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  1. Franchise60

    Player Watch Player Watch: Radu Dragusin

    Or we could just pay the money?
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    Luka Vusković

    I was wondering about this. So he turns 18 in February 2025. If he comes over Summer 2025, will he become HG if he stays at the club for his years 18-21?
  3. Franchise60

    The Deadline Day ITK Discussion Thread - 1st September

    Do you realize that you just removed the context and nuance from Herc’s post by boiling it down to “really all that matters” is that Ange was overall happy with our window? Might want to take your own advice here when it comes to the importance of context.
  4. Franchise60

    FORMER Manager Watch: Nuno Espírito Santo

    Nuno also said that we controlled the first half, which says a lot more. He also seemed to put the blame on the performance/execution rather than the set-up, which was very Mourinho like. As was the football.
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    Miralem Pjanic

    exactly. Pjanic won’t command a higher wage as a free agent so he won’t agree to mutually terminate. If Barca really need to get rid of him they will probably have to subsidize his wages a bit as part of a loan or free transfer unless a club is willing to pay him his whole wage.
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    Miralem Pjanic

    Ramsey is a completely different scenario though. Obviously players without a contract can demand a higher wage. Pjanic is at a club that doesn’t want him and may be willing to give him up to get off his wages. These are not the same things. Barca isn’t going to just release Pjanic because then...
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    Miralem Pjanic

    This logic rarely gets used when talking about normal signings or when we brought in Bale though. If we buy a player for 10M and sell him for 10M it means “we got our money back”. But with this signing all of a sudden wages would be a sunk cost when it really isn’t different than other signings...
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    Miralem Pjanic

    I think a player like Pjanic would be a good fit in our midfield. I’d rather we go get Locatelli, but if this is the cheap alternative it’s a pretty good option for two years or so.
  9. Franchise60

    Miralem Pjanic

    correct, there will be no future resale value on the player currently being offered around without a transfer fee.
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    Miralem Pjanic

    Jorginho might be the best regista in the world right now?
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    Harry Kane

    I keep trying to talk myself into why it would be good to sell Kane for 150M this summer. His ankles are mostly shot. He is one injury away from losing most of his value. He’ll be a free agent at 30 and could walk. 150M this summer is probably worth 250M next summer due to all the financial...
  12. Franchise60

    Player watch: Toby Alderweireld

    Agreed. That’s way closer to his wage than I imagined.
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    Joachim Andersen

    Skriniar has more than one successful season though. You are confusing him struggling to adapt to a new 3ATB system (that he later excelled in while winning a title), with having a Sanchez like career before this most recent season. Skriniar was excelling for Sampdoria 5 years ago and his stock...
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    Summer Transfers

    Yeah, I think both would be hurt by Nuno’s arrival. It seems he prefers a more defensive pairing. Lo Celso would have the best chance as he could maybe play in a two or more advanced. it’s a shame that we haven’t been able to see a real run at a midfield 3 of PEH, Lo Celso, and Ndombele.
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    Summer Transfers

    We need to sell Serge and other deadwood for the most money we can get from a place they will go to. If that’s 15-20M then great! If it’s 8-10M, then that’ll do as well. What we CANNOT do is set a minimum price that the market won’t pay and then hold on to players we don’t want any longer. This...
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    Summer Transfers

    Agreed. Hopefully we go back to buying more young up and coming players with potential in the 10-25M range. Because once they hit at smaller clubs we are completely priced out. We need to identify and buy these players before they go to teams like Villa, Leicester, etc. Hell, Brighton want...
  17. Franchise60

    ENIC...

    Quite a look from Levy to allude to Poch turning down a couple signings three years ago considering we’ve been a disaster since Levy fired Poch and he tried to bring him back this summer.
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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - DEADLINE DAY!

    Sissoko not being worth 30m does not justify failing to spend the 20-25m bid on Sissoko on a player who is worth that money. That is the issue. Waiting does not add value any longer. Maybe we get 5 million less for players we sold this week if we sold then a month ago. But we could take then...
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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - DEADLINE DAY!

    What is the point of a new stadium if bottom half teams can outspend us 5-1 because of the TV money while we are pocketing profits to build the stadium? Basically we are banking on a future advantage that is going to be dwarfed by the the TV money everyone has and will struggle to spend. If...
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    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 1st September 2015 DEADLINE DAY!

    Ah yeah, Poch must be the reason why we didn't have a plan b and had all of our eggs in a deadline day deal. We should have learned our lesson after Poch did this in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 as well. FFS Poch
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