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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    It’s like you’re so close to seeing the point I’m trying to make but for whatever reason can’t bring yourself to get there. What is the difference between failing to get our primary targets, and moving on to others, versus ACTUALLY GETTING OUR PRIMARY TARGETS? That’s what I’m taking about...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    I’m honestly not trying to be deliberately obtuse, I just do not understand why the plan initially had to be to rebuild the squad with younger players first? If the goal was to eventually try and win the league, what makes summer 2025 so special as the right time to suddenly shift the gears...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    I’m not sure how else to say it… I’ve said multiple times, I’m not denying that we’ve signed first team players. I’m also delighted we have Odobert. But signing him is not proof that we are making a charge on the very biggest trophies. My entire point was that as a club we may be moving...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    Are we doing this? He was a 19 year old starter for a relegated team. I’m so glad we have him, but he was not a ‘statement of intent’ signing that suggested we were going to push for something more this time around. He is an archetypal potential signing, and that’s fine. My point was that so...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    For me, Odobert is a ‘potential’ signing. I love him, I think he could be great. But he’s potential. Kudus we are taking from a PL team’s first 11. He’s proven. Same for MGW. He has potential but he’s already pretty strong, and crucially proven in this league which also Lo Celso and Tanguay...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    Btw, the point I am getting at, why it is a ‘sticking point’, is because we absolutely haven’t demonstrated the ambition to try and win the league with how we’ve approached the market previously. You seem to look upon that fact as if Levy had no other option - ‘that’s just the way it unfolded’...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    To be clear, I am absolutely not denying that we have signed this profile of player in the past. Of course we have! I’m talking about the speed to conclude the deals, the rate of the deals, and the likelihood that there will be more deals because we are at the start of the window. I would say...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    No I’m not talking like we’ve just been buying kids! That’s what you said! That we previously were signing younger players but now we can sign a couple of big players because that’s where we’ve gotten the squad to. My question has always been why? Why were we not signing the top players at the...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    The closest to having two players of roughly a similar level coming in the same window would be Maddison and Johnson signing when we were losing Kane. I don’t think picking up Maddison from a relegated side and the Johnson of two years ago are entirely similar to the caliber we now seem to be...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    But again, we’ve never signed two big players like this in such a quick timeframe. We have signed players of this price range before, but never more than one in the same window. MGW and Kudus this quickly at the start of the window with promise of more to come is absolutely not more of the same...
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    Usually it’s one of those players for the entire window, as opposed to two in the same couple of days. All indications that we aren’t done yet either. So I think we’re acting like a different club to last summer.
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Levy's Plan

    I’m not following why we needed to sign prospects because of numbers. I think if we wanted to act this way last summer, or any other year, we could have. If the will, and the money was there. This is something different. It’s moving earlier, more aggressive for big money targets. It’s also...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I think players by and large care that the club they are joining has a real plan for them. Obviously money is also a factor, but another club suddenly deciding this late to take MGW from us doesn’t seem likely.
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    I guess the idea is that if the clause is truly secret, the selling club might actually get a bid higher than the release clause number. This whole thing is just dumb. if buying clubs ask agents all the time what they think a bid would need to be, there's a very easy way to get around this...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Yeah I always find it so funny how the various joirnos in football media are just transparently acting on behalf of the people they have relationships with when it comes to things like this. Also makes me laugh when Romano tweets something like ‘the club sort of likes this player, but also...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Also I find this funny that the Forest journos are like ‘the deal is OFF’ while every London journo seems to be more like ‘bit annoying but it’s fine’
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    It would be whether they could prove that a secret release clause was leaked to Spurs. I don’t think this is how it went down because I can’t imagine CAA or Spurs would be so stupid. But apparently having a release clause that is secret is a thing. It’s not broadcast to the market, but if a club...
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    Also thinking about it, the fact that Palace made the complaint on Chelsea, probably suggested that Palace really did have a case. They are not owners that generally cause a scene, they are a club you can deal with, they operate professionally, so them raising a complaint probably did suggest...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    It’s more that the exact number can’t be shared, as if a club bids that number, they have to accept. That would be the secret part. But I seriously struggle with the idea we’ve done anything wrong here. Of course we aren’t going to have a multi window transfer ban because of this. I actually...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Morgan Gibbs-White

    No, but maybe it was something to do with not wanting a protracted fight on a player and wanting to keep doing their business quickly, and moving to their next target?
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