There isn’t. Wharton is going to be incredibly special.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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There isn’t. Wharton is going to be incredibly special.
Buy a young African DM with decent stats /data backing him then trust him enough to play and develop him .
Bigger clubs just aren't willing to play kids and have them learn the league.
I got drawn into the Baleba bubble earlier today. In his "highlights" he headed a ball clear at a corner.
Like Bissouma, never noticed him when he played against us.
Feel how you want about that but sometimes that is football. Politics within the club, having other players of the same background, shared values, happiness on and off the pitch.......this is how it is.
Would we do these things for someone of the staus of gil? No.
Clubs go a long way to keep there best players happy.
Did anyone outside of GB fucking news report the Wharton thing?
The key to Sarr is utilising his legs........ With that in mind; I think he's #8.... Just depends on a tactics and who he's played alongside as to whether he gets to do that with us.
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I've heard it all now...... Not even triggering the release clause is enough now.... Our fans complain that we don't pay even more.
Buying 19 year old Baleba from Lille for €27 mill -
Buying 21 year old Baleba from Brighton for €100 mill -
Which makes me wonder.... Does this not fall foul of the "Stop signing kids, you bald-cunt!" mantra?
Literally what we’ve been doing since Lange got here. But people complain every time we buy someone they’ve never heard of.
Who said that?
The likes of Eze, Olise & Wharton all went to CP despite big reputations because - rightfully for their development - they opted for game-time.
........Same reason Bowen went to WH.
TBR too. So the worst sources.
With all the shit going on at Palace and how Spurs normally operate there’s probably a 5% chance of it happening
Quite.
"Do what Brighton do" is all well and good... Except our fans (in some respects, understandably) don't want what that actually entails.
And every player we keep that Brighton would have sold becomes a position on the pitch that we are not cycling through new scouting possibilities.
Sometimes that means getting to retain a Moises Caicedo, but sometimes that also means retaining Yves Bissouma and therefore never buying Moises Caicedo.
It's just different ends of the spectrum, all different flavors of the same "model": to maximize every penny toward success on the pitch.
Honestly, I’d be happy with selling some deadwood and getting Kudus, MGW and some left-sided defensive cover.
I want to see the coaching team improve our young players and for us to play in a tactically smart way. We’ll see huge improvement just with that.
The young players in our squad with high ceilings are unbelievable.
20 or under: Moore, Vuskovic, Bergvall, Gray, Yang, Takai, Odobert, Tel
If half those players make significant growth this year then we’ll have four exceptional talents on our hands.
I think we forget that Udogie and Sarr are still only 22. Kinsky too.
Dragusin, Johnson, Spence, Kudus and Van de Ven are 23/24 and have a lot more growth in them.
So much talent that has a lot more growth in them with some proper coaching and sensible tactics.
Fucking exciting even without the transfer window.
Well that and finishing 8th looks a massive deal more flattering for Brighton that it does for us.
Not 100% sure they have anyone that amazing left there (possibly Mitoma but not as eye catching as he was a season or two back)
MGW & Kudus done this early buys us the luxury of 6 more weeks to iron out the rest of the ins and outs..... Including any tweaks Frank decides he wants to make to our defensive and MF personnel.
Come on Levy; bitch-slap the Greek Gangster and let us breathe a sigh of relief.
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Like who?
Ofcourse there are so many.... For 70m or 80m that Wharton would cost , you get quality DM & CM.
Zaire Emery, Palacios, Camavinga, Pablo Barrios (85m), Baleba.
Just taking Exequiel Palacios....
Role: Balanced CM / deep-lying playmaker .Excellent system midfielder, combines control and tempo like Wharton.
Strengths: Great positioning, plays in a system requiring constant ball rotation.
Key stats: 89% passing completion, 4.0 progressive passes per 90.
We could get better than him for that money. Stiller is better at that cost point imho.