when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

i dont think arsenal know yet

all this excitement has been nice but im reasonably certain that spurs finish tomorrow with lo celso and sessegnon in and eriksen cryin on the bench for a few games

David Luiz to Arsenal would be one of those astonishing transfers that would somehow manage to make every single party worse off.

except agent

Sessegnon, Lo Celso and Ndombele would represent a very good summer's business tbh. Pretty sure we'll take Llorente back as well.

yeah i dont know what the idea behind all the messing the last week has been but those three and possibly a professional footballer at right back would have been a good wishlist.

idk about llorente, im not sure we use him and for my money troy parrott is ready for minutes.

not like llorente covers for kane injury anyway

Lukaku to Inter agreed

his touch was going that far anyways

So, we'll be going into the season having lost two senior midfielders and a striker without replacing any of them

Greenwood better be the TBWP

absolutely

Still a lot of nonsense banter about Al sorts of midfielders being on the move tbf

Wanayama, Khedira etc

believe that first one

derby will hardly loan us their new rb dye think

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.