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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Deuterz said:
He'd be interesting at being crap at football. My god.

Having high xG per 90 but not actually scoring many (because you suck) isn't a good thing. He's a fucking donkey. Liverpool are desperate to get rid - a CF playing for a great side who has scored 9, 11 and 5 league goals. He runs about a bit and occasionally does something fun but he's an absolute fucking mess of a footballer.

Richarlison has had better prem seasons. Solanke's best prem season blows anything Darwin has done out of the water. Son replacement? Fucketh me ... he's absolute shit out wide!
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Nunez averages a goal/assist every 160 min in the PL last season (his worst ever season), every 107 min in 23/24. Solanke was 183.75 last season and 151 min in 23/24. That's real goals and assists, not just X's.

On top of that, this guy helps you not concede goals with his off ball graft from the front. He's relentless, and does it properly.

I get he's an agent of chaos, and there a slicker cunts out there, but we aren't fucking signing them. Someone like him to have in the armoury wouldn't be terrible, depending on the fee/salary of course.
 
Airfixx said:
He categorically isn't.
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Garnacho Been averaging 6 league goals a season since he came into uniteds first team, 6!

Incredible potential, plus he scored an overhead kick that one time, does step overs and has 90 PACE

Sign him up, clearly better than all our players . Man untied who finished 15th just about and trophy less only want to get rid of him because they can't understand his genius :pocheyes:
 
Harry Vaginola said:
fair enough. i guess i don't believe we arranged a medical without permission whatever that actually means. we submitted a bid and it was accepted and we booked a medical. is there wiggle room to drag out some legal battle? maybe. do we want to avoid fighting with a dishonest bad faith person like the BFGC? possibly. i just think if there was any substance to their bitching and moaning they would have run it up the flagpole for all to see by now. our silence is because we know we're right.
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I hope so. By this point what I imagine happened is this:

MGW's agent and THFC start chatting. Agent hints or reveals that "the right bid" could make things happen. Spurs go ahead and officially notify Forest of a bid, and the agent says: "Presto! You've unveiled a secret release clause I can now tell you about!" However, before Forest respond and give permission for it, Spurs and the agent arrange a medical. This pisses off BFGC, who feels insulted/humiliated, and he decides to be an uncooperative dick about it in retaliation, accusing us of tapping up, and hoping to flog MGW to anyone else in order to teach THFC a lesson.

But that hasn't worked, apparently. So yeah, hopefully our silence is a sign of patience or confidence in our position. Would be nice to wrap this whole dumb affair up though.
 
bus-conductor said:
On top of that, this guy helps you not concede goals with his off ball graft from the front. He's relentless, and does it properly.
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But Solanke also excels in this area, is the thing. We already have a guy like that.

The reality is that Nunez will probably come good for Liverpool this year, and would be an absolute, unequivocal, Werner-grade catastrophe if Spurs bought him, because that's just how the universe and strikers work.
 
bus-conductor said:
Nunez averages a goal/assist every 160 min in the PL last season (his worst ever season), every 107 min in 23/24. Solanke was 183.75 last season and 151 min in 23/24. That's real goals and assists, not just X's.

On top of that, this guy helps you not concede goals with his off ball graft from the front. He's relentless, and does it properly.

I get he's an agent of chaos, and there a slicker cunts out there, but we aren't fucking signing them. Someone like him to have in the armoury wouldn't be terrible, depending on the fee/salary of course.
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His stats are skewed by often being employed as an impact sub. His return season by season is poor and there’s a reason he has ended up in that role. 5 goals 2 assists last season is abysmal.

He works hard .. one of the least important things for a forward.

We absolutely can do better than Darwin Nunez, and the fee and wage would not be small. We may as well have just gone all in for a Cunha for similar money.
 
Deuterz said:
His stats are skewed by often being employed as an impact sub. His return season by season is poor and there’s a reason he has ended up in that role. 5 goals 2 assists last season is abysmal.

He works hard .. one of the least important things for a forward.

We absolutely can do better than Darwin Nunez, and the fee and wage would not be small. We may as well have just gone all in for a Cunha for similar money.
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His stats were better when he was starting more and playing more minutes.
 
bus-conductor said:
Nunez averages a goal/assist every 160 min in the PL last season (his worst ever season), every 107 min in 23/24. Solanke was 183.75 last season and 151 min in 23/24. That's real goals and assists, not just X's.

On top of that, this guy helps you not concede goals with his off ball graft from the front. He's relentless, and does it properly.

I get he's an agent of chaos, and there a slicker cunts out there, but we aren't fucking signing them. Someone like him to have in the armoury wouldn't be terrible, depending on the fee/salary of course.
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Nunez in all competitions last season:

PL: 30 matches, 5 goals, 2 assists.
EFL Cup: 6 matches, 1 goal, 1 assist.
CL: 9 matches, 1 goal, 1 assist.

So in 45 matches he tallied 7 goals and 4 assists, which equates to 1 goal each 6.5 games and 1 assist every 10.5 games.

