The Jude Bellingham Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[Adramelch]

Good brand synergy though, as 3 in 95 is also our odds of a top eight finish.

Not to mention that he's already hitting the target numbers for a Chelsea forward, so you will have reduced costs for The Operation.

[Shindig]

The latest paper waffle has us throwing our hat into the Chiesa bidding war.

[John Arne]

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic joins Al-Hilal for €40m

[randomlegend]

Sergej Milinkovic-Savic joins Al-Hilal.

It's a shame he never made the move to a big team, would've been interesting to see how he got on.

[niko_cee]

Desperately badly would be my guess after a career soft pedaling in Italy followed by a peak years move to Saudi Arabia.

Like Veron but way way worse.

[Baz]

Like Veron but way way worse.

Good job The Reid’s no longer around. :o

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Good job The Reid’s no longer around. :o

RIP in pieces, Reid.

[Gray Fox]

Sounding a lot like Henderson to Saudi might be on.

[Waffdon]

700k a week :lol:

Gerrard looking out for his mate

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're already scraping the barrel.

[Don]

What fucking good is it having a legend of the game if you can't take advantage of it like this. Fucking gwan Stevie :hail:

[Waffdon]

Gerrard’s club taking Fabinho and Henderson off Liverpool’s books but we won’t hear anything about that as doesn’t suit the narrative.

Disgusting.

[Don]

Brav, hold it together.

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Imagine a cheeky Caicedo deal. My knob wouldn't get a moment's respite.

[Clunge]

Please take Coutinho too Stevie.

[Baz]

Brav, hold it together.

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Imagine a cheeky Caicedo deal. My knob wouldn't get a moment's respite.

I bet Calvert-Lewin never plays in the Saudi league. :henn0rz:

[niko_cee]

Henderson at 33 and probably big wages is fair enough, even if the fee [£10m] isn't spectacular, but unless Fabinho has actually fully gone to shit and it wasn't some sort of burnout/unknown personal trauma/alliance of useless team mates making him look terrible last season then Liverpool shouldn't really be considering selling him.

[randomlegend]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66188507

What Everton are doing bunging us £15m for him I'll never know, but this would be great.

[niko_cee]

Also, I don't know if it was in this thread that Baz was worrying about the prospect, but 'Darwin' has taken the vacant 9 shirt at Liverpool. Should probably have had it as an incentive to whoever makes that position theirs this season, but this probably gets a few more shorts sold [and then sold again when he gets shifted on].

[Waffdon]

Henderson at 33 and probably big wages is fair enough, even if the fee [£10m] isn't spectacular, but unless Fabinho has actually fully gone to shit and it wasn't some sort of burnout/unknown personal trauma/alliance of useless team mates making him look terrible last season then Liverpool shouldn't really be considering selling him.

They’re obviously going to accept £40m for Fabinho. You paid that for him 4 years ago

[Baz]

It was indeed me, niko_cee


Is Nunez gets number 9, I’m done

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Look at the state of that. He’s not fit to clean their studs.

[thommo]

Al Hilal in for Mitrovic apparently. Offered £25.5m and we said no straight away. Think it'd have to be double that to make us think about selling.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can't see Mitrovic going. He'd have gone to a bigger club ages ago if it was about money. He has a cosy life at Fulham.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I can't see Mitrovic going. He'd have gone to a bigger club ages ago if it was about money. He has a cosy life at Fulham.

He apparently wants to go.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well, hope he like sheep's brain then.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Typical Serbian dish.

[thommo]

Being open to the move is not the same as wanting to go. A lot of people would be open to a move when they have £500k a week waved in their face.

I can't see how we replace him so fingers crossed we just hold out and they don't offer silly money.

[Manc]

The Liverpool dressing room won't recover from losing both Milner & Henderson in the same summer.

[Don]

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Nah, I kind of agree but VVD, Salah and Ali will keep the favela cunts on a leash.

[Gray Fox]

If they're throwing all of this money about they can do better with these offers. If be wanting a combined 80-100m for Henderson and Fabinho.

Manc is right. You don't want to be losing the two big dressing room leaders and especially not the club captain during a season of upheaval, without at least being compensated for it.

[Waffdon]

80-100 million. You what

[randomlegend]

If they're throwing all of this money about they can do better with these offers. If be wanting a combined 80-100m for Henderson and Fabinho.

Manc is right. You don't want to be losing the two big dressing room leaders and especially not the club captain during a season of upheaval, without at least being compensated for it.

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[Don]

That's like 4 Elangas or 1 Antony. Calm it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd have thought we would be a cautionary tale for hoying all the leadership out of the dressing room. Pro footballers (especially those without great English) are basically child-robots.

[Luke Emia]

Yeah I’d rather Thiago was the one on the way out than Henderson just from the leadership viewpoint.

You would assume Klopp thinks Fabinho is broken if he’s willing to let him leave.

Would have to be another two coming in to replace those two though surely?

