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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Do find it quite funny how Elliott and McAtee are adjudged to be “young players with loads of potential” despite being OLDER than Savio.

Just the way English press and media are. Savinho tore up La Liga at age 19 in his first full season away from Brazil, that’s not normal whatsoever.
Savinho is well ahead of both Elliott and Mcatee in terms of development.

The other two are still regarded as prospects because they aren't ready to play for a top team. Maybe they are and they could be the next Palmer but could easily be the next smith rowe too!
 
"Title race" they finished 14 points behind top mate.

La Liga is a bit arse. I'm fully convinced Doku would hit double figures for goals and assists there - someone really fast and direct with good dribbling can tear defences apart, so much of the league is unathletic and susceptible to good 1on1 players. Rashford is going to do work too.

Pep definitely uses his wingers differently but he was never going to translate what he did at Girona to the premier league straight away.

Girona was actually in title race till Feb 2024. They lost 4-0 to RM and it widened the gap. They did finish close to 3rd by end.
Laliga may look easier...But the context you need to look is
i) Its not some Sevilla or Betis or Villareal who have those odd seasons... Girona had never done this before.
ii) It was first full pro season for Savinho at 19... that too for Girona

This context matters here. This is not some player who did it at RM or AM or Barca. He terrorized defenses playing for a mid or lower table.

Under Pep, it didnt suit him but he still ended up with 10 PL assist in 1700 minutes. Even by City standards , this is a very good return for a winger in PL playing in first season
 
He’s such a prick!
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Fuck Pep

The guys a fucking wanker who thinks his mind games actually work and fools the weak minded into thinking he's a nice guy.

Stupid twat was willing to spank £100mil on Grealish and then had no cash for Kane left.

I honestly think he thought they had the upper hand and would get Kane for about £60m.

One thing that I think we got absolutely right was not selling Kane to those bunch of see you next Tuesdays
 
Girona was actually in title race till Feb 2024. They lost 4-0 to RM and it widened the gap. They did finish close to 3rd by end.
Laliga may look easier...But the context you need to look is
i) Its not some Sevilla or Betis or Villareal who have those odd seasons... Girona had never done this before.
ii) It was first full pro season for Savinho at 19... that too for Girona

This context matters here. This is not some player who did it at RM or AM or Barca. He terrorized defenses playing for a mid or lower table.

Under Pep, it didnt suit him but he still ended up with 10 PL assist in 1700 minutes. Even by City standards , this is a very good return for a winger in PL playing in first season

He got 8. 6 expected.

We don't have Haaland.
 
Rodrygo is a much better and more well rounded footballer right now than Savio. This isn't a debate. City will be getting a significant upgrade and we will be getting a very talented dribbler who had one very fun season at Girona and then showed flashes at City.

It works for everyone .. he's better off the left which is where I assume we play him (we need a 10) and that's what we need because our left side is weak as piss.

Yeah I won’t fight you on that.

But Savinho is younger and he’s honestly not a million miles off Rodrygo already.
 
He got 8. 6 expected.

We don't have Haaland.


You go & look at his stats here : Savinho Football Stats and Visuals | DataMB

He rankes well above 95 percentile on most front.

Below is excerpt from PL site on a March article (Analysis: Who will triumph in the battle of the league's best wingers?)

"best crossing accuracy (23.8 per cent), produces the most successful open-play crosses (0.9 per 90), and creates the greatest number of chances in open play (2.1 per 90)."

It doesnt matter it was Haaland at the end of it - what matters is what he did before....and what he did before is far ahead of most PL wingers, certainly we didnt have anyone in squad close to this numbers
 
All well and good, but unless we sign a top centre forward who knows where the net is, the goals won't flow. I don't think Solanke, Tel, or Richarlson (always injured) are enough for us in terms of getting the goals that can turn games. None are prolific and you need a regular 20+ goals a season guy to get on the end of things.
 
I know its nice to blame it all on Levy and suits our narrative but I do think that forest owner is a dangerous piece of shit. He's a gangster hiding behind a football team.

I don't think we fucked up at all int that MGW deal. I don't think we did anything illegal. I just think that forest owner always gets what he wants and MGW was told he can't leave and he wasn't going to take on the mafia.
Pal, I like you and think you're a good contributor to this site, so I'm gonna say this nicely.

That take of yours on the MGW situation ain't your proudest moment on here. Gibbs-White signed a new contract cause he was scared of the Greek mafia? Come on now. Nobody turned up at his house threatening to chop him & his prego wife up...let's get real. Marinakis might be into some dodgy shit, but he's not friggin John Gotti.

We found out about his release clause somehow, Levy & Lange got all wet in the pants, bid the money, got all their club stooges to 'here we go' it on social media thinking it was done...but oh no, they didn't read the small prints and it actually mattered. So Marinakis had fuck all obligation to sell, and though MGW likely wanted to join us, when he got told it wouldn't happen, he & his agent took the opportunity to get more money out of Forest. And Marinakis got to piss all over Levy in the public space. It's so obvious and so much more plausible than the Mafia story. That video of MGW and Mister Marinakis was staged & weird as fuck...but so do our players when they're next to friggin Levy.

And if you think Levy hasn't got a few skeletons in his closet, you're deluded my friend.
 
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