Summer 2017 Transfer Thread

[Grinch]

Or just £1.

A lot closer to what he's worth than Arsenal will be looking for.

[YNWAViking]

If he stays more or less injury free he'll be a decent signing even for £2.

[lifetime fan]

David Maddock (Mirror) reporting that we've made an official bid for AOC in which Arsenal have rejected.

 

After telling all the local journos for months you're after Keita and are willing to spend £50m+ on him...

 

Signing a shite injury prone kid instead is FSG all fucking over.

[YNWAViking]

We're going for both.

[3 Stacks]

After telling all the local journos for months you're after Keita and are willing to spend £50m+ on him...

 

Signing a shite injury prone kid instead is FSG all fucking over.

 

Keita is younger than Oxlade. Plus, It's David Maddock and John Cross. 99% of the time, they don't know shit.

[Arl arse]

We're going for broke.

True.

[TheHowieLama]

We' are broke.

[G Richards]

AOC had a bit of pace on a few of those deliveries. Sign him up.

[lifetime fan]

Keita is younger than Oxlade. Plus, It's David Maddock and John Cross. 99% of the time, they don't know shit.

Cross is an Arsenal paid for hack.

[cloggypop]

Jay Spearing.

If Jay Spearing isn't wandering around Leiden constantly drunk these days he has an absolute doppelganger who is. Last saw him about half an hour ago singing to himself.

[Paco]

Pearce has interviewed some German journo who says we've no chance of getting Keita this year.

[A_S]

Pearce has interviewed some German journo who says we've no chance of getting Keita this year.

 

Sounds like him. 

[Barrington Womble]

Pearce has interviewed some German journo who says we've no chance of getting Keita this year.

Let's keep our powder dry and wait for the windows in 2018. It worked well with Dahoud, Pulisic and brandt.

[Guest]

Let's keep our powder dry and wait for the windows in 2018. It worked well with Dahoud, Pulisic and brandt.

It's the pattern, brilliant players who are just what we need. Just lacking that wee bit of being available until the next window.

[Josef Svejk]

It's the pattern, brilliant players who are just what we need. Just lacking that wee bit of being available until the next window.

 

At which point we've "moved on to other targets". Who aren't available until the next window. And so on, ad nauseam.

[Jairzinho]

We will go bigly January 2023. Trust me, I know transfers. 

[Josef Svejk]

We will go bigly January 2023. Trust me, I know transfers.

That'll be a huge window for us. Rumours that we might sign a specialist left back and defensive midfielder as well as a Mignolet replacement. Less certainty about Sturridge's future, though.

[Harry Squatter]

Lucas is in talks with Trabzonspor. Can't see this one going through as he was going to join Galatasaray in January but wanted the same wages he was on here.

[El Rojo]

Lucas is in talks with Trabzonspor. Can't see this one going through as he was going to join Galatasaray in January but wanted the same wages he was on here.

It would be like a turkey voting for Turkey.

 

 

 

Only kidding. I like him and hope we keep him, even after we bring in two world class midfielders this summer.

[Numero Veinticinco]

So there's a hearty mix of '70m is ridiculous' and 'the club are cunts for not paying 70m'. Easy to do the right thing.

[El Rojo]

So there's a hearty mix of '70m is ridiculous' and 'the club are cunts for not paying 70m'. Easy to do the right thing.

 

While I'd generally swing more towards the '70m is ridiculous' line of thinking, there's a middle ground that suggests that the club is incapable of going about its business in a professional manner. That's what I'm most irritated about - the van Dijk humiliation and the constant leaks of interest that only drive up prices and make potentially selling clubs hostile towards us.

[Cardie]

While I'd generally swing more towards the '70m is ridiculous' line of thinking, there's a middle ground that suggests that the club is incapable of going about its business in a professional manner. That's what I'm most irritated about - the van Dijk humiliation and the constant leaks of interest that only drive up prices and make potentially selling clubs hostile towards us.

How much of the Salah transfer would we have known about if his agent wasn't posting pictures of plane tickets and conducting the deal via twitter.

 

Not all the links come from the club and with so many people involved in a transfer, and with a vested interest of a transfer becoming a bidding war, then it's rarely going to be completely under the radar.

[El Rojo]

How much of the Salah transfer would we have known about if his agent wasn't posting pictures of plane tickets and conducting the deal via twitter.

 

Not all the links come from the club and with so many people involved in a transfer, and with a vested interest of a transfer becoming a bidding war, then it's rarely going to be completely under the radar.

 

On the club leaking issue, it's too much of a coincidence for me. Three or four 'club' journalists have had more or less the same updates on the same day on our progress (or, usually, lack thereof) over the last several windows, for players with a variety of clubs across Europe.

 

Of course other parties feed into it too, but the club's role seems blatant in the extreme to me.

[Cardie]

On the club leaking issue, it's too much of a coincidence for me. Three or four 'club' journalists have had more or less the same updates on the same day on our progress (or, usually, lack thereof) over the last several windows, for players with a variety of clubs across Europe.

 

Of course other parties feed into it too, but the club's role seems blatant in the extreme to me.

But equally they can go to any number of places for that information. Of course the club leaks information, all clubs do, but the idea that if they stopped the information would stop as well isn't going to happen.

[Mark M]

On the club leaking issue, it's too much of a coincidence for me. Three or four 'club' journalists have had more or less the same updates on the same day on our progress (or, usually, lack thereof) over the last several windows, for players with a variety of clubs across Europe.

 

Of course other parties feed into it too, but the club's role seems blatant in the extreme to me.

 

Exactly added to the fact they had to put on the website an apology to the club they wanted to buy from without ever having gotten to the stage of putting an official bid in. Fucking Clowns.