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[niko_cee]

Klopp loves Henderson.

[Don]

We've been a shambles every time he's been out, my knob will be red-raw at Thiago's turns and volley'd lofted balls for our Muzzies to run on to but let's be clear, he ain't gonna do shit in this kick and rush league.

[Boydy]

Player of the year next season then.

[Reg]

Hi TTH. I felt the need to log in to say that Taz post is balls, and Thiago would be great in any league. (It's possible that I just wanted to criticise Taz after he dissed Brighton a couple weeks ago.)

[Don]

I was just putting the bait out to draw you back in, you predictable cunt. Imagine thinking Thiago would struggle when that malnourished gyppo is getting plaudits for Utd.

The Brighton stuff wasn't bait though, you're toxic to the eye [and you know it].

[Giggles]

Was Reg gone?

[Reg]

I was just putting the bait out to draw you back in, you predictable cunt.
:D I'm not sure of the last time I posted so no idea why I'm on your mind.

And I don't know what you mean about Brighton, we play some beautiful football in our own third.

[Don]

Everyone is forever on my mind.

Daniel James isn't going to be as good as Messi. Oh wait, RL is active, as you were.

[randomlegend]

Sky Germany (dogshit tier) reporting Sancho pushing for the United moved, confirmed by Bouhafsi (top tier for French clubs)

[SincereTheRebel]

Martial sold. Greenwood striker. Sancho right. Radhford left?

[Gray Fox]

Alcantara to Anfield looks to be on. Who is the casualty here?

Wijnaldum is most likely. In his Liverpool guise he is often the one of the midfield 3 the most forward. Henderson and Fabinho do a lot more dirty work, though his effort is not to be overlooked. He also is down to 1 year left on his deal and is (depending on who you believe) either after a new challenge or one last big payday.

I've heard rumours of a swap with Bayern. To swap him for Thiago would change that midfield dynamic a fair bit. I don't think Thiago is as athletic nor as willing to get his hands dirty, but going the other way he'd be another great weapon to unpick those stubborn defences.

It'd also allow for a shift into a 4-2-3-1 where needed. Curtis Jones has been handed the #17 shirt for next year which seems to me an indication he's likely to be a regular member of the squad. He's another that could play in the 3 or as the 10.

Personally I'd love to see Thiago as well as Gini staying. He's more than earned the reward of a new deal.

[Shindig]

Awww, I like Wijnaldum.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It looks like we're actually going to sign Kai Havertz (the surgeons rummaging through legal precedent to determine his eligibility or otherwise for The Operation) but Leicester want £80 million for Chilwell (lol) so we're after some blockhead Belgian instead.

[niko_cee]

Wijnaldum's an excellent 10 when he plays for Holland, and whilst I appreciate 'Thiago' is probably a 'better' player, at 29 does he have what it takes to come in and hit the ground running in England? Maybe for some fancy dan possession wankers, but I don't know about him as an '8' the way Liverpool play. Gini is mega-underrated and even if he were to leave I don't think it's a position that would need urgent restaffing. Changing the system unsettles the front 3.

I do wonder how capable Firmino would be as one of the midfield 3. He was a midfielder in the Wijnaldum mould once upon a time, and they've gone different ways with it. Would open up space for Mbappe.

[SincereTheRebel]

Mbappe :D.

C. Ronaldo has a better chance at joining the Wolves Portuguese Invasion

[Gray Fox]

A lot of noise of Ake to City now. Do Chelsea still hold the option on him?

[randomlegend]

The private jet that brought Bruno to Manchester is in Ibiza, where Sancho is on holiday.

Which is probably a coincidence, but yknow.

[Baz]

Mbappe :D.

C. Ronaldo has a better chance at joining the Wolves Portuguese Invasion
Believe it.

[Lofty]

Barrow AFC's best player, John (brother of Wayne) Rooney has gone to Stockport County rather than have a crack at the football league. Must have been a lucrative offer.

[niko_cee]

Is Stones officially done at City now then? And how they laughed when Arsenal thought they might have him on loan or something whenever that was.

[Manc]

The private jet that brought Bruno to Manchester is in Ibiza, where Sancho is on holiday.

Which is probably a coincidence, but yknow.

Fuck off.

[John]

It looks like we're actually going to sign Kai Havertz (the surgeons rummaging through legal precedent to determine his eligibility or otherwise for The Operation) but Leicester want £80 million for Chilwell (lol) so we're after some blockhead Belgian instead.

Who is the Belgian? Leicester are having a laugh with that valuation, but no doubt Chelsea will end up paying something close to it because he's half decent and English in a position of need.

[Lewis]

The private jet that brought Bruno to Manchester is in Ibiza, where Sancho is on holiday.

Which is probably a coincidence, but yknow.

:drool:

[SincereTheRebel]

Who is the Belgian? Leicester are having a laugh with that valuation, but no doubt Chelsea will end up paying something close to it because he's half decent and English in a position of need.

Looking at their squad, they look ok for the homegrown talent quota.

[Luca]

The private jet that brought Bruno to Manchester is in Ibiza, where Sancho is on holiday.

Which is probably a coincidence, but yknow.

All this flight-tracking muppetry is just a poor man’s Bloodgate. What a time to be alive that was. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who is the Belgian? Leicester are having a laugh with that valuation, but no doubt Chelsea will end up paying something close to it because he's half decent and English in a position of need.

Atalanta. You can help me as with no BT I have literally never seen them play.

EDIT: He's Dutch.

[mugbull]

Kai Havertz is the most good-looking footballer since Gourcuff so its a win-win for Chelsea there

[SincereTheRebel]

Believe it.

We will see.

