That Europa win bought Levy another 5 years of under funding, lack of footballing strategy and gimpiness in general
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Stop playing to the gallery!
You have no idea what’s going on behind closed doors anymore than the journos that you proclaim as publishing made up bullshit!
Quick, send him an email.
I have absolutely no doubt that the players we buy will be opportunistic buys and not related to any strategy whatsoever. We are just rifling through the "reduced to clear' bins at Aldi.
It won't be Sancho and f it is, then we are in the doldrums. Busted flush.
Garnacho would be my preference of that trio, but Mainoo and renewed confidence night also be good.
One thing for sure, none of those 3 is getting a top top club, and they could do much worse than us. I don't include Sancho who is the English Felix.
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I get this, I really do, but we're a loss-making business (after tax) and owe some £300m in transfer fees. I'm not sure we have as much financial wriggle room as the headlines suggest.
There’s a level of transfer Levy isn’t capable of.
He’s just not able to attract the best talent anymore, the game has surpassed his model.
But you honestly think we couldn’t have done more business by now if he wanted to get it done?
Not sure I quite agree.
We have hopefully identified the positions that need strengthening. If that's the case, and if clubs are overpricing their players or if players are holding on to consider their options, then we also must wait, to a degree.
As long as we then get the players of quality who fit the areas identified it''s arguably opportunism allied to a strategy...... I think.
I know it's not a particularly popular opinion here, but I think Garnacho is the sort of rough diamond Frank could potential make a gem out of.
Most exciting signing of my lifetime, to young to remember the Gazza signing. Club had so many issues at that point but the buzz was great, one of the very best strikers in the world. Like buying Harry Kane or something.
Bad analogy.
At least youngish ladies are way likelier to come home with you if you've ignored and disrespected them most of the evening.
If you put in an effort these days, you are called "simp" and/or "desperate" or "trying to hard"
.I think we’ve made the mistake of hanging on thinking there’s a chance MGW could still be done and it’s seriously hampered our incomings.
I'll never forget how happy I was when he signed and the thrilling first few games.
I like Garnacho.
To me he is a bit like a young Son, but maybe with more arrogance than is justified at present.
Whichever club gets him and if they can squeeze that potential, I think he could be top drawer.
Whether Frank or us is the right fit I don't know, because to me he is the kind of player who thinks he should play all the time, regardless. It can be problematic but I would love to see is take the punt. P, not C as some might feel.
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That's always the conundrum: get playing time in a lesser league or spend more time with the first team, but get limited time on the pitch? Given he spent the last two seasons around the first team learning from better quality players, I'd say he now needs game time to develop further and do so outside the comfortable confines of his parent club.
Talent wise could be, but I’d be very wary of the ego baggage and his past disrespectful behaviour aimed towards his club.
I’m not sure his potential outweighs the aggro.
Then we are amateurs and everyone involved in our transfers should step down.
I don’t believe that we only identified MGW and it was him or nobody tbh. I think the Forest owner referred to an attempt to take MGW but I doubt that is the only player we’ve been looking at.
Much more likely we are waiting for the price to come down on players that other clubs have struggled to get out the door
It's actually 8. I stand corrected.