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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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Ed Vanderlay said:
Probably better than one of the most overrated players in the Prem.

I hope you are not his agent he will end up at Darlington
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Ok then definitely better 😂😂

I only said Trossard because the self hate crew love to have massive crywanks about Trosssard and CHO is a totally different level of talent. If he gets consistent as he matures, he’s a player with the ability to start for any team in the prem.
 
TomHotspur said:
It always makes me laugh when people use Chelsea as an example to justify their “spending money doesn’t always bring success” argument when they're only referring to the Chelsea of the last year. Have you seen Chelsea’s trophy cabinet in the period since we last won a trophy? What would you put that success down to?

United are probably the only club you could make a semi valid argument where there spending hasn’t equalled success but even at that they’ve won two League Cups, an FA Cup and a Europa League since 2013, all trophies were would give anything to get our hands on.
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Pleased I could give you a chuckle.

The argument is that spending doesn't guarantee anything.

It doesn't.
 
Starks said:

View: https://x.com/samcunningham/status/1793894501003698211?t=kxi5SZPQ8pMGQFzlxKVPig&s=19
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Oh God

You can just picture Daniel Levy right now, can't you

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Edit: you can see why he'd be happy to have big Ange out of the way in Germany for the month as he sniffs around a potential Forest fire sale
 
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dudu said:
The argument is that spending doesn't guarantee anything.
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True. But equally, wage bill is the most accurate predictor of league position. It's no surprise we have routinely finished 5th-6th these past 5 years given that's where we place in the wage bill league too.

I know Levy likes his precious wage:revenue ratio low but if we're going to win trophies at some point we're going to have to start competing on wages with the top clubs in the league.
 
TomHotspur said:
£50 million? VdV cost approx £35 million. Anything further to that was performance related add ons.

Whilst I wouldn’t call VDV a “punt” if we’re going by our traditional punts, our first choice target was evidently Tapsoba. We seemingly negotiated both prices to death and VDV came out as the cheaper option, so as per our transfer policy, we went for him.

It worked out thankfully on this occasion (even though Tapsoba would likely have been an equally excellent signing) but it’s a flawed policy that has a higher miss than hit rate.
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The concept of "first choice" is what exactly?

a) The first name linked to us in a position
b) The 5th name linked to us in a position but in the eyes of the fans is better than the other 4
c) Were linked with the player in previous windows
d) Is the most expensive out of the other players were are linked with

The answer is none of these. No one knows who is the "first choice" target for a position (unless it directly comes from the lips of the manager). Everything is framed around what's been pushed in the press and then how fans choice to filter that info.
 
Klaus said:
True. But equally, wage bill is the most accurate predictor of league position. It's no surprise we have routinely finished 5th-6th these past 5 years given that's where we place in the wage bill league too.

I know Levy likes his precious wage:revenue ratio low but if we're going to win trophies at some point we're going to have to start competing on wages with the top clubs in the league.
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Absolutely agree.
 
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