Other clubs' transfers

[Ben]

With Pep having his customary winge at the end of the season and with the players they are bringing in how many players will Man City have to sell ? It seems like their squad is already huge.

[r0cafella]

10 minutes ago, Ben said:

With Pep having his customary winge at the end of the season and with the players they are bringing in how many players will Man City have to sell ? It seems like their squad is already huge.

No, they won't be under pressure to sell. 

[Menace]

8 hours ago, Ben said:

 

Fair point, such an easy win though, what could anyone say if we sold that Greek Keeper for £50 Million ?

 

He turned down a move in Jan apparently - would've been perfect if we got our money back on that waster.

 

Man U could sign 10 world class players and I'd still not be worried about them. Give it a few months and a string of bad results and the atmosphere will turn toxic again.

 

 

Edited yesterday at 04:56 by Menace

[Ronson333]

 

[gbandit]

Chelsea not willing to meet the price? Hope someone’s doing a psychiatric assessment with Todd as something’s gone wrong there 

[Froggy]

Chelsea maintain full trust in Petrovic, Sanchez, Jorgensen and Penders*

 

*after they couldn't agree a fee for a new keeper.

[geordie_b]

1 minute ago, Froggy said:

Chelsea maintain full trust in Petrovic, Sanchez, Jorgensen and Penders*

 

*after they couldn't agree a fee for a new keeper.

 

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/13160228/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-boss-extends-contract-until-2026

 

[Fak]

Maignan is comfortably better than the pool of keepers they currently have. They won't cough up £30m for him but they'll probably go spend £30m on four more keepers combined in the next 18 months.

[Froggy]

1 minute ago, geordie_b said:

 

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/13160228/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-boss-extends-contract-until-2026

 

 

That's Dan Ashworth for you.

[duo]

City's business is disgustingly good

[Fak]

Arsenal pushing for Guehi according to The Athletic, doubt he'd be happy playing second fiddle to Saliba or Gabriel. 

[SteV]

[Harveys Barn]

Thought occurred to me.

 

If you employed 30 scouts full time, and paid them all 200k per year, that would cost 6m a year.

 

You'd only need to produce one 6m pound profit annually - ie, sell one well-scouted player per year - to break even.

 

I have no idea what our scouting network is like. But you'd hope we have full time scouts based locally to every major league globally, with a shared data set, all hunting the next 2-10m buys for 20-50m sells.

[joeyt]

The life of a third choice keeper is the absolute dream

[kingxlnc]

17 minutes ago, Harveys Barn said:

Thought occurred to me.

 

If you employed 30 scouts full time, and paid them all 200k per year, that would cost 6m a year.

 

You'd only need to produce one 6m pound profit annually - ie, sell one well-scouted player per year - to break even.

 

I have no idea what our scouting network is like. But you'd hope we have full time scouts based locally to every major league globally, with a shared data set, all hunting the next 2-10m buys for 20-50m sells.

Scouts would be getting paid 'normal' wages - 50-60k a year. It's mostly part time so probably even less than that

[Harveys Barn]

5 minutes ago, kingxlnc said:

Scouts would be getting paid 'normal' wages - 50-60k a year. It's mostly part time so probably even less than that

Lovely, then we should hopefully have 100 of them!

[Ikon]

Chelsea have upped their offer for Gittens up to £42m. Dortmund will be laughing all the way to the bank (according to German fans) 

[gbandit]

He’s not rated in Germany?

[Ikon]

Just now, gbandit said:

He’s not rated in Germany?

Apparently not that highly rated. 

[GeordieDazzler]

He’s been very inconsistent but has had some patches of great form. He’s only 19 I think so still plenty of time to come good. He's the sort of gamble Chelsea can afford but we can’t. 

[Fak]

11 minutes ago, Ikon said:

Chelsea have upped their offer for Gittens up to £42m. Dortmund will be laughing all the way to the bank (according to German fans) 

 

Not quite, they have just threw away £30m on Bellingham.

[The Butcher]

 

[The College Dropout]

34 minutes ago, Ikon said:

Chelsea have upped their offer for Gittens up to £42m. Dortmund will be laughing all the way to the bank (according to German fans) 

Only 18 months older than Miley or so. Gittens is showing some signs of elite ability but also way off it in major ways. It's a gamble.

 

Minteh compares favourably to a lot of these players in some key ways. Such a shame.

[Shearergol]

Didn't realise you liked Minteh mate.

[wormy]

26 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

Didn't realise you liked Minteh mate.

 

Apparently a proper baller, that lad.