[niko_cee]

Trent full into the holding 'number six' roll. :happycry:

And sign a few more wide forwards.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66188507

What Everton are doing bunging us £15m for him I'll never know, but this would be great.

The Everton fan at work was asking me about him, and I was racking my brains beyond 'when he came in he looked quite composed' (which to be fair he did). I'm not sure what his stand-out attributes are meant to be.

[randomlegend]

He's quick, be decent in a counter-attacking team I expect.

[Baz]

Jonny Evans to Everton?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It would be a new and exciting path for Everton if they picked up some United fringe players.

[Spikey M]

It worked well enough for Hull and Sunderland.

[Luke Emia]

It worked well enough for Hull and Sunderland.

Hopefully they end up on exactly the same path as Sunderland. They’ve been circling the drain like they were for a few years now.

[Gray Fox]

So now they have his head turned, the Saudi club have backed off because they want to get Henderson in on the cheap/free.

I suspect the Fabinho one would happen with minimal fuss. If Lavia is as coveted as reported, then the ~£40m for Fabinho would essentially directly pay for him. Depends if Fabinho wants to go really.
It's a much easier sell for Henderson. He's 33, won everything at club level and has just seen the club buy two players for decent money in his position.
Fabinho is still 29 and I believe his issues last year were just him being fucking knackered. He might want to wait a few more years before taking the payday, but I suppose it depends how much they're offering him.

[Waffdon]

Honestly thought Fabinho was closer to 35. Christ, his fall off has been tremendous.

[SvN]

At least Henderson had a chance to show the world what his real moral character was. That's worth more than 700k per week.

[Yevrah]

I mean, it's not, but we can kid ourselves into pretending it is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jamie Carragher warns LGBTQ+ 'ally' Jordan Henderson he'll face 'criticism' if he moves to Saudi Arabia - where homosexuality is illegal - for £700,000-a-week

I presume he warned his mate 'Stevie G' of this as well, or perhaps just accepts that Stevie is not an ally.

[Yevrah]

I did enjoy Ferdinand digging Carragher out for continually criticising the whole thing for weeks and then saying absolutely nothing when Gerrard moved.

And I'm not sure what these players are supposed to do other than take the money. Everybody in the establishment (FIFA, our FA, Sir Gareth etc.) said it was ok to go and play in a World Cup in the Middle East, but what, now it's suddenly not ok to play for a club side there?

[Baz]

Before releasing that statement he probably just got off the phone asking if Stevie would get him a job.

[Gray Fox]

Reminds me in ways of the LIV Golf situation. You might as well be one of the ones getting in and getting more money than you know what to do with, because eventually FIFA is just going to sanction it or have some kind of merger between the leagues.

[Yevrah]

As has been clear for ages, none of them give anywhere near as much of a shit about LGBTQ+ rights as they would like the general public to believe and Jordan Henderson won't be giving that a second thought in his decision either.

[Yevrah]

Reminds me in ways of the LIV Golf situation. You might as well be one of the ones getting in and getting more money than you know what to do with, because eventually FIFA is just going to sanction it or have some kind of merger between the leagues.

Yep. Jimmy's call about inviting them into the Champions League is bang on. However, and I think this is where it might be way more damaging than LIV could have been for golf, that won't stop Saudi Arabia eventually hoovering up all of the best players in the World, effectively killing the other top flight leagues. It just needs one player in their prime to go (say Vinicius Junior) and the floodgates will open.

[Manc]

You'd imagine they'll be throwing billions at Mbappe next summer.

[Yevrah]

Yep, Mbappe would be the motherload and it's absolutely game over if he goes.

[randomlegend]

I did enjoy Ferdinand digging Carragher out for continually criticising the whole thing for weeks and then saying absolutely nothing when Gerrard moved.

And I'm not sure what these players are supposed to do other than take the money. Everybody in the establishment (FIFA, our FA, Sir Gareth etc.) said it was ok to go and play in a World Cup in the Middle East, but what, now it's suddenly not ok to play for a club side there?

Representing your own country in the World Cup in Qatar when you had no say over it being held there is definitely different to going and representing a Saudi club and being paid millions to do so.

[Yevrah]

Representing your own country in the World Cup in Qatar when you had no say over it being held there is definitely different to going and representing a Saudi club and being paid millions to do so.

It is, but if football in general was saying it was fine to hold a World Cup there, why is it not fine to play for a club side there? Is it the money? Are people jealous?

[niko_cee]

Yep, Mbappe would be the motherload and it's absolutely game over if he goes.

Hardly, he's already playing for a made up team in a nothing league funded by the sand people.

This existential threat extends as far as the FIFA Ultimate Team Pack twat fan market. Beyond that no one is going to give a fuck about this thing, regardless of how much 'talent' they manage to hoover up.

it's also, as has been pointed out, massively unsustainable and they don't actually have unlimited money.

[randomlegend]

It is, but if football in general was saying it was fine to hold a World Cup there, why is it not fine to play for a club side there? Is it the money? Are people jealous?

