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3 hours ago, jack j said:

Sounds like a right waste of money to me

Maybe not if it saves £10+ million on entering a bidding war.

I personally think we are no longer shopping in the Asda bargain bins, but we are trying to buy players that we want, on our terms and what we see as our market value.

Keeping or walking away from the bidding wars, agent led transfers or clubs pushing prices up.

Basically a well run club we always hoped for

Big shout to the lad with the Joelinton flag at Silverstone this weekend! 

We are gradually building a stronger squad.. we are not in a position to have worldies on our bench just yet.

Plus if this lad had been playing abroad with his goals and assists record people would be all over this.

Please don't make him the next boo boy

Would the majority of us be excited if we were signing him today... probably yes.

Did he have a bad season due to fitness, ability or fitting in the team dynamic... Probably two out of three.

Did his fitness coincide with a team on a massive winning streak.. yes.

And I think the latter impacted him more than anything as he went from starter to a squad player,  a fans favourite to a boo boy.

Same happened to Ginola, Robert and Ben Arfa.. once the manager didn't trust them their faults appeared. (Maybe more to do with the difference in managers )

We don't need to worry about lack of links in the press.

Which half the time are purposely pushed by selling clubs, agents or click bait.

Seems we do our work behind closed doors on players that are on our list despite clubs not proactively selling.

We have probably had a number of knock backs but then deals like Bruno, Isak and Sandro come good.

Can we get this played pre game instead of the normal crap! 

14 minutes ago, toon25 said:

No way are Chelsea going to be doing any PL teams - let alone us - a favour by flogging a 65 million pound player for less than half the price they paid just under a year ago.

Why not we (allegedly) have got them out of hole with the Saudi transfers lol

2 hours ago, Yorkie said:

Nathan Collins has now had 3 summer transfers in a row totalling £64 million...

And I can honestly say I have no idea who the kid is?

Stoke

Burnley

Wolves

And now Brentford

Honestly today highlights how mad the game has gone.

Robson had his blue chip players,

Pardew his purples.

Think Botman, Isak and Tonali are the start of golden generation!  

16 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

 

51 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Do we think Dummett is going to be on a nominal sort of wage outside of the 25? He's still Championship level you'd think. The likes of Spearing and Huddlestone who are doing that role will be on a couple of grand a week and were either retired or playing League 1/2 football. 

 

If Dummett is happy for that then great, it'd say a lot about him if he does because he should have 3-4 years playing a decent level of football. 

 

 

 

Think he knows he would never pass a medical anywhere else... So a reduce wage here is better then pay as you play elsewhere?

Depends what you choose to believe..

Talk of southampton wanting to inflate the transfer fee to cover the 40% sell on clause is going to limit his options.

But the only ones who can afford it will no doubt have a player he sees as competition.

very unlikely both him or Southampton will get what they want

14 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Homegrown, nice to be around. I would guess. 

Can help the u23s?

Didn't Liverpool sign Joe Spearing for that kind of role ?

Second return to Liverpool

On 17 June 2022, Spearing was registered as a player for the Under-21s team as an over-aged player.

4 hours ago, Beth said:

Why are they playing Israel again in the semis? Should not be playing them again till the final.

Randomly it's being played across two countries and they decided the split would only meet in the final 

1 hour ago, Viana said:

I wonder if Southampton have a similar crap deal with Lavia whereby they need a fat fee to offset a sell on clause. 

 

 

The prices they are after it amazes me they are heading to the championship and not the champions league! 

21 minutes ago, nufc123 said:

Would love that. Bruno, Tonali and Thuram is some midfield, but cant see us using the rest of the budget for the same position as Tonali/Bruno.

If you sort you core out it lifts the team... 

Or maybe we actually have long term plans for other positions  next year when more funds become available.

Still think we are running ahead of our strategy and are not ready to buy the players we want.

Maybe overtime we can positively change their perspective through the club ? 

I mean a women's team is one small step in the right direction.

The fact Amanda has such a positive presence another?

I also wonder if the local journalists know they have been played and no longer push transfer links...

Don't think I've even seen any new names for two weeks?

48 pages on non transfer rumours

Can we please lock it down and start again... 

To be fair it will not be the first non England friendlies played in the UK.

Mostly played in London in smaller grounds (QPR springs to mind) but this does come with added grief in my eyes.

Plus will Mexico have the pull of a crowd as say a Brazil with a couple of our players playing.

Again it would be another top 6 team to spend a big chunk of their budget.

(although I thought Liverpool were the poorest club in the league according to their fans!)

Just makes it easier for us to complete our out of the blue deals with no competition!

Next week the market will pick up... 

Chelsea, Barca etc will have cleared their squads out

Rice, Mount will have made their moves

West Ham will have money to burn

Leeds, Leicester will begin their fire sales

Villa will continue to buy players (how do they get around FFP ?)

Kane will drag on all summer and then stay for one more year.

we will have Mctominay links on repeat but then buy a young worldie out of the blue.

I'm not coping lads

5 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

Chelsea have had so much inconsistency from their wide players and attacking midfielders for a while now. They have not been convincing creating chances going forward.

 

Havertz at Leverkusen played in a more technical team that created chances and he scored near 20 goals there when he was just 20 years old, playing in attacking mid.

 

Think he will play that sort of role again taking over from Xhaka, and in that Arsenal team that use the ball so much better and create a lot more, I think he will score goals and look far more useful.

I hear you but... Just don't like him so going with my take  lol

Three seasons, 19 league goals in 90 league games for Chelsea.

Its not like he has been playing in a poor team either? ( This season apart)

I'm  hoping the Club are waiting for the new reporting year and things start moving from next week.

More so for the forums sanity as I think we all need that hit of excitement a random out of the blue transfer brings.