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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Loses possession 10 times per game?
Sofascore

2023/24
Possession lost (per game): 11.1

2024/25
Possession lost (per game): 8.6

11.1 + 8.6 = 19.7..............19.7 ÷ 2 = 9.85 so yeah basically an average of 10 pg across two seasons of PL football.

Reckon you’ve made that up
That's it, I go after one of your protégés, I'm making stuff up. You are so pathetic (sometimes). Shouldn't even need to give you them stats, it's obvious to anybody with half a functioning brain that Udogie is wasteful as fuck with the ball.
 
Just to clarify I’m not saying I think we’ll win the league. I’m saying pool had a poor window last year and had a great season. If we have a poor window and finish sixth we’ll have had a similarly good season. With current squad I’d expect us to finish top ten but you never know. Maybe we can get top six?
Funny thing is, Liverpool only got two points more last season than they had the season before, the Leicester season is the only one of the past fourteen PL seasons that point total would have won.

They didn't magically get better by standing pat in the transfer market, they just managed to stick in place where others declined.
 
Been watching El Kannouss.

Took him 10mins or so to be visible in the game. He’s had one decent half volley which went just wide of the post.

He seems to have a role where he’s allowed to wander a bit. Playing centrally but popping up on the wings especially the right, where a few times he’s tried whipping the ball in for strikers to get their head on.

Doesn’t look particularly quick as such, he’s a bit of a glider, as opposed to a pace merchant. Certainly more of a passer than someone who’s going to be taking people on in one on one’s based on this, although at least once he’s taken a touch beyond an outstretched foot to give himself a bit of space.

Seems to be decent in terms of his technique, though he’s just taken a foul throw.

Probably harsh when this is one of the first times I’ve really specifically paid attention to him, but certainly seems to be in the ‘last minute budget option’ section of players for us should we go for him.
 
Funny thing is, Liverpool only got two points more last season than they had the season before, the Leicester season is the only one of the past fourteen PL seasons that point total would have won.

They didn't magically get better by standing pat in the transfer market, they just managed to stick in place where others declined.
That’s not true. The general level of the league last year was unusually strong.

Teams like Nottingham Forest, Brighton, Villa, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Palace… all MUCH stronger than they were even 3 years ago.
 
He played 10 games for us in the PL last season, half of those more than 30 minutes. And played in 5 games in the EL, 3 lasting close to the whole match. Didn't mean much for some perhaps, but his appearances were the most amongst the academy players, youngest at his age, and always trying to make things happen on the pitch. He could have had more games if not for his strange virus keeping him out for long periods.

Yeah but the question was, when did he do well? He didn’t. He showed that he was no where near ready for premier league football. He was weak as piss. He needs to have a big season in Scotland this year. If he’s not cutting it up there it’s not looking good for him.

People on here thought we had a generational talent like Rooney on our books. Absolutely not.
 
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Thoughts :sonhmm:
 
Why are people so hell bent on blaming Lange? He has been given an impossible job by levy, find top players, who no one else wants and are willing to play for less wages they can get at almost any other club, at some clubs double/treble the amount. Eze come to us for 100k a week or go to scum for 200k? Unless he unearths lesser known gems like bergvail, he has little chance of getting established players.
My big complaint about him is his inability to sell players, but suspect that may be a levy legacy issue, say all clubs are fed up dealing with him and his reported constant moving of the goalposts that it is just easier to shop elsewhere and basically boycott us.
Under a week to another final and the start of the new season with gaps all over the place as per usual, negligence yet again, will never change under this lot.
 
145mil (Euros) spent and 6th in that table doesn't tell the whole story.

5mil wasted on Takai...FORTY on Tel.

Includes the 11mil for Vusko who was okayed 2 years ago...and the kid gonna go on another loan.

55mil on Kudus is only cause of that first season he had. Last year he looked a 20mil player. And only signed him cause Spam were in the shite.

Only the 20odd mil on Danso we can really say was a sound call.
 
So many team that are building decently. I don't think its a given at all that we suddenly jump above alot of them quickly.

Even with so called more financial backing with our big revenue seeing as we buy badly we could get stuck for a long time in midtable.
 
That’s not true. The general level of the league last year was unusually strong.

Teams like Nottingham Forest, Brighton, Villa, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Palace… all MUCH stronger than they were even 3 years ago.
Than three years ago sure, but Spurs, United, Woolwich and City all took big steps backward in terms of their point total with Villa, Newcastle and Chelsea collectively standing in place.

It's an extremely deep league now as of the competitive elevation of Villa and Newcastle and will be going forward, but nobody really hit the heights we've been used to seeing last year, Liverpool were just the least misfiring.

Standing pat with an excellent side proved to be wise (which has absolutely no relation whatsoever to Spurs situation and is absurd on its face to raise in that context, utterly laughable Levybot bullshit), but they didn't really improve.
 
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