Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

[TheHowieLama]

On 13/02/2024 at 05:34, TheHowieLama said:

Is there anything, or anyone in world football more tedious than Kylian M'Bappe?

 

Paris St-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe, 25, and his camp are unconvinced by Real Madrid's latest offer to the France international, who can move on a free transfer this summer, as it is lower than a previous proposal from May 2022.

 

 

There was an hour-long conversation with Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, and Kylian Mbappe. They shook hands and Mbappe said "that's it, we are gone".

The French media, and other chosen media, got the memo from PSG saying he is leaving.

PSG are saying "yes he is leaving" but a bunch of things were mentioned as they are trying to put a positive spin on the story.

 

His signing fee will reportedly be north of 100 mil. Just his signing bonus.

[El Rojo]

Anything to do with Mbappe belongs in the shiteness of modern football thread. 

[TheHowieLama]

30 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Anything to do with Mbappe belongs in the shiteness of modern football thread. 

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says the Gunners have to be involved in the conversation to sign Mbappe this summer

[Bruce Spanner]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says the Gunners have to be involved in the conversation to sign Mbappe this summer

 

'Do you think he'll enjoy his time in Madrid, Mikel?'

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

How many times has he said he's left now? Must be about 4. So when the summer comes and Madrid won't pay what's needed, then he'll end up just signing again. It's boring now. 

[El Rojo]

Part of the problem with Mbappe is that he’s been institutionalised at PSG  into believing he’s the most important footballer on the planet. He’d have a massive dose of the sulks a month into any new club. 

[Carra_is_legend]

6 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Part of the problem with Mbappe is that he’s been institutionalised at PSG  into believing he’s the most important footballer on the planet. He’d have a massive dose of the sulks a month into any new club. 

He sulks when things are going great. 

 

Never mind when he has to dig in.

[aws]

If we could get him on a free at a reasonable wage, he might be a useful bench option.  

[janmolby]

4 hours ago, aws said:

If we could get him on a free at a reasonable wage, he might be a useful bench option.  

We'd probably be forced to start him most matches, given our injury woes. 

[El Dangerous]

He still in to trannies? You need a bit of that. 

[TheHowieLama]

On 16/02/2024 at 07:34, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

There was an hour-long conversation with Nasser Al-Khelaifi, president of PSG, and Kylian Mbappe. They shook hands and Mbappe said "that's it, we are gone".

The French media, and other chosen media, got the memo from PSG saying he is leaving.

PSG are saying "yes he is leaving" but a bunch of things were mentioned as they are trying to put a positive spin on the story.

 

His signing fee will reportedly be north of 100 mil. Just his signing bonus.

 

 

Move to Real confirmed -- 128 mil signing bonus - 13 mil a year wedge

[Scott_M]

3 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

Move to Real confirmed -- 128 mil signing bonus - 13 mil a year wedge

Hopefully they sign Haaland as well.  

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Hopefully they sign Haaland as well.  

 

I think even they have admitted it is one or the other due to their strict adherence to FFP.

[Carra_is_legend]

Thank fuck for that. No more Mbappe to Liverpool crap hopefully. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Thankfuck hope the greedy cunt is shite there. The dogshit club. Hang on Mbappe,Bellingham has klopp been laying down the groundwork.

[Scott_M]

11 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

I think even they have admitted it is one or the other due to their strict adherence to FFP.

Be all the random payments to dead agents and family members that does it.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Huge signing bonus, but just think of all the tax he'll have to pretend to pay.

[TheHowieLama]

Germany midfielder Joshua Kimmich, 29, is set to leave Bayern Munich at the end of the season because his relationship with manager Thomas Tuchel has broken down.

Xabi Alonso was Kimmich's best pal and took him under his wing when the player arrived from Leipzig.

 

Part of that is true - the other part I made up.

 

 

 

[Pidge]

41 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Hopefully they sign Haaland as well.  

I'm guessing they are planning on Mbappe playing centre forward. Otherwise, we should be in for vinicius..

[dave u]

47 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

 

Move to Real confirmed -- 128 mil signing bonus - 13 mil a year wedge

 

How can they afford to keep doing mad deals like this while Barcelona ended up completely fucked for overspending? 

 

Madrid's spending capability has never made sense to me.

[Creator Supreme]

18 minutes ago, dave u said:

 

How can they afford to keep doing mad deals like this while Barcelona ended up completely fucked for overspending? 

 

Madrid's spending capability has never made sense to me.

They're the government's club and the Royal family's club, they will not be allowed to fail, they always find a scam that saves them, like selling their training ground for €200m.

[Pidge]

23 minutes ago, dave u said:

 

How can they afford to keep doing mad deals like this while Barcelona ended up completely fucked for overspending? 

 

Madrid's spending capability has never made sense to me.

 

From wiki: During the 2009–10 season, Real Madrid made €150 million through ticket sales. Doubt that's gone down, that looks mad for ticket sales alone.

 

They can afford to go all out every now and then and I doubt their wage bill is as high as when they had Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema on the books. Probably have Kroos and/or Modric leaving in the summer to balance it as well. They are an easy sell to free transfers like Alaba and they pick up a lot of excellent talents for relatively little while offering them viable pathways to the first team.

 

The bastards.

 

And selling the training ground (good shout), that definitely stopped them hitting a pinch point like Barca did. Don't think all the tax scandals helped Barca in the financial management stakes either... 

 

[Pidge]

To add context to the 150 euro figure, that would be an average wage of £115k gross per week for a 25 man squad. Merch, hospitality and TV revenue on top of that?

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Pidge said:

 

From wiki: During the 2009–10 season, Real Madrid made €150 million through ticket sales. Doubt that's gone down, that looks mad for ticket sales alone.

 

 

Not quite 150 - it is a bit less after the Covid break, but won't be next year.

They are guaranteed @ 120 mil then it depends how far they advance in the CL. These were the reported revenues by year.

 

[Scott_M]