Guess who isn’t leaving?

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Newcastle United will NOT be taken over by the bad folk that chop up dissenters.

I absolutely LOVE to see it.

Their fans, the greatest on earth, spent the last 3 months justifying the takeover, completely throwing all ethics to the wind… they were dreaming of Pochettino, MBappe, and spending £300m in a single summer.

Now they have nothing. Another season of Steve Bruce football. The hope that Andy Carroll might sign on for another year.

Good.

After that carry-on, they deserve Mike Ashley, and to have SPORTS DIRECT painted on their stadium.

My worry is that sports washing fund has just moved onto another Premier League club. I hope it’s not Spurs, who are rumoured to be looking for a buyer.

ONTO ARSENAL.

Arsenal inquired as to the availability of Jack Grealish and were told £70m. A silly sum of cash that basically says they don’t want to sell him this summer. I love the player, but we really don’t need to play with fees like that. We’d get better value from a distressed Europe this summer. If City can get Torres for £20m, then we should be looking to match that sort of value.

The Zaha rumours are also hotting up. Palace is not going to be a club with hundreds of millions this summer, but they do need a rebuild, and Zaha could be a good make-weight for them. I think he had the second most take ons in the league last season, and he’s readymade for the league.

If we are in for him, you’d have to wonder about the future of Pepe. I would not be surprised to see him moved on this summer and the fact he came from the Lille factory of talent via some Mendes dealings likely means there will be a club that they could find for him. I’m just not sure we’d get much in the way of recompense.

Interesting to see Lille getting €50m for a player with one solid season in Ligue 1 under his belt. That sort of price level would be obscene in normal times, why would anyone spend that in a depressed market? Even weirder when you consider they finished 7th this year. No Champions League. Notable that the same team were in the market for Pepe last year as well. Still, one thing is not in doubt, Luis Campos is a god of footballing talent.

Granit Xhaka had some nice things to say about the man who convinced him to stay in December.

“He convinced me to stay with Arsenal,”

“We had a very good conversation shortly after his appointment, and I can really only say positive things about him. He is a young, very meticulous trainer who gives more than 100% in every training session, who optimally prepares us for every single game.

“I have rarely experienced this. He is really a great guy as a coach, but also as a person and I have already learned a lot from him during the time he is with us. Many details that have made me even better.

“So it’s really a pleasure to be able to play under him.”

It’ll be interesting to see if he stays beyond this summer, I suspect he will.

Mesut Ozil’s agent has once again said his client won’t leave this summer. Super odd that the German doesn’t seem to care about football or playing at all. I hope Arsenal cut a deal and he leaves on a free. We cannot have his shadow lurking over the club for another season, it’s too disruptive.

FA Cup news has been hard to come by, so I guess we’ll save the chat for tomorrow after some prezzers drop and we get a bit of news.

I’m starting to get excited, I hope you are too.

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Graham62

Oh yeh, I almost forgot, Wenger’s “book launch”

Countryboy

Anyone still clamoring for Coutinho type of signings should know this

WE ARE NOT GOING TO OUTSPEND LIVERPOOL, MAN CITY, CHELSEA AND UNITED.

So signing players like Buendia and Szo is not just being creative as Gentlebris puts it, ITS A NECESSITY.

We. Do. Not. Have. A. Choice.

You get Coutinho on loan for a year with money you don’t have, well guess what? Chelsea buys Havertz.

With Money They Have..

You buy Willian. They bought Ziyech.

Difference is they are getting players who are yet to peak.

While we are wasting money on has-beens.

Its not sustainable.

CG

Tom

“”The history rewrite on here is quite epic at times.
Both Sanchez and Ozil were GREAT fucking signings for Arsenal.”””

Well said Tom,

Wenger that season,( through his own blood,sweat and tears) finally putting Arsenal, where they belong at the top table of European soccer.

Nowadays- its Cebollas from Real Madrid and Denis Suarez from Barca.

Uwot?

