The comparison just doesn’t work at all, is the thing.Which is why I said Salzburg
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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I'd assume that their focus is on buying a 20 y/o Hongkonger for £100 in the hope he'll generate £100m in shirt sales. Apparently the west wing of Levy"s summer residency hasn't been renovated in 2 years.
Doesn't that list of players just inspire you! To self harm that is!
The idea that RBL care whatsoever where he goes beyond how much they get paid for him or that Xavi gives a shit what they think about his development is brilliant tbh. Really inspired stuff.
I don't really subscribe to this argument. The issue stems from recruitment. We don't play our youth players because they're absolutely not good enough. Madueke is the only one you could say 'slipped through the net'. The rest are all playing in the lower divisions and in some rare cases for struggling premier league clubs.
You can't just play youth because they're there. They have to be good enough, and our academy is absolutely not good enough.
The point is that people lust after players that seem to do well in weaker leagues.
In this case, it is lusting after a player that just been "ok" in a weaker league. We can use Kane as a pretty useful yard stick in that regard. He is far more prolific in the Bundesliga. Considering Sesko isn't that prolific in the Bundesliga, I can't see him doing better in the PL. Thus, a 10 goal per season level player. For £70m.
It's in the Vlahovic zone of "players who don't deserve the hype". Expensive at £30m.
Oh yeah, there's some real class in there alright. We're ready to win the league (one).
Well right, THAT'S the question with Sesko.
You look at target man-type true 9's who have been successful in the PL and it's a list of guys who were pouring in bucketloads of goals in the "weaker" leagues they'd come from. Van Nistelrooy, Aubameyang, Haaland, Suarez, etc. (Isak is a counterexample I suppose, who is a player one might compare Sesko to)
Leipzig were short of goals last year, and their center forward is a 60M player?
My money would definitely be on Gyokeres being the superior import.
I don't necessarily subscribe to this argument tbh, I think it's the culture of the club that stymies a lot of our youth players' careers, trust and belief in a player goes a hell of a long way towards their early development, and bigger clubs in our league afford far better opportunities to their youth players than we do. Quansah is never a £35m player, if we signed Quansah for that much people on here would be fucking fuming, Harvey Elliott is probably a £20m player but would you be surprised if they get £40m+? Neither are likely good enough for Liverpool long term but they have been given ample opportunities to show their worth in the first team, something basically none of our youth players ever get.
Not one Leicester City fan was raving about how Kane would end up being a goalscoring sensation when he came back from them on loan, but a bit of faith and some meaningful minutes in strong lineups gave him the platform to become the player he did. In the position we're in I would like to see more meaningful minutes given to someone like Donley who actually had a very good loan and is 20, so ripe for some PL experience, but what's the likelihood he ends up in the championship? Could it be that he's not good enough? Possibly so, would we likely be getting £25-30m if we gave him say 50 apps in a Spurs shirt over 2-3 seasons instead of farming him out on loan to the championship until the last year of his deal and selling him to a championship club for a pittance? Almost certainly.
For a club that seems to be going all in on youth development over the near term we seem to really have a one-track approach to it, everything with a player hinges on whether they can start 50 games a season for Spurs or else do they need to be on loan at a level that basically does not benefit them whatsoever, wasting whatever early potential they may or may not have had? Making £60-100m a season on academy players that are not good enough would be a huge boon in the market, one afforded to clubs like Chavs and Liverpool that we seem intent on ignoring.
There’s a probably a reason we struggle to loan our youngsters. They’re not as good as we think they are
Because we don't have any real recruitment strategy in terms of big player signings. We chance our arm with low ball offers at this level and when they (obviously) fall through we end up with the dregs of the footballing world, who you have mentioned.
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By your definition the only elite striker in the league is Isak
Just keep thinking back to that line when Frank was announced: 'consistently and significantly outperforming expectations for an extended period of time.'
Wouldn't surprise me if we bought nobody else and just told him to get on with it.
Wouldn't surprise me if we bought nobody else and just told him to get on with it.
Saha, Haaland and yes quite rightly Isak and why is he not in contention? Because we are a club of voice but no stature.
