MisterRoboto
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MdS, sure take him but Romagnoli? He needs to stay put and not even considered to be offered by Milan.
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Football Thread 2016/17 & Offseason |OT2| Wenger In Fam! Wenger Out Blud!
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MdS, sure take him but Romagnoli? He needs to stay put and not even considered to be offered by Milan.
Audioboxer
Member
The John Stones effect will forever continue at Man City. Whereas United have signed Bailly and Lindelof for like 30~35m each.
It is a bit more challenging to get top class left/right backs in the current market, but 50m for Kyle Walker is pushing it a bit. I'd say 40m tops would have been more reasonable, even with the "English player" added tax. He's still a really good player, no lies detected there.
It's not only the English player tax, but also the "currently in the EPL" tax.
we don't need another cb,just bring back caldara and we'll be fine,hopefully we use those money to buy a top mid otherwise selling him for so little would be ridicolous.
MaizeRage25
Member
No surprise they gave in right after losing Alves. City needed to sign 3-4 Full Backs and options were getting limited. They'll drop another 50 on Mendy soon and will probably get back in on Bertrand.
Will still need another rb after that
Well if i am Beppe, that is what i would ask. MdS alone+30 mil is plain robbery.
If we get Romagnoli, then the future italy CB is all in Juventus now. Caldara, Rugani and Romagnoli.
I am not saying we need another CB but i am just thinking the better compensation deal that Beppe should strive to get in this case as they are getting Bon Bon who is literally on his prime right now.
For our Mid, isnt that what Bentacur is for?
It will be another Torino fiaso lol.
MaizeRage25
Member
Suckas
To be fair, if you've only got £50m you don't spunk it on one player.
When you've got a few hundred million and know you'll get 200 more this year, 50m is the price of doing business.
."x isn't worth y" has been said for 30 odd years with regard to football players. Someone is worth exactly as much as someone is willing to pay.
Audioboxer
Member
That's true. Man Utd going after Dier will be a shitshow if it goes through. Another English player I think has talent but United spending something like 60m on him will be a LOL (Tottenham will probably want nearer 70m). Lukaku was already a bit expensive, but top strikers are REALLY hard to come by. Especially those already proven in the EPL.
I guess I'm just a bit stingy. Most people say to me who gives a shit, if the money is there blow it, lol.
I'm stingy too. I actually think that we (Chelsea) since the Torres fiasco have been pretty sensible when it comes to spending. Costa, Matic, Hazard, Fabregas, Luiz and now Rudiger and Bakayoko were all under £40m!
I really do not understand why Jose is even considering Dier at all. I know he is EPL proven and all but he has played three seasons now and he has yet to impress me at all, even when he has played for England, I cannot for once say I see the reason. That is in contrast to my opinion of AS Monaco's Fabinho: a player that just looks the part of a Carrick mini.
Chelsea should sell Matic to Inter Milan and Spurs should hold on to Dier hard so Jose can proceed to Fabinho.
MaizeRage25
Member
Exactly, City can afford it with no sweat.
They're going to pump in a ton of goals this season but really need to shore up the defense and everyone knows that. It's going to cost them.
Audioboxer
Member
Yeah, that is wise business. No one needs to be like Arsene Wenger and his warchest that never gets spent.
I think he just wants Carrick 2.0. Unsure if that could ever be Dier but I think I would agree Dier would be better as a defensive/holding midfielder than a CB.
The biggest issue with Dier will be the price. I would be fine with him at United and he is good enough. It's being left paying something like 65m for Dier I'd be like... Great, we're the new John Stones club.
With every Premier League transfer, our Mane deal last year looks better and better.
Yep, great value for money
LegendofDragoonLives
Member
The Christmas tree is coming soon.
Either way if he is sold and James is not playing that LW, LAM position, someone else needs to be brought it (not seeing it).
I don't think the 80p for a Mars bar in the work vending machine is worth it, but sometimes late at night when I really want a mars bar, I'll pay it.
TBH, £50m for Torres was a great deal. Just turned out he was shit in the PL unless he had Gerrards hand up his arse.
Not really, but that's only because I've given up those kind of sweets lol
TBH, £50m for Torres was a great deal. Just turned out he was shit in the PL unless he had Gerrards hand up his arse.
Fucking annoyed about this.
McMoneyman
Member
The Gerrard fact was accurate. But by that time Torres legs had gone, he was never the same after he rushed back from injury to be in the World Cup(2010).
That being said, the day when Torres left I was a mess
Imagine being the world record fee for a defender. Imagine being Kyle Walker.
Only just seen it. Love it. More need to be like that.
Only just seen it. Love it. More need to be like that.
Bravo.
I'm going to be over the moon if we sign Keita. He's an absolute machine in the middle of the park.
RB Leipzig have always said Keita isn't for sale. Liverpool journo's just going on and on again. Like the "African Lawyer" who said the Van Dijk deal was back on and then deleted his account.
Actually funny.
But the news is coming from Germany. The Liverpool journalists have been fairly quiet when it comes to Keita, and mainly the leaks have been from Germany (and journos with close ties to Keita, supposedly) with RB saying he's not for sale, and then leaking that maybe they'd reconsider if they receive a club record bid, and then saying he's not for sale again the next day.
Takes five seconds to see the Liverpool Echo doing weird Keita stuff. I get it is journo's thing to get hits, but Liverpool based journo's seem by far the worst for doing this kind of stuff.
There's defo something going on, possibly with VVD too, but if either of them actually happen I reckon we won't hear about via the usual sources. Keita seems way more likely at this point because even with all these denials these contrary reports keep appearing. Joyce, Reddy, Pearce, King, and Bascombe all seem to be in the dark.
The Echo just puts out any rumour. They've had almost no credibility for a while now.
The Echo just puts out any rumour. They've had almost no credibility for a while now.
Not really. We fucked up with Van Dijk, but there's been no nonsense with Keita. Unless you're expecting journalists to just stop reporting on Liverpool full stop? Obviously after the Van Dijk fiasco anything we do will look bad to Saints fans, but nothing is happening here that doesn't happen with other clubs. A bunch of click bait articles from the Echo etc isn't the same as what we did with the Van Dijk briefings.
McMoneyman
Member
Klopp comments yesterday was pretty telling IMO.
You are misreading what I said. I said nothing about your club, I was talking about Liverpool based Journo's. I would call out Southampton based journo's if they did the same.
As for Van Dijk no contact has been made since we threatened you with the PL, Bertrand on the other hand looks like going.
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you can very much say 100%
thanks for everything leo.
Now bring on a top mid and everything is going to be fine.
Unreal Champ
Banned
Elaborate please?
he had an argument with allegri in march and then there are heavy rumors of him having a fight with barzagli and dybala during half time in cardiff,you can't do stuff like this at juve.
He also want to stay in italy,so milan was the only option.
He was being asked questions about transfers the other day and when asked about Van Dijk said: "Am I allowed to talk about this? I am not! Pretty much everything I could say would be a mistake. You or your colleagues wrote everything about this a few weeks ago. I was in Iceland by the way when somebody told me this was in the newspaper. Nothing happened since then, all good so far, so I can't say anything about this."
He was mainly being asked about the lack of transfers and fans being nervous, so I think he was just trying to calm people down more than anything.
I am just soured about the price hiks. 30mil+mds+romagnoli should be the best deal here.
