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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Hampshire Spur said:
Heard muani back on radar. With Tel and Odobert with us i reckon he might join us.
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coughymachine said:
Both this—and Barmby Barmby 's point—is true, but the narrative that Levy is always looking buy young and/or cheap in order to maximise their resale value isn't (which I know is a different point to the one you're making, but it is sort of related). If anything, we've held onto players well past their peak market value (Son is, perhaps, a good current example, Eriksen before that) because of what they could deliver for us on the pitch; and, where we've had to let our best players go, it's not always for the biggest fee we could have secured (e.g. refusing to allow Modric to go to Chelsea, and Kane to go to either City or United).

As much as Levy frustrates me in his general approach to conducting transfer business, I don't buy the criticism that he's only ever looking to buy for profit.
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agree. he makes safe investments and then we play out those investments rather than dumping them and trying new ones when they don't work out. we don't buy players for £50 million and dump them for £20 million two years later at a loss and start over with a different £50 million player until we find the right one but that's how you win.
 
Not totally against signing Palhinha once it's a loan with an option, he is at the age where the wheels can start to come off. However, this again reeks of Levy doing it in the cheap, instead of going out and trying to get an Ederson or similar.

Can only assume we struggle so much to shift players because we are so difficult to deal with, anyone like Levy who is known for moving the goalposts at the last minute is going to be last on most clubs lists to deal with.

Hope Lange etc are playing their cards close to their chest as some of the players we are being linked with are very uninspiring.
 
i'm actually ok with a straight loan for palhinha. if he has a good year we'd miss out on the value he'd reacquire with us but he's higher risk at his age and you have to take into consideration that a serious football club like bayern wants to dump him. even if he doesn't set the league on fire he'll influence grey and bergvall i think too
 
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