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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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He's exactly what we need.

The DM regression is a real thing though and also at Fulham I absolutely remember he would put in a lot of yellow card worthy 'challenges' and mysteriously escape a booking a lot. Had he received the deserved yellows he may have been reluctant to put himself about thus taking away his main strength.

He'll get all those yellows and more to make up for it if he comes here........
 
Ignoring that you still want to talk about net spend and not realize the relevance of a wage bill, you said their spending has been the same as ours but described it as austerity for several seasons.

This is 'so far' including the £200m or so this summer:

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You think that Liverpool winning the PL and playing in the CL knckouts last season is going to narrow considerably compared to our 17th place and Europa League money?

:frankthink:

This season gone, they had got £175m in PL prize money alone, plus over £80m from the CL, which is £110m more than us with £125m ish PL money plus £20m or so from the Europa
Every European game at our stadium is worth a shedload more in matchday income than one at Anfield, that's where the difference comes.

They'll still be ahead of us in the next figures, but it should narrow.
 
That's some mental gymnastics right there.

As much as I have neurodiversity, I get so confused about how some of the brains work on here.

The point is that we don't hear about moves until they happen. So, to try to 'unravel' what you think is such an impressive thought process:
  • Did we bid £60m for MGW?
  • Did we hear anything about it before it happened?
 
Every European game at our stadium is worth a shedload more in matchday income than one at Anfield, that's where the difference comes.

They'll still be ahead of us in the next figures, but it should narrow.

No, they make more than us

 
How could you just as easily assume it’s being worked on?

There’s nothing solid to suggest it was ever worked on in the first place?

May as well assume we are working on Rodrygo and Isak if you like, doesn’t mean you have anything solid to base those assumptions on
The deal was on, then it was put on hold as reported by Ornstein and Romano, who are as good as they get. Since then most reputable sources are reporting it is complicated but likely to happen.

But no one has reported it's off. The only ones reporting it's off are forum posters who are good at melting and reading tea leaves.
 
Honestly, what on earth is going on at Newcastle?

They are not up against PSR, they are in the Champions League, and they have the richest owners in world football.

And they're selling their best player? Is Saudi giving up on the Premier League? Are they going to buy us instead?

The player has requested the move; not the club.
 
Net spend on teenagers and prospects on low wages isn’t the same as net spend on Florian Wirtz and god knows who else they want to sign now.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was making.

Liverpool have been saving their pocket money and are spending it like a trolley dash.




And, at the end of it, they'll still have no replacement for VVD or Salah, I expect. Let's keep our powder dry to see how that experiment goes before praising it.
 
The deal was on, then it was put on hold as reported by Ornstein and Romano, who are as good as they get. Since then most reputable sources are reporting it is complicated but likely to happen.

But no one has reported it's off. The only ones reporting it's off are forum posters who are good at melting and reading tea leaves.

Ornstein and Romano either got it wrong or they were bullshitting like every other transfer journalist

Niether club nor the player or his agent have provided even half a quote to back up the claim
that this deal has ever been anything other than bullshit
 
No, they make more than us

That's not what the Deloitte figures say.

And I don't want to be a check your sources guy, but
According to data provided by Sports AI company Sponsorlytix,


We're losing the forest for the trees here though.

We can sign Alexander Isak. We could have signed Florian Wirtz. Maybe couldn't have done both, certainly can't sign 11 of those guys, but the club's strategy has conspicuously avoided going anywhere near the maximum of what is possible for a marquee individual acquisition with our financial capacity.
 
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was making.

Liverpool have been saving their pocket money and are spending it like a trolley dash.




And, at the end of it, they'll still have no replacement for VVD or Salah, I expect. Let's keep our powder dry to see how that experiment goes before praising it.

It’s exactly about the point you making because the total cost of a transfer isn’t just the transfer fee. Wages and agents fees also need to be accounted for. Liverpools total spending on their squad has been a lot more than ours for the last how many years
 
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