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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Apples and oranges comparison considering 1 was playing for an attacking team and the other was playing for a defensive team, Richy scored 14 last season for us whilst Toney scored 21 in his previous season for a team who sat back, context.
Also look at the type of goals Richy scored his goals, a lot of them were tap ins and being in the right place at the right time...
How many goals did he need to create for himself for example? I'm just thinking back...he scored a worldy against Everton and that was it...Are we really saying Toney wouldn't better that...considering Toney is a better striker than Richy I find that hard to believe.
In terms of buying a prospect, we are talking about a key area in our team who we want to be no1 striker, buying a young player who we need go wait on for a few years to mature does nothing for us, that's literally the reason we have players like Veliz, Parrot and Scarlett...what we need is a seasond ready striker now.
Weve been interested for a while. Like I imagine every club in the country would have been.
Linked? I can't remember any links to Gray this summer at all. Certainly no concrete links outside of perhaps ITKs throwing shit at a wall months back. Even when journalists would answer options for Spurs this summer, they'd mention the usual Gallagher, Ederson, Eze etc. But never Gray.
Do a search of his name in this thread alone. Fuck all from before the weekend outside of people fantasy signing him as one of their choices for the summer.
It's how Lange operates. This was pretty similar to Ings/Villa. Except the whole Brentford thing probably ruined the surprise of us signing him out of the blue.
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Brentford have signed a new striker and given him the no. 9 shirt… Toney is going somwhere…..
View: https://x.com/brentfordfc/status/1807795590752821340?s=46&t=LZlJuZ1uaIN4QMovCQVkvQ
View: https://x.com/brentfordfc/status/1807795590752821340?s=46&t=LZlJuZ1uaIN4QMovCQVkvQ
View: https://x.com/TheSpursExpress/status/1808081637554438188
Ali Gold and the Athletic going head to head on this. Gold said that Gray wanted Brentford for guaranteed playing time and Brentford fucked the deal...
My guess is the Athletic have this right and Gray wanted Spurs. Who would go from Leeds to Brentford?
Great post.
Toney is unlikely to put up better numbers than Richarlison. The ‘but he plays for Brentford’ excuse is no different from ‘but he plays for Everton’.
He averages 0.43 goals a game in his EPL career and that includes 11(?) penalties. He’s 28 which means he’s looking for a 4 or 5 year contract for the last big pay day of his career. If he doesn’t shine — and I suspect that he’ll be a marginal upgrade on Richarlison — then we are going to be stuck and looking at the prospect of trying to loan him out for the last 2 or 3 years of his contract because he’s going to be an average 30 year old forward on 100k+ a week.
I’d rather go all-in for a top-class winger and use the resources that we already have.
They signed him back in Feb.
Obviously prepared at the time to sell Toney regardless.
Brentford fans on their forum have still convinced themselves that Gray wanted to go to them over us.. It's just that Leeds pushed him to us so they could get Rodon
Nice to see the New York Times and The Athletic report this morning that he told Leeds to reject the bid from Brentford.. Despite Leeds desperately needing the money.. Because he didn't want to go Brentford and wanted to speak to us instead.
Nice to see the New York Times and The Athletic report this morning that he told Leeds to reject the bid from Brentford.. Despite Leeds desperately needing the money.. Because he didn't want to go Brentford and wanted to speak to us instead.
Yeah, but he's feeble and pretty crap.
In Gray's interview he spoke about his versatility meaning the squad size didn't need to be huge.
He's been told that by Spurs and I reckon that is the plan. I'd be shocked if we signed a RB. Maaaaaybe we sign that Geertruida who can play all 4 positions along the back 4, or even Chalobah. But if Porro needs a rest I am guessing Gray is first up. Same for Bissouma.
You call it a downer, I call it a hypocrisy check.
Lankshire is as much a signing as Udogie, Sarr, Bergvall, Devine and a lot of other 16-18 year olds.
They're developing elsewhere and then we're taking a punt.
We either loan them out or stick then in the Ux age teams and see how they get on.
Toney is number 17.
Brentford is not a step up from Leeds anyway 
kids got a good head on his shoulders and chosen the right club
kids got a good head on his shoulders and chosen the right clubI heard he was just tucking into some Nice biscuits and the story is 2+2 = 6 (biscuits)
at Southampton he has been pretty good - no one can tell how good/crap he'll be in the EPL now. Trouble is Southampton will want mega money for him and I wouldn't pay more than 20 million. I think he'll go to west ham because Southampton want Flynn downs
Reading all football forums (including this one), fans everywhere are no different:
Want the shiniest new object (even if you’re linked with 50 other shiny new objects), lots of finger-pointing, lots of copium and everyone convinced that players have no agency.
This is a very good account if I remember called a lot of things about up and coming players previously. They see him as a DM.
View: https://x.com/premleaguepanel/status/1808074745075601576?s=46&t=Gc6HrWVZT0mtSXU7r8ZBIQ
View: https://x.com/adamdnathan/status/1808074461712658767?t=6QSOx7tGqlymJOCL2ghfuQ&s=19
Where's the Paratici smiley?
Then we don't want those players.
We want players like Gray with the self belief to go somewhere those 30 games are earned not given.