James Milner MBE. The real hero.
James Milner MBE. The real hero.
Retiring a red? Unless it's a short deal.
I fully expect him to transition into the coaching staff here after this year. Had Leeds gone down there would have been temptation, but he'll play the same role here as he would there now, so why not stay with us.
Joyce also saying Liverpool interested in Nunez but won't overpay.
The word is Liverpool value Mane at between £40-45m even with just the one year left. I do think he'll end up moving on, or else you'll be faced with Mane and Salah leaving next year at the same time, which would be very bad for the image.
I'm also convinced Salah isn't getting a new deal. He's supposedly asking for £400k a week, which is near double what Van Dijk, the clubs current highest earner, is on.
Who Liverpool want in is what interests me. There was surely a plan to sign a forward anyway, but now you'll need two really. One for now and one for next year.
I know just the club.Originally Posted by randomlegend
You already have one replacement in Diaz, surely. Not that he's a patch on either of them.
That is a lot of money.
Only if the 'package' doesn't include wages, but as is the style of the time [make the number as big as possible] it probably does.
Well, to clarify, yes, it is a lot of money, but if it's €75m in 'fee' and then €5m a season for 5 years it seems fairly in line with what has been reported all along.
We're in for Kasey Palmer, part of our quest to sign every Championship-level player who came through the Chelsea ranks at some point.
Probably not a bad philosophy tbf
Well there's a new team for Jimmy if Chelsea get too American for him.
Romano suggesting Liverpool could move for Danjuma. €45m is the price.
Woof
Isaac Hayden has moved to Norwich on a season long loan with an option to buy.
Link?
The Here We Go podcast. Do keep up.
Listening to transfer podcasts
People in plane tracking greenhouses should not throw stones.
Manc stepping up to the plate and giving RL a bit of a tragic-off here is unexpected but welcome.
thatsthejoke
Of course it was.
Would Dembele take a punt on United? Probably not.
Hahahaha as if you're still wounded by me calling Rice's passing shit.
Dembele is completely trash... like genuinely shite. Quite possible that I have only ever seen his poor performances, that they certainly seem pretty regular.
I think he's just saying Utd are shit, mate.
He's been great for Barca in the second half of this season, but that's basically the first extended spell he's managed to play without getting injured.
Rice is better than your whole midfield.
Eric Djemba-Djemba was better than our whole current midfield; doesn't mean he was good or worth 150m.
Rice is a good player, but anyone who spends what West Ham want for him will be getting laughed at like United are for Maguire. His distribution will get exposed if/when he eventually moves.
What do they want for him? Young, English Premium, 2 years on his contract (?). 100 Mill I imagine?
150m is what's generally quoted.
50% more than Grealish? Lol no.
Quite.
I suppose it's what you do when you don't want to sell though. Ask for a ridiculous fee and if someone pays it then atleast you got away with a robbery.
He's far better off staying at West Ham for life, as Grealish was at Villa. Matt Le Tiss got one thing right.
Desperate agents forcing moves to get their cut of the deal derails many a career.
Yeah and they are of course well within their rights to do that. I do think teams are going to start seeing players either demand release clauses a la Haaland or only being willing to sign shirt contracts because the Premier League clubs are so rich now they can just prevent the players moving when they want to by slapping insane price tags on them.
Wouldn't be surprised if a few players like Rice end up moving for free over the next few years.
Players want to win stuff.
Grealish seems to have quite enjoyed winning the League with Man City; imagine that's a more fulfilling life experience than whatever he would've gained from some wanky LOYALTY fetish from staying at Villa.
The Liverpool media cycle around Nunez seems to have started in earnest so I imagine that'll be done within the next week.
I'm sure I'll end up with egg on my face but I really do think we might be dodging a bullet with him.
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Transfer fees will be dead within a decade and Arsene will be right again.
Yeah, I think moving on a free is going to become the new norm. A huge transfer fee is no benefit to the player when they could just wait a year or 2 and get the full value of the transfer in their contract. I know what I'd do.
Edit: I am agreeing with Phonics an awful lot at the moment. What is going on?
It’s called growth Spikey and I’m proud of you.
What does pull against that is the fact that an eternal sporting truth is that a long contract is insurance against your form going to shite or your market value plummeting. Hence all the 39 year old baseball players who haven't been good since 2015 still pulling in £40 million a year on a 12 year contract.
That's the gamble I guess. I think most Footballers are cocky enough to buy their own bullshit. Especially the top level players.
He's definitely a risk at the sort of numbers being mooted, but his finishing did look pretty dynamite in the two champions league games against them.
What's the crack with Martinez at Inter? I'm surprised he doesn't seem to be getting more rumour traction.
Inter have to sell someone for good money this summer from what I understand. Would be hilarious if they get Lukaku back there (on loan likely) and then his best mate Martinez get's sold.
https://theathletic.com/3244974/2022...henry-channel/
An interesting piece on Nunez.
He doesn’t want to leave Inter.
Chelsea getting Bastoni in a swap for Lukaku would make it all worth it. That would be their defence massively upgraded assuming they get Kounde and both much younger.
Kounde x James x Dembele down the right
Who was the last Italian centre half to play over here?
Angelo Ogbonna. Seriously slim pickings otherwise. I can't find another who played more than one year since Lorenzo Amoruso. Slightly bizarre when you think it's the speciality of Italian football.
Ogbonna.
Edit: too slow
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