That's still a lot of money. Quite the risk for two players from the dutch league
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Isn't the problem that ajex don't need to sell and are reluctant to given the players they lost before the window opened. Hence why it may not have been a great idea to focus so much of our attention on ajax players
Yea but also it's a huge amount of money to a club like Ajax. This could be their big chance to profit from these players. I also see Ajax as very much a develop and sell club with the aim of making a profit.
The also have Kovacic, Loftus-Cheek, Mount and Connor Gallagher.
This is sarcasm, surely?
Forgot to add the white text? You’re normally sensible, angry, but sensible.
Did the club finally get to you bro?
I feel infinitely better about it considering how well they played in the champions league.
One season, two years ago.
Not saying it doesn't count, but the sample size is less than overwhelming
Neco Williams just went for £17m, he made 15 appearances for Fulham last season in the championship ffs. Lord knows how Liverpool do it.
That's all well and good, but they might see themselves as something different and having to start again from scratch time and time again must be draining. Only their perspective matters when it comes to selling their players, especially so after losing so many in a single window. What's worse is it's key players, logically the cream of their crop. They'd be fools to not be turning the screw now on any club inquiring.
They value Martinez at €50m(£43).
Levitt was going to be a free agent next season. He was about to become a free agent this season, but we triggered an option to automatically extend his contract a couple of months ago. Also, we had offers from other EFL clubs, which would have banked us more money, but we accepted Dundee United's offer instead probably because Levitt himself wants to go there.
Contrast that with Neco Williams' situation, whose contract with Liverpool would expire in 2025. He also doesn't have any particular wish for a specific club, so it's easier to sell him to the highest bidder. We probably might have banked a few million Pounds had we sold him to an English team, but that's not the case here.
Antony played in the CL the last two years and Martinez the last three.
Neco also has double the international caps than Levitt, has more experience having played at the highest level more, is undoubtedly a better player.
Also, the Williams deal is up to £17m, which suggests a healthy amount of add ons which bring it to that figure.
The deals and players are not comparable at all. Neco was on circa £25k a week at Liverpool, Levitt was on circa £4k a week. Chalk and cheese.
I know, but would anyone sing Ajax CL praises if it wasn't for that semifinal run?
So is the manager not good enough either.
We all hope he is, but hypothetically would you want to take over the entire Ajax XI?
I mean, the semi final run was before either of them joined the club, so I guess the sample size is nonexistent for them if you’re only counting that season. But I thought the point the poster was making is the level of their individual performances in the CL gives him comfort, not Ajax’s performance in the competition as a team.
Not all of it. Two of the players we are after are ex-Ajax players, who have gone on to bigger clubs.
Yeah that's probably fair enough. Don't want to derail any further, just slightly nervous that all our targets appear to be former players for big bucks and players from his former league. If it goes wrong, it'll go very wrong
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The £9.7 million is for the pre existing conditions (Asthma).
We spent about €25m euros more on wasters like Maguire and AWB who hadn’t won a trophy between them or played CL football. If ETH wants them and values them, I don’t care how much we spend on them. If it’s only “unreasonable” because we don’t have enough money then fair enough.
Ajax owe us nothing and can ask what they want. Maybe they would have been cheaper if we enquired about them before the window opened when we knew ETH was coming. Rather spunk the money on them than FDJ who is oh so keen to join us.
Ajax owe us nothing and can ask what they want. Maybe they would have been cheaper if we enquired about them before the window opened when we knew ETH was coming. Rather spunk the money on them than FDJ who is oh so keen to join us.
ETH going for all these Ajax players will add major pressure on him and them. But I guess having worked with them closely he is absolutely sure they have what it takes.
I couldn’t be happier if this is the last business we do with this Ponzi scheme of a football club.
Generous to consider Loftus-Cheek a real option. I think Mount is better in the front 3 personally, but obviously he can fill in in midfield if necessary. Gallagher's the one that could make a difference. I'm not sure what Tuchel sees his role as. However, even if he trusts him to be 1st choice I would expect he sees him as more of a replacement for Kante.
Gallagher FDJ Kovacic
Kante Jorginho Mount/RLC
Mount Havertz Sterling
Pulisic Broja Werner/CHO
That's how I would personally see Chelsea's midfield and attack options. Obviously, you could add in Raphinha, Ronaldo or a different striker if you thought they were also joining. I'm assuming Ziyech will be sold since they seem to be actively working on that and that Gilmour will go back on loan. I think just Sterling and FDJ/another mid would be enough for their front 6 positions personally. Cb biggest priority and then maybe a backup full back for squad depth (James/Azpi can both play rwb and cb also which gives them some extra depth).Kante Jorginho Mount/RLC
Mount Havertz Sterling
Pulisic Broja Werner/CHO
Take a look at City's transfers out so far - in particular 2 youngsters to Southampton for a combined £23.5M:
https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/footba...transfer-ins-and-outs-summer-2022_485281.html
Well they're bent as feck so what do you expect.
yeah bro totes bro
If Frenkie would prefer to play for Barcelona I think we should just walk away from it
Loftus Cheek made 40 appearances last season. 24 in the league. Maybe not a first-choice player every week but he was a big part of the squad.
I still think this is posturing from Frenkie to get his money from Barca so they can't claim he was pushing for the transfer and weasel out of what is owed
Surprising to see him linked - would be cheap based on prices I see online (~€15m) and he did well 2nd half of last season back at Ajax after a poor 1st half of the season at Leipzig
He made appearances but I thought he looked awful anytime he played. The one thing RLC offers is that he's very flexible in the positions he can play. That's an advantage, particularly since Chelsea have quite a few injury prone players in the positions he covers. Now that Gallagher is back, I doubt he'll feature as frequently. Sterling coming in similarly will make him less useful, since Sterling can essentially cover any of the front 3 positions.
They did very well the most recent season as well.
Brad Bobbley?
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