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Savinho

Minorities make the most noise, I think our fans are pleased to see signings and hope they workout for us, there are exceptions we we know them by now.

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I do think the whole "People used to complain about us not spending and now now complaining about overspending" thing a bit lazy, if you can call out specific individuals that's one thing but it's not necessarily the same folks...
And even if it is, what's a touch more cognitive dissonance added to supporting a top level football club, especially one like ours that is so hard to pin down. We could be anything this season, no doubt Savinho will be chomping at the bit to do his stuff, much like the fans will be to see him do it!
 
It's great we're getting the players we want, but I can't help but feel we're getting our pants pulled down. Overpaying for one player is fine, but it feels like we've overpaid for every single one of them.
I will say that there are situations when it's extremely pleasant to have one's pants pulled down.
 
There is a percieved market value for transfers and you can overpay in that respect.
Even the perceived market value is variable, it really does depend on the eye of the behokder. Look at Romero, in our fan base his perceived value was in and around £60m but the market and Inter thought otherwise. I remember when Rice was bought, almost everyone said it was an overpay but then his quality and the results they have received have proven his worth even if his perceived value at the time was lower.
 
the negativity around us is as a result of our two seasons as "sleeping giants". Our spending power, if fully unlocked, was always designed to be bigger than just about everyone else, because Levy in his legacy act of genius built us a colosseum, which we could use for all manner of other revenues. The likes of Saudi Sportswashing Machine, Villa, even Utd are way behind us on that front, which is why their fans are looking at us and wondering how we can do this, both from a cash perspective but also from a regulatory one. The truth of that is that we are exploiting the system for when a club isn't in Europe, while we have also cleared out a lot:

Luka Vušković Brighton £46m
Will Lankshear Middlesbrough £10m
Alfie Devine Preston £6m
Manor Solomon West Ham £5m
Djed Spence Inter Milan £30m
Cristian Romero Atlético Madrid £34m
Ashley Phillips Middlesbrough £7m

Add to that the departures of Biss, Dragusin and Vicario removing their wages and we've made £138m or more, depending on performance of the likes of Vuskovic, Lankshear and Philips plus taken a good half a million off the weekly wage bill.
Only two??
 
I watched the City vs Atletico pre season friendly, Savinho was playing off of the right, he ripped their left back apart time and time again and put 2 or 3 very good balls across the keeper for a tap in but unfortunately no one was there to tap it in. People are going to like this guy i can sense it.
 
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