I'm not sure the narrative was ever that it was "fine".

[Lofty]

Mbappe won't go yet because he is wanting out of PSG for the exact reason he won't go to the desert: he knows his legacy will be tainted unless he does it in a top league.

The rest of the world will lol at English cries of the game going though since they thing that happened in 1992 when the PL formed and starting doing the same thing Saudi are doing now.

[niko_cee]

Honestly thought Fabinho was closer to 35. Christ, his fall off has been tremendous.

I was surprised he was as old as that when I saw it in a story a while back, either thought Liverpool had signed him younger or he's been there longer than I thought, but yeah, not exactly following the Fernandinho path of still being a don at 35 or whatever. Hopefully, if he stays, that's down to exhaustion/being overworked rather than permanent decline. He's never seemed the sort to become useless overnight for traditional Brazilian reasons.

[Yevrah]

I'm not sure the narrative was ever that it was "fine".

Well we did it, so I think it's safe to say from all available evidence that no one was that bothered about it.

[Lewis]

I bet Steven Gerrard is right-wing as fuck. He's practically the only prominent scouser who doesn't constantly drone on about the city and hating the Conservative Party, as all of the others feel obligated to do. It probably comes from carrying the club for ten years.

[phonics]

Kyle Walker to Bayern Munich.

[niko_cee]

Has Hazard not buggered off to Saudi Arabia yet [is he still without a club]?

54 appearance and 4 goals in his time at Madrid [4 years!]. Definitely value for the hundreds of millions that must have cost them.

[Don]

Those were clean respectable white man's currency though.

[Dark Soldier]

If I was being offered 700k a week I'd be doing the abuse myself tbf and I fucking love me some femboys

[Waffdon]

Has Hazard not buggered off to Saudi Arabia yet [is he still without a club]?

54 appearance and 4 goals in his time at Madrid [4 years!]. Definitely value for the hundreds of millions that must have cost them.

Inter Miami I think

[Manc]

I've just caught a glimpse of Henderson's physique. Wouldn't sell for £100m.

[Gray Fox]

Henderson has travelled to the Germany pre-season camp, but Fabinho hasn't. Seems ominous.

[Mike]

£40mil bid in place

[Don]

No Caicedo to replace Fab but rather Lavia, Amrabat, Kalvin Fucking Phillips or Gravenberch? Fuck me, at least the latter has the physical profile but if it's any of the others, those fucking Sunni cunts have fucked us right up.

[phonics]

This whole Arsenal spending money and buying players that they want is very odd as a man who lived through Mark Shwarzer at 1.5m pounds is a bit too pricey to replace Manuel Almunia.

[Waffdon]

Lukaku managing to piss Inter off for them to pull out of signing him is hilarious. Will suit Juventus down to a tee

[Gray Fox]

No Caicedo to replace Fab but rather Lavia, Amrabat, Kalvin Fucking Phillips or Gravenberch? Fuck me, at least the latter has the physical profile but if it's any of the others, those fucking Sunni cunts have fucked us right up.

This is what's annoying. Bad News Pearce was trying to have it on that our business was done already, when 4 midfielders have left and 2 have come in. I bet they don't even think of trying for Caicedo, who looks a perfect fit for our type of midfield player and can cover right back in emergencies.

You'll get a half hearted Lavia bid or something, it'll fall through and then Klopp will be shoved out in the press conference to defend the financial situation.

[niko_cee]

£100m, which is what Brighton want, for Caicedo is mad money, particularly if you plan to use him as some sort of midfield shitkicker. He's a good player and all but come on.

[Gray Fox]

I assume he's gone to Chelsea anyway, though it would be nice to at least try. For what it's worth I'd be having him as part of that base two in the formation I put in here I cant remember when. I wouldn't want him as the defined 'number 6' but he'd be great in the press and taking the ball forwards.

[Gray Fox]

Any of the Portuguese football watchers know anything of Florentino Luis? I've seen a few people mentioning him. I hope he's better than people on the supposed list, because said list looks fucking terrible.

[Kikó]

He's decent enough. Only had one proper breakthrough season last year though.

[Waffdon]

£100m, which is what Brighton want, for Caicedo is mad money, particularly if you plan to use him as some sort of midfield shitkicker. He's a good player and all but come on.

He’s a better footballer than anyone in Liverpool’s current midfield lol (including MacAlistair).

[Don]

From the training clips coming out, this Arda Guler lad looks like Mesut's regen. Buzzing to see him in action.

[Baz]

From the training clips coming out, this Arda Guler lad looks like Mesut's regen. Buzzing to see him in action.

No idea who’s advising him but they seem wise. Move to Barca for mega money and get loaned back to a joke league, or stay in and around the Madrid first team. Madrid all day everyday.

[Manc]

£100m for Caicedo is wild. Tony Bloom must must be pissing himself.

