Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[Mac76]

Problem is you could level your criticism at pretty much any club with certain players. The club clearly is in a more informed position than you as a fan. Do we trust the club? Well that remains to be seen, but it's a different point.

I answered your £40M point in my previous post.

Ok, fine, so every club gets it wrong, that doesn't counter my point about the data either not being that helpful or alternatively it being ignored.

And whatever you said about £40m did nothing to counter the fact that better players are valued at what we're buying him for, that says to me we're overpaying

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Liverpool opened talks with Frankfurt over Ekitike, thing that somewhat puts a block on the whole Isaak thing

Bizarrely I'm a little concerned on both. I'm not sure if Ekithingy is necessarily any better than Nunez (both seem to miss the easy chances/take lots to score and credit to Nunez he does often pop up with important goals even if I don't rate him). Whilst I do rate Isak, highly, I'm not sure he's worth basically double the price. Equally, I'm not sure who else there is available.
Rodrygo by all accounts is already on mega money, so again, value for money is probably quite low.

On the other hand, I don't really know what I'm talking about so let them get on with it. Trust the process.


Btw not being catty, but why do you add the extra a in Isaak?

[HCZ_Reborn]

Bizarrely I'm a little concerned on both. I'm not sure if Ekithingy is necessarily any better than Nunez (both seem to miss the easy chances/take lots to score and credit to Nunez he does often pop up with important goals even if I don't rate him). Whilst I do rate Isak, highly, I'm not sure he's worth basically double the price. Equally, I'm not sure who else there is available.
Rodrygo by all accounts is already on mega money, so again, value for money is probably quite low.

On the other hand, I don't really know what I'm talking about so let them get on with it. Trust the process.


Btw not being catty, but why do you add the extra a in Isaak?

I genuinely thought that was how it was spelt you know how Scandinavian names tend to double up on the vowels

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Bizarrely I'm a little concerned on both. I'm not sure if Ekithingy is necessarily any better than Nunez (both seem to miss the easy chances/take lots to score and credit to Nunez he does often pop up with important goals even if I don't rate him). Whilst I do rate Isak, highly, I'm not sure he's worth basically double the price. Equally, I'm not sure who else there is available.
Rodrygo by all accounts is already on mega money, so again, value for money is probably quite low.

On the other hand, I don't really know what I'm talking about so let them get on with it. Trust the process.


Btw not being catty, but why do you add the extra a in Isaak?

Hmmm, sounds like you'd be happy to keep Nunez....well as your supposed rival, I'd be glad if more people felt this way and the status quo is maintained

Obviously, you guys getting Isak is the nightmare scenario, at least for me, as I can't see on what world he doesn't improve you. Let's not forget that besides winning the league, you guys walked the league stage of the CL quite easily and were odds on favourites for at least the semifinals which likely would have happened if not for the sudden PSG tsunami you faced earlier than the rest of us. All that with a patchy no9 that few really rate and some have claimed is the reason why you shouldn't buy from Portugal

Ekitike is a huge talent , definitely a player that has a higher ceiling than Nunez, IMO. But again I do get what you say about the easy chances and that he is a bit unproven. My main issue is he may lack big game mentality ( he performed quite poorly against Spurs in their knockout tie) so that worried me a bit when I suggested him for us on here a while ago.

Anyway, whatever happens I'd still rate your summer business as pretty good as you've kept all but one of your important players and added a true star that will entertain.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I genuinely thought that was how it was spelt you know how Scandinavian names tend to double up on the vowels

Fair enough.

Hmmm, sounds like you'd be happy to keep Nunez....well as your supposed rival, I'd be glad if more people felt this way and the status quo is maintained

Obviously, you guys getting Isak is the nightmare scenario, at least for me, as I can't see on what world he doesn't improve you. Let's not forget that besides winning the league, you guys walked the league stage of the CL quite easily and were odds on favourites for at least the semifinals which likely would have happened if not for the sudden PSG tsunami you faced earlier than the rest of us. All that with a patchy no9 that few really rate and some have claimed is the reason why you shouldn't buy from Portugal

Ekitike is a huge talent , definitely a player that has a higher ceiling than Nunez, IMO. But again I do get what you say about the easy chances and that he is a bit unproven. My main issue is he may lack big game mentality ( he performed quite poorly against Spurs in their knockout tie) so that worried me a bit when I suggested him for us on here a while ago.

Anyway, whatever happens I'd still rate you summer business as pretty good as you've kept all but one of your important players and added a true star that will entertain.

I really don't rate Nunez I went to the Benfica game in the year before we signed him, and even though he scored, didn't think he was good enough. On the other hand, he does genuinely seem like a decent lad and as I say does pop up with strangely important goals. Plus of course whatever happens with Diaz.

I'm not even going to pretend like I have any idea how we'll do this season. Whilst I'm excited of the transfers we've made, I'm always wary of "winning the transfer window". So much can come down to an injury or two. Madueke will probably end up winning your player of the year.

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Madueke will probably end up winning your player of the year.

.....not sure what to do with this, as it can be read in so many different ways

[Mac76]

.....not sure what to do with this, as it can be read in so many different ways

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Looks like we're getting Ekitike. Always rated him. The new Henry.

[Mac76]

Looks like we're getting Ekitike. Always rated him. The new Henry.

Damn, I got excited for a moment then realised it was posted by a Liverpool fan ...

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Apparently we're still quibbling about the add ons with Sporting, the last £2.5m tranche, but apparently movers have been spotted at Gyokores place in Lisbon, so hopefully its not an Obi Mikel situation, where he gets to London and signs for another club!

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/35897...al-van-lisbon/