrise
- Play for your former mentor
- CL football
- Biggest league in the world
- Declare him top of our shopping list


.........What else do you suggest we didn't do to convince him?

 

[ElTel]

Not the point I was making.

Ifs and buts.

If we had signed him, maybe Conte signs the contract and actually coaches instead of sulking like a bitch...

Conte had no intention of staying. He didn't commit, his family stayed in Italy the whole time.

 

[Smogz]

Been reading were monitoring xavi simons at psv. PSG have buy back clause for whole of july apparently.

That he can reject

 

[Wellsey]

Better than fucking Newcastle.

YI

 

[Richard Arlison]

agree with this guy:



Bremer was a Conte type player.

 

[Richard Arlison]

- Fat payrise
- Play for your former mentor
- CL football
- Biggest league in the world
- Declare him top of our shopping list


.........What else do you suggest we didn't do to convince him?

I didn't say we didn't convince the player.

I said we didn't do enough to convince Inter that they should "convince" Bastoni to go.

Watching the way that Newcastle were successful in a very very similar pursuit, with Milan eventually "convincing" Tonali to move to a place in northern England where people don't speak English, kind of backs up my point.

Would you agree?

 

[CarrieFi]

agree with this guy:



Bremer was a Conte type player.

Smokescreen?

Or

Fabio recommendation?

 

[ElTel]

Bremer???? Wow that would make the spend whatever it takes army happy despite the fact he isn't actually any good.

 

[Smogz]

Agreed - so we don't know what the deciding factor was with Bastoni, we will never know, and it's a bit silly to make assumptions about it and pass them off as obvious facts.

Isn't that what everybody does here. Make assumptions and pass them off as facts?

 

[MemphisWill]

He won in the end.

Came back from the dead and guided the good guy that he had trained to win.

That's not true. Luke failed. Vader's conscience is what won, in the end, and there's no real evidence that Yoda's training of Luke impacted the result. No way of knowing if being faced with the proposition of being cuckolded into watching his son's murder wouldn't have broken his resolve, whether or not Luke had been trained by a jedi.

 

[Richard Arlison]

Smokescreen?

Or

Fabio recommendation?

No idea.