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20/21 Transfer thread.

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  • #32
    Cypher_sounds
    Registered Users Posts: 8,096 ✭✭✭Cypher_sounds


    I wonder will any club save City from Stonesy.


  • #33
    Brian201888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Brian201888


    I'd say Stones will leave, have to keep the homegrown quota up for Europe so Ake replaces that too due to how long he was at Chelsea


  • #34
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Nathan Ake gone to Manchester City for £40 million.

    I don’t see him as the type of player City need but definitely the type of player they would buy.

    Left sided centre back who fits into the homegrown status rules. I don’t know if he is the answer to any of their problems but those 2 things come with a premium in themselves and probably makes him more valuable than Otamendi, Stones (who may be homegrown but is also garbage) and an out of position Fernandinho.

    I’m a little bit surprised they aren’t aggressively pursuing an elite CB. Maybe they still will, because now that they’re getting Fernan Torres on the cheap, they don’t really have a need to sign attacking players. A more reliable LB and CB would have been top of their list IMO.


  • #35
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,363 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Stones would do better outside of England IMO.


  • #36
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    Stones would do better outside of England IMO.

    LOI?


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  • #37
    manual_man
    Registered Users Posts: 15,262 ✭✭✭✭manual_man


    Cypher_sounds wrote: »
    I wonder will any club save City from Stonesy.

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  • #38
    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Hojbjerg to Spurs confirmed. Defensive midfield might not make him a good FPL option but I think he might be a good fit for what Spurs need to be a better team and may make their other players a better option.

    Walker-Peters moving the other way. Not convinced with the Southampton defense but he seemed to play well when I saw a game he played in a few weeks back.

    Ziyech new to Chelsea might also be worth considering.


  • #39
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Willian gone to Arsenal too. I wonder what that does for penalties in that team, you’d guess Auba holds them


  • #40
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Green&Red wrote: »
    Willian gone to Arsenal too. I wonder what that does for penalties in that team, you’d guess Auba holds them

    Yeah, Willian is no penalty veteran.


  • #41
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    CSF wrote: »
    Yeah, Willian is no penalty veteran.

    Hazard has been the one taking them for years for Chelsea

    Dont know if he took them at Shaktar pre Chelsea but you’d imagine Auba will still be first choice no matter


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  • #42
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    Hazard has been the one taking them for years for Chelsea

    Dont know if he took them at Shaktar pre Chelsea but you’d imagine Auba will still be first choice no matter

    Exactly that


  • #43
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    macraignil wrote: »
    Walker-Peters moving the other way. Not convinced with the Southampton defense but he seemed to play well when I saw a game he played in a few weeks back.

    They have just signed Mohammed Salisu from Real Valladolid for almost 11 million quid. He's apparently one of the best up-and-coming young centre-backs in world football.

    Now I'm not saying he's going to turn out like Van Dijk but he's very highly-rated in Spain and should bolster their defence next season.


  • #44
    2nd Row Donkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,636 ✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    macraignil wrote:
    Hojbjerg to Spurs confirmed. Defensive midfield might not make him a good FPL option but I think he might be a good fit for what Spurs need to be a better team and may make their other players a better option.

    Might be an option in the sky sports version were points are awarded for passes, tackles and intercepts. I read a stat yesterday that Hojberg has the most ball recoveries or something like that in the league last season.


  • #45
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    Willian to Arsenal has now been confirmed.


  • #46
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,363 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Scorpion Sting wrote: »
    Willian to Arsenal has now been confirmed.

    A player I've spent the last 5 years avoiding moving to a team I've spent the last 5 years avoiding


  • #47
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    Shedite27 wrote: »
    A player I've spent the last 5 years avoiding moving to a team I've spent the last 5 years avoiding

    So you haven't had Sanchez and Auba for spells in the last 5 years?


  • #48
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,363 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    Scorpion Sting wrote: »
    So you haven't had Sanchez and Auba for spells in the last 5 years?

    I've had Danny Ceballos a lot more recent than that unfortunately! Willian to Arsenal just sounds like a awful mix


  • #49
    shineon23
    Registered Users Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭shineon23


    Ramsdale set to rejoin Sheffield United for 18.5 million :O

    Would love him to be 4.5, but expecting 5.0 :(

    'Bournemouth accept £18.5m Sheff Utd bid for Ramsdale'

    https://www.skysports.com/share/12049786


  • #50
    shineon23
    Registered Users Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭shineon23


    Rumours going round that Southampton are interested in Jack Butland with Angus Gunn going in the opposite direction.

    https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jack-butland-stoke-city-southampton-4443678


  • #51
    extra gravy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Looks like Chilwell heading to Chelsea. Really don't like the look of that Leicester defence, Evans suspended as well.


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  • #52
    Fitz*
    Registered Users Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    Button looks like he is leaving Brighton.

    https://twitter.com/JPercyTelegraph/status/1297853974272454656?s=19


  • #53
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Fitz* wrote: »
    Button looks like he is leaving Brighton.

    https://twitter.com/JPercyTelegraph/status/1297853974272454656?s=19

    That’s great news for those of us on Johnstone


  • #54
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Green&Red wrote: »
    That’s great news for those of us on Johnstone
    Sell that one to me. I know very little about West Brom, but it would be a handy 8.5 combo if the Brighton one is disintegrating.


  • #55
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    Thiago Silva due to have a medical at Chelsea on Thursday.


  • #56
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    Anyone to hazard a guess at Messi prize if he came? 12-13M?


  • #57
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Shanotheslayer wrote: »
    Anyone to hazard a guess at Messi prize if he came? 12-13M?

    I’d say they would go one higher than they’ve gone before so 13.5 is it? It would certainly make the captaincy side of the game crazy boring.


  • #58
    Scorpion Sting
    Registered Users Posts: 42,079 ✭✭✭✭Scorpion Sting


    CSF wrote: »
    I’d say they would go one higher than they’ve gone before so 13.5 is it? It would certainly make the captaincy side of the game crazy boring.

    Ah yeah but can he do it on a cold wet Tuesday night in Sto ... eh I mean Sheffield?


  • #59
    extra gravy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,410 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Scorpion Sting wrote: »
    Thiago Silva due to have a medical at Chelsea on Thursday.

    He's 36 now, of course he has the experience but will he have the pace to cope with the PL. Think they needed to go all to buy a top young CB, Silva is very underwhelming imo.


  • #60
    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    CSF wrote: »
    I’d say they would go one higher than they’ve gone before so 13.5 is it? It would certainly make the captaincy side of the game crazy boring.

    It would be a nightmare. You literally have to get him even you don't want to cos so many would buy him in. Can't see him going to England to be honest


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  • #61
    CSF
    Registered Users Posts: 32,810 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    jamesbere wrote: »
    It would be a nightmare. You literally have to get him even you don't want to cos so many would buy him in. Can't see him going to England to be honest

    I think City could happen. I’d love him to go to Inter and make Serie A next year super interesting though.


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