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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Does this mean Radu stays now. We have Danso and the Japanese lad.
Or, are we buying another one?
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Exactly we never learn i do think kudus is better then rich celso and bissouma but 60 to 70 mill I dunno thats getting into top player territory
You tell West Ham it's 30mil tops. That's what you pay for a backup and a backup is what he'd be at Spurs if we were a serious club.

You spend 50 or more at Pikeys Caravan FC, the one you get is Jarrod Bowen.

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Right, so spend big money in a position we dont need, so end up with 3 10s, and 4-5 LWs, or less money on a player who btw in his first season had a better season then Eze has ever done in a position we actually need a player in... people never use their brains they jsut get it in their heads that a certain player is the key to all our woes and ignore that facts.

Plus... Eze wants Woolwich.... hes an Woolwich fan... Woolwich are a significantly better team than us right now, Woolwich are a bigger and more succesful team than us... but yeah we should just go out and sign Eze
1. DMC
2. LB
3. RB
4. AMC
5. All other positions
 
He's exciting and fun to watch, there's no question about that. It's hard to get TOO mad about the deal on that basis from a fan's perspective. He was one of the most eye-catching players at the 2022 World Cup too, I definitely wanted to sign him then.

But when playing against top quality opponents it's a lot of crowd-pleasing dribbles, not a lot of end product. A lot of similarity with Jeremy Doku really.

It's not even close between him and Eze, who combines entertaining flair with massive goal involvement production. We're treating Kudus as a "cheaper equivalent" when he is neither of those things!


West Ham choosing to auction off Kudus to the highest bidder in order to enable their broader team building strategy is not remotely the same thing as West Ham being desperate to secure whatever funds they can get.

For the trillionth time, Levy does not have the leverage here he thinks he does in a pursuit of a player who is the target SOLELY because of Levy's perception of leverage in the deal.

It's so fucking exhausting supporting this club.
Disagree on doku comparison, kudus is a lot better technically and not as one dimensional. I honestly think he’s going to look so much more impressive playing for a team with better players and who have more of the ball in attacking positions.

I don’t think he’s an alternative to eze either, I think he was our second option after mbuemo chose Utd and we will use him primarily from the right. Eze would of been a 10/ left side player for us and I would of loved him, but I have a strong feeling we’re not going to upgrade the left after Tel signed and will focus on a 6 after/if we get kudus. This would equally infuriate me as both sides need upgrading, but for me kudus for the right/10 cover for Frank makes perfect sense.
 
You know players and especially good ones can adapt and play slightly differently, it’s not that complicated. Is Arteta going to have to play exactly like Glasner at Palace. Players understand where the space is. It’s more natural than you think. It’s not pieces on a chess board.

I do agree a bit on Eze being inconsistent and going missing a bit in games he’s not perfect especially off the ball. But technically he’s miles better than kudus who is head down, raw still at 24 and lacking in football intelligence. We need quality over position in the final third right now.

I don't think it's that complicated but you're making it more complicated by having him over someone who covers a gaping hole on the other side of the pitch.

I also think him and Maddison will be taking up a lot of spaces on the same pitch as Eze likes to drift inside and wants a lot of touches on the ball. If you want to pay him as a 10 then he doesn't have the quick release or the passing range or playmaking ability as a natural 10 - he's more likely to carry the ball and hold onto it and tbh we already have Kulusevski for that.

He doesn't really solve many problems and probably creates more problems in our team.

I think the idea of Eze sound good in a lot of people's heads yet when it comes to the actual football no one really has any idea where he's going to play or what role he is going to cover.

I dunno man I just think with Eze he gives off a lot of Dembele vibes with our fanbase which our fans are yearning for more than anything.
 
But why would we buy another 10... we have 2... and Donley coming through... we need a RW.. i agree on the striker front we need one a younger high potential one ideally and we definitely need a 6 in a different mould to what we have. If we can get Simmons I would personally go for him, Id sell a bunch of players to fund it move Tel to back up Striker and have Him and Odobert LW and also Simmons rotating with Maddison at 10 until Kulu is fully fit and then sell Son, Solomon and richie etc

We also need a lot of outs annoyingly.
Do you see us win the PL and/or CL with Madders and Kulu as our AMC's?

If the answer is no, there's your answer.
 
If we went into next season with this exact squad we have now? Where SHOULD we finish?
if we lose Romero to fund Kudos.
Which is what I now suspect is the plan we are going to struggle to make top ten. With bad luck with injuries again we could be in real trouble.

And that's assuming we sack off the CL and domestic cups by playing the kids

You would think we would all be up riding a high and looking forwards to the new season but now seriously worried.

We are going to sell our best see defender, Overpay for a bloke who has five goals and four assists last year and looks like he is the kind of player to down tools.

We've been told it's "sell to buy"

I think it's safe to say we are in the shit.

Frank must be wondering what the fuck he signed up for
 
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