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Thread: Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

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    Quote Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club View Post
    A) I think those reports are for clicks
    B) we don’t have an alternative target
    C) what other top strikers are there - none that I have seen available
    A) You could be right

    B) If we can’t find an alternative striker we have bigger problems than failure to agree a transfer fee

    C) The term top striker does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to Gyokeres. In fact I’d go a step further and say the term simply cannot apply to any striker who plays in Portugal because of the volume of players who have moved from that league and flopped elsewhere. To the point that if Gyokeres comes and was successful here, he would be the first (even Radamel Falcao did well in Spain and France, but managed five goals in 36 appearances in the premier league for United and Chelsea)
    I know you don’t want to accept it, but outside the big three clubs the Portuguese league is exceptionally poor and therefore it gives no indication of how good a player is.

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    And for people accusing me of omitting his Champions League record, I mean a) it’s ok not great and b) scoring in the champions league proves you can score in the champions league…the competition is prestigious because of the money you get for playing in it, but outside of say Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Barcelona and one or two others…most of the teams are no better than what we face in the league week in, week out…and actually at least half of them are no where near as good.

    Gyokeres is an unknown with an ok record in Europe, a fairly decent record in the English championship and an excellent record in a league that contains many teams of lower quality than the championship. It really isn’t controversial an opinion.

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    Anyway I said I wasn’t going to say anymore about him, because I’m really repeating myself at this point. I’ll be honest I don’t really understand people’s enthusiasm for him anymore than people can understand my shall we say severe reluctance to sign him. At the moment John Cross (who isn’t really much more reliable than Fabrizio Romano) is claiming that talks will resume again…it does feel a bit odd that both sides would be so intractable over what amounts to about 3-4 million.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
    £50-£65m for a player that is inferior to everything we currently have is silly to me. So was signing Havertz for pretty much the same fee, and I said it clearly then.

    I hate this habit of us taking underperforming players off of Chelsea's wage bill...they are our direct competitor, we're not suppose to be actively seeking to get them out of every bind they get into.

    If Arteta is adamant about it, it should be less than what they paid PSV.....the same way we did with Havertz, the same way we're doing with Kepa.

    I'd rather we be made a mug of by the likes of West Ham, Brentford and Palace.....they are welcome to our "clean" hard earned money, not Chelsea
    All of this, except I don't want us being made mugs of by anyone (some hope)

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    Quote Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club View Post
    A) I think those reports are for clicks
    B) we don’t have an alternative target
    C) what other top strikers are there - none that I have seen available
    A) let's hope so
    B) and C) unless you count Watkins (though only for say £50m) but while I like him it would be underwhelming

    I wonder if our sticking fast on money to a degree which I think doesn't make sense (if it's just 5m then pay it ffs) is to do with Arteta wanting to sabotage it because he wanted Sesko, hence bidding too much for Madueke and then saying we need to drive a hard bargain over Gyokeres to balance things out, knowing it would scupper the deal...

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    Fuck me! The spuds have met Morgan Gibbs-White release clause. They are suddenly having a good couple of days in the transfer market whilst we continue to fuck around trying to find a striker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
    A) let's hope so
    B) and C) unless you count Watkins (though only for say £50m) but while I like him it would be underwhelming

    I wonder if our sticking fast on money to a degree which I think doesn't make sense (if it's just 5m then pay it ffs) is to do with Arteta wanting to sabotage it because he wanted Sesko, hence bidding too much for Madueke and then saying we need to drive a hard bargain over Gyokeres to balance things out, knowing it would scupper the deal...
    I saw a tweet for someone yesterday that said we have agreed a deal with sporting, Berta was then flying back to deal with media duties & announcement for Nordgaard (which did happen today) and then Goku would be coming for a medical on Friday.

    Obviously a pinch of salt, but he was correct on the Nordgaard stuff so fingers crossed

    also if Arteta did that kind of sabotage then he should be sacked on the spot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club View Post
    I saw a tweet for someone yesterday that said we have agreed a deal with sporting, Berta was then flying back to deal with media duties & announcement for Nordgaard (which did happen today) and then Goku would be coming for a medical on Friday.

    Obviously a pinch of salt, but he was correct on the Nordgaard stuff so fingers crossed

    also if Arteta did that kind of sabotage then he should be sacked on the spot.
    Yeah let's hope all's good still

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chippy View Post
    Fuck me! The spuds have met Morgan Gibbs-White release clause. They are suddenly having a good couple of days in the transfer market whilst we continue to fuck around trying to find a striker.
    Hate to say it but with Frank there and CL football, which clearly is helping with these signings, we need to brace ourselves

    Next season will be really tough even to finish top 4 IMO - Chelsea, Liverpool, Citeh, Spuds, Utd all tooling up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
    Hate to say it but with Frank there and CL football, which clearly is helping with these signings, we need to brace ourselves

    Next season will be really tough even to finish top 4 IMO - Chelsea, Liverpool, Citeh, Spuds, Utd all tooling up
    This why I really didn't want those fuckers to win the Europa League. I was really enjoying them being shit last year.

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