Were down the pecking order I'm afraid to say. Chelsea and city negated that by overpaying the odds despite being small clubs but having very wealthy owners. Got slap on wrist for fines.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Unfortunately I know several gooners and they are still 100% seething at the Europa win!
You only had to look at the gooner fan meltdown online to see what they thought about it.
Playing as a 10 against lower tier oppo he’d be excellent. We can always just play 4-3-3 high press like this past weekend against tougher opposition.
Then we figure out Maddison fitness later this season and purchase a new long-term 10 next summer.
Agreed. So they're overspending and think a couple of cheap hijack transfers on us is a big thing. Meanwhile were champions of europe.
They're deadwood. We won't use them this season, so we might as well get rid. I don't even think we can register them in the Champions League.
Ok, but that still makes the fee cost £60m. Comparable to our other target fees
Champions of Europa*
And we won't be able to shift them because of their valuation/wages.
And neither El-Kabanoss or PEZ moves the needle for me, we don't need boys we need men.
I would take him. I would have taken Grealish. Not because he was good yesterday but because we are in desparate need for a bit of flair in midfield, the board are currently going nowhere in regards to addressing that, and there's only 1 week left of the window.
Come on man, it was obviously a really nice moment given our lack of trophies in the past 20 years but beyond that weekend I doubt any of the big clubs cared outside of Man Utd ofcourse. We want to be in a position where we never get to compete for the Europa League because we're in the premier competition above it.
Passing up on Grealish looks a bit silly now doesn't it?
I blame Vinai for this window. Things were bad before he got here, but this window? It is beyond bad. What changed?
He got here before the end of last season and had enough time to impact SOPs of the club. Well, he certainly is showing a promising start to his Spurs job.
He got here before the end of last season and had enough time to impact SOPs of the club. Well, he certainly is showing a promising start to his Spurs job.
Bissouma will come in handy to rotate with Palinha and Bentancur in league games. He's still comfortably better than Gray. Unless we sign a mobile 10 then I'd be very wary of selling Bissouma now
It’s a nice trophy that helps solidify your position as part of “the best of the rest”.
Ffs. I think for the money this would have made loads of sense - even if we get somebody else with more experience.
You are drifting from rational to irrational.
Nothing about our club would offer safety or confidence to a player like Wirtz at present. No chance.
I won't suggest for a moment that I know of the qualities of the players who do similar to what Maddison offers, but I struggle to think we could not secure the services of one such type.
If you look at Maddison's physical frailty, the club should have been looking hard at options from the get go and not faffed about.
We have acted in a very amateurish way during this window, to the extent that you might think we were newly promoted as opposed to one of such stature.
And none of this is simply about how much we spend but our preparedness.
Funny how everybody's price always manages to float to the figure we publicly demonstrated we were willing to spend for this role.
We have Bergvall and Gray to rotate. We have more than enough midfielders to keep Bissouma. I'll be grateful to him for that Europa League run, but it's obvious Frank doesn't fancy his behaviour in the slgihtest.
Totally agree. It doesnt matter what Ornstein or Romano say, who cares? It doesnt matter what happened with Gibbs White, Eze and Hincapie. What matters is the bumbling, ham fisted, amateurish transfer window where with a week to go of the window we've lost 46 g/a from last season from a team that finished 17th. Those 2 players have not been replaced and our very promising manager also wants a centre back. 3 months stumbling around like a piss head in a kebab shop, 7 days left. Its a shambles.
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