[Gray Fox]

If Chelsea get Havertz too it'll be like coming down that ramp Vince McMahon style after their ban.

[Shindig]

Bince McMan.

[Don]

Ryan Fraser's been tearing it up in Ibiza with Wayne Lineker for the last month so the story checks out.

[Boydy]

Kai Havertz is the most good-looking footballer since Gourcuff so its a win-win for Chelsea there

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/67/590x/1310187_1.jpg?r=1594881725724

:cab:

[Ian]

I just assumed that post was meant for the shameful lustage thread.

[Baz]

He looks like he's got teeth like people presume British people have.

[Lewis]

He looks like something out of Antz.

[Jimmy Floyd]

After a long trawl of google images and some careful consideration, I'm coming down on mokkers's side here.

[Shindig]

He's no Francois Cevert.

[Luca]

The entire ‘BVB’ squad singing “Hey Jude” on Twitter to announce the signing of a 16-year-old is everything that’s wrong with modern football. Fight me.

[Lewis]

It's everything wrong with Germans. Again, the lamest people in the developed world.

[Waffdon]

If Chelsea get Havertz too it'll be like coming down that ramp Vince McMahon style after their ban.

Havertz, Zyiech and Werner all cost about £10m of their transfer budget considering they got about £160m all in all for Morata and Hazard

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Net spend returning :drool:

[Lewis]

Didn't they lose money on Morata?

[niko_cee]

Waff's just following standard FFP protocol whereby you only count fees received and entirely ignore (sorry, amortise) any you may or may not have paid out over time.

[Lofty]

The entire ‘BVB’ squad singing “Hey Jude” on Twitter to announce the signing of a 16-year-old is everything that’s wrong with modern football. Fight me.

Surely his initiation song will just be him dancing to Savage Love by Jason Derulo.

[randomlegend]

That plane has set off, looks England bound

EDIT: RIP GOING TO PARIS

[Waffdon]

Didn't they lose money on Morata?

Just about broke even if you include the loan fee Atletico paid for him last year

[Pepe]

Picking Neymar up on the way back to England. :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Manchester United footballers don't need planes, they can just ride the jet stream with their silky feet. Attack! Attack! Attack, attack, attack!

[niko_cee]

Mbappe :D.


Well indeed.

Can't see anyone outside of Real being able to offer him the sort of wages it would take to get him out of Paris, and everything is all about money. Do they really pay Bale €600k a week? I know they have a slightly different approach to everyone else in terms of how they structure things (to do with image rights etc) but even so, lol at paying him that to act like a twat on the stands. No desire to leave either. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Real Madrid don't have a pot to piss in now anyway.

[SincereTheRebel]

Well indeed.

Can't see anyone outside of Real being able to offer him the sort of wages it would take to get him out of Paris, and everything is all about money. Do they really pay Bale €600k a week? I know they have a slightly different approach to everyone else in terms of how they structure things (to do with image rights etc) but even so, lol at paying him that to act like a twat on the stands. No desire to leave either. :D

After his first three seasons at Madrid, he was scorching and signed a new 6-year deal until 2022. He was already on mega-money so yeah, he is probably locked in on half a million a week until then. He is still only 31.

[niko_cee]

Real Madrid don't have a pot to piss in now anyway.

Since when has that ever stopped them?

[randomlegend]

ITKs all saying Dortmund have accepted United's official offer for Sancho. Medical and contract signing all that's left.

Ornstein has confirmed this to be true by saying it's "not close". Simon Stone throwing a slight spanner in the works by saying something positive.

[Don]

What did Peter Thomas say?

[CJay]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/20/bournemouths-nathan-ake-expected-to-join-manchester-city-in-35m-transfer

What’s the view on Aké? Surely he’s damaged goods from being part of this Bournemouth team? I don’t think their defence shored up much after he joined, but I could be wrong. Seems like a typical Pep defender, really.

[niko_cee]

I'd say his injury record would be the biggest worry. He's a more than decent player, but yeah, could be quite Pep. He's not exactly the guy you think is going to make everything alright is he? More than capable but not in the top bracket. They just need to suck it up and buy Koulibaly.

£35m is nothing to them, less than they typically spend on feckless fullbacks so a player that can cover a couple of positions is probably a step in the right direction.

[SincereTheRebel]

I think man city are just trying to find their own version of Virgil

[Manc]

I suspect he'll do quite well.

Everton signing Hojbjerg is such an Everton thing to do. Forever irrelevant.

[SincereTheRebel]

I cant think of the other man city central defender besides Laporte. Has it been walker since kompany leftm

[Jimmy Floyd]

Otamendi has played 24 this year, proper stealing a living.

[SincereTheRebel]

Otamendi and Stones. Stones should be good. Whats happened to him? He has the long physique and the ball-playing ability. Defending isnt all that important.

[Andy]

Garcia has been getting a few starts since the restart.

You would think itll be Ake and one other central defender in with possibly both Stones and Ottamendi out.

[Andy]

I suspect he'll do quite well.

Everton signing Hojbjerg is such an Everton thing to do. Forever irrelevant.

25m with a year left on his contract. Thought we would be lucky to get 15.

[SincereTheRebel]

I did a quiz for work on evertons signings and they quietly splash the cash on players from the league. They have bought about 20 players for 20m+

[The Merse]

Otamendi and Stones. Stones should be good. Whats happened to him? He has the long physique and the ball-playing ability. Defending isnt all that important.

There are clubs that’ll bench a defender for throwing 1 in 5 games with a big error. Unsurprisingly, we’re linked to him.

