Summer 2015 Transfer Window General Discussion

Just a little Samba

Rami to Seville for €3.5million is a done deal according to Sevilla's official website.

Seems to be a very small transfer fee but Milan got him on a free so it's not like they lose out on that front.

Has to be tied in with the Bacca deal I reckon.

Corholio

glued wrote: »

Nani is a good player. Gets way too much slack and he's worth a lot more than £3M. Pity he had a string of managers who p1ssed him about. By far Sporting's best player this year.

Terrible business by United.

While £3m sounds quite low, it certainly wasn't all the managers fault that he used to be in and out of the team. I'm not a United fan, but I watched far too many games he played that he underperformed and they passed him by.

Just a little Samba

glued wrote: »

Nani is a good player. Gets way too much slack and he's worth a lot more than £3M. Pity he had a string of managers who p1ssed him about. By far Sporting's best player this year.

Terrible business by United.

I was actually more impressed by Joao Mario abd Carlos Mane when I saw Sporting last year, but maybe that's because they were more unknown quantities than Nani.

Lord TSC

Nani had a great season three seasons gaol he then was poor in Fergie's last year, but somehow got a bumper contract from Moyes who seemed desperate to hold down everyone he could. He did very little during that year too.

So you have a player who the club wants rid of, who has crazy wage demands and who, by all accounts, is not really in demand, with only relatively smaller teams after him.

I would imagine 3m was the best we could get in a deal where we also don't have to contribute towards his wages.

Winston Payne

Lord TSC wrote: »

Nani had a great season three seasons gaol he then was poor in Fergie's last year

Well, that's not true.

Lord TSC

Winston Payne wrote: »

Well, that's not true.

Weirdly, his wiki page seems to be missing anything about the 2012/2013 season, but then, he only managed 15 starts and six sub appearances, and three goals and six assists. Disregarding my memories of the season, stats wise, it looks like he missed more of the season than he played.

Winston Payne

Lord TSC wrote: »

Weirdly, his wiki page seems to be missing anything about the 2012/2013 season, but then, he only managed 15 starts and six sub appearances, and three goals and six assists. Disregarding my memories of the season, stats wise, it looks like he missed more of the season than he played.

Nine goals contributed out of twenty one appearances isn't my definition of poor. SAF messed him around major time in his last season, then bizarrely threw him in for some big games where he played well. His injuries didn't help.

Paully D

Probably more bollocks, but:

https://twitter.com/SkySports_Keith/status/616579952692043776

Giggsy11

Milan announced signing for Carlos Bacca.

AC Milan ‏@acmilan 2m2 minutes ago View translation

Accordo raggiunto con il @SevillaFC per il trasferimento di @carlos7bacca, condizionato al superamento delle visite mediche.
#weareacmilan

Just a little Samba

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Milan announced signing for Carlos Bacca.

AC Milan ‏@acmilan 2m2 minutes ago View translation

Jose Mauri's agent has announced that he will join Milan this week as well. And they have bids in for a few young centre backs, Milan throwing the money around this summer.

inforfun

Paully D wrote: »

Probably more bollocks, but:

https://twitter.com/SkySports_Keith/status/616579952692043776

Read about Lens in the Dutch papers too.
He wants out of there.
And Advocaat did work at Zenith in the past so wouldnt put that in the rubbish bin so quick either

Just a little Samba

Milan have a pre contract agreement with Luiz Adriano, his contract ends in.December and he's agreed to join Milan on a free in January.

Milan are now negotiating with Shakhtar to try and get him this summer instead of waiting.

Bacca, El Shaarawy, Menez, Cerci, Niang, Adriano.

Not a bad bunch to pick an attack from.

kronsington

Just a little Samba wrote: »

Milan have a pre contract agreement with Luiz Adriano, his contract ends in.December and he's agreed to join Milan on a free in January.

Milan are now negotiating with Shakhtar to try and get him this summer instead of waiting.

Bacca, El Shaarawy, Menez, Cerci, Niang, Adriano.

Not a bad bunch to pick an attack from.

Have they made any defensive/midfield signings of note this summer? Good to see Inter and AC back in for top players again

Just a little Samba

kronsington wrote: »

Have they made any defensive/midfield signings of note this summer? Good to see Inter and AC back in for top players again

De Jong renewed, which was a big boost to them. Jose Mauri is a traditional midfield engine type player who can throw himself about, Poli is pretty good sitting in front of the back four breaking up play as well and I'd expect him to play in the middle more this seasons instead of on the wing or at right full.

