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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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Tomo said:
DM is also very different in modern football to what it was even just 10 years ago. A top team needs a Carrick/Busquests profile these days, someone who is defensively/positionally mustard but is also a deep lying playmaker able to control the games from deep midfield with an elite passing range and good ball retention under pressure.

Hence why we bought Archie Gray who is a young version of this and currently only Bissouma or Bentancur can sort of fit this profile.
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Archie gray certainly has the potential to go on and become an excellent playmaking DM.

I also think Devine has the passing ability of this it's just wether he has the defensive/positional game to go with it.
 
Doom Funk said:
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GGTH said:

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The top three clubs are also the most successful English clubs over the last decade, which suggests three things:
Being a "selling club" is hardly an issue as long as you have good recruitment, all of those clubs sold important first team players to European superclubs and just kept improving.
Making good income from selling players is important part of the economic engine that keeps top clubs running.
And success makes players more valuable. Palmer didn't really have a hand in City's success, but he had the pedigree, so he went for 45m while barely playing any adult football.
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Yes but positions 4 and 5 are clubs that are being docked points for being skint
 
GGTH said:

View: https://x.com/footballontnt/status/1817960929352642934
The top three clubs are also the most successful English clubs over the last decade, which suggests three things:
Being a "selling club" is hardly an issue as long as you have good recruitment, all of those clubs sold important first team players to European superclubs and just kept improving.
Making good income from selling players is important part of the economic engine that keeps top clubs running.
And success makes players more valuable. Palmer didn't really have a hand in City's success, but he had the pedigree, so he went for 45m while barely playing any adult football.
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Two things that disguises are
- players sold at a loss
- transfer volume.

Chelsea buy a LOT of players and sell a lot too. They have had a lot of players out in loan - it’s a kind of player farm.

It would be interesting to sort clubs by the average value of player sale and also net spend (those clubs good at increasing the value of their players).
 
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