[Don]

As always, it's the English shite that's driven the market. £105 Fucking Million for Declan Bloody Rice.

[Giggles]

As always, it's the English shite that's driven the market. £105 Fucking Million for Declan Bloody Rice.

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[niko_cee]

Can only assume you're seething there's no Irish version of Rice on the menu there.

[igor_balis]

declan spaghetti is some man for one man

[Giggles]

Can only assume you're seething there's no Irish version of Rice on the menu there.

Not really. When you hear him, they don't make people much more English.

[Don]

Oriol Romeu back at Barca is a nice story.

[Alex]

We (Leeds) seem to be on the verge of signing Ethan Ampadu from Chelsea. Anyone with any insight on if he's any good or not feel free to enlighten me.

[Waffdon]

Depends if he’s played in midfield or defence. Hopefully the latter for your sake.

[Alex]

I imagine they have signed him to cover both. We're incredibly frail at the back though so hopefully he fills in more there. I imagine a lot of it hinges on whether Tyler Adams leaves or not.

I just read that he has been relegated three consecutive times in three consecutive loan spells over the last three seasons. I mean I don't hold that against the lad personally but it's not a great stat. :D

[Gray Fox]

Seen some talk that Klopp has personally called Colwill to try and get him on board. Chelsea are rightly SEETHING about this and are insisting he is not for sale full stop.

[Baz]

Saudis in for Luis Diaz now.

No.

[randomlegend]

Onana done for United. Looks like Hojlund will be next.

[Baz]

Heaton to Luton? :henn0rz: #fpl

[Don]

Saudis in for Luis Diaz now.

No.

Please. The lad's prenatal drug exposed skin and bones aren't cut out for EPL.

[Don]

Jonny Evans signing for Eggman's boys passed me by. Between him and Varane's part-time statuses, that should ensure they have at least 1 respectable CB during the season.

[randomlegend]

Apparently we've scammed £10m out of Saudi for Alex Telles :D

[Shindig]

That might as well be a tenner to them ... and United.

[Gray Fox]

Chelsea bid £70m for Caicedo and Brighton laughed it off.

[Waffdon]

I’m hoping Chelsea are just delaying the inevitable and sign him in the next few days before they play Brighton at the weekend.

[randomlegend]

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Chelsea's first team squad midfielders after spending £600m :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Casadei is a monster.

[Ian]

That might as well be a tenner to them ... and United.

Compared to what United usually get out of anybody it's a small fortune.

[Shindig]

A fortune immediately in Rashford's pocket. :D

[Don]

Admittedly it seems to be an internal circulation of funds within the Saudi machine that's addressed it but Newcastle droning on about FFP surely has to stick it to all you maggots complaining about its irrelevance. £40m for ASM seems fairly arm's length too.

[Giggles]

They should be liquidated for this.


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[Manc]

You can see the regret in his eyes.

[Kikó]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/only-fools-horses-tribute/images/1/17/Tumblr_m52i2vHvVG1qi0z9do1_640.png/

[Don]

Big boy signing tbf.

[Giggles]

He was worse than the teletubbies bit.

[Yevrah]

Admittedly it seems to be an internal circulation of funds within the Saudi machine that's addressed it but Newcastle droning on about FFP surely has to stick it to all you maggots complaining about its irrelevance. £40m for ASM seems fairly arm's length too.

It's horseshit. I don't quite know why Howe or Newcastle have gone for the horseshit angle, but a quick look at this (https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/newcastle-united/transfers/verein/762) suggests their net spend is below £50m to date, so God only knows why they're claiming they need to sell before they can buy.

[Don]

https://theathletic.com/4375304/2023/04/05/newcastle-united-accounts-explained/

It's clear they have to work to restrictions imposed on them as a result of FFP.

[randomlegend]

It's horseshit. I don't quite know why Howe or Newcastle have gone for the horseshit angle, but a quick look at this (https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/newcastle-united/transfers/verein/762) suggests their net spend is below £50m to date, so God only knows why they're claiming they need to sell before they can buy.

You can only spend a percentage of your revenue. Most of the top clubs are having some issues with it this window. You keep squealing that it's horseshit doesn't make that true.

[randomlegend]

https://www.flightradar24.com/MHV64B/313488ca

This is Onana's flight to the UK.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Any news on Pierre Webo's trip to the supermarket?

[Offshore Toon]

If we force ASM out I'm going to take a stand against human rights.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's the sort of player I'd always keep around as a magic man to unlock a defence in one of those grinding 0-0 or 0-1 situations you often face as a top 6 team. There aren't many of him around. Guess accountancy magic comes before the footballing kind these days.

[Offshore Toon]

That's it, and I hate it. It's no secret that money has fucked football but witnessing it at an accelerated rate is making it hard to give a shit. 'What is a club anyway?' feels like a lifetime ago.

[Giggles]

I’d had said smaller time is way better, but my own club has recently been gobbled up by a turk just to give a run out to Hull City kids. Fuck the lot of it.

