Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[joe_fishfish]

3 minutes ago, Remmie said:

It is superstition, what the fuck has their passport got to do with anything? 

 

In fact what point are you even making? Italians are shit. Unless they play in London. Or unless they are Barella. Or Di Canio. Or Ravenelli. 

 

Name good Egyptians before Salah. It's fucking nonsense. 

Mido was on fire for Wigan for half a season.

[Remmie]

1 minute ago, joe_fishfish said:

Mido was on fire for Wigan for half a season.

OK so the rule is don't buy Egyptians unless they played for Wigan, are Mo Salah or Amir Zaki

[Scott_M]

1 minute ago, Remmie said:

It is superstition, what the fuck has their passport got to do with anything? 

 

In fact what point are you even making? Italians are shit. Unless they play in London. Or unless they are Barella. Or Di Canio. Or Ravenelli. 

 

Name good Egyptians before Salah. It's fucking nonsense. 

You say superstition, I say it’s a pattern that Italian players tend not to settle outside London. 

 

Has there been an Italians who have settled up north as well as say Alonso, Torres, Reina, David Silva, Rodri, De Gea etc etc etc. 

 

The Salah comparison isn’t like for like. Italy has a history of producing some of the worlds finest footballers, players you’d expect to produce anywhere in the world. Egypt doesn’t. 
 

Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France etc all have players who have come to the UK and settled & performed well in all parts of the country.
 

Italy, one of the worlds footballing super powers, doesn’t. 
 

I’ve also not said it’s “No Italians”, I’ve said given their history outside of London, it’s cause for concern. 

[Scott_M]

[coachpotato]

It’s because they miss their Mamas.

You can tell that because whenever the camera zooms in you can see them saying “ Mam, I’m here!”

 

 

I’ll get my coat.

[Scott_M]

 

[sir roger]

Not like City to be looking for full backs.

Their outlay on full backs must be close to our total outlay over the Klopp / Guardiola era.

[joe_fishfish]

I know Klopp would never do it but with the money Chelsea and Arsenal are chucking around we should be actively trying to sell Nunez to either or both of them, we could actually make a profit on him.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

40 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Not like City to be looking for full backs.

Their outlay on full backs must be close to our total outlay over the Klopp / Guardiola era.

And they're still not close to the pair we got for a combined outlay of less than £10m.

[bossy]

The thing about selling squad players is it’s easier to do and get good money if your team is perceived as being on the up or is doing well. Brighton for example weren’t as good as us over the season, but that’s not the perception. It’s how we got good money for some of ours over the last few seasons. 

[Anubis]

ITK account suggesting Thuram is all agreed. Take with a massive pinch of salt.

 

[Barrington Womble]

57 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Not like City to be looking for full backs.

Their outlay on full backs must be close to our total outlay over the Klopp / Guardiola era.

Despite the hundreds of millions they've spent on full backs, the pricks don't even play with full backs anymore. 

[Scott_M]

 

[El Rojo]

50 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

 

'I do all types of the goals' sounds like an Alan Shearer quote. 

[Scott_M]

46 minutes ago, Anubis said:

ITK account suggesting Thuram is all agreed. Take with a massive pinch of salt.

 

 

Are allowed to post Twitter randomers? 
 

@Kop3m, doesn’t appear to be much of a bullshitter, references to Thuram this morning as well but is more on the fence.

[TD_LFC]

10 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

 

Little does he (or Man City) know that a deal for 70m has already been agreed.

[M_B]

 

[redrosetints]

2 hours ago, Scott_M said:

 

In for Rice now according to the Torygraph.

 

Arsenal had a £90m bid rejected. Not sure if the Citeh thing is to create bidding war\justify price tag, but this English premium is nuts. ESP with Bellingham going for just £88m

[Elite]

£90m for Rice, nearly as expensive as Uncle Ben's 

[Scott_M]

15 minutes ago, redrosetints said:

In for Rice now according to the Torygraph.

 

Arsenal had a £90m bid rejected. Not sure if the Citeh thing is to create bidding war\justify price tag, but this English premium is nuts. ESP with Bellingham going for just £88m

City who haven’t previously strongly been linked with Rice, are now preparing a £100m+ bid the day WHU reject an offer from Arsenal? 
 

I’m not dismissing it, it might well be true, it seems a bit too convenient, IMO.

 

Seems a bit too much something Brady would tell somebody to do

on The Apprentice. 

[Moo]

Declan Rice is a very good player. City are likely to lose one or two midfielders, I'd be very surprised if they're not in for him.

 

[Scott_M]

3 minutes ago, Moo said:

Declan Rice is a very good player. City are likely to lose one or two midfielders, I'd be very surprised if they're not in for him.

 

I agree Rice is a good player, he’s not the same profile as Gundogan, Silva or Mahrez. 
 

If Rodri or Phillips (Ha!) were leaving, I’d be more inclined to agree. 
 

FWIW, I don’t think Kovacic seems City player either. 
 

Guardiola might be looking to shuffle his line ups again for next season, which if so, then the above might make more sense. 

[M_B]

He'll be a replacement for Phillips I would have thought.

[3 Stacks]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

ITK account suggesting Thuram is all agreed. Take with a massive pinch of salt.

 

Konate spoke at length about him in an interview the other day which would be weird if it wasnt close to happening.