Doesn't matter what they spent to buy the club. What matters is what the club's revenue is and whether this 300 million amortized over the length of players' contracts will exceed their FFP threshold.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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This makes sense, but I am holding out some slim hope it is not the case. Or that our analytics has uncovered another Kim Min-Jae.
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This shows Vicario as 3rd best GK in Serie A (on PSxG), and one of the GKs above him barely played any games. But it also shows Onana and Maignan has lowly ranked, so can this be trusted?
Not sure we need barnes especially price quotes. We have Alfie and Gil who can play wide attack. Spend the money on a tough tackling midfielder or young CF.
No disrespect but you haven't got a scooby whether Raya was our first choice.
Just because you read something in the tabloids, it ain't necessarily true.
How can you compare Gill and Devine to Barnes? 34 goals and 23 assists in his last four PL seasons, he would be a very smart signing who can only get better u der an attacking manager like Ange.
Gil has no output, Devine is not a wide forward. Apart from Kane and Son we have nobody who offers any goals on a consistent basis. This has to be addressed during this window.
Yes! And a guy called Hercule is their ITK magician trés magnifique!
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The Head Scout Gabbanini doing the DOF job
I like what I'm seeing of Vicario and if we can set up going into next season with quality looking players like Udogie Porro, Romero, Tapsoba, Bentancur, Maddison, Kulusevski, Richarlison, an on form Sonny and Kane we won't be a million miles away from being in a good place talent wise.
I do think we should be all the way in for a double swoop at Leicester though with Maddison and Barnes. Barnes would be a huge upgrade on Lucas
I take your point about Alfie & Gil, but Barnes was already a first XI pick for a fairly attacking manager......... Becoming a rotation player here hardly guarantees him hiting a new even higher level.
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Either that or, possibly more likely, we’re still using the players that were on his list. (Not necessarily a good thing.)
Another thing that is encouraging, is that the other Empoli keeper (Perisan) that played in the 7 games Vicario was out, is in the bottom 15 (out of 46) for that stat, showing it wasn't the defence or tactics that helped (e.g. putting pressure on the attacker).
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This shows Vicario as 3rd best GK in Serie A (on PSxG), and one of the GKs above him barely played any games. But it also shows Onana and Maignan has lowly ranked, so can this be trusted?
Yea- actually at least from this video I think his shot stopping is worse than Lloris. I understand he’s young and likely will improve, but dang, the video definitely does not put me at ease.
Keeper is somewhat a make or break it position. Not spending more money on the proven, ready to compete Raya is a sure sign we‘re back in development mode.
Seems to be creeping in that direction.. we'll still have to pay around 45m if we want him I'd think... which shouldn't be an issue, but..
The longer you dawdle then you could have other clubs in play. If City lose Gundogan, Bernardo and have kdb turning 32 this month I could see them having some interest. Apparently they approached Leicester about a move in January.. I do think there's a few marks against Maddison that mean he's more likely to join a club at our level, and not City's.
Levy will be so over confident that he will drag this on until the last minute.
Vicario
Porro
Romero
Tapsoba
Udogie
Bentancur
Bissouma
Maddison
Kulusevski
Son
Kane
Forster
Spence
Adarabioyo
Carter-Vickers
Sessegnon
Skipp
Hatate
Scott
Barnes
Richarlison
Furuhashi
I do wonder if Carter-Vickers being academy trained is someone we are re-considering especially with his Celtic/ Ange experience
Normally when I say ‘never heard of him’ I’ve at least seen the name somewhere, this guy I’ve got no clue. Tbf a lot of us have complained that we should be trying to follow in the lead of the likes of Brighton and Brentford with more clever signings in the transfer market - so maybe this is one. 40m for Raya is ridiculous, I feel like the club thinks if this doesn’t work out we can have him on a free next year, by which time Forster’s deal will be up and we’ll want to replace him. If we’re gonna overpay for a transfer I’d rather it be Maddison tbh. As long as we don’t go cheap on every deal. Although I can see that one going late in the window because we know at the end of the day Leicester has to sell. He ain’t playing championship.
If the Dingo in Charge wants Vicario then that is good enough for me.
Plus my inner petty cunt thinks it's pretty funny that Brentford have already signed Raya's replacement.
Plus my inner petty cunt thinks it's pretty funny that Brentford have already signed Raya's replacement.