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Other clubs transfer thread Summer 2017 ( Barcelona sign Dembele)

flobaba

Hehehe! Lukaku has terrible touch. Replace Ibrahimovic? Having a larf

Anzac

Saw something about Goretzka to stay at Schalke this season before joining Bayern on a free.

Anzac

Story that ManU want Nainggolan and that Roma are looking a 40m fee and prefer for him to go overseas rather than to sign with either of the Milan clubs.

Would prefer him ahead of Rambo as partner to Xhaka.

QuincyAbeyie

40m is a really good price, we should be all over that.

Seems like Bonucci is going to Milan.

Gunner89

Walker to City for 50m plus. Crazy.

goon

Is that confirmed? Madness. He's not even fucking first choice for Tottenham!

Gunner89

Sky Sports News HQ‏Verified account @SkySportsNewsHQ 9m9 minutes ago
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BREAKING: @ManCity agree fee with @SpursOfficial in excess of £50m for @kylewalker2 - Sky sources. #SSNHQ

David Ornstein‏Verified account @bbcsport_david 6m6 minutes ago
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Man City close sealing Kyle Walker signing. Deal worth up to £50m agreed last night. Medical & completion Fri, goes on tour Mon #MCFC #THFC

Kaveh Solhekol‏Verified account @SkyKaveh 9m9 minutes ago
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Man City paying world record fee for defender after agreeing deal worth more than £50m this morning with Tottenham for Kyle Walker

Bold Tone

goon wrote:
Is that confirmed? Madness. He's not even fucking first choice for Tottenham!

If true, hats off to Levy again.

GooneriC

Levy goes by reputation. Same with us except we are the opposite extreme.

Irishgunner

Anzac wrote:
Story that ManU want Nainggolan and that Roma are looking a 40m fee and prefer for him to go overseas rather than to sign with either of the Milan clubs.

Would prefer him ahead of Rambo as partner to Xhaka.

40m is a steal, no way he goes for that amount

Ricky1985

Mendy going for similar, so hard to argue it's not the going rate. As crazy as that is.

GooneriC

Spurs have enough from that sale to make a major signing. They could also sell Dier for big money too.

goon

I have to say if you told me City's transfer dealings would see them spending over 170m on Walker, Silva, Ederson and Mendy I'd have been pretty pleased.

QuincyAbeyie

They desperately needed fullbacks and a GK, so I'm not. Kyle Walker played 33 league matches last season (vs. Trippier's 12), so I'd say he's first choice.

Ricky1985

Spurs will get rinsed on whoever they buy with the money anyway. Everton are reportedly demanding £50m from them for Ross Barkley, for example.

And I agree, Goon, City's haul is nothing scary. Genuinely don't think anyone is doing good business in this League right now.

goon

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
They desperately needed fullbacks and a GK, so I'm not. Kyle Walker played 33 league matches last season (vs. Trippier's 12), so I'd say he's first choice.

Maybe so but Walker, Mendy and Ederson in their starting XI next season certainly isn't going to get any more worried about facing them then I was last season.

He was dropped for Trippier at the back end of last season, particularly in the bigger games.

QuincyAbeyie

I imagine they'll be huge upgrades on what they had before, they were all really bad. Doesn't help us much that they paid a lot for them.

Clrnc

Yeah Walker and Mendy are huge huge upgrades on Clichy and Sagna. Can't imagine the world most expensive defender is now Kyle Walker though. Amazing.

goon

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
I imagine they'll be huge upgrades on what they had before, they were all really bad. Doesn't help us much that they paid a lot for them.

It absolutely does. For one thing it means they have less to spend on central midfielders and defenders, which was their real weak spot last season. And even more relevant, it also means they have less to spend on Sanchez. Of course they could go out and spend half a billion in one summer but it would be unprecedented. The fact that they refused to match PSG's wage offer for Alves suggests to me that they're not willing to do so.

You must rate Walker a lot more than I do, I think he's a bit of a donkey defensively and brainless going forward. Don't know anything about Ederson except that he was one season under his belt. Mendy looks good though.

Ricky1985

Clrnc wrote:
Yeah Walker and Mendy are huge huge upgrades on Clichy and Sagna. Can't imagine the world most expensive defender is now Kyle Walker though. Amazing.

They're still just fullbacks though. And both pretty poor defenders to boot and although explosive going forward, they're both inefficient in the final third. Both a bit meatheaded, for want for a better way to out it!

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