One caveat is that everyone kept saying squad is not a 17th placed squad. With a good coach we would be higher and players would improve. Regardless of how much we spend Frank does need to bring some of his so called coaching ability to the table. Obvs we need much better players but I reckon levy and the board have put their vision into Frank to be able to work with what we have and improve the squad.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Spot on.
It's rancid.
Know of a very talented young footballer who will steer well clear of this club for this precise reason.
This is the thing there are plenty of players out there. I’m sure he’d cost same as what we paid in total for Tel. Said it before we have a lazy scouting team and will end up with some over priced youngsters who not wanted by anyone bar us.
Could have had a pre season with the team. I remember previous last minute buys and fans would say just imagine them after full pre season with whoever was the manager at the time. Basically wasting a season.
Andy Scoulding arranges all the development loans so in the last month since MGW fell through, Lange has managed a grand total of Palhinha on loan... 
IfAirfixx is being attacked for rating the 2019 summer transfer window at the time, a lot of this forum need to put their hand up.
That window is actually one i commend Levy for. He took a gamble and it didn't pay off. I don't blame him for the poor due diligence of ndombele. That's the scouting teams remit.
There are plenty out there which we all seem to know about except the people at the club who are actually paid to identify these players.
Ndombele: was in the France team and deserved to be in it, he had a brilliant season at Lyon. He just retired as soon as someone offered him money. He clearly didn’t like football, there was talk of him at burger places all the time when he was playing in Turkey. Just a tremendous waste of talent.
Lo Celso: very well suited to Poch, far less suited to Jose, Nuno, Conte.
Sessengnon: good player who turned into a complete crock when we bought him.
It was a combination of sacking Poch and terrible luck that turned our on paper best window into a total disaster. The lesson from this shouldn’t be don’t buy elite players, it’s do better scouting and don’t buy if you are thinking of sacking the manager and going in a totally different direction.
I agree with the point about moving players on, but in the case of Davies, I think he's a good senior player to have around the club as a backup.
I think he's the type of guy to get on with everyone and a good pro to have around for the younger players in the squad etc.
I'm actually glad to get Palhinha in as a more experienced player too, even for just a loan etc.
When I say there's something actually wrong with Baldcunt, I mean it.
He is perfectly happy having us play a Super Cup in front of the whole world (CL winner/EL winner... all eyes on us) with Richie, Johnson and Tel at the sharp end.
He has no shame or conscience.
There is something wrong with him.
I just think he has completely lost touch of the realities of modern day football and its got to the stage where he's just delusional. In his mind its still 2005 and we're half decent in the market and this untapped group of talent we've spent big money on just need a new manager. Its why you should never stay in the same job or run a business for too long. Things move on, you generally dont.
View: https://youtu.be/Ri7w2PQzF9A?si=cR0eY-4oghD-rusn
I haven’t watched his vids in quite a while, but this was just a ‘short’ one!
Believes the MGW farce has knocked us off our game.
We should have had alternatives lined up to go, but I reckon we didn’t believing it was nailed on with the release clause.
Tip for watching AG vids - play on x2 speed.
*not being disparaging, he's a good guy and had chats with him on the other forum back in the day, but...
yeah, x2. lol
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He's cold-hearted towards football.
No love for it.
Just loves money and his ego.
I’d like to believe you are correctWe’ve got to hope that we’re working on transfers in the shadows.
Just not very good for the nerves when as yet we haven’t done enough business.
But I have a bad feeling about it
He's yesterday's man isn't he?
And when you're yesterdays were not all that great in the first place you end up where he is at the moment.
Increasingly desperate.
Having winged it so many times in the past Levy now believes he will succeed with every roll of the dice.
He's like a gambler at the roulette table.
His managerial appointments were 50-50 up until Jose.
Since Jose's appointment in 2019; Conte's top four finish, at the expense of Woolwich, has been the only genuine success.
Jose, Nuno, Conte and Ange all represent failure of one kind or another.
The player recruitment aspect of the club has also been mired in failure.
Levy's been getting it wrong ,most of the time, for about 7 years now.
It all goes back to sacking Paul Mitchell and the no transfers in for consecutive windows.
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It’s not Fixy’s job or any other poster on here to do the appropriate due dilligenceIf
We might think it was a good window , Levy is paid an absolute fortune to ensure it’s a good window .
The bellend has had nearly 50 windows to practice
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Yes, it's a con.
Ongoing.
And baldcunt has no qualms about lying and cheating the fans.
He sleeps like a baby.
Just cos people do it doesn't mean they should.
Sorry, but being able to regulate yourself about the team you support not buying enough players should be a minimal thing to achieve as a human.
We are all in a constant state of disregulation due to the 24 hour news cycle, social media, whatever.... its all designed to keep us angry and ready to fight ao we click more, act more etc. We all have a choice how we choose to interact with it.
Entertainment, for me is that. Entertainment. It's nothing like war for me.
War understandably makes people feel extreme discomfort and uncertainty, triggering our nervous system into a state of fight or flight and feeling very high levels of emotion that can be hard to keep under control
And sure, winning or losing football matches can trigger the same response.... but really, truly in the grand scheme of things.... it shouldn't.