[Offshore Toon]

Our only hope is that geezer at Fluminense with his chaos-not-chaos tactics to banish the boring af European tactics that have ruined everything. Bring back samba, bring back flair, bring back Gazza, bring back alcoholism. Bring back fun.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You need to lower the stakes to get all that back. When there's so much money to be made you're trapped in a rationalistic maze, with all roads leading to analytics, massive calves and the high press.

[Don]

All this over some fucking freestyle 5-a-side player with fuck all output :happycry:

Hendo gone :drool:

[Gray Fox]

Sounds like 13m with some add ons. A shame he and Fabinho are just essentially vanishing. If you'd told me that Saudi would try and pinch Henderson, Fabinho and Thiago and the latter would be the one to tell them to piss off I'd have lolled you out the door.

Tricky situation now. You'd have got 40+ games out of Fab and maybe 20-30 from Henderson and now everyone knows what money you have. Realistically need two in as well unless you fully commit to Trent, but even then you need a right back.

What a shit time this would be to be without CL money for the first time in forever.

[Spoonsky]

The fees for both seem really low given the constant inflation of recent years. Why is that?

[Waffdon]

Henderson would go for £5-6m max to any other non Saudi team and you’d be lucky to get £25m for Fabinho given he was signed for £40m in 2018 and has progressively gotten worse

[niko_cee]

I think progressively gotten worse is harsh, more like has shown alarming signs of rapid decline. I'm still not convinced it's that good an idea to get rid of him as I think he somewhat recovered last season and he's a decent utility player even if you don't see him as a first teamer anymore.

No one else would pay money for Henderson as he's on pretty lol wages, so Liverpool are saving the £20m+ in wages over the next few years in addition to the fee.

[Gray Fox]

Problem is you didn't know which Fabinho you were going to get. If last season is a blip and he's back you could probably get 60m+ but the other issue faced is these clubs have already sold the player on tripling(or more) their wages to move over there and given the talk of Fabinho was of a successor coming in and Henderson actually already seeing his replacements signed, they're going to push to go immediately.

While I also think there will be a struggle to replace them without spending way over the near 60m combined, there's not a lot of choice to be had.

[niko_cee]

He was also somewhat the victim of being expected to hold it all together whilst the previous foundations around him were going to shit as well.

[Gray Fox]

Playing literally every game last season and nearly winning all 4 combined with Klopp himself admitting they got pre-season very wrong didn't help him either.

I did think he'd come good again this year but I guess we'll not find out.

[Shindig]

Allan Saint Maximin is heading to Saudi. Harvey Barnes might be heading our way.

[SincereTheRebel]

If ASM even attempts a pass in that league. He is a certified pussy'o

[-james-]

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Fair play to Inter Miami for managing to do something even more cringe than what's happening in the Middle East.

[Ben]

Piqué to come out of retirement next.

[phonics]

He legitimately looks more like a waiter than a footballer now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Isn't this like when desperate promoters convince long-dead bands to do a comeback tour for the name recognition. 2 year deal!

[randomlegend]

Onana OFFICIAL.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bruno Fernandes named the new club captain :cool:

[randomlegend]

Onana taking 24 when 1 is available :sick:

[Ian]

24?

Sell him.

[Raoul Duke]

Has Varane taken 4 now Phil Jones (FEC) is dead (RIP)?

[randomlegend]

No, he's kept whatever he had.

[Foe]

FM is going to be interesting with this saudi gung ho attitude.

Going to be a bit of an attack vs. attack league if any of them can find a playmaker to feed the goal scorers. If koulibaly and mendy are the big name defenders then goals galore.

[Manc]

Jordi Alba the latest to join Inter Miami. Chygrynskiy to be announced any minute.

[Baz]

Reddit is bumming Youssouf Fofana to Liverpool. Can’t pretend I’ve watched much of him. Fabinho replacement? The new Kante?

Also saw Hendo referred to as Jordan Of Arabia. :D

[Gray Fox]

Depends if he's budget friendly I guess. We were looking at getting Lavia in assuming the two about to leave were staying, so I'd say we're going to at least be looking to get two in.

[randomlegend]

Elanga to Forest for 15 of your finest millions.

[randomlegend]

Mbappe left out of PSG's preseason tour squad.

[Gray Fox]

They've become convinced he's agreed to join Madrid for free next year, so they're trying to ship him out now for north of £100m.

[Lewis]

Madrid would be silly to buy him now, and he won't sign for anybody else, so lol at all parties but especially him for not just going last year.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The bigger Ligue 1 news is Aubameyang, at the very peak of his powers, joining Marseille. Last piece in the jigsaw, they're burning Paris to the ground on 24 September.

[Gray Fox]

Fabinho transfer currently held up because his dogs aren't allowed in Saudi.

[Yevrah]

Are they gay dogs?

[Shindig]

Jewish.

