Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[Megadrive Man]

54 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

How can anyone who doesn't work in football answer that question? I don't know what clubs are thinking. A lot of people don't know what they're doing.

 

He was one of the best players in France, Brazilian international, mid 20's, and had a pretty reasonable fee.

 

I know, that's my point in a way.

Not one of the big six clubs had him on their radar, Newcastle weren't interested either. Clearly these clubs had doubts over some aspect of him and or his ability to play in the Premier League. He's had to prove himself at West Ham first in order to attract a big move.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, bossy said:

They have a sell on clause but Southampton could still ask for £50m or £100m. Doesn’t mean they’ll get it like, but I don’t see why it’s restricted to 40m if City buy him. Am I missing something?

 

Gossip has it that they have a buy back and a sell on clause. 

Beginning to believe that Caciedo does not have a release clause otherwise Chelsea would have triggered it.

Chelsea have bid what, three times now?  80m for a player who has consistently been valued at 100 mil by the selling club is no different than we have done with Lavia. They might walk away.

[Tenfolder]

According to ole Fabrizio copypaste Brighton want to resolve the Caicedo saga tonight, so guess Chelsea will have their new player to present on Sunday after we helped push the deal along.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

I wonder if this is linked to Colwill.

 

We seemingly wanted him, but didn’t want to piss off Chelsea. He’s now staying, we’ve been making moves for Lavia, we’ve potentially had a word that Caicedo is potentially obtainable, now we don’t need to keep Chelsea sweet so are going all in? 
 

I know there is a lot of hypotheticals there. 

 

[Megadrive Man]

If we've seen one thing from the way that Chelsea operate and FSG operate I'm fully expecting Lavia, Caicedo and Adams to all be at Chelsea by Sunday.

[manwiththestick]

12 minutes ago, Tenfolder said:

According to ole Fabrizio copypaste Brighton want to resolve the Caicedo saga tonight, so guess Chelsea will have their new player to present on Sunday after we helped push the deal along.

I fully expect him to also score the winner against us on Sunday, that would be very us.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

43 minutes ago, Baltar said:

We need to tell these Saudi's to get fucked. What do they think they're playing at, ripping out our entire midfield? I would say £50M for Thiago or fuck off.

I think £60m for three of our starting midfield in some games is about right, and it goes to show just how bad things had got...

[Bjornebye]

We should have this guy doing our negotiating 

 

 

 

[etho]

Like most of our dealings this summer or lack of it makes no sense. I can only thing that were trying to make it look like we were stalling on Lavia all along when we stop being cheap cunts and pay the figure Southampton are asking for

[TheHowieLama]

6 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

If we've seen one thing from the way that Chelsea operate

 Lavia, Caicedo and Adams

 

I have no idea - someone on here may.

 

Where do Chelsea stand with homegrown players?

[Megadrive Man]

6 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 Lavia, Caicedo and Adams

 

I have no idea - someone on here may.

 

Where do Chelsea stand with homegrown players?

Its difficult to tell with them. They have James, Chilwell and Stirling but then the future of many of their other HG players is up in the air.

[Harry's Lad]

14 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

We should have this guy doing our negotiating 

 

 

 

Instead of this fella.

 

[Tenfolder]

I dont really understand Chelseas strategy with DMs, especially younger ones which is why I feel the Lavia bid may have come from them hearing we were scouting interest in Caicedo...

They signed 19 year old Lesley Ugochukwu this window and have 19 year old Andrey Santos in January that both are supposedly DMs, im fairly sure they also have another young lad who is versatile and can play DM they are loaning to Palace to, it just doesnt make sense they then want to sign Lavia for the money Southampton want if they plan on getting in Adams and Caicedo in as well.

[Remmie]

1 hour ago, an tha said:

Transfermarkt have his value at 13m.

 

We paid 20 for him 3 years ago - would you say given what has happened over last 3 years his value has gone up?

The wage bill has been slashed extensively already, we have no midfield as it is, especially top class, experienced and has already played under Klopp midfielders. What the fuck are we going to do with another £10m in this market? 

 

He is far more valuable than £10m to us. Fuck the bean counting, we need to spend. Now. 

[an tha]

Just now, Tenfolder said:

I dont really understand Chelseas strategy with DMs, especially younger ones which is why I feel the Lavia bid may have come from them hearing we were scouting interest in Caicedo...

They signed 19 year old Lesley Ugochukwu this window and have 19 year old Andrey Santos in January that both are supposedly DMs, im fairly sure they also have another young lad who is versatile and can play DM they are loaning to Palace to, it just doesnt make sense they then want to sign Lavia for the money Southampton want if they plan on getting in Adams and Caicedo in as well.

They will loan the 2 kids out and then sell them for about 30m each down line.

[an tha]

3 minutes ago, Remmie said:

The wage bill has been slashed extensively already, we have no midfield as it is, especially top class, experienced and has already played under Klopp midfielders. What the fuck are we going to do with another £10m in this market? 

 

He is far more valuable than £10m to us. Fuck the bean counting, we need to spend. Now. 

No he isn't.

 

He is leaving at end of season anyway and of course in the meantime will hardly play.

 

He'll cost us 10m in wages too in that time.

 

I think 12m or so and his wages better used elsewhere is a good deal for us.

 

The problem is the likely failure to build depth we need with his and other exits - so we'll probably end up letting him see his contract out and get next to sod all again out of him.

[Anubis]

Liverpool ITKs are all aboard the Caicedo and Inacio bid trains.

 

[Reckoner]

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[Colonel Bumcunt]

We don't FEEL like we're in a strong position here. 

Caceido wants Chelsea first.  If we lose that then we're fucking grovelling back to Southampton...and they're going to add £10m to the Lavia price as Dickhead Tax.  

[Baresi]

I won’t believe anything until Pauline D posts it. 

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, bossy said:

They have a sell on clause but Southampton could still ask for £50m or £100m. Doesn’t mean they’ll get it like, but I don’t see why it’s restricted to 40m if City buy him. Am I missing something?

Because Southampton are broadcasting to everyone they want 50m and have all summer. So you're right, they could say to city, we'll take 50m off Liverpool but we want 100m from you. But of course they wouldn't. Because the deal worked for them (aside from relegation) and they would want to keep a working relationship with city. 

[manwiththestick]

2 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

We don't FEEL like we're in a strong position here. 

Caceido wants Chelsea first.  If we lose that then we're fucking grovelling back to Southampton...and they're going to add £10m to the Lavia price as Dickhead Tax.  

To be fair they could have added dickhead tax weeks ago.

[Remmie]

54 minutes ago, an tha said:

No he isn't.

 

He is leaving at end of season anyway and of course in the meantime will hardly play.

 

He'll cost us 10m in wages too in that time.

 

I think 12m or so and his wages better used elsewhere is a good deal for us.

 

The problem is the likely failure to build depth we need with his and other exits - so we'll probably end up letting him see his contract out and get next to sod all again out of him.

I guess we'll see who the club agrees with, before this transfer window I would have been very sure of myself on this but we seem to be sniffing glue this window. 

 

Out of curiosity, who are we buying for £10m in this market that's better than Thiago? 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

4 minutes ago, Remmie said:

 

Out of curiosity, who are we buying for £10m in this market that's better than Thiago? 

If we're not going to play him every week then we should let him go. 

He's beautiful, kids should be enjoying him playing every week, if he goes to Saudi he'd be amazing at that tempo, it's be a crime to prevent the world watching him just play for fun.  

Edited August 10, 2023 by Colonel Bumcunt

[TheHowieLama]