Summer Transfer Window 2017 Thread

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

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Time to kickstart this baby...rumours that Kolasinac has signed a deal to go to Arsenal and that Inter are prepared to make Pochettino the highest paid manager in the world to take their job

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Would guess there's an option to buy in there.

Could be a decent option.

[westisbest]

Nathan Baker gone to Bristol City.
Sorry to see him go.

[compelling and rich]

wouldnt mind a stab at renato sanches ourselves, hes quick and strong. so would have thought mourinho would like that. he'd be a big improvement on fellaini

[wheelchair1991]

Looks like Matic deal to Man Utd is close, with Felleni leaving to go to Turkey

[compelling and rich]

Looks like Matic deal to Man Utd is close, with Felleni leaving to go to Turkey

today is a good day

fellaini never been united quality, finally rid of moyes legacy

[Atila]

Fellaini wasn't the worst player to wear a United shirt. I didn't think he was worth the 27 million that United paid for him, but he was certainly no disgrace.

Good luck to him if he does go.

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He was certainly among the most trusted United players by all of his managers.

[Guest]

Matic been struggling for two years, so no surprise they're selling for £40m. More of a signing to aid balance, and bring out the best in others, than his actual individual quality. I'd imagine there's a few underwhelmed United fans

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Hes a solid player, consistent in a position where thats the most key attribute. 40m is a lot of him but everybodys going for stupid money these days.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Fellaini not going anywhere according to Mourinho.

[compelling and rich]

Fellaini not going anywhere according to Mourinho.

yeah saw that, oh how its going to pain me to see fellaini and matic in the same midfield. bit different from the scholes keane days

[Crimey]

I know Matic hasn't been fantastic for Chelsea the last two years but cannot understand the logic in directly strengthening a rival. £40 million is hardly even a huge amount of money in this window. I think Matic is much more valuable to Manchester United than he is to Chelsea as he's going to be a longer-term replacement for Carrick as his strengths are similar. He's good at recycling possession and setting the pace. He never really fit in for Chelsea once Conte switched to 3-4-3 where they needed a more dynamic player. Chelsea would have been better off accepting a lower bid and selling him to a club abroad (if he would have left).

[Guest]

Matic been struggling for two years, so no surprise they're selling for £40m. More of a signing to aid balance, and bring out the best in others, than his actual individual quality. I'd imagine there's a few underwhelmed United fans

He wasn't my first choice but he comes with positives

Is he better than a 36 year old Carrick - Yes

Is he better than Fellaini? - Yes

Will he do the dirty work, stick to his role and free Pogba up to push further forward - this is the hope

I know Fellaini does the dirty work too, but theres a difference between giving 100% and performing the task efficiently

I'm not buying in to the Fellaini to Galatasaray rumours, and to be honest he isn't a bad player to have in the squad as an option off the bench late on, but he's far too clumsy and not of the quality to be starting week in week out if you want to challenge for a league title

I just hope we don't see a midfield pairing of both Matic and Fellaini all that often. Was bad enough watching us from January last season to the point where I hated going the games

[Hero]

My fave Twitter comment on the Matic transfer was one that said 'It's buying a 89m iPhone and then needing to buy a 40m charger to make it work properly.'

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Apparently Man United want Aurier

City want Inigo Martinez

Watford have beaten Ajax to the signing of Fluminese forward Richarlison

[Crimey]

Apparently Man United want Aurier

Watford have beaten Ajax to the signing of Fluminese forward Richarlison

If Aurier is even allowed into the country is the blockage on the deal at the moment. I'd have thought Manchester United need a left back more than they need a right back. Antonio Valencia with Darmian as cover, with other youngsters able to play there isn't bad. Left back, they have the completely out of favour Luke Shaw, potentially Darmian as first choice, or playing Blind or Rojo there who seem better suited to different positions.

Is that Kieral Richalison?

[BamBam]

Heard it before, but Shaw is apparently back to pre injury levels of fitness

Darmian is terrible going forward but is decent defensively

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Heard it before, but Shaw is apparently back to pre injury levels of fitness

Darmian is terrible going forward but is decent defensively

Can Shaw think for himself now though?

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Iheanacho to Leicester finally happening, 25m and City have a buy back clause

[NickisBHAFC]

That's a great signing.

[Crimey]

It's a weird one though, they're essentially gambling. If he's any good, Manchester City will probably just get him back, if he's not, then they have wasted £25 million. The best thing to happen for Leicester is that he's quite good, but not good enough that City will want him back.

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I'm assuming the buy back price would be higher than the £25m. All that would mean is that if City wanted him back, it would essentially be a loan in disguise.

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In other Leicester news, they've rejected a 7m bid for Tom Lawrence from Derby

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The buy back clause is 50m btw.

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Kieran Dowell any good afro?

Signing on loan here tomorrow apparently

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Is it £50m? Probably why it took so long as we were in for him and baulked at it being 35-40m.

