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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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City are a bit in the shit aren't they. the legals may drag the club down a bit and create uncertainty in the mind of potential recruits. More fundamentally, the best manager in the world has signalled he intends to leave. De Bruyne now. Haaland out at the end of the season? They will be favourites to win the league yes, but the "it's all about to end" factor could really impact them.

Then we have Liverpool with the man after THE man syndrome.

Chelsea ... who knows, but fair play rules will limit their progress this next season.

Actually think Man Utd could be much stronger next season with a new coach. Hopefully it's Poch and they can't get better than 2nd/3rd.

We really need to get our foot on the gas now and build a title challenging team for once (in 63 years)
 
Alvarez is interesting.

He’s one of those players that you don’t pay a great deal of attention to. He’s City, he just appears every now and then, scores a few goals, they win another title etc.

Agree that he can be wasteful.

Not going to happen but I’m not immediately against it.
 

Well then - that's that re: Sess.

Feel very bad for the lad and his injuries, but we've done more than enough as a club to support him/have patience with him. I'm guessing if you did a poll on here, most would have wanted us to let him go rather than extend his contract.

Fingers crossed he miraculously stays fit wherever he goes. Knowing our previous, he'll go and win some silverware almost immediately.

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City are a bit in the shit aren't they. the legals may drag the club down a bit and create uncertainty in the mind of potential recruits. More fundamentally, the best manager in the world has signalled he intends to leave. De Bruyne now. Haaland out at the end of the season? They will be favourites to win the league yes, but the "it's all about to end" factor could really impact them.

Then we have Liverpool with the man after THE man syndrome.

Chelsea ... who knows, but fair play rules will limit their progress this next season.

Actually think Man Utd could be much stronger next season with a new coach. Hopefully it's Poch and they can't get better than 2nd/3rd.

We really need to get our foot on the gas now and build a title challenging team for once (in 63 years)
Heard this one before.

But yes the worry for me is that an Woolwich title winning parade is looking an evermore realistic proposition.
 
I dont know enough about FFP/PSR but i cant believe they're not in the shit. They already spent about £30m on another kid from Brazil, paid off Poch and had to buy out Marescas and his coaches contracts so thats the thick end of another £50m. They are just fronting it up like its all no big deal to avoid the vultures picking them apart.
One imagines the accounting trick of amortisation will be doing the heavy lifting there. Yes, £30m for the Brazilian kid but over a five year contract their annual outlay now will be 'only' £6m. Similarly Poch is probably on gardening leave right now (it's what happened when we sacked him, anyway) so the financial hit would currently only be his wages.

Or they're simply mad.

The Gallagher one is interesting, Chelsea currently have 3.5 weeks to sell some homegrown players so unless they manage to sell Broja, Chalobah, Maatsen anytime soon this 'we demand £50m' is a massive bluff. Factor in the Euro's as well. All clubs wanting those players need to make them sweat.
I'm pleading the fifth on this one: but is it possible that Chelsea are in a position where the deadline means they need to be in the black or else it just doesn't matter at all and they try to take the punishment on the chin?

What I'm trying to say is - could there be a point where they need £50m, so unless they got offered that for Gallagher then there would be no point accepting, say, £40m?
 
This rebuild should have happened 5 years ago like poch said. Had enough credit in the bank for rebuild. Feel a bit for poch. Been hung out to dry by espanyol, us and chelsea. Best manager I've seen since venables.
 

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City are a bit in the shit aren't they. the legals may drag the club down a bit and create uncertainty in the mind of potential recruits. More fundamentally, the best manager in the world has signalled he intends to leave. De Bruyne now. Haaland out at the end of the season? They will be favourites to win the league yes, but the "it's all about to end" factor could really impact them.

Then we have Liverpool with the man after THE man syndrome.

Chelsea ... who knows, but fair play rules will limit their progress this next season.

Actually think Man Utd could be much stronger next season with a new coach. Hopefully it's Poch and they can't get better than 2nd/3rd.

We really need to get our foot on the gas now and build a title challenging team for once (in 63 years)
We did have a title challenging team under poch. It werent the chelsea game the screwed up our challenge like the media overblown it to be. It was the preceding game v wba at home. Played like zombies 2nd half.
 
One imagines the accounting trick of amortisation will be doing the heavy lifting there. Yes, £30m for the Brazilian kid but over a five year contract their annual outlay now will be 'only' £6m. Similarly Poch is probably on gardening leave right now (it's what happened when we sacked him, anyway) so the financial hit would currently only be his wages.

Or they're simply mad.


I'm pleading the fifth on this one: but is it possible that Chelsea are in a position where the deadline means they need to be in the black or else it just doesn't matter at all and they try to take the punishment on the chin?

What I'm trying to say is - could there be a point where they need £50m, so unless they got offered that for Gallagher then there would be no point accepting, say, £40m?


Not sure it matters to us.

We value him at 35m because he has 1 year left, we offer 35m. We also say we want it done before the Euros or we move on.

Up to them if they are in enough trouble to accept the offer or not.
 
Not sure it matters to us.

We value him at 35m because he has 1 year left, we offer 35m. We also say we want it done before the Euros or we move on.

Up to them if they are in enough trouble to accept the offer or not.
We offer that and get gazumped by Villa at 40m.

In any case, can't see anything happening before or during the Euros.

I think this is a bit of a fantasy narrative and the scum will be perfectly fine if they don't sell him before June 30th.
 
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