Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[davek]

As someone outside this country now Dave, I can say you are utterly wrong, the league is seen as the best in the world by a mile.

You are also deluded if you think investment short of around 2bn quid and a total waving of all regs will change that.

Look at how Newcastle - the richest club in the world are viewed

Silverware does equal statis though, so you think be owning the first Italian club to win a European trophy in twenty years was an easier achievement than getting an English club to win the LC or The same cup Moyes - and Roma won?

The PL is seen as the biggest spectacle, not the best league in the world.

As for your other pint: you're underlining the one I make: that this lot can never see Everton as a means of achieving the type of status they seek. Only a sovereign wealth fund can do that. As you point out Newcastle achieved silverware for their SWF...and now they have the chance to push through the glass ceiling.

Roma is - and can only be - their principal investment for success. All multi-club ownership models have one club at the top of the hierarchy: that's Roma for TFG. That's where the clearest route to prestige on an international stage is located. To not recognise that is folly. I suspect after this summer window that point will be forcefully made.