Want to kind of switch gears a little bit and just talk about
which Premier League clubs have done the best business.
Obviously,
for the January period overall, there's only one team that's
really dominated. That's Chelsea
with them. The massive amounts of cash. They spent again, it's
what over half a billion pounds and the last couple of transfer
Windows, they would have spent at this Enzo. Fernandez still
does get over the line as we expect.
So Nick What were the best moves of the January window
view or the most important ones or the ones where you were
like, you know what, I really loved that for that club or
that player.
Whoo, good question.
I like Joe Felix despite the red card. I really do. I think
he's something that they are missing at Chelsea.
I guess
I want to say that I like what leads and forested
but Forest has bought enough players for about six different
teams
and I don't want to go small sample size here but that Denis
low the 21 year old defensive mid looks like
Might be just what they need to settle things down. So
yeah, I don't know what really is standing out to me, other
than, by the way. Let's point this out. I love that Leicester
city bought someone who played his last soccer
for Syracuse University.
Yeah, and then loaned him out, right? But he's one for
the future, for sure. So yeah, a lot of crazy deals. A lot of
good deals, a lot of eye-catching ones. Over
the month. Andy
do you, who do you think did the best bits of you mentioned?
Arsenal quite a bit. They probably done
the most. Sensible and the kind of one that really improved
their squad for they needed to do.
They the big winners of January for you?
Yep. Yeah. They
they made the adult decisions this transfer window and that
an Arsenal have almost never done that. And I don't say that
as an insult, you know, it's
four years. They needed a six, they need to six. The same
thing that we talked about with Manchester United and they
signed a new Striker on Deadline day. Every year, they
signed a new Winger for 80 million on Deadline day, and
they just Ignored what they needed because it wasn't
the flashy thing, it wasn't the fun thing, it wasn't going to, you
know, whatever the social media reaction wasn't going to be
the same for a boring defensive midfielder as bringing Pierre.
Emerick aubameyang back on a new
contract and they always made the wrong decision and it feels
like something is just completely changed with how
decisions are made at Arsenal. They're running at very, very
smartly, you know, that you go out and get your jean yo just
before the deadline you bring in
Leandro. Charizard, a couple of perfect very
Versatile, depth pieces for a squad that's already pretty
solid. And complete, doesn't need fixing or changing just
needed a little bit of something added to it and it
feels like they went and did it. And, and when you look at
the other side for Man City
and the title race, you just wonder.
Yeah, the more I talk about it and as I talk, I think I'm
buying into to Arsenal, being the favorites now, and that
wasn't the case before.
Absolutely, and some intriguing news from
not in the forest, Keylor Navas.
Apparently is joining Called it a ritzy Romano. So that is
another
decent little move from forest as well. Nicolette you said to
your point, they've done good business
late in the window we've seen, you know, likes of Fulham.
Southampton Bournemouth, all kind of making moves throughout
January, and then a flurry of deals
to kind of save themselves, or push themselves into a better
position in the league likely to have done as well. So so
Nick, is there any other teams or
any deal that, you know,
you really liked As you said, she Al Felix was your favorite
one. I think for me,
I think long-term
I just cannot see past
mud-brick actually at Chelsea as well. I really have liked
what I've seen from him in his opening few games and
I just think it's not really great news of Christian.
Politic I don't think about us hats on but he is electric and
is going to be extremely excited. We all questioned
them spending that amount of money on him, but I really like
that sign. But any of us for you
that have really stood out this month
the cunha from wolves
as a loan move to see
if they like what they have there. I think wolves probably
along with Burma
Bournemouth excuse me
are
are among the teams that we absolutely needed to see
an influx of talent. I don't think with the cherries that they did
quite as much as you would have liked them to, but they at
least gave themselves a chance
with attackers
and assuming the again, Andy mentioned. It. I want to phrase
it the exact same way.
Assuming, the Summits are moved, happens,
the way that they acted, I mean, that tackle from Andy
Carroll was what, three, four days ago and they line up
a world-class almost like for like,
maybe a little bit tougher even replacement. Yeah,
absolutely. It really good question here
from Michael Allen Depot just to kind of
change gears Poise. And it's, you know, Liverpool we fighting
for relegation by the end of Mine. He's a little bit hard,
but what he's suggesting, there is a side from signing Cody.
