The Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

[EnglishBob]

Maybe with fewer defensive duties RAN will thrive at City. It also has the whiff of someone who might come back in a couple of years.

 

[Jinky]

£31m.

Jeff Shi agreed to sell at that price. Christ.

 

[leedswolf]

Absolutely no idea how they've ended up with that fee. There's just no defending it.

No defending was his Achilles heel though.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

That price possibly means we didn't pay Angers 9mill, we instead paid them the 50% of the profit as it'd be cheaper? Depending on how the deal was structured.

If we did pay the 9mill that's just 12million profit on RAN.

 

[Kenny]

Athletic say we paid the lower fee, £8m or so (fookin places reporting in €'s)

Spent a lot of time trying to find reasoning behind the deal yesterday. ..waste of time that was and should have just joined in the angry responses.

 

[Woburn Wolf]

I just don't agree. Yes he does sometimes try stuff when under pressure that puts us on the back foot, but I like that, it's why he has the best figures for assists/goals of any defender in the league.
I saw somewhere the other day (can't member where or find it unfortunately) that he also has the best ball recoveries in the league. He's not perfect, no player is but I think he gets unfairly called out for his defending on the whole.

He does not just put us on the back foot but often results in our conceding unnecessary goals.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

.. (fookin places reporting in €'s)

Alright Nigel

 

[Kenny]

Alright Nigel

Finally found something to put my way that is worse than buying 2 x alcohol free beers....

 

[sycophantia]

He does not just put us on the back foot but often results in our conceding unnecessary goals.

Often? Nonsense. He also creates goals out of nothing, you can't have it both ways.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

He does not just put us on the back foot but often results in our conceding unnecessary goals.

He did against Brentford, not sure what other goals he's been responsible for us conceding?

He's definitely either scored or assisted 11 goals though.

 

[Alan]

Regarding of opinions of his time here and the fee, can we please not do the thing of taking his performances at City as exactly what he would have achieved here? We don’t need another Vitinha in the zeitgeist.

 

[Derby Wolf]

I think RAN is getting a lot of unfair criticism, and his departure will be felt properly once the assists and goals aren't there next season. He scored or assisted 20% of our league goals last season.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Sarabia, RAN and Cunha all gone, that's A LOT of flair gone out of the team, we're going to be very predictable and boring to watch (as it stands, obviously)

 

[t3ch]

I think RAN is getting a lot of unfair criticism

People lash out when they're hurting

 

[Jinky]

People moan when players are boring, pass it sideways or are negative. But here we have RAN being criticised for “putting us on the backfoot and conceding unnecessary goals” because he’s - y’know - creative and likes to try different things.

You just can’t win.

We’ll miss him and the fee is a shocker. Anyone disputing that has chosen an extremely weird hill to die on.

 

[Alan]

For one thing, I only see three people “slating” him. For another, this idea that he “tries things” is absolutely true and was a boon for us, but he constantly tried them in our own third, and that’s quite simply a bad place to try to get fancy.

Nobody is out here wishing he’d had fewer goal contributions ffs.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

,...but he constantly tried them in our own third, ...

I don't know where this narrative has come from, but I don't agree with it.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

it is as bollocks as the fee

 

[Alan]

it is as bollocks as the fee

Bit rude. Calling something bollocks and leaving it there is so easy.

He did it more than I wish he had, how about that? It’s also not a “narrative” ffs, it’s my opinion based on watching him. And I’ve been saying it for a long while; I didn’t suddenly come to this conclusion when the fee was reported.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

RANs fee rises to 36m with add ons. Whatever they might be.