Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

[Jairzinho]

12 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

We've sold Lovren - that's the squad strengthened already. 

His sale will be like a new signing.

[Bobby Hundreds]

His fee will go towards barnacle removal.

[sir roger]

4 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

His fee will go towards barnacle removal.

That reminds me, has Markovic gone yet ?

[Horus]

United in for Jimenez

[RoyHodgeGone]

Don't often watch the local news but on BBC Wales Today the football news was inevitably focused on Cardiff/Swansea in the Championship playoffs. Most of the piece on Swansea was devoted to whether they could get Brewster back on loan next season with the head coach saying 'we'd love to have him etc.'

[El Rojo]

1 hour ago, Horus said:

United in for Jimenez

Same as Chelsea, they seem to be ignoring their piss-poor defence in terms of their transfer business. 

[Grinch]

9 minutes ago, RoyHodgeGone said:

Don't often watch the local news but on BBC Wales Today the football news was inevitably focused on Cardiff/Swansea in the Championship playoffs. Most of the piece on Swansea was devoted to whether they could get Brewster back on loan next season with the head coach saying 'we'd love to have him etc.'

 

Zero point loaning him back to the championship.   Tells us very little about him at all. 

 

 

[Tj hooker]

1 hour ago, Grinch said:

 

Zero point loaning him back to the championship.   Tells us very little about him at all. 

 

 

This 100% it's been mentioned before but Leeds would be a good move for him to see him , get games at a good level and hopefully take points from our near rivals 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, Horus said:

United in for Jimenez

That's based on speculation that Paulinho is moving to Wolves from Braga. 

[Barrington Womble]

11 hours ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

After what happened with van Dijk (allegdely the club approached him without permission and they were severly reprimanded) I would be very surprised if Liverpool were in talks with Werner and Liverpool certainly would not be leaking stories to the press to suggest they were.

 

 

You really think we wouldn't approach a player? Come on, stop it. It's how football is done, every single club does it. It was only an issue for Southampton when we tried to fuck them on price when vvd told is he wouldn't go anywhere else so we tried to low ball them - and it stopped being an issue when we stumped up what they wanted. Werner had a release clause, at the very least his agent will have been allowed to speak to whoever was willing to pay that clause anyway. It's fucking nonsense to suggest we wouldn't talk to players before putting in a bid. And all of the propaganda media said we were all over it until our owners used the furlough issue to cry poverty. It was widely reported klopp spoke to Werner as recently as Easter. Of course we spoke and wanted Werner. Our owners just preferred to sit on money and know this league success buys them years of doing so. 

 

 

[Ne Moe Imya]

9 hours ago, Horus said:

United in for Jimenez

Please let this happen.

 

Just when you look at them lining up Sancho to go with Rashford and Greenwood and think "hang on, that could be pretty special in a few years" it's good to see them go off and pay hugely over the odds for an attacker who'll only decline for the next 5 years.

 

If we can't catch up with them financially (and before the pandemic there was talk that our revenue might overtake theirs next season), then it's always good to see them throw money away.

[Anubis]

Bit of a surprise this one, but Jose does seem to have a bit of a downer on him.

 

 

 

[sir roger]

5 hours ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Please let this happen.

 

Just when you look at them lining up Sancho to go with Rashford and Greenwood and think "hang on, that could be pretty special in a few years" it's good to see them go off and pay hugely over the odds for an attacker who'll only decline for the next 5 years.

 

If we can't catch up with them financially (and before the pandemic there was talk that our revenue might overtake theirs next season), then it's always good to see them throw money away.

I thought that , but talk is of a £27m fee which seems very reasonable and we could basically swap him for Divock fee-wise and get a massive upgrade immediately.

 

[Grinch]

5 hours ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

Please let this happen.

 

Just when you look at them lining up Sancho to go with Rashford and Greenwood and think "hang on, that could be pretty special in a few years" it's good to see them go off and pay hugely over the odds for an attacker who'll only decline for the next 5 years.

 

If we can't catch up with them financially (and before the pandemic there was talk that our revenue might overtake theirs next season), then it's always good to see them throw money away.