[The Merse]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/20/bournemouths-nathan-ake-expected-to-join-manchester-city-in-35m-transfer

What’s the view on Aké? Surely he’s damaged goods from being part of this Bournemouth team? I don’t think their defence shored up much after he joined, but I could be wrong. Seems like a typical Pep defender, really.

One of the few defenders you can pick up outside the top 6/7 teams that’s used to playing in a high line and playing it out from the back I guess, and in fairness given the other players in that Bournemouth defence, he’s been carrying what little defensive quality they have for a while.

[Lewis]

John Stones has always been crap. It's just that the NARRATIVE (Good Football, ball-playing defender) covered him at Everton, and he could coast at City. If you look at his England performances you get an idea of where he is.

[Yevrah]

If we had technically gifted footballers (we clearly don't and rarely do) then I'd worry more about whether our defenders could play the ball, but as it is I'd prefer to start with their ability to defend first and foremost.

[John Arne]

Ho Chi Minh City released Lima a few weeks ago, and are apparently letting Amido Balde go this week.

Replacements, strangely, already in country and going through quarantine, Costa Rican pair Ariel Rodriguez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Francisco_Rodr%C3%ADguez) and Jose Ortiz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Guillermo_Ortiz)

[phonics]

If we had technically gifted footballers (we clearly don't and rarely do) then I'd worry more about whether our defenders could play the ball, but as it is I'd prefer to start with their ability to defend first and foremost.
If there’s one thing apart from pace I’d say the current England team has is technical competence.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I call him Juan Piedras, as it better reflects his more cultured playing style. How the chattering tacticians of Montjuich tapas bars must coo when they see him play-it-out-from-the-back (or 'Fuerabaloncísimo' as it is properly known) against Burnley on satellite TV.

[Yevrah]

Are you alright Jim?

[Giggles]

He just cannot abide anything foreign, nothing new there. He went balls deep with that at one though.

[Don]

Let's not gammonise posting flair like that, we haven't all surrendered our soul quite yet.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They actually call it la jamonización over there, which I'm sure Giggles would know if he wasn't busy hating foreigners.

[Manc]

It's a character issue with Stones. He's a cunt by all accounts.

[Lofty]

Didn't Holberg tell Everton he'd rather go to Spurs?

[Andy]

Everton are the only club that can afford him, it was reported Spurs offered less than Evertons original 15m bid.

Kyle Walker-Peters has been great on loan so I assumed we would do some sort of swap deal. Seems like they may have realised KWP is actually decent and want to give him a proper chance.

[niko_cee]

7 years to the day since Arsenal made that bid for Suarez.

:drool:

[SincereTheRebel]

7 years to the day since Arsenal made that bid for Suarez.

:drool:

:D

From what I can remember, Liverpool snitched saying Arsenal made a million and a pound bid because he had a release clause, and he did have the release clause which was met?

[randomlegend]

Google says he had a clause in his contract which meant Liverpool had to inform Suarez of any bid over £40m. Arsenal thought it was a release clause and bid 40m and one pounds, which Liverpool told Suarez about and promptly rejected.

[niko_cee]

The exact details are a bit sketchy. I think he had a release clause, Liverpool's ownership just laughed it off (basically saying contracts were worthless in football when players wanted to leave so they'd have a bit of it the other way round) and Suarez had no desire to kick up a major fuss to go to Arsenal.

It was basically the beginning of their descent.

[Lofty]

Nah the beginning of the descent was before that I'd say. Bennacer rumoured to PSG or City for £40m, the next Gnabry style regret tale for Arsenal.

At least we have a nice new home kit.

[Waffdon]

Sane just basically confirmed Chelsea are signing Havertz in a press conference. At least they’ll still be fun to watch. Over 3.5 in every game with that defence

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you score 10 then there shouldn't be time for the oppo to get more than 7 or 8.

[Waffdon]

1286291142838046722

Mbappe will cost about £20

[SincereTheRebel]

Birmingham City have retired Judes number 22 shirt

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was thinking the other day how it's surely unlikely that anyone other than PSG will ever win the league again (or at least until the Qataris leave town, which they won't, because having money in Paris is a safer bet than having it in a tiny desert oil state), in which case why do the rest of the teams even bother continuing?

You would surely gang up and vote PSG out of the league if you could.

[Lofty]

Birmingham City have retired Judes number 22 shirt

tin pot behaviour

[Don]

Jesus, I thought that was a joke. That is stunning :D

[Lewis]

That is shameful. It's bad enough when clubs do it for their actual legends.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:harold:

[Giggles]

Christ, I thought he was pulling the piss too.

[John]

Someone should check on Mellin. He might have laughed himself into a collapsed lung.

[Ian]

Close the club down.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There's some lovely footage going around of Lampard telling Klopp to fuck off, has really made my day, as if that German fraud can come over here and lord it over our homegrown legends like he owns the place.

[Ian]

What was SFB all worked up about?

[niko_cee]

The freekick that wasn't that led to the second goal.

[randomlegend]

The story I read re: Bellingham from one of the Birmingham fans on Reddit is that because of his age he could have left on a free, but he 'arranged' it so that the buying club paid Birmingham a fee and he took lower wages. They reckoned Birmingham were in enough financial difficulty that the fee was significant enough to have not far off saved the club.

If that's all true it's slightly more understandable. Sort of.

[Giggles]

If it’s true then in fairness you don’t get much more of a club legend than saving it.

[Ian]

If that's true I hope they're going to name one of their stands the Borussia Dortmund Stand for not lolling the whole thing off.

[Spikey M]

Didn't Delph invent that shenanigans when he signed a new contract with Villa a month before going to City?

