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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Pal, save yourself the trouble, hit the magic button.
I'm all for differences of opinion, healthy debate etc etc, but how Fixy/Shady/Sud/LP & their sorry cohort of Levybots can still get traction, I'm stunned.
Football is cyclical... it wasn't that long ago we were finishing ahead of both Pool and the Nomads. From a position of strength we went out and bought Ndombele, Bergwijn, Sessegnon and Lo Celso. All failures which set us back years allowing the Nomads to move past us. You could easily see a scenario where Zubimendi, Madueke and Gyokeres all fail. It only takes one piss poor window to set you back years.
Why don't you just wait, dude.
I happen to think this is a lucky escape. He won't even make their bench.
I'm trying. Just find the whole situation very frustrating as we've no updates anywhere else. Linked with Mainoo and Palinha but we've now been told we need to sell Bissouma first and no update on that.
All our chips are currently on this MGW transfer going through and starting to feel like it could drag into late august without a proper update.
Think he lights the league up sadly
Don’t agree on all of those tbh
But our issue is paying high transfer fees for low to middle wage players.
If you want the best players, you generally need them young or pay them 200k pw +
Indeed thought he looked quite silky on the ball in the CL last season. i suppose if i'm gonna delude myself somewhat and say at this stage he isnt better than maddison in that position anyway
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They have benefited hugely from the PL allowing multi year amortisation (that loop hole is now closed)... but they were still able to sign ~20 odd players on 8 year deals with their transfer fee spread over 8 years. When those players are sold, and some already have then they benefit from putting the whole transfer in the current year. This is kicking the can down the road because you end up counting player costs who are not even at the club (think NFL salary cap problem... they call it dead money). Take Mudryk... he was signed in Jan-23 on an 8.5 year contract for £62m. His transfer fee is on their books at £7.3m every accounting year until 2031/32. Multiply that a few times and you can see their problem. They probably have 50-60m in transfer fees for players on their books every season. But the trick is to keep selling them even if you make a loss which they are likely to do on some of these players even in an inflated market. If they sell Mudryk this summer for 20m then that whole amount will count in their 2025/26 accounts. If every club made a pact not to buy from them they would need to come up with another loophole.
would be out biggest signing since klinsmann, we can dream haha.
Interesting, but flagging that the flaws highlighted in the thread below is very worrying re transition to PL:
View: https://x.com/alexanderbrkr/status/1924499912139342182?s=46
Yep, PSG have Kvarat and Barcola so it would make no sense for them to sign Rodrygo.
Rodrygo is never happening. We won't pay his wages and he wouldn't come here even if we did. PSG, Liverpool, City and Woolwich are all in for him and why the fuck would he choose us over any of them?
Lets not go down this rabbit hole. You are better than this. Don't do it to yourself!
Lets not go down this rabbit hole. You are better than this. Don't do it to yourself!