Now I understand that he's not getting a full 90 minutes every game, so one must ask why, if he was such a prolific goalscorer, his opportunities are so curtailed?

I'll give you a minute to think about that one.

Putting him in our lineup would be like taking a butter knife to a gunfight, when the guns are made by Gatlin.
 
bus-conductor said:
Darwin Nunez would be interesting as a Son replacement.

He misses sitters, but his numbers - goals/assists p.90 , xa90, xg90 - are v.good, the other stuff he does is good, and he works absolute nuts off.

Can play off the left or centrally.
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You don’t want Johnson who has 25 goals and assists for us but Nunez, who has less than half that output playing for the best team in the country, would be « interesting »?

Wild take.
 
bus-conductor said:
Nunez averages a goal/assist every 160 min in the PL last season (his worst ever season), every 107 min in 23/24. Solanke was 183.75 last season and 151 min in 23/24. That's real goals and assists, not just X's.

On top of that, this guy helps you not concede goals with his off ball graft from the front. He's relentless, and does it properly.

I get he's an agent of chaos, and there a slicker cunts out there, but we aren't fucking signing them. Someone like him to have in the armoury wouldn't be terrible, depending on the fee/salary of course.
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I tend to agree. Nunez would suit Frank very well. He's excellent and winning the ball and very strong. He gets in the right poistions to score goals, but it just hasn't happened for him at Liverpool.

I doubt they would let him leave for anything less than 50m, so unless Richy is out the door, I doubt he's on our radar.

In modern football, there is more to being a striker than just scoring goals. Take Firmino for instance - never scored many goals but was part of Liverpool's best ever front 3.
 
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Nunez averages a goal/assist every 160 min in the PL last season (his worst ever season), every 107 min in 23/24. Solanke was 183.75 last season and 151 min in 23/24. That's real goals and assists, not just X's.

On top of that, this guy helps you not concede goals with his off ball graft from the front. He's relentless, and does it properly.

I get he's an agent of chaos, and there a slicker cunts out there, but we aren't fucking signing them. Someone like him to have in the armoury wouldn't be terrible, depending on the fee/salary of course.
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Nunez was playing in a team that created almost 50% more XG than Spurs, but he was involved in less than 15% more G/A than Solanke.

I really think it is safe to say only reason he got slightly more G/a per min is because he was involved in much better team that created many more chances, and his actual output when that is reflected in respect of chances created was worse than Solankes.
 
bus-conductor said:
Darwin Nunez would be interesting as a Son/Richarlison replacement.

He misses sitters, but his numbers - goals/assists p.90 , xa90, xg90 - are v.good, the other stuff he does is good, and he works absolute nuts off.

Can play off the left or centrally.
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Edited - meant to say Son/Richarlison replacement for that 9/Inverted left remit. And I was thinking more of Richarlison really in terms of like for like upgrade, as obviously he’s nothing like Son.
 
Trotter said:
Nunez was playing in a team that created almost 50% more XG than Spurs, but he was involved in less than 15% more G/A than Solanke.

I really think it is safe to say only reason he got slightly more G/a per min is because he was involved in much better team that created many more chances, and his actual output when that is reflected in respect of chances created was worse than Solankes.
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Datzlo said:
Then why was he dropped?

All I know is Solanke scored 4 more league goals than him in 3 fewer appearances, as Liverpool romped to the title.

Doesn't sound much like he'd improve us.
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The argument re Solanke is pretty irrelevant (started by Deuterz Deuterz I think) as I never said he’d be a replacement for Solanke - he’d more be a replacement for Richarlison really as a guy who can play in nverted left forward or CF and give you a decent g/a per 90 whilst also being an absolute animal without the ball.

It’s not just about “goals scored” with him, he creates a lot for others.

If he’s 50m then check what you get for that. You don’t get many PL winning forwards who can do what he does, we paid more than that for Richarlison ffs.

Liverpool are fucking miles better than us, him being surplus there doesn’t make him shit.
 
Can't see Richy wanting to leave anytime soon. He only has Solanke as competition for striker and he would have to believe if he stays fit that he could be the starter ahead of him.
 
bus-conductor said:
The argument re Solanke is pretty irrelevant (started by Deuterz Deuterz I think) as I never said he’d be a replacement for Solanke - he’d more be a replacement for Richarlison really as a guy who can play in nverted left forward or CF and give you a decent g/a per 90 whilst also being an absolute animal without the ball.
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Okay that makes more sense. Bear in mind though their outputs have been eerily similar the last 2 years.

bus-conductor said:
It’s not just about “goals scored” with him, he creates a lot for others.

If he’s 50m then check what you get for that. You don’t get many PL winning forwards who can do what he does, we paid more than that for Richarlison ffs.

Liverpool are fucking miles better than us, him being surplus there doesn’t make him shit.
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Perhaps, but it doesn't make him necessarily an improvement either. He's been there 3 years and has been notoriously streaky the whole time. I think his level is a Lanzini type for a club like Spam.

For 40m I'd say sure, but I'd rather we gather our cash injection and see if Vinicius Jnr wants to become our new Van Der Vaart...
 
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