2025 Summer Transfer Thread. 😂

[Exiled_Rover]

1 hour ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Mark Brfc beat me to it but -

No, just cheaper inferior ones to replace the ones we've already got.

How much cheaper can we go? The squad is made up of FAs and Academy players.

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Off at a complete tangent as I've only just found this out 

Peter Shilton was 40 years old in the 1990 world cup. 

The rest of my day is completely in the clouds.😐

[OnionBalaji]

With Waggott being master Teflon - his departure, along with the very fast phase on ticket deadline as JHrover pointed out does hint at a very bleak summer ahead 

 

possible outgoings with value £

- brittain, Travis, tronstadt, cantwell, Carter (not the value we once hoped)

no real money for Dolan too 

cheap fee outgoings 

- pears, Buckley, JRC 

 

No idea what to expect inbound but imagine a bunch of unknown quantities who are unproven at this level 

[Gamst]

46 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

How much cheaper can we go? The squad is made up of FAs and Academy players.

There is only a trajectory of decline in any business when the primary objective is cost cutting. You can get lucky for a while, but in the end it will fail. I guess the intention is to keep unearthing cheap gems, but even if we manage to achieve that we would probably not tie down their contract due to penny pinching. They can rebrand their so called model as many times as they like, but the true model is to save money and it’s an utterly depressing state of affairs with a downward trajectory. 

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53 minutes ago, OnionBalaji said:

With Waggott being master Teflon - his departure, along with the very fast phase on ticket deadline as JHrover pointed out does hint at a very bleak summer ahead 

 

possible outgoings with value £

- brittain, Travis, tronstadt, cantwell, Carter (not the value we once hoped)

no real money for Dolan too 

cheap fee outgoings 

- pears, Buckley, JRC 

 

No idea what to expect inbound but imagine a bunch of unknown quantities who are unproven at this level 

Weirdly though unproven are a better gamble than proven to be crap 

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[Tomphil2]

2 hours ago, ... said:

Off at a complete tangent as I've only just found this out 

Peter Shilton was 40 years old in the 1990 world cup. 

The rest of my day is completely in the clouds.😐

Yeah and he looked it when falling backwards into the net.

Should have been dropped after '86, people can say what they want about the hand of god but that was awful goalkeeping.

[Darrenbot]

1 hour ago, Tomphil2 said:

Yeah and he looked it when falling backwards into the net.

Should have been dropped after '86, people can say what they want about the hand of god but that was awful goalkeeping.

Didn't get anywhere near any of Germany's pens in the Semi Final,a plank of wood would have come closer to saving one.

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16 minutes ago, Darrenbot said:

Didn't get anywhere near any of Germany's pens in the Semi Final,a plank of wood would have come closer to saving one.

I think on "Gazzas Tears - One night in Turin" one of the players says I cant remember ever seeing Peter save a penalty 😐

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