Cheeky Monkey
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[Albion] Marc Cucurella *Signed For Chelsea 05/08/2022*
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Jesus Gul
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- Feb 23, 2004
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Brilliant.
Fair play Chelsea admin.
I see the funny side. Sure Barber and Bloom will.
He wasn't even our best full back.
He created the third most open-play chances, of any full back in the PL, lat season (after TAA and Reece James)
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Whichever way you look at it. £62.5 Million is a hell of a lot of money
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The Wizard
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He created the third most open-play chances, of any full back in the PL, lat season (after TAA and Reece James)
I’m telling you what I saw with my eyes last season and you can’t really compare him to other full backs when he played like a very advanced left wing back for much of the season.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
YAY!
bomber130
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- Jun 10, 2011
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Last week that was only 31.25 million litres of diesel.
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Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Plus a transfer budget outside of player sales. Hopefully in a month we will be stronger than what we are now.
albionfan37
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If he has a shite season and hardly plays for them would we be happy to have him back? Or has he burnt his bridges
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Brighton Bhuna Boy
I might pop over to Blue Moon in a minute for shitz and giggles
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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- Oct 4, 2003
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He created the third most open-play chances, of any full back in the PL, lat season (after TAA and Reece James)
No he didn't, he was 23rd on the list of big chances created by defenders (obviously this includes central defenders too) last season according to the PL, and 32nd on chances created per 90 mins according to FotMob with TAA, Andrew Robertson, Lucas Dinge, Reece James and Marcos Alonso ahead of him as far as full backs go.
https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/big_chance_created
https://www.fotmob.com/leagues/47/stats/season/16390/players/total_att_assist/premier-league
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We've negotiated a £32m buy-back clause which we can activate if Chelsea fail to reach the semi-finals of the CL. :thumbs-up:
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I've been over to Blue Moon for a bit of schedenfreude. The wailing and gnashing of teeth continues amongst some. Whilst on there I noticed a comment from a username from round these parts, who says that selling players is a recipe for relegation. I wondered whether this is true, so took a look. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/pre...n_id//altersklasse//leihe//w_s//zuab/0/plus/1
I've ignored the sales abroad, as, until Leeds sold Raphina to Barcelona this year, only teams from the big six had done this. There are 24 sales between EPL clubs in the top 100 most expensive EPL transfers. Cucu's will make it 25. Ake doesn't count as Bournemouth had been relegated to the Championship before selling him. Five of these sales are from this summer so can't be measured yet: Of the other 20, three teams were relegated in the season they made the sale. Seventeen weren't. There is an average drop for the selling team of 1.5 league places from the previous season. This average is impacted by a big outlier in Leeds who dropped ten places to 15th after selling Rio Ferdinand in 2010/11.
The only three who were relegated had all finished in the bottom six in the previous season. They were (1) Newcastle who went from 15th to 18th in 2015/16 after selling Andy Carroll. He was sold in January 2016 when they were already 18th; (2) Aston Villa who sold Christian Benteke in July 2015 and went from 17th the previous season to 20th; & (3) Swansea who dropped from 15th to 18th after selling Gylfi Sigurdsson in the summer of 2017. It seems from this that there is no evidence to support the statement that selling players is a recipe for relegation. It could perhaps be argued that selling players when you previously finished in the bottom six might be a recipe for relegation: worrying news for Everton and Leeds who are on this list having sold Richarlison and Phillips after finishing 16th and 17th respecively last year. They may be heartened by news of the only club who finished in the bottom six, sold a player on this list and avoided relegation the following year. That was Brighton & Hove Albion, who sold Benjamin White in 21/22 having finished in 16th and then climbed seven places the following season, by far the largest improvement of any club following any of the sales on this list.
I've ignored the sales abroad, as, until Leeds sold Raphina to Barcelona this year, only teams from the big six had done this. There are 24 sales between EPL clubs in the top 100 most expensive EPL transfers. Cucu's will make it 25. Ake doesn't count as Bournemouth had been relegated to the Championship before selling him. Five of these sales are from this summer so can't be measured yet: Of the other 20, three teams were relegated in the season they made the sale. Seventeen weren't. There is an average drop for the selling team of 1.5 league places from the previous season. This average is impacted by a big outlier in Leeds who dropped ten places to 15th after selling Rio Ferdinand in 2010/11.
The only three who were relegated had all finished in the bottom six in the previous season. They were (1) Newcastle who went from 15th to 18th in 2015/16 after selling Andy Carroll. He was sold in January 2016 when they were already 18th; (2) Aston Villa who sold Christian Benteke in July 2015 and went from 17th the previous season to 20th; & (3) Swansea who dropped from 15th to 18th after selling Gylfi Sigurdsson in the summer of 2017. It seems from this that there is no evidence to support the statement that selling players is a recipe for relegation. It could perhaps be argued that selling players when you previously finished in the bottom six might be a recipe for relegation: worrying news for Everton and Leeds who are on this list having sold Richarlison and Phillips after finishing 16th and 17th respecively last year. They may be heartened by news of the only club who finished in the bottom six, sold a player on this list and avoided relegation the following year. That was Brighton & Hove Albion, who sold Benjamin White in 21/22 having finished in 16th and then climbed seven places the following season, by far the largest improvement of any club following any of the sales on this list.
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Brighton Bhuna Boy
Not for me he hasn't. I would have him back like a shot. The only players I wouldn't have back are players who publicly slag off the club and fans.
Mickey Thomas comes to mind back in the day, when he slagged us off in The Sun (for money) for being too generous to him.
Bob!
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