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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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I think Ange made it up in hindsight. It was never mentioned or implied from January until after the final. Totally made up bullshit to save face.
He rested players for crucial Europa cup matches. The tactics used away in the semi were never e mployed in PL matches but would have got points if used in certain matches. We were always well clear of the bottom 3.
 
Agree. The price is the price. Selling clubs won’t give you a discount in case you don’t sell MGW

They might charge you more if they know you have 60 big ones burning a whole
They might also charge you more knowing that you're about to have 60 big ones burning a hole though, if there were any legitimacy to the notion, then Forest would have to have ensured that the whole deal was kept quiet, and politely asked us to hold off on completing it.

Marinakis pleading "No, no Sheikh Mansour, I can assure you MGW is not being sold, we are definitely not about to have 60 big ones I promise my mate!" probably won't be convincing enough to secure a discount.
 
I think Ange made it up in hindsight. It was never mentioned or implied from January until after the final. Totally made up bullshit to save face.
You don't go from

"If you're going by social media then 99% of them will [want Spurs to lose] but please don't tell me that's your world. If it is you need counselling. I understand rivalry but I'll never understand anyone wanting their own team to lose."

(City game and Woolwich consequence 2024)

To

“No, I want it all. I want everything mate. It sets me up for people to maybe ridicule me because I said I want it all and of course there’s a chance of falling short, as is the case with anything, but I will take the biggest bite I can and see what comes out.”

(Nov 2024, when asked if the league cup took priority over top 4)

To suddenly claiming that the league games were somehow not taken seriously or thrown away.
I'm not even sure he said that. What was said was:

"If we weren't in Europe, potentially our league form wouldn't have suffered as much, because obviously I've made a hell of a lot of changes on a week-to-week basis. You don't really know."

So any defence of that was more nonsense made up by the greek/aussie brigade who were backing him into the realms of delusion.
 
As things stand. Right now. Considering we would have been relegated in any previous PL season with our pathetic, unprecedented points tally...

2/10 at best
I know you're joking, JT...but if not (entirely), appointing Thomas Frank plus signing Tel, Kudus & especially MGW (though they were all opportunistic buys), that alone is worthy of a good 6/10 in my books. See how them 3 deliver on the pitch obviously, but they look to me like positive players with some real dog in them...we been missing that for a while.

Get rid of the deadwood (Drag, Biss, Richy, Gil...), sign more quality at LCB and/or LB + DM/CM...I'd give it an 8 without blinking.

The above plus a better goalie than Kinsky/Austin and a proven CF? Fuck me I'd be in dreamland and give Levy & gang their props for finally acting big & going all the way.
 

greek GIF
 
You think they can get away with pretending MGW isn't leaving during the current media coverage, in order to hoodwink another club into selling them a MGW similar player for less money???

Let's hope for Forest's sake that nobody at Man City is following the football news too closely in the off-season then!
Seriously?

We had more coverage than this when Bale was going to RM. We all knew it, but we did our business before that money became available. Whether we got better value on those players we bought only the club will know, hence why it is just speculation for discussion.

It's a theory based on what has happened previously. Had you read the whole post, rather than looking to points score by ignoring the main thrust of it, maybe you'd have thought a little before responding.
 
You don't go from

"If you're going by social media then 99% of them will [want Spurs to lose] but please don't tell me that's your world. If it is you need counselling. I understand rivalry but I'll never understand anyone wanting their own team to lose."

(City game and Woolwich consequence 2024)

To

“No, I want it all. I want everything mate. It sets me up for people to maybe ridicule me because I said I want it all and of course there’s a chance of falling short, as is the case with anything, but I will take the biggest bite I can and see what comes out.”

(Nov 2024, when asked if the league cup took priority over top 4)

To suddenly claiming that the league games were somehow not taken seriously or thrown away.
I'm not even sure he said that. What was said was:

"If we weren't in Europe, potentially our league form wouldn't have suffered as much, because obviously I've made a hell of a lot of changes on a week-to-week basis. You don't really know."

So any defence of that was more nonsense made up by the greek/aussie brigade who were backing him into the realms of delusion.
You are right. Sorry, shouldn't have brought it up again to risk going back to these endless discussions when we're finally rid of the clown. My bad.
 
Seriously?

We had more coverage than this when Bale was going to RM. We all knew it, but we did our business before that money became available. Whether we got better value on those players we bought only the club will know, hence why it is just speculation for discussion.

It's a theory based on what has happened previously. Had you read the whole post, rather than looking to points score by ignoring the main thrust of it, maybe you'd have thought a little before responding.
Had I read the whole post? It's 4 short paragraphs mate, and there's no great depth to it beyond you clutching at straws.
 
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