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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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But fuck me! The football world is well and truly obsessed with us?

Could you imagine this level of ‘bantz’ coming Everton or villa’s way? Mental
 
Didn't know it was a competition in spending €€?!

Tiresome to read all the whining about money and shopping, it's not like we are without players, are we? Throwing money out for a bunch of new players at once are tried before, Chelsea latest, and and a few years back it was us, and see how that went?

A rebuild is best done over some time, and we need some patience now..
I'm not happy with our CB options, so we need to spend big there.

Romero injury prone, VdV raw and young, rest not nearly good enough.
 
I've addressed this before, but my logic in not including the money for Porro & Kulu in this window is:

Loaning a player to buy them at a future date is equivalent to buying a player now but not paying much up-front (small loan fee).
I'll use Woolwich buying Raya as an example- for FFP reasons they've 'loaned' him, but they will end up paying 30m for him, and they have a 30m goalkeeper now. So it makes more sense to count that 30m towards their net spend this season, rather than next summer.

LeParisien LeParisien Arguing that we should count the spend of 'loaned' players with buy clauses at the time of the loan is obviously not the the same as not counting Rice and Havertz for Woolwich's transfer window. Please try and think rationally...
They don’t want to think rationally…

It’s so simple, you count the spend when the player first signs a contract with the club.
 
We need to spend this £100+ million on 3 positions in my opinion… ST, CB and CAM.

Eze would be ideal. He’s got the potential to be world class.

Gift Orban is also a top talent, we should be all over him.

CB - I think we’ve moved on from Tapsoba. We need someone who can slot in and there be no drop in quality.
 
GOAT GOAT

Reason I'm against signing Eze is two fold:

1. I don't rate him as highly as 60m... he's already 25 so won't necessarily improve that much. I watched a bit of Palace last season, and he was on similar level to Olise and Zaha. Palace's attack didn't even score that many goals.

2. We already have many players at LW: Son, Solomon, Perisic, Rich, Gil (injured)
And at No.6 position in midfield we have: Maddison, Bissouma, GLC, Sarr

So I don't think it makes any sense to spend the bulk of the Kane money on him. Surely better to go for Orban at CF and BIG on another CB?
 
I've addressed this before, but my logic in not including the money for Porro & Kulu in this window is:

Loaning a player to buy them at a future date is equivalent to buying a player now but not paying much up-front (small loan fee).
I'll use Woolwich buying Raya as an example- for FFP reasons they've 'loaned' him, but they will end up paying 30m for him, and they have a 30m goalkeeper now. So it makes more sense to count that 30m towards their net spend this season, rather than next summer.

LeParisien LeParisien Arguing that we should count the spend of 'loaned' players with buy clauses at the time of the loan is obviously not the the same as not counting Rice and Havertz for Woolwich's transfer window. Please try and think rationally...
Why do you think clubs push for loans with obligations?
 
Payment structure perhaps?

My point is that it makes sense to count the spend in the window the loan itself, for reasons already explained.
Regardless, your comparison with not counting Rice and Havertz for Woolwich as an analogy made 0 sense.
No - my example was to show that you have excluded them ARBITRARILY.

It makes sense to count spending when the payments begin.

Payment structure? It’s not really a secret. The purpose is so that the spending begins at a later date, mostly for FFP reasons. That’s the whole point. If they wanted the spending to be made straight away then that’s what they would do.

To listen to you the difference is cosmetic - pay by cash or card - but there are meaningful reasons for this type of deal which you want to ignore.
 
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