Β£175,000,000 net spend on Tonali, Fernandes, Robertson, Dubravka, Van Hecke and Senesi is astonishing business.
And that's without selling Romero, Dragusin, Vicario, Sarr....
@Kish_P14 The people dismissing Savinho for his goal record are probably the same that were clamouring for Grealish last summer (despite scoring 4 goals over the previous two seasons combined) and blamed Pep for "ruining him" - can't win really.
Just need him to come in and do his part.
@jmeketch_@simonyemane No, you're right. He gets paid millions to play football in a beautiful city. His career is in absolute tatters.
Rapists have played football in this country before. It would hardly be a surprise if he ended up here again. "He was never convicted" will be rolled out, I'm sure
@spookysquidd@simonyemane Oh god, yeah, you're right, he absolutely got his comeuppance. He never apologised for it, he never showed any remorse, he moved to a beautiful city to play football and earns millions of pounds a year doing so.
@simonyemane@josh_smith1882 I think at most they might do similar to what they did with Aurier.
He made homophobic remarks prior and I remember part of the fanbase not wanting him, but they did best to build bridges with Proud Lilywhites etc
@simonyemane No, I agree with you. But there's a reason media and pundits don't talk about it and there's a hush around it, like there was with Partey at Arsenal.
Greenwood wasn't convicted. So the media can't really imply that he is. Even if we all know what he is.
@georgeachillea If we sell for the reported Β£35m (including addons), doesn't that equate to Β£3.33m profit? Also do you know of that appears in this year's accounts?
The mathematician in me finds this an increasingly interesting area of transfers
@georgeachillea How does Β£7.75m profit get calculated?
If we use the Β£47.5m reported fee we paid (which is plus add ons), and then amortise by 2yrs using straight line amortisation then we arrive at a Net Book Value of Β£31.67m for the player.
@Kish_P14 Same people would have written off Semenyo (playing L1 football at that age) and Ndiaye (playing for Hyde Utd at that's age). Yet want either of them now after both progressed through hard work.
Odobert has all the tools to get where we want him to be. Let's hope he gets there
@owenthfc__ Frustrating that the Romero goal against West Ham got wrongly disallowed and own goals dont count towards assists or Kudus would have 6 to his name.
@georgebann@JKingburn To be fair, we probably don't know until one of (or both) are missing at some point.
But truth remains, since VDV joined in 2023. We always look better and more solid when him and Romero are partnered. And they have competent full backs either side.
@georgebann@JKingburn How do we differentiate our defensive improvements between new structure and the fact we simply have our strongest back 4 available?
Last season, with VDV and Romero in the league we gave up 1.15 xG per 90.
Basically identical so far this season.