Tom excellent point.Where might we be now financially if those two decisions had been handled correctly.Could have been our Liverpool moment financially.instead Gazidis/wenger f*** kd up big time……..

Pierre

Sanchez thought the grass was greener on the other side, unfortunately he was very badly advised and money became more important to him than playing football. Sanchez had a manager ( wenger ) who knew how to get the best out of him and a team mate ( ozil) who would feed him the ball in the areas that he could do maximum damage, a partnership made in heaven. Unfortunately, neither have been the same player without the other and neither have since had a manager who could extract the maximum from either player . The opposite in fact… Wenger… Read more »

Tom

“It’a actually a bit of both, Arteta clearly is a skilled coach but his management skills are not at the required levels. As for the squad, having no midfield would hamper any team“

Arteta has been heavily influenced by Pep and Pep never worked with substandard talent the sort Arsenal have now.
Every manager makes mistakes but they tend to look worse when you don’t have elite level players to bail you out from your occasional brain fart.

Daniel Altos

TomJuly 31, 2020 09:54:42
Coutinho not worth 25 m but Zaha worth 80m – transfermarkt valuation by CG.
Are you sure you wanna go with this sort of recommendation Daniel Altos?

@Tom am talking about the loan fee plus salary being bandied about

Tom

Ok, that makes more sense, Daniel Altos.

Habesha Gooner

Excited for the cup final today. I feel we can’t sit deep as we did against city because of the presence of Giroud. We need to have balance between deep block and high press.

Line up
Martinez,
Bellerin, Holding, Luiz, Tierney, Saka
Xhaka, Ceballos
Pepe, Lacazette, Aubameyang

AMN can also be an option but that Europa league final Last year may be on his mind so I wouldn’t want to risk it.

Marc

Tom

That doesn’t explain his poor in game management and poor substitution decisions – mostly timing.

There’s a huge difference between good coach and a good manager. A good manager doesn’t have to be a good coach he can delegate some of that, a good coach can’t delegate management decisions. So far Arteta looks a good coach can he raise his management levels?

Marc

Habesha

Yeah I’d say that looks to be about it. Not sure we have that many serious options though to be honest.

Habesha Gooner

Marc
I can’t believe I am saying it but Mustafi will be a miss. Holding looked shaky versus Watford. O hope he is motivated again for another cup final. Foot race wouldn’t be much of a problem we don’t let Pulisic and Willian get at our Central defenders.

Habesha Gooner

I hope *

Habesha Gooner

If we don’t*

Sid

From the type of football we are playing, Arteta is more influenced by Moyes but the narrative that he is heavily influenced by Pep suits his fanboys

Tom

“That doesn’t explain his poor in game management and poor substitution decisions – mostly timing.“
Marc, no it doesn’t but my point was how susceptible is Pep to these kind of mistakes with the squad he’s got?
Not a lot.
Mahrez having an off day? No problem. Bernardo Silva….in you go son.

Tom

Sid
Horses for courses
I’m telling this for free

China1

Sanchez was great until his last season where his head had been turned

He put the team on his back until then. Very good signing

Sid

If Saka and Pepe are upgrades on Mikhi and Iwobi then we should be playing better football if the coach is anything like Pep.

DigitalBob

Habesha – I agree, Holding can go from solid to shit from one game to the next. If he’s motivated and focused he could have a great game against that Chelsea attack.

I’m really hoping Kolasinac is no where near the first 11 and doesn’t make it on the field till we are lifting the cup!

Graham62

Pierre Sanchez may have ‘thought the grass was greener on the other side“ but I would say his main reason for leaving was based on the regression around him and the inability of the manager to rectify matters. Sanchez was a warrior and when you have that mindset amongst so many others who were set in a comfort zone, you have to get out. Remember that 3-3 Bournemouth game? Money obviously attracts and even though it didn’t work out for him at OT( not his preferred choice of club) I reckon if you asked Sanchez why he wanted to leave,… Read more »

China1

I guess Sanchez was wenger a last great signing. Ofc there’s auba but Sanchez was bought below market rate imo so was value for money as well as elite, where auba is doing about what you’d expect of a 70m striker

China1

Graham same reason we routinely lost our best players

We never put up a serious case for our elite talents to stay. ‘Top 4 is a trophy’ is not selling a dream to anyone who wants to be lifting the CL…

China1

I have a bad feeling about this final.