 

I take it you were delighted they bought van Persie too?  Not every signing needs a resale value, if you can sign someone who boosts your chance for success right now, then do it.  Bloody shame we've become so used to this nonsense.

 

Yea before the transfer window opened there was talk of that, amongst a lot of other shite like Mbappe, fast forward to the transfer window and it's "if we sell nine players we can afford Thiago, whilst they're bidding for Sancho.

[El Dangerous]

Looks to me that Jimenez is either after a move or a pay rise. First us, then United and I read Juventus were after him too. It’s all bollocks agents engineering shite.

[clockspeed]

54 minutes ago, Grinch said:

 

I take it you were delighted they bought van Persie too?  Not every signing needs a resale value, if you can sign someone who boosts your chance for success right now, then do it.  Bloody shame we've become so used to this nonsense.

 

Yea before the transfer window opened there was talk of that, amongst a lot of other shite like Mbappe, fast forward to the transfer window and it's "if we sell nine players we can afford Thiago, whilst they're bidding for Sancho.

Now I know I have been blabbering about Havertz and based on what happened with Werner I know in my heart of hearts that pie in the sky also but I can hold my hand up and say I have never passed comment with Mbappe in the title. I may be slightly delusional that our owners may try and push the squad on from a position of strength and create another era of dominance but who in their right minds thinks Mbappe would come to us never mind us affording him. 

 

Moores as an owner  gets quite a bit of negativity on this forum but for those a bit younger we need to remember we bought Barnes (best player in league 1), Beardsley (2nd best player in league 1), Houghton (to an already packed talented midfield) and Aldo midway through season before cause we knew Rush was leaving. I think you could say we kicked on from a position of strength. 

[No2]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

I thought that , but talk is of a £27m fee which seems very reasonable and we could basically swap him for Divock fee-wise and get a massive upgrade immediately.

 

Is the 27m not for the new guy from Braga? Jimenez will be 3 times that, Wolves don't need to sell him.

[aRdja]

Jimenez would be brilliant for us. A proper no 9, and would provide real competition for Bobby.

[sir roger]

32 minutes ago, No2 said:

Is the 27m not for the new guy from Braga? Jimenez will be 3 times that, Wolves don't need to sell him.

Must admit it seemed low to me , but was about Jimenez, was on the Athletic this morning.

[clockspeed]

25 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Jimenez would be brilliant for us. A proper no 9, and would provide real competition for Bobby.

Aye type of gudjohnson (wrong spelling) type player when I have seen him . Probably a bit better.

[3 Stacks]

2 hours ago, Grinch said:

 

I take it you were delighted they bought van Persie too?  Not every signing needs a resale value, if you can sign someone who boosts your chance for success right now, then do it.  Bloody shame we've become so used to this nonsense.

 

Yea before the transfer window opened there was talk of that, amongst a lot of other shite like Mbappe, fast forward to the transfer window and it's "if we sell nine players we can afford Thiago, whilst they're bidding for Sancho.

van Persie was a world class player who was added to an already title winning side. Jimenez is merely a good striker who has become relevant in the past couple years as he approaches 30 and would be joining a young team that still has to grow before becoming title contenders. Two different contexts. 

 

This would be an extraordinarily poor use of money from Man United but unfortunately their most reliable journalist has said they aren't in for him. 

[3 Stacks]

40 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Jimenez would be brilliant for us. A proper no 9, and would provide real competition for Bobby.

Would be a horrific signing. Paying 80m or whatever crazy fee they want for a 29 year old who isn't even that good relatively speaking would be lunacy. 

[The Golden Eel]

I always wondered how come Jimenez scored so few goals in Portugal? 

[No2]

20 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Must admit it seemed low to me , but was about Jimenez, was on the Athletic this morning.

Quick Google has it at 72m, wants more realistic for a player signed for 34m and then banged in a shit load of goals.

[Em City]

53 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Would be a horrific signing. Paying 80m or whatever crazy fee they want for a 29 year old who isn't even that good relatively speaking would be lunacy. 

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