[phonics]

My favourite version of this came from Basketball.

https://i.imgur.com/SwuyieR.png

[Don]

I ain't seen a minute of the lad but I'll have a stake on him doing absolutely nothing and ending up back in the ends, automatically undoing the retirement of the number.

He can't even cement a 90 minute slot for Birmingham and has 4 goals and 2 assists in 2700 minutes of football. Get the fuck in the bin with your physically early developed useless ass.

[randomlegend]

I'll have a stake on Taz throwing about :drool:s and calling him an 'ebony god' or some such nonsense within 5 years.

[niko_cee]

Seems a bit like MK Dons retiring Dele Alli's number.

Is not being a complete shithouse really enough to warrant such (admittedly mawkishly Americanised) conduct? This goes back to my previous point about Birmingham City having no place in an ideal Premier League (sorry Fuce, or 7om, or both).

Aren't they also owned by Trillion Trophies China Inc or somesuch? Who exactly is being saved in this narrative?

[Don]

Bruv, he's the same colour as my ballsack and his limbs have that RvP look of retarded range of motion about them. He'd fucking die on his arse on a dancefloor. Negative ebony don potential.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Any time a non-top flight team receives a cheque worth more than a chicken dinner it's dressed up as saving the club. The reality is about three of them have gone under in the last 100 years. It's just a silly emotional bit of PR that makes them look small time, which they wouldn't be aware of because they're all wrapped up in it.

[Giggles]

Things seem to be totally changing now, way more would be at risk surely. I do like this argumentative Jimmy though. Lockdown has been good to you :drool:

[Shindig]

And then they'll do it again with his brother.

[Manc]

Bellingham will be top tier imo.

[SincereTheRebel]

Is it official he is even going into the first team? His competition in midfield

Emre Can
Witsel
Delaney
Brandt
Dahoud

They have played a 343 this season.

[Don]

Is he not a winger? He'll replace Sancho when our Jadon goes to ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL DUTY GAHAHAHHAHA

[Spikey M]

Isn't one of his plus points that he can play pretty much anywhere but in goal?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

So a poor man's John O'Shea?

[Don]

Yeah transfermarkt has him down as a CM. I'm gonna have to re-evaluate. He might be fit to clean RLC's boots if he puts his head down.

[randomlegend]

Is he not a winger? He'll replace Sancho when our Jadon goes to ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL DUTY GAHAHAHHAHA

He's not a winger. He's a central midfielder.

[Ian]

He wishes. John O'Shea was a great goalie.

EDIT: At Mahow.

[Don]

Don't fucking talk to me like that.

[Spikey M]

So a poor man's John O'Shea?

I prefer Phil Neville

[randomlegend]

Sancho appears to have been in Málaga today based on his instagram. Then this afternoon two private jets took off one after the other (one of which was the one Bruno flew in on) from Málaga, one landing in Manchester and the other in Biggin Hill (the London airport Utd always use).

[phonics]

Mate...

I'm really not calling you out. At this point, this is a mental health check-in, your family need to intervene.

You're location tag hunting teenagers.

[Shindig]

If you're gonna plane spot, pull up to the Heathrow car park with a flask and do it right.

[randomlegend]

Mate...

I'm really not calling you out. At this point, this is a mental health check-in, your family need to intervene.

You're location tag hunting teenagers.

I'm not. Just reading about other people doing it. Much normaller.

[Ian]

Mate...

I'm really not calling you out. At this point, this is a mental health check-in, your family need to intervene.

You're location tag hunting teenagers.

They're clearly mates, him and Bruno are on first name terms.

Stay out of his business, mate.

[Giggles]

Mate...

I'm really not calling you out. At this point, this is a mental health check-in, your family need to intervene.

You're location tag hunting teenagers.

You’re some fucking pox.

[Lewis]

I'm going to rep every shitty plane rumour until he signs.

[niko_cee]

BBC have Lovren to Zenit for ACTUAL MONEY as something that might be more than idle clickbait.

[Shindig]

https://www.themag.co.uk/2020/07/newcastle-united-takeover-to-go-through-but-only-after-2020-21-pl-season-kicks-off-report/

So the new guys come in after the transfer window is shut, if they come at all. Destroy this club.

[Giggles]

Who’s the muff?

[Manc]

Amanda Staveley.

[niko_cee]

Real Madrid are hoping to raise around 180m euros (£163m) this summer by selling - among others - Wales forward Gareth Bale, 31, Colombia midfielder James Rodriguez, 29, and Serbian forward Luka Jovic, 22.

:happycry:

[Shindig]

Someone should tell Amanda to drop her Barclays lawsuit and sign the fucking paperwork.

[Ian]

Real Madrid are hoping to raise around 180m euros (£163m) this summer by selling - among others - Wales forward Gareth Bale, 31, Colombia midfielder James Rodriguez, 29, and Serbian forward Luka Jovic, 22.

:happycry:

Dunno why they're bothering, it'll take a cool £300m to prise Andreas Pereira off us.

[niko_cee]

Lallana to Brighton seems to be getting some traction.

:drool:

[Don]

Me next season:
https://i.imgur.com/COehunJ_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

That would be lovely. I want to watch him as much as his body holds up not to get rotated with Marc Fucking Albrighton every other week.

[SincereTheRebel]

Beak is enormous

[Danny]

https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-woman-complains-to-sainsburys-after-weighing-500g-of-mince-on-scales-20200724


A shopper has shared a photo of a 500g packet of minced beef she bought from Sainsbury's, after weighing it and realising she had been short changed.

The packet of mince that she'd purchased from the British supermarket chain actually only had 478g in it, meaning she was down 22g of mince.

