Romeo Lavia - another bullet dodged. Code thinks he's bang average too

[Manny]

43 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Part of the sale was that they had FFP waived for the year, or they had a set leniency amount, so they could 'invest in the team'.

But… football is so properly governed though..?

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Has he signed for Chelsea yet

[Kevin D]

I do not recall ever seeing him play, but if he’s as black, big and as defensive a midfielder as people say he is, we need to sign this motherfucker.

[Razoray]

Rumours are he is Liverpool bound

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, Kevin D said:

 if he’s as black, big and as defensive a midfielder as people say he is

[Razoray]

The ITKs were saying last night that this was done and he was off to Chelsea. This morning, they know nothing again.

[Anubis]

Reports we’ve lodged a £60m bid.

 

EDIT: Agreed £60m with Saints.

[TheDrowningMan]

5 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Reports we’ve lodged a £60m bid.

Yep. Jacob Steinberg from The Guardian is reporting that an agreement has been reached, but that it’s now dependent on us convincing him to join us ahead of Chelsea. If that’s the case, I suspect we’re going to have to make him one of our highest paid players and / or offer a decade long contract.  

[VladimirIlyich]

So our hopes depend on a defensive midfielder from a team which was relegated last season conceding shedloads of goals? He'll fit right in.

[Pete]

2 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

So our hopes depend on a defensive midfielder from a team which was relegated last season conceding shedloads of goals? He'll fit right in.

And £10M more than they were initially asking?   
 

[FrenchEyeGlass]

I assume - because I don't think our club are utterly fucking stupid - that this bid has gone in after they had some concrete assurances from the player that if a fee is agreed he will 100% join.

 

If we have put this bid in without those assurances, and are about to battle it out with Chelsea again, just burn the fucking club to the ground. Because we will never match their wages and them cheating cunts will happily outbid us.

[El Rojo]

On 08/08/2023 at 18:05, El Rojo said:

Heavy is the head that wears the 'Welcome...' thread starting crown, but my Mac Allister thread played a major role in getting that deal over the line so here we go. 

 

 

 

How am I doing, boss?

[Guest]

On 08/08/2023 at 18:05, El Rojo said:

Heavy is the head that wears the 'Welcome...' thread starting crown, but my Mac Allister thread played a major role in getting that deal over the line so here we go. 

 

 

Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop drinking Mild Green Fairy Liquid.

[El Rojo]

Have to laugh though - best case scenario for our Caicedo swoop is that we're paying £10m+ more than we should be for another player. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

60 million. Its not the playing staff that that needs culling its the dickheads pennypinching for so fucking long. If its true.

[Strontium]

The longer a transfer saga rolls on, the more chance there is that someone else hijacks the deal. This isn't rocket science. What are they smoking over there in Boston?

[JustTosh]

13 minutes ago, Pete said:

And £10M more than they were initially asking?   
 

If we pay 60M for him after stalling a deal for 50M, surely somebody has to be sacked.

 

Walk away from this, please!

[Bobby Hundreds]

5 minutes ago, Strontium said:

The longer a transfer saga rolls on, the more chance there is that someone else hijacks the deal. This isn't rocket science. What are they smoking over there in Boston?

Our top 4 challenge, they are down to the roach and still offering blowbacks.

[Mark M]

I'm concerned about the Chelsea owner Boehly in this.

I think he'd love to screw us over if possible and the big advantage he has is he's completely reckless with overspending on players and offering really long contracts and if he decides to fuck us over with Lavia we wont be able to do anything about it.

As for FFP the league or Uefa stopping them overspending absolutely no chance in that happening.

 

[Jairzinho]

For our next trick we're going to get into a bidding war with Real Madrid for Mbappe. 

 

Then resign Borini for £47m.

[manwiththestick]

We've been made to look like right nincompoop's in the last few days.

 

I have no issue with the attempt to sign Caicedo but if we end it paying 60m for Lavia, a fee we were all baulking at last week, well, it's all a bit silly really.

 

Also, what's Ibiza Jorg actually doing? We've signed two players by meeting release clauses and I suspect Alexis transfer was already underway before he came on board and by all accounts it was Hogan working on the Caicedo bid.

[Grinch]

Muppets fc, midfield will still be shite with this kid

[Fallen Angel]

7 minutes ago, manwiththestick said:

We've been made to look like right nincompoop's in the last few days.

 

I have no issue with the attempt to sign Caicedo but if we end it paying 60m for Lavia, a fee we were all baulking at last week, well, it's all a bit silly really.

 

Also, what's Ibiza Jorg actually doing? We've signed two players by meeting release clauses and I suspect Alexis transfer was already underway before he came on board and by all accounts it was Hogan working on the Caicedo bid.

We baulked at 50m not 60m - way to do biz reds - nice one 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

Ahhh, the sweet smell of success. 

Looks like our Caicedo dalliance has pissed off Southampton to the tune of £10m.  

We are incredible.  

[joe_fishfish]

£60m is about £30m too much for this kid. Might turn out amazing one day but we need a solid aggressive defensive midfielder who covers shitloads of ground and wins absolutely everything. He’s not that. Basically paying for potential and homegrown status. And he still might not even choose us over Chelsea.

 

Just take the leftover cash and give it to Michael Edwards to come back.