Summer Transfer Thread 16/17

by **Hero** Tue 10 May - 11:49

First topic message reminder :

Was going to wait a couple of weeks but it's already kicking off today...

Bayern Munich have nabbed what was regarded as one of Man Utd's main transfer targets and signed the 18 year old wonderkid Renato Sanches from Benfica for £28m.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 21 Jul - 17:58

Looks like Bacca will be saying no. The search continues Sad

by Guest Thu 21 Jul - 18:09

You know you will end up with Benteke

by westisbest Thu 21 Jul - 19:32

Which if he can find his villa form would be great for west ham.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 21 Jul - 20:24

I'm 100% not down on Benteke, think he could be amazing and would suit us perfectly. A bit worried about the price tag.

Bacca is another level, and if we can get him and Calleri then it would be amazing. Id still be happy with Benteke, Ben Yedder, Berahino.

by GSC Thu 21 Jul - 20:35

Benteke is a bit of a richer mans Carroll, and not sure Carroll really fit with the players behind him last season.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 21 Jul - 20:42

Carroll is interesting because he'll score a decent amount of goals were he to be fully fit, but he isnt as effective 100% of a game as a faster striker.

Jack Sullivan has said that we want types of strikers, so as such we're not massively interested in Gomez at the moment cos we have a target man. Which suggests Benteke would be of less interest as he has much of that mould to him, although he has always been able to run in behind and Carroll is slow to get going so cant be that man.

by **Crimey** Thu 21 Jul - 21:41

Having seen both Benteke and Carroll play for Liverpool, I'd probably take Carroll (if injuries weren't a problem). Benteke scored a fantastic goal against Manchester United, but that was about it. For me, he didn't make anywhere near enough effort, which Carroll never lacked. Benteke seemed allergic to actually getting into the box as well, always wanted to start deep and be part of the build up which would be okay if he was actually any good at doing that.

I think he'd do alright at West Ham, but not sure he's even that big of an improvement on Carroll other than he's not injury prone.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 21 Jul - 21:43

Ross McCormack left out of Fulham's pre season trip to Portugal - fuelling rumours he's off - Norwich, villa and Newcastle the interested parties apparently

by GSC Thu 21 Jul - 21:46

Sounds like FFP is working beautifully.

by **Hero** Thu 21 Jul - 21:58

Looks like City have put in an offer on the latest Brazilian wonderkid Gabriel Jesus of €32m, Utd, Real and Barca also rumoured to be putting in offers.

by Guest Thu 21 Jul - 22:07

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Ross McCormack left out of Fulham's pre season trip to Portugal - fuelling rumours he's off - Norwich, villa and Newcastle the interested parties apparently

He's off to Norwich for £12m

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 21 Jul - 22:17

LiamB wrote:
Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Ross McCormack left out of Fulham's pre season trip to Portugal - fuelling rumours he's off - Norwich, villa and Newcastle the interested parties apparently

He's off to Norwich for £12m

Seems like we're favourites - but we've been linked to him for what seems like the past 10 Windows and it's never come off - so always slightly skeptical

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 21 Jul - 22:22

Not sure you can use Liverpool's Benteke as the fair judge. If we got Villa's version of Benteke I think he'd get us close to 20 goals.

McCormack could well be the difference in a Norwich or Villa chasing Newcastle or scraping for playoffs.

by **Good Golly I'm Olly** Thu 21 Jul - 22:34

We are in desperate need of strikers - would rather chase Assombalonga for the touted price tho

by GSC Thu 21 Jul - 22:39

You can **** off

by GSC Thu 21 Jul - 22:41

Everton bidding 25m for Sigurdsson.

by Guest Thu 21 Jul - 22:43

McCormack is signing for Norwich. Nott'm Forest are signing Stephen Henderson from Charlton, should be completed soon.

Some very shrewd business being done under the radar by City. Building a side for the next few years & poaching the future stars from South America, in particular. From what I've seen, Gabriel Jesus looks the best of the bunch, but Marlos Moreno & Zinchenko are also fantastic prospects, who have signed already.

by Hammersmith harrier Thu 21 Jul - 22:46

So says football manager.

by Guest Thu 21 Jul - 22:49

GSC wrote:Everton bidding 25m for Sigurdsson.

They haven't bid as of yet. Probably a case of this being deja vu, in terms of his spell at Spurs. Once surrounded by quality players, his influence diminishes. Everton should probably look at Mata again.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Thu 21 Jul - 22:51

Andre Gomes off to Barca

by Guest Thu 21 Jul - 22:55

Is this where the inevitable happens & Real Madrid go for Pogba? They were deep into negotiations with Andre Gomes

by **Crimey** Thu 21 Jul - 23:07

Surely means Turan won't be able to stick around much longer. If he's cheap, wouldn't be a bad signing for pretty much any Premier League side.

by westisbest Thu 21 Jul - 23:20

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Not sure you can use Liverpool's Benteke as the fair judge. If we got Villa's version of Benteke I think he'd get us close to 20 goals.

