I like the way you are thinking.
60m for Nunez
25m for Chiesa
And get in Someone on a free to replace them.
Wouldn’t even mind if we start giving Danns the opportunity that David would get and save the money for a bigger opportunistic buy elsewhere
Rumoured his Dad, and his Mum Matilda, met with LFC officials
Headline read - ‘Wirtz an Matilda’ :0)
Taxi..!
Jonathan David seems likely to head for some Italian club though. Those guys are all over the free transfer market.
We seem to be in for Ekitike. Ekitike with Danns as his understudy should be fine.
Not sure what this somewhat eclectic list is supposed to show…
Ekitike is a big lad. 190cm, roughly 6’2. He’s a rangy forward but he has moves. Now is he clinical enough to play #9 for us? He put up 15 goals, 8 assists for Frankfurt in the Bundesliga. Pretty impressive.
FBRef also rates him in the top 90th percentile of strikers in multiple offensive categories.
But the problem is Ekitike might not want to leave yet. He recently posted in social media his excitement about playing in the Champions League for Frankfurt.
You said “at the top end, it rarely goes wrong”, but isn’t it the case that historically that’s been the exact opposite? It’s gone quite wrong for so many players on that list. That is the list on Wikipedia of the most expensive transfers in football.
Still think he shits the challenge and goes Bayern.
Disclaimer - ive never seen him play!
I was talking to him yesterday over a barbecue. Reckons he would sign, only thing holding him back is the in match threads.
You’ve never seen him play but he knows all about you!
Top end is about top players which may not necessarily be financial.
And the list from wikipedia of all places is all over the map…
FFS @Walshy! If this doesn’t get you to play nice, nothing will!
Florian himself is unsure because of your savagery.
I’ll blame wrong pronounciation and jokes about his name if the doesn’t sign with us.
I’ll also say we dodged a bullet.
Hope he signs.
My bad, I thought you were referencing the transfer fee specifically, given that you were replying to a post that was talking all about the money.
Wirtz has 9 siblings.
One of his sisters is also a professional football. Maybe the parents were in England to negotiate her future. 
And even for big moves like Mbappe for Real you can often point to the player themselves doing well, but it not having the improvement on the team the club thought they were paying for. Real have pretty inarguably got worse for having to solve the problem his addition presented, and PSG have quite clearly improved.
Football is a funny game in that it is rarely as simple as it just being about calculating the sum of the individual part
Yes but that would be broadening the scope far too much, and would also e.g. draw questions as to whether the Caicedo move was the right one for Chelsea, or whether it held them back from how long it took him to ease into it.
I’m of the opinion that most clubs are more professionally run these days than to care about ego or “sending a message” (Haha @Barcelona) with a “marquee signing” or whatever it is, hence avoiding such transfers, since almost inevitably, the better decision would be to improve the team as a whole.
I don’t think Mbappe is the real problem there, I think Kroos retiring and them not signing a proper ball playing midfield has fucked them. They have a bunch of lads in midfield who love running around, no one who likes dictating play. Priority for them surely has to be a proper holding mid.
Sure, but that is the point. You look at a signing to help make you better and even for a club like Real there is an opportunity cost for going for one player meaning a different player in a different position might now not be possible. They went and spent big money on a “can’t miss” signing who at best did nothing to address the actual problems everyone else saw they had.
In my opinion it has been worse than that though because of how difficult it is carrying him and Vini in the same team and the knock on effect that has had on Jude.
I think your analysis of Madrid ignores the extensive injuries in defence which completely reset the team.
And even with that, Mbappe ended up top scorer in the league
