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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Everything okay at home madame?

BTW if you don't believe the MGW story then I'm struggling to work out why you think we pay low wages? Because according to you everything is a conspiracy, top tier journos speak shit and we can't take anything as gospel until we see solid evidence which makes your yearly tedious agenda about our wage budget incredibly pointless doesn't it?

Or doesn't that count?

Have never seen a single quote about wages.....

Can't believe he bangs on about them so much.
 
What an awful post.

Bullshit. You're comparing two completely different era's you clown. The market prices then are incomparable to the market prices today.

Stop running the club down and belittling our past magnificence.
.... Where 'To dare is to Do' actually meant something

We used to be trailblazers in the transfer market. In fact we smashed the all time British transfer record to sign Jimmy Greaves. In his absolute prime

Imagine the excitement that would have given our fans who were around at the time. Bazali Bazali ?

Imagine this cunt :levystare:smashing the British transfer record 😆 ..or beating off Alex Fergusons Man Utd to sign the mercurial talent that was Paul Gascoigne lol

The only records he smashes are boardroom salaries and chairman bonuses
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We just made Tel permanent
And he might be world class in a few years. He might not be.

Doesn't change the fact that Son was the last world class attacking player we had left and Levynomics complete failed to sign another one to play with him in the 10 years he has been at this club. Granted, he wasn't world class when he arrived either and Kane came out of the academy but .... in 10 years, Levy managed to sign 1 world class attacking player and he's now leaving the club.

but there are still members of this fan base who will defend the owners harder than they will ever defend the club and it's fans.
 
You said you didn't believe we put in a bid -

Very little gets reported as much as our bid for him without being true.

You post guff on here from the shittest sources constantly, but that is just not comparable in the slightest. Had we not triggered his release clause with a bid, there would have been literally nothing for Forest to complain about.

There has literally been nothing in terms of a Forest complaint.

They haven't complained to the PL, they haven't made any statements, nobody has said anything. It's a story entirely constructed out of "reportedly".
 
Considering we're the 8th richest club in the world, I want to bring in top quality players who are in or just approaching their prime. Not (exclusively) kids with potential, not 30 year old stopgap options on loan.

30 yo is very much prime age mate, open your eyes bit.
And what makes player that has performed extremely well in EPL "a stopgap"?

Is it your subjective randnomness or is it a fact that you can only evaluate players on their transfer fee size ?
 
Have never seen a single quote about wages.....

Can't believe he bangs on about them so much.

Yeah ok, I know you haven’t got a reasonable argument now.

Stick a fork in it, this one’s done

Just to help you out here. We did sell our senior players on higher wages and replace them with younger players or new players on lower wages.

We don’t need a quote to believe that because it actually happened.

In exactly the same way, a complaint from Forest to the PL hasn’t actually happened.
 
I respect your opinion and right to have it, but for me, with all the other clubs in the top end of the league buying decent players, we need to do better if the ambition is really there.

What is the ambition for 2025/26 ?
Do you realistically see a serious title challenge , even in case if we get this new money with a new coach at helm and coming on back of finishing 16th (some 46 pts behind Liverpool) ?

Even with oil money, it took City 3 seasons to win the PL title.

Give me Gibbs White, Paulhinha or Luiz and I will settle for this summer window. Dont care one bit if Liverpool are buying Isak & Ekiteke together.... Or Chelsea buying their 13th forward player...

If we get Gibbs White, Paulhinha or Luiz, then my ambition for club is compete across all competitions and get into CL qualification again and then push more for 2026/27 season
 
Keeping aside the Club trained math nonsense....

lets say Son, Bissouma, Solomon, Dragusin, Davies leave (sold or loaned)....We keep Romero.
and Buy/loan Paulhinha, Gibbs White with Kudus , Takai in...

I dont know about others - I would be 100% happy with this window. Its good enough for me for where we are as a club with first season under Frank
Bang average window for a 'big' club that finished 17th with 22 Ls
 
And he might be world class in a few years. He might not be.

Doesn't change the fact that Son was the last world class attacking player we had left and Levynomics complete failed to sign another one to play with him in the 10 years he has been at this club. Granted, he wasn't world class when he arrived either and Kane came out of the academy but .... in 10 years, Levy managed to sign 1 world class attacking player and he's now leaving the club.

but there are still members of this fan base who will defend the owners harder than they will ever defend the club and it's fans.

Bullshit......

That's a stupid comment whilst we literally have forum members who had an identity crisis when we won a trophy and refused to celebrate it with us.

Seems impossible for you and others to comprehend that batting back bullshit, and not being full of palpable hate for the way we operate isn't inherently a case of being fond of (nor "simps" for) the owners..... And it certainly doesn't fucking mean being more fond of them than the club itself.

....Bollocks to that.
 
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Bang average window for a 'big' club that finished 17th with 22 Ls

Bang average window for a club that is considered “Big 6”.

Football is a movable feast and the feast is currently moving.

Forget net spend, forget what we did previously, PSR or whatever, Liverpool, City, Chelsea and to some extent Woolwich have clearly all decided this summer they need to take it up a notch.

Right now we are standing still in our same old model and in this environment, standing still is going backwards.

Adapt or die.
 
Bang average window for a club that is considered “Big 6”.

Football is a movable feast and the feast is currently moving.

Forget net spend, forget what we did previously, PSR or whatever, Liverpool, City, Chelsea and to some extent Woolwich have clearly all decided this summer they need to take it up a notch.

Right now we are standing still in our same old model and in this environment, standing still is going backwards.

Adapt or die.

Its utterly stupid to compare Liverpool window to us.
Liverpool finished 46 points above. They have a settled squad , settled core of XI and manager with atleast 1 season of success.

Money isnt going to solve shit.... Ofcourse, more better players the good. No one is saying no to that. But , we have 2nd youngest squad in PL and most of them, were mismanaged and not coached for 2 years now. Most of them have higher ceiling but we dont know whats that.

We under Frank are in a different stage of squad building, while other top club are putting icing on cake. We dont know if our cake is still properly cooked.
 
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