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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Hmmmmm..... Not necessarily.

Equivalent release clause for Kane in 2020 would rightfully have been £200m...........
When I say Eze's deal, I mean Eze's deal. 68M.

Levy might never have agreed to that, but the point is that in having a release clause that's remotely feasible in a deal of a conservative length, Eze has maintained some degree of control of his destiny, I disagree that it's some foolish and naive agreement for him to have signed, he's done quite well.
 
Tough one to profile and depends entirely on how frank see it.
I love the destroyer type and that would pair well with bergvall and bentancur. However somebody like sarr eould not be a good pairing as neither would be able to dictate play.

Luiz I love as a footballer, I prefer ederson more and neither are pure dm's imo and more sitting 8's or 8's but both would work beautifully in a double pivot with all our current cm's. But as you say we would then lack the big physical monster but having said that ederson is a physical ball winner.
What about Paulinho
 
When I say Eze's deal, I mean Eze's deal. 68M.

Levy might never have agreed to that, but the point is that in having a release clause that's remotely feasible in a deal of a conservative length, Eze has maintained some degree of control of his destiny, I disagree that it's some foolish and naive agreement for him to have signed.

Respectfully; that's just silly then......... That's a third of Kane's percieved value.... The equivalent would be buying Eze for 25m and of course he'd have long since been snapped up for that.
 
Respectfully; that's just silly then......... That's a third of Kane's percieved value.... The equivalent would be buying Eze for 25m and of course he'd have long since been snapped up for that.
I don't even really understand what detour you're tumbling down here, but it does raise a question that I don't know the answer to:

Has Levy ever agreed to a release clause? Has it ever been reported that one of our players has one?
 
Yeah it's fucked up, much more to it than meets the eye.

He should have been out of Palace by now, arguably the best player outside the top 6, homegrown, Prem proven, great character and an unbelievable talent and entering his peak - this is a Liverpool/City level signing.

That up front release clause is putting teams off I think.
Eze was happy to sign that deal and is very grateful to Palace.

If we, City or Liverpool want him, pay the money. It's simple.

City and Liverpool have already made their moves so just leaves us.
 
Of course it is. Wages being the biggest predictor of league success but every transfer has a total cost with transfer fee, agent fees, and wage commitment on the contract.

That’s how clubs would look at it surely?

ummm, perhaps - but again it just does not tell the story at all because if it did, Man U and Chelsea would have finished the top 2 the last few years surely??

Liverpools total transfer costs are, if we were to look into it, completely dwarfed by theirs and yet here we are.
 
Kudus is unique can play lw for sure but also as a 10 so versatile and he's quick as a 10 option it intrigues me because he's different to maddison and can offer something different there i would get him and semenyo but that's just me we need both so kudus or eze and semenyo would go in the right way. We won't get both though but we should
 
Some enterprising nerd really needs to do the work to estimate wages + amortized transfer fees for each PL club.

It would be a total blind guess at the amortization schedules, but that is the only real way to get a thoroughgoing, apples-to-apples look at how much teams are spending on their squads.
 
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