when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

its on

sky sports news understands nothing

nothing

Heh, I was gonna go for the same title

im not sure that ndombele is a very rafa signing so please god ta fuck its enough to keep poch holding daniels hand in the street

I'm happy with our Championship winger

and Championship manager

last good around the same year iirc

Manchester United have reached an agreement with Crystal Palace to sign Aaron Wan-Bissaka.

More: https://t.co/sjQTOZ2bpc#bbcfootball #MUFC #CPFC pic.twitter.com/E8VFOIawtX

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) June 26, 2019

Young is still going to be first choice isn't he

lol Packy Bonner on the Arsenal:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48732772

I have to say, and no doubt time will make a fool of me, but Utd's signings so far this summer haven't convinced me that top 6 is an unattainable dream for us lesser clubs

AWB is a brilliant signing imo. Best one on one defender in the league

Bit more business to do for sure though

AWB was nailed on to go to Utd for a chunk of change since November I'd say. A very obvious coincidence of needs for the player and the two clubs I reckon.

Packie Bonner's comments on Tierney are indicative of how hard it's going to be for anyone from the Premier League to sign players from much less wealthy leagues. Why should Celtic a first team player with a contract to an English club for anything less than £25m?

awb is a very good signing id love to be calling him a useless cunt for us next season

It's not so much AWB as let's say the rebuild necessary and the money already spent

not that i would put United as the likeliest target to overtake for teams looking to finish 6th.

If the transfer ban is upheld I'd imagine Chelsea will be the team to beat

Looking at them yeah

theres a lot of fat in that squad and i know just the man

Official and confirmed: Joao Felix is new Atlético Madrid player, here we go! €126M to Benfica, deal done 🔴⚪️ #JoaoFelix #transfers #Atléti #AtleticoMadrid

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 26, 2019

Juventus have found an agreement with Matthijs de Ligt. He’s ready to accept a contract until 2024 for €12M/season. Raiola also wants a release clause in the agreement. Now Juventus will start official talks with… https://t.co/Bvpq5oIV5h

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) June 26, 2019

Inter will propose loaning Lukaku for two seasons for a £9m fee with an obligation to buy at the end of it for £53.7m for a total package worth £62.7m. Selling Icardi proving difficult so far so Inter exploring an alternative proposal for Lukaku #mufc https://t.co/R4RqkAk1YW

— James Ducker (@TelegraphDucker) June 27, 2019

Perhaps TWP could come back

Take a bow, @WayneRooney! You are ridiculous. 😱 pic.twitter.com/On1oDnp8dX

— Major League Soccer (@MLS) June 27, 2019

or maybe Utd should switch to MLS

yes better

all that clip is missing is a rolex and a skip, embarrassing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48782683

I've just checked and they currently have 32 players out on loan, which is likely to mitigate the transfer ban a bit. Abraham, Mount, etc, are likely to come back, i guess.

It's friggin' Charlie Adam, what do you expect him to say?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48780865

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/lee-bowyer-renews-attack-rangers-17264372

lee bowyer took the absolute piss out of rangers and Scottish football by saying their latest signing mr gummy sweets would have made a wiser career move going to brentford, then he completely owned himself by complementing the grunting semi-sentient troglodyte gerrard.

It sounds like the Ndombele deal is a long way from being done.

the fuck time of the morning is this to wake me for that

He was at Spurs' training ground yesterday so I'm quietly confident.

But, you know, Spurs

At the Spurs' training ground looking at houses.

willian scars run deep yet

Milan banned from the Europa League for FFP violations. Do Man City next.

lol

BREAKING: Arsenal have today bid £40million for Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, Sky Sports News understands

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) July 1, 2019

lol

should cost more for a whole mid to lower table prem team :p

the fuckin state of that bid

i no longer know how much footballers should cost but palace have fuckin gotten into the premiership at the right fuckin time

United have apparently bid £34m for Bruno Fernandes, which is likely to be as successful as the Zaha offer.

Barcelona have supposedly put up £100m for Lautaro Martinez, scorer of six Serie A goals last season (who does look an excellent prospect tbf).

there's a story floating around that Fernandes had a clause inserted in his contract that if Sporting turn down any offer above €35m, they have to pay him €5m

no idea of its veracity, but it seems weirdly specific

I saw that and couldnt tell if it was yknow every time or what

I preferred the ceefax/teletext days of reading about summer transfer rumours, the mountain of worthless shit on newsnow is just too much to filter.

i solve it by not believing a fucking word until i see somebody turn up for a team's first fixture

I solve it by reading about summer transfer rumours on teletext.

the last time we signed someone there wasnt any other option tbf

AS understand Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a loan deal to sign Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos with the two clubs 'optimistic' on completing the move. #THFC pic.twitter.com/oPkCklpBSq

— Talking THFC (@TalkingTHFC) July 2, 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

oh and I see Neres has signed a new contract. Shocker

Wanyama has a recurring knee injury, with which he's currently in the treatment room, and hasn't managed to string a proper run of games together in maybe two years. If he's going it's for something very nominal.

