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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26

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The January window brings out the absolute worst in the squealers though.
They ignore the facts that almost nobody of note gets transferred in January. If it wasn’t for City reaching Semenyo’s release clause and Guehi running out of contract then pretty much there would be nothing to talk about. Other teams transfers has progressed about five pages during this window and stars Oscar Bobb!
They ignore the fact that something like 16 EPL clubs have done fuck all.
They ignore the fact that we’ve been, for good and bad, one of if not the most active clubs in the January market over the last five years. Let’s demand we pay another £45m for a guy who cost £8m in summer and spend hundreds of pages describing him as an £8m player.
They ignore the net spend over the last five years (albeit mostly wasted). We were actually far better as a ‘cheap’ club than we are now.
They ignore the utter dearth of available talent in January because they made a deal on FM.
They want us to try for every player (including the most ludicrous suggestions) yet berate the club if they fail (although, of course, for the most part we don’t know if the club did actually try or not).
They refuse to accept that players have agency. Evidently, London is a significant pull to get players here but not a pull in terms of keeping players that we no longer want.
They don’t want to buy players from lower- level clubs and don’t want top-level teams’s cast-offs…. Leaving who exactly?
‘Just open your wallets, you cunts

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That’s a total strawman argument because I haven’t said that we shouldn’t be signing anyone or looking to sign anyone. I’m not saying we should be content. I want us to sign quality players and improve our squad if we can. I was happy with Gallagher as an improvement to our midfield because I believe he upgrades an injury-depleted squad.

If it were as easy as’ just open your wallet, cunts’ then everyone would be doing it. There’s a reason that they haven’t but putting your fingers in your ear, closing your eyes, ignoring logic and posting bollocks is a January trait.

Same people that moan, you ask them to throw a couple of names forward who we could realistically sign it's either radio silence or 'Im not a scout' :D
 
Same people that moan, you ask them to throw a couple of names forward who we could realistically sign it's either radio silence or 'Im not a scout' :D

"It's unacceptable that we have so many players out and we're totally inactive in the market"
[links to available players]
"I'm done with this club if we sign them"
"We should be aiming much higher - this club has no ambition"
[Frank says we tried for Semenyo]
"This club is an embarrassment - 'we tried'. What a joke"
"Frank should just stop talking - he's making us look stupid"
[Links to Diaby or Bobb]
"There's no point signing players we're going to be stuck with because they're not good enough when players are back from injury"
"We should be steering clear of paying £40m for Mateta"

etc
 
Scarlett to Hibs. Great stuff
He should be starting for us FFS.
How is he even good enough to start for us though?

He's probably got fed up of watching us playing lame donkeys ahead of him that can't score and given up hope.

It's not really about whether he's good enough to start, but whether or not we're willing to invest in him and give him chances; if you can't get them when the guy in front of you looks like he won a competition to be a football player, then what hope is there
 
I just don't understand our football strategy. What was the plan for this window? We sold Johnson early for a nice fee, a good bit of business. Then Kudus and Richarlison got crocked. We're at the end of the window now and the only move we've made for an attacker was an absurd enquiry for Semenyo. What are we doing?
 
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