She said: "Erm @sainsburys this was supposed to be a 500g pack, where's the rest? #shortchanged"


Another, in reference to Birmingham City retiring their 22 shirt, said: "They've retired 22g of beef in honour of Jude Bellingham, have some respect."

Ffs :lol:

[Don]

:D

lll

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Lofty]

Morelos supposedly agreed a move to Lille from Rangers, in the region of £20m. Reckon Rangers could do a lot worse than get Deeney in.

[Don]

We need to talk about Doucoure and Sarr. I'm praying the latter's demolition job on us has us sniffing. No place for the former but both are proper monumental signings waiting to happen.

[randomlegend]

United apparently want Sancho, Grealish, VdB and a starting quality CB (Upamecano and Koylibaly mentioned but nobody really sure) as their ideal window. There are 10 players who would be allowed to leave if a half decent bid came in, and we're actively aiming to get at least 6 out.

#ITK

[randomlegend]

1287688429053136902

[Manc]

I see the Harvey Barnes to Liverpool link has resurfaced. Fits the Klopp mould, but his finishing is disgusting.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Havertz is obviously as good as done, I just wonder whether we have any plans to start defending better or if Andreas Christensen toeing clearances up in the air is actually the future of top class defending and I'm just missing something.

I'm also not sure where a keeper is coming from, or who will take Kepa off our hands, surely we're not paying £100 million for Oblak as well as spunking all this money on the various attackers.

[Don]

Interesting. Thought he'd had his career ruined this year but god bless the transfer comittee for recognising that talent. Why Leicester have tried to make him into some byline winger I don't understand, I swear he blew as a central player for West Brom. Imagine thinking a white man is gonna make for a top winger.

[Gray Fox]

Bild are reporting a €98m bid for Sancho has been rejected.

[niko_cee]

Being a Leicester player I would imagine his price tag would be prohibitively high.

Sadio needs to have a word in Sarr's ear, although that's only going to further exacerbate AFCON issues.


United apparently want Sancho, Grealish, VdB and a starting quality CB (Upamecano and Koylibaly mentioned but nobody really sure) as their ideal window. There are 10 players who would be allowed to leave if a half decent bid came in, and we're actively aiming to get at least 6 out.

#ITK

There aren't going to be many half-decent bids flying around this summer. Other than from United by the sounds of it.

Other than fulfilling a 'nice-to-have' requirement I'm really not sure why United would want (all of) Sancho, Grealish and the dutch chap for £200m when they already have pretty decent options in that area of the pitch. Are they just replacements for the likes of Sanchez, Mata (is he still there?) and whoever else might be leaving? Centre-half, left-back and someone less shit than Matic as the pivot or whatever that role is called would seem a more sensible way to spend a fuckton of cash

[niko_cee]

What's the score with Vertonghen? I see he's left Spurs.

Has age ravaged his ability? Does he want to play more or a ludicrously long contract maybe?

If he's still even halfway serviceable I'd have him as a Robertson back-up/Lovren replacement if he doesn't mind sitting on the bench.

Shit, BBC have Lovren leaving to Zenit for £11m as official.

[SincereTheRebel]

Being a ball-carrying left footed defender, im sure that Vertonghen has overs all over the place

[Baz]

I see the Harvey Barnes to Liverpool link has resurfaced. Fits the Klopp mould, but his finishing is disgusting.

I’d rather have Cantwell.

[Don]

We've probably got Milner in a 24/7 mentoring scheme with Elliott and that's owing to the fact he's Messi's regen. Ain't nobody got the energy nor time to spend beating the cunt out of that humongous Norwich retard on top of that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Cantwell to Leeds feels like a good fit to me. He can run around a lot and be a knobhead with shit hair.

[Don]

Where the sweet fuck are Fraser and Zaha planning on going if their move to Utd falls through? Is it an Everton ting?

[randomlegend]

Being a Leicester player I would imagine his price tag would be prohibitively high.

Sadio needs to have a word in Sarr's ear, although that's only going to further exacerbate AFCON issues.



There aren't going to be many half-decent bids flying around this summer. Other than from United by the sounds of it.

Other than fulfilling a 'nice-to-have' requirement I'm really not sure why United would want (all of) Sancho, Grealish and the dutch chap for £200m when they already have pretty decent options in that area of the pitch. Are they just replacements for the likes of Sanchez, Mata (is he still there?) and whoever else might be leaving? Centre-half, left-back and someone less shit than Matic as the pivot or whatever that role is called would seem a more sensible way to spend a fuckton of cash

We DESPERATELY need creative options for the centre. If either of Pogba or Fernandes get injured or have a poor run of form it's back to fucking Pereira, Lingard, Mata etc.

Matic has been good since the restart but he doesn't have the legs for it. I guess the hope is that McTominay and Fred could provide sufficient cover until next year.

We're after a centre back. Upamecano on loan with obligation to buy is apparently something we're looking into. Shaw/Williams are fine.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I would not want Zaha back, especially for the price mooted.

[randomlegend]

Cantwell to Leeds feels like a good fit to me. He can run around a lot and be a knobhead with shit hair.

He came in to work at Christmas to give the kids presents. He was a really nice guy.

[Manc]

Cantwell is the new JLINGZ.

[Kikó]

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2020/07/26/report-claims-ex-benfica-boss-will-take-over-at-aston-villa-hours-after-dean-smith-led-them-to-safety/

Strange Portuguese papers rumour that Bruno Lage (formerly of Benfica) to take over Dean Smith.

[niko_cee]

Does Dean Smith know about this?

[Ian]

Gutted that his name isn't, as I initially misread it, "Bruno Large."

[Mike]

1287726314489876481

Lovren gone, back to back titles is on!

