The magical 1999 side didn't have a midfield either, you'll be fine.
The magical 1999 side didn't have a midfield either, you'll be fine.
I don't know what, precisely, you're trying to say about Jonathan Greening but I for one am not having it.
True, Keane and Scholes were shite.
Everton have bid 30m for Iwobi.
Apparently we’ve knocked it back and a 40m bid expected - all Ornstein reported, so should be legit.
I like the way Raul Sanllehi is going about this window - the Kos situation is a great example of what we’ve done poorly in the past. Grabbing 4.7m for a crocked 33 year old rather than caving and letting him go for free is the kind of business we need to do. Similarly I’d snap Everton’s hand off for 30m to go towards Tierney and/or Upamacano but if we can Levy another 10m out of them then we’ve done a grand job. 10m for a young lad who’s hardly appeared for us and has basically played all of his football in League 1 was pretty decent as well...
All bodes well.
Just had a 3rd bid rejected for Bruno, who would cost the same as Lo Celso, despite Lo Celso seemingly being a far superior player. United can grab Bruno if they want, if it means we can get one of the other targets.
Talks with Atletico for Eriksen apparently too.
I’ve fallen to new lows as I’m reading ITK threads on Spurs forums. Luckily i’ll be off the crack after tomorrow
Not that I know either of them well, but Fernandes failed out of Italy and has had one bonkers season. Lo Celso I’ve actually watched and he looked dazzling when I did, but PSG didn’t want him either. Neither of them strikes me as destined for greatness but they seem to be the hill we’re willing to die on
One really good season in an average league seems to be £100m before you've started these days so whatever fee is meant to be getting chucked about for Fernandes is a bit of a bargain, somehow.
lol at Zaha putting in a transfer request. Bit late now you brainless twat.
I like the look of Fernandes. Not sure about Lo Celso, wasn't he used as a right back not that long ago?
Good on Coutinho lolling at the London 'offers'. Just don't go to United now, you div. Stick it out at Barcelona and come back home once all of the appearance/team performance clauses have been triggered.
Everton have an interesting transfer 'strategy' by the looks of it. Might end up being a decent side this year though. Or completely terrible. You can never tell.
Everton are just bidding, very openly it seems, for everyone.
David Luiz?
David Luiz in an Arsenal defence would be fucking amazing.
Tackie Mensah has joined Watford on a free
He's not worth £100m+ (although in a world where Zaha is £80m+ and Alex 'WTF?' Iwobi is apparently worth £40m who knows) but he's a good enough player to improve most Premier League sides as a loanee punt, it should be a no-brainer for most teams, but he doesn't want to go to most teams and Liverpool don't seem to want him back. It'll be Bayern or PSG as the window winds down methinks. I hope he sticks it out there for another year.
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21 million isn’t exactly a loan punt.
I don't care that he's ex-Liverpool. It'd be different if he'd been some vocally anti-United Scouse stalwart but even then if the player's good enough I'm not sure I'm bothered.
Other people have covered the other reasons. He'd cost a lot to not be a significant bump, I suspect he'd only really come as a last option anyway.
If I was being facetious I'd say the investment is ruined as soon as a defender thinks to show him onto his left foot but Danny puts it less smart-arsey, we've already got enough fart-about-and-cut-inside merchants, even Coutinho has a better Premier League record than presumably all of them.
Is that what they want for a season or is that his wages?
Don't they want £80m for him anyway? In many ways you could say that represents value when compared to someone like Pepe or Zaha.
Lukaku to Inter is done. If we don't spend that money (which obviously we won't) then we're a disgrace.
Today's twitter rumor is that we're going in for Inaki Williams from Bilbao.
I know fuck all of the player outside of FUT but apparently he had a quote in a Spanish newspaper that read
"I have about 5-10 million Euros and fuck four times a week" which has now added him to my "Absolute Dons I Want For Utd" list along with "I am.." David Neres "come to me".
Would Inaki Williams really be much of an improvement on Lukaku?
Particularly seeing as that quote suggests he's a potential pound-piler-oner.
Isn't Memphis supposedly tearing it up in France? Has the boat sailed on him?
I mean surely they put in a buy-back.
I bring this up because when I looked up Williams and it showed "Comparable players" Memphis was #2 who I'd assume would cost less due to the clause if it exists.
Llorente is going to come save us fellas please remain calm.
Lo Celso agreed between Spurs and Betis. Ornstein.
On it.
He just has to make it past the Chelsea taxi.
At least he seems to have made it over The Channel.
Emil Krafth is in for his medical. £5m fee rumoured. We still need a left back, tbh. Maybe another striker, too although nobody's bothered with Dwight this time around.
I don't want to get my hopes up but we've spent money and Joelinton looks sharp enough.
Second best left back in the world is joining Arsenal.
Fair play to the guy on the right going on temporary strike.
Might have to buy an Arsenal season ticket lads. With David Luiz in defence, they are probably odds on to conceded 70 goals in the league, regardless of his partner.
So... David Luiz and Tierney to Arsenal. Lol at whoever came out with the ~£40m budget claim.
Real also apparently in talks with PSG about Neymar. I have no idea how they can go about that without breaking about every FFP rule there is.
Why are we selling David Luiz to Arsenal when we can't replace him? We should make him train on his own for two years.
Good news for Christensen I guess.
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Feels like Chelsea and Arsenal have swapped so many high profile players down the years.
Why would he even want to go to Arsenal?
I imagine Lampard has told him he's not going to play much and it's a decent move without having to move house.
Maybe SFB thinks he's shit, which (without resorting too blatantly to the Law of Departing Players mentioned before) would not necessarily be a massive departure from the truth.
We have Zouma back and Christensen, as well as Rudi, but after that you're down to Fikayo Tomori and playing Azpi out of position.