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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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scott said:
Especially as the ones in denial are wrong every year about it. I think they are stubborn folk.
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FOK said:
I’m not even levy out but I completely agree.
Lenglet shouldn’t be pursued. And Dier should only stay if he refuses to leave.

He absolutely should not play

I want 2 of VDV, Tosin and Tapsoba.
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I think it's important we go for VDV, he's left footed. But we also need one more. There should be more right footed players available if we miss out on Tapsoba
 
Zomb said:
rice is a far more consistent player than Dele 2.0
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Errmm no, but anyway the positive here is that you have no part or influence in our transfer decisions😊

hee haa GIF
 
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Richard Arlison said:
Solomon actually had a higher G per 90 and non P XG (know you love that stat 😆) than Barnes in the Prem last season.
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I assume much smaller sample size compared to Barnes. His xG was only 1 so vastly exceeded that and can't imagine he keeps that up over a longer period of time.

What I do expect him to offer is a little bit of spiciness off the bench, hopefully replacing the Lucas Moura option but a more competent version.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
I assume much smaller sample size compared to Barnes. His xG was only 1 so vastly exceeded that and can't imagine he keeps that up over a longer period of time.

What I do expect him to offer is a little bit of spiciness off the bench, hopefully replacing the Lucas Moura option but a more competent version.
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Yeah def a small sample size in terms of Prem. Didn’t even bother checking Shakhtar.

I think the 1v1 creation off the bench is a realistic expectation.

Ange sounds like he looks for personnel advantages in his starting 11, so might see him start against teams that don’t have great 1v1 defenders at RB as well.
 
Ionman34 said:
He was instrumental in our rise up the table. He has to have been as CEO.

I think he took his eye off the ball ('scuse the pun) during the stadium build. A project like that, which I believe he was into every detail on, will take up virtually all of your time. As a result, we've managed the Footballing side very poorly.

He's put us in a position where we are able to spend far beyond what we have ever been able to in our history, but I think he's trusted the wrong people to oversee the Footballing side. By the end of this window, we will have spent in excess of half a billion quid on transfers, but regressed regardless. Considering the player trading we did to get to actually challenging for a title, the failures over the past 4-5 years have been eye watering. We used to be able to pick a talent.

I put that down to Hitchen, but the buck ultimately stops with Levy.

Now that the stadium is up, running and generating the revenue required, his focus is more on the Football side of the business. That, to me, doesn't mean he's interfering in the Football, but that he's now restructuring to get back to that player trading success we had previously.

He's now invented a role for Munn, that provides yet another buffer between him and the team. We've had fans screaming for a DoF, but I suspect we already have him in Paratici. Take away the Juventus shenanigans, and what you have is a guy who actually does the job well. He might not be able to do the deals himself, but that doesn't stop him from advising/instructing the guys who can. So I think that the structure is there now, particularly with Ange joining it, whereby Levy's only real "involvement" in the Footballing side is to essentially set the budget and sign of on the cheques, so to speak. Of course, the Footballing management will still need to "sell" him the deal, but if they have data, scouting analysis and a manager saying "he's the one I want" to back it up, then we know Levy isn't afraid to sign off. He had to have sanctioned the Richarlison, Lo Celso and Ndombele purchases right? He's sanctioned over a half billion spend over the last few years FFS!

It's early days, I do think he's working along those lines, but I also believe that he has to be courageous, i.e. get in the right players regardless of what they cost.

I know you've already made your mind up on him, but mine will be made at the end of this window. If we bring in the requisite talent, addressing our glaring weaknesses, then I'll be more convinced that this is a true rebuild with an end goal in close sight. If we manage to do that within the set budget then great, but if we need to go over budget to get the right players in, but refuse to, then he'll have used up any goodwill I had towards him.
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This post is way too sensible. You surely must be another Levy lover who sucks his balls.
 
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