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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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I bet we'll get to 150M Euro before the summer's through, we have for each of the last three.
Danso and Vuskovic already has us at 36M
Prolly better off with Garnacho than Semenyo. Guy has a lot of growing to do and almost matches Semenyo's output.
Hes 20, played 150 prem games and united are desperate for cash.
View: https://x.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1932553106279313882
Hes 20, played 150 prem games and united are desperate for cash.
View: https://x.com/DeadlineDayLive/status/1932553106279313882
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Agree, but it's astonishing amount on one player.
For that amount he needs to be even better than what they are paying for him.
But it's potentially a real statement signing. No question at all.
I'd pay more for him than Grealish or Tel, that's for sure.
This has been done to death but if you want to include Danso and Vuskovic in this summers spend then you need to include all the amortized payments from players we’ve signed and are still paying for.
Or…
You just keep it simple and count the full amount in the window when the deal was first agreed.
Anyway, Liverpool dropping 150m on one player is nuts but it’s like when they went hard for Van Dijk and Allison. They are also manipulating the market and making all other buys inflated for the rest of the summer.
Probably our biggest club legend of the modern era. Others left because they wanted to win trophies, but he stayed because he wanted to win trophies at Spurs. Now it's the best time for him to leave on the biggest high. He's on a steep decline (he knows it), and he would leave with the last match of him being a European Cup Final which we won. It would be also good for us if we get a fee for him. HOWEVER, he deserves the chance to make up his own decision. If he wants to stay, we can't say no to him.
Meh, Wikipedia and Transfermarkt count loan-plus-obligation deals as shifting the fee to the window in which the obligation activates, and for the purposes of clean and simple accounting, I feel like that's a sensible enough way to do it.
Ideally we'd have really detailed and consistent numbers showing wages plus amortized fees, but sadly we do not.
It's definitely taking a risk. But it's the sort of risk they've been willing to take before as you note, and the results speak for themselves, that's an operation that has earned some benefit of the doubt, and Wirtz certainly profiles as the kind of player worth that money.
Garnacho is utter shit. I'd rather have a drunken Grealish than Garnacho.
Pretty sure Paratici will push on for Vlahovic as a replacement for Richarlison by the way. Juve will let him go on a cheap, and he can pull some tactics to convince him. I wouldn't like it (he's extremely limited as a striker), but I can see it happening.
It's a real statement of intent. Similar wealth to us. Less PSR wriggle room, but the kind of signing ENIC would never, ever sanction.
Can't throw in the oil / nation state excuse bollocks either.
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would say....a signing that shows ReAl aMbIsHuNLeave Garnacho where he is. They will just spend that money on a player Levy can’t afford like Mbeumo
Absolutely no.
Well said. Whatever he wants is fine by me.
Good player, not sure he will pass the no dick heads rule though
It is intent and ambition, but the word that springs to mind with Liverpool is conviction.It's a real statement of intent. Similar wealth to us. Less PSR wriggle room, but the kind of signing ENIC would never, ever sanction.
Can't throw in the oil / nation state excuse bollocks either.
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They operate with a degree of certainty and confidence in the market that's really impressive. They do not always get it right by any means, no one does, but their deep understanding of what their football is and what the needs are in order to succeed at it is a major difference-maker for them.
Contrasted with rivals like United and Chelsea who outspend them but have absolutely no clue what their core needs are, what direction it's all supposed to coalesce towards.
(The strange thing is that the Red Sox are run like shit and have been for years. Funny old games on both sides of the pond)