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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Matt1882 said:
Probably about as hard as a rice pudding, but is an absolute icon for their legion of fans who think they're all signed up to the ICF.



I shit you not, he has a son and his son is called....Sonny. (Sunnie)
Pwopah fick caaaaant.
(Also likely a mega narcissist)
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That's some seriously sissy children names from a so called "hard man"

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FightingIllini said:
There's also the fact that he was coming back off a major injury in that moment to consider.

He could have been more aggressive about seeking a bigger club than Palace earlier in his career, I don't disagree with that.

And the general principle that not just the raw amount of the clause but the payment structure being relevant to the question is a good and important point.

I just tend to think Eze balanced the interests involved in a reasonable way, much better than Wilfried Zaha did signing five year deals with no release clause multiple times, for instance.

Mohammed Kudus is reported to have an 85M release clause. It can get worse.
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The big issue for anyone buying Eze now is paying £65m in one lump sum.

95 % of transfers are done by paying over the life of contract of player being bought.

So :

Option 1 - Buy 4 top players are bought for a total of £300m (ie £75m each) on 5 year contracts, annual payments to selling clubs are £60m a year for 5 years

Option 2 - Buy one Eze for £65m .....

Both options have same effect on your transfer budget, but you have either bought 4 players on 1 player for same money this year.
 
Allejo10 said:
The priority is to flog Brennan to the bench.
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As has been mentioned ad infinitum, Frank was after Johnson at Brentford. Though for what role is unclear.

They eventually bought Kevin Schade who has some similarities and some differences with Johnson.

Again, the whole argument and advertisement for Frank is that he'd build a team to get the best out of what a player like Johnson is good at, not bang his head against a wall trying to have him do what Bryan Mbeumo is good at.
 
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So what is happening re our option buy of the midfielder Cardoso. I thought there was a deadline on when we could activate this transfer rather than wait until the end of the window.
 
dudu said:
There are more outliers in your theory than not this season im afraid.
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Not my theory, it’s a well studied trend over multiple seasons. One season could easily be an outlier as well.

This isn’t the debate for you mate. Not being harsh with that because I get you feel defensive for your own opinion but wages correlating with league position isn’t really a theory, it’s a statistically significant trend
 
bus-conductor said:
100k pw for Eze is not great, and if he’d forced a move, or run the previous contract down there’s very chance he’d have been earning double that the last two years and playing for a club also challenging for trophies. By all means have a release clause, but not the one lump clause. It takes all control out of Eze’s hands.

Agree to disagree I guess.
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You can only imagine that his agent thought he’d be worth in excess of the clause

Divested his client of any agency. I’d be fucking livid

(Well I personally wouldn’t have agreed to it)
 
Richard Arlison said:
Not my theory, it’s a well studied trend over multiple seasons. One season could easily be an outlier as well.

This isn’t the debate for you mate. Not being harsh with that because I get you feel defensive for your own opinion but wages correlating with league position isn’t really a theory, it’s a statistically significant trend
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It is a trend yes but it is not an absolute by any means....

Other factors can and have played into who wins leagues and where teams finish.

That is just as true and there are examples every season to prove it
 
dudu said:
It is a trend yes but it is not an absolute by any means....

Other factors can and have played into who wins leagues and where teams finish.

That is just as true and there are examples every season to prove it
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Obviously there are other factors but if you know that one of those factors is evidenced and statistically significant, you are always swimming against the tide if you try to beat the trend as well as getting the other factors right.
 
Spursidol said:
The big issue for anyone buying Eze now is paying £65m in one lump sum.

95 % of transfers are done by paying over the life of contract of player being bought.

So :

Option 1 - Buy 4 top players are bought for a total of £300m (ie £75m each) on 5 year contracts, annual payments to selling clubs are £60m a year for 5 years

Option 2 - Buy one Eze for £65m .....

Both options have same effect on your transfer budget, but you have either bought 4 players on 1 player for same money this year.
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You don't need to pay in a lump sum, you either negotiate a higher fee with palace or finance the 65 m over 3 years and pay a lender for the privilege. ( Most fees are over 3 years last time i looked into it)
 
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