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Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1620 on: Today at 05:08:58 PM »
https://x.com/i/status/2059289479102267858

Malen to Roma confirmed £21.6m (€25m) fee.

15 goals for them in 20 games in Serie A. Roma probably tjink they've won the lottery at thst price.

Surely we could have expected  a higher fee if he was for sale in an 'open market"?

We did ourselves up like kippers with that loan to buy deal.

That's the chance you take. If he had gone there and struggled or done his ACL and there was no buy obligation, we would be getting sod all for him on the open market and everyone on here would be moaning about how much FFP/PCR/RSPCA/YMCA money he was using up.

I don't think it was too bad a deal based on what we knew at the time, my only complaint was selling him before the Everton game as we didn't yet have a replacement, but it worked out fine in the end.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1621 on: Today at 05:12:03 PM »
https://x.com/i/status/2059289479102267858

Malen to Roma confirmed £21.6m (€25m) fee.

15 goals for them in 20 games in Serie A. Roma probably tjink they've won the lottery at thst price.

Surely we could have expected  a higher fee if he was for sale in an 'open market"?

We did ourselves up like kippers with that loan to buy deal.

And if he had 5 from 20 but they still got into the conditions for purchase? When you do these deals there is no guarantee that the price is too high or too low until the season is finished and he could easily have only got 5 goals as 15, especially as the former figures is normal for him. Only once in his career has he ever had a scoring run like that before at the top level and that was 5 seasons ago in arguably a poorer league.


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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1622 on: Today at 05:20:56 PM »
Good points, just wondering if we could have been a little more creative/subtle/ greedy in the deal we negotiated. I doubt for one minute anybody thought hpthat Maken would become Roy of the Romas, but perhaps we should have put a couple of extra clauses in to cover that possibility.

Anyway, he's gone. We've got some money in the bank.

Elliott and Sancho can go back to their clubs.
Guesand can join Palacdcand hopefully we can find somebody (anybody) to take Bailey off our hands.

I think that we've seen the last of Dougie too.

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Re: Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #1623 on: Today at 05:25:11 PM »
I would hope we've learned our lesson with Harveys. We're not a Harvey club. Harveys feel like a Blues thing to me.

Bristol, surely.

 


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