Summer transfer joy and happiness

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Leicester will have that Soyuncu kid and Maguire in the centre of their defence...whilst we will have Mustafi and Sokratis. I honestly don't know that we are better off....

[dazthegooner]

Pochettino has blamed the lack of signings saying Brexit's effect on the pound against the Euro has made for a "30 per cent" increase when looking to bring players over from the continent.

[Globalgunner]

Pochettino has blamed the lack of signings saying Brexit's effect on the pound against the Euro has made for a "30 per cent" increase when looking to bring players over from the continent.

Ordinarily I consider Brexit a bad idea but in the case of the Spuds i will make an exception...BTW is Aston Villa in another country?. Just asking.
The Spuds are notorious for always wanting to buy cheap and sell very high

[Mac76]

So we shipped out Perez and kept Welbeck - great move...

[Globalgunner]

So we shipped out Perez and kept Welbeck - great move...

Most likely English quota, otherwise it makes no football sense

[Özim]

How Welbeck has carved out a career in top level football I'll never know, must be all these people always saying he has it all the attributes to be great but somehow he never gets any better.

[Power n Glory]

I knew Oblak's value would increase..... but even I didn't think it would be this quickly....

It just takes one transfer and one club to pay up to change the whole market.

[Özim]

If you want the best you have to pay the going rate, otherwise you have to either sign kids/older players or players who have been out of form and whose value has dropped.

[Mac76]

Most likely English quota, otherwise it makes no football sense

they should just get some League 2 slogger then, on a quarter of the pay, couldn't be any worse and would save us money

[Power n Glory]

If you want the best you have to pay the going rate, otherwise you have to either sign kids/older players or players who have been out of form and whose value has dropped.

There is no such thing as a ‘going rate’ and it doesn’t always equate to quality. This Kepa guy wasn’t mentioned last week when we were talking about the best goalkeepers in football. Information is still king. Chelsea must have some serious scouts and stats to back up that transfer fee. But as seen with Mustfai and Xhaka, the tide will also rise for bang average players and those that aren’t even close to being the best. That is my point.

Monaco, Dortmund, Liverpool, Southampton and Athletic Bilbao because they’ve managed sign unknown players for peanuts and sell them on for world record fees despite none of them even being mentioned as the best in their position.