Summer transfer thread 2022

Barca are just kicking the can down the road to the next president. They should be spending a few years in austerity then building again. Kounde aside I don't think they have done great business, the German league is awful lewa won't be half the player in Spain.

I'm not sure how true it is, but I read that the TV rights for Barca attributed to 5% of their pre-COVID income. So really, selling off those rights is not going to affect them too much long term as they will still have a lot of income coming in. They are not as reliant on TV income as the PL clubs for example. Happy to be corrected here.

Barca finished 2nd last season and have better players now. I would expect them to finish top 4 in Spain again this season, maybe even win something. So they should have CL money coming in for 2 more seasons. Their plan is probably reliant on this money coming in every year, along with the Camp Nou being open full time again.

They have some great young players coming through like Gavi, Pedri, Fati etc. So that should help in terms of not 'needing' to buy big in these areas. But then they go and buy older players for large money like Lewandowski and you wonder is it all actually going to go tits up either way,

FIFPRO need to take a stand on Barcelonas shenanigans trying to bully players. Leaking information to the media to turn fans against players, claiming illegality of contracts among other various tactics to avoid paying players what their owed - especially when they’re very publicly spending tens of millions on new players.

I agree their business hasn’t been great either. Lewandowski has been stellar but he’s about to turn 34 and has a contract he just wouldn’t get at another top club. You can easily see the same tactics being used on him in a year or so to boot him out if they find a new forward they want. Raphinha is good but hasn’t played under that pressure before so could go either way. I kind of hope it all goes to shít for them, they’re acting like they’re above the rules.

West Ham interested in signing Depay according to the Guardian. Seems like they sign an expensive winger/attacker every summer that flops so he could be next!

Moyes say they aren't

He did say the made an offer for Nunes who turned them down

Forrest supposedly signing Dennis from Waford and Swiss midfielder Freuler

I think they will stay up.

Have you a link to Madrid selling all their TV rights?

Edit: it's ok, I found it. It was in 2006, that's why I didn't remember it.

From what I'm reading , they sold the rights for 2006-2013. So do they own all the rights again?

Apparently Everton rejected a £42m bid for Gordon.

Reports this afternoon that Man U have finally given up on de Jong and are now preparing a £42m bid for Neves.

Wolves look like they are signing his replacement in Nunes from Sporting for £38m.

I always thought he was a very soild preimer league midfielder who didn't reach the early expectations, However at 25 if he found the right manager and coach for a consistant amount of time I think he could do a really good job for a team.

Wolves in ther own right have been a bit of a basket case of a club themselves with the model they running buying all these Portuguese players in the buy to sell model they maybe held onto Neves a bit to long.

Rabiot to Man U deal stalling over his wage demands

Fofana tells Leicester he wants out and wants to join Chelsea.

De Jong not happening

Rabiot not happening now and Casemiro the next name up as a target.

Why would leave the current La Liga and European Champions with a World Cup coming to join Man U

Who is in charge of signings at United? At other clubs, rightly or wrongly, the transfer fee is the final thing to be sorted, wages etc are all sorted before even bidding. Amateur hour. Or is it decade?