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Other Clubs Transfers Gossip 2023

JazzG

Courtois has done his ACL, Madrid will be moving for a GK. De Gea probably the ideal one for them...

Ricky1985

Oh jeez, that'a a huge blow for them. De Gea is horrible.

Thankfully, Raya has signed on the dotted line already!

Sicario2 - Tier 1

Ricky1985

Let’s hope Raya signed. Don’t want a Willian situation here!

Clrnc

De Gea is good for them since they don't play out from the back much under Ancelotti. Just need a shot stopper

Qwiss

Clrnc dunno if you see DeGeas attempts at stopping shots last season.

Ricky1985

Clrnc

There's a reason it's mid-August and no one has touched him with a bargepole. He's a dreadful goalkeeper, and has been for a very long time, if not always (great reflexes does not make a top GK!).

Qwiss

KingslandBarge Would be annoying to see someone like Vlahovic up front for them.

Really? I think I'd quite enjoy that, he's miles off Kane.

KingslandBarge

Qwiss he seems like he'd be a handful, pain in the ass aggression-setter, thats all.

Clrnc

Ricky1985 He's past his best but won't say he is dreadful tbh. People are not interested in him due to the wage he demands (300k or so)

QuincyAbeyie

Of course not always.

Ricky1985

QuincyAbeyie

Even at his best, I always thought he was a terrible all-round goalkeeper, albeit for a time, an elite shot-stopper.

The guy doesn't have a clue how to catch a cross, command his box, or organise a defence. He's one of worst "top" keepers in that regard I've come across in my time watching football. That's without mentioning his truly awful distribution and complete inability to play as a front-footed sweeper keeper, but these are more modern requirements and not as important as the other stuff I mentioned.

I have always used De Gea as a barometer to gauge how much I reckon a football fan I come across knows about goalkeeping! 🙃

QuincyAbeyie

Ricky1985 an elite-shot stopper (prime De Gea) with De Gea's faults isn't a "dreadful goalkeeper", that's all I was replying to. There are plenty of ways to describe someone between "top GK" and "dreadful".

To use your example that there's a reason nobody is touching him with a bargepole, there's also a reason why Real Madrid tried to sign him as their new goalkeeper when he was actually good.

Clrnc

Haha 101m bid rejected.

City is dead serious about Paqueta it seems

goon

Clrnc

Wasn't he pretty underwhelming for West Ham? Where did they get that sort of fee from?

Ricky1985

Maybe Guardiola's looked at Kovacic and realised there's no way he can make a Gundogan out of him. Otherwise, you'd have to wonder why on earth they'd leave it until now to move on Paqueta? Really poor business by them.

Burnwinter

Ricky1985 I think the Saudi league pulling in a number of "legacy" Premier League midfielders has inflated some of these deals dramatically. We did quite well getting a lot of business done early in this window as the high fee for Rice is starting to look very rational in this context.

Ricky1985

Qwiss

I remember the physio guy on here (who's name, to my shame, is escaping me right now! Wait, is it... Speedy?), saying of Chamberlain's MCL knee injuries, of which I think he had at least two, that one more and his career was in serious jeopardy, and then immediately after he joined Liverpool it was a proper disaster for him because he tore his ACL.

Qwiss

goon he took a while to adapt, was pretty excellent, as good as Rice, over the latter half of the season. He's a good player but I'm not sure he's at the level of Bilva, Gundogan, etc I guess we'll see. I think City will get more and more reliant on Haaland as time goes on, I reckon KDB will play less games this year than last, Peps been minding him for a while.

KingslandBarge

Big L for City, losing out on Rice and crawling back for Paqueta. Though likely a different kind of motivation, potentially part of the refresh plan as KdB/Bernardo phase out.

West Ham meanwhile losing Scamacca, Rice and Paqueta after that early summer glory with not major acquisition. Yikes. Edit: sounds like a few are inbound v. soon

lorddulaarsenal

They should go for Smith Rowe

Bryant

well seems like this is finally happening

Panda

Bryant Very good. The right choice of course.

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