Transfer thread

[Raziel]

Do you then disagree with the figures in the graphic?

(Or are you counting obligations...as money that will be banked?)

Was working off Ali Gold's numbers (he went through the 54 transactions)

Assuming the graphic is the purely committed, meaning no add ons are hit, if add ons/obligations are hit, it gets to 264M. While I suspect the answer is somewhere in the middle, it also doesn't seem to account for loan fees/wages off books (14 loans) even for the year.

Either way, I suspect it falls short (certainly not exceeding) of previous 3 years (not making a judgement, just a statement)

 

[Raziel]

You're focusing too much on those 7 games. Super small smoke sized with a very specific target. The results of those games very likely wasn't sustainable both in the goals conceded and the wins Vs losses.

Individually we can have a worse defense but still perform better as a unit if RDZ gets the setup right. Time will tell if he's gotten it right but the defense of last season was rotten and needed some changes.

Not arguing, my point was, on paper, the defense is weaker, midfield and wide stronger.

As a unit, to be seen.

 

[robp135]

According to Ali Gold, it's 344M out, up to 264M in (depends on add ons), the only way I'm seeing it hit 150M is if we buy Mudryk for 75M, which I cannot see happening, and isn't an obligation anyway.

Yeh because he’s including he add ons which you can’t do.

 

[robp135]

As a unit perhaps, individually no question for me, weaker

- Romero is a better player than JPVH
- Danso is a better backup than Tosin
- Spence is a better FB than Gray
- Vicario is still more proven than Kinsky
- Add in the obvious gap in aerial ability and physicality.

RDZ cut down the goals conceded in last 7 games of season by about 50% (with those bad defense players), it's now (again, super small, irrelevant sample size) swung back to 5 goals conceded in first two games.

To be fair, I've always felt lots of teams had crappier individual defenders but were managing better as a unit, so to be seen (think Leeds conceded less than us with Rodon as an ever present)

Romero missed 40% of games for us. 30% of the time he was a liability. 30% he was sensational. Overall JPVH will give us more.