when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

at what stage is zidane a workplace bully

Really don't understand what's going on here at all.

It's gonna be really disappointing when he just turns up at PSG and his career completely fizzles out from there.

i can see it as an utterly ruthless "its a lot better for me that you not be here" set of power moves.

beckham was iirc treated much the same by capello so obv at rm theres a cultural thing that possibly british players might be missing where the fuck-off-hints are expected to yield results far earlier in the process and tetchiness ensues

Did the same with mcmanaman he ignored it as well and picked up another la Liga and champs lge before seeing out his contract iirc

WHAT A GOAL FROM HARRY KANE 🔥
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— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) July 21, 2019

Niche interest but as someone who watched an enormous amount of Australian football last season, for lack of anything better to do on a Saturday morning, it’s good to see Sarpreet Singh get picked up by Bayern Munich.

He’s one of the best passers of the ball in the league, albeit with next to no competition, but it’s difficult to judge how useful he would be to a decent team. It’ll be interesting to see how he develops in Germany over the next couple of years.

Biggest NZ transfer in history, surely? Had never heard of him before but am keen on seeing him play.

£17m for Phil Billing from Bournemouth will be astonishingly good good business. And I like the idea of such a tinpot player as him going to such a tinpot shit ground no fans club. He puts in a couple of 8/10 shifts and scores a pretty amazing goal tbf then starts thinking he's a superstar who should be at Barca. He's a total diva who downed tools and spat his dummy out when the going got tough. It probably didn't help with one of our morons calling him a "black donkey" on twitter, but he's still a total waster and probably no more than a few mill worth of midfielder at best.

if he doesn't get his move in this window he'll end up playing with the reserves, so the pressure is all on him.

We are delighted to welcome our new club record signing - Joelinton!

Full story: https://t.co/t7Qe83xUnX #JoelinToon #NUFC pic.twitter.com/wmzjHbkJxE

— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) July 23, 2019

40m, reportedly. That is a lot of money.

Disaster waiting to happen or what?

don't know if we were genuinely interested or just getting linked to every player on the market this season. lol at Bruce with a 40 mil striker tho

jolyon ton

keeping up the proud tradition of brazilian footballers exchanging their perfectly nice real names for unholy monstrosities

Had the same goals per game ratio as James Ward-Prowse last season but maybe he is worth £40m too now.

We have reached agreement with Mexican side C.F. Monterrey for the transfer of @vincentjanssen.

We wish Vincent all the best for the future.

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) July 23, 2019

(xp) His scoring record doesn't suggest the new Alan Shearer.

goodbye sweet vince

lots of buzz around ISP providers being encouraged to crack down a lot harder on streams this coming season.

reason to be fearful or unlikely to be effective?

id pay except they dont offer a package to just watch one team so absolutely fuck em

Unlikely to be effective. If you've been following the footy w/ streams for years I don't see how that would suddenly change now. Alternatives will pop up (no pun intended), there will always be streamers in it for a couple of hundred quid a month on ad sales.

I've basically given up on streams, it just isn't worth it for the extreme unreliability and virtually guaranteed malware.

unless ive been living happily with malware all year ive somehow avoided that tbh.

have you just not been watching or is there a non-stream solution you're being discreet about

I've just been paying and tbh most Spurs games have been screened anyway.

Sky reporting that a deal for Cutrone is close now so I'll start to take it a llttle more seriously even tho apparently he really really doesn't want to come.

wtf is that young utd lad trying to take home the goat's leg? a souvenir?

Liverpool FC have submitted a bid to trademark the word 'Liverpool'

oh fuck off

LOL let's here the Scousers justify that.

Nicholas Pépé to Arsenal for £72m seems like it’s going to happen.

Villa at full strength today, bringing a cannon to a swordfight

Jesus

Lille were so fun to watch last season so a bit sad to see them splitting up but inevitable I guess. Pepe was v good indeed last season. Weird also to see fakir going from lyon so cheaply even with his slight drop off in form would have liked to see him at LFC playing in a midfield 3 in those games when the opposition is in ten men behind the ball mode.

Arsenal fans will be very saddened by the news that Ryan Shawcross has broke his leg in the last pre-season fixture.

So sadddd

Patrick Cutrone to Wolverhampton, confirmed! Paperworks time with AC Milan and medicals soon for €18M + add ons (around €4M). Total agreement reached. 🐺 #Wolves #transfers #Milan

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 28, 2019

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has blocked Gareth Bale's move to China as he believes the Welshman is too valuable a player to let go on the cheap, according to The Telegraph 💰 pic.twitter.com/mggZF4fvO9

— Goal (@goal) July 28, 2019

...Bale has negative value at this point

I will exhale on Cutrone once he's here and wearing a Wolves shirt. H hasn't exactly been angling for a move away from Milan even tho both clubs want it. Intrigued anyway, he's unlikely to be a starter from the beginning of the season so there is a little less pressure on him and time for him to settle in.

34 league appearance last season, 3 goals?

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that a lot of those were substitute appearances.

Yeah I don't think he was a regular starter last season but that's a bit chicken and egg as far as goals are concerned. Given his age and the fact that he isn't an immediate first 11 purchase I'll trust Nuno's judgement for now.

@goal

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has blocked Gareth Bale's move to China as he believes the Welshman is too valuable a player to let go on the cheap, according to The Telegraph 💰
2:35 PM - Jul 28, 2019

Is that... Comic Sans?

yeah they've had that font for years now

Must've forgotten that I knew that *shrugs*

Quiet transfer period so far, EPL wise, with one of the top bbc stories today about a possible return of Adebayor!

Not Comic Sans though - the cross-bar on the A is too steep and goes outside the right-hand downstroke. Whatever font that is is worse than Comic Sans IMO.

BREAKING NEWS

Phil Billing has completed his medical at Bournemouth today, without managing to get injured or falling out with the medical staff. £15m fee agreed.

Here's the Real Madrid font, it's not actually Comic Sans but some are seeing a resemblance. Certainly different. pic.twitter.com/gtUrEMdbDm

— AS English (@English_AS) June 27, 2013

Seems they have a new font every year. This was the Bale 12/13 font.

/quality research during work hours ilx-post

its pretty funny that the Chinese team wanted Bale on a free.

tbf, they'd save Real Madrid about £85m in wages if he's not sitting on their bench for the next three years.