What year is this? Deal with itOh, do shut up. We pay more in wages too.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Depends on where you set the timeline. Last 2 years they have.I agree - however there have been many instances in recent months where certain posters have claimed black and white that the scum have significantly outspent us in transfer fees over a certain period where it simply isn't true. If they want to add the appropriate context and explain exactly what they mean then fine, but often they don't. Infact just a couple of months ago a very prominent anti-ENIC poster made that exact claim, I challenged him on it, presented the factual data, and do you know what? He ignored the challenge. This is what I find irritating - I have no problem if people want to beat up ENIC / Levy about legitimate complaints, and indeed there are many of them - so making stuff up is just so unnecessary, and costs their cause so much credibility.
(Not saying that's about you here btw, you're happy to clarify with context - others just post complete lies then refuse to retract them.).
They have also been braver on fees and wages for individual players imo. Even if they haven’t always worked out
Mate, you’re talking to the site’s primary Woolwich fan. Don’t expect anything other than overt twerking for them and nothing but negativity for us.Oh, do shut up. We pay more in wages too.
I’m not talking about any club bias. I’m talking about something every club will have a metric to measure
That's fair enough, we all have reason to not trust the scouting network. But that has no bearing on the comment I made.
The constant angry reaction to tabloid/Twitter rumours of interest, from the goons, being twisted into "they've already spent £150M whilst we haven't."
Every day, every window, constant anger from the same people. Over a fucking rumour! It's all I ever see from some posters, so it's not a stretch.
2022/23 season.
This thread is so surreal. In the last few pages we have a mix of:
- links from people 'in the know' who clearly know fuck all, just make shit up, and still somehow get it posted and reposted by others.
- standard arguing about what to spend, when to spend, who to spend it on etc.
- some hot pics of a players mum.
All within a couple of pages. Lovely stuff.
- links from people 'in the know' who clearly know fuck all, just make shit up, and still somehow get it posted and reposted by others.
- standard arguing about what to spend, when to spend, who to spend it on etc.
- some hot pics of a players mum.
All within a couple of pages. Lovely stuff.
Oh, do shut up. We pay more in wages too.
I didn't even mention wages, but here's another fucking gremlin racing along to the thread, equipped with charts to defend his boss.
My own criticisms are more to do with how inept we are at everything rather than spending, but am I fuck going to go about defending the incompetent losers at the top over it like you do.
"acKchYuAlLY i tHiNk yOULL fIND wE sPEnT oNlY 12m lESs !!!!!!!"
Yeah, and then finished 8th. Great fucking job lads.
Now #GETOVERIT ya big levy loving wrong'un.
I am aware of that.
Show me the figures and then I'll respond in due course.
Until then; my OG posts were a perfectly appropriate response to mis-informed (benefit of the doubt given here) rhetoric(*).
(*again; not talking about you there).
Funnily enough we tightened the purse strings whilst building our new stadium... Just like Arse did when they built theirs.
What's more; they (despite being richer than us at the time) routinely sold their stars over that same period too. Something that we avoided doing during our build.
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You quoted a post that mentioned wages to make your 237th anti-ENIC post of the day, but other than that you didn't mention wages. Riiight...
You talking about Raya conceding that many or someone else?
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A post mocking the fact that ALL of you are drawn in to defend your favourite bloke in the whole wide world sooooo quickly when certain trigger words are mentioned. I mean, do you lot have a fucking whatsapp?
Oh and here, a source which has us below them in wages; EPL 2023 Payroll Wages Tracker
Because I can find a random site on the internet too.
What contingencies Brentford have behind the scenes is none of THFCs business.......
They have an asset that we want to buy. It's up to us to barter a price agreeable to us or walk away.
(See above point about Brighton, BVB and anyone else that receives plaudits for their trf business.)
#Dealwithit
Appreciate that and it's not me saying you are being dishonest about a debate without wages. Just saying the old transfer spend per window debate is dead for so many reasons but especially wages and also because of the loan to buy deals we see now where spends are spread over different windows.
I think the Richy and Nkunku comparison makes the point about the financial commitment needed for each transfer. Our model isn't to go for the Nkunku level players, even if we spend 60m on Richy, we aren't making the same level of commitment to player that the market says needs that level of commitment to sign. Shit wording but you get me?
Even Richy is an underdog signing, granted it's a really expensive one.
Someone proper pissed on your cornflakes today.
I think I'll leave you guys to it tonight, I really can't be bothered.
I would like to see a value for money comparison rather than just spend.
How successful has the spending been ?
How many flops?
How successful has the spending been ?
How many flops?
My favourite bit of that post was:
"equipped with charts to defend his boss"
Again, us bastards bringing facts into the argument!
(To be fair, his own opinion appears to be about us mismanaging everything else, which at least can be sensibly discussed, rather than how much we spend - but then in that case I'm not really sure why he's challenging the rebuttal of the assertion that the scum have vastly outspent us. I just don't understand why so many of this group can't stick to debating the many arguably valid criticisms they have of ENIC / Levy, and stop making up lies / trying to defend others making up lies about factual information. :/ ).
Id still rather Allison given the choice