when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

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.

As I said above, due to his wages he essentially has negative value

They were doing Real a favour

oh yeah. that makes sense.

Moise Kean to Everton, here we go! Total agreement reached with Juventus, last details will be completed on next hours. The striker will fly to UK tomorrow to undergo his medicals and sign the contract. 🔵 #transfers #Everton #Juve

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 30, 2019

It's weird when Moise Kean seems like a fantastic coup but otoh it's up to £36m for a 19yo after a good season in Serie A. I don't even know anymore.

It’s an amazing deal. He looks like one of the most talented young strikers Italy has produced in years and the price is a relative steal imo. I am really surprised that Juve agreed to let him go without the €60m buyback clause.

Potentially shifting him and Dybala and keeping Ronaldo / Higuain looks really strange.

Yeah, a great deal. Everton doing well so far. Brands rarely disappoints.

For Juve though, SV otm. No idea why they're letting go of the younger hot prospects relatively easily.

Probably think they'll hate living in the UK and come back eventually after two or three lacklustre seasons.

They'll be trapped inside Boris's wall by then tho

Cutrone in confirmed :)

Congrats, big signore!

Aston Villa have signed Zimbabwe international midfielder Marvelous Nakamba for an undisclosed fee - their 12th signing of the summer.

MARVELOUS NAKAMBA.

£85m for Maguire then

oh, seems it's actually 80m. Bargain!

Nakamba has like three career goals, so there may be limited opportunities for Guy Mowbray to shout "now that WAS marvelous" in that uh inimitable tone he does, but you never know

Personally think Maguire is better than his worst detractors allow and there's always a premium on home grown-ness. Don't see how he doesn't improve Umited

oh he absolutely improves us

Shaw Maguire Lindelof AWB is more than decent

meanwhile, this Lukaku Dybala swap appears to actually be a thing. Weird

about time we had the new Prem thread altho it's not like i'm actually watching the Charunity Shield

lol and as if by magic

mignolet gone to brugges

meanwhile, this Lukaku Dybala swap appears to actually be a thing

Apparently not any more.

What kind of wages do you need to be demanding for the people who gave Alexis Sanchez half a million quid a week to say no?

maybe theyve learned

yeah i'm not bothered about missing out on Dybala in these circumstances

i'm pretty fucking concerned that we appear to be going into the season with significant reinforcements in midfield or attack though

our midfield options as it stands are fairly grim - Pogba, Matic, McTominay, Fred, Pereira

Seems like our Hirving Lozano is off to Napoli for around 40m. He's not been playing well recently, and we've got (younger) youngsters eager to fill in his position, still a bit sad to see him go though.

Malcom could be forced out of Zenit St Petersburg just days after £37m arrival from Barcelona as racist fans display banner rejecting black players in latest incident to shame Russian football https://t.co/p3CeN8VABr pic.twitter.com/Pjwe1ChQ38

— MailOnline Sport (@MailSport) August 5, 2019

Telegraph reporting that Wayne Rooney is in talks with Derby about a player-coach role

please god please

also there isn't a non-Prem thread for 19-20

eriksen to utd for 50m sounding more solid by the hour

surely Eriksen to Utd cannot be real. I expect him to have at least two more good years before cynically cashing in giving up all hope in life?

rumours our mad owner is considering selling our talismanic striker to brentford for no reason

even i would be burning shit to the ground

Today's Mirror:

"Bruno Fernandes agent 'holds fresh Man Utd transfer talks' ahead of £65m move"

"Bruno Fernandes 'agrees personal terms with Tottenham' to rival Man Utd transfer"

Somehow I don't think when Eriksen talked about a next chapter, chugging around the Europa League with Solskjaer as manager was quite what he had in mind.