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Thread: The ULTRAMEGA Summer 2017 Transfers and Rumours Thread [featuring THE MIGHTY BLADES]

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    Does he not know I've backed Swansea to come last this season! He better not mess that up.

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    Liverpool getting themselves well set for a post-Brexit reintroduction of the foreigners rules though. Could at least field a team within the old rules, what was it, 3 fgns and 2 assms?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    That Swansea one is mental. If he is out on loan for his Bayern/Big Club future, donning it at somewhere like Everton would be alright, but even being the best player at Swansea by a mile hardly does anything to help that.
    Paul Clement was Ancelottis assistant.

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    People aren't going to take more notice of a good season for Swansea just because their manager has Ancelotti's phone number.

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    I see why it happened. The point is that he is selling himself short.

    EDIT: As above.

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    Well Ancelotti might take notice of his former assistant's opinion, which could be quite useful seeing as he's manager of Bayern.

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    I suppose, short of sending him to Juve as part of their unholy alliance, no one half decent is going to be interested in developing him for a year without the option to buy him, so if they do want to keep him (maybe) he has to drop to a club that'll just be happy to have him in the short term. And, I guess, where he'll be reasonably guaranteed games.

    Most exciting youth in Europe to loaned to Swansea in less than a year. Take heed Kylian.

    Cue Liverpool taking him on loan with no option to buy . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    £40m agreed for Oxlade-Chamberlain to Liverpool.

    Mental.

    Makes Coutinho look a snip at £150m or whatever it is.
    Not really. Maybe if it was Mane that was being sold.

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    That'll be next year.

    Along with Firmino.


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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    £40m agreed for Oxlade-Chamberlain to Liverpool.

    Mental.

    Makes Coutinho look a snip at £150m or whatever it is.
    Oh ffs.

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    I can't help but think that Liverpool would have been better off signing Howedes (just gone to Juve for £3.5m rising to £13.5m if they want to keep him) and Krychowiak (loan to WBA) instead of spaffing quite so much on The Ox, but what do I know?

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    That said, I bet neither of them were boyhood Liverpool fans, so there is that.

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    He's twice the player lallana is but without the good decision making. If klopp can get that into him he'll boss it.

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    Spoiler: He won't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    He's twice the player lallana is but without the good decision making. If klopp can get that into him he'll boss it.
    You should make a custom FM database. I bet it'd be very accurate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    He's twice the player lallana is but without the good decision making. If klopp can get that into him he'll boss it.

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    Aye, decent signings for Liverpool - especially if they sign Lemar as it looks - but I'm not sure why they aren't ploughing money into a decent 'keeper or centre half. Seems far too obvious.

    Coutinho must be gone otherwise they've got ridiculous depth in midfield

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    Leeds, Norwich and Fulham going in for Gayle. I had a brain fart and thought £15m might be close to our record sale. Then I remembered Andy. You'd get your £35m back for him in this bollocks climate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Lallana at 25m seemed a complete rip off but wasn't. This will end the same.

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    Should have brought back jordan ibe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Leeds, Norwich and Fulham going in for Gayle. I had a brain fart and thought £15m might be close to our record sale. Then I remembered Andy. You'd get your £35m back for him in this bollocks climate.
    Norwich were in for 18m I heard.

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    Well, we better be spending that money now because Mitrovic has a three match ban.

    Remember when £18m was the kind of crazy money Villa spent?

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    £40m on Oxlade-Chamberlain.

    Madness. Absolute madness.

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    He is a direct replacement for coutinhodinho

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    If they signed Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lemar, and sold Coutinho, then fine. I have no idea how they envisage all of these players fitting into the squad without selling him, frankly.

    It's like when I used to sign a load of players on free transfers on FM only to realise that I'd somehow ended up with seven strikers by mistake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GS View Post
    If they signed Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lemar, and sold Coutinho, then fine. I have no idea how they envisage all of these players fitting into the squad without selling him, frankly.

    It's like when I used to sign a load of players on free transfers on FM only to realise that I'd somehow ended up with seven strikers by mistake.
    Sign Eidur Gudjonhnson on a free transfer. Sell a week later for £20million. Classic.

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    Ox-Cham could become a Herrera-like midfielder apart from the fact that Liverpool only have a bunch of flanges running about there instead of Ogba/Fellainimania and Matic.

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    Given that Wenger hasn't developed a player successfully for God knows how long now it's hard to tell whether 'the Ox' is a good signing or not.

    The fee is all but irrelevant.