[Baz]

\o/

[Giggles]

I see the Harvey Barnes to Liverpool link has resurfaced. Fits the Klopp mould, but his finishing is disgusting.

I’ll assume you don’t mean disgusting in the same stupid way mahow uses it.

[randomlegend]

Romano saying Willian likely going to Arsenal. Presumably on a three year contract given the reason he's leaving Chelsea is that they only offered him two.

Lol.

[niko_cee]

Even though he's been one of their better players since the restart they probably don't actually need him seeing as they are buying all the wide forwards/attacking midfielders in creation (and already have a fair few there).

[Reg]

We DESPERATELY need creative options for the centre. If either of Pogba or Fernandes get injured or have a poor run of form it's back to fucking Pereira, Lingard, Mata etc.

Matic has been good since the restart but he doesn't have the legs for it. I guess the hope is that McTominay and Fred could provide sufficient cover until next year.

We're after a centre back. Upamecano on loan with obligation to buy is apparently something we're looking into. Shaw/Williams are fine.
Sky Sports guy James Cooper (someone noteable? Dunno) reckons (https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/12037394/manchester-united-transfer-plans-who-will-they-target-after-champions-league-qualification) they will go for Sancho, a centre back, and a creative midfielder, but that they can't spend much money...

Presumably Grealish wants to be a guaranteed starter if he leaves so can't see where he'd fit at United.

[randomlegend]

Stoney with the denial:

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We're in the end game now :drool:

[Lewis]

United's attack is going to be absolutely shit hot. The rest of the side not so much, but at least the games won't be horrendous to watch like the majority of the past seven years.

[Manc]

Sancho will be shook to the core when he lines up against an actual defence.

[niko_cee]

United's attack is going to be absolutely shit hot. The rest of the side not so much, but at least the games won't be horrendous to watch like the majority of the past seven years.

It never really works like that. From years of bitter experience being an 'exciting attacking team' mostly just ends up with seething anger when you get nil-nil'd by some shitehawks at home or constantly rolled by anyone who can defend/score from a corner.

[Lewis]

That is a point. Maybe bring Jose Mourinho back with him.

[Baz]

Is Sancho good then? I’ve never seen a match with him in.

[niko_cee]

He looks good, although it can be hard to tell when most of his games that I've seen have been against Championship level sides (be it for England in the various age groups or Dortmund).

He's better than Dan James.

What's this Ferran Torres chap City are signing like? I've heard of him but he falls into the never really seen him play category for me.

Why is everyone who needs a new defence signing attackers?

[Baz]

I’m better than Dan James.

[randomlegend]

I mean we have the third best defensive record in the league and it was good last season too...

[SincereTheRebel]

I’m better than Dan James.

Poor mans Aaron Lennon.

[Mike]

That’s how we’ve always described Baz.

[Shindig]

There is also keen interest in Newcastle from American businessman Henry Mauriss, who is willing to offer £350m for the club, who finished 13th in the Premier League standings.

A new conman approaches.

[randomlegend]

This morning in air traffic control:

One plane has done London --> Manchester --> Nice and a second just did London --> Nice

Sancho is currently in St Tropez

[Waffdon]

Ban the creep

[SincereTheRebel]

This morning in air traffic control:

One plane has done London --> Manchester --> Nice and a second just did London --> Nice

Sancho is currently in St Tropez

You said this was locked in months ago. Give us new intel on players incoming that we are not already aware of.

[Kikó]

Sancho has just been spotted eyeing up the menu of Lou Macari's. Note - he loves fish and chips.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If he loves fish and chips is there not a risk he will become a fat player like Luke Shaw and slow at running? I would rather he was eyeing up the menu of a salad bar. Very worried United fan here.

[niko_cee]

Just seen him in Tossed at Bishop Stortford services.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Which country does he feel do the best pork products?

[Kikó]

I've got contact from his local butcher, he prefers weisswurst but despite that, he thinks he can handle the Cumberlands that United are offering.

[Manc]

Coutinho longing for a return to the Premier League. He'd be brilliant for Jose.

[randomlegend]

Sheffield United interested in Phil Jones.

Offer from a Spanish club for Dalot.

United will make a low-ball offer for Ake with Bournemouth being relegated.

Sanchez has agreed a significant wage cut to go to Inter. If a fee is agreed with Utd he'll go.

[Ian]

Is there any special reason Solskjaer doesn't like Dalot?

I mean I know that having more than one competent right back seems to be against club policy in recent years but I don't really see the issue and I'd have thought he could have done a bit on the wing recently rather than driving the same eleven players into the town.

[Don]

Just because a fullback doesn't score own goals doesn't make them competent, that is ultimately a more extreme fallacy which has seen AWB make a name as a high quality RB. Dalot was always going to amount to fuck all, you don't fucking sign quality players from the Portuguese league any more and if you do, it's after Wolves have had a go.

[SincereTheRebel]

Coutinho longing for a return to the Premier League. He'd be brilliant for Jose.

Traditional "Number 10s" at a high level just don't seem to fit in anymore. The formations seem to have evolved really quickly.

[niko_cee]

Has Coutinho ever played as a traditional 10? He never really did for Liverpool other than maybe during his somewhat ill-fated 'fab 4' days. Started out on the side of a diamond and for most of Klopp's time played on the left of 3. Agree the role is being somewhat eradicated in the modern game.

[Andy]

Sheffield United interested in Phil Jones.

Offer from a Spanish club for Dalot.

United will make a low-ball offer for Ake with Bournemouth being relegated.

Sanchez has agreed a significant wage cut to go to Inter. If a fee is agreed with Utd he'll go.

Surely United just let Sanchez go for free and get him off the wage bill.

