Since they bought Kompany for fifty pence they've done about three hundred and fifty million trying to find a partner for him.
Since they bought Kompany for fifty pence they've done about three hundred and fifty million trying to find a partner for him.
And Benjamin Mendy will make it over £200m if he signs.
This gets even loller with Leonardo Bonucci about to join Milan for - wait for it - thirty-five million. What is going on there? What are Juventus doing? What is he doing? What are Chelsea and City doing?
Inter probably found out they part owned him when he was 15 or something.
£10 on Rooney getting 30+ goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amigo
I can't link it from mobile properly but the Southampton post is so good.
https://twitter.com/southamptonfc/st...51913856630784
You are too skint to waste that kind of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
It's the only way he'll win her back.
Long term investment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny
Shedding cash before the settlement.
That Southampton thing is good, but the real wonder is that Stuart Taylor is still picking up Premier League wages despite, I believe, never having actually played a game of football.
£50m for Kyle Walker. What a world we live in.
Obviously silly money as always but he's no mug. Team of the year last season. I think he's one of the best right backs.
I've never got it. He's fast and he's not a disaster or anything (he wouldn't be a key player for a team at that end of the table otherwise) but even taking into account the "English tax" I think that's too much and that he's much overrated.
It falls into the same category as any of the proper rich clubs where the fee isn't really especially relevant, but still.
Do Man City even have an official tractor?
He wasn't even Spurs best right back by the end of the season. He'll be very useful for Guardiola though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reg
Kyle Walker's concentration is 0.
Trippier > Walker :nodd:Quote:
Originally Posted by Giggles
Kyle Walker's pace covers up the fact that he has the tactical discipline of a pitch invasion. He'll only have to get about ten percent slower and he'll immediately be a complete liability.
If this move goes through the most expensive back four of all time will consist of Luke Shaw, John Stones, David Luiz, and Kyle Walker. :D
Aren't City trying that tiki-taka stuff? Walker is miles from having the brain for that.
Only 27 so pace should be alright for a while. Not going to be someone like Dani Alves but he's not just pace. Apparently he was their first choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Tika-taka-spaka shit pass it to the fast brown one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Walker has pretty much 'earned' his reputation from recovering possession that he lost in the first place. His pace is basically an undo function and he has the delivery of a buttered up midwife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCYhZa49gBc
He's back.
Gor Mahia FC didn't know what hit them.
He won't be slow for a long time yet, but he won't have to be slow for his utter lack of positional sense to become a problem. The moment he doesn't have the pace to offer just about any player in the league a three yard start in a ten yard race he's done. That could be in six years but it could also be in two. Obviously the fee has as much to do with the English premium and taking a starter off a rival as it does the player himself, but for a player with so little to his game it seems like a particularly absurd amount of money.
That bet looking good now. :drool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
That's gold. I'm robbing that.Quote:
Originally Posted by John
Kyle Walker is very much not a good player. He is a right footed Gael Clichy (who we managed to mug off 15 million back in the day when that was actually a decent transfer). Cannot wait.
Sunderland have signed Aiden McGeady and James Vaughan permanently, and Galloway and Browning on loan. Decent championship signings?
The Everton connection.
Rumours that Zlatan is staying with us and re-signing in January. I'd absolutely love it if that happened.
Larry is the best signing you could have ever made.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScousePig
#TOOSG
McGeady has done well at Preston. Needs to be just let do his thing and take the bad that comes with doing that, which can work ok at that level.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScousePig
I swear this is the first time in my life I've had to look up who's managing Sunderland. :|
Clown.
Chalobah has joined Watford permenantly and Loftus Cheek is at Palace on loan. Bertrand Traore has moved to Lyon, Solanke has gone to Liverpool, Ake is at Bournemouth, Izzy Brown looks on the verge of going to Brighton or Huddersfield, Tammy Abrahams has gone on loan to Swansea and they're looking at spending 10 million quid on a back-up goalkeeper. That's the spine of their 4/5 time FA Youth Cup winning squad gone.
At this point, why would you ever sign for Chelsea as a youngster?
So 6 out of the 7 players you mention are at, or will be at, Premier League clubs. How many Arsenal, Man City or Man Utd youths actually genuinely make it at those clubs?
That's what makes Tottenham so special :happycry:Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
You've just listed off the best reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Man City are a similar level of joke. United I don't know. Our youth team got relegated to Dividon 2 - few years ago and hasn't recovered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reg
That's what I mean. It's worked out well for those Chelsea guys.
At United it's been pretty much the same deal in terms of numbers coming through. Before Rashford it had been a while.
Not a huge fan of Walker, but tbf to him he's been part of the best defence in the league over the last couple of seasons. I think he'll thrive at City.
This Bonucci deal is madness. :cab:
Being a third choie is the most secure job in the worldQuote:
Originally Posted by phonics
Taylor shows no improvment or progession in his life.
I even think calling him experienced is pushing it.
Apparently Bonucci and Alves fell out with Alegri at half time of the Champions League final. Something to do with Dybala.
Juventus decided they had to get rid of Alves and Bonucci. Bonucci was/is adamant that he's not leaving Italy and Milan are the only club who where interested at 35m.
Walker and Mendy are well worth 100m to City at this point. Great signings and would make them favourites to win the league and probably puts them in the mix for Europe as well.
Abdelhak Nouri of Ajax collapsed in a friendly the other day because of heart rhythm problems. They managed to save his life but having done tests after he was stable, they say he has suffered serious and permanent brain damage and his chances of recovering are nil.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40595416
Yeah, that's crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gray Fox
As with these things, it's pretty grim viewing...
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Speaking about heart issues, this female has claimed on different occasions when she has her head on my chest.
1) My heart has skipped a beat
2) You can see my heart beating outside my chest
Ive never had any issues regarding this, but im probably going to get it checked out based on all these strange heart cases recently.
Take care Sincere, it always seems to be black lads that have heart trouble.
This Keita situation is strange. We are confident of landing him and he has supposedly agreed to terms. Even some of the Leipzig staff are seeing it as a formality. Yet the RBL ownership view it completely differently. They got into contact with Liverpool yesterday to declare the player not for sale. We then returned later the same day with a £57m bid, which they have today rejected. It's expected to take about £10m before me get around their valuation.
He also has a clause in his contract which means we could buy him in a years time for half the amounts being thrown about. That's not active until next year though and I imagine RBL would push him to sign a new contract to remove that. You'd expect we should give up and wait for that clause, but Klopp has provided no alternative targets. He wants Keita and has told the money men to pay whatever it takes.
If we do end up getting him, it's going to be a little tough to predict a Liverpool line-up. You'll have Firmino, Coutinho, Mane, Salah, Lallana, Wijnaldum, Keita, Henderson, Emre Can, Sturridge, Ings, Solanke and Origi all vying for the 6 spots ahead of the defence. That's not even including Milner or Lucas, with the former now seen as a left back and the latter expected to move to Lazio.