[Lewis]

Wilfried Zaha going to Galatasaray seems like a waste. If a Big Club doesn't want him, why not just stay where you are? Is the prospect of Champions' League Football really that attractive if it's for a Turkish team in the - at best - group stages?

[Waffdon]

Palace offered him 200k a week as well :lol:

[Baz]

Would you want to play under Woy?

[Raoul Duke]

Weird that he didn't go to Saudi and get eleventy billion dollars to beat some goat herders + Hendo

[SincereTheRebel]

They've become convinced he's agreed to join Madrid for free next year, so they're trying to ship him out now for north of £100m.

PSG are a clown show. They went through this in 2022. He signed a two year deal with an option of a third. They should have known he is looking to leave for free in 2024. Mbappe got them on puppet strings.

[Yevrah]

Weird that he didn't go to Saudi and get eleventy billion dollars to beat some goat herders + Hendo

Indeed. Surely the three considerations you have as a footballer looking to move are... prestige, money and where will I/the family/my bishes be living? With that in mind, how the hell has he ended up in Turkey on less money than he'd have got staying where he was or moving to Saudi Arabia?

[Waffdon]

Apparently his wage demands were too much for Saudi so fuck knows what he was chancing his luck with :D

[Don]

Don't knock Turkish football, the culture and atmospheres there would be something special to be a part of and Gala are doing something akin to their glory days with Icardi and Zaniolo. And the man has just got married, you can't blame him for leaving fucking Croydon for arguably one of the best cities in the world.

[Kikó]

Maybe he's gone for the premium teeth service.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Being a big star for one of the big Turkish clubs is probably a great life. Wall to wall adulation just for being you, a pretty tepid league to negotiate, good weather, it's all there.

Saudi would be far more miserable off the pitch.

[Don]

But thoughts and prayers still cause I'm not sure Greggs or sheperd's pie down at the Bull and Butcher is that accessible and there's probably even more muzzies over there than London :sick:

[SincereTheRebel]

Weird that he didn't go to Saudi and get eleventy billion dollars to beat some goat herders + Hendo

Clearly none of the teams from the major leagues came in for Skeletor.

[randomlegend]

Levy has been told by Joe Lewis that he's got sell Kane if he won't sign a new contract.

[Lewis]

Sits on his boat saying nothing for twenty years, and then suddenly gets all Hyman Roth at the thought of a few pennies going out the door. That said, doesn't this just put the ball firmly in Kane's court, since he can just say lol no thanks and then they have to accept the first reasonable offer?

[Baz]

Swap him for Liverpool's number nine.

[randomlegend]

Saudi club have offered €300m for Mbappe.

From less reliable sources, they've offered him €700m wages on a one year contract after which he can go to Madrid.

[Ben]

What kind of wages was Zaha demanding if PIF think a €1bn investment in Mbappe for 12 months is value for money, but Zaha wasn't? :D

[Adramelch]

I guess it's the optics in Mbappe's case. Nobody would care if Zaha went to Saudi Arabia really in the grand scheme of things.

[Lofty]

Yeah if Mbappe goes then it can no longer be dismissed as a dumping ground for the old, infirm and useless.

[Dark Soldier]

Every cunts gonna be doing a Saudi save on FM next year

[-james-]

Editing their transfer budgets to 0 sounds better to me.

[-james-]

If/when the PIF buy the whole league, that's when the whole thing is fucked. It's only four clubs at the moment isn't it? And they're running out of foreigner slots.

[randomlegend]

Barca trying to get involved by offering PSG a load of their deadwood instead of a fee is lol.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's definitely the PIF quartet who have been doing the spending so far, but there are at least 15 foreigner spots left on those teams still (assuming they can get rid of the likes of Alioski and random Brazilians who currently occupy them).

[John Arne]

Presumably the league could just add more foreigner spots - they aren't gonna say no to PIF.

[Jimmy Floyd]

8 per team is quite a lot, if one assumes that the players involved want to actually play football.

[niko_cee]

I doubt they do.

If they could get the wages without even being in the country they'd probably prefer it. Just CGI them into some promotional material.

[John Arne]

Young James McConnell looked good for us today as we shipped 4 goals the 2.Bundesliga farmers Greuther Furth. Quansah good again, and Nunez looked a bit sharper.

[Gray Fox]

Doak looking sharp Waffdon

Assuming we get assorted goat herders in the Europa groups I don't see why he couldn't get some valuable minutes.

[Yevrah]

Well hello...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66291108

EDIT: I'm massively late to the party on this one, aren't I?

[SincereTheRebel]

Anything other than a world record bid for the lad, is a bargain.

[Ben]

When you think of it as 3 Antony's, it's a bargain.

[Gray Fox]

Sounds like PSG have accepted the offer. Just up to Mbappe if he wants to be paid a fortune to waste a year.

[Don]

Is it even that big of a deal? It's not like they're signing Rashford.

[Manc]

He's a complete clown if he makes the move.

[Gray Fox]

Would he?

