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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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The melty melodrama these fuckers consistently wallow in is deeply unhealthy..... And of course, tedious as fuck.
In the same way that signing Eze is great for our brand because we are signing a top level player in their prime, having loads of fanciful links out there to appease fan unrest feels exactly like something this club has done before
The agents are giving Villarreal €30m to spend on Renato Veiga?
but inevitable not getting those players in only leads to even more anger and frustration. I don't buy it mate. it'd be like buying the weapon for your assassin.
Best transfer we could make this summer is to hire whoever sells players for Chelsea.
It genuinely, physically pains me to consider the possibility of Todd Boehly having done something smart, but I have to admit, the nature of the transfer market tends to structurally make it so that the only players buyers want are ALSO players you yourself want, there's never any selling value to accrue to player assets you own but have no desire to use, with the market tending to sniff that out except in rare unique cases.
Boehly just seems to have found a way to totally break down that signal by so comically overloading the squad with sheer numbers. The fact that these are players Chelsea doesn't want or need does not negatively impact their value at all.
And it also seems to make all of these guys willing to sign onto whatever deal Chelsea makes for them.
(The part that still baffles me is why do players keep signing up to join this farce? The wages aren't that great, that's part of the whole scam!)
Pellegrini ready to consider Premier League offers
Roma and Lorenzo Pellegrini are reportedly looking to part ways....
romapress.net
Roma and Lorenzo Pellegrini are reportedly looking to part ways.
The Giallorossi’s number 7’s contract expires on June 30th 2026, and the club has not made any offer to renew it.
There are several reasons for this decision: the unfulfilled connection with the new coach, the decision to take away from him the captain’s armband, and his €6 million net salary, reports Corriere dello Sport.
Since the beginning of August, West Ham have been interested, and they’re ready to explore the matter further.
Also in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur have inquired about him.
Lorenzo Pellegrini - Wikipedia
No but they help grease the wheels.
Looks like a Marvel character.
You can't compare us to the likes of City, Chelsea, PSG, they have state/oil money to throw around like confetti.
Yeah..its bent as fuck. Makes zero 'honest' sense.
Sure but there’s only so much grease they can add.
Are you trying to insinuate that I don’t appreciate the gravity of those situations because of fucking semantics on a football forum?
Go fuck yourself mate.
To be fair, I don't disagree with that. Very good player, but anything over 50m and he's got to be consistently great (yes, I thought Solanke was massively over-priced, but we were taken advantage of, as we are with Eze).
55m with add-ons, fine, we're over a barrel.
Don’t make any market sense to me. Everyone knows they have loads of players they can’t shift. There’s no honest reason for these clubs to be obliging them and not just waiting for the desperation to kick in and the prices to drop
Great point, Tottenham are the only club that gets linked with players only to not end up buying them.
Bit of a prisoner's dilemma though, right?
And also, they will sell basically anybody, and will keep basically anybody. The deals drive the squad, not the other way around.
The calculation is that by spending up to the PSR limit and having a manager who is happy to live under those terms, they will make up the advantage in the aggregate.
We'll see. The kind of dual squad system they had in the ECL is going to be more difficult to pull off in the CL.