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  • Other clubs transfer thread summer 2019 edition (Official: Madrid sign Hazard)

Joao Felix agreed a 5 year contract with Atleti, player will be unveiled this week.

Everton agree 22m fee for Gomes.

Hummels also completed his move back to Dortmund. Weird one that, basically Dortmund gave Bayern the players they need during their peak and then get them back when they are old and dusted. Next should be Lewandowski in 1 or 2 years time.

Feels like Ndombele is definitely moving this summer. Hope it’s to RM and not to MU or TH.

BWoolley wrote:

Feels like Ndombele is definitely moving this summer. Hope it’s to RM and not to MU or TH.

Anywhere other than the PL please.

Anzac wrote:
BWoolley wrote:

Feels like Ndombele is definitely moving this summer. Hope it’s to RM and not to MU or TH.

Anywhere other than the PL please.

Won’t be Juve if they have Ramsey and Rabiot for free. They’ll be laughing. What a fucking summer.

Claudius wrote:
Anzac wrote:

Anywhere other than the PL please.

Won’t be Juve if they have Ramsey and Rabiot for free. They’ll be laughing. What a fucking summer.

They behave embarrassingly for an elite club. Was going to call them Poundland cunts but even that isn't accurate!

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote:
Claudius wrote:

Won’t be Juve if they have Ramsey and Rabiot for free. They’ll be laughing. What a fucking summer.

They behave embarrassingly for an elite club. Was going to call them Poundland cunts but even that isn't accurate!

Bosman opened up this avenue for them to manage their resources more efficiently. Pogba, Ramsey, Pirlo, Coman, Alves, Rabiot. Those are all players who could've come to Arsenal and in some cases even left Arsenal. Except we are asleep at the wheel. THAT is embarrassing. 

Claudius wrote:
Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote:

They behave embarrassingly for an elite club. Was going to call them Poundland cunts but even that isn't accurate!

Bosman opened up this avenue for them to manage their resources more efficiently. Pogba, Ramsey, Pirlo, Coman, Alves, Rabiot. Those are all players who could've come to Arsenal and in some cases even left Arsenal. Except we are asleep at the wheel. THAT is embarrassing. 

They're going to Juve to win things

Romeo Agresti [very reliable for Juve] on the midfield situation at Juve: Rabiot very close to signing with Juve, deal could be done this weekend and would not rule out a Pogba or Milinkovic-Savic transfer. Khedira and Matuidi could be sold as they do not fit Sarri's style of play.

We should be all over this. Can finally get Khedira in here.... 😆 . Nah, but we should get Matuidi if he is sold.

Maybe they'd sell us that Welsh lad they've got, probably cost upwards of £40m though

With the salary he'd demand and him getting injured all the time, I don't think this is a transfer we should look into.

JazzG wrote:
Claudius wrote:

Barca allegedly say £94m + £35m if Pool want the real Dembele

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/barcelona-name-price-liverpool-transfer-16541425
Long-winded article

Rumours of them trying to get PSG to do a swap deal with Dembele + cash for Neymar.

Now that rumour has progressed to Coutinho + €100m for Neymar.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/neymar-transfer-barcelona-make-shock-16620706

That's a bad deal for PSG.

Juve throwing their hat into the de ligt sweepstakes

Some squad Juve are putting together.
Bayern Munich-style domination on steroids.
They may as well give them the next 3 Serie A titles right now.

Matthijs de Ligt decides to sign for Juventus from Ajax
Fee expected to be in region of £62m, with Mino Raiola asking Juve to make De Ligt their second-highest-paid player
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12961/11746809/matthijs-de-ligt-decides-to-sign-for-juventus-from-ajax

Not sure how reliable that skysports article is, these days just put up any ol rumour.

As for Juve, yes they're building a great squad. Surprised they went for Sarri though, his style is a bit repetitive and while easy on the eye doesn't strike me as the coach who will win them the CL. I think that is what the club desperately want now, nobody close domestically but keep falling just short in Europe.

Too right about skysports but remember they are Murdoch owned so the truth is not their thing.
Look at this rubbish they are apparently reporting

As if we have £50m to waste on a Newcastle flop.

In newspapers’ defense, transfers have never been the place to apply best practice in checking sources and facts. About the only rule you can apply is to not openly fabricate a rumour. Beyond that everything is fair game if you see a player, one of his agents, and a club involved in the story.

Same would be amazing for us. Shame we have the owner we do.

If true, his character goes right up in my estimation.
Uli Hoéness, urgh!

It detracts nothing from his character, but his aversion towards Bayern surely has more to do with the fact that he's a Schalke product and fan.

Klaus wrote:

It detracts nothing from his character, but his aversion towards Bayern surely has more to do with the fact that he's a Schalke product and fan.

Like this guy?

Exactly 😆

Neuer is so vile that even the Bayern fans despise him. He's got some kind of agreement with their ultras, which was a condition for him moving there, that he's not allowed to kiss the badge, celebrate in front of them, etc.

Gunner89 wrote:
Klaus wrote:

It detracts nothing from his character, but his aversion towards Bayern surely has more to do with the fact that he's a Schalke product and fan.

Like this guy?

😆

Love it

Schalke and Bayern dont even have any special kind of rivalry like the former with Dortmund or the latter with Nürnberg, it's basically just Neuer and the arrogant Bayern brass who caused the whole situation between him and the fan groups

We need an overhaul.

I am sick watching this unfold in front of us. Infuriating

I’m not convinced by Ndombele. Clearly has a fair amount of talent but I don’t think he’s elite

Been fearing this news all summer. He must not end up there.

Reminds me of Appiah.

Clearly athletic but he’ll turnover the ball so much.

i was just coming in to post that i'd been hearing murmurings about ndombele going there, and then i see that

just like you'd think there would be a forest of top clubs preventing the shit from reaching a CL final, you'd think there'd be a long queue of teams wanting ndombele. but no, it looks like they'll get him

we should've signed our nbombele in the summer of 2013, but we blew our stack on a status symbol. the doddering arsene and limp dick ivan era really puts what spurs and liverpool have done into perspective

Really pissed off if they get him. You just know he'll end up tearing it up for them and end up leaving to go Madrid or somewhere else for over 100m making the signing really a no brainer. Ndombele is pretty much the complete midfielder and the one player I would have blown our whole kitty on to sign.

We have a 40 million pounds transfer war chest.

I refuse to live in a world where Spurs have Ndombele and we've got Xhaka entering his 4th year in our midfield.

Exactly. For only 65m as well? This is nuts if we aren't involved in this signing. Ignoring his on field contributions for a second, just the sell on value in a few years alone would be worth it.

Klaus wrote:

I refuse to live in a world where Spurs have Ndombele and we've got Xhaka entering his 4th year in our midfield.

This is it. I actually don't give a crap who they buy if we're buying talents like Tierney, Saliba and Szoboszlai, but if we're still having to suffer Xhaka (and Mustafi, Mkhitaryan etc.) next season whilst they have Ndombele then that's a different thing entirely.

We can't buy every good player that comes on the market, but that's just taking the piss.

I saw that OL were interested in Thiago Mendes from Lille, but they want him to replace Toussart instead of Ndombele. I think Mendes is a player we should look at, he was one of the best CM's in Ligue 1 last season.