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overkill
Player Valuation: £20m
Yeah I noticed that, also Sidbe was a loan too
2018/2019 was arguably the only year we actually did alright transfer-wise.
17/18 makes me cry.
17/18 makes me cry.
James is omitted, as is Gomes' loan spell
A brass shop
tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
Wrote on the wall in the brass house in Delamore Street
Kylito
Player Valuation: £5m
People can point to Vlasic / Onyekuru / Lookman who barely played but at least we still made profit on all of them. Ultimately I feel those sort of low wages signings is where we should have been focusing, and the fact that none of them seemed to gel yet went onto bigger and better things should have set the alarm bells ringing.
Signing rejects from better clubs - Schneiderlin, Iwobi, Walcott for over £20m each (and especially selling Schneiderlin for less than 1/10th of that) is where a lot of the damage has been done.
Then we've gone and bought players from worse clubs than us at literally the worst possible time - Gylfi, Williams, Bolasie - all 27+ when we signed them and allowed their respective clubs to cash in.
Michael Keane a bit younger than them but had a year left on his contract and reminds me of MOTD/Danny Murphy bigging up Roger Johnson under Alex McLeish's Birmingham - an extremely limited player in a team that couldn't be more set up to adhere to his strengths that every sensible club swerved.
Few punts in there like Sandro that didn't hit but we massively overpaid on wages on to secure which kind of takes away the entire point of a punt.
Bought two fullbacks in January that have very good potential on Football Manager but miles off first team status at a time where we were crying out for immediate quality.
I could go on but it's absolutely depressingly terrible business all round.
Signing rejects from better clubs - Schneiderlin, Iwobi, Walcott for over £20m each (and especially selling Schneiderlin for less than 1/10th of that) is where a lot of the damage has been done.
Then we've gone and bought players from worse clubs than us at literally the worst possible time - Gylfi, Williams, Bolasie - all 27+ when we signed them and allowed their respective clubs to cash in.
Michael Keane a bit younger than them but had a year left on his contract and reminds me of MOTD/Danny Murphy bigging up Roger Johnson under Alex McLeish's Birmingham - an extremely limited player in a team that couldn't be more set up to adhere to his strengths that every sensible club swerved.
Few punts in there like Sandro that didn't hit but we massively overpaid on wages on to secure which kind of takes away the entire point of a punt.
Bought two fullbacks in January that have very good potential on Football Manager but miles off first team status at a time where we were crying out for immediate quality.
I could go on but it's absolutely depressingly terrible business all round.
Transfer outgoings for the same period.
16/17 £54.72
17/18 £113.74
18/19 £25.79
19/20 £79.02
20/21 £ 3.98
21/22 £41.40
Total £328.01 mil
Thats from transfermarkt.
Btw
Zouma 7.11 loan fee
Sidibe 2.25 loan fee.
My thoughts exactly. 2019/2020 was a stinker too!
kenada_blue
Welcome to Barcelonaton FC
The two Koeman years are sickening and we never recovered.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
And you can't even when the going rate for his level of keeper is like 10m max
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Yeah we could have a whole team of Doucoures
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
We took the wrong approach. We tried to do it all in that season and signed aging players. We needed to invest for sustainability and didn't. Still haven't. It was never going to work.
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