But my match day predictions are consistently wrong so LOOKS LIKE WE’RE WINNING THE CUP BOYS!!!

Habesha Gooner

digital
I didn’t expect holding to put that performance in the last cup final either. So we never know how it will play out.

Kolasinac I agree on. If there are no injuries we shouldn’t even sub him in.

Marc

China

I’ve had the same feeling all week – the only way I’ve been able to console myself is that I had the exact same feeling before the 2017 final.

Bojangles

Sanchez was exasperated with his team mates who refused to press (probably a Wenger directive.) This and a lack of desire shown by the club was too much for him. He would be a perfect fit under Arteta. And would help to address the lack of character currently in the squad.

Pierre

Graham
If it wasn’t greed then why did Sanchez turn down City for more money at United when it was obvious that City had a better team and manager.

Arsenal was sanchez level but he became too big for his boots
He was never a regular at Barca , simply because he isn’t elite level.

The closest he got to elite level was at Arsenal and that is because of 2 people.

He didn’t make it at United as he never had that manager or that player to bring the best out of him.

Batistuta

Yea, not feeling very upbeat for the cup final, hope we manage to scrap a win any way we can

Trap

Buendia fanboys ! The club isn’t interested in your boy …..let go,this isn’t football manager .

Trap

Buendia fanboys ! The club isn’t interested in your boy …..let go,this isn’t football manager .
It’s been greatest,szobozalai and now coutinho nowhere has buendia come up

Trap

#grealish

Avaris

Put more faith in the youngsters and and 1-2 quality players and you’re golden.

China1

Pierre wenger handled Sanchez perfectly but I don’t think it was some kind of managerial genius. Sanchez has always been a player who plays best when not micromanaged just like (not coincidentally) all our best wenger buys. Wenger gave Sanchez as much instruction and management as everyone else ‘express yourself’. Sanchez is a player who thrives in that setup. He didn’t fail at Utd because they were too big or he wasn’t good enough, he just was put into a system where he had very specific instructions – something he’s consistently demonstrated doesn’t suit him. If utd had said to… Read more »

The Godfather

The mere fact that City and United were in a battle for Alexis
and not one team of note cast even a mere glance in Ozil’s direction should’ve
been a massive red flag for a club with any sense.

Again someone was either on the take or massively incompetent to give that
man 350k per week

Freddie Ljungberg

I’m all for signing a young Cam, been banging on about Szobozslai in particular since last summer but if we could get Coutinho done like that I’d take him in a heartbeat. Too good a deal to turn down.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/arsenal-transfer-news-philippe-coutinho-guendouzi-aubameyang-a9647696.html

Trap

Arsenal and Barca reportedly about to swap guendouzi (100m) for coutinho+109m) ..,.it’s not straight seems like some form of book balancing same as Arthur and pjanic deal …. Barca might just get 9m ?

Trap

Arsenal and Barca reportedly about to swap guendouzi (100m) for coutinh(109m) ..,.it’s not straight seems like some form of book balancing same as Arthur and pjanic deal …. Barca might just get 9m ?

Trap

‘Notional £9m’ = Arsenal e.g. sign Coutinho for £109m and Barcelona sign Guendouzi for £100m, in order to balance the books. Barca sold Arthur to Juventus for €72m and signed Pjanic from Juventus for €60m.

Nelson

Pierre

Graham
If it wasn’t greed then why did Sanchez turn down City for more money at United when it was obvious that City had a better team and manager.

Pierre, you are dead wrong here,. Sanchex was over joyed when he was informed that he could join MC. Arsenal stopped the transfer because there wasn’t sufficient time to sign a replacement. They almost signed Lemar for 90m.