He'd essentially make himself a billionaire for a 1 year holiday, when he's apparently willing to sit on the bench in protest anyway.

[Yevrah]

I suspect anyone saying he'd be mad to go simply doesn't understand how much a billion is.

[Lewis]

Is the quality liable to be that much shitter than what he plays week-to-week? A year there to keep his fitness up for the international team, break the bank, and then move to Madrid. The issue is whether it's worth it for the Saudis to be used in such a blatant manner, since they would at least like people to think he's coming for some sort of sporting reasons if they are shelling out that sort of money.

[Baz]

I hope he goes. Such a spectacle. We got to watch the two GOATs have their careers somehow synchronised in our lifetimes and, just as they're fizzling out, the next big thing is going to the desert for unthinkable piles of cash. Football!

[Gray Fox]

His partner is trans though no? I could see that being the only potential deal-breaker here.

[randomlegend]

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[Lewis]

His partner is trans though no? I could see that being the only potential deal-breaker here.

They'll all live in secure compounds and be allowed to do whatever/shit on whoever they want.

[SincereTheRebel]

My prediction is he wants to shit on PSG. He probably does not want PSG to pocket £300m from Saudi and he will stay, spend a year as Bogarde and leave for free in 2024.

[Waffdon]

West Ham bid in the region of £40m for Gallagher. Gonna presume Chelsea are just gonna give in with Brighton and pay what they want for Caicedo as that would leave Fernandez as the only senior CM lol.

Caicedo/Fernandez with Santos and Chukwuemeka as back up is fine but probably a little bit short. Could do with someone more experience offering depth but not a huge concern with no Europe.

£160m for Havertz/Mount/Gallagher is mental

[Jimmy Floyd]

That quartet have a combined age of about 29. We appear to be building some kind of double A baseball team. The Cobham Cougars.

[Baz]

Sounds like Chelsea need Thiago.

[Don]

Gallagher should do well at West Ham. £60m profit on swapping Rice out for him is superb business. Still some leftover for Divock too :drool:

[Lewis]

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Geezer in the office reckons Mbappe to Spurs is a done deal. We're trying to let him down lightly.

[Lofty]

Do they not drug screen at your spot?

[Ian]

Anything you like so long as it doesn't stop you selling engine parts to a far-flung customer.

[Gray Fox]

Fabinho linking back up with the Liverpool squad tomorrow. Sounds like his deal might be falling through.

[Gray Fox]

First bid for Lavia is also in. £37m and rejected. Sounds like they aren't far off though.

[Baz]

Fabinho linking back up with the Liverpool squad tomorrow. Sounds like his deal might be falling through.His dogs will be pleased.
First bid for Lavia is also in. £37m and rejected. Sounds like they aren't far off though.Is he actually good? Call me a sceptic but the defensive midfield enforcer of a relegated bottom of the league club is hardly worth breaking the bank for.

[Gray Fox]

The view of Lavia is that of raw talent, high potential. They wanted to bring him in to have him play a reduced role this year, while he learns the system, gets his PEDs and is tutored by a senior mentor.

Fabinho maybe leaving put this on hold as he's probably not ready to hold down the fort in our mental football yet. They would have instead chased a more plug and play 6 type instead.

The two things are probably connected. Belief is Southampton value at £50m, but City have a buy back clause for £40m that activates in 2024, so any deal will likely be inbetween the two.

I could also say the troubled left-back or the okay looking attacking mid in a relegated club wouldn't be worth breaking the bank for either. But Robertson and Wijnaldum showed your previous club doesn't matter too much.

[-james-]

His dogs will be pleased.Is he actually good? Call me a sceptic but the defensive midfield enforcer of a relegated bottom of the league club is hardly worth breaking the bank for.

Caicedo was playing for the team rock bottom of the Belgian Jupiler League 18 months ago.

[Gray Fox]

Not to mention the rise of Enzo Fernandez. Had barely signed for Benfica this time last year and he's already been at Chelsea for £100m for 6 months.

[niko_cee]

£40-50m for Lavia feels like the laziest scouting imaginable. How many senior games has he played?

Trick with Caicedo [who was very much a known quantity linked to many clubs before Brighton signed him] was that he cost £5m or something.

No idea what Fabinho is up to. If you don't want to go, why go through all the flirtation? Surely no one is actually saying no to however many million a month for their fucking dogs?

[Waffdon]

David Ornstein said the dogs thing was a load of bollocks

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jul/25/premier-league-russia-football-tottenham-davinson-sanchez

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[Ben]

Surprised it took this long.

Expect some kind of rule to come in now, especially as Serie A clubs have already told Russians to fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For some reason I thought Joe Lewis would be a lot younger than 86. Good to see him heading to the slammer though along with the hopes and dreams of Spurs fans everywhere.

[Lofty]

Does that fuck Kane over too?

[Ben]

Bloke spending more on his own defence than Spurs'.

[randomlegend]

We appear to be about to drop €70m on Rasmus Hojlund, who has a grand total of 9 goals in a top flight league ever.

