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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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They know they have 2 or 3 players who will be sold.
Backing the manager's 5 years, including the hope their investment pays off.
Note, they have not spent stupid money.
I dont think the savinho deal is off at all. Unless ive missed something?
+ Liverpool didn't spend last season AND won a bunch of money as EPL champs.
Only one of them is left sided
Hincapie specifically covers LB and LCB so frees up Spence to rotate with Porro if needed.
And with Dragusin injured, we have 3 CBs at the level to compete. It’s nowhere near good enough
Then that is weak.
If both he and Savinho are seen as players that are necessary, then you dip into the next window's budget and get them. You wanna avoid the embarrassment of being gazumped twice, then do it right back.
If we get the right players now, then we don't need a big budget in the next window, as we won't need to spend.
Hincapie gives us both versatility across the backline, and also gives us a further creative outlet, as he can pick a pass, better than Romero can IMO.
Savinho further strengthens our frontline and is another creative outlet from wide. Let's face it, Brentford's creativity was heavily wing involved, so a player like him would add to the sum of our parts.
Then to complete what would be a very strong window, get in Akliouche or Khannouss, I'd even throw Daamsgard's name into the ring.
With those 3, and what we already have available, I'd say we have strength in depth in virtually all positions, so the next window, or even 2, essentially become irrelevant where "need" is concerned, but offer the opportunity for just one upgrade, if the opportunity arises.
Some clubs have this weird ambition to put themselves in a position to win the league.
Other clubs who, have a similar income stream to them prefer to, low ball for targets along with an obsession in getting the wage bill the lowest in the league.
Geographical rivals but that's it, the ambition levels between them you need a compass to locate.
is once again anonymous. That's where I was at last week after the Eze fiasco. Then I watch an unbelievable performance against Man City where we went to the Etihad and comfortably beat them. That performance made me so proud and sucked me right back in! I want to see this team and manager backed! There is potential here to really build something and close the gap on the top sides!
My first reaction after beating City was obviously pure joy but the mad thing is it was quickly followed by anger. Anger at the fact that this squad and Frank and have been left so short. We are fine now with a mostly fit team and a week between games, but once the CL starts, the injuries stock up and we'll fall like dominos.
Everyone has said its off apart from Fabrizio who's now officially a troll.
That’s this whole place. It just turns into an argument if you don’t agree with someone. I blame Levy and Marinakis for that
Exactly. Splashing 60 mil for Hincape is weird to me.
We'd need at least one winger, one CM and one fullback before we look at another CB in my books.
Comment from August 9.
Who? Kiwior, Zinchenko and Jesus are the 3 most expendable assets in their squad rn and only Kiwior isn't being grossly overpaid his actual value in wages, so Zinchenko and Jesus are very unlikely to leave on anything other than loan to buy. They've largely jettisoned their decent saleable academy assets like Balogun, Smith-Rowe, Nketiah etc, I don't see where the £60m is coming from in their squad to fund a Hincapie and keep their net at a sensible level.
If they sign Hincapie with no significant outgoings it's over £300m net spend in one window and probably only 2 players bought actually start for them, that is stupid money.
I was wondering myself but I’ve put it down to a leader with ambition something we’ve lacked for years.
It’s never been on
It’s definitely a “nice to have” signing, but Spence can already rotate if necessary. Udogie is fit now, VDV can play there with Danso at centre back, Ben Davies would be fine there in a lot of games, Gray at a pinch…
If spending on Hincapie put a block on Savinio that is not a win for us. Same if it blocked a creative midfielder.
Yeah every journalist close to Man City said they've no intention in selling and that he's genuinely injured.
Its only Fabrizio who keeps bringing up Savinho to Tottenham and nobody can trust him anymore.
That deal has been off for weeks!
Ignoring the overwhelming urge to shit on our own ambitions and chairman, they still need to remain PSR compliant, that's what I'm actually questioning, it baffles me that even a club like Liverpool ran as a financially sound institution with huge worldwide marketability and more modern success than Woolwich has to load up it's outgoings column in order to finance the kind of gross spend Woolwich are now outdoing them on without any significant incoming cash generated, I understand they had a fairly lean year last year on net spend but so did Utd who have now abanoned a pursuit of Baleba which would only take their net spend to a similar level to Woolwich's if Hincapie goes there.