Transfer Tweets - Summer 2017 | Keep it on topic

Sterling Archer said:
This is such a pathetic excuse and false claim of ambition.

Juve were relegated. A player of Buffon's status stayed and within a few short years has seen two cup finals.
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Different circumstances. GK more often than not having longer career than outfield player. juventus is a powerhouse in Italy & their financial work is shoulder above other Italian clubs who often being heavily manipulated by owners & president. Juventus despite that relegation was always destined to get back to the top. Arsenal is healthy financially but facing stiff competition in PL to get back to the top (haven't got there in a decade).
 
Sterling Archer said:
This is such a pathetic excuse and false claim of ambition.

Juve were relegated. A player of Buffon's status stayed and within a few short years has seen two cup finals.
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Most of Juve's players at the time were also Italian and likely Juve supporters who wanted to stay and work their way up. Alexis is a Chilean playing football in London. He won't be finding money and CL glory with Arsenal.
 
1974_Fergie_Time said:
loan fee from Fulham pays his new wage rise he gets and Chelsea get a profit

with the way players fees are going up by time they sell him will make about £10m proft no doubt

they dont have the same stadium income of Arsenal and Man Utd this is their new way to earn extra cash and try and keep up with us been happening for a few years hence why they have 38 players on loan by time summer window ends

Abramovich said they must be self-sufficient now
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Not really. There would be a point where clubs in England may finally come to conclusion that this guy is not good enough to pay that loan +wage fee for their ambition. They turn to next wave of loanees, while this guy should be looking for gametime at smaller leagues (in other countries to be specific) whom unlikely pay that fee & wage.
 
Sterling Archer said:
This is such a pathetic excuse and false claim of ambition.

Juve were relegated. A player of Buffon's status stayed and within a few short years has seen two cup finals.
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Exactly. It's like 6-8 games in a competition you're never going to win is some sort of peak of football.
Admit you can get tonnes more money and play for a more likely to win stuff team.
 
Scorpy said:
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Jesus, was he STILL on Spurs books?!

I actually love Fazio because of how appalling he was despite listing VERY high for 'key' OPTA defensive stats at Tottenham. Any time someone posted a whoscored link rather than an argument about a players merits, he was the go to guy for showing statistics are one of the three great lies, especially in football.
 
ti vu said:
Arsenal is healthy financially but facing stiff competition in PL to get back to the top (haven't got there in a decade).
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I think @Sandikan captures more of my sentiment below. Why did he even join Arsenal? Two seasons ago Arsenal was beaten to the title by Leicester city. If there was true ambition he should have left then.

Raoul said:
Most of Juve's players at the time were also Italian and likely Juve supporters who wanted to stay and work their way up. Alexis is a Chilean playing football in London. He won't be finding money and CL glory with Arsenal.
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Aye, I think he has every right to move. It's just that it's too convenient an excuse to state the CL as a reason. You'd think his ego would have been bruised from the batterings Arsenal gets in the knockout stages season after season and pushed to leave earlier.

Sandikan said:
You've just been playing in it for the last couple of years for a team who achieved nothing there. Flimsy reasoning.
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Yep.
 
With any luck Pep will fill the squad with a group of players his successor won't want and they'll start again.
 
It'll take another 200 CB signings and half a century, but eventually Pep will revolutionise City and win that elusive title.

Then get knocked out of the CL in the QF round for the ten dozenth time.
 
Raoul said:
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Did Cruyff also spend huge amounts of money to bring in world class ready made players? Not sure what this revolution is except spend as much money as quickly as possible in order to become as successful as they can be
 
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If he's such a great manager why couldn't he get success out of the players he had last season?

They are more than strong enough to challenge for titles without all the money they are spending.
 
Saf94 said:
Did Cruyff also spend huge amounts of money to bring in world class ready made players? Not sure what this revolution is except spend as much money as quickly as possible in order to become as successful as they can be
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Yup, could have given Pellegrini the same amount of money.
 
Saf94 said:
Did Cruyff also spend huge amounts of money to bring in world class ready made players? Not sure what this revolution is except spend as much money as quickly as possible in order to become as successful as they can be
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Cruyff did get many ready make world class players into that Dream Team. Not sure about the money spent. The point is more about leaving a philosophy that so deeply carved that the club feel obligated to follow in the future. That's a big ask given how Catalonia always try to be distinct from Spain represented by Madrid, so they have reason to do so. Is City really that adamant to uphold this kind of pride?
 
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Hmm someone should tell Pep that his model of spending shit loads of cash and win trophies has been done before, Chelsea!

There's really nothing revolutionary about what this guy is doing to football, to be compared to Cruyff at Barcelona is an insult.
 
Pep Guardiola is the biggest fraud in football. Can't win Jack shit without a world class player in every position. The man isn't fit to lace the boots of a genuinely great manager like Ferguson or Clough.
 
Spain, Brazil (long shot as he had already been rejected once before), Qatar or Girona.
 
Scorpy said:
Will probably take charge of Spain in the near future.
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Possibly, although I think this would have made more sense if he were to have pursued this a few seasons ago, when the whole of Spanish football (at club and international level) was formed in his footballing image. If he were to take charge of Spain in the next few seasons I feel they would have to revert back to a style they've been attempting to move away from (at all age levels, mind) over the past few years.
 
How cant you understand, Pep needs his players to succeed. And those players cost money.
 
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