Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Always a ceiling
Still spending what we earn and will need to sell players before the end of the window
Still spending what we earn and will need to sell players before the end of the window
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Bazz
Q-School Graduate
I don't know how to word this properly but a club that's qualified for Champions league football should feel comfortable that they can keep their best players, without worrying they'll want out. If they can't keep them then what chance have the rest of us got? We'll be also rans more than we are now.
There's always been a hierarchy but just seems to me that the gap has got even wider. Finishing 7th is going to be like winning the league for the rest of us.
There's always been a hierarchy but just seems to me that the gap has got even wider. Finishing 7th is going to be like winning the league for the rest of us.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Ah yes, behind those notoriously big spenders Tottenham and Brighton.
Swango1980
Well-known member
There have always been players who have wanted to leave clubs, despite their club playing at the top level. Sure, most of the time, they want to leave to go to another club who are in the Champions League.
Being in the Champions League, I'm still pretty sure Newcastle will benefit from that, with more players wanting to join them that if they were not. And, if Newcastle were not in Champions League, they may have difficulty keeping even more of their best players, and Isak would be even keener to leave than he is now (allegedly)
Bazz
Q-School Graduate
Yeah part of the hierarchy I guess, they'll take someone else's best player and so on.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Ah yes, behind those notoriously big spenders Tottenham and Brighton.
Facts are there
We spent a grand total of £10mil last season
Don Barzini
Assistant Pro
So many people have derided me for using terms like “The Protected Six” on here, but people will slowly but surely see I’m right.
“We don’t want too many Leicester City’s” after all……
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
It’s been that way for 50 plus years
In the 60-80’s it was just different teams picking the best players
Bazz
Q-School Graduate
Definitely feels like it.
Liverpool have spent €309m so far this summer. If that is their ceiling then blimey it won't be retaining much heat in the winter. It's a long way up.
Beezerk
Money List Winner
What’s the record for spending in one summer, anyone know? This has to be close.
4LEX
Well-known member
Would love to see Man Utd start acting like a big club and land Isak.
He's everything they need and if he's available for £120m, it would represent a good deal given his age.
He's everything they need and if he's available for £120m, it would represent a good deal given his age.
Surely Chelsea must hold that record. You are right, though, this can't be far off
Swango1980
Well-known member
I posted that the other day (probably many pages ago now).
Chelsea are the highest spenders anywhere in the world in a single transfer window, the only Premier League club to feature in the global Top 10, and they appear in the top 10 4 times.
Liverpool will enter the Top 10 after this summer, comfortably. But have some way to go to beat Chelsea, unless they sign Isak as well.
It's hard to do this without sounding funny but......why would he take a step down at this point in his career? I can see him moving to a Liverpool, City, Bayern, Real, PSG but there is no logic in him moving to Utd from Newcastle right now. Utd need a real rebuild, the manager is new and currently not making any difference, they are not in Europe next year, never mind not in the CL. He really doesn't need to take the move down from where he is, good team, going the right way, plenty of financial backing, manager getting a tune out of him, squad improving, CL football this season.
Utd from 10 yrs ago, fine, but this is not the same club.
Don Barzini
Assistant Pro
Glass ceiling for some.
Ten foot thick granite ceiling guarded by a crack commando unit for everyone else.
Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
391m by Chelsea in 23/24
Swango1980
Well-known member
I very much doubt Man Utd can afford him without getting into financial problems (although if City can get away with it, why not give it a go
)If Isak wants to leave, he must have a club in mind that he wants to go to. Has any club given him an indication they'd be willing to sign him, for him to want to go? It seems like most of the top clubs have already made some big signings now, assuming he wouldn't be available.
Still time to go.......
Blimey, they didn't half waste some money in that window, and others
