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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26

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If we were buying players to suit Frank’s system, I literally have no idea what that would be. Not joking.

For all his flaws, we knew what Ange was trying to do. Inverted fullbacks, a high line, press to win the ball high up the pitch to create opportunities, low driven crosses to be met at the back post. Granted, much of that fell away with injuries and other issues. But that was his theory of football.

After watching Frank for months, I have no idea what we are trying to do. Bypassing midfield, winning 2nd balls, break? Got nothing else.

So how do you buy to support that?

Goes back to needing a semi-consistent approach to our football that transfers can build to over successive windows. We are scattershot, thus ineffective.

Physically gifted players. Technical ability optional.
 
Has Semenyo even gone to City yet? Or Guehi?

January always plays out the same.

The selling side wants to get as many games out of the player they're selling before the last week, when they eventually sell.
Semenyo just needs to do a medical now, so if he plays today, it'll more than likely be his last game as he has a release clause.


I don't see Guehi going until the end of the window, if at all.
 
The amount of space on here that is wasted on talking about how aggregators and journalists use a thesaurus to write tweets is actually insane.

Like every single fucking window people obsess over this stuff as if it is coming from the club and means anything thing at all.

What is wrong with you all? lol
 
My point is that the club is still fucking about putting ludicrous bids in for players that they obviously want.

Dude, you literally have no idea of who this player is so you’ve no idea if £8m is ludicrous or not. At the end of the day, a player is worth what the buying club will pay for him and what the selling club will accept. It’s a negotiation. Presumably you own a house and didn’t offer what the seller wanted with your first bid?

We have never led in the transfer market, always looking for the cheap player
Everyone is looking for the best possible outcome for the cheapest price available. Anyone coming from outside the Prem is, to some degree, a risk given that it emphasizes a different skill set to every other league. A high price tag doesn’t necessarily mitigate that risk — see Soldado, N’Dombele etc. Top tier Prem players want to play for top tier clubs (where they will get paid accordingly and be offered the chances to win trophies accordingly). Like it or not, there are clubs above us in the pecking order. Some were above us when ENIC bought the club and others have overtaken us. The flipside is that we have also overtaken a number of clubs since being acquired.
 
The amount of space on here that is wasted on talking about how aggregators and journalists use a thesaurus to write tweets is actually insane.

Like every single fucking window people obsess over this stuff as if it is coming from the club and means anything thing at all.

What is wrong with you all? lol
You'll have to forgive them for trying to find joy somewhere. They're not getting it on the pitch, that's for sure.
 
The amount of space on here that is wasted on talking about how aggregators and journalists use a thesaurus to write tweets is actually insane.

Like every single fucking window people obsess over this stuff as if it is coming from the club and means anything thing at all.

What is wrong with you all? lol
It's ridiculous.

A journo who had never even heard of Souza last week now knows him so intimately he knows of his transfer wishes.

Without ever travelling to Brazil.

And people get wound up by it.

Hilarious.
 
So Souza, looks to have a bit of zip and skill…

beach swimming GIF
 
Nothing much is going to happen this window...I think we all know that..maybe a couple of cheap PL virgins but no one to make a real difference...
 
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