Even Wanyama looked a lot better doing that for them last season.
Even Wanyama looked a lot better doing that for them last season.
This would be true if you didn't have to play another DM that's just as limited next to him to do half his job for him. Gilberto Silva was pretty average at everything but you only needed 1 of him.Originally Posted by Adamski
Even more absurd, Juventus started shopping Cuadrado around for thirty odd million the moment he'd signed for twenty.
Eric Dier is rubbish, but it could be worth it to see just how much of a petulant shithouse he can become under the right management.
He's not off anywhere. How would he and Dele keep up their love in at that distance?!
Jesse Lingard needs a new mate, so it works out perfectly. Elsewhere, ten million quid for Adnan Januzaj isn't terrible. The waster.
No way we're in for Dier. Feel like that's a United counter to Chelsea supposedly trying to leak to the press that we're "in for Bakayoko" so they can "save face" over the Lukaku "robbery".
Save face? This isn't the mafia.
It was a good theory though if you assume that Antonio Conte is constantly on the verge of SEETHING himself unemployed.
Am just going off what I've heard on the interwebz, Jimbo.
Lewis - I mean there's deffo been a bunch of little rumors that he's doing just that.
Every Chelsea manager from about 2013 onwards has been doing that / will be doing that, the board won't buy them all the players they want.
Yeah, which is why the idea of the stiffs in the Chelsea hierarchy leaking those stories as if he's an idiot is lol (and entirely believable).
And Bayern buying him outright is now probably dependent on Juventus signing Douglas Costa from them, as he has now joined Juve on loan with an option to buy at the end.
At least Dier is a bit more exciting/interesting than Matic. And he's English, which they're lacking.
Now the Bayern/Juve relationship, that is the definition of bent. There is some massive, massive corruption going on there. Players move back and forth between them but no transfer fees ever seem to change hands.
It will all be in Argentine bank accounts.
Rumours afoot that the Keita deal is essentially done.
By the sounds of it the commitee tried, got quoted a high fee. They then went back to Klopp who has told them to pay whatever it takes. Kid wants the #8 shirt too.
Encouraging if true.
This morning I read we're in for 'PEA' as he will no doubt be dubbed by the lazy. That would be a truly dismal signing.
Yeah, I feel someone is going to suffer badly in signing him (the fear was [is] it would be us).
That said, I've just seen a picture of Willy Caballero holding up an orange goalkeeping jersey at a press conference with Michael Emenalo, so I suppose it could be worse.
Gylfi Sigurdsson has decided that he's 'not in the right frame of mind' for Swansea's trip to the USA, and has subsequently stayed at home as he's unsettled.
Everton have now had £40m rejected.
He's a match winner but potentially £50m for Everton to sign him seems a madness.
Someones got to score the free kicks now Leighton Baines is dog shit.
For swansea, i can see why it has been rejected. He, is the only reason he they are a premier league football club. Without him, they would be relegated 100%
Not if they've got an extra £50m to spend.
He's a good player but he's not Maradona ffs.
Spending an extra £50m on players is a gamble, when you have a player who will keep you in the league if you keep him.
I read somewhere that Lukaku used to be Everton's highest earner, on £90k/week. They're now paying Keane & Pickford that, Klaasen & Ramirez £100k odd, and Rooney £150k.
Can only end well.
They're loaded.
Klaasen is such an average player, a la Classie.
Man City apparently paying £50m for Kyle Walker.
Fkin 'ell.
I'm surprised that Levy only got that much out of them tbh.
These prices really are absolutely fucking ridiculous.
If Kyle Walker is 50 million, I'd drop double that on Siggy.
£50m is par for the course these days really. Surprised Levy didn't beat the Bale deal really.
Somebody's pointed out that Nottingham Forest was sold for the same amount this summer.
When the bubble bursts, it's going to be fucking hilarious.
It's not like it's going to go "pop" one day with nobody suspecting it. It will be gradual if anything with dozens of employees at clubs monitoring any change.
It'll happen when TV rights values (which I suspect are not infinite) go in the other direction and suddenly everyone's got all these massive contracts on their books.
The market is entirely driven by TV rights. Literally no other factor involved.
ITV Digital is a decent precedent for what happens when you overpay for TV rights.
The consumer isn't prepared to pay ever-increasing sums to watch Stoke City v Swansea.
If telly disappeared tomorrow the Uniteds and the Bayerns of the world would just launch their own streaming services, and everyone else would suffocate.
Once it comes near collapse we'll see the Euro superleague (played in the US) and everyone else will go back to semi pro.
Exactly, the very richest would be fine but anyone who's currently being subsidised by TV (i.e. most clubs) would die instantly.
Next World Cup is ours.
Trying to work out if there's a country at the next World Cup it would be more comical to get bummed out by than Iceland. Uzbekistan might be a good sleeper candidate.
Tottenham will hopefully be closed for business if Kyle lolker is going for that much.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/manc...ers/verein/281
The amount of money they've thrown at defenders is mental.
Otamendi
Mangala
Stones
Walker
£161m of 'talent' there.
It goes under the radar because of United attempting to buy the title.
Bailly was cheaper than all of them too
How are Everton lining up next season if they do end up getting Gylfi? Is Rooney playing upfront?
I like to think Daniel Levy lives his entire life with the bass line from Pink Floyd's 'Money' going round and round his head.
'Dom dom-de-dom - dom - dom - dom - dom - no, Amanda, we're not flying business class.'
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