It's obvious that Levy doesn't have the 'liquid' money to spend that some other teams do. I have no problem with him using his equivalent of Klarna to get the deals happening, if that is the case. I think the 'loan with option' is just a way of delaying paying, so that more players can be bought in sooner. I don't actually care how he does it, as long as he does it. There is no point saying that you want to win the PL and he CL, but only buying as if you're Europa League level. He now needs to be ruthless. Any good player that Frank wants that is in a non CL club should be targeted as if we actually mean to remain in the CL spots. He needs back the manager with the resources to back his chat. Nobody asked him to say out loud that he wants to win the two biggest competitions.
Spurs bid for Savinho, MGW and Eze. There’s money and scope to spend. A couple of loans at this stage won’t cut it. Ideally 2 big signings before end of the window
TBH, loan with an obligation for Paz is the most logical move as it overwrites Los Ladrones' buyback clause
Gibbs-White with a misplaced pass to give Palace the lead Now if he happens to do similar next week, we might have an interesting Deadline Day...
Loans with obligations get around a lot of clauses Romero, Porro and Lo Celso had fat sell-on clauses we got around due to them
One theory I've seen gaining traction about Savinho: the Mansourites are still salty about us not selling Harry Kane to them, somehow forgetting the issue was them claiming they couldn't afford the £100m asking price That would be the same club who then spent the £100m they claimed they didn't have on Jack Grealish...
We do have the liquid cash flow to spend. It might not be as much as other teams, especially those who openly cheat, but it is roughly £80m more than we've spent so far. That is more than enough to sign a top quality player and there is no reason not to have got that done by now. What's holding us back is Levy's natural (extreme) financial caution and thoroughness. The same caution delivered a £1billion stadium without crippling us, so it certainly has its uses. But in the market, in a summer where we clearly don't have any desirable assets to sell, the same caution and thoroughness is holding us back.
Leeds wanting to loan Solomon rather than pay our £15-20m asking fee seems to have gummed up the works somewhat We all expected that we'd need Dynamite to shift Gil when he did his ligaments in March, but Solomon looked set to be a tidy little earner, but at this point looks more likely go wind up in a cash + player deal
If anything lawyers seem to be getting dumber, based on super secret release clauses which aren't enforceable if a fat crook kicks up enough fuss
If City sign Donnarumma and Ederson's available on the cheap, should we be interested? Loan out Kinsky for regular football and give Vicario cup games and rotation.
