The Transfer Thread 2024/25 - Everything Not Wolves

[leedswolf]

Juan Mata joins Western Sydney Wanderers in the A League.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Even in the twilight of his career he should be stand out good in the A-league.

 

[BGreenWolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1831604687184839115

 

[leedswolf]

Even in the twilight of his career he should be stand out good in the A-league.

Yeah, I saw Luis Garcia play for the Mariners. You can see the class.

 

[Alan]

Yeah, I saw Luis Garcia play for the Mariners. You can see the class.

Sometimes the class tells but it can be surprisingly absent from some of them. Pirlo and Gerrard mostly just looked like old men, even in MLS.

 

[Sniffer]

Sometimes the class tells but it can be surprisingly absent from some of them. Pirlo and Gerrard mostly just looked like old men, even in MLS.

I can understand it with Gerrard as he was all action but Pirlo surprises me. He was a yard quicker in the head than nearly all others and I would have thought that it still would have been on display in MLS.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I can understand it with Gerrard as he was all action but Pirlo surprises me. He was a yard quicker in the head than nearly all others and I would have thought that it still would have been on display in MLS.

Suppose it depends what he's got around him too - if people aren't on the same wavelength then he could easily get shut down with his lack of mobility, that first yard in the head only gains you so much breathing space.

 

[Alan]

I can understand it with Gerrard as he was all action but Pirlo surprises me. He was a yard quicker in the head than nearly all others and I would have thought that it still would have been on display in MLS.

Agree on both. It was legitimately shocking to watch Pirlo at NYCFC and matches would almost happen around him.

Obviously he still had skills that simply couldn’t (and still can’t) be replicated in MLS. But in open play it was like “I dunno who this guy is but the real Pirlo must be off with Tupac, Biggie, and 1982 Michael Jackson on that island”.

 

[Squeak]

Suppose it depends what he's got around him too - if people aren't on the same wavelength then he could easily get shut down with his lack of mobility, that first yard in the head only gains you so much breathing space.

Very true. Same with Kaka at Orlando and to a lesser extent Schweinsteiger at Chicago.

 

[Squeak]

Agree on both. It was legitimately shocking to watch Pirlo at NYCFC and matches would almost happen around him.

Obviously he still had skills that simply couldn’t (and still can’t) be replicated in MLS. But in open play it was like “I dunno who this guy is but the real Pirlo must be off with Tupac, Biggie, and 1982 Michael Jackson on that island”.

Add David Villa to that mix.

 

[Alan]

Kaká is remembered fondly? Not sure why he’s been mentioned.

Schweinsteiger was physically way over the hill but Chicago have legitimately been terrible for over a decade. So fair enough on him.

 

[Squeak]

Kaká is remembered fondly? Not sure why he’s been mentioned.

Schweinsteiger was physically way over the hill but Chicago have legitimately been terrible for over a decade. So fair enough on him.

He is in Orlando. Just been made their first Hall of Famer... which is something of a joke given he only played 75 games for them. But, my point was really in regard to people not being on the same wavelength. Only Kevin Molino was close to understanding him and even he wasn't that close really. It was highlighted in the All-Star game that first year when Kaka played with better players and you could see the class ooze out of him.

 

[Tony Towner]

This makes their spend since promotion now north of £90m.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877113348157837683

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Good for them, give it 2 or 3 years they'll be ahead of us, proper owners.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Good for them, give it 2 or 3 years they'll be ahead of us, proper owners.

Let’s hope it’s years not months. Always thought they’d be the best of the three promoted teams. Our game at Portman Road could be huge.

 

[Sniffer]

This makes their spend since promotion now north of £90m.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1877113348157837683

Didn’t Villa scupper their summer move for him by invoking their buy back option at a reduced fee? I guess he isn’t at their required standard so are taking the profit.

 

[Tony Towner]

Didn’t Villa scupper their summer move for him by invoking their buy back option at a reduced fee? I guess he isn’t at their required standard so are taking the profit.

It wasn't a reduced fee, I don't think, they had the option to match and chose to. Had a look at him and decided they'd rather have the £20mish

 

[Sniffer]

It wasn't a reduced fee, I don't think, they had the option to match and chose to. Had a look at him and decided they'd rather have the £20mish

I’ve checked and they matched the Ipswich bid of £18m of which they didn’t have to pay 30% of it due to a sell on clause. They’d have got the 30% anyway so it’s an extra £2m on top of that for storing him for 6 months.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

There’s a lot to like about Ipswich. If we weren’t down there with them then I’d want them to stay up.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Philogene has looked awful for Villa