Freddie Ljungberg

Ceballos on loan with obligation to buy for around 25m next year and Coutinho for 9m + Guen and we have the start of and excellent midfield for very little outlay this year. Just need a beast B2B/DM so we don’t have to suffer Xhaka and the low block he makes necessary.

He can stay and captain the cup team if we get rid of Guen and Torreira.

Tom

“Again someone was either on the take or massively incompetent to give that man 350k per week“ A face saving exercise more like it, or panicked reaction triggered by confluence of events. Ox taking a pay cut and jumping ship. Sanchez looking for a massive pay increase, or as some call it , showing ambition , clearly. And Ozil coming off his best spell as an assist maker. In hindsight : Ox hasn’t turned out to be that important a player to lose so him leaving should’ve been met with a shoulders shrug and not the holly shit players are… Read more »

Marc

Freddie

You think Barca are going to take a hit on Coutinho who cost £140 million by taking £9 million plus Guendozi?

Bloody hell I know it’s a warm sunny day but you’ve hit the booze early!

Marc

If Guendozi is worth £100 million then Pierre hates Ozil!

Trap

Barca are skint and are trying to balance the books they aren’t getting 72m for Arthur’s sale it’s just paper work to balance the books same is now being reported…might not happen but that’s what’s being discussed now reportedly

Paulinho

Called for Coutinho all of last summer, and I thought when we let Iwobi go that Coutinho was being lined up to replace him. Massive disappointment when that didn’t happen and a year of Auba playing wide in straight lines was in the offing.

Ceballos again becomes key to find Coutinho in the little pockets of space to unleash howitzers.

Leedsgunner

Whilst we all fret over who is coming in… I still believe the REAL barometer of success of this transfer window is who we manage to move out.

In this we need to learn from Chelsea who have always been very very good at selling their fringe players for top money.

Freddie Ljungberg

Marc

Didn’t say it was likely, take your complaints up with the independent.

I don’t think Barca are expecting any 100m for Coutinho though, the rumoured fee has been 60-70m. If they just want to get him off the books it’s possible I guess, Barca has made dumber decisions than that before.

Don’t think Guen is worth that much personally even though I like him. Don’t want Coutinho on an expensive loan or if we have to shell out full whack but this way I’d take him. If not it’s Szoboszlai all the way for me.

Marc

Leeds

It’s a very long queue!

Marc

Freddie

I was taking the piss a bit not having a go – I apologise if it came across that way.

No way Guendozi is worth £100 million and I’d take that story with a container ship worth of salt.

If by some bizarre situation it is true the only way I can see it is Barca not being able to write off £120 odd million on one player in one hit so might look to “cook the books” and write the money off as £40 million on three players over time.

Champagne Charlie

That would be a quality deal for all involved, we gain a baller we need, Barca gain a young player they want plus some cash, minus a fat contract at the club.

Both clubs also get a nice boost on the balance sheet.

Habesha Gooner

A very good deal if it is as it is said Guendouzi + 9 mil. But his wages will have to be reduced. 240k is insane. We need to get ozil of the books and pay coutinho up to 180k.

Dissenter

Freddie
The arithmetic in that Guendouzi for Coutinho deal is very fuzzy. What does ‘notional £9 million’ mean?

Graham62

Pierre

Sorry, don’t agree.

As China has highlighted, the reason he and all our top players decided to leave was based on frustration not money. Also, it was Arsenal who scuppered his move to MC.

“We never put up a serious case for our elite players to stay”

So so true.

Marc

CC – I just can’t see it happening sounds way too good to be true.

If it does happen Pedro’s going to have to fall on his sword regarding his constant criticism of Sanllehi.

Habesha – Yeah his money would have to fall in line with our structure. Can’t see us paying more than Auba’s money.

Graham62

The denial is never ending on here.

Unbelievable.

