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Thread: Summer transfers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daffydd View Post
    Barcelona have agreed a deal worth more than Ł69m with Newcastle United for England forward Anthony Gordon.
    Interesting deal for them that.

    Amortisation means over a 5-year deal it'll be affordable and three years from now at the age of 28 he would still have some resale value back to the Prem if he does well.

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    If we have 3 main midfielders..Don and Macca are still able to play a number 8 role as well as 10 in the team.. both get back and defend, Wirzt cannot play in midfield. we will always be one short.

    Our win ratio will be higher without Wirzt, If Macca goes and we get in Wharton, you have Gravenberch and Szoboszlai to play in front of him. I prefer Szoboszlai further forward hes better than Wirzt any day of the week
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    Quote Originally Posted by redebreck View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by redebreck View Post
    John Alridge isn't happy with the people running the club. They are supposedly looking to sell a world class midfielder in order to buy some teenager
    As I said in another recent post, the Devil will be in the detail.

    If it's Mac Allister out to part-fund Diomande (19) coming in then I am in all honesty not against that.

    What we can't do is to then fail to adequately replace Mac Allister.

    It would be like the Diaz thing - selling Diaz I was fine with in isolation, but the failure to acquire a replacement was a wretched decision.

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    That's exactly the trap so many fans are falling into. Saying 'I was fine with selling him in isolation' only works if we live in a vacuum where world-class, 1v1 touchline wingers just grow on trees.

    The reality is, the decision to sell him was the failure to replace him. You don't sell a 28-year-old at the absolute peak of his powers - who gave us 17 goals and an insane defensive work rate - without a signed contract already on the table from a replacement.

    Who was actually available in the market that could replicate his verticality and chaos factor? No one. By sanctioning the sale to Bayern, the club guaranteed a downgrade on the left flank. Left us with Cody frigging Gakpo FFS… You can't separate the sale from the lack of a replacement…they are two sides of the same flawed coin.

    But then again ANYONE who witnessed the title winning season and actually observed would have known this. This is why I said what I said last Summer when it was obvious the club was manufacturing consent from the gullible masses to let arguably our most important player leave… Simply to satiate the owners ridiculous model

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