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    Definitely not in for Gayle now confirmed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GS View Post
    If they signed Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lemar, and sold Coutinho, then fine. I have no idea how they envisage all of these players fitting into the squad without selling him, frankly.

    It's like when I used to sign a load of players on free transfers on FM only to realise that I'd somehow ended up with seven strikers by mistake.
    If they sign Lemar it would presumably mean Coutinho is off, but otherwise it seems fairly workable.

    Front 3 from : Mane, Salah, Firmino, Sturridge and Coutinho (youths to supplement in lesser comps)
    Midfield 3 from: Can, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lallana, with the latter two perhaps able to fill in further forward as necessary, and Coutinho could come back into the midfield to break down the defensive wall which is bound to manifest itself quite often.

    Basically 2 players for every position so they aren't completely bollocksed by the inevitable injuries which will come.

    Stick a top, top centre half in the mix and you might almost be able to forget about the travails in nets.

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    I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed but I reckon phonics has very quietly had one of the worst days posting I've ever seen on here.

    Congrats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adamski View Post
    I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed but I reckon phonics has very quietly had one of the worst days posting I've ever seen on here.

    Congrats.
    Yesterday was pretty bad for him. And Monday.

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    The Ox is Reyes' English regen, good on the ball, shits himself in the tackle. Possibly the first ever transfer that is bad for both teams.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    He's twice the player lallana is but without the good decision making. If klopp can get that into him he'll boss it.
    That's a bit like saying 'this is twice the Formula 1 car but without the good speed'.

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    If Celtic MoussaDem joins Tottenham MoussaDem as they're saying might happen I'll shit myself

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    If they sign Lemar it would presumably mean Coutinho is off, but otherwise it seems fairly workable.

    Front 3 from : Mane, Salah, Firmino, Sturridge and Coutinho (youths to supplement in lesser comps)
    Midfield 3 from: Can, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lallana, with the latter two perhaps able to fill in further forward as necessary, and Coutinho could come back into the midfield to break down the defensive wall which is bound to manifest itself quite often.

    Basically 2 players for every position so they aren't completely bollocksed by the inevitable injuries which will come.

    Stick a top, top centre half in the mix and you might almost be able to forget about the travails in nets.
    You forgot Ings, la.

    Your defence is still bobbins and both goalkeepers seem to only play until they make some ridiculous fuck up and then the cycle repeats.

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    There should be a rule or maxim for intelligence-related caveats. 'Welbeck's razor' or something.

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    Barcelona have bid over £100m for Dybala now hahahah. It's not their attach they should be worrying about. Their midfield is past it and their defence is...yeah.

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    Mahrez is finialising a deal according to Alergia's NT Twitter but no idea where. Assume Chelsea is where he's headed.

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    There's been rumours of United for the last couple of days.

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    I don't see the point of another wide player. If Bareth Gale (or even 'Alexis') was available then go for it, but anyone less than top, top drawer is a bit of a waste of time at the moment. The two getting minutes there need them, and there is enough depth for rotation.

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    He'd be good on the right, but it'd mean binning Mata off for the most part.

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    It's either Barcelona or Chelsea he's signing for according to Twitter.

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    He seems quite important to the shape at the moment, but I suppose it wouldn't be a terrible option there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    You forgot Ings, la.

    Your defence is still bobbins and both goalkeepers seem to only play until they make some ridiculous fuck up and then the cycle repeats.
    Poor Danny.

    Someone should really take him on loan *COUGH* Brighton.

    As has been suggested elsewhere, I don't think there's a particularly feasible personnel based solution to the defence. Without being able to call on defensive titans like Valencia, Jones and Blind there's only so much you can do. I think the problem is more systemic so it's going to have to be full steam ahead on the we'll score more train. Still hoping for Van Dijk (no idea why, but he's the only one they want) but they'll just sign another €100m attacker instead (if wee Phil goes).

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    Mata/Micky Targaryen are more effective than Mahrez. Valencia could still cover there if needed too.

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    Mahrez, wouldn't he go to Arsenal? Seems like they have been interested for ages.

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    I have an acquaintance on my twitter who is a srs bizness Arsenal fan, and he spent the whole of last night retweeting stuff about the club having no money and no one else will be coming in, in a hail of fury. You have to laugh.

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    Tell him not to worry, a bank busting bid for Jonny Evans is in the pipeline . . .

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    This Mahrez thing sounds silly - he wants a move but no one has made an offer, so he's sat in Paris airport waiting and hoping, while Algeria - who need a win in Lusaka tomorrow to stay in any realistic contention for the World Cup - get on their jollies.

    Classy bloke.

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