Leedsgunner

If we get Coutinho for a straight swap with Guendouzi it’ll be a good deal for us and go some way to make up for the fact that Barcelona absolutely swindled Cesc from us.

However tell them to forget it if they have the gall to ask for more money…. either as an expensive loan fee or transfer fee.

I can see Arteta getting Coutinho back to his best… he was brilliant for Liverpool… and a signing of such intent might convince Auba to stay.

Bojangles

Yeah this “notional” 9 mil is a bit odd. Seem to be suggesting a deal in theory, which every deal on the media is I guess.

Emiratesstroller

Pierre

I am not contradicting myself. All the players I listed our talented players as
individuals, but I don’t rate them as great “club” or “team players”.

The really outstanding players are those who play for the team and help the
club to win trophies.

Both Sanchez and Ozil were in my assessment only interested in money.

CG

ES
“””””Both Sanchez and Ozil were in my assessment only interested in money.””””””

Absolutely ES ( I am glad you have awoken from your slumbers)

They are all interested in just the money.

Same applies to Partey and Coutinhio.

I bet they cant wait to join Arsenal and play in The Loosers Cup on a Thursday afternoon in Belarus.
A lifelong dream accomplished, I am sure.
If they come – like any other player these days- it will be for the cash.

And cash only.

(Naive man)

Freddie Ljungberg

Marc

No worries, didn’t take it that way.

Yeah it sounds unlikely but it’s the only way I can see us being in for Coutinho and the rumours has been persistent so you never know. If he also takes a paycut we need Pedro to raise a statue of Raul in front of the Emirates with his own 2 hands.

Marc

“I bet they cant wait to join Arsenal and play in The Loosers Cup on a Thursday afternoon in Belarus.”

Oh well looks like CG thinks we’re going to win the Cup tomorrow.

Marc

Freddie

Pedro will try and turn it to “Mislintat’s actually a Jedi and saw the future where this happened” rather than admit Sanllehi’s done anything good. We’ll then have stories about a £30 million payment to his agent off the books!

Freddie Ljungberg

I would still try to get Szoboslai even if we somehow managed to fool Barca into that deal. Think he can be really special, Havertz level, and for the fee we’re talking about it’s a no brainer. Get rid of Laca (and if Nelson is on the chopping block too it makes even more sense) play one of Coutinho or Szo on the wings rotating with Saka and Pepe. Plenty of games for them both to get playing time in the center too. Can even go Ceballos Coutinho Szo midfield in some games. Loan ESR if we feel he won’t… Read more »

CG

Walt

“””””Oh well looks like CG thinks we’re going to win the Cup tomorrow.””””””

I am hearing Arteta has been in contact with Mr.Wenger,
Our chances increased dramatically at a stroke.

I guarantee Cortinhio and Partey will be cheering on Chelsea tomorrow.

No way – no these players want Belarus on a Thursday!
Would you?

salparadisenyc

Best trigger word in this space has to be MISLINTAT.

Daniel Altos

With Gabriel Magalhães on his way out, Sven Botman comes in for €8 million at LOSC Lille.

Joins from AFC Ajax after a good season on loan at sc Heerenveen. Big, dominant in the air, comfortable on the ball, and left-footed, all just like Gabriel .

China1

I won’t dare to believe guen + 9m = Coutinho because there’s a word for that and it’s a ‘heist’ LOL

Habesha Gooner

Mislintat did an adequate job but it wasn’t the greatest. But he showed the upside to signing young players. Guendouzi was a steal at 7 mil. And we can recoup money for torreira. But We can’t do that for the likes of Sokratis. That’s why I don’t like spending above 10 mil for players 28+. You are basically resigned to lose your transfer fee if that player doesn’t become a Legend at your club.

Left testicle

That’s why I don’t like spending above 10 mil for players 28+.
…………………

Habesha,
You wouldn’t pay £10m + £1 for a 28 year old Coutinho?

DigitalBob

Countinho in exchange for £9 million and a out-of-favour Guendouzi, seems to good to be true.

