Country: England
Player:Saliba
You can’t control yourself anymore on this forum. I keep seeing mod edits. You need a rest @American_GoonerThere's no dumb comments, i'm just talking to some thick as a plank spacker.
You can’t control yourself anymore on this forum. I keep seeing mod edits. You need a rest @American_GoonerThere's no dumb comments, i'm just talking to some thick as a plank spacker.
Why do people keep raising net spend, it means absolutely nothing.
A team at the bottom of the league can sell a player for £10m and buy one for £30m and their net spend is -£20m. A team at the top of the league can sell a Coutinho like player £100m and buy 2 players at £60m, and their net spend is -£20m. Same net spend that year. Are fans of the lower team going to keep saying they should be competing with the top team because they have the same net spend.
Only squad cost tells you what the club has really invested in a squad, not net spend.
I think the days of finding these hidden gem wonderkids are pretty much gone in football anyway. Sure you'll get the odd Martinelli but there aren't too many around. Every half decent kid has an agent at 14 now and has probably been scouted by the top clubs.
I used to love the early days when Wenger used to pick an unknown 17 year old out of the Estonian third division, there was about a 50% chance he'd be class too
Why do people keep raising net spend, it means absolutely nothing.
A team at the bottom of the league can sell a player for £10m and buy one for £30m and their net spend is -£20m. A team at the top of the league can sell a Coutinho like player £100m and buy 2 players at £60m, and their net spend is -£20m. Same net spend that year. Are fans of the lower team going to keep saying they should be competing with the top team because they have the same net spend.
Only squad cost tells you what the club has really invested in a squad, not net spend.
Leicester have been signing players from under the radar for years now, they have great scouting.I think the days of finding these hidden gem wonderkids are pretty much gone in football anyway. Sure you'll get the odd Martinelli but there aren't too many around. Every half decent kid has an agent at 14 now and has probably been scouted by the top clubs.
I used to love the early days when Wenger used to pluck an unknown 17 year old out of the Estonian third division, there was about a 50% chance he'd be class too
Arsenal fans got bored of gems anyway as the development period was long. I remember people on here saying they rather have a decent experienced player as they’ll at least perform today, a gem no matter how good will still need years to develop.
We got what we wanted, we’re stacked with decent experienced players now.
I disagree, Saliba and Fofana cost close to 30 mil and Saliba had 18 appearances in senior football. Leicester were smart and made their Fofana signing undisclosed but it is believed he cost the same.Leicester have been signing players from under the radar for years now, they have great scouting.
Gems are there if you know where to look.
Leicester have been signing players from under the radar for years now, they have great scouting.
Gems are there if you know where to look.
Leicester have been signing players from under the radar for years now, they have great scouting.
Gems are there if you know where to look.
Soyuncu, James Justin, Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Maguire, Ndidi, Castagne, Mendy etc.
All signed in recent years and all for under 20M. Not even including Vardy, Mahrez, Kante, Schmeichel etc.
Without a full squad? What are you on about. We had the money to build a full squad We've spent close to £700M on footballers since 2014. Are you telling me we couldn't have built a decent enough squad by now with that spend?
There's no dumb comments, i'm just talking to some thick as a plank spacker.
They’ve spent because they’ve sold big too - Maguire, Ndidi, Mahrez, Kante etc.That's nice but then you have the flip side with Fofana £31M, Castagna £21M, Tielemans £40M, Perez £30M, Praet £17M, Ghezzal £13M, Ward £13M.
They've spent a lot of money in the past 3 or 4 windows.