Posey, pretty quiet mom for Liverpool, where maybe they
needed that midfielder, maybe they needed that big money,
Simon, but again, yeah,
with the ownership situation and the kind of being a bit up
in the air. They're really not going to spend that huge
amounts of money on the to Bellingham
that they've been linked with until the situations figured
out. So I guess what I'm going to talk with and changing gears
is a Liverpool one of the teams that you look at and say
you needed to do more in January to
get themselves in the top four picture, or there's a lot of
teams out There you like we mentioned Everton as well. You
probably needed to do more to get yourself further up
the table, and
you didn't do the business. That was needed to be done.
Yeah, on Liverpool, I think it's really difficult because
it's a massive Squad already. It's just a really injured
Squad so they don't have a lot of players available and so
financially your
the the the club being for sale or able to be bought however
you want to phrase it right now
is one thing but how much
money they are allowed.
Put into the squad and spend into wages and everything.
I think probably came into play at a certain level because some
of the contracts for some of the players they have are just
absolutely massive. They are these Mega stars in the world
and they command these deals that are just
an astronomical compared to everybody else. Even at the,
the, in the upper echelons of the game, it's I think that was
probably a bit of an issue as well. And so once they get
people back once, Luis Diaz is back, Wednesday yogesh Alta
is back, you know, just looking down the list here, that
there's so many important players
that have Missed, you know, six,
eight ten, twelve games for them this season
that they're going to come back at some point and then you
bring in a bunch of new signings and then somebody's
not playing and then somebody's value decreases and goes from
being. We could sell this player for 60 million.
Now we can only get 20 million. And so you just have to how you,
the value of their assets right now. They have so much value.
That's out injured and unavailable to play, and, and
you can't just keep buying and spending and adding on top of
that. And ignore,
What has already been spent and bought invested into it because
that value then takes a massive hit so that it's it's
an unenviable place that Liverpool or and right now.
Absolutely. And we cooled air about of the. They are a team
that should have done more but Arsenal Jordans got a great
question. Are Jordan single says,
how do you guys feel about Arsenal's window after missing
out on woodrick, Felix? And I say, do we said at the top,
right? I think we feel really good about it, Nick and we feel
that we've crossed sword and show Genie or the Variants and
ready-made Premier League International
I'd say Georgie knows case world-class players and Trust
odds, get into that level.
They've had a great window and they've added strength and
they've added sensibly. So
you mentioned the names there, they were linked with them
throughout the window, but been picked by Chelsea or may not,
you know, may go back in for cosigner, right in the summer,
but they said, they are still looking very, very good, right?
So would you reckon those feelings on Arsenal that? And
he said before,
Yeah, I mean what do they have in common is the question and
with with Modric and Felix you're talking about attacking
players. I think Arsenal has plenty of that. They have, we
haven't seen Neil Smith role for quite a long time as well
and think about the season he had last year.
And when Andy was talking about how they were the adults in
the room,
I thought of this, you would have normally thought
First place
seeing the potential for a premier league title and they
go all out to bring in Yuri Tillman's who maybe isn't
a perfect fit,
right? Who isn't the guy that they need? So instead they say,
you know what,
some of our fans are going to be upset about this. We're kind
of doing the David Luiz thing here
and we're going to take care of, you know, and we'll kick
the can down the road so to speak.
Well, but also the fact that they, so they ended up with
trois aren't after mudra, goes to Chelsea and they end up with
Georgie no. After keisei, do bids are reject like
you talked about Manchester United, having a solid backup
plan and just ready to execute it. Boom, boom, go. It felt
like Arsenal had that as well. It felt like the organization
at a couple of these clubs that have been down bad for a long
time.
It feels like something massive, within the way those
clubs are being operated in the people in charge has really
changed and I think you can make a case. So for
at least with the truss are signing, probably a more impactful
or just ready to contribute I guess player this season. And
if you're if you view it through that lens of, we would
like to win the Premier League title and this player gives us
the best opportunity. Maybe they you know came out on
the better end
of that either or Choice
keisei do it feels like if if arson or the Premier League
champions, they'll come back for him in the summer and he
will go there and so they're going to get him either way and
then Georgina moves on and everybody's happy.
It just, it feels like they have played every single card
in their hand at the exact right moment in the right way
and they've gotten all this correct.