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Other clubs transfer thread summer 2019 edition (Official: Madrid sign Hazard)

jones

We get new money from Sky every single year. How are wages the reason we only have 40m, it would mean we'd have bet on the new TV money or CL with our current wage deals and how likely is that with our ridiculously risk averse management.

Stop shilling for Kroenke you Yank fraud

Clrnc

goon wrote:
Clrnc wrote:
We really have a smaller budget than all the other clubs in the league argh.

You can't just factor in the transfer fee when you're talking about budgets, it's disingenuous. We spend £121m a season more on wages alone than Leicester (we also spend roughly 90m more than Tottenham too by the way).

Even if you don't factor in wages, we have the 3rd highest net spend in the league over the last 5 years, that's why we're ahead of most of these guys.

Yup, we all know how badly we underperformed when you compare wages to Spurs. We also know we are fucking inept at finances and extracting maximum value for the club.

The sad fact remains, we now have no money to spend to bring us back to the level we belong. Doesn't change that fact and it's annoying as fuck. Even highly affordable players we won't be able to buy.

goon

Oh definitely. The end of last season really killed us and most hope for the short term. Player sales are the only hope.

jones wrote:
We get new money from Sky every single year. How are wages the reason we only have 40m, it would mean we'd have bet on the new TV money or CL with our current wage deals and how likely is that with our ridiculously risk averse management.

Stop shilling for Kroenke you Yank fraud

Well that's simply the reality, it's all there on paper.

jones

Thuram to Gladbach for 10m. Ffs

Claudius

Looks a great raw and versatile talent.

Ricky1985

I've only seen him a few times, but you really think he's good enough for Arsenal? I would say not even close.

jones

Hes raw but has some serious potential. Monster physically and great feet for someone of his size, easily good enough to start on the wing for us as he is and could eventually move centrally in a few years

Claudius

Ricky, he's still young, but fundamentally a tremendous athlete. What struck me watching him this summer was the combination of speed and strength he had, just able to power past people. He's confident and able to take opposing full-backs on. He can do both wings, and as Jones say, could go central later. 10m Euros would have definitely been worth the punt

Ricky1985

Fair enough. His touch and close control is way below the sort of level that I think we should be looking at, in my opinion. He does more upside as a centre forward, and his goal scoring stats for last season are half decent.

Gladbach seems about right for him right now to me.

Clrnc

Welbz being offered to Bordeaux, but deal can't be completed because of his wage demands.

deardevil

Ricky1985 wrote:
A lot of money or not, Maguire will improve them. He's much better than anything else they have at centrehalf. The same with Wan-Bissaka: Expensivre, yes, but hugely superior to Ashley Young etc.

[Twitter]
Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

Aren't we supposed to kidnap him and have Levy pay for his taxi to the Emirates?

Kudos to anyone who gets the reference. :opti:

Big Willie

Don't think any of us know what you're on about mate.

Claudius

Isn't that the Petit deal?
But fucking Spurs. A similar thing happened to them a couple of years ago with Willian. He had done a medical with them and then when he returned to London to finalise everything, he somehow ended up at Stanford Bridge.
They were supposed to be THAT club forever

Big Willie

That's the point Claud. Don't think anyone who supported us back then didn't know that.

Claudius

LOL. Sad to see how we've fallen. But it's promising that last season with their Champions League revenues and our combination of Europa and Puma loose change we still made about 10m pounds more than them. They were making Wembley revenue, so I don't think the stadium should have massive topline effect.

This is what gives me hope. That if we can fix our shit and somehow qualify in 4th this year, and clear out the nasty contracts, then we are in a good financial position next year relative to Spurs. We will never make the 100-150m pounds we gave up in lost Champions League revenue in 2017-2020 but we must look forward.

Big Willie

Hopefully mate. I have no real expectations going into this season given how much we're struggling to recruit and also what our rivals are doing but definitely looking forward to seeing out things go.

Gazza M

The door is open when looking at our competition for 4th. We have to absolutely nail the recruitment though

lorddulaarsenal

I’m optimistic - surely we can only improve on last year. Emery will be more familiar with the players and has the opportunity to address issues this summer.

I think Spurs and Chelsea will drop a level next season

Big Willie

Think it'll be a battle for 4th between us, United and Chelsea. Top 2 will be Liverpool and City, Spurs confortable in 3rd and the resf of us in a free for all.

Honestly it's the first time I believed Spurs will be too far for us to pass before a season has started. Even at our worst over the last 3 years I always believed we'd end up ahead of them this season but really can't see it this year.

Hope I'm wrong of course but just can't help but think with their recruitment of Ndombele they've given themselves the guile and technique in midfield they've been missing to pull away.

Claudius

Big Willie wrote:
Think it'll be a battle for 4th between us, United and Chelsea. Top 2 will be Liverpool and City, Spurs confortable in 3rd and the resf of us in a free for all.

Honestly it's the first time I believed Spurs will be too far for us to pass before a season has started. Even at our worst over the last 3 years I always believed we'd end up ahead of them this season but really can't see it this year.

Hope I'm wrong of course but just can't help but think with their recruitment of Ndombele they've given themselves the guile and technique in midfield they've been missing to pull away.

This is how I see it. They have fixed their frontline depth issue. And they’ve thrown a unit in the middle. The interesting team is Pool. Can they pull another 90 point season or do they get dragged into a battle with Spurs?

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