Sanchez. Van Persie. Fabregas.
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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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No i don’t think we will but for me it’s the biggest position to fill. We need a presence up front who can do everything well. Not having the strikers that we have that are good at some things but terrible at other things. I’m looking at Toney,Vlahovic and Gyokeres as options. Gyokeres is really interesting because he’s coming off a ridiculous season of goalscoring and will be hungry to prove himself in the premier. Sesko is the other one I really like but i think he will definitely be out of our price range.
No striker should be out of our price range after pocketing 100M for Kane * Those two are horrendous 9’s. Good goal returns but shit and inconsistent link players
* Cost ENIC nothing and earned them hundreds of millions in CL and PL returns
I watched him live a few weeks ago. Scored a hatrick but it was his touch, strength and directness that stood out, all transferable to a higher level albeit goals will be harder to come by. Perfect foil for a player like Johnson
Vic does.
None of our defenders do, incl Micky (I'd have said the same pre yesterday's mare)...you don't concede 50 goals in 32 games and pretend to start for the best backline in the league.
Our CM? Lol.
Peak Sonny starts over Martinelli or Trossard, but current Sonny with his first touch made of lead? Nope, especially the form the Belgian is in.
The Kane money was spent this summer. Replacing Kane like for like wouldn't have been a good idea anyway. It was better off being used on improving the rest of the team, which is what we did.
The striker market is shit. We already have Son who has scored every two games this season on average and Richarlison who's scored a goal every 140 minutes.
Money's better off being spend elsewhere.
No Madueke is neither club trained nor home grown - moved to Netherlands too early
PC left in 2018.
In that same time frame we sold Kane & Eriksen cos neither would sign a new deal (the latter has been pretty shit ever since.)
Absolute nonsense.
TH left in 2008; since then:
Adebayor, Toure, Nasri, Clichey, Sagna > Man C
Fabregas, Hleb, Song, Vermalen > Barca
Van Persie, Sanchez > Man U
Ox-Camberlain > Liverpool (Granted any wise man knew he was a perma-crock and it proved great business for the scum)
(Inevitably people are gonna debate 'peak' and exact caliber of player, but they're all moves they either couldn't prevent or were seen us upwards for the player.)
It's been widely acknowledged that their stadium project caused them to have to cash out time and time again on players (especially by their fans!!!) and saw a string of lesser replacements over the subsequent years....... That is why they hadn't mustered a proper title challenge for approx 18 years (since their last title).
Completely disagree - we need to spend money elsewhere for sure but sticking with two 9’s that you cant build off is a massive issue. Poor touch under pressure, both of them. Gyokere pls
They were after Henry?
All a while ago and they went and signed Rice for a 100m so brought in established top class.
Yes. All in their prime and arguably World Class. Besides, Scum are 2/3 years ahead of us in terms of their project.
We have literally become Woolwich during the banter Wenger era where they'd stay in and around top 4 but win nothing and consistently sell stars to teams who actually wanted to compete. We used to laugh at it, everyone used to laugh at it.
Rice was an England starter at World Cup and Euros level.
Liverpool went and dropped 100m on Darwin an established Champions League and International star player.
Isak and Bruno were more like our level when signed in fairness but we’d have never spent the 70m plus addons to get Isak.
Kane came through Spurs academy and loan system.
Bale signed as a 17 year old, Spurs developed him
Modric signed for Spurs after others such as Woolwich had rejected him as too lightweight. Started on left wing and took about 2 years for him to become regarded as a good CM, later a world class cm. But even in the season before he left half the fans thought he was gash as he didn't score or get many assists - only the passes that made assists and goals.
Players we have signed such as Vicario and others were signed before they became recognised as having potential to become top class (same with Van de Ven, Udogie, Porro, Sarr et al). Key word is potential ...... just like Kane, Bale and Modric.
Fabregas and Van Persie the only ones on that list and they were a good while ago.
They signed Rice since
I really don’t get why people are so keen to argue that we are really competing with these clubs with our current model. We really haven’t been
Not sure you are following my point
The only ones?
Nah........ I knew you'd do this and can't be fucked with the minutia involved in bickering with you.
Stick to facts rather than raging hyperbole... Especially when it comes to those cunts.
Are those numbers right? I think Richarlison and Isak cost about the same.
Hmmm
If you're comparing these players to players we let go Kane/Bale/Modric/Walker but I'm sorry they don't compare
Also Isak cost Newcastle £58 + £5m in add ons, bit weird to be bringing up Newcastle tbh