Summer 2019 Transfer Thread

[Jose Jones]

25 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Thank you Mr Hedge Fund, sir, for seeing a gift of an investment opportunity and saving us. 

 

*doffs cap*

 

Said it before and I’ll say it again. While their interests and ours align, fine. But trust them - nah. As a football fan you’d be stupid to trust any owner these days.

What do you mean by trust?

 

You can absolutely trust FSG to behave the way they have since they bought us.

 

They’re most interested in the value of their asset over everything else.

 

They will only spend money the club earns.

 

They are interested in winning only up to the point where it raises the value of the club.

 

Sometimes they will make good decisions, sometimes they will make bad ones, but their aims are always the same.

 

Luckily for us winning stuff raises the value of the club through increasing fans, competition revenues and commercial opportunities.

 

Also luckily for us they’ve been making some good decisions lately after starting out pretty shoddily.

[Jose Jones]

Gareth Bale back to Spurs?

[Barrington Womble]

6 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Gareth Bale back to Spurs?

He'd be a reasonable replacement for Eriksson who they seem certain to lose. Good for us though as I think it'll be highly unlikely bale will get on the pitch anywhere like as often as Eriksson. Wonder where he'll end up? 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

He'd be a reasonable replacement for Eriksson who they seem certain to lose. Good for us though as I think it'll be highly unlikely bale will get on the pitch anywhere like as often as Eriksson. Wonder where he'll end up? 

Eriksson strikes me as the kind of player Juventus wil sign up on a free transfer. 

[RobbieOR]

Nobody is going to give Bale the wages he wants let alone Spurs who don't have the money. 

[3 Stacks]

19 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Gareth Bale back to Spurs?

Better chance it's Man United in part exchange for Pogba, I think. Zidane buried him yesterday. 

[El Rojo]

Good posts by both @05 Milan and @Anubis. I think both positions are quite valid. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

14 hours ago, 05 Milan said:

We have been rebuilt from de facto bankruptcy to champions of Europe in under ten years, turning healthy profits, paying world record fees for top players, enjoying our best league campaign ever, playing fantastically entertaining football for the most part, expanding Anfield, building a great new training complex, and still managed to play by the rules and remain FFP compliant. It's a bloody marvellous feat by FSG, and if they are solely driven by financial gain, then I hope for our sake that never changes.

I've always said it's Klopp and not FSG. FSG have always backed managers financially.

 

He's the one that has to want to sign players. He's never shown any urgency in getting rid of some players, rather working with what he has etc.

 

We have to accept that he's not a cheque book manager like a Mourinho or Pep.

 

Lets just hope nothing happens to our front 3 this season, most of which have not had a break this summer.

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

12 minutes ago, RobbieOR said:

Nobody is going to give Bale the wages he wants let alone Spurs who don't have the money. 

The talk seems to be about Madrid paying him off, effectively giving him his wages for the next few years in one lump sum. 

[RobbieOR]

I don't think they can afford that, whole thing has been them letting him go to fund the rest of their business.

[lifetime fan]

30 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Eriksson strikes me as the kind of player Juventus wil sign up on a free transfer. 

 

I’d be tapping him up now for next summer. 

 

He’d be brilliant for us. 

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, Jose Jones said:

 

They are interested in winning only up to the point where it raises the value of the club.

 

This is a pretty sweeping statement - especially for an ownership group that are current champions in both sports they are involved in.

 

So -- is there a scenario where winning does not raise the value of the club?

[Barrington Womble]

28 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Eriksson strikes me as the kind of player Juventus wil sign up on a free transfer. 

Yeah, maybe. But levy doesn't strike me as a man who wants to head down a path of a free transfer. And where the fuck would they play him, they seem to be stockpiling players at the moment.

 

I'd be all over Eriksson. I've no idea quite how we'd use him, but I think klopps astuteness in reconfiguring our attacking shape slightly with each addition (and loss with coutonho) has been the stand out tactical part of the work he's done. He'd find a way to use Eriksson I think, because he's a top class hardworking attacking player. I doubt we'd want to meet the cost unfortunately. 

[Anubis]

I’ve seen some talk about Bale to Germany on one of the Spurs forums.

[TheHowieLama]

57 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

Wonder where he'll end up? 

THE BENCH!!

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Eriksen ? Fuck no. He's a lazy cunt and has a questionable attitude. Always gone missing when it really matters.

 

Most Spurs fans aren't arsed if he leaves, which says it all.

[TheHowieLama]

Eriksen is a lazy cunt -- not heard that one

[Jairzinho]

3 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Eriksen ? Fuck no. He's a lazy cunt and has a questionable attitude. Always gone missing when it really matters.

 

Most Spurs fans aren't arsed if he leaves, which says it all.

 

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Eriksen ? Fuck no. He's a lazy cunt and has a questionable attitude. Always gone missing when it really matters.

 

Most Spurs fans aren't arsed if he leaves, which says it all.

You know they are talking about Christien and not Sven-Goran? 

[3 Stacks]

Eriksen has tremendous workrate in addition to being really good. I wouldn't pay massive money for him, though. He's at his peak and he hasn't shown to be a difference maker at the very highest level.

 

What's telling is that he gave a come and get me plea at the end of the season and no top club seems all that interested. 

 

But if it was a choice between him or Coutinho for our squad and style of play, I'd pick Eriksen. 

[TheHowieLama]

This is nice and succinct on Bale here:

 

Speaking after the game, Zidane said: "We hope he leaves soon."

[Thoth]

Eriksen lazy, fucksake what a load of bollocks his work rate is incredible 

[Thoth]

Just now, TheHowieLama said:

This is nice and succinct on Bale here:

 

Speaking after the game, Zidane said: "We hope he leaves soon."

Bales agent has called Zidane a disgrace after he said that, all over for him there, Bayern to replace Ribery I reckon

[aRdja]

 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

This is nice and succinct on Bale here:

 

Speaking after the game, Zidane said: "We hope he leaves soon."

I like the fact he used the term 'we' when in reality he means 'I'.