I’m familiar with the metrics involved in the Artur/Pjanic deal but are Barca that skint? Like Arsenal levels of skint?

I think we have to pull the trigger on this one even if I’m no fan of having Coutinho’s “current” wages added to the wage budget.

Habesha Gooner

Left Coutinho was transferred to Barcelona for a 100 mil + though. I would for that kind of talent but those players are rare. There are few players that I would spend 30 mil+ above that are aged 28+. Especially when we are cash strapped. A club like ours can’t afford to operate that way. I was speaking in context. we bought Sokratis for 18 mil FFS. We got robbed there. we aren’t paying just 9 mil for coutinho and I am okay with that. Guendouzi is going the other way and I bet he costs around 30 mil. See… Read more »

mb

Will 10m for Coutinho considering Guen may never be in playing XI be an OK deal?

Only time will tell. We were so excited with Pepe joining last season and finished the worst I can remember.

There is no 100% guarantee any signings will work. If you are low on money and there is a risk factor, why take a high wage earner or a costly transfer.

Pepe’s money could have been split in two, I am sure one would have out performed him.

salparadisenyc

Habesh

For me ridiculous to try and break down Mislintat vs Raul with so many blurred lines.

In the end, naive to think Raul wasn’t involved in decision making prior to his actual arrival, equally naive to think Raul wasn’t working from list of players targeted during Mislintat’s time.

Club apparently had long standing interested in Tierney that goes back to Wenger’s time. That’ll be tester for some.

Leedsgunner

I hope, and I really hope Edu and Raul pull an absolute blinder this summer because I have to tell you I have my annual bout of transfer envy every year when I see BvB and Ajax operate in the summer transfer window.

There’s no reason why we couldn’t operate a similar model here. They acquire top young talent, play good football, and sell their excess players for good profit.

Trap

Barca are in same financial situation as arsenal just do a quick read in their finances ,yes there revenue is superb but they are a shambles, there wage bill is shittier than ours with over aged players

Only pep can save them from themselves

Trap

Yeah let’s become a selling club 😉

Trap

We should Target youth but not to become a free market for the likes of real ,city and Barca ….do it for the Long haul,to challenge

andy1886

“Some cunt the other day trying to say Bergkamp wasn’t a number 10 but I suppose that’s the le grove experts for you.”

That was me you prick, and if you actually read my comments (I may be assuming too much and you can actually read) then you’d know what I actually said was that Dennis wasn’t a modern #10 like Ozil or Coutinho.

You’d also know that Dennis has said he considered himself a striker, not an overrated bug eyed waster like Ozil who even Arsenal.com list as a midfielder, not even a forward.

Twat.

Sid

Muller is a modern #10 and similar in style to bergkamp

Im telling you for free!

Leedsgunner

Trap

“ We should Target youth but not to become a free market for the likes of real ,city and Barca ….do it for the Long haul,to challenge…”

Fair point and in an ideal world I agree but the problem is young players hardly stray long enough to challenge.

We need to see progress every year and a serious title challenge within three. Otherwise we become like Spurs.

Leedsgunner

*stay

Wasi

A very good source says that Arsenal are very much interested in Lille CB Gabriel. Other big teams like Psg , Manu,Napoli and one small team Everton are also reportedly interested do signing him wont be easy.
Great signing if we can nab him for the 20mil that is being reported.

Saliba + Gabriel + Tierney and 3/4 potential top class defense is already sorted.

Leedsgunner

The fact that we had a good transfer with Pepe when he was at Lille might give us a edge if we are trying to sign Gabriel.

Perhaps we could offer them Mustafi as a part of the deal? By the time we kick off in the autumn he’ll be well in recovery…

Leedsgunner

I cannot believe a promoted team won’t look at Sokratis or Kolasinac if we made it attractive. £5m each… a good deal for everyone concerned… cheap for all that experience.

Marc

Leeds

It’s the £100k per week wages that are the issue.

azed

“he was very badly advised and money became more important to him than playing football.”

