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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Airfixx said:
It is.... But the vast majority of clubs still need to supplement with academy and players with 'potential'; especially if they also want to be able to cover fees of north of 50m in key areas too......

22 x 50m = £1.1bn
+ swap in few worldies at 100m = £1.3bn/£1.4bn

Sure; the game is rapidly entering that territory at the very top end; but it's not exactly the norm yet.

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FWIW:

Manchester City's squad cost is reported as approximately €1.1 billion (or £898.5 million), making it the costliest squad in the Premier League and potentially the world, primarily based on transfer fees for current players. This figure represents the total transfer fees paid to assemble the current group of players.

Key Details

[*]Total Squad Cost:
A recent estimate from March 2025 places the cost at around €1.1 billion, according to Planet Football.

[*]Costliest Squad:
This figure makes Manchester City's squad the most expensive in the Premier League and potentially in the history of football, based on transfer fees alone.

[*]Based on Transfer Fees:
The cost refers to the total amount of money the club invested in transfer fees to acquire its current players, including loan fees and potential add-ons.

[*]Comparison:
Other reports, like one from late 2023, also show Manchester City at the top, with a squad cost of £898.5 million, notes Sky Sports.
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Total squad cost that doesn’t take wages into account?
 
RealCoolYid said:
Don’t go there … just don’t
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Woolwich apparently have all the best payers, never make a mistake in the transfer window (but didn't they also bring in Jesus and Pepe) remember.

Whether players go their because of the money or it's their favoured childhood club doesn't mean they will win Championships and Trophies.

Not many in here recognize the difference between the way both clubs are run. If they did then a more measured view would be made. New owners won't guarantee that they would pump half a billion into the first team, did the new owners at Toon do that?

I will never understand why twice a season fans in here get bent out of shape, make incoherent arguments as to why the club don't flush three or four hundred million down the shitter in order to buy new shiny toys.

Spurs have made some wise buys this Summer and players that Frank wants, not through a rush of blood or just because that player has a Carlos-Kick-A Ball name.

TS said only this morning that Spurs have made no approach to Leverkusen so again the rabid among us can now go back into their cave until another fictitious name surfaces from the media linking us to them.

Frank was never going to compete his squad building in one window, Arteta has taken ten transfer windows, winning, what an FA Cup, spending over a billion pounds to do so?
 
Phomesy said:
When did I do that you simpering cuck?

Letting your gooner mates walk all over you because they've made some good signings when we've just won a fucking European Championship is the most simping cuck like inferiority complex ever. It's degrading. And pathetic.

When they win something then you can lie on your back and let them kick you. Until then - fucking man up and have some self-respect.

Blimey
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Ha! What is it they say, when someone resorts to personal insults you know they’ve lost the argument.

Also don’t know what “European Championship” we won.
Last I checked we won a Europa League.
 
WinterWarrior said:
City are happy to sell Savinho and this has been evident from the start of our pursuit. What they want is to take us to the cleaners and everything that's happened since we bid 50m is one big conditioning operation where we're being manipulated into eventually offering 70m. Levy will likely bite and the fans and the club will think it as a great bit of business whilst the City hierarchy will be laughing and congratulating themselves on a job well done.
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Or, they really like him, as evidenced by the minutes he got last season, and they're giving us a price that they'll accept. Every player has a price
 
Tottenham Massive said:
Anyone think it's possible Levy might be a secret gooner himself?
Would certainly be one explanation.
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I think none of these owners are fans of anything except the ego stroke of being a big time football club owner

Levy is almost certainly happy to just accept our place in the pecking order as long as the stadium is full. Winning is just something he talks about for appearances.
 
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