[The Athletic] Sokratis edging towards an exit

Happy ending in Transfer in Fenerbahçe !! Sokratis chose Fenerbahçe

https://sevdamizbesiktas.net/fenerbahce/21086/transferde-memnun-son-sokratis-fenerbahceyi-secti-sevdamiz-fenerbahce/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Papa close to leaving as well.

Fiorentina working to find an agreement with Arsenal for the loan with obligation to buy for Lucas Torreira.

https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/sport/calcio/torreira-e-caicedo-mosse-d-oro-1.5876899

Rumours that Torreira will join Fiorentina this january, Atletico are ok with terminating the loan deal, strange one.

Would be a decent January, getting rid of Kola, Sokratis, Torreira. Also saving the wages from Saliba, might open up for a move or two.

Why does a Besiktas website have transfer news about Fenerbahce transfers?

HomeSteak wrote:

[The Athletic] Sokratis edging towards an exit

Happy ending in Transfer in Fenerbahçe !! Sokratis chose Fenerbahçe

https://sevdamizbesiktas.net/fenerbahce/21086/transferde-memnun-son-sokratis-fenerbahceyi-secti-sevdamiz-fenerbahce/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Papa close to leaving as well.

Fiorentina working to find an agreement with Arsenal for the loan with obligation to buy for Lucas Torreira.

https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/sport/calcio/torreira-e-caicedo-mosse-d-oro-1.5876899

Rumours that Torreira will join Fiorentina this january, Atletico are ok with terminating the loan deal, strange one.

Would be a decent January, getting rid of Kola, Sokratis, Torreira. Also saving the wages from Saliba, might open up for a move or two.

Thanks Homesteak.

All of the above will be great, Romano giving me hope that we may even shift Ozil.

jones wrote:

Why does a Besiktas website have transfer news about Fenerbahce transfers?

Haha Besiktas is the name of an area in Istanbul so the name is not just exclusive to the football club.

Ray wrote:

More than just a destroyer.

Yeah, that's a nice comp right there. 

Is it too much to ask to have two mobile, gifted midfielders in our team? Can't stand watching Xhaka/Ceballos struggle to cover the ptitch, and El Neny struggle to provide that touch of class to elevate us.

Bissouma's an interesting player. Could he play a role like Wijnaldum for Liverpool, maybe?

So many of those highlights are against Arsenal players. They should also include shots of him flipping them for real.

It reminds me of when Spurs had that midfield of Wanyama-Dembele under Poch.

Besiktas really want Elneny back, 7m deal. But media is reporting that Arteta view him as a key player and is not for sale.

Elneny is fine as a squad player just not as starter. At this, it probably wouldn't make much sense unless we were going to promote a Willock or an Azeez.

Not sure I'd be so fast to cast out El Neny.

In my mind he's a far better fit for Partey than Xhaka or Ceballos.

Other club transfer news: Alaba to Madrid reportedly done deal, Khedira to Everton close

Don Pacifico wrote:

Elneny is fine as a squad player just not as starter. At this, it probably wouldn't make much sense unless we were going to promote a Willock or an Azeez.

How many Azeez’s do we have?

We're so light in midfield that it's hard to sell without buying another on top of the one we already need.

MistaT wrote:

Not sure I'd be so fast to cast out El Neny.

In my mind he's a far better fit for Partey than Xhaka or Ceballos.

AMN or Willock as B2B with Partey taking the more defensive responsibility?

Push them to £25m
He’s the leading scorer for England kids. And as Sam Allardyce now knows, getting European talent is going to become harder and more expensive under Brexit. So gouge them.

Anzac wrote:
MistaT wrote:

Not sure I'd be so fast to cast out El Neny.

In my mind he's a far better fit for Partey than Xhaka or Ceballos.

AMN or Willock as B2B with Partey taking the more defensive responsibility?

I think AMN would be an interesting partner for Partey, but it's clear he won't get CM minutes here.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Houseboat talk that Wolves want to sign Nketiah £15/20m

AMN and nketiah for £50m or fuck off wolves.

I’d steer well clear...

Mia San Mia. Fuckouttahere. Sounds like a $2 Més Que Un Club and you know what I think of them.

Claudius wrote:

Mia San Mia. Fuckouttahere. Sounds like a $2 Més Que Un Club and you know what I think of them.

Spot on.

Imagine “announcing” that you do not want a player, and he misses the Mia San Mia attitude😆

You have to understand mia san mia means "we are we" in Bavaria caveman lingo. This is actually very thought and respectful to say they pass on Brandt because he would look out of place next to fine examples of the Herrenrasse such as this

Coombs wrote:

We're so light in midfield that it's hard to sell without buying another on top of the one we already need.

Buy 1 now to start, keep them all as back up and sell in the summer ideally. However we've seen its difficult to move players on when we want. We might need to just sell Elneny now while there is interest and money on the table.

Yea but a couple of injuries and we'd be fucked. Not to mention Arteta and Edu would be slaughtered online.

Yeah, we're bloated in a lot of areas but centre mid definitely isn't one of them. No one is going to pay anything interesting for Elneny anyway, especially the Turkish clubs, it would probably cost us more to loan someone in as cover.

We aren't bloated in centre mid but the players we have are all shit apart from Partey. Makes sense to get rid if possible.

Papa is as good as gone, some noise about Ozil to Fener this month..but that would be to good to be true.

Best way to get rid of Ozil is to clear out his benchwarmer friends. The prospect of a lonely 6 months without friends to laugh at his jokes will surely push him away

I've given up on selling Özil a long time ago. If we manage to give him away it will still be a miracle.

I see a loan to Juve mentioned. I can see the appeal. Lots of great players on that squad. If he’s still interested in playing football a chance to brand himself as something more than a Turkish League part timer

Claudius wrote:

I see a loan to Juve mentioned. I can see the appeal. Lots of great players on that squad. If he’s still interested in playing football a chance to brand himself as something more than a Turkish League part timer

Current talk re Ozil is that DC United have been in contact with him and are prepared to include expansions of his fashion range and coffee business as part of the deal.

jones wrote:

You have to understand mia san mia means "we are we" in Bavaria caveman lingo. This is actually very thought and respectful to say they pass on Brandt because he would look out of place next to fine examples of the Herrenrasse such as this

Fits with what I understand their position to be as being the best representation of Germanic talent on and off the pitch, and their continuity of former players through their football executive provides further continuity of this.

Plenty of Alpha males type mentality binding together.