It's all agent/silly season bullshit but you end up living in fear until the window shuts

So, looks like Tierney is on his way to Arsenal after all. Bummer.

well theres no need for that tom

Apparently that full back Man Utd bought from Crystal Palace is twice as good as him.

apparently we have been sniffing around a troy parrott loan

plsss

oh fuck off

really want him to be a different but not llorente option for us this year ffs

Tottenham have this morning agreed a deal worth £25m for Ryan Sessegnon. @SamWallaceTel has the latest https://t.co/xLHEtqx73p pic.twitter.com/472alIAr0L

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) August 8, 2019

Tottenham close to reaching agreement to sign Juventus forward Paulo Dybala. Deal not done but clubs hopeful. #THFC stepped up interest after their pursuit of Sporting Lisbon midfielder Bruno Fernandes ended over fee & Man Utd’s proposed move for Dybala was called off #JUVE #MUFC

— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) August 8, 2019

really dont see it tbh

No, it would be the most surprising signing since Klinsmann, and with significantly higher barriers.

The only way it would work would be if Levy's decided the current wage structure is unsustainable. Realistically, idk if Harry Kane is going to be happy earning exactly half as much per week as Aaron Ramsey, for the next six years.

Don't they have a ridiculous bonus system that means their real earnings are significantly higher than their weekly reported wage though?

I mean it seems implausible that they're going to get this far down the road and then go "oh, we didn't realise Dybala's wage demands were going to be so high" but who even knows. Maybe Levy is deluded enough to think he can boardroom hard man him into submission.

Or it was all a bluff to get Betis to fold on lo Celso, idk.

ive more concerns about him fitting tbh

weve moved up from salary caps and fees being a ceiling given progress and money saved the past few years

but cant see levy or poch chucking the bases for that progress out to start behaving in a way that has badly failed arsenal or utd recently

imo he'll go to utd now lukaku funds freed

Not a whisper of any business for us

Apart from dumping Rojo on Everton

Still time for Ollie to register himself

BREAKING: Tottenham’s proposed move for Paulo Dybala is OFF after Juventus ultimately decided not to sell the 25-year-old Argentina forward #THFC #Juve

— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) August 8, 2019

Lol Dybala is cancelled

Ah beaten to the punch

bbc guy says that eriksen is on his way to carrington

do they even have a football team?

levy'd

eriksen surely leaves, whether utd today or a european outfit later matters not

but lo celso/ndombele in, eriksen/wanyama out is neither a disaster nor a huge leap forward, regardless that it'll be painted as both

Lo Celso and Ndombele are several years younger than either and Ndombele is almost certainly a major upgrade on any of our central midfielders. Sessegnon looks like it's happening as well although he's obviously a work in progress I'm confident in Poch to work his magic on him.

Twitter seems to think Sessegnon has hit problems.

Think I'm just going to turn the internet off until about half past five tonight.

Why would anyone want to go to Arsenal, igi, but really why would Luiz want to?

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

Throwing "Steve Bruce is the rock on which Newcastle's free flowing football finally flounders" up for consideration, stumbled on it somewhere

just been reminded that Leon Clarke is technically a Premier League footballer at the moment

You must be Joachim: Liverpool will not compete for the Gibraltar Premier Division 2020

gah i've not been able to get this out of my head since hearing robyn in the co-op this morning, someone's going to have to fill in the blanks for me though:

paulo dybala / he's not the guy you're taking home / we'll just get _____ ____ on loan

thank god andy carroll doesn't scan

Looks like Sessegnon and Lo Celso are done.

I honestly couldn't tell you how good lo Celso is and i've probably seen him 15 times. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does, though.

Mooy and Maupay to Brighton is good business imo.

Sarr to Watford too.

Everton have agreed a deal to sign Arsenal and Nigeria winger Alex Iwobi for a fee in the region of £35-40m #EFC #AFC

— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) August 8, 2019

kieran tierney to arsenal confirmed :'-(

see ye in jan

lo Celso is a loan?

Loan w/ option to buy him for 55m next year

Which is a pretty sweet deal imo

different info on whether its an obligation or an option

Mooy isn't one of the wasters that downed tools last season but he's been a shadow of the player he was for a while. This funny business of getting him to sign a contract extension then loaning him to Brighton might backfire on us - if he has another dud season it might be hard to move him on when the club is thinking how much they could have got for him in this window. He must have agitated for the move because we just received £15m for Billing and are not under pressure to sell and the players all take 40% wage cuts with the relegation - or something like that is written into all their contracts. Proper tight northern bstads!

I think it's an obligation to buy Lo Celso unless we fail to qualify for Europe. In which case it becomes an option, and he won't want to take it.

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

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

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