You try and squeeze out 10m and you end up stuck all next season like Bale at Real.

[niko_cee]

Are Inter owned by China now (or some other idiots) rather that insane Moratti guy? Can't imagine he'd be buying into any sort of deal where money went out of the club in United's direction for Sanchez.

[Disco]

Both Meelans are owned by the Chinese are they not?

[niko_cee]

Does that leave De Laurentiis ploughing a lonely furrow as the last of a dying breed of madman Italian owners (other than the Pozzos I guess)?

[Luca]

Does that leave De Laurentiis ploughing a lonely furrow as the last of a dying breed of madman Italian owners (other than the Pozzos I guess)?

Claudio Lotito would like a word.

[niko_cee]

Glad to hear the breed isn't dying out entirely.

Is that former Leeds guy still going (at Brescia???) or is he in prison now? Cellino?

[Kikó]

Are Inter owned by China now (or some other idiots) rather that insane Moratti guy? Can't imagine he'd be buying into any sort of deal where money went out of the club in United's direction for Sanchez.

They've been owned by the Chinese for years.

[Lofty]

Just because a fullback doesn't score own goals doesn't make them competent, that is ultimately a more extreme fallacy which has seen AWB make a name as a high quality RB. Dalot was always going to amount to fuck all, you don't fucking sign quality players from the Portuguese league any more and if you do, it's after Wolves have had a go.

Except for the last one United signed :D

[Lofty]

Supposedly Coutinho said he wants more time to decide on whether to join Arsenal, Spurs or Leicester so can only assume it's us if we win the FA Cup and get Europe, otherwise the other two.

Everton rumoured to want a 36 year old Ivanovic :D

[niko_cee]

Coutinho's probably just taking time to sort his affairs before topping himself if those are his choices.

[Boydy]

He must be proper kicking himself about leaving Liverpool now. Little dickhead.

[niko_cee]

£10m a year and probably paying no tax at all says otherwise, but yeah, it wasn't the best dream to follow.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The worst thing about modern transfer wank is the normalisation of twice-translated Euro bollocks lingo.

'...working hard to find a solution for the transfer of Jadon Sancho', says Sky Sports. Fuck off.

[Ian]

Googled a person on Football Weekly I'd never heard of and on his Twitter he mentions the "First Team Recruitment Analyst" being advertised here:
https://www.manutd.com/en/club/jobs/permanent-and-temporary-opportunities#


To contribute toward the administration and delivery of a comprehensive performance analysis service with a specific emphasis on goalkeepers.

Being paid to say "Yeah Dave's gone a bit pants." :drool:

[Don]

Just saw this on twitter:

Sancho doesn't seem to be 100% set on joining Man Utd and would even prefer to join Liverpool because of the bigger chance to win titles.

(Kicker)

It's the source that really make it :*****)

[niko_cee]

Sadly(?) that story is nonsense on many levels.

[randomlegend]

Just saw this on twitter:

Sancho doesn't seem to be 100% set on joining Man Utd and would even prefer to join Liverpool because of the bigger chance to win titles.

(Kicker)

It's the source that really make it :*****)

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[phonics]

Milan Baros just retired :cab:

[Ian]

Yeah I saw a few weeks ago he was planning to. I'd just assumed he'd retired ages ago because I dunno when I last heard his name.

[niko_cee]

He wasn't that old was he? Mid-to-late 30s?

[Don]

Sadly(?) that story is nonsense on many levels.

Let's be very clear, I have no interest in getting the next British urban rapstar in to sit on the bench as 5th choice behind Yevrah Messi, that was just a cracking stick to poke RL, as seen above.

[Baz]

He wasn't that old was he? Mid-to-late 30s?

48 in March.

[Ian]

He wasn't that old was he? Mid-to-late 30s?

38. He seems to have spent the last five years joining and leaving Banik Ostrava.

[mugbull]

I was at a Sparta - Banik Ostrava game a month ago and Baros came on in the 85th minute or something, and my reaction was more or less equivalent to the emoji phonics used in his post

[randomlegend]

Ferran Torres to City looks to be all but done.

[Don]

White Spanish wingers :harold:

[Lewis]

I remember when United were in for Joaquin and Vicente to replace David Beckham and Ryan Giggs. Jesus, that would have been closer to my birth than now.

[Don]

Pablo Hernandez played for 'that' Valencia side and he's back in the prem :cool:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Valencia_CF_season

[Lewis]

How did nobody buy David Villa until he was almost past it?

[SincereTheRebel]

As FM was basically an indication of real life. You couldn't sign Joaquin from Betis. He never wanted to leave.

[SincereTheRebel]

It all makes sense with Alexis now. He is 108 years old.


https://storify.com/services/proxy/2/1akTD_BGStR3Use6UGuN7Q/https/media.fyre.co/fDTPaiqT0ahEdxJ4Tyej_Capture.jpg

[Pen]

Pablo Hernandez played for 'that' Valencia side and he's back in the prem :cool:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_Valencia_CF_season

Isn’t ‘the’ Valencia side the Hector Cuper one?

[-james-]

Brighton have signed a right back from Ajax. Under a million quid seems like a pretty good deal for a prime age Dutch international, but there's a bit of déjà vu about all of the Eredivisie bods on twitter announcement shouting LOL he's shit what are you doing.

[Gray Fox]

£41m for Ake to City.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Brighton have signed a right back from Ajax. Under a million quid seems like a pretty good deal for a prime age Dutch international, but there's a bit of déjà vu about all of the Eredivisie bods on twitter announcement shouting LOL he's shit what are you doing.

