I vividly remember a lot of fans on here shooting down anyone who said it was a ridiculous fee.
Antony | Here we go! €100mill, contract until June 2027, option 'til 2028.
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Better buying Lukaku, Werner and Ziyech for £190m or dropping £85m on a CB who isn’t even capped internationally.
I get you!
Can see this happening. A lot of clubs don’t like keeping unhappy players and he’s obviously trying to force a move so don’t see them standing in his way but they’ll play hard ball and try and get as much as they can of us. We should make a take it or leave it offer. Remind them that if they don’t accept the next offer then they’ll have an unhappy player for the rest of the season.
Exactly, that will be impossible if we spend €100m & €50m for Antony + Gakpo.
Frenkie & Casemiro, that would be huge.
I don't hold anything against him for this because I vividly recall a certain scouse CB doing it
Would be totally on board with this
Yeah it would but won't become reality
Oooft imagine:
Casemiro
FdJ
Martinez
Malacia
Antony
Gakpo
Eriksen
That almost hit's the 10 that Rangnick said we needed hah, would be a mental summer.
Let's fecking go!
Still need a Goalie and right back or Glazer out!!
This transfer will happen.
If we get Antony and De Jong id rather get another RB instead of another winger/ST.
He just isn't good enough to justify such a fee. 100m should get you someone on par with Salah or Mahrez but this guy is closer to Jarrod Bowen than he is to those two.
Quite frankly would take any cheap left footed RW to make De Jong happen, however have now begrudgingly accepted he's staying now
I dunno about those "refuse to train" comments. I mean, Ajax are clearly happy to keep us interested for that price.
Please don't buy Gakpo and buy a striker instead.
Was my last message (5/5) for today, unfortunately. Have a nice day and see you guys tomorrow.
He’s class. Ignore the moaners. I get the price argument but people are missing the point that this now isn’t your normal transfer window. The glazers need this club to start winning games now to at least quieten the protests in the short term - I’m betting that they’re suddenly willing to let the club spend whatever it takes for that to happen. Even if they do want to sell - negotiating at a time when thousands of fans are protesting, talking about boycotting or stopping games and chanting for Ratcliffe isn’t the way to get the highest price. You want to sell from a position of strength - It could be the difference between selling at 5bn or 4bn. Games are afoot and ETH is about to benefit.
I agree, a striker is much more of an issue! Have a good day!
Well if they are really that willing to spend which I highly doubt given the source then let him sign De Jong AND this guy
Which is exactly what it says. We want Gakpo, Antony and de Jong. We’ll also add a RB once AWB leaves. We can’t sign De Jong until a) his deferred wages are agreed and b) he decides to leave. I’m not sure what you want the club to do.
My point is we should hold fire on Antony IF there is the tiniest possibility De Jong still leaves
sterling and jesus would not cost 50m for obvious reasons.
imagine comparing bissouma to someone like Antony.
But they just did?
Yeah not sure why but just had a feeling. Some reports early doors saying De Jong and CB were first targets and Antony would be late on. Seemed oddly specific and the first part was true.
If de Jong leaves we will sign him if he wants to join.
richarlison? raphina? You'd really expect these lot to turn into world class players?
Well then we've bid 67m for anthony if you're not going to include any of the addons for the players you just mentioned. Worse than the fecking journos
Sancho cost us 72m last season. Tchoumeni cost 80m for madrid. I think that should be the benchmark.
Money shouldn't be our concern this summer. Its getting the manager his players at whatever the cost. We can scrimp and save from a position of power later on.
This is not how the real world works
Both were in the final years of their contracts
I know. Not sure why people keep saying this when I never claimed otherwise. Point is there are quality players that don't cost 100m.
Oh summer child.
Not for us they wouldn’t. They’d never have sold to us.
Still need a goalie and right back and Glazer out!
Which is fair, but Raphinha and Richarlison are two more quality players moving for ~50m. The notion you have to pay 100m for unproven talent from Holland is ludicrous
Rinse and repeat?
Emm… Raphina does looks very good to me… in fact I do honestly think he better than Antony.richarlison? raphina? You'd really expect these lot to turn into world class players?
Well then we've bid 67m for anthony if you're not going to include any of the addons for the players you just mentioned. Worse than the fecking journos
Sancho cost us 72m last season. Tchoumeni cost 80m for madrid. I think that should be the benchmark.
Money shouldn't be our concern this summer. Its getting the manager his players at whatever the cost. We can scrimp and save from a position of power later on.
And he's shown it in the PL
Raphinha wanted to go to Barcelona and Leeds wouldn’t have sold to us either. Antony is also younger and it’s 50-50 whether he starts ahead of him for Brazil. Where he plays is irrelevant - he’s one of the best young left footed right wingers around and he knows ETH and his system. Richarlison I’d have liked - but he doesn’t play on the left. Yeah we’re being rinsed but Jim will wipe off any debt in a few months anyway
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