January 2022 Transfer Thread

[Jairzinho]

1 minute ago, Barrington Womble said:

He has played in the euros though, he's a first choice pick ahead of our own captain in that team. Leeds would be mental to settle for less based on that alone. 

No doubt.

 

I just hope it isn't from us. 

[Barrington Womble]

16 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

No doubt.

 

I just hope it isn't from us. 

I could barely care about the fee. The option is we buy nobody it seems to me. So if there's some weird magic in the spreadsheet that makes it say YES for Philips, I'd have him in there ahead of chamberlain and for next season maybe even replacing milner as he won't last forever. 

[Jairzinho]

1 minute ago, Barrington Womble said:

I could barely care about the fee. The option is we buy nobody it seems to me. So if there's some weird magic in the spreadsheet that makes it say YES for Philips, I'd have him in there ahead of chamberlain and for next season maybe even replacing milner as he won't last forever. 

I care about the fee because we have a finite budget. Very finite.

 

We don't spend enough money generally to be paying English tax.

[Barrington Womble]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

I care about the fee because we have a finite budget. Very finite.

 

We don't spend enough money generally to be paying English tax.

Yeah, but we don't have many spaces in the squad for none home grown, so we may have to suck it up

[3 Stacks]

11 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I could barely care about the fee. The option is we buy nobody it seems to me. So if there's some weird magic in the spreadsheet that makes it say YES for Philips, I'd have him in there ahead of chamberlain and for next season maybe even replacing milner as he won't last forever. 

I think he is a decent player and it would probably work stylistically if we signed him, but there is no spreadsheet anywhere in any universe that says that you should pay 60m for Kalvin Phillips. You have to have some idea of value.

[Jairzinho]

3 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

Yeah, but we don't have many spaces in the squad for none home grown, so we may have to suck it up

Then next summer we can bin Adrian, Origi, Minamino and Keita.

 

We can't be spending £60m on players to fill a quota. 

[Barrington Womble]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Then next summer we can bin Adrian, Origi, Minamino and Keita.

 

We can't be spending £60m on players to fill a quota. 

We said that last summer, although the echo reported minaminos value has gone up to 11m on transfermakt!

[Barrington Womble]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Then next summer we can bin Adrian, Origi, Minamino and Keita.

 

We can't be spending £60m on players to fill a quota. 

I don't think he's worth that, but the same spreadsheet made chamberlain with a year left worth 35m and keita worth 50 odd mil. So I don't know how the spreadsheet does it's maths, but if it says yes, I really don't care. We'd have a better squad with Phillips than without even if he would be unlikely to be in the first XI for the biggest games. 

[Jairzinho]

Just now, Barrington Womble said:

We said that last summer, although the echo reported minaminos value has gone up to 11m on transfermakt!

Keita 29m, Origi 11m, Minamino 11m, Adrian 1m. 

 

[Jairzinho]

2 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I don't think he's worth that, but the same spreadsheet made chamberlain with a year left worth 35m and keita worth 50 odd mil. So I don't know how the spreadsheet does it's maths, but if it says yes, I really don't care. We'd have a better squad with Phillips than without even if he would be unlikely to be in the first XI for the biggest games. 

Have we got the latest version downloaded?

[Harry Squatter]

Doubt Klopp will bin off Keita. Origi will be here til he's 45.

[El Dangerous]

3 hours ago, J-V said:

He wouldn't even get in our midfield bar injuries.

We’ll yeah, I said he’s £40m too expensive to be Fabinho’s understudy.

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

Have we got the latest version downloaded?

We're waiting for the whole club to upgrade to windows 11. 

[Barrington Womble]

53 minutes ago, Harry Squatter said:

Doubt Klopp will bin off Keita. Origi will be here til he's 45.

He's out of contract at the end of next season isn't he? 

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

He's out of contract at the end of next season isn't he? 

End of this season I think

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

Have we got the latest version downloaded?

We are saving money by ckecking it on City's computers.

[Lee909]

Adrian should be fucked off for some older HG keeper than can sit around on low wages and just be happy being 3rd choice

[DalyanPete]

Think we might sign Thiago, heard he's the best midfielder in the world.

[dockers_strike]

3 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Adrian should be fucked off for some older HG keeper than can sit around on low wages and just be happy being 3rd choice

Like Andy Lonergan, you mean?

[Harry Squatter]

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

He's out of contract at the end of next season isn't he? 

They'll just let him have an office in the basement and tell him he is still getting paid by the club.

[Harry Squatter]

35 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Adrian should be fucked off for some older HG keeper than can sit around on low wages and just be happy being 3rd choice

Ben Foster would be an OK HG player. Plus he takes about 20 minutes to take goal kicks when his team are winning.

[3 Stacks]

Backup right back will be interesting with I assume this being Milner's last season. Neco to his credit is bouncing back a bit but I'm not sure he's a good right back. Dunno if we'll have to sign someone or there's another solution. 

 

[Boss]

1 hour ago, 3 Stacks said:

Backup right back will be interesting with I assume this being Milner's last season. Neco to his credit is bouncing back a bit but I'm not sure he's a good right back. Dunno if we'll have to sign someone or there's another solution. 

 

We'll probably back Williams to kick on with more game time, but Max Aarons would be a good signing. He'll be going cheap when Norwich go down and it'll be his fourth full season of football - which is class for a 21-year-old. Team of the year in the Championship twice. Formerly wanted by Bayern Munich. It makes sense. 

[3 Stacks]

1 hour ago, Boss said:

We'll probably back Williams to kick on with more game time, but Max Aarons would be a good signing. He'll be going cheap when Norwich go down and it'll be his fourth full season of football - which is class for a 21-year-old. Team of the year in the Championship twice. Formerly wanted by Bayern Munich. It makes sense. 

I saw that Mazraoui at Ajax's deal ends next summer. He's good and he's played well in midfield too. Drawback being that he's another AFCON guy.

 

The problem with someone like Aarons is he's simply not gonna play much because he has only one position. Unless he's cool with being a backup. Thankfully, Tsimikas who is in the same spot at left back just seems happy being here and playing once or twice per month. 

[Lee909]

Agree, as much as I'd love Aarons it would be a terrible career move for him to go from a starter for a few years to a backup