Pierre

You are talking about Ozil not Sanchez.

Sanchez is currently playing football at Inter while Ozil is playing fortnite.

Leedsgunner

Marc

Offer to buy the rest of contract off with a no strings attached £1m golden goodbye for full and final settlement…

Hitman49

Some of you here reall don’t know your history….. Wenger had it in his contract to be the highest paid at all times so it makes perfect sense for him to persuade Gazidez to paye ozil a Kings ransom. As he benefitted as a result as well it’s obvious that Wenger became a company man and must have been benefitting somehow from the dealings and none dealings, at the club and providing top four each year in a poor league (at the time) but providing great financial gains to the owners and himself , Hence the amount of dead wood… Read more »

Trap

Leeds

I’d say we have everything in place to kick on and become a force,we just need to get it right ,sign the right players for now,replace the aged undelivering player’s,get the wage bill down, qualify for the champions league by then the youth we have should be ready .but to become a selling club ? Hell no !

Marko

Coutinho’s annual wages of around €13.7m are prohibitive for Arsenal and Standard Sport understands Barca would be willing to pay half his salary, although the Gunners would be charged a loan fee of around €10m for the Brazilian

So about 17 million for the season? Not bad down from the 27 million or whatever it was being bandied about before

Marko

In the end, naive to think Raul wasn’t involved in decision making prior to his actual arrival, equally naive to think Raul wasn’t working from list of players targeted during Mislintat’s time.

He’s the quintessential Boogeyman honestly.

Sid

PC Harpers killers deserve the needle

“MP David Lammy, released his government review of racism in the criminal justice system, outlined, the disparity in sentencing partly boils down to a deeply entrenched mistrust of the system among young black men”

CG

Marko

“””””So about 17 million for the season? Not bad down from the 27 million or whatever it was being bandied about before””””””

you have not added what the Spivs. middle- men, are getting?

It will be a great deal for them, that for sure.

Cortinhio x 3 transfer windows
x3 transfers/loans
x3 agent commissions fees.

Absolutely disgraceful.
Just pimping of players, like leaky whores in the night.

Should be signing Bellingham or Declan Rice types.

DigitalBob

Wasi – I’d love it to happen but it looks like hes going to Everton. Besides we need to get rid of the dross at the back first. After this weekend we’ll see a lot of movement. Some of us will be happy and some clearly will not.

Leedsgunner

Trap Our scouting department has fallen behind the others, and we rely too much on contacts and super agents to find players and finalise on players contracts… despite having our own in-house analytics department… what’s that about? If it was up to me I would let Raul go. Set clear KPIs for Edu and invite Overmars to head up our football operations. For good measure I would also invite Dennis back to head up our scouting department and invite him to implement the best practices at the Ajax academy working with Per to get this done… so we can have… Read more »

Marko

Our scouting department has fallen behind the others, and we rely too much on contacts and super agents to find players and finalise on players contracts… despite having our own in-house analytics department… what’s that about?

None of that is true.

Atalanta,Udinese, BvB all have excellent youth development, discovery and scouting programs

Yeah none of them use super agents. In fact Haaland is represented by a computer program who analyzes his best interests when finding out which club to join

Marc

Leeds

“Offer to buy the rest of contract off with a no strings attached £1m golden goodbye for full and final settlement…”

Are are you serious? If yes are you all round thick or just bad at maths?

You want to sell a player for £5 million who’s on £100k per week and give them a £1 million bonus for leaving.

Sale value = £5 million
Payoff £5.2 million plus £1 million = £6.2 million

So we’d lose £1.2 million each on both Kolas and Sok.

Thank fuck you’re not involved in running the club.

Valentin

Salpa,

Luis Campos and Gerard Lopez are truly horrible people, but you have to admire the talent to spot players, buy them at the right time and sell them at an inflated prices.

I wish we had an upper management team as clued up as them.

Marko

Luis Campos and Gerard Lopez are truly horrible people

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