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Other clubs transfer thread (Jan 2015 edition)

Patters

Good. Better he gets that Real Madrid/Barcelona dream out of the way early. We'll be back in the queue when Real Madrid get bored and replace him with the next boy wonder.

goon

Fair play to the lad, must have tremendous levels of self belief. Think it will ultimately backfire unless he turns out to be really special.

marv3llous

shrug we're stacked at CAM

Irishgunner

He made the right choice imo.

QuincyAbeyie

marv3llous wrote:
shrug we're stacked at CAM

I sure hope no top clubs buy 16-year-olds based on where they need players.

Irish gunner wrote:
He made the right choice imo.

I agree. In Spain the reserve teams play in the same league system as the first teams, and Castilla will probably be in Segunda Division next season. He gets to be at Real Madrid and at the same time play in the "Championship". With us he could only do one of those things.

Irishgunner

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Irish gunner wrote:
He made the right choice imo.

I agree. In Spain the reserve teams play in the same league system as the first teams, and Castilla will probably be in Segunda Division next season. He gets to be at Real Madrid and at the same time play in the "Championship". With us he could only do one of those things.

I've read that he'll be given a shirt number between 1 and 25, which means that he'll be ineligible for Castilla. Still a fantastic opportunity to train with the best players in the world though, while also not being under pressure to perform from the start and be a key member of the team (which quickly would have happened if he had gone to Ajax or Liverpool). Being at Madrid should help manage the hype and let him develop at his own pace.

QuincyAbeyie

Ah, didn't know of those rules. That means he will be training with the best of them every day though, which might be even better.

lorddulaarsenal

Giovinco to Toronto FC. Loser move

Khanuppet

Fans here in Toronto are pretty excited. Awful career move for him tho.

Gunner89

Marca’s Juan Castro tells Norwegian paper VG that Martin Odegaard is unlikely to get any regular playing time for Real Madrid’s first team over the next three years. No surprise but kind of reinforces the sentiment that he may have been better off joining another club to start with.

QuincyAbeyie

In tree years he's just become 19. Hector Bellerin started playing regularly at 19. I guess we hope Zelalem will do to. What's different? No one here thinks Hector Bellerin started playing too late.

It doesn't reinforce that sentiment at all. I don't buy that first team football is alfa omega for 16-year-olds.

Kel Varnsen

Irish gunner wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
I agree. In Spain the reserve teams play in the same league system as the first teams, and Castilla will probably be in Segunda Division next season. He gets to be at Real Madrid and at the same time play in the "Championship". With us he could only do one of those things.

I've read that he'll be given a shirt number between 1 and 25, which means that he'll be ineligible for Castilla. Still a fantastic opportunity to train with the best players in the world though, while also not being under pressure to perform from the start and be a key member of the team (which quickly would have happened if he had gone to Ajax or Liverpool). Being at Madrid should help manage the hype and let him develop at his own pace.

I think he can play something like four matches per season for Castilla if he has a shirt number between 1 and 25.

Gunner89

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
In tree years he's just become 19. Hector Bellerin started playing regularly at 19. I guess we hope Zelalem will do to. What's different? No one here thinks Hector Bellerin started playing too late.

It doesn't reinforce that sentiment at all. I don't buy that first team football is alfa omega for 16-year-olds.

That's not the point though is it. It's about the club.

Madrid replace players even if they are performing with other new flavour of the month signings especially in attacking positions.

I think Higuain was the last one on the wing and then played up-top who was the last one really developed with consistent game time.

That's the only one I can think off in the last 10-15 years.

Gunner89

Some back on topic news-

Gomis earns a 50-60k salary and got a 8m sign on fee from Swansea. So they are asking for more than 8m to get a profit. Makes you wonder how much of a sign on did Chamakh get?

Marko Marin in talks to join Anderlecht on loan

Sky sports Italia say Chelsea in Cuadrado talks

Tin Jedvaj permanent to Leverkusen

Swansea agree 5m fee for Kyle Naughton

Dortmund close in on Diarra

Clrnc

Giovinco going to Toronto to replace Defoe doesn't make sense at all.

JazzG

Sky Sports saying Chelsea in talks over Cuadrado, interesting player and will give them a lot more creativity and spark down their right side as well. A player who tracks back as well so fits in with the kind of player Mourinho would want. There was talk of Schurrle being sold as well so possibly looking for his replacement.

QuincyAbeyie

Too bad, Cuadrado is a much better player.

lorddulaarsenal

Typical Mourinho strong strong buy.

FFP you say?

MistaT

Have to wait and see. I think Schurrle is being under rated these days as his form has slipped. Seemed like he had a great season last year for both Chelsea and Germany, which is harder to do than shining for Fiorentina/Colombia.

JazzG

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Typical Mourinho strong strong buy.

FFP you say?

Looks like Salah might be leaving as well, they are going to fleece some German club for Schurrle and use that money to buy Cuadrado who imo is a far better player. Talk of a £23m bid for Schurrle already by Wolsburg so they might improve on that.

MistaT wrote:
Have to wait and see. I think Schurrle is being under rated these days as his form has slipped. Seemed like he had a great season last year for both Chelsea and Germany, which is harder to do than shining for Fiorentina/Colombia.

He's a bit like a worse version of Theo, great when you can slip him through and a good finisher. However not the greatest otherwise. This would be great buy for Chelsea because they'd have two excellent dribblers who are quick and creative on both wings.

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