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Transfer Window 2021

icecoolguy22 said:
It's a 7/10 window once we signed Lukaku, 8/10 if Saul rediscover his form. Only lost Zouma, as much as I like the guy, he's never going to play a big part this season.
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Pretty much how I feel about it too.

Sexyfootball said:
Good point - I think Turkey and Russia still open for example ... Anjorin already linked to Lokomotiv Moscow, and maybe some club in Turkey will come in for Barkley ?
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Tino is expected to go, either direct sale or loan with buy obligation, and a buy back either way.

Hopefully our contacts in Russia and maybe with turkey still open means we can still shift RLC, Barkley, Sarr, Baker and Musonda.

 
This was a fun window in general with the huge names moving clubs. I enjoyed our business for the most part. I would've liked to see Guehi and Tammy stay (and actually get playing time but...) The Saul deal is a low risk; high reward type of deal and I can definitely get behind that, regardless of how I feel about the player. 

I also thought Arsenal's window was similar to Chelsea's in 2017. They spent all this money and what did they truly purchase? I'm definitely not upset about it, but it brought me back to scratching my head as we signed Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Drinkwater... 

 
Sexyfootball said:
I'd love to know how Sky put that chart together ... for us they must have deducted the original fees of players that we sold rather than the current amortisation value ... doubt they included loan fees either.
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I suspect they've made an error as 

Abraham (35) Zouma (30) Tomori (25) Guehi (20)  =110m (and those are conservative numbers) and then we sold Zappa, Livramento, Ugno, Bate and Moses (20m total)

So for me, we've got a net spend of minus 30m before you get into loan fees. 

I suspect they've taken their data from transfermarkt which categorises some of our sales as Chelsea u23

 
Could be much worse like our neighbor, sign 150M worth of players and only 2-3 able to make it into the first 11 this season. 

It's decided early we'd loan out Gilmour, towards the end we are  panicking a bit with nobody comes in. Chalobah stepped up, so we should deal with the absence of the defender for the season, or at least until next window. Other than that, I'd say it went according to plan, quality over quantity, NO whole sale change.

 
icecoolguy22 said:
Could be much worse like our neighbor, sign 150M worth of players and only 2-3 able to make it into the first 11 this season. 

It's decided early we'd loan out Gilmour, towards the end we are  panicking a bit with nobody comes in. Chalobah stepped up, so we should deal with the absence of the defender for the season, or at least until next window. Other than that, I'd say it went according to plan, quality over quantity, NO whole sale change.
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The weird thing with arsenal is they are probably signing the right players for their level, but they are paying way too much. 

Put Marina in their negotiating team and they'd have spent half the money they did. 

 
bisright1 said:
I suspect they've made an error as 

Abraham (35) Zouma (30) Tomori (25) Guehi (20)  =110m (and those are conservative numbers) and then we sold Zappa, Livramento, Ugno, Bate and Moses (20m total)

So for me, we've got a net spend of minus 30m before you get into loan fees. 

I suspect they've taken their data from transfermarkt which categorises some of our sales as Chelsea u23
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Last time I looked Transfermarkt didn't have Guehi listed as a sale for Chelsea or purchase for Palace. 

But either way you're right. They've got their numbers wrong based on the fees reported by most places for our player sales. 

 
This may have been posted elsewhere already: Tino Anjorin has been sent on loan to Lokomotiv Moscow for the season.

 
ForeverCarefree said:
Last time I looked Transfermarkt didn't have Guehi listed as a sale for Chelsea or purchase for Palace. 

But either way you're right. They've got their numbers wrong based on the fees reported by most places for our player sales. 
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Thats because transfermarkt classify him as a Chelsea U23 player.  Same with Livramento 

https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-chelsea-u23/alletransfers/verein/9250

Obviously the money coming in goes to the same place, but they just record it like that for some reason. Is a bit annoying. City have the same problem. 

What then happens is media outlets lazily only look at transfermarkt data without knowing the hidden u23 sales and then sky report that our net spend is less than it is. 

 
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charierre said:


Considering we added a Centre Forward who we needed and brought in depth for midfield. This is astounding. Just a pity we couldnt push the Kounde deal through for what could have been a perfect window. Just shows what bringing one player in does, yesterday before the Saul deal we looked a little short but now appear more balanced. 
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f**k sake we missed out on the net spend trophy.

0/10.

 
charierre said:


Considering we added a Centre Forward who we needed and brought in depth for midfield. This is astounding. Just a pity we couldnt push the Kounde deal through for what could have been a perfect window. Just shows what bringing one player in does, yesterday before the Saul deal we looked a little short but now appear more balanced. 
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Arsenal fans used to rant a lot about net spend trophy but how the tables have turned

 
Deino said:
Arsenal fans used to rant a lot about net spend trophy but how the tables have turned
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Whatever happened to the Asian fella who used to go on AFTV? The one who infamously went on the "what about net spend" rant. 

 
For the most part, we've done well and the net spend figure is incredible.

Signed Lukaku which will put us in title contention and if Saul Niguez can rediscover his form from a few years back, we could have a serious player on our hands.

Disappointed we missed out on Kounde. Think a lot of the focus next summer will be stocking up on defenders particularly if Rudiger moves elsewhere.

 
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