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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Richard Arlison said:
Liverpool use a data led approach so they can narrow down their list and have a higher degree of conviction for players they sign. Even if occasionally they have to spend big.

Levy wants data to find a bigger list of players in the hope that one or two of them prevent him from having to spend big.

That’s the difference and it’s why he has a losing mentality as a football chairman, even if he’s winning as a businessman.
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I'm told by people who understand their finance a lot more than I do, that though we generate a high level of revenue, we aren't cash rich. Far from it.

The stadium was a major overspend...some say by 200-300 mil easy. We owe a lot of money (min 250mil) in previous transfers cause that's the way we do things...nobody owes as much apparently. Sacking managers and putting people on gardening leave ain't helping either. Also, we missed out on a fair bit by finishing 17th in the PL and exiting the FA Cup early. And obviously we all know ENIC put chump change into the club (like 5 mil per year). The club ain't a profitable operation and cash flow is a serious issue.

Like I said, I'm no finance wizard myself, but when I hear that Levy is an elite businessman, it makes me laugh. First cause he doesn't understand that if we were a successful football club, the whole business side of things would do a lot better.
 
Romano says we are still "assessing our options", which on one hand is fair enough because Frank needs to give signings his blessing. On the other hand, WTF has Lange been doing these last few months? Surely we have had plenty of time to figure out our top targets .
 
Richard Arlison said:

View: https://x.com/Lilywhite_Rose/status/1939241027883180481

would be a profit I think
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Not the right play, though.

Agree a loan with a team in the bottom half of the PL table eg Scotty's Burnley. The kid goes there, plays regularly, if he impresses we either sell him for 20 mil next summer or he becomes part of our first team squad.

If we can't get him a PL team, it's gotta be serious contenders for the Champo title. No more Plymouth or Stoke. But still a loan...with an option/obligation to buy for circa 20 mil if promoted.
 
KingstonSpur said:
The closest we had to this recently was Ndombele , which has totally put us off doing it again .

It's why I am wetting my bed so much about Levy recently, he doesn't show the ambition that Woolwich and Liverpool are showing yet tries to hoodwink us with bullshit about winning the PL and CL. We have similar resources to Woolwich but are shopping in Primark .
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Porro too. 45m for a FB is no joke.
 
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CJJ said:
in a slightly different timeline Richarlison goes to a top 4 rival and doesn't get injured, and he's one of the "spurs never pay top money" examples.
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And if I was younger, handsome and wealthy, I'd defo be banging Margot Robbie & Jessica Chastain simultaneously whilst Michelle Keegan holds the camera.

CJJ said:
I don't know why we ignore Romero and Van der Ven when making comparisons either.
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Maybe, just maybe cause they miss 50% of the season? Maybe cause Messi is talking shite about Romero? Maybe cause neither are good in the air?
 
Hampshire Spur said:
DIbling and hackney. Two championship players. Meanwhile chelsea sign gittens, a champions league player. Go figure.
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In our defence somewhat regarding this. If they get away with it or not I think most will agree that Chelsea's hooky account bending is a disease in our game.

They are corrupt, what they do is appalling so I can't really, and fairly compare our goings on with a team that football allows to get away with what they do.

I want us competitive, I don't want us being competitive by stooping to their levels so we simply can't us them as a barometer for how we should behave in the transfer market.
 
Jaynola said:
I'm told by people who understand their finance a lot more than I do, that though we generate a high level of revenue, we aren't cash rich. Far from it.

The stadium was a major overspend...some say by 200-300 mil easy. We owe a lot of money (min 250mil) in previous transfers cause that's the way we do things...nobody owes as much apparently. Sacking managers and putting people on gardening leave ain't helping either. Also, we missed out on a fair bit by finishing 17th in the PL and exiting the FA Cup early. And obviously we all know ENIC put chump change into the club (like 5 mil per year). The club ain't a profitable operation and cash flow is a serious issue.

Like I said, I'm no finance wizard myself, but when I hear that Levy is an elite businessman, it makes me laugh. First cause he doesn't understand that if we were a successful football club, the whole business side of things would do a lot better.
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The elite businessman who overspent on building the world’s best stadium that he couldn’t land a naming rights deal on. At least that is my take on it

Who thought FFP was going to work in his favour and has been proven spectacularly wrong . Instead the powers that be invite City And Chelsea to the CWC to cleanse their finances it seems to me .

He is not the smartest man in the room , turns out when it matters he ain’t even in the room
 
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Shadydan said:

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I'd do this deal 100%. Got all the right tools talent wise and for me, this is the pool level we should be looking extensively at.

If people like it or not we won't appeal to the Wirtz, Zubimendi's, Huijsens of this world. We should however be the perfect sweet spot for players like Elliott, who simply need minutes at this stage and age in their careers.

I'd make this move absolutely no questions.
 
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