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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26

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Yes because Semenyo literally had a host of better options than us. 😆

Look West Ham picked up Kudus and Paquetá when they were on their knees. Same with Newcastle landing Bruno.

Forest with Murillo and Milenković. Palace with Muñoz and Lacroix. Even Wolves ffs, Cunha.

People massively overcomplicate this. It’s really not that deep. There’s a huge pool of quality players who want to play Premier League football — you just need competent recruitment which seemingly we don't have which is kinda my point.

Players will come to the Prem regardless because money talks and we so happen to be one of the richest clubs in the world who can pay so the scales should be tipped way in our favour.

So, are you happy with the recruitment since the summer? Kudus, Simons, Muani, Tel, Gallagher and Souza?

We tried to get MGW but Marinakis intervened.....we went ballistic deep for Eze but the gooner turned us down. Like I said Semenyo rejected us and rightly so......I think the club are prepared to go for quality players but it seems it's becoming harder and harder to sign them
 
So, are you happy with the recruitment since the summer? Kudus, Simons, Muani, Tel, Gallagher and Souza?

We tried to get MGW but Marinakis intervened.....we went ballistic deep for Eze but the gooner turned us down. Like I said Semenyo rejected us and rightly so......I think the club are prepared to go for quality players but it seems it's becoming harder and harder to sign them

That sounds like a whole load of 'Levymomics' to me
 


She can abandon the season one week prior to Arse winning it.

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I have it on good authority that under the new hierarchy she was told she would have to report into Lange and Paratici and apparently she told the club in no certain terms that wouldn’t be happening and who could blame her, a cry baby and a crook.
 
Yes we spent €40m on a golden retriever

It was an awful, desperate, panicked signing which made no sense for any aspect of squad building. I think it shows just how out of depth the board and sporting director actually is.
Mate, I get you have super high standards. But, this is a player in the England squad/team during the past 3-4years across a period we have dominated Europe. Who captained Chelsea at 22.

His characteristics might not be great, but he has plenty we sorely lack
 
Mate, I get you have super high standards. But, this is a player in the England squad/team during the past 3-4years across a period we have dominated Europe. Who captained Chelsea at 22.

His characteristics might not be great, but he has plenty we sorely lack
I don’t think he has better characteristics than Sarr or Bergvall in the exact same position. Hes just more physically advanced and older.
 
Fans (here and elsewhere) made more promises on behalf of the new board than the board themselves did.....

They jazzed themselves up over fragments of clickbait (as always) and were typically mocking/abusive when questioned. They have no right to start acting disappointed.


"Levy out = Warchest" was always a laughable notion.
Parading a notional victory.

ENIC selling was what most all expected (or thought) when saying Levy out, hence less frugality, as well you know.

Are you ENIC out? My concerns were always who enters the fray, so presently happy to watch this unfold, see if the £150m was hubris, who knows what the two Lewis airs truly envisage/want, it’s gonna play out though, in the next 12months, that much is certain.
 
As I said buy players for the club not the manager as we should be doing anyway.

Do you really think We signed Gallagher and the Brazilan boy to fulfill their lifelong dream of playing under Thomas Frank? Don't be so naive...
I have no idea why Gallagher was signed full stop. Another opportunistic grab without actually thinking about how it will impact the team. He doesn't add anything we're missing, just exacerbating the midfield that can't control a game.

We're in this mess because of the mish mash of system players that don't fit together. Adding to that is brain dead behavior. The new manager doesn't want more sub standard crap to have to get rid of when we already have a huge back log. If there are actually quality players, like a Wharton, Elliott, absolutely sign them up, but not clubs rejects because they're a bit cheaper than they ought to be.

The Souza signing, no problem with. A couple of those a year, fine.

If you believe that Lange has the vision and foresight to buy players that can work for the long term into a system, fair play, I sure don't. We're highly, highly unlikely to get relegated, we need less than 10 points realistically, and when Frank is sacked, things will look a lot better.

But buying more bodies for the sake of it will have us riddled with an army of players we can't offload.

This short-terminism is why we're so fucking shit.
 
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Vicario - sell ✅✅✅✅✅
Kinsky - loan✅️ (or sell)
Porro - sell✅✅✅✅✅
Spence - sell✅❌
Romero - keep❌❌❌❌❌
Van De Ven - keep✅
Danso - sell❌
Dragusin - sell✅
Vuskovic - keep✅
Udogie- keep❌❌❌❌❌
Souza - who knows🤣 (loan)
Gray - loan out✅
Palinha - don't buy❌️ (buy at reduced fee)
Bergvall - keep✅
Gallagher - keep✅
Bentancur - sell✅✅✅✅✅
Xavi - sell❌
Kulusevski - keep✅️ (only if can prove fitness)
Maddison - keep✅️ (ditto Kulu)
Odobert - loan❌️ (sell)
Tel - loan✅
Kudus - keep❌
Richarlison - sell✅✅✅✅✅
Solanke - sell✅✅✅✅✅
Kolo Muani - don't keep✅✅✅✅✅
+ Austin - keep
+ Ben - keep
+ Ash - keep...or sell with buy-back
+ Takai - loan/sell
+ Sarr - keep/loan
+ Devine - sell with buy-back (if PNE don't buy)
+ Yang - loan
+ Solomon - sell/end contract
+ Lankshear - loan
+ Dane - sell with buy-back
 
No problem with loans with no obligations. But adding more permanent players to this squad while we are in this mess is just insane.
Sadly, the truth. And aren’t UEFA cutting down the number of senior loans again?
As well as recruiting poor players, we’ve been terrible at keeping homegrown versus non-homegrown in balance and at selling players. An all ramp failure.
 
He doesn't add anything we're missing, just exacerbating the midfield that can't control a game.

For a manager like Poch he has proven he can play in a system that can control a game

We could sign the most progressive passer out there but our manager doesn't want to play a possession based game where we have control in midfield and play through it.

Ideally we get Poch in the summer and then you will see Gallagher be more effective
 
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