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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Why is Tomiyasu still available? Wasn't he actually decent for Woolwich, for a while at least? And turns out he's only 26.

Eriksen is beyond washed, shouldn't even be entertained as a last resort. One of those rare situations where you'd genuinely be better off playing a random kid from academy in his place.

He has been playing a deep 8 role ever since he came back from Italy. He would have to do a lot less running up and down the pitch as a backup 10. Saying is we'd be better off playing a random academy player is just plain wrong.
 
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Why the addition of “edging” to the thread title? I know I’m an old bastard, but I have no idea what that means.
Here's some friendly advice. Maybe get the old incognito up before googling.
 
I’d disagree about Eriksen. Two footed class like that is permanent. You just have to put him in a position to succeed not having to run all game or play every game. I’d take him as an experienced midfield option especially with our younger industrious group. Offers something different you just have to protect him a bit like Pirlo was protected later in his career.

But I’m probably wrong
He can't run. You can't have a Riquelme type in modern football. It'd be an absolutely woeful signing, we'd look worse with him on the pitch than off. Hard pass.
 
Selling clubs will shut up shop soon because they don't have time to find replacements

Fully expecting some failed attempts on deadline day and "alas we tried"


Yep. Why are we only trying for Paz now? We purposely leave it so late, so the excuse turns from "it's difficult" to "the club won't sell because they won't have time to find a replacement". Music to Levy's ears, he can keep the money and we go into another season ridiculously understrength.

I'm sick of him.

He needs to deliver Savinho and a number 10, and a CB really or we should riot.

Still fucks me off we lost out on Eze, just think he could have been so important for us and we really needed him. Fuck sake.

Even more so with MGW. it's been such an annoying window it really has.

We've had no luck at all
 
I posted this sometime ago when we were not after Eze early on. How about Kangin Lee from PSG? He scored against us in the Supercup and a creative number 10. I think he is available for around €40M.
 
He has been playing a deep 8 role ever since he came back from Italy. He would have to do a lot less running up and down the pitch as a backup 10. Saying is we'd be better off playing a random academy player is just plain wrong.
He can barely move, regardless of the nature of the movement in question. You are not getting away with this at this level no matter where you play, not anymore at least. And a soon to be 34 yr old Eriksen is definitely not worth being compensated for by the rest of the team.

And it's not like Amorim's United were/are playing a highly intense brand of football where he was asked to run, tackle, press all the time. Yet they still let him go, despite being shorthanded in his position*. It's quite telling.

*Amorim's 3-4-2-1 features 2 AMs, so he could've easily used Eriksen there if he had thought that he was good enough. He pretty much never did, opting for bang average players like Zirkzee and Garnacho instead.
 
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