Bob stark

So you agree that you can win without having elite st if the goal come everywhere and you have very good defense.

Gyokeres, Kai are not elite st. It is that simple. You are making football too difficult. Having elite st help, but not having one is not a problem. Rather than position, we need to look more on what aspect do we need to imrpove on next season as a team?

Arse won the league with Gyokeres/Havertz as st and they were in the final on cl too.

It is u-21.

Don’t worry, there is 0 chance we are involved in this deal.

Asumming no transfer, it will be between arse n city.

Everyone thought 2028 but it turned out to his new deal trigger additional yeart

It is not about flipping or improving the team. You need to look at our transfer differently. We have free slot in winger position. Garnacho is 21 with 3 years exp in pl, cost 40 and his salary demand is probably reasonable plus his analytical number is very good. Does he improve the team? Do we need his profile? It does not matter.

Not sure this true. We had a playe two seasons ago who looked like he didn't belong on the field.

Sancho n Sterling were fine.

This thread really remind me of Mudyrk thread.

I am not sure it was incompetence, he tried to do too much. When we play simple, we were fine. Jorgensen over Sanchez decision really bite him and of course he then lose the dressing room and it was over

Player salary discussion is imo quite dumb, A lot of fan is proud when their team/favorite player has cheaper salary and unhappy when player want more money. 😂😂😂 If you pay cheaper salary, the player will want to leave or won't come. It is as simple as that. No magical contract, no magical negotiation. Player and agent are not stupid.

As I wrote before if we sold jackson, we would still gotten the same players + Simmons. We had a deal with Simmons agent and Leipzig but we need to sell Jackson. Btw this is not my opinion, this was quite known.

Lavia case is very simple 100% sell. But you can't sell him, so once again it is back to the club.

It is not a strange one and it is not even about Alonso. Lavia case is a club decision. No manager want to deal with player who are always injured unless you are a superstar.

This. You can sort of guess which one is making more which one is making less. Jackson n Palmer were probably on the lower end in their first season but no longer in that bracket in their 2nd season.

Sanchez isn't great but if you are talking about starting to build a title winning, we have far bigger problem than Sanchez

None of the dross that we signed last season is connected with Jackson deal. Jackson "replacement" last season was Xavi Simmons.

Santos, unless he has signed a new contract, is probably on very cheap salary, Lavia no chance. If we are being rational it is quite easy to tell who is making big money, who isn't.

Stop using capology. Santos came from Brazil Serie b for 10 m, Lavia came from soton after we beat pool for his signature for 40/50 m.

We beat pool for Lavia signature which mean he is not on some cheap salary, and he is constantly injured. It is so much easier to move Santos than Lavia.

Caiced is far more than that. If we are talking about real Madrid kids sure, but then what are we doing

If you can't pay Enzo, you can't sign player from real. In the last two seasons. We sold Gallagher, tried to sell Chalobah. We sold Madueke. Tried to sell Jackson. All of these players played close 2000 min in the previous season. None of this players are old or super expensive. So it is not about small team mindset, we are simply not operating the way big team operate.

Non youth min Arse 91 City 79 United 64 (their gk is 22, if you remove him, it is probably 75) Villa 88 Liverpool 70 Chelsea 68 (2nd best behind our role model Brighton) If you want to compete now and in the future, you sign player around 24 (this chart use 23). If you keep signing kids, you basically keep building your team for the future.