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How do you work that out?

Their highest transfer was previously £1.8m

Really helped Boro getting the cash spent early.

Best of luck to Huddersfield I hope they stay up,but not at our expense,it will be tough for them but they look like they mean business,Wagner seems a good manager,would have liked him here if Dyche had of gone to Palace.

They bought Mooy for £10 million last week.

marvbfc wrote:How do you work that out?

Their highest transfer was previously £1.8m

Theoretically they have agreed to sign Mooy for £10 million and as they have broken their record for Depoitre so it could read as it's more than £10 million. It could also read that they paid £1.9 million for the Belgian. Depends if they're including Mooy's figure in with it. It's not very clear.

Getting foreign players to gel in the Premier league is not easy as Man U found with many of their expensive acquisitions Will Hudderafield get to keep all the Germans they loaned or is there not a cap on the number of loanees.

Mooy hasn't signed up yet, so at present their record was that one for under £2 million.

Woodleyclaret wrote:Getting foreign players to gel in the Premier league is not easy as Man U found with many of their expensive acquisitions Will Hudderafield get to keep all the Germans they loaned or is there not a cap on the number of loanees.

There suppose to be signing izzy brown from chelsea for around 8 million mark . They seem to be getting there deals done nice and early

I mean it's quite easy to signed players you loaned the previous season and we no longer wanted by the club. We even did it with Kightly.

MrTopTier wrote:They bought Mooy for £10 million last week.

They didn't - yesterday's signing was their first this summer and the Depoitre signing is absolutely nowhere near £10 million.

KefkaClaret wrote:I mean it's quite easy to signed players you loaned the previous season and we no longer wanted by the club. We even did it with Kightly.

This is true and the lesson here is to find good loan signings who improve the team and who we can look to sign ala Keane rather than signing dross on loan like Bamford and Flanagan

I think if they spend £18 million of their budget on Aaron Mooy and Izzy Brown they are going to struggle.

Devils_Advocate wrote:This is true and the lesson here is to find good loan signings who improve the team and who we can look to sign ala Keane rather than signing dross on loan like Bamford and Flanagan

To be fair, I think the majority expected that Flanagan would be a very good loan signing, and might even have wondered whether we would in fact be able to sign him, at the end of his loan period.

nil_desperandum wrote:To be fair, I think the majority expected that Flanagan would be a very good loan signing, and might even have wondered whether we would in fact be able to sign him, at the end of his loan period.

Thats a fair point as I have to admit I expected a lot more when he signed plus Lowton came on leaps and bounds and Ward had a great season

Mail says £3.5 million.

Seven league appearances for Porto last season and then sold. What does that mean. 6' 3" tall.

Living over Huddersfield way these days, and their fans are very mixed on transfers and being able to stop up.
Some of the the lads who know i am a Burnley fan, asked "what do you think of our chances of staying up? ". My reply was its very hard coming up via the play offs, and you need around 6-8 players lol.
Didn't go down to well, as explained there is a world of difference between the Championship and Prem, and how we struggled previously.
One hudds fan thinks they will never be in the bottom 3 and will finish way above us and even West Brom and Stoke. lol.. I told him to go back outside and finish smoking the Jamaican woodbines

MK-Claret wrote:Living over Huddersfield way these days, and their fans are very mixed on transfers and being able to stop up.
Some of the the lads who know i am a Burnley fan, asked "what do you think of our chances of staying up? ". My reply was its very hard coming up via the play offs, and you need around 6-8 players lol.
Didn't go down to well, as explained there is a world of difference between the Championship and Prem, and how we struggled previously.
One hudds fan thinks they will never be in the bottom 3 and will finish way above us and even West Brom and Stoke. lol.. I told him to go back outside and finish smoking the Jamaican woodbines

To be fair they are still a bit giddy on the back of the playoffs. Plus they've seen the fixtures and thought their start is pretty favourable. But as you say, they've not really factored in that their most winnable game is to beat a side at home that finished 13 points above then and bounced them 3-1 at home. That said, they've got the right to be hopeful they can stay up. But with a poor defence and not scoring a great deal (negative goal difference) - they conceded 23 and scored a pitiful 13 in the last 16 games (inc playoffs), winning only twice, it's a long hard season ahead.

bfcjg wrote:Really helped Boro getting the cash spent early.

So that means it's a bad thing then ?
Unbelievable the mentality on here .

Spending the money on the right players is the most important, not how early you spend it.

BabylonClaret wrote:To be fair they are still a bit giddy on the back of the playoffs. Plus they've seen the fixtures and thought their start is pretty favourable. But as you say, they've not really factored in that their most winnable game is to beat a side at home that finished 13 points above then and bounced them 3-1 at home. That said, they've got the right to be hopeful they can stay up. But with a poor defence and not scoring a great deal (negative goal difference) - they conceded 23 and scored a pitiful 13 in the last 16 games (inc playoffs), winning only twice, it's a long hard season ahead.

As we found out in our last three matches, unless your defence is up to scratch you'll get punished for every mistake. Huddersfield won't have the players to get enough clean sheets to keep them safe unless the have enough quality upfront which doesn't seem likely at the moment.

ClaretTony wrote:Spending the money on the right players is the most important, not how early you spend it.

That is correct, although I think it is reasonable to say, that we might have got 6 points against Swansea and Hull at home last season, if we had made signings earlier and had a more settled team as we went into the season, rather than players arriving on deadline day.
It's true that Defour played and scored against Hull, and Hendrick came on as sub to replace him after he scored, but they had only just arrived and our performance that day was in fact v poor. (We only had 2 shots on target against a team that we really should have been expecting to beat at home).
If we had taken those additional 5 points in those 2 fixtures, we would have bee safe weeks before survival was confirmed. (They were both genuine 6 pointers in the relegation battle).

Defense is critical. We have a good one, and if Ben Mee wasn't English we would probably have four of our back five as current internationals. 'Boro also had a good defense, it was their attack that let them down. Huddersfield will learn the nature of this.

and if you've watched the Confed Cup then Aaron Moy has looked rubbish. Never got a kick in the first game against Germany reserves and was just as bad against Cameroon. I wouldn't pay 10 million for him despite him being decent in the Championship

We never lost to any of the bottom 4. It's vital that you get something out of that mini league at the bottom. Points against the rest are a bonus.

Boro's problem was losing the team ethos that got them up, even if it was on fragile ground all the previous season.
Huddersfields best chance, which is still very slim, is to tweak the team that got them up, hold onto their players when they go down, and bounce back stronger.
Just like we did in fact.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's players.

Colburn_Claret wrote:We never lost to any of the bottom 4. It's vital that you get something out of that mini league at the bottom. Points against the rest are a bonus.
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We did actually - though not to the bottom 3.

To be fair, if they are spending £18m on Brown and Mooy they've effectively spent £18m to stand still.

And to not have spent it theyd have gone backwards.

l don't think they'll get out of the bottom two all season.

nil_desperandum wrote:We did actually - though not to the bottom 3.

My mistake, I thought Palace had finished above Swansea.