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Summer 2024 Transfer Thread


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3 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

bet365 saying they had a flurry of bets on branthwaite over the weekend - some friday night, some saturday night and a few on sunday, which is why his odds reduced. before that he'd been 10/1 to join us and 1/6 to stay. sounds a bit like someone pissed told their mate it was on and that was it!  

 

I did get very pissed on Friday night.

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If we could use selling Joe Gomez to Crystal Palace to get us Wharton and Tony G then that would be great. As it is we’ve taken a week to haggle over £4m for a back up keeper who won’t even play for us for a year so I’m yet to be convinced Tricky Dicky Hughes has it in him and fully expect a deadline day scramble to sign Rabiot.

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Mamardashvili, Branthwaite and Gordon would be three excellent long term signings. They'd cost around £175m in transfer fees and around £350k a week in wages. 

 

The sales of Carvalho, Clark, Gomez and the wages saved from the departures of Thiago, Matip and Adrian should make this very easily doable for a club of our size. 

 

My biggest gripe with FSG is that every summer we are about two to three players away from being in a brilliant situation squad wise, but every season they always leave us short.

 

If the plan is to let TAA, VVD and Salah all leave on a free next season then I have no idea how they think we are going to replace them.     

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1 hour ago, Josef Svejk said:

 

We certainly don't need to trim ours. But seems to be doing so regardless...

We're not putting him out squad anyway by all accounts, we're bringing him in to loan right back out. Just get it fucking done if you want him, but it should be no distraction from the real work we need doing, except it seems to be being used as such. 

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1 hour ago, El Dangerous said:

I have a certain respect for footballers who treat it like a job and no more. Like Arnautovich lusting after that dream move to China whilst he was at Stoke or Benoit Assou-Ekotto not even liking football. Must be nice to have a sweet job, massive income and none of the emotional baggage that comes with being a top level footballer.

 

If I was a modern day player I'd probably have quite a bit of contempt for modern day fans. Cheering you one second, calling you racist stuff the next and/or making you run road blocks on the way home from training.

 

You could see Southgate broken by the fans in the Euros, not as in broken emotionally, but there was the light bulb moment where he thought "what a bunch of feral twats, fuck this."

 

Modern footy fans live a lot of their lives online and it shows. 

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45 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

If I was a modern day player I'd probably have quite a bit of contempt for modern day fans. Cheering you one second, calling you racist stuff the next and/or making you run road blocks on the way home from training.

 

You could see Southgate broken by the fans in the Euros, not as in broken emotionally, but there was the light bulb moment where he thought "what a bunch of feral twats, fuck this."

 

Modern footy fans live a lot of their lives online and it shows. 

I think quite a few live their lives on line. Not just football fans.   One for the Modern life is rubbish. 

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2 hours ago, Section_31 said:

 

If I was a modern day player I'd probably have quite a bit of contempt for modern day fans. Cheering you one second, calling you racist stuff the next and/or making you run road blocks on the way home from training.

 

You could see Southgate broken by the fans in the Euros, not as in broken emotionally, but there was the light bulb moment where he thought "what a bunch of feral twats, fuck this."

 

Modern footy fans live a lot of their lives online and it shows. 

I'd be a lazy fucker if I was a modern player and would actively avoid being called up for international duty. I'd just sit on a wedge of cash and be happy enough with an oul blanket over my knees on the bench. 

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