Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Because you think Partey would be a good 8 and Rice needs to be a 6. Deluded. Ignoring what you see with your own eyes so you can stick to something you got wrong ages ago, come hell or high water.

Gyokeres wins us the title.

There - you can quote me on it when I'm right. Or beat me with it when I'm not wrong.

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Don’t start picking fights because there’s no more Johnny Walker in the cupboards

I said Partey is better at 8 than Rice, I don’t think he’s great in that position either…but alas we don’t have a natural 8

Time to go back in your coffin until nightfall

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

Don’t start picking fights because there’s no more Johnny Walker in the cupboards

I said Partey is better at 8 than Rice, I don’t think he’s great in that position either…but alas we don’t have a natural 8

Time to go back in your coffin until nightfall

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Rest my case. All 12 bottles.

Partey works better at 6, as I've said before he can't turn back and recover as well as Rice (or as well as most poeple tbh) he's too slow, he needs the game to be being played in front of him

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

Correction, underestimating players you insist are very good and in a lot of cases buttress your claim by saying “loads of people agree with me”

Gakpo and Eze are really nothing special, at best you could argue that for title winning sides they are squad players (which is exactly what Gakpo was for Liverpool)

Though Rice is a very good player, just not my kind of player and not one that I think can play continuously at 8. You need more of a Bellingham type in that role against the pubbers.

The thing is with Gyokeres he might be good, but I think whilst every signing is a gamble…a player that has played in leagues where defences part like the sea for Moses, that’s a gamble too far when we really need one established player who can hit the ground running.

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When he played for Coventry in the championship, he scored 43 goals in 116 games and got 17 assists.

Are you suggesting that only the prem has defenders that can actually defend and all other leagues are schoolyard kick abouts?

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

My preference would also be for two strikers but for neither of them to be Gyokeres

Sesko would be one, in an ideal world Lautaro Martinez would be the other (though I think not likely especially if Inter win the Champions League)

Isaak would be one I’d favour but would cost too much

My other preference would be to sign Morgan Rodgers a player of both immense technical talent and physicality as an attacking midfielder

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Martinez has already turned us down once, he can get fucked tbh.

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Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club

When he played for Coventry in the championship, he scored 43 goals in 116 games and got 17 assists.

Are you suggesting that only the prem has defenders that can actually defend and all other leagues are schoolyard kick abouts?

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A) Thats pretty unimpressive for the championship

B) No I’m suggesting that much of the Portuguese league is made up of teams about the level of the championship in terms of quality. If he’d played in La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A or hell even the French league maybe a different story. For a tall physical striker he isn’t getting many headed goals, it’s largely about transition play and beating defenders for pace and skill (something he would not find so easy in the prem)

I don’t know that he couldn’t do well in the premiership, and so despite what someone else here has claimed I’ve never stated that he couldn’t. My contention is that he’s untested in a top league, he’s done ok in the champions league but even then that will include playing teams that aren’t premiership level.

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Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club

Martinez has already turned us down once, he can get fucked tbh.

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Who cares if he turned us down before. If he’s willing to come now…great

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

A) Thats pretty unimpressive for the championship

B) No I’m suggesting that much of the Portuguese league is made up of teams about the level of the championship in terms of quality. If he’d played in La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A or hell even the French league maybe a different story. For a tall physical striker he isn’t getting many headed goals, it’s largely about transition play and beating defenders for pace and skill (something he would not find so easy in the prem)

I don’t know that he couldn’t do well in the premiership, and so despite what someone else here has claimed I’ve never stated that he couldn’t. My contention is that he’s untested in a top league, he’s done ok in the champions league but even then that will include playing teams that aren’t premiership level.

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A) you are joking right? considering his age, etc.

B) Well I guess the proof will be in the pudding, by all accounts we will be announcing his signing after their last game on sunday :shrug:

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Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club

A) you are joking right? considering his age, etc.

B) Well I guess the proof will be in the pudding, by all accounts we will be announcing his signing after their last game on sunday :shrug:

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No im not joking, he played for Coventry between the ages of 23 and 25, hardly a raw youngster. That’s not a great return, it’s great if you’re looking to be no1 striker for a team like Bournemouth. But we need someone who at that age is scoring a goal every other game in a competent league considering he’s 27 and not 21

Well I hope either the rumours are unfounded or he hits the ground running because otherwise that’s a lot of money we’ve pissed away

Oh now we're doing the anti-Gyokeres thing as well? Hardly a surprise given the Rice thing.

In case you hadn't noticed, the PL is by far the shittiest league in European football, filled with useless fucks who can hardly kick a ball. Haven't you been watching the games?

Now you and your fellow travellers are casting doubts on a player who has done well in a league that can't possibly be any worse than the shit we see at home?

So go on then, who did you want as striker?

Let me guess.

Partey?

Jeez, why don't you just propose?

Gyokeres is the premium striker in Europen football right now - he's proven it over multiple seasons and made absolute shitheaps like Mbappe and Haaland seem ordinary (which they are).

We'd have to pay a qurter bill plus give away 25% ownership of the club to sign that fraud Mbappe.

Gyokeres will be about 70mill - steal considering the ludicrous fees being paid these days.

And he can actually play football, in case you haven't noticed. He's a REAL player, not a fake one. Obviously you don't know anything about the bloke and haven't watched him play.

Well, he'll get 30 for us next season if he joins and that means we'll win the title. So good enough for me.

HOWEVER...

If Arteta keeps on telling Odegard and Partey and Rice and Martinelli and Trossard and the rest to play negative football - doesn't matter who we sign, they'll never get the ball.

So I hope Arteta is getting the chequebook out in full knowledge it will be a complete waste unless HE gets his arse in gear and embraces REAL football instead of the shit he learned under the super-fraud (and I mean the corruption as well as the propaganda) Pep.