Emil Hallfredsson, 73 caps for Iceland?
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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It’s embarrassing more than exhausting
Loan to buy is an accounting quirk that shouldn’t even be given out as public information.
Once they’ve worn the shirt, they aren’t a new signing the next window
Well thats the elephant in the room. He scored one league goal last season and looked all bark and no bite in the few games I've seen.
I do think the fact he's only 21 and that City are so reluctant to sell him speaks volumes about his potential. But you'd forget that he's a long long way from the finished article! I actually think Ndiaye from Everton would be a far superior signing in the short term.
Chamionship players will very much take our wages. Maybe Lange doesnt rate Brits and Levy's brilliant fotball brain sees more value in shexshie furriners who've looked useful in a useless league. Palace for instance picked up Eze and Wharton, both of those were highly rated by our fans FFS.
I'm not sure how it works , but you would assume all the kids who look really good have offers from multiple London clubs. Maybe we just aren't as good at developing the ones we do sign as we should be?
yet another sackable offence for an unsackable bean counter
The talent pool is probably shared around... decisions are probably made by parents... naturally, Woolwich will get their fair share, then us and then West Ham. Chelsea pick off other London clubs academies. Their view is that why put all that effort into scouting when you can just take them before they turn 16 or whatever the age is and don't need to pay a penny. So long as their scholarship has ended it's fair game. A very small percentage of these players make it as a pro. It's like throwing jelly at a wall. There is a bit of luck involved and right now Woolwich seem to be getting it in spades.
I'm convinced that our last roll of the dice will be a double swoop for Mainoo and Garnacho at Man United and it'll end in total embarrassment. Maybe Mainoo rejects us and we end up signing Garnacho for something stupid like 60m.
Just trying to think of the most embarrassing situation possible as that is what'll likely happen!
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Oh look, we never actually bid for Paz...
Of course we bid.
All a formal offer is the final technicality of putting all the exact terms we are offering in writing, doesn’t mean we didn’t bid for the player
Yeah, that's the guy. Pleased to see he got some mileage in his career. But was probably expecting him to develop into something a bit better than a solid Barnsley player though.
Emil Halfredson was the Icelandic player, Limbersky was Czech I believe, neither had any kind of hype surrounding them at signing, they were Arnesen punts for peanuts.
Of course at the time, our squad was very mediocre, and so any young signing was subject to fans online hyping themselves up beyond all reason, so maybe that's the talk you're remembering. There were tons of signings like that back then, it was much more manageable with fees being so much lower, and there wasn't such extensive Youtube and stats coverage, so they were a genuine mystery, Schroedinger's footballers if you will.
Reto Ziegler was the most successful of those punts, and whilst he didn't set the world alight, he didn't shame himself either, and went on to have a decent-ish career post Spurs, playing in Serie A and representing Switzerland.
We are targeting the right calibre of player. The names we've seemingly been strongly linked too are exciting and needle movers. The start of the window it was clear we needed quality to lift the ceiling not quantity.
They are just so useless at executing deals.
At this point im not interested in lowering the bar, id rather struggle like fick with what we've got, put the circa 120m we have into the pot for next summer with another 150m and have an almighty one after a season of frank laying the foundations.
But could we honestly sit here and say with any confidence that we would do that? No fucking way because there incompetent and out of their depth. Plus they'd find a way out of spending that kind of money and probably use it to build hotels ffs.
They are just so useless at executing deals.
At this point im not interested in lowering the bar, id rather struggle like fick with what we've got, put the circa 120m we have into the pot for next summer with another 150m and have an almighty one after a season of frank laying the foundations.
But could we honestly sit here and say with any confidence that we would do that? No fucking way because there incompetent and out of their depth. Plus they'd find a way out of spending that kind of money and probably use it to build hotels ffs.
we did not bid
I agree with you but it’s not the whole picture. Hincapie, Eze etc we can pay them what the scum are paying them. But they prefer that project over ours at the moment.
Players know that they have a stable manager, consistent CL participation as well as a good chance of major trophies.
We can offer none of that. It’s why I hate Levy for wasting the chances we had when we were doing great under Poch. Levy wasted it.
Jonathan Blondel - the next Enzo Scifo