Bertolacci can play anywhere in midfield as well.

Just a little Samba

Luiz Adriano to Milan on a 5 year contract. I'd imagine once the pre-contract was signed earlier today Shakhtar had no choice but accept a nominal bid from Milan to stop from losing him for nothing in a few months anyway.

Paully D

Sunderland agree deal for Celtic's Adam Matthews. £2m is the reported fee.

inforfun

Yevhen Konoplyanka signed by Sevilla.

death1234567

Godot. wrote: »

All transfer restrictions lifted on PSG! A chained beast that is now going to wreck havoc!

https://twitter.com/Jon_LeGossip/status/616285519010492416

I assume the same will apply to Man City too. What a farce.

Harry Palmr

City are ripping into the market with the £2m transfer of some guy from the Super Lig

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/03/enes-unal-manchester-city-medical-bursaspor

Okay he's only 18!

ArtyM

Paully D wrote: »

Sunderland agree deal for Celtic's Adam Matthews. £2m is the reported fee.

I dont know where to get summary figures but Sunderland must have one of the highest player transfer numbers of any team in any league.
Would love to compare their figures over the last decade.

inforfun

ArtyM wrote: »

I dont know where to get summary figures but Sunderland must have one of the highest player transfer numbers of any team in any league.
Would love to compare their figures over the last decade.

Here

Start clicking the years.

ArtyM

inforfun wrote: »

Here

Start clicking the years.

Rough count:
2010 - 2014

In: 12/14/12/27/27
Out: 21/27/31/23/48

snowblind

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Can everyone stop with the Pogba talk now.

Marotta: "Barca offered us 80 million for Pogba but we don't want to sell him."

Edit:

At least until next summer....
http://www.sport-english.com/en/news/barca/agreement-place-for-barcelona-sign-paul-pogba-for-the-2016-17-season-4320625

No deal for next summer in place either...

Barcelona were rejected by Juventus for Paul Pogba, but international sporting director Ariedo Braida teases ‘it doesn’t end here’.

The Blaugrana had an €80m bid for the Frenchman turned down this week, a sequence of events which Presidential candidate Joan Laporta called ‘a failure’.

“My good friend [Juventus general manager Giuseppe] Marotta officially turned down our offer,” Braida told Gazzetta dello Sport.

“However, it doesn’t end here. First there are the club elections, and then…”

http://www.football-italia.net/68630/braida-%E2%80%98not-over-pogba%E2%80%99

Crann na Beatha

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inforfun

After the Luiz transfer and the money involved i read a remark that it almost looks like the rich owners of clubs, use these clubs for money laundering.
Now Falcao to Chelsea.
I more and more start to believe there is something to that money laundering theory.

Havent they watched last season and the Copa America?

inforfun

inforfun wrote: »

After the Luiz transfer and the money involved i read a remark that it almost looks like the rich owners of clubs, use these clubs for money laundering.
Now Falcao to Chelsea.
I more and more start to believe there is something to that money laundering theory.

Havent they watched last season and the Copa America?

The owners of Chelsea and City are fairly decent guys though right?

JPA

inforfun wrote: »

After the Luiz transfer and the money involved i read a remark that it almost looks like the rich owners of clubs, use these clubs for money laundering.
Now Falcao to Chelsea.
I more and more start to believe there is something to that money laundering theory.

Havent they watched last season and the Copa America?

Sure look who owns Monaco, look who's Falcao's agent.

Paully D

ArtyM wrote: »

I dont know where to get summary figures but Sunderland must have one of the highest player transfer numbers of any team in any league.
Would love to compare their figures over the last decade.

It is absolutely ridiculous. We have to have spent more than all but the usual suspects since we returned to the Premier League in 2007 (well over £200m) and have never pushed on.

Instead of adding 2 or 3 quality players each offseason, it's a constant rebuild. That's why the club were determined to go the Director of Football route but the time to judge that is in 3-5 years. I don't envisage it being all that successful however.

ionadnapóca

inforfun wrote: »

Yevhen Konoplyanka signed by Sevilla.

Good signing for Sevilla. They will also need a serious Centre Forward to replace Bacca.
Disappointed that Dnipro did not get any fee from the transfer. He is a youth team graduate.

Skylinehead

ionadnapokot wrote: »

Good signing for Sevilla. They will also need a serious Centre Forward to replace Bacca.
Disappointed that Dnipro did not get any fee from the transfer. He is a youth team graduate.

You can blame that on Dnipro's owner.