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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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Mostly wrong said:
IDK how you can attribute that horror show of a season to Levy rather than Ramos, sure we sold Keane and Berba but we weren't exactly left with much of an option in either scenario, we were still very much a selling club at that point. He brought in Modric, a generational talent, Bentley, who was one of the best young English players in the league the season prior, and Pavlyuchenko to replace the dud Bent, who had been one of the star performers of the Euros that season. Granted we were left with inadequate cover at striker since we already knew Bent wasn't good enough and Frazier Campbell was nowhere near premier league level at the time, but Levy had clearly made a concerted effort for most of the window up to Berba downing tools trying to identify and bring in some of the most exciting talent available to us at the time. It's easy with hindsight to say Pav and Bentley were shit and Levy fucked Ramos by selling Berbs but we really didn't have a say in the matter, it was either sell him or let him rot in the reserves. It's no coincidence in my mind that results immediately improved when 'Arry came in, even before he had the opportunity to seek reinforcements through the transfer window. Ramos was a horror show, refused to integrate and learn English, utterly without a clue outside of his native Spain. Far less Levy's fault than his that he's now famous for "2 points from 8 games" IMO.
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Bentley was a completely unnecessary signing, to me the worst in our Prem history for a multitude of factors. Aaron Lennon had his place back within months.

Pavlyuchenko was a good player but He’d basically played for the full calendar year (Russia operated on a different timetable) and he arrived knackered. The club didn’t consider that at all.

Modric goes without saying, but he stepped into a dysfunctional environment and it was unfair for us to expect him to be the saviour straight away.

You can be a selling club and still get out in front of it - see Brighton.

The problems were still evident under Redknapp - until he got to the January window. After his 4 game honeymoon period, between mid November and when Palacios arrived to solidify our midfield (Jan 21), they got 9 points in 10 games!

He also brought Defoe and Keane back in January , so yeah strikers were a major problem.

As for Bent, I was very against his signing and was sad to be proven right. Extremely one-dimensional player. Thank God Sunderland gave us our money back. It’s funny he then went to Villa afterwards, a team of similar status to us at the time, and a mate of mine who’s a fan of theirs had almost all the same complaints about him as I did.
 
Tomo said:
Palace would want a huge fee for him considering his contract length and that they have just bought him.
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The most disappointing issue about a player like Wharton is he was on our radar and Palace's (if you believe Steve Parrish) interest manifested itself purely on the basis of "we were looking for someone comfortable on the ball with good distribution and someone suggested having a look at him" proving the narrative that he who doesn't dare loses.
 
citizenabel said:
The most disappointing issue about a player like Wharton is he was on our radar and Palace's (if you believe Steve Parrish) interest manifested itself purely on the basis of "we were looking for someone comfortable on the ball with good distribution and someone suggested having a look at him" proving the narrative that he who doesn't dare loses.
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I suspect the club were looking at Gray as opposed to Wharton
 
Brian Fantana said:
Historically Levy is atrocious in bringing in managers unless he gets lucky
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I’ve never thought of you as someone who would write a sentence like this and not consider it to be utter bollocks. But surely you can see that it is?

Give the guy shit when he gets decisions wrong, but give credit when he gets them correct.

How would you handle the argument that Levy is brilliant at bringing in managers unless he gets unlucky?
 
Col_McCafferty said:
Several?!

Only one new starter came in and now he's injured!

We ended last season terribly and really can't afford for that form to continue. Ange needs results, starting with today.
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The gamed changed years ago - its no longer about a first X1 its about a squad.

Last season we had Perisic, Solomon and Sessegnon who all made about 10 appearances between them due to injuries.

So we start with a stronger squad than last season with the additions of Solanke (who played 100% of last seasons PL fixtures - so his injury is just bad luck), together with Gray, Bergvall and
Odobert at least two of whom and possibly all 3 I expect to be regular starters in a regularly rotated team due to number of fixtures within a month or two. Plus youngsters such as Lankshear and Moore whose development we'll see over the course of the season.
 
I've never understood what happened to Sergio Reguilon

He was quality in his first season. There's a good player there.

Is it just a matter of his style not fitting certain systems, or has he done something atrocious behind the scenes?
 
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