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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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I don't think I can recall a time since the George Graham post-Ginola days that we had such an uninspiring selection of attacking players at the club.
Even more insane when you consider the amount of money spent in assembling this bunch.
Even more insane when you consider the amount of money spent in assembling this bunch.
What makes you think Madders will ever be back to the same player?
He’s just done his ACL in the same knee and he’s 29. His body wasn’t allowing him to stay fit before that anyway.
I love the player and he’s a solid guy, good leader for the young players. It’s fucking horrible for him but it’s the reality that we probably can’t rely on him again.
Maddison is physically not able to cope anymore so he cannot be relied upon
Kulu is not really a 10......I like him but I don't know where he fits in anymore
Frank needs a 10 playmaker to suit his tactics and physical demands
Unless we luck out with one of our young forwards pushing on ahead of schedule, it’s going to be rough going forward and tough to watch a lot of the time.
Still, we'll make do and mend until he can be patched up sufficiently to be wheeled out for 60 minutes once a week.
Got to keep that powder dry.
This is why we went for Thomas Frank........... used to working with scraps ( no offence to any of the players) its just normally CL teams are given the best players , we are just expecting TF to work miracles.
We will concede less goals but we will also score less.
Agree. People say you cant replace Kane and Son and fair enough but we havent even really tried. Forget Kane and Son or even Berbatov and Sheringham, someone like Robbie Keane would be the best forward player in this squad by a country mile.
Quite incredible how our transfer business says we've settled for mediocrity while our chairman spouts nonsense about winning the league.
Nope, Winks!
May as well get Nordi Mukiele from PSG. The boy can play CB, RB or LB. He's a big strong lad, not the fastest but still decent pace.
Was highly rated when he was at Leipzig and Bayern wanted to get him before PSG swooped in. Never really got a chance there as their starting FB are called Hakimi and Nuno Mendes, plus got Marqui & Pacho at CB.
Injury record a wee worry...had two hammy pops. But he'd be coming here as a backup.
Still only 27yo, cheap fee, reasonable wages.
I really don't think ive ever known there to be such a massive gap between the ambition and expectations of a clubs fans and a football club and its owners?
Its just incompatible. They actually think there doing a great job too.
If frank brings this squad to around a 6th to 8th position he will feel hes done well and rightly so.
But thats nowhere near enough for most fans and the atmosphere wont be good.
As much as I slate the ownership I always cheer the players on once the windows closed. But its not enough
Its just incompatible. They actually think there doing a great job too.
If frank brings this squad to around a 6th to 8th position he will feel hes done well and rightly so.
But thats nowhere near enough for most fans and the atmosphere wont be good.
As much as I slate the ownership I always cheer the players on once the windows closed. But its not enough
I don't think it was a "higher profile signing" - that's just juxtaposition based on both the way the world was then and the position the team was. Ndombele was a club record signing and was a huge deal at the time. Bale coming back on loan was just the same effective term as Klinsmann and was a massive deal in the media. Van der Vaart was a huge, huge deal. Soldado at the time was seen as a massive deal.
In this case, your own bias is glorifying the 90s to be something it very much was not.
He’s a bit of curate’s egg. Not really a pure 10, not really a striker. Kind of like a more creative Havertz.
