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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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bus-conductor said:
Anyone saying “good price” seems to ignoring the 10m loan fee on top. Thats €45m / £38m.

Surely to god we could spend 40m better than this (non HG) kid, who doesn’t really tick any specific box positionally.
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It's what we are , best just to make Peace with it.
we either spend 30 to 40 mil on kids with potential in they hope they develop into big players
Or we spend 40 to 60 on the best stars in mid to lower table teams.

I'd love us to go out and get oshimen, tapsoba, Nico Williams , and Douglas Luiz and show we serious but we aren't really.
 
Hampshire Spur said:
Tbh i thought Tel was starting to prosper last few games of season.
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It's way too easy for people to write players off before they've even really gelled or hot going. Signed him when he was 19 had hardly played any football during the season. 20 year old kid who has enough quality to be worth rolling the dice on.

20 years old, it may or may not work out but the ability to develop is clearly there with some time, coaching and hopefully a good spell in the team once he's properly up and running
 
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Park Lane Mark Twain said:
It's way too easy for people to write players off before they've even really gelled or hot going. Signed him when he was 19 had hardly played any football during the season. 20 year old kid who has enough quality to be worth rolling the dice on.

20 years old, it may or may not work out bur the ability to develop is clearly there with some time, coaching and hopefully a good spell in the team once he's properly up and running
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Last couple of games showed a few glimpses of quality and picture passes. Still a long way to go with him but hes only 20. Worth buying imo.
 
The club doesn’t seem to mind spending a lot on a young talent they really rate (£40m on Gray, £50m on Johnson, now Tel etc) but I wish they had this same mentality when it comes to the £70m, £80m, £90m and up players. I’m sure on some level it’s because they can get youngsters to accept our wages but damn.

I know they supposedly just made that Mbeumo bid but be honest, do you expect the club to go back at £75-80m if the bid gets rejected? I know I don’t.
 
Park Lane Mark Twain said:
It's way too easy for people to write players off before they've even really gelled or hot going. Signed him when he was 19 had hardly played any football during the season. 20 year old kid who has enough quality to be worth rolling the dice on.

20 years old, it may or may not work out bur the ability to develop is clearly there with some time, coaching and hopefully a good spell in the team once he's properly up and running
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tel's def a punt but he's not a bad bet. my french friend was very high on him prior to him coming here and i thought he showed flashes last season especially towards the end. not just another n'jie type. and i think he's just the type of forward frank can develop into a top player.
 
Darnswim 🇦🇱 said:
He's 19 and had just moved to the most physical league in the World. The kid is special. With a bit of nurturing he has an even higher potential than Son. Good thing is that now we have a proper tactician to coach him.
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I can appreciate the optimism but I can think of a handful of things that he ever did that made me think there was a real star player there. I do agree though that a change of system and coach could do wonders for him.

Now, a higher ceiling than Son? I have no idea what you're basing that on as of right now as that's an incredibly high bar.

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