1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Transfer Rumours Summer transfers

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by Saf, Jan 9, 2023.

?

Is this a good thread?

Poll closed Feb 2, 2023.
  1. Best one yet Saff

    7.7%
  2. Toon beheading for a big transfer

    15.4%
  3. Pep'll buy the league again

    15.4%
  4. Scousers need to find a job to afford transfers

    30.8%
  5. Fuk u Sucky

    46.2%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    Cheating being having the money to buy the better players? ... terrible crime that ... nobody else has ever done it <whistle>

    <laugh>
     
    #7121
  2. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

    Joined:
    Sep 2, 2013
    Messages:
    104,245
    Likes Received:
    83,728
    Rules are rules

    You only back them cos your club does the same
     
    #7122
  3. Peej

    Peej Fabio Borini Lover

    Joined:
    Feb 25, 2013
    Messages:
    29,279
    Likes Received:
    15,444
    it’s all ‘fines’ for Leicester…..

    or shafting the suppliers they owed money to
     
    #7123
    Sucky likes this.
  4. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    Different times ... different owners - back to the days when Everton were relevant ... oh wait ... just checked ... they weren't <laugh>
     
    #7124
  5. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    Peeps thinking Pep will soon be off need a rethink - he's building another dynasty ...

    Marmoush is their 3rd signing of the window after Khusanov and Reis and it looks like Juma Bah is to be their fourth - all young but with already proven quality ...

    That would take their spending north of £150 million in this window, so they are obviously not concerned about future PSR FFP either ...

    Expecting this from Sucky sometime soon ...

    200w.gif
     
    #7125
    Last edited: Jan 23, 2025
  6. Chief

    Chief Northern Simpleton
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    May 17, 2011
    Messages:
    39,317
    Likes Received:
    27,131
    Really, you don't say?
     
    #7126
  7. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    I do ...

    Neither are we - we've taken out a bank loan and bought a full-back for £3million - HAVE IT!!!!!
     
    #7127
  8. luvgonzo

    luvgonzo Pisshead

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2011
    Messages:
    108,386
    Likes Received:
    67,895
    City throwing cash about before a transfer embargo.
     
    #7128
  9. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    We were (never really had a chance) 'in for' Khusanov and Bah ...

    ...bastards :mad:
     
    #7129
    luvgonzo likes this.
  10. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

    Joined:
    Sep 2, 2013
    Messages:
    104,245
    Likes Received:
    83,728
    <laugh>
     
    #7130

  11. PINKIE

    PINKIE Wurzel Gummidge

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    123,846
    Likes Received:
    71,959
    Marmoush looks like a bargain at £59m too. He’s a cracking player who is dangerous in a number of positions.

    Forest preparing a £60m bid for Cunha too. Hoping we would have signed him. Forest will be definite CL contenders (if they are not alrrsdy) if they get him.

    Edu is sporting director at Forest now (after he’s finished his gardening leave with us) I’m expecting them to do big things in the transfer market from now on.
     
    #7131
  12. Sucky

    Sucky peoples champ & forum saviour

    Joined:
    Sep 2, 2013
    Messages:
    104,245
    Likes Received:
    83,728
    Pep on the offensive desperately trying to buy his genius back.


    Meanwhile slots showing how a proper coach gets the best out of what he's got.


    Levels
     
    #7132
  13. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    Forest will win the league ...


    ... then the FA / PL will step in - dock them points under contrived PSR / FFP rules ... and it will be just enough points to hand Liverpool a second title with an asterisk <whistle>
     
    #7133
    FadgewackeR, duggie2000 and PINKIE like this.
  14. Solid Air 2

    Solid Air 2 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 3, 2015
    Messages:
    32,165
    Likes Received:
    28,666
    Marmoush stats prior to this season aren't anything to write home about
     
    #7134
  15. cini65

    cini65 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2011
    Messages:
    6,571
    Likes Received:
    2,029
    £59m for a player who was moving on a free transfer two years ago is never going to be a 'bargain'
     
    #7135
  16. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    Depends on 'why' he was moving on a free - plenty have run down contracts to facilitate a move more to their choice and maximise a signing on fee - doesn't mean they're crap ...
     
    #7136
  17. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

    Joined:
    Jan 28, 2011
    Messages:
    25,617
    Likes Received:
    20,289
    why would they be? They've spent much less than Chelsea, Arsenal and United have over the last 3 years, whilst also being successful. I think even we may have a higher net spend than City atm.
     
    #7137
    FosseFilberto likes this.
  18. cini65

    cini65 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 17, 2011
    Messages:
    6,571
    Likes Received:
    2,029
    But that's because they accumulated their team expensive stars years ago so haven't need to buy them again recently - just sporadic refreshing. Take inflation into account and they've got fourteen players in their current squad that cost at least 50m euros. (Marmoush, Gvardiol, Nunes, Doku, Haaland, Phillips, Grealish, Dias, Ake, Rodri, Walker, Silva, Stones, KDB). And then take into account all the other big money players they've bought ages ago and then, for quite a lot of them, sell and use those funds to shout out about 'low net spend' (Sane, Jovetic, Dzeko, Sterling, Otamendi, Jesus, Mendy, Mahrez, Cancelo, Danilo, Torres, Alvarez).

    Liverpool have eight current 50m+ euro players (Szoboszlai, Nunez, Diaz, Jota, Alisson, Konate, VVD, Salah).

    Arsenal have five (Rice, Havertz, Partey, White, Jesus).

    To try and claim some sort of moral high ground of 'look at their low net spend' or 'they've spent less than Arsenal and United' when said team is filled with £1bn+ worth of bought talent is disingenuous.

    City have spent absolutely loads and are no doubt going to get no charges whatsoever for doing so. Ah well.
     
    #7138
    Sucky likes this.
  19. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

    Joined:
    Jan 28, 2011
    Messages:
    25,617
    Likes Received:
    20,289
    Yes, City spent massively, and won the Premier league twice before FFP, whereas you hadn't won it in a decade and were barely qualifying for the CL, yet manage to spend far more than anyone bar Chelsea. Arsenal lost their big players for nothing, whereas City financed Haaland with the PROFIT from selling their **** to you.
     
    #7139
  20. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jun 2, 2011
    Messages:
    73,598
    Likes Received:
    39,090
    FFP is a complete farce - a modern measure (purposefully or not) which ensures ongoing big club domination by stifling competition from clubs with ambitious owners who have bottomless pockets - a domination rooted in spending the most since football went professional and wage caps were removed - I blame Jimmy Hill <whistle>
     
    #7140

Share This Page