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36m Euros for a player who isn't in the starting 11 and who is at an age where improvement usually ends is pretty big, in my opinion. It's not one you just reject instantly.

If that's real, I don't think you can turn down 36m Euros for Shaqiri. That's a huge bid. We'd have to have a replacement lined up right away, though.

No. You guys look busy with the fantasy draft and there's not that much interest. Will ask the question again in a little while.

They're copying Monaco. In fact, their Director of Football is the same one Monaco had when they bought and sold all those gems a couple years ago.

Nah, the most reliable Juve journalist (Romeo Agresti) has confirmed it's true. The bid, that is. Doesn't mean Dybala will agree.

They obviously aren't paying a monster loan fee for Coutinho on top of paying 70m for Dybala. Coutinho is a "smokescreen" as they say.

Tier 1 Juve guy just said Spurs have an agreement with Juve for Dybala. Up to the player to decide. No Coutinho.

Coutinho not going to Spurs if this is happening.

Agreed. Messi needs finishers and people who make runs in behind all game, Coutinho was a bad fit. Wouldn't like to see him at Spurs under Pochettino, though. That would be tough to stomach.

For Americans it's not even about owning a gun, it's about having the right to own a gun. And we all know America is all about rights and being "free". That's what being an American is down to its core. They think they're entitled. That's why there will always be resistance towards something like gun control even though there are these brutal massacres time and time again. They don't want a government taking one of their "rights" away.

Just speculation but I don't think paying something like 25m for a loan is something we would do. Maybe I'm wrong.

Would Levy sell Eriksen to a domestic rival? Would Spurs pay an astronomical loan fee? I would guess the answer is no to both of those questions. But yeah, on paper both transfers kind of make sense. It's the financial side that seems unrealistic.

None of these deals are happening, mate.

No one at the club rates Wilson highly. It's the same situation as the Clyne loan last January. People were freaking out because we were supposedly losing depth except like with Clyne, Wilson would be a last resort who would barely play because he doesn't fit in anywhere and doesn't match with the way we play. We're not losing anything.

Err, alright. Bet things are going great for you at the moment for you to have taken my post in the way you did. You said people would pay money for "breaking big news stories", which is obviously false because news breaks on Twitter basically in real time and for free. So actually, it's true you don't get it. Laugh out loud funny you would get mad at me for pointing this out to you, though.

It says it all no one has actually been in for him. The BBC journalist with United connections has said they were never in for him. Spurs were linked only to put pressure on Betis to sell them Lo Celso. His agent has been parading him around all summer. You can tell no one thinks he'd be good value for what he would cost. I haven't seen loads of him, but he looks like the classic Youtube player that scores a billion long shots into the top corner against the like of Vitoria Guimares and then when you watch one of his games for Portugal, he barely touches the ball.

I think Norwich and also maybe Sheffield United are liable to surprise a few teams because they play pretty good football. Or maybe Premier League teams will have too much quality and it won't matter, always hard to tell. I'd be careful here, though, I have a feeling they will create chances and not just sit back and hope for a counter somewhere.

Honoured to be put in the esteemed company of such talented content creators, mate.

Anyone mentioned yet that Mourinho wanted him a year ago and had the club obliged they would have got him for far less money? Funniest part of this transfer when the fact they bought a merely decent defender for a world record fee is already pretty damn funny.

You go on Twitter now for breaking news and that's free. That's not the point for a service like The Athletic. The point will be to have detailed stories with inside info from clubs. Stuff you can't get from following a guy on Twitter who just gets scoops. If they have writers who have access to clubs and can get interesting tidbits from transfer negotiations and stuff like that, it will have its place. They just had a story on the Harry Maguire signing and they mentioned a lot of the inside stuff on the transfer you don't often get and it was pretty good. I don't know if I would pay for that personally, but it was pretty good.

He was good during Monaco's title season. Really athletic, good technique, strong when he gets forward. At the time he established himself for the national team and was getting call-ups. Despite this, he's never been a good defender. Purely an attacking full back. Since that time, in the past two seasons he's been injury prone and his form has dropped to the point where he isn't an option for France anymore and Monaco want to get rid of him.

I assume you've left out Ben Arfa because you know he'll find a top club worthy of his talents very soon.

I don't regularly watch other leagues anymore. Only French and Premier League + European competitions. Nowadays if you see me talking about a player who isn't well known from any other league, you can be assured I'm making up that I know stuff about them, I'm stealing other people's opinions or I'm getting basic info on them from their stats on Fifa.

My first language is French so I enjoy following the coverage in France as a result. I have Kodi to get the French channels in Canada. I've found I'm far more interested in it because of the language than other leagues even though Ligue 1 football is objectively worse than Spanish/Italian/German football.

Tatarusanu, the former Nantes keeper would have been good but he went to Lyon to be their backup. Other than that, there's no one that would really fit the bill.