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Other Clubs Transfers Gossip 2023

MistaT

Claudius -- do you ever wonder if you could trot out there and score 4?

Like fuck me, you're still surrounded by 10 excellent players.

Claudius

MistaT absolutely. Put me in Martinelli's spot and I'll score at least one off my bum

Sicario2

When this thread is more happening than the Arsenal summer transfer thread doenst bode well. Everything has gone quiet. I do think if KSE fuck up this summer they will pay for it.

QuincyAbeyie

Claudius Oh, I'm not referring to their talent ID, but the process of signing acquired targets.

Claudius

QuincyAbeyie cool. What do you mean by “acquired targets”?

Big Willie

Claudius cool. What do you mean by “acquired talents”?

Targets, not talents.

Burnwinter

I'm guessing those scenes in TOP GUN knockoffs where some guy shot from above in a reflective helmet says mechanically "target acquired" before firing ze missiles. Would've been the right way to handle Mudryk.

HomeSteak

Please note note note.

Claudius

Just browsed an Athletic report on how much “cap room” teams have under PSR. The big teams like us, City, Liverpool are all sitting at around £80m. Chelsea because they sold their own women’s team and and hotels to an affiliated company (ie one owned by the same people) generated enough profit to give itself £300m.

The stuff Chelsea is doing is unethical. And the fact that the league doesn’t work harder to close these loopholes paints them equally so. By the way, when I say league I mean the 20 teams because I believe it is they who approve or disapprove of these financial shenanigans

Burnwinter

The clubs have just abandoned a vote to tighten up on the loopholes Chelsea has been exploiting. To be fair I'm not sure it's that big an issue relative to all the other nonsense unless it's happening all the time.

I reckon multi-club structures are a bigger problem by comparison. As Chelsea are aware, since they practically invented farming their midlist roster at satellite clubs.

Claudius

Burnwinter strongly disagree with this. A team that just spent 1.2Bn pounds in the last 2 years on players, somehow has 300m pounds in cap space, while it's rivals have a quarter of that.
If I read that as an Arsenal executive, then the motivation would be to follow suit with accounting magic like selling our very succesful women's team to KSE. we can even quote a valuation 3-4x what Chelsea said baed on how many more fans we attract than any other women's team. We can then similarly sell the Emirates, and sign these 10 year contracts with players.
Once all that is done, we can then maybe get really crative and run some player or other recurring expenses through an affiliated entity like KSE, giving us even more cap space. Or increase the revenue by then generating revenues from providing services to KSE which now owns our womens team, stadium and contracts.

At some point, it looks like Enron accounting, and you end up without terra firma for enabling financial fair play

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

What have United just signed?

Burnwinter

Claudius strongly disagree with this. A team that just spent 1.2Bn pounds in the last 2 years on players, somehow has 300m pounds in cap space, while it's rivals have a quarter of that.

You will have to explain why the clubs didn't vote to regulate this behaviour then.

Claudius you end up without terra firma for enabling financial fair play

Let's see them penalise City for the Mancini era and we'll talk terra firma. All these clubs, but especially City and Chelsea have been rotten for two decades.

QuincyAbeyie

Ait-Nouri to City, their third here we go this week.

Sicario2

QuincyAbeyie the intent is there which is concerning whereas we are still doing spreadsheets on Gyogerkes v Sesko

Qwiss

QuincyAbeyie not worried about anyone they've signed. From it looking like Wirtz a few weeks ago to getting Ait-Nouri, Cherki and Reijnders. None of these players would get your blood pumping (or your willy waggling as @lorddulaarsenal would say) if we signed them.

samthegooner

City was always going to be active early in this market due to the CWC - same with Chelsea. While I think their moves have been very good, I'm not as concerned with their activity relative to our inactivity. However, the Liverpool activity is a bit concerning as I was not anticipating them to be as active in the market as they have been prior to player sales. I still think TAA is a huge loss and will be hard to replace his impact on their chance creation but they've done good business if they can get Kerkez and Wirtz over the line.

Big Willie

Sicario2 the intent is there which is concerning

That's if you believe ITK reports on their targets.

Sicario2 whereas we are still doing spreadsheets on Gyogerkes v Sesko

All these ITKs just spread their sheets everywhere hoping some of it will stick. We give them too much attention.

QuincyAbeyie

Big Willie That's if you believe ITK reports on their targets.

As in if you believe the here we gos are actually happening? That's pretty reliable.

Sicario2

Big Willie the city ITK is Romano lol and they have effectively signed Ait Nouri, Rejinders (who is really good) and the number 10 from Lyon who is highly rated.

Big Willie

QuincyAbeyie As in if you believe the here we gos are actually happening? That's pretty reliable.

We have our own here we go, so no. That said some people take here we go deals for other teams as gospel but ignore our own for Zubi. That we aren't doing anything but that other teams are making moves.

I get the frustration, I really do. I've bemoaned our lack of signings in the forward areas for years whilst we were constantly signjng defenders and goalkeepers left, right and centre. I'm not even fully confident we'll do what's needed to make us a stronger team than we were over the last couple of years to be honest.

But I also can't see how those areas can be neglected the same way for the second summer in a row without their being anger from the fanbase and pressure on the club from both the fanbase and the media. So I'm trying to stay optimistic that all this plus the addition of Berta (and his love for buying expensive forwards) will see us buy the players we need. Plus it's only the start of June. The transfer window isn't even really open this time of the year normally.

Claudius

Qwiss each man has a different threshold for waggling his willy.

QuincyAbeyie

Qwiss None of these players would get your blood pumping

Cherki is unfortunately doing that this very minute, unfortunately.

QuincyAbeyie

Qwiss None of these players would get your blood pumping

Cherki is doing that this very minute, unfortunately.

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