McCormack could well be the difference in a Norwich or Villa chasing Newcastle or scraping for playoffs.

Exactly.
Think some people are forgetting the Villa Benteke. Was a great player.

Also, wouldnt be surprised if Newcastle dont win the championship.

by Guest Fri 22 Jul - 8:32

Crimey wrote:Surely means Turan won't be able to stick around much longer. If he's cheap, wouldn't be a bad signing for pretty much any Premier League side.

£20m is the asking price, so not that cheap for a 29 year old. Had a poor Euro's looked out of shape & booed by his own fans, can't see any PL touching him.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 22 Jul - 8:50

at £20m he's a bargain. That's not enough to buy Moussa Sissoko remember

by Guest Fri 22 Jul - 8:59

Moussa is only 26, prices are related to that & he just had a storming euro's. Also, he's an existing English based player, so prices are naturally inflated. £20m isn't really a bargain, for a 30 year old, who hasn't done anything in the game for well over a year.

by **Crimey** Fri 22 Jul - 9:08

Price was £20 million before they signed Andre Gomes, which did seem to come out of nowhere, imagine they'll want him off, can't see any space for him in the squad and his wages will be high, which will probably lower the price.

by Holymiky Fri 22 Jul - 9:11

Although he can play behind the striker, doesn't Turan usually play on the wing these days? I'm sure Andre Gomes is mainly an attacking midfielder isn't he?

by **Crimey** Fri 22 Jul - 9:13

He's generally been playing in the midfield three, either for Iniesta or Rakitic. Andre Gomes will likely that spot. They have also re-signed Denis Suarez who is another similar player. So really don't think there is room for Turan at this point.

by nadeem2099 Fri 22 Jul - 10:03

Glad Real didn't sign Gomes. He wouldn't have improved our starting 11 and Valencia were asking too much for him. They supposedly wanted cash + Nacho, Kovacic and Jese Rodriguez for Gomes.

by westisbest Fri 22 Jul - 12:47

Ulloa wants to leave Leicester.

Could be a few clubs in for him.

by GSC Fri 22 Jul - 13:13

more of a Championship player.

by **Crimey** Fri 22 Jul - 13:17

Liverpool have signed Alex Manniger.

We're going to win the league. Yahoo

by Guest Fri 22 Jul - 13:39

westisbest wrote:Ulloa wants to leave Leicester.

WBA written all over it

by GSC Fri 22 Jul - 14:27

We've signed someone named Hildeberto, lovely scenes

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 22 Jul - 16:47

Looks as if Wijnaldum is soon to be announced at Anfield

by Guest Fri 22 Jul - 17:44

Would love Alex Pritchard for £8m

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Fri 22 Jul - 20:28

by Guest Fri 22 Jul - 20:38

Fulham have just signed Kevin McDonald from Wolves for £1.25m

by Holymiky Fri 22 Jul - 21:56

I hope Wijnaldum can break through properly at Liverpool - He was great in the Dutch league and is a real talent.

by compelling and rich Sat 23 Jul - 9:42

liverpool seem to be blowing there transfer budget on load of samey players that they dont particularly need

although when you can ship ibe for 15 mil, 25 mil for wijnaldum doesn't seem too bad

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 23 Jul - 11:51

Well Higuain to Juve looks done so Napoli can look for a replacement now.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 23 Jul - 11:51

Kolo off to Celtic too

by **Hero** Sat 23 Jul - 12:02

Hopefully they stay in Cheshire so his lad can still play with my son!

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 23 Jul - 12:28

And Mahrez to Arsenal seems on. Arsenal really need an attacking midfielder, they can never have enough to play off Giroud

by compelling and rich Sat 23 Jul - 13:33

they have had a weakness in that position despite the number of players who can play there. ozil and sanchez have been great but then on the right its been walcott, campbell and ox all of whom have been disappointing . would presume he'd fit in there. but its hardly the position they need strengthening most

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 23 Jul - 13:44

Whilst he's a good player, it just seems so Arsenal to get him whilst not signing a striker. I think they could probably get Icardi for a little bit more, Lacazette for less and could have been properly in for Higuain before Juve made a move.

If they have Mahrez, Ozil and Sanchez, do they play Xhaka and Ramsey? I presume Xhaka is first choice, but they looked lost without Cazorla at times last season. Ramsey and Wilshere should both be worried about getting starting berths.

by Guest Sat 23 Jul - 20:05

Everton have agreed a €30m fee with Zenit St Petersburg for midfielder Axel Witsel. Hopefully we can start to really improve our central two in midfield, I've had enough of James McCarthy & Barry is no spring chicken.

by **Dolphin Ziggler** Sat 23 Jul - 20:43

FLB wrote:Everton have agreed a €30m fee with Zenit St Petersburg for midfielder Axel Witsel. Hopefully we can start to really improve our central two in midfield, I've had enough of James McCarthy & Barry is no spring chicken.

How do you think they compare to midfields around their level? Is this better than West Brom's midfield if you add Witsel?

by nathan Sat 23 Jul - 21:59

Mahrez will stay at Leicester

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