We played the patient game last summer, thinking there were more players coming in after Dalot and Fred. I'm nervous what to expect.
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We all know that things escalate in the last few weeks, days even. Sometimes it just takes one transfer to spark a massive chain of transfers.
I'll wait till Jim White puts that yellow tie on before I start losing my shit.
Considering they have a supposed budget of 40m this summer, the timing of the cash flow is imperative.
Unless there is movement on a few deals this coming week, I would not be too confident of doing any more thereafter.
I wouldn’t be so pessimistic, as the window rolls on, opening gambit prices will come down. I think Bruno Fernandes is a good example of that. He’ll be leaving, but no way will it be for the 60-70m.
Plus, he seems like a leader. A tough guy who could bring grit to us.
Was done before but his dad dying held it up, understandably.
You cannot seriously think that? Surely.
I'm being slightly facetious. But Greenwood would have buried many of the chances given to Rom. With coaching and a year in the first team, I think he'll be a 20 goal a season player consistently.
I think with time he will be a cracking player, hope he stays away from Lingard though!
Thanks. Will be a problem for Arsenal if he does leave as his was one of the few settled positions in the team that they had.
The same person who thinks we should sell Shaw to buy Tierney. Now I know where to value your football opinions.
Virgil is a much, much better player than Harry though. Not comparable.
This link seems odd. As others have said LB isn’t in one of our priorities this summer with everything else we need to do.
He’s rumoured to be available around €30-40m which given we are now hearing Tierney could be available at £25m and our young, British and hungry transfer plan I don’t see why we’d go for Firpo over Tierney.
In all likelyhood we are being used to drive a higher price or flush out any serious interest.
Most of our deals are completed in July
in a one off situation, I'd take that for Lukaku but it would piss me off given the fees we're quoted for other players, some of whom are massively overpriced.
Guess that's what happens when you arse up a club for years #desperate
How is that a one off situation, though?
If they undersell Lukaku, then all other clubs think they have a right to offer lesser amounts for other players. It’s a never ending cycle.
The cycle needs to be stopped and I can appreciate the club digging in now and setting firm asking prices. Either pay what we want for the player, or go away. It’s the same we face when we want to buy.
We have exchanged James with Herrera so I would say we are currently weaker.
Read the reports. It actually took 6 weeks to agree a fee. Woodward started with a 10 million bid
you know we’re like the only team in the top 6 that have actually bought anyone yet? The flack Ed gets has no real bearing in reality.
£10m was a fair offer for a player coming off his 1st full season in the Championship. As others have said they agreed to sell to Leeds in January for £8m so even if his status went up over the 2nd half of the season we were offering a 25% premium over that for a player 6 months further into his contract.
Even with the Man Utd tax we should have only been paying £12m rising to £15m not a base of £15m almost double the January price.
Anyway, we did pay it and we got the player nice and early so he can join up July 1st.
Agree on that front just wanted to add that missing out on UCL regularly recently has compounded things even further
This is very true.
But on the other side, City and Liverpool are already very strong, and Tottenham just went a season without a buy and still comfortably got in the top 4, with a final.
So while you are correct, we have a lot more work to do.
This is a point that doesn't make any sense. We finished over 30 points behind the Liverpool and City and since then our squad has become even weaker. They only need maybe one quality addition so can afford to take their time. We should have aimed for at least 4 signings this summer. So far we've got one and none of our other targets look particularly close to signing.
Didn't know anyone was keeping track. I'm suggesting Tierney is a great player and we should buy him, even if it means selling Shaw who I also rate. And I don't think it's too controversial to say Ron isn't a good player. Let's give Mason some time before we start dismissing him yeah?
No, I do know we do, but tend to forget that the party on the otherside of the negotiating table knows this. We're also closer to signing another player in AWB. An area we've been moaning about improving all last season. Ed has many, many faults, but he's definitely getting more stuff done than any other club in the top 6 right now. No one else is dealing with the contract stand offs like with De Gea and the Lukaku and Pogba shenanigans either. Now you can potentially say this is chickens coming home to roost, with a series of prior decisions, but that's another argument.
That's just not rooted in reality though. We can't afford to spend money as laissez-faire as Real have done, as you'll no doubt cite them. Also as mentioned above, AWB will probably make the tour, IMHO. I just don't think we were ever going to have 4 signings done by June 23rd.
We're on a real crossroads right now.
In a month's time we might have signed no one else substantial, and lost Pogba and De Gea and look a right mess.
Or we might have made a couple of game changing signings, and convinced those two here is where it is at!
Yeah, it's proper crunch time for Ed. Would not want to have his job right now!
that's exactly what I meant, maybe not using the words that made it clear?
I meant if this was the only transaction we had left and all other deals (in and out) had been at fair prices, I'd take that figure for Lukaku.
Absolutely love this to be true but no way are City paying £80m for him and giving him 280k a week.
Take care brickhead.
Yeah there’s no reason for them to sign him at all. I know they said they want two top talents for each position but they already have so much depth there
Good.
Hope we actually sign a CB.
Maybe he’ll be a huge success and we’ll regret it.
Or maybe he’ll flop and Liverpool will win the league next season.
Which CB’s have we actually been linked to? Pretty funny how Ed is probably super happy to sign Harry yet we could have gotten him for cheaper
Unfortunately for us, City are not stupid enough to pay 80m for Maguire.
Him being success for them doesnt mean he would be the same for us, we are in such a shithole at the moment that you cant compare it.
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