He probably is shit but the whole Brighton philosophy seems to be that if you can acquire your shit more economically than your rivals are acquiring their shit, then you're #winning.

[randomlegend]

City apparently still after Koulibaly despite signing Ake.

The Ake fee is ridiculous btw.

[Manc]

Buying an entirely new backline every other year. The genius of PEP.

[-james-]

He probably is shit but the whole Brighton philosophy seems to be that if you can acquire your shit more economically than your rivals are acquiring their shit, then you're #winning.

It seems like a very smart way of running a football club to me. Same type of transfer that also brought in the likes of Lamptey (I presume new guy will be his deputy), Mooy and Burn for peanuts, and probably the same calibre of player that the likes of Everton enjoy spunking twenty million on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It seems like a very smart way of running a football club to me. Same type of transfer that also brought in the likes of Lamptey (I presume new guy will be his deputy), Mooy and Burn for peanuts, and probably the same calibre of player that the likes of Everton enjoy spunking twenty million on.

It is if just staying where you are is the end game, which to be fair it may well be.

[-james-]

I can't see how acquiring players that the market is undervaluing is anything but an attempt to move up the league. It's exactly what Liverpool did. Brighton's net spend has been pretty big since they they got promoted, it's just that most of the expensive buys have been fucking shite.

[-james-]

That's harsh actually, just a couple of big Eredivisie flops in there. They've basically built a completely new, young premier league squad for 200 million over three years. Dev squad is smashing it too. Not bad imo.

[randomlegend]

United links to Raul Jimenez are picking up again. Some of the ITKs said a while back we were in for him but it all went quiet on that front about a month ago. Rumours then were for a swap deal, possibly involving Dalot, which is what's being talked about in the media now.

Solskjaer thinks Dalot is absolute dogshit apparently.

On the CB front, we were said to be interested in Ake but not enough to match City's bid. Upamecano (on a loan with obligation to buy), Gabriel Magalhaes and Pau Torres are the others on our list.

Villa moved the goalposts on Grealish once the relaxation of FFP was announced. They really do want over £80m now.

[Danny]

In for our own summer of fuck you, pay me.

[niko_cee]

Hello Mr Wolves, can we interest you in swapping your top, top striker with this absolutely dogshit, sorry, I mean top top full back once billed as, what was it, one of the best in the world by Jose Mourinho?

He'd be a quality signing for United mind, although you could only imagine the fee would be insane. Didn't they pay like £40m for him themselves? It'd have to be £80m+.

That Ake fee is a bit mad, although not surprising. He's a decent player and handy in that he can fill a few holes in various positions. £60m+ already apparently burned on players who improve the squad but not really the first XI though? One wonders where the money comes from. Why don't they just not let the next Jadon Sancho slip through their fingers rather than signing Ferran Torres? They must have managed to filch some decent talent into their academy or do Chelsea just own that racket?

[randomlegend]

Hello Mr Wolves, can we interest you in swapping your top, top striker with this absolutely dogshit, sorry, I mean top top full back once billed as, what was it, one of the best in the world by Jose Mourinho?

He'd be a quality signing for United mind, although you could only imagine the fee would be insane. Didn't they pay like £40m for him themselves? It'd have to be £80m+.

That Ake fee is a bit mad, although not surprising. He's a decent player and handy in that he can fill a few holes in various positions. £60m+ already apparently burned on players who improve the squad but not really the first XI though? One wonders where the money comes from. Why don't they just not let the next Jadon Sancho slip through their fingers rather than signing Ferran Torres? They must have managed to filch some decent talent into their academy or do Chelsea just own that racket?

Obviously not a straight swap, but Wolves are apparently very keen on Dalot for whatever reason.

[Shindig]

Barcelona are the bigger mugs going for him.

[niko_cee]

Obviously not a straight swap, but Wolves are apparently very keen on Dalot for whatever reason.

Presumably something to do with his agent. Keeping the wheels greased and all.

[Kikó]

My ITK mate in the Portuguese press also backs up the Jimenez story. http://sportwitness.co.uk/wolves-signing-strongly-backed-imminent-raul-jimenez-way-manchester-united/

[Giggles]

It’s Ake just one of them homegrown things like the lad from Villa a few years ago?

[randomlegend]

That and he's left-footed.

[Spoonsky]

Milan Baros just retired :cab:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Baro%C5%A1


On 1 November 2007, Baroš was arrested in France while driving at 271 km/h (168 mph) in his black Ferrari F430, on a freeway limited to 130 km/h (81 mph). Stopped by French police between Lyon and Geneva in the region of Ain, the local authorities said the radar reading of 271 km/h was the fastest speed ever recorded in the region, surpassing the previous mark of 248 km/h (154 mph) set by a motorcyclist in 2000.

[Don]

Ake is 25 and a consistent, proven premiership talent. Anything less than £60m is because they went down. Top signing.

[Spikey M]

it's one of those that sounds mental until you remind yourself that £40m these days is what they find down the back of the sofa.

[SincereTheRebel]

My ITK mate in the Portuguese press also backs up the Jimenez story. http://sportwitness.co.uk/wolves-signing-strongly-backed-imminent-raul-jimenez-way-manchester-united/

:cab:

[SincereTheRebel]

I could see Jimenez leaving as they have yet to receive a big transfer income from a player, given their strong position.

I think he will go to Juventus with Ronaldo coming the other way in a swap deal. Portugal links and all that.

[niko_cee]

That and he's left-footed.

Isn't Laporte left-footed though?

I like Ake as a player, but I'm not sure he's really all that much better than John Stones. I mean, he's basically just participated in/been central to one of the worst defences over a sustained period of time in the history of the Premier League. Is he good for Holland or does De Ligt play?