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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Dominic Booth

Assessing the transfer scene of summer 2024 and possible shrewd moves

Ben Brereton Díaz
Ben Brereton Díaz, who at least knows the shirt given how close it is to Sheffield United’s last season. Photograph: Matt Watson/Southampton FC/Getty Images

DEALER’S CHOICES

It will not have escaped your attention that we here at Big Website are true football hipsters. Football Daily was into gegenpressing in the nascent days of Ralf Rangnick; we bought a Napoli shirt in the pre-mohawk Marek Hamsik era and, as we hammered Premier Manager for 18 hours straight, we drank fluorescent orange fruit beers before they showed up in any pub with a dodgy firestick. When it comes to assessing the transfer scene of summer 24, then, it’s the B-side deals that really wet our whistle, not the chart-toppers. So you can keep your Kylian Mbappés, your Endricks and even your Leny Yoros (sorry, Manchester United, but signing a generational teenager wanted by Real Madrid and paying £50m for the privilege hasn’t flown under anyone’s radar). Where are the bargains?

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