In Ten Hag we trust :uhoh:

Amrabat probably next after that and I would imagine that finishes of our window unless someone goes out and needs replacing.

Also just seen someone call PSG "Purgatory Saint Germain" which I thought was quite funny.

[Giggles]

Why can't you sell to Russians when you can sell to Arabs?

[niko_cee]

Sanctions?

[Manc]

Hojlund is tremendous business.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For Atalanta.

[niko_cee]

Why wouldn't you just wait/go for Kane?

[Gray Fox]

Why wouldn't you just wait/go for Kane?

Sounds like he wants the guaranteed trophies of Bayern rather than a non-City English team.

[randomlegend]

Nah, very reliably reported he wanted to come to United this summer. Levy is just not entertaining bids from inside the league, so his only options if he wants to go this summer are Bayern or PSG.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, but Levy isn't going to be allowed to maintain that position.

Even at £100m he'd be worth it for United.

[Baz]

Swap for Mbappe. Jimmy's colleague knew it.

[niko_cee]

Mbappe rocking up at Spurs with a gentlemans agreement that he can go to Real next year would be amazing.

[randomlegend]

Yeah, but Levy isn't going to be allowed to maintain that position.

Even at £100m he'd be worth it for United.

He is, because he has clubs from outside the league making offers.

If no foreign club were interested or if Kane outright refused to sign for any non-English club then it would get interesting but neither of those scenarios look likely.

[niko_cee]

He should be insisting on Madrid or staying in the Premier League really, but then he is a bit of a retard when it comes to career decision making.

[SincereTheRebel]

He should be insisting on Madrid or staying in the Premier League really, but then he is a bit of a retard when it comes to career decision making.

Kane is too old for Madrid.

[Gray Fox]

Henderson has already had his first training session with Al-Ettifaq, despite there yet to be anything even said about him going from Liverpool. Strange situation. He was apparently at Anfield the other day to film a goodbye video, but he and the club must have their fingers in their ears because a lot of the fanbase has rounded on him over the move.

There's a push on to get the Lavia deal done tonight. Liverpool fly out to Singapore tomorrow and Klopp wants him there pronto. Probably about £45m.

Fabinho also looks likely to leave again. The dog story was bollocks, it was that Al-Ittihad could not register players. They now can and so it is expected to happen. Unless Klopp decides it's too late to try and replace him now, he'll be gone by the weekend.

[randomlegend]

Al-Hilal going into next season with a midfield of Milinkovic-Savic, Verratti and Neves is a bit :cab:

[Lofty]

If you're one of the shitmunchers making up the numbers and you injure one of the golden boys do you get executed?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ousmane Dembele to PSG for 50m Euros which is his release clause.

Edit: Clause goes up to 100m on July 31st.

[John Arne]

Mane off to Al-Nassr.

[Waffdon]

Not sure Chelsea signing Brighton’s potential replacement for Caicedo bodes well for them agreeing to sell the latter

[Don]

As ridiculously good as he looks (blacker than coal and 190cm+, not seen him kick a ball yet), this is a statement, a proper changing of the tides moment if Brighton hold on to Caicedo.

I'd also like to think Brighton's ridiculous style of football will further flourish and really turn them into an established top 6 side but the Dyche demolition of last season makes me think they might be found to be a little naive if they're gonna go into the season and take the kind of bold risks in inviting the press that they've been doing in pre-season. More than half the teams now simply won't press them meanwhile we may break the record for high goalscoring game when we face them (and it'll be a comfortable victory too).

[randomlegend]

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Striker market is so broken. Big gamble.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Better than Haaland.

[Dark Soldier]

Dude is a God on FM so that means he's gonna be winning the balloon in a few years.

[randomlegend]

£64 + 8m...that is wild.

[Baz]

At the start of last season it was Haaland vs Nunez for who will be the bigger success, and the latter has been lolled off planet Earth.

Hopefully Jackson vs Hojlund has a similar outcome.

[randomlegend]

Anyone who seriously considered Haaland vs Nunez to be a debate is a certified retard

[Baz]

Hopefully some Saudi lads will recall lines from this article (https://www.arabnews.com/node/2132656/sport) such as
In a tale of two big summer signings, Nunez came off the bench to win a penalty and score his first goal since a 75-million euro ($77 million) move from Benfica, while Erling Haaland had a City debut to forget.and make a big money move for the donkey.

[Lewis]

Isn't Hojlund essentially a poor man's Haaland? He'll do.

[randomlegend]

Isn't Hojlund essentially a poor man's Haaland? He'll do.

He's got 9 goals ever in a top flight league. He's highly regarded but incredibly unproven. It's a crazy price tbh.

Looks like Amrabat will be next and that's probably us done unless Maguire leaves.

[Baz]

He's the bald Moroccan that donned the world cup, right?

[Manc]

Top, top business.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

9 in his debut season and he's never been the number 1.