Not sure on Ian Nachos - a lot easier scoring goals in that City side

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According to Percy who's pretty reliable around these parts

[BamBam]

Leicester will get 2 good years out of him then he'll be off I reckon

Amusing seeing all the tweets about how he was going to develop under Pep far better than Rashford would with Mourinho

[westisbest]

In other Leicester news, they've rejected a 7m bid for Tom Lawrence from Derby

Good player.
Wouldn't mind having him at the Villa.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Looks like the Neymar deal is happening.

There's a lot about it that stinks, but some that does make sense.

Very intrigued to see what happens next. Barca needed to buy anyway, now they definitely will. PSG will also have to sell some players.

Would guess Matuidi ends up at Juve, Dybala must be on Barca radars but I don't see Coutinho going

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Dybala would make a ton of sense for Barca

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Dybala and Dembele seem on their radar - if they get them with the Neymar money, I think they've improved overall...

[whocares]

Neymar did announce to his team mates that he is leaving the club.
Question now is how long it will take PSG to tackle all the related hurdles (la Liga, UEFA fair play rules, tax issues etc). PSG marketing income seem really inflated. It's going to happen one way or another as there is no point in keeping a player that wants to go. Blame his father / agent for this.

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Countinho was only announced to Barca because he is a friend of Neymar (same reason PSG signed Dani Alves and has a try at Alexis Sanchez).

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La Liga saying they won't accept the payment from PSG as they suspect it fails FFP

[BamBam]

Apparently Qatar ( the country) are paying Neymar 300m to be the face of 2022 world cup

He'll then use that to buy out his contract, and become a free agent .. conveniently signing for PSG and swerving FFP as it doesn't come from them

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Gets harder and harder to identify with top level football anymore with the amount of money floating around. Even lower division sides are spending like 35m

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Kieran Dowell any good afro?

Signing on loan here tomorrow apparently

Yeah, he's a decent youngster. Central midfielder, who likes to get forward, good long ranges shots and gets a decent number of goals.

He'd have a chance in our first team in a few years.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Noise of a mooted swap of Sanchez and Aguero

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Not sure that makes much sense for Arsenal.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Depends if they get some money with it. He's 29 and will probably score 20 goals, Lacazette can play off the left and Ozil float from the right in the 3-4-3 system.

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Be better off just getting cash and buying Lemar wouldn't you

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Noise of a mooted swap of Sanchez and Aguero

I'm hoping that happens. Would push Giroud down the pecking order and increase the chances of a potential move to us

[Nathaniel Jacobs]

Got to question this wisdom from Barcelona to splash £89m on a fair weather player like Coutinho to replace Neymar Jr. Neymar is genuinely top level elite quality. Whereas Coutinho shows up a few times during the season. Barcelona would be better off signing Paulo Dybala and Ousman Dembele. They would still have enough change to get another CM as well

[Guest]

Coutinho is seen as Iniesta's long term replacement, not Neymar's

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Be quite amusing to see Barca gazump Real for Mbappe now

[LionsV2]

Got to question this wisdom from Barcelona to splash £89m on a fair weather player like Coutinho to replace Neymar Jr. Neymar is genuinely top level elite quality. Whereas Coutinho shows up a few times during the season. Barcelona would be better off signing Paulo Dybala and Ousman Dembele. They would still have enough change to get another CM as well

Neymar is seen as top quality because we're told he is, I've yet to see anything from him to suggest he's near the player you suggest he is.

[Nathaniel Jacobs]

Got to question this wisdom from Barcelona to splash £89m on a fair weather player like Coutinho to replace Neymar Jr. Neymar is genuinely top level elite quality. Whereas Coutinho shows up a few times during the season. Barcelona would be better off signing Paulo Dybala and Ousman Dembele. They would still have enough change to get another CM as well

Neymar is seen as top quality because we're told he is, I've yet to see anything from him to suggest he's near the player you suggest he is.

You must've missed the 2014 World Cup then? After Neymar got injured Brazil looked a shambles. And Neymar showed his class when he inspired Barcelona passed PSG in the champions league.

[Nathaniel Jacobs]

Coutinho is seen as Iniesta's long term replacement, not Neymar's

Not even remotely in the same ballpark.

[LionsV2]

Got to question this wisdom from Barcelona to splash £89m on a fair weather player like Coutinho to replace Neymar Jr. Neymar is genuinely top level elite quality. Whereas Coutinho shows up a few times during the season. Barcelona would be better off signing Paulo Dybala and Ousman Dembele. They would still have enough change to get another CM as well

Neymar is seen as top quality because we're told he is, I've yet to see anything from him to suggest he's near the player you suggest he is.

You must've missed the 2014 World Cup then? After Neymar got injured Brazil looked a shambles. And Neymar showed his class when he inspired Barcelona passed PSG in the champions league.

They looked a shambles with him in the team and if memory serves me right he dived against Croatia to secure the winning penalty?

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