Not many Italian players play in the UK full stop, right?
Not many Italian players play in the UK full stop, right?
Gollini has just gone back, so one less now too.
Clearly its Gianluca Festa
Italy is quite similar to England though in that most of their players seems to stay there, no?
How has no one mentioned Ogbonna yet?
Shout out to Marco Materazzi winning a World Cup only a few years after Darren Huckerby showed him up so much he cried.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._players#ItalyOriginally Posted by randomlegend
Plenty have over the years, though most of them seem to have been forwards and many for short, failed stints.
Lombardo
Can Liverpool go back to signing the likes of Alberto Aquilani to force out Xabi Alonso.
Liverpool's bid for Nunez is apparently going to be 80m + 20m in add-ons (euros).
That's mental.
Indeed. It's always buyer beware when signing from lower standard leagues like this, but as said he passed the eye test against us.
Fee seems hefty and we've seen FSG walk away before when feeling backed into a corner.
These players who are used to good food, fine weather and finer women (see Italians/Spanish/Iranians) just struggle to adapt to Brexitball and a gammon society. They're soft shites really, Saul has just put out a post as if he's been serving on the frontlines of a ferocious war for the past 12 months.
Matt Targett is now permanently ours for the "I guess that's what counts as cheap" price of £15m.
James Pearce now in on the increasingly likely camp so it looks like it is happening.
They seem to want £17m for Minamino so he and Mane leaving should cover the transfer mostly.
Aye, looks like Oxlade-Chamberlain and Nat Philips are certs to leave, with Neco and Rhys Williams possibilities.
So either the best transfer people are going all out for him because they see something in him, or the worst transfer people have dodged a bullet. Time will tell.
Michael Edwards had left them this summer hasn’t he? Hopefully it means they start having a mare again
Much as 'the transfer committee' gets a lot of praise, I reckon the manager might have quite a big influence on why so many of the signings seem to 'come off'.
£80m still some £50m [£60m?] less than Coutinho ended up costing.
And that Joao Felix kid as well. Mental.
Hasn't he replaced every player he inherited? He's a top, top manager, but he wouldn't be doing these things with Arsenal, just as his Dortmund fell to bits once their recruitment his the skids.
With the departure of Origi, I believe there is only Firmino, Milner and Henderson who were first team players when he arrived.
Yeah, he's gone. But his protégé Julian Ward is pulling the strings now.
United have bid 60m + 20m add-ons for De Jong according to Romero and it's looking likely to go ahead.
Who have they at the minute? £10m is nothing these days, I'd rather see him playing in league 1 than sitting in the EPL like Kelleher does. Though his bank balance would be a lot healthier at Southampton.
They rotated between Forster and McCarthy. The former has gone to Spurs and the latter is shite.
Darwin Nunez’s first touch makes Lukaku’s look like Messi if yer 3 minute YouTube highlights are to be taken into account. Can’t be many players with their own fails compilations out there
Sounds like he might have strong Welbeck energy if that description of his first touch is anything to go by.
I mean that as a (heavily caveated) compliment.
He can just be the new Jelavic and eschew the need for any more than 1 touch.
Personal terms AGREED. Not that it means too much.
Liverpool want to structure the deal quite heavily. Something like £60m + £25m in add ons, but Benfica would like as much as possible up front.
I have memories of a Fabinho compilation of fairly horrendous midfield play and basic mistakes. Good times.
Seems it's not only Liverpool that Bayern are trying to shaft.
United also seem to be IN for Antony.
Funny guys, the Russians. Cracking sense of humour.
I’m grasping at straws.
Though if reports of Man Utd trying to hijack the deal then that gives me hope
Aye. Top banter aside, Munich weren't seriously proposing Mané winning three consecutive ballon d'ors as part of the 'add-ons' were they?
Official club twitter banter from the gammon heartlands is of course levels above.
McCarthy is shit so he will get loads of game time.
Didn't Southampton bung City an unwarranted amount of cash for Angus Gunn?
Something fishy going on there.
I watched an interview from Frenkie and he said he would thought he would have signed for Arsenal, before signing for Barca. I expect him at Man Utd before the end of the week.
Talksport
That's pretty tasty. McFred becomes de Fred?
As I've said numerous times, Talksport breaking news has been weirdly reliable for about a year and a half.Talksport
Laurie Whitwell has said the same in the Athletic.
Zidane to PSG hotting up.
Arsenal have signed Marquinhos, 19, from Sao Paulo.
We'll be in for a second midfielder still I think. Absolutely no idea who, there's been basically zero concrete links beyond De Jong. Although getting him will likely change who else we'd target so perhaps that's why.
If you'd asked me 2 months ago who my absolute number 1 choice of midfielder would be I would've said De Jong but that it would never happen in a million years so I'm pretty excited for this one to be honest. I always thought he was the one in that Ajax team who looked genuinely class.
Palninha looks to be going to Wolves. A year ago I'd have said we should be in for him but sounds like he's been nowhere near as good this season and Ugarte is the one to watch from that midfield.
Looks like palindrome and Botman are heading to us for £30m each.
'FdJ' is a top, top signing. Defender, someone on the right, pay Mason Greenwood's bird off... Murtough Masterclass.
Get the youtube highlight videos ready lads.
Nkunku apparently going to sign a new contract with a 60m euro release clause that comes into effect next summer.
If he keeps up this season's form he'll be hot property.
Is Firminho leaving? You can't have 2 bellends of that magnitude at the same time, surely.
It probably is getting done, but this guy invented a story that Ten Hag flew to Portugal to meet Mendes yesterday so I'd not put too much stock in what he has to say.
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