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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Tottenham Massive said:
I have to be honest the appointment itself kind of set the tone of the direction we're heading.

If as a club you intend on spending serious money to attract top players you don't appoint Thomas Frank. You just don't.

If you have serious designs on competing for the Premier League and Champions League you don't employ Thomas Frank.

He's here to operate on a shoestring relative to our peers and get the optimum out of what he has at his disposal

This is the ENIC model
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Exactly.

If you're genuinely embarrassed at finishing 17th and you got genuine ambitions to put it right and challenge for the PL & CL, you get down on your knees in front of a Zidane, Gasperini, Simeone, Inzaghi, Nagelsmann, Ancelotti, even Unai.

Then you go sign them Oblak/Pickford/Martinez/Ter Stegen...Guehi/Bastoni/Kounde/Tapsoba...Grimaldo/Kerkez/Robinson/Hato...Valverde/Barella/Kovacic/Ederson/Gallagher...Eze/Rogers/Sancet/Simons...Nico Williams/Barcola/Gordon/Oyarzabal/Diaz/Raphinha/Bowen/Mbeumo/Rodrygo...Isak/Osimhen/Sesko/Gyokeres/Watkins/Alvarez/Harry friggin Kane

But nope. We appoint Thomas Frank and sign Takai, Danso, Kudus and Tel...plus extend Ben Davies.
 

FightingIllini...​

You've done me up like a kipper, fair play. I'll take my punishment like a man at the start of the season.

Incidentally, I've got previous on this score, 13 years ago I unwisely wagered 50 quid that Rafa Van de Vaart would stay with us. That one hurt more, not just financially but because the benefactor was a thoroughly disgusting person, obviously not the case here.

At my age I should know not to enter into wagers.

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Richards carrying on with his “it was all make believe” vibe this morning then 😂 i’d sort of hoped he was off his tits last night and it would all stop this morning.
 
Sir Ledders said:
Why are you being like this. Its boring mate.
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I’ll leave it now but we’ve all seen this movie before.

Dybala really fell through on image rights and we really did agree a 90m bid on Lautaro Martinez before mean old Chelsea came in for Lukaku to scupper us.

To me it’s the same playbook and people just keep getting dragged in. Myself included until the realization hit me and the patterns became clear through the smoke.

When they started putting stuff out through Ali Gold and all the other “reliable “ reporters that we were still confident, that was the giveaway
 
FightingIllini said:
The question of what exactly Morgan Gibbs-White himself wanted at any point of this is baffling to me.

Maybe this was hardball for better terms from Forest? I guess?
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He’s clearly had the frighteners put on him either legally or implied otherwise…..

If his partner has a difficult pregnancy he’s probably thought it’s not worth the aggro if the BFG has really kicked off.

I don’t believe an improved contract was his plan from the start.
 
Sidford said:
It's not that they refused to contemplate selling to us. There was a release clause which we matched but Notts Forrestts owner did everything he could to protect his club to stop it happening and bullied our owners.
One owner consistently shows ambition and tries to improve their club while ours focuses solely on the entertainment business.
People can dress it up anyway like they but it's an absolute shit show, we couldn't even sign a player when there was a release clause. Add it to the never ending shit shows we have had to put it with in last 25 years
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Gotta be the first time in history that a club met the release clause and the player didn't join...and it's got nothing to do with not agreeing personal terms.

But of course if Levy bid the exact amount of the release clause as he was too cheap and stupid to put an extra mil on the table, then he deserves it. He gives zero shit anyway...that's 60mil he didn't spend and the stain will be on the club.
 
We got a lucky break
MGW - is never a £60m player. He would have been another limited over priced English PL signing.
My predictions - Forest will not get £30m for him when and if they go down.
 
Slav said:
Except we haven't fucked this one up - we got done over by a fat Greek crime boss desperate to maintain his fragile ego. Gibbs-White was never kicking up a stink to move to Tottenham either.

Not that I disagree with your general point about Levy's shitshow. Anyone's guess what half-price prospect we now end up with.
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Jaynola said:
Gotta be the first time in history that a club met the release clause and the player didn't join...and it's got nothing to do with not agreeing personal terms.

But of course if Levy bid the exact amount of the release clause as he was too cheap and stupid to put an extra mil on the table, then he deserves it. He gives zero shit anyway...that's 60mil he didn't spend and the stain will be on the club.
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Nah it’s happened before. Suarez to Woolwich. Olise to Chelsea.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Indeed

There was no MGW saga.

We’ve denied our interest in players and managers before but we were happy to let this bullshit rumble on because it gives the impression of ambition.



It's perfect for Levy now. He can hide behind big mean Marinakis wouldn't let our only option leave.

These soap operas replace the actual ambition you get if you support Liverpool, Chelsea or City
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You’re so full of shit!

I’m flip flopping between sticking you on ignore or curious to see what other tinfoil hat nonsense you come out with!

:dembelelol:
 
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