when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

Oh and Utd have bid £70m for Harry Maguire

oof

wouldnt get in Ireland team

ceballos hardly come to us in good attitude imo

loan tho. hmmph.

ndombellllllleeeeeeee

goodbye Helder Costa, i for one will miss you ;_;

Leeds 😅

he deserved better but i'm sure he'll enjoy working for Bielsa

spanish media (fwtw) claim mpappe transfer request

mpappe roach

Man city sign Rodri for 62m making him the second most expensive Welshman ever

false giggs economy

26.5m for tyrone mings

No seriously

some pissed up druggy from the local park who can still pass a beep test and kick a ball is worth at least 50 grand these days.

Maybe Villa thought they were buying an ancient dynastic vase and were sent a footballer instead.

lool!

he's the quality of player mick mccarthy would have got for a few hundred grand and a bag of cones and balls 10 years back!

and then never play him cos he didn't run enough laps of the pitch one day in training

"Played 23 times in 4 years"

If Villa were actually interested in Kongolo as reported, then seriously he is literately a £50 million player at least at this valuation of talent.

26.5m for tyrone mings

No seriously

LOL, insanity.

it's probably really 18m and loads of silly extras of which most won't ever be paid, but still absolute insanity.

https://pics.me.me/the-man-who-does-more-than-he-is-paid-for-2354123.png

A meme from the instagram account of one of our players who has made 7 appearances in 2 and a half years and done next to fuck all!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/ca/08/bcca0825ecb4652f0e468d413ab42ef0.jpg

at least he followed it up with something also suitably sibylline and enigmatic tbf!

at the risk of exposing myself to the ridicule of the masses...

Tyrone Mings was fucking fantastic for us in the second half of last season and was a massive factor in that ridiculous winning streak that took us from mid-table into the playoffs. he is a total fan fave already and i'm glad we've got him on a permanent deal. i mean probably we are massively overpaying but when Man Utd are talking about spending 70m on Harry Maguire or whatever the figure is being quoted atm i don't really care, what even is money

Do you rate Tuanzebe, Windsor?

Tyrone is a Big Character. He is steadfastly, unwaveringly Up For It. He Loves It.

He'll probably also be picking up some straight reds for abysmal last ditch interventions during 6-0 defeats to ooh, most of the top 8

I think Villa will go back down, because they have to pretty much buy a new team, and they seem to be taking lots of punts on unproven players to facilitate it. Maybe they'll sign loads of players with Premier League experience later in the window idk, but dropping 20mil on Tyrone doesn't suggest they're on some ultra-patient 5d chess bargain hunting

The Guardian piece on Maguire today seemed pretty OTM, you can imagine a Guardiola or a Klopp or a Poch turning him into a real £70m player but the idea of Solskjaer doing that?

aside from it defeating the purpose to pay 70m for a player you have to then turn into a 70m player

Has Pep improved Stones’ defending? Has Poch improved anyone’s defending? Idk.

Maguire has been consistently good enough over the last two years to suggest he doesn’t need to get that much better to be a regular starter in a top 4 defence. £70m seems about the going rate. West Ham are valuing Issa Diop at £5m more.

£70m seems about the going rate.

For the English market, yes. For anyone outside it seems bonkers. Hell, Juve and Ajax are still bickering about De Ligt (for somewhere between 55-70m, in euros iirc). Maguire going for £70m is insane all over the world, except in England. I get why, up to a degree (file under: homegrown etc). Just wondering how many Tyrone Mings and Maguires it takes till England corrects, or is forced to correct, this hyperinflation. Not anytime soon, not with this tv dough, I reckon.

a 19-year-old with one season under his belt just went for €126m

it's mental all over

poch improved walker and vertonghen defensively

You know the market is as it should be when you see Feyenoord signing one Liam Kelly from Reading on a free and hailing him like the second coming of the lord jesus christ tbf

On topic: I don't understand why ManC or Liverpool or ManU hesitate to fork out 100m for De Ligt, when they seem all to keen to waste their money on filler like Stones and Maguire etc.

xp Poch arguably improved Vertongen, but not defensively imo

well he'd have to want to go there in the first place

De Ligt is proving he's the anti Frenkie 'Barca has always been my dream club so I'm going there' de Jong. He's about the money, coupled with a club w/ some prospects, true. So that rules out ManU. ManC and Liverpool still very much asleep imo.

seems like an unnecessary extravagance for Liverpool

City, I guess, but they can't spend 50m+ on a centre back every season

Liverpool's defence could be immense with a Van Dijk/De Ligt center, and relegate trash like Lovre/Gomez/Matip to the bench. I don't think that's too extravagant. For City, perhaps.

Gomez was great first half of the season and matip was excellent in the second half of the season so this 'trash' talk is hysterical nonsense.

yeh thought gomez looked promising

Calling Gomez trash is just rude and ignorant. And Matip was superb when he stepped in, really upped his game. He was the equal of Virgil in several games

lol howay the fucking Magpies on suicide watch when Brucey is announced!

yeah wtf Gomez and Matip are not trash. ridiculous statment.

FWIW I think Pep has improved even Stones although not anywhere near to the level he should be. FWIW Maguire is already better than Stones ever was but is likely to be brutally exposed with a United midfield that's starting to look like it'll be very short of anyone that can tackle.

our midfield as it stands (and minus, presumably, Pogba) is laughably poor in every respect

Really quite excited at the idea of Newcastle replacing Rafa with Steve Bruce. Has any other club managed to collect all four of McClaren, Allardyce, Bruce and Pards?

Maguire is much better than his detractors claim. Newcastle is lol.

Bit o' hyperbole, be cool lads.

all good

is trippier even gonna start this season? i've somehow ended up with him in our draft we've got going

There have been rumours for months he's going to Napoli. The lure of playing alongside Vlad Chiriches must be strong.

thats a rumour that time and repetition have made no less bizarre

hes our best rb, if we need two new rbs (we do) then ive not seen solid links to them yet

wasnt benik afobe....good...recently enough?

Went to shit at Bournemouth when he realised he wasn't good enough for the Prem iirc

can we start arguing about this season's thread title now so it's ready for tomorrow? would propose "Your old car is completely reliable, but you want a new one and two weeks later it breaks down" but it's a bit much

― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, August 8, 2019 3:39 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

fire it up, slackers liverpool is already up 3-0 and it's only been 30min

Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20