Summer Transfer Speculation (its just two months away)

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  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Since when have we spent wisely.
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    He is an excellent player. I would have liked £10 million more
  • SlackerSlacker
    Sorry to see him go there but I hope we saw the best of him in his first season for us.
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    I can see him going to RM or Barca or most likely PSG at the end of next season for a much bigger fee
  • SlackerSlacker
    thornburyiron said:

    Since when have we spent wisely.

    Coufal?Soucek?

  • stevesteve
    At lest we made money on this one
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    I think he had wanted to go for a while Thorn, I think he saw us as a stepping stone as many do and see's Spurs as a step up. He never seemed happy last season. Most clubs are seen as a stepping stone to upwardly mobile players aside from the Champions League giants, he will look to move again if City or Madrid came in but will have to prove himself at Spurs to get their attention as he did in his first season with us. Paquetta would have probably left also were it not for his legal troubles.

    It's the nature of career football, just give praise to Danny/Dani Dyer as Bowen took the career step from Hull to ourselves and like Kudus has had offers to take the next step but seems to have now become West Ham at heart, not many do nowadays for any club.

    Leaving aside that all too objective and reasonable view I really hope he flops, I usually hope our players do well when moving on and have no issue with Rice and wish him success, but any player at Spurs I hope is a great failure.
  • MIAHammerMIAHammer
    EXETERHAMMER said:

    I can see him going to RM or Barca or most likely PSG at the end of next season for a much bigger fee

    I hope we have a sell-on clause.
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    I like the idea of Ipswich’s Hutchinson
  • stevesteve
    Not at the price Ipswich seem to want-
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    edited July 9
    Tbf the way we progress is making smart moves and making profits on those we have..... moving a £38mil Kudus for £55mil after 2 years is the right direction

    Hopefully this allows us to make a move for McAtee who've we've been linked heavily for £20m/£25m, hes a risk but that's what we gotta do, poach the youth from teams better than us
  • alderzalderz
    We have made money on very, very few transfers. I’ll double check, but I’m pretty sure 3 of our 5 or 6 most profitable transfers are players from our academy, so it’s rare for us to make money on someone we buy. The reporting is that Kudus had made it clear he only wanted to go to Spurs, which puts us in a pretty rough negotiating position. So, selling a player for a profit who hasn’t really fit in, was disappointing for at least a year, and wants to leave, is not terrible business.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    alderz, Kudus possibly doesn’t fit in with the way GP wants to play so it will be interesting to see who he now spends the money he will hopefully be given 🤞.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited July 9
    He scored in 5 league games last season. We’ve got £55m for him.

    He will only ever return to form in his RW role but we have a lad there called Jarrod (who is vastly superior - because he is consistent, which is what all the best players are, not the ones who can do brilliant things ‘on their day’).

    Great deal.
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    I don't think it is a great deal at all. It is the minimum we would have expected. He clearly wants away, so we have agreed to the offer which is fair enough. But it is not a great deal.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    Lukerz, He can also play in a few other roles such as an 8 or 10 but GP bunged him out on the LW!
  • LukerzLukerz
    Fortuneseeker said:

    Lukerz, He can also play in a few other roles such as an 8 or 10 but GP bunged him out on the LW!

    I must admit, I never saw him play well in any of them, so I’d say he can only play as a RW.
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    Lukerz said:

    Fortuneseeker said:

    Lukerz, He can also play in a few other roles such as an 8 or 10 but GP bunged him out on the LW!

    I must admit, I never saw him play well in any of them, so I’d say he can only play as a RW.
    Thought he played his best as a #10 tbf running through the middle
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    The thing about it is that Kudus would make us pretty happy if he were coming to us from another club as he is what we want in a fast, forward facing player. I am hoping Summerville will provide a better replacement on his more natural left wing.

    I am not sure why he only wanted Spurs? He will have seen them last season and hardly think they are a force at present despite slipping into the CL.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    His original comments were he only wanted Liverpool but unfortunately for him they didn’t feel the same. Chelsea bought another 200 players so Spurs became his CL option.
  • alderzalderz
    You know when you apply for a job and you say that this is the place you've always wanted to be and it's the only place for you, and then you go for another job and you say the same? That's basically what Kudus is doing.
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    edited July 10
    alderz, It’s called footballer speak & it’s not unique to Kudus! I wish some people would stop blaming him, it was made obvious he wasn’t wanted and when offered the chance to play in a higher profile competition he took it. It’s like moving jobs to go to a better company.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited July 10
    Slacker said:

    thornburyiron said:

    Since when have we spent wisely.

    Coufal?Soucek?

    Wan Bissaka £15m, Bowen £22m

    Di Canio £1.5m (equal to £3m today)

    Devonshire £5k (£34k)
  • SlackerSlacker
    ASLEFshrugged said:

    Slacker said:

    thornburyiron said:

    Since when have we spent wisely.

    Coufal?Soucek?

    Wan Bissaka £15m, Bowen £22m

    Di Canio £1.5m (equal to £3m today)

    Devonshire £5k (£34k)
    Johnny Byrne- £65,000.😉

  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    £1.2m in today's money which is a fair indication on how little money there was in English football at the time

    Two months later Man Utd paid Torino £115k for Denis Law
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    So far about half a dozen or so players have been named scanning a period of nearly 70 years.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    Arsenal have signed Christian Norgaard

    Frank gone to Spurs and Wissa rumoured to be following him despite Kudus joining, Mbuemo getting closer to Man Utd

    Will the last man to leave Brentford please switch off the lights!
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Official on the OS now.
  • stevesteve
    Short and sweet .Heard he put in a transfer request .Don't think there's any love lost there
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    edited July 10
    Hopefully that means